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Review of Baby Mama (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 18 Apr 2008

Surrogate motherhood is the comic topic of the day, and this is one funny chick flick that won't rankle male members of the audience…

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Review of Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 14 Apr 2008

Although muddled at times from its cross-purpose agendas of trumpeting conservation and establishing a story arc that never quite congeals,…

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Review of 88 Minutes (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 12 Apr 2008

Okay, so Al went slumming and all he got was a paycheck and movie for his fans to ignore. All is forgiven. Just don't do it again Al…

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Review of The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 12 Apr 2008

From a philosophical viewpoint it's fitting that the inaugural movie to unite martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li is a fantasy film…

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Review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Apr 2008

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a romantic comedy for guys, but there's plenty of material aimed at female audiences as well, not the least of…

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Review of Irina Palm (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 07 Apr 2008

Far from the exploitation movie that you'd expect from its subject matter, Irina Palm is a significant piece of cinematic satire that comes…

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Review of Street Kings (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Apr 2008

A combination of implausible plot-points, and the miscasting of television's Hugh Laurie as Internal Affairs chief Captain Biggs, hampers a…

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Review of Smart People (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Apr 2008

Somebody should have told screenwriter Mark Poirier that it's oxymoronic to trumpet a Republican character as a smart person in this well-acted…

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Review of Sudden Fear (1952)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Apr 2008

Joan Crawford is great in this noir thriller…

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Review of Shine a Light (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 31 Mar 2008

Where Scorsese's focus for the The Last Waltz was on capturing a cultural zeitgeist that supported a generational shift of musical ideas, here…

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Review of Boarding Gate (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 20 Mar 2008

Call it a cinema of guilty pleasure, and don't worry if you fall asleep in your seat after the sex scene is over. You won't be alone…

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Review of Drillbit Taylor (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 20 Mar 2008

Apart from a few mildly funny bits of slapstick, Drillbit Taylor doesn't come near the level of comedy that Judd Apatow and screenwriter Seth…

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Review of Never Back Down (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 Mar 2008

Yesterday's Fight Club is today's Combat Club in this battle of teen six-pack abs…

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Review of Married Life (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Mar 2008

There's gentile satire here, to go along with suspense and sexual intrigue, but the tone of the piece stays too melodramatic to hit its potential…

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Review of CJ7 (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Mar 2008

CJ7 has some moments of sweetness and CGI inflected humor, but comes off as slight compared to the filmmaker's previous efforts…

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Review of Blindsight (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Mar 2008

Visually stunning and emotionally moving, Blindsight is real joy through and through…

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Review of Chop Shop (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Mar 2008

Director/co-writer Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart) gives a candid window into America's impoverished underbelly via a Queens junkyard neighborhood…

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Review of Crimes of Passion (1984)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 05 Mar 2008

The divine madness of Ken Russell is in full bloom here…

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Review of It's a Free World... (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 04 Mar 2008

Realistically filmed, but limited by narrative cuts that hopscotch through time, It's a Free World is a flawed film that overflows with ideas…

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Review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 01 Mar 2008

Frances McDormand executive produced this deft and sophisticated screwball comedy that's more than just a perfect movie for grandmothers…

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