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By John Venable (339) for Supercala.com (431) on 20 Feb 2003

While it won't win any awards, it's mildly clever and entertaining...even while being a bit annoying. Wait to rent it…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 20 Feb 2003

Somewhere between potboiler and polemic, this overripe melodrama signals every one of its plot twists as hamhandedly as it bangs out its message…

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By Joshua Tyler (625) for CinemaBlend (829) on 20 Feb 2003

Spacey's typically solid acting cancels out Winslet's overwrought airhead character…

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By J. C. Farrow (9) for Citysearch (305) on 20 Feb 2003

As the mystery unravels, the movie builds to such a ludicrous crescendo, you'll wish Keyser Soze did it…

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By Jeffrey Westhoff (767) for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (767) on 20 Feb 2003

If the film heaps contempt upon the death penalty, it heaps even more contempt upon those who oppose it…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Eclipse Magazine (446) on 20 Feb 2003

Makes simple sense while you're watching it, but can not hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny after its ballyhooed twist is revealed…

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By Jamie Russell (254) for BBC.com (1,500) on 20 Feb 2003

Spacey has exactly the right amount of understated earnestness to make this death row drama effective…

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By Jon Popick (633) for Planet Sick-Boy (616) on 20 Feb 2003

Tries to give you two films for the price of one. Unfortunately, it does neither very well…

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By Ross Anthony (612) for Hollywood Report Card (612) on 17 Feb 2003

Somewhere between thriller and propaganda…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 17 Feb 2003

A perfect film for a February opening, a time when viewers are less critical and happy to kick back and enjoy an old fashioned mystery/thriller…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Feb 2003

Alan Parker's turgid, bleeding-heart The Life of David Gale may just shame good liberals straight into the Republican Party…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 11 Feb 2003

Contrivances and manipulation at the expense of character rob its dramatic developments of even a hint of veracity…

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