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Review of Pokémon the Movie 2000 (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

As in the first movie, the animation here is chintzy and almost amateurish, although fans of the TV show could hardly expect more…

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Review of Snatch (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Most of the people we meet have names like Boris the Blade, Gorgeous George or Doug the Head; as you might suspect, none of them are likely…

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Review of The Patriot (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

By the time Martin begins waving around a gigantic American flag to rally his supporters for one last clash, the film has become so mechanical…

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Review of Waking Life (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

A sterling example of the kind of picture that always plays better at film festivals than it does at the multiplex…

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Review of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Most of the chase sequences feature more jiggle than you'd get in a Three's Company marathon…

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Review of Shallow Hal (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Although the ad campaign makes it appear the movie is an outrageous attack on the obese, in truth Hal saves its sharpest jabs for the small-minded…

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Review of No Man's Land (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

It's less about battlefields and weaponry than it is about personality conflicts and the agonizing frustration that boils inside people who…

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Review of The Others (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Writer-director Alejandro Amenabar has assembled a chiller that's thoroughly engrossing without ever grossing us out, and he's gotten an intense,…

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Review of Down to You (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

A mostly bitter, sometimes downright grim fairy tale in which Cinderella becomes a stoner and Prince Charming winds up getting his stomach pumped…

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Review of Bait (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Includes all the key ingredients for what Hollywood passes off as an urban comedy…

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Review of Best in Show (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

If it doesn't sustain the high level of lunacy Guffman did, it's still a delight…

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Review of La Orca (1976)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Most of the people we meet have names like Boris the Blade, Gorgeous George or Doug the Head; as you might suspect, none of them are likely…

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Review of Tomcats (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

So what happens when everyone making a skin flick gets Puritanical about showing skin…

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Review of Training Day (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

The camera is frequently pushed in for extreme close-ups of the characters, sometimes as they're just about to explode…

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Review of Save the Last Dance (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

If Dance stumbles into a few too many subplots and a couple of cliched characters along the way, it also makes some strong points about contemporary…

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Review of Autumn in New York (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Were you to watch the movie's first 20 minutes, you might think you were about to see another variation on Gere's megahit 'Pretty Woman…

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Review of Requiem for a Dream (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

No, it's not a movie for the faint of heart…

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Review of Saving Silverman (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Peppered with naked senior citizens, trash-talking nuns and a bloody plastic surgery operation, Silverman will be best enjoyed by people who…

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Review of 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 09 Jun 2002

Like a needle jumping around on a scratchy old piece of vinyl, the movie skips aimlessly from raunchy comedy to blood-spattered thriller to…

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Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 08 Jun 2002

That's what this two-hour workout for the senses is all about: exploring, embracing and exploding all the cliches of the musical comedy genre…

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