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Review of November (2004)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 04 Aug 2005

Excruciatingly, the film disgorges its crime and variations of it again and again…

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Review of November (2004)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 04 Aug 2005

Excruciatingly, the film disgorges its crime and variations of it again and again…

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Review of Sky High (2005)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 28 Jul 2005

Takes camp to new levels of self-aware mediocrity…

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Review of Bad News Bears (2005)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 21 Jul 2005

The kids in this knowing, tirelessly belligerent retread are as coarse and obnoxious as they ever were, maybe more so. And therein lies the problem…

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Review of The Island (2005)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 21 Jul 2005

Its tale was more tame and thoughtful when Steven Spielberg, having done the related Artificial Intelligence, pitched it to Bay…

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Review of Tarzan (1999)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Simply a smashingly well-done example of animated storytelling…

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Review of Cruel Intentions (1999)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

You sometimes have to giggle at this movie the way you do when you catch 4-year-olds playing dress-up in front of Mom's closet…

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Review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma…

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Review of Idle Hands (1999)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end…

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Review of 8MM (1999)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Want to know what happens when an A-list director and A-list movie star attach themselves to a direct-to-cable screenplay? This…

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Review of Nights of Cabiria (1957)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

What makes the character so poignant is that her final fortification is not her street wisdom -- that's all surface -- but her innocence…

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Review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Neither Trey Callaway, who wrote the script, nor Danny Cannon, who directed the sequel, bring any new ideas to the genre…

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Review of Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Napoleon Dynamite may be forcefully weird and intermittently humorous, and you might not know what the heck to make of it, but there's nothing…

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Review of Being John Malkovich (1999)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

It is hard to mix moods -- the film is manic, subtle, comic and vaguely sad -- but [Jonze] does it masterfully…

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Review of Rear Window (1954)

By Jeff Millar (66) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

The deliciousness of watching the film as it's intended to be seen is that the big screen gives Rear Window back its claustrophobia…

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Review of Satyricon (1969)

By Louis B. Parks (34) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Those who don't weaken and bolt for the door experience a one-of-a-kind visual adventure they are unlikely to forget…

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Review of Keeping the Faith (2000)

By Louis B. Parks (34) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

The ending gets a little too cute, and isn't true to Anna's independent nature. Oh well, to forgive is divine…

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Review of The Princess Diaries (2001)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

Screenwriter Gina Wendkos, working from Meg Cabot's novel, resorts to monotonous movie clichés: almost uniformly cruel classmates and a callous,…

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Review of The Notebook (2004)

By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

The Notebook is a weepie of the most artificial and insistent variety, the kind that holds viewers hostage and expects them to pay in body…

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Review of Rushmore (1998)

By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 20 Jul 2005

This film is so not-from-the-cookie-cutter, so unaccommodating of our expectations, that we can't anticipate where Anderson's going to take…

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