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Review of Confidence (1909)

By Dan Lybarger (786) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 24 Apr 2003

Even an occasionally clever story about thieves needs a beating heart at its center to keep audiences from feeling cheated…

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Review of Confidence (2003)

By Dan Lybarger (786) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 24 Apr 2003

Even an occasionally clever story about thieves needs a beating heart at its center to keep audiences from feeling cheated…

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Review of Confidence (1933)

By Dan Lybarger (786) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 24 Apr 2003

Even an occasionally clever story about thieves needs a beating heart at its center to keep audiences from feeling cheated…

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Review of Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

By Dan Lybarger (786) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 17 Apr 2003

Ninety minutes of Kennedy's one-note primping in the movie gets as preposterous and monotonous as the Iraqi Information Minister…

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Review of Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 10 Apr 2003

It may not make much sense, but it's pretty seductive…

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Review of What a Girl Wants (2003)

By Loey Lockerby (139) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 03 Apr 2003

There are about half a dozen sequences of Bynes trying on different outfits and so many bubble-gum pop songs on the soundtrack, it's like being…

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Review of Eddie Griffin: DysFunktional Family (2003)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 03 Apr 2003

You've got to be impressed by the seeming effortlessness with which KC native Griffin works his audience at a Chicago theater, prowling the…

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Review of Head of State (2003)

By Loey Lockerby (139) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 28 Mar 2003

For someone who became famous for his daring attitude, Rock seems strangely determined to be as formulaic as possible here…

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Review of City of God (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 21 Mar 2003

There's no denying City of God's effectiveness in dropping us into an environment crawling with deception, brutality and blind ambition…

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Review of The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 24 Feb 2003

Whether you buy Hitchens' arguments, one leaves The Trials of Henry Kissinger seeing him as a man who viewed international diplomacy as a game,…

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Review of Dark Blue (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 21 Feb 2003

[Shelton] does a credible job and is particularly effective in re-creating the riots that followed the acquittal of police officers in the…

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Review of The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 31 Jan 2003

Truth be told, The Crime of Father Amaro isn't very compelling…

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Review of Kangaroo Jack (2003)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 17 Jan 2003

This major brain-number, about two bozo Americans chasing a kangaroo across the Australian Outback, has as its high point a gag about camel…

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Review of The Hours (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 17 Jan 2003

Almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone, a perfectly realized observation of mood, behavior and intent…

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Review of Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Dec 2002

Some of what happens in Alias Betty is highly improbable. Yet Miller and his excellent cast sell the story by not overplaying their hands…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 18 Dec 2002

For those of us who thought the first film was at its best when reveling in the little details of life in Middle-earth and examining the relationships…

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Review of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 13 Dec 2002

The bottom line with Nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series: Fans will undoubtedly enjoy it, and the uncommitted…

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Review of The Weight of Water (2001)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 06 Dec 2002

Works better in its various parts than as a whole…

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Review of Marty (1955)

By Dan Lybarger (786) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 02 Dec 2002

Loaded with believably endearing characters, Marty is charming, if stagebound,…

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Review of Far from Heaven (2002)

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 22 Nov 2002

Thanks to Haynes' absolute control of the film's mood, and buoyed by three terrific performances, Far From Heaven actually pulls off this stylistic…

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