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Review of Shooter (1988)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 23 Mar 2007

Without Wahlberg's rock-solid presence as a former Marine sniper turned hunted man, the mediocrity of Shooter would be clearer sooner…

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Review of Reign Over Me (2007)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 23 Mar 2007

Any extraneous elements seem to fall away as we gain greater insight into Charlie's devastation…

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Review of Shooter (2007)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 23 Mar 2007

Without Wahlberg's rock-solid presence as a former Marine sniper turned hunted man, the mediocrity of Shooter would be clearer sooner…

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Review of Miss Potter (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 16 Mar 2007

[Zellwegger's and McGregor's] performances bring great joy to this picture, which is slight but satisfying, like a favorite children's book…

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Review of I Think I Love My Wife (2007)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 16 Mar 2007

Chris Rock's direction of I Think I Love My Wife isn't especially noteworthy. His screenwriting (with comedian Louis C.K.) is all over the map…

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Review of 300 (2007)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 09 Mar 2007

Once the Spartans start cracking jokes while finishing off opponents with spears, 300 starts to wobble…

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Review of The Dead Girl (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 09 Mar 2007

Growing less lurid and more poignant as it builds its story through a series of linked vignettes, this film by Karen Moncrieff provides a showcase…

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Review of Black Snake Moan (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 02 Mar 2007

A movie that takes on sex, religion and race in the rural South…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 02 Mar 2007

A less-skillful director might, say, up the fog quotient for a film about murder and San Francisco…

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Review of Music and Lyrics (2007)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 14 Feb 2007

They're good collaborators, even if the song they're hammering out isn't very memorable…

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Review of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 19 Jan 2007

Letters From Iwo Jima, director Clint Eastwood's look at the World War II battle from the perspective of the Japanese forces, is more accomplished…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 12 Jan 2007

The sheer force and fearlessness of Dench's performance is something to behold, as Barbara's deeply ingrained class and personal resentments…

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Review of Dreamgirls (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 29 Dec 2006

Sometimes a splashy movie musical can be just the thing…

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Review of We Are Marshall (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 22 Dec 2006

This particular movie, obviously carefully and thoroughly researched, needed to articulate the experiences of the townspeople of Huntington…

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Review of The Good Shepherd (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 22 Dec 2006

The Good Shepherd does contain occasional tense moments and threatens, at points, to blossom into an actual thriller…

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Review of Rocky Balboa (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 20 Dec 2006

Sylvester Stallone, 60, still looks great with his shirt off. It's his directing, writing and acting skills that at times seem out of shape…

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Review of Pursuit of Happyness (2005)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 15 Dec 2006

It's the picture's lifelike approach, from the immediacy of Italian director Gabriele Muccino's use of a handheld camera to screenwriter Steven…

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Review of The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 15 Dec 2006

It's the picture's lifelike approach, from the immediacy of Italian director Gabriele Muccino's use of a handheld camera to screenwriter Steven…

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Review of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 23 Nov 2006

Shows [Black] at his comic best -- overly enthusiastic and quick to anger without ever becoming a buffoon…

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Review of For Your Consideration (2006)

By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 22 Nov 2006

Jane Lynch and Fred Willard are consistent bright spots as Entertainment Tonight-style bozo TV hosts fanning the flames of Purim fever…

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