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Review of I Am Legend (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

When they do, banging their heads against plate glass as movie zombies always do, I started needing something else to think about…

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Review of Shrek the Third (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

Apart from some modestly amusing princess shtick and a pleasantly slapsticky opening, there's no real reason for anyone over the age of 11…

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Review of Juno (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

Screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman make Juno the marvelously un-still center of a wistfully acerbic comedy that qualifies…

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Review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

What's fascinating is that it is the very restrictions the story imposes on a director that allow Schnabel to turn it into such an eerie stunner…

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Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 17 Oct 2008

The actors and the filmmakers all take a more restrained approach than you might expect, keeping the humor gentle, and the jokes mostly as…

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Review of Morning Light (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 16 Oct 2008

The film is more appealing for its scenery, which is as breathtakingly blue as you'd expect, than for its drama…

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Review of Eagle Eye (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 24 Sep 2008

Idiotic, if reasonably kinetic, Eagle Eye -- in which Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan spend the better part of two hours urgently answering…

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Review of Tropic Thunder (2008)

By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for NPR.org (106) on 12 Aug 2008

Tropic Thunder tells you that race and masculinity and class identity issues make men in this business mean and juvenile. And then it tells you again…

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Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 24 Jul 2008

This is a world of dinner jackets and evening gowns, casual jaunts to Venice and Morocco; it's about elegance, style, money and perhaps too…

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Review of American Teen (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 23 Jul 2008

The students all say and do more than they should in the filmmaker's presence, which certainly makes them watchable -- sort of a slow-motion…

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Review of Boy A (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 23 Jul 2008

Jack, as played by Andrew Garfield, comes across as agonized, desperately anxious to get things right -- something you might also say about…

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Review of Mamma Mia! (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 16 Jul 2008

This plot is not being taken terribly seriously. It's mostly a pretext for songs that are mostly a pretext for acting silly…

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Review of The Doorman (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 16 Jul 2008

By the end of the film's scant 72 minutes, the conceit is on the verge of wearing out its welcome, but by then, it's created so much stomach-churning,…

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Review of The Wackness (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 03 Jul 2008

Levine has blessed his coming-of-age tale with a catchy hip-hop soundtrack, characters who feel grounded no matter how odd their circumstances,…

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Review of War, Inc. (2008)

By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for NPR.org (106) on 02 Jul 2008

While its plot aligns War, Inc. with other, higher-profile action-thrillers, its political critique is more explicit and its ad campaign more oblique…

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Review of The Love Guru (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 18 Jun 2008

None of them -- not one, not for a moment -- is remotely funny…

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Review of Baghead (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 12 Jun 2008

Spectacularly self-absorbed protagonists step on each other, jockeying first for position, and ultimately for survival…

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Review of You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 04 Jun 2008

What's more annoying than the crassness, really, is the directorial sloppiness that results in a virtually mirthless first half-hour and a…

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Review of Stuck (1974)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 01 Jun 2008

Stuart Gordon's inventions -- vivid, gruesome and occasionally quite funny -- offer a just-deserts ending and make both characters surprisingly…

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Review of Stuck (2007)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR.org (106) on 01 Jun 2008

Stuart Gordon's inventions -- vivid, gruesome and occasionally quite funny -- offer a just-deserts ending and make both characters surprisingly…

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