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Review of Down with Love (2003)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

as light, cheap, and ultimately as insubstantial as cotton candy. And yet, it inadvertently strikes some resonant chords…

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Review of Armageddon (1996)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

A Godzilla-sized blockbuster -- it's an outrageous spectacle, without many brains to speak of, but its heart in the right place…

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Review of Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

breathtaking animation in service of a story that doesn't hold enough water to drown a rat much less a civilization…

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Review of Breaking the Waves (1996)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

The actors are superb. [But] it is the easiest thing in the world to do ... move people by destroying something beautiful…

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Review of Troy (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

Troy is an empty and dispiriting game, a contest of steroid-ingesting brutes who have made themselves gods in their own minds…

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Review of Roger Dodger (2002)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

Some have condemned this film for 'filthy content.' That's like condemning a hospital for being a place of disease…

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Review of Armageddon (1997)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

A Godzilla-sized blockbuster -- it's an outrageous spectacle, without many brains to speak of, but its heart in the right place…

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Review of The Big Kahuna (1999)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

At our best, we admit our faults. And we admit that others, no matter how different, have something to teach us…

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Review of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

if you want to watch something brainless, this isn't a total waste…

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Review of Panic Room (2002)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

The rich in Panic Room are under siege, and the overgrown fortress of their self-indulgence seems helpless to defend itself…

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Review of Dark City (1998)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

It's a bit overbearing the first time you experience it, but the film holds up under repeat viewings, revealing more and more complexity and…

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Review of Galaxy Quest (1999)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

A frivolous but funny comedy with great special effects and admirable performances…

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

A stylish film about an American family that pretends to be moral and enlightened, but revels in its mean-spirited sarcasm and its championing…

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Review of Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

The main characters tha us kids know and love disappear. We're introduced to a new cast, and they really aren't very funny or interesting…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

Entertaining, but it drains any kind of suspense from Harry's adventures by giving the magicians every variety of spell that they need just…

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Review of The Dish (2000)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

Sitch's movie is a simple pleasure, full of memorable characters and comedy that could only occur under the direction of a patient and observant…

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Review of Chocolat (2000)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

Most movies that criticize religion argue for the abolition of institutions…

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Review of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

Gilliam shows that there is something appealing about drug highs. It wouldn't be honest to say otherwise. And, yes, they'll destroy you…

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Review of Being John Malkovich (1999)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

This is Alice in Wonderland for this decade; its heroes crawl down rabbit holes into a world of gender role and sexual identity conflicts…

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Review of 21 Grams (2003)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

a hurricane of melodrama and implausibly accelerating crises that seem orchestrated merely to turn up the intensity…

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