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Review of Take Care of My Cat (2001)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Oct 2002

In this vivid, emotionally complex ensemble piece, Korean writer-director Jeong Jae-eun portrays this extraordinary turning point in every…

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Review of Real Women Have Curves (2002)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Oct 2002

The story is predictable in the extreme -- earnest to a fault and not leavened with enough true human eccentricity or humor…

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Review of The Ring (2002)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Oct 2002

Although elitists will complain that the American version is inferior, DreamWorks' The Ring is a thoughtful, persuasive, and at times deeply…

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Review of Knockaround Guys (2001)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Oct 2002

A dimwitted Mafia melodrama that fails even as a guilty pleasure…

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Review of Bowling for Columbine (2002)

By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Oct 2002

Alternately thought-provoking and thoughtless, invigorating and infuriating…

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Review of New York in the Fifties (2001)

By Ed Kelleher (65) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Oct 2002

A likeable documentary that strives to tie up a number of cultural themes and make sense of a very disparate group of 1950s social and artistic…

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Review of Don't Ask Don't Tell (2002)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 12 Oct 2002

The overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bored to even think of staying with this for more than, say, ten…

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Review of Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Oct 2002

A sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer…

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Review of Red Dragon (2002)

By Shirley Sealy (140) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Oct 2002

Fiennes truly gets his teeth into this villainous role…

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Review of Red Dragon (1965)

By Shirley Sealy (140) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Oct 2002

Fiennes truly gets his teeth into this villainous role…

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Review of Family Fundamentals (2002)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Oct 2002

As in his other searingly intelligent docs, Dong presents the facts in an admirably clear-eyed way…

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Review of The Transporter (2002)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Oct 2002

Evoking the heyday of Hong Kong action films, The Transporter offers outstanding physical stunts, beautiful locations, cryptic characters,…

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Review of The Grey Zone (2001)

By Eric Monder (171) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Oct 2002

Like Schindler's List, The Grey Zone attempts to be grandiloquent, but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way…

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Review of Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Oct 2002

The film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch Christian Right propaganda machine into national media circles…

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Review of Wasabi (2001)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Oct 2002

A lightweight, uneven action comedy that freely mingles French, Japanese and Hollywood cultures…

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Review of Auto Focus (2002)

By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 03 Oct 2002

It would be a mistake to write this movie off as yet another Star Is Born-type biopic about the rise and fall of a latter%u2011day celebrity…

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Review of Just a Kiss (2002)

By Shirley Sealy (140) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Oct 2002

Fun, flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment…

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Review of Swimfan (2002)

By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Oct 2002

Late-summer flotsam from the shallow end of the genre movie pool…

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Review of Moonlight Mile (2002)

By Shirley Sealy (140) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Oct 2002

Not as powerful a film as last year's In the Bedroom, which focused on a similar family tragedy…

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Review of The Rules of Attraction (2002)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Oct 2002

The scary, rhapsodic, horrendously narcissistic and ultra-transient time that is college has rarely been captured more effectively than here…

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