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Review of Premonition (1998)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 16 Mar 2007

A kinda supernatural, kinda psychological thriller that establishes a perplexing situation and never gets around to figuring it out…

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Review of Iraq in Fragments (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 16 Mar 2007

The film is terrific at providing a kaleidoscopic sense of life unfolding, with imaginative editing and colors that seem to leap off the screen…

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Review of Miss Potter (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 09 Mar 2007

Miss Potter isn't deep, but it is curiously endearing…

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Review of 300 (2007)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 08 Mar 2007

300 may be the Guy Movie to end all Guy Movies…

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Review of Inland Empire (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 02 Mar 2007

Inland Empire is self-indulgent and overlong and guaranteed to try the patience of all but the most devoted Lynch fan…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 02 Mar 2007

It's an existential thriller in the most literal sense…

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Review of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

By Dan Lybarger (786) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 18 Feb 2007

The new feature film has some of the charm of the small-screen original, but it lacks the sustained goofiness of the series…

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Review of Norbit (2007)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 09 Feb 2007

I could deal better with mean-spiritedness if the film were better written and directed…

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Review of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

By Loey Lockerby (139) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 26 Jan 2007

Montiel constantly inserts the kind of look at me, I'm a director! touches that only remind viewers that he's an amateur…

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Review of The Last King of Scotland (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Jan 2007

Though the film is mostly fiction, Idi Amin was the real deal, and Whitaker revels in the role…

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Review of To Return (1982)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Jan 2007

Volver shifts effortlessly from suspense to pathos to giddy humor; the cast members negotiate all these changes while delivering low-keyed,…

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Review of Volver (2009)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Jan 2007

Volver shifts effortlessly from suspense to pathos to giddy humor; the cast members negotiate all these changes while delivering low-keyed,…

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Review of Stomp the Yard (2007)

By Brian Mctavish (25) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Jan 2007

Some viewers may feel as if they're sharing in the struggle and splendor that leads to a national step-dancing tournament…

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Review of Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Jan 2007

Curse of the Golden Flower has no emotional center…

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Review of Volver (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Jan 2007

Volver shifts effortlessly from suspense to pathos to giddy humor; the cast members negotiate all these changes while delivering low-keyed,…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Jan 2007

Notes on a Scandal isn't deep. It's chilly and mean and takes a largely dim view of humanity. None of which prevents it from being good, nasty fun…

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Review of Sweet Land (2005)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 22 Dec 2006

If the Christmas movie season sometimes seems like a holiday smorgasbord stuffed with empty calories, Sweet Land is a much-needed palate cleanser…

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Review of The Good Shepherd (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 22 Dec 2006

If you're looking for action, The Good Shepherd will be a letdown. But as a deep meditation on the nature of espionage, it's a minor classic…

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Review of Candy (2006)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 15 Dec 2006

Drug addiction is bad. Given the universal consensus on this topic, anyone making a movie about it needs to come up with a fresh approach…

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Review of Candy. (2010)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 15 Dec 2006

Drug addiction is bad. Given the universal consensus on this topic, anyone making a movie about it needs to come up with a fresh approach…

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