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Review of Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The movie is marvelously alert to whatever wonderment may appear within it. Which, for a patient, sympathetic audience, is much…

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Review of Lost Souls (2000)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The anticlimactic, is-that-all-there-is ending winds everything up not with a bang, but a whimper…

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Review of Nurse Betty (2000)

By Bob Grimm (315) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Good performances all around, especially from Zellweger and Kinnear. Lots of good laughs laced with nastiness…

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Review of Boiler Room (2000)

By Bob Grimm (315) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Almost liked this one about greedy, young stockbrokers working for an illegal firm, but hated the ending so much it derailed the movie…

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Review of Touching the Void (2003)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

This harrowing, white-knuckle tale of human endurance and gut-wrenching dilemma mingles the dramatization of these events and interviews with…

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Review of The Cell (2000)

By Bob Grimm (315) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The dream sequences are so well-done that it's easy to forgive the film's lack of dramatic punch…

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Review of Invincible (2001)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Ricson (who doubles as cinematographer) has a good feel for urban grit and blue-collar dreams, and he gets good, unpretentious performances-especially…

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Review of 25th Hour (2002)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Lee builds Monty's story of tortured introspection and his final surprising, desperate act before incarceration through boldly candid conversations…

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Review of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The ferociously one-dimensional characters here make this muddy ramble more of a guilty pleasure than a success…

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Review of American Pie (1999)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The production is amateurish and cheap-looking, but two decent performances are worth mentioning: Chris Klein as a sensitive jock and Alyson…

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Review of The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Twohy gives the film a vehement comic-book energy, and the eye-popping production design by Holger Gross is like Boris Vallejo's Greatest Hits…

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Review of Wanted (2008)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

It's fun for quite a while, getting by on audacity and raw energy -- until a midway plot twist goes off the deep end and becomes downright silly…

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Review of Stealing Harvard (2002)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Director Bruce McCulloch tries to minimize the damage Green does, but even one frame of him would be too much…

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Review of Topsy-Turvy (1999)

By Bob Grimm (315) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

A great study on the struggle to create live theater, containing beautiful musical sequences and fantastic portrayals of the musical's creators…

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Review of Invincible (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Ricson (who doubles as cinematographer) has a good feel for urban grit and blue-collar dreams, and he gets good, unpretentious performances-especially…

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Review of Elektra (2013)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

For all its slow-mo kick-flying and computer-generated mysticism, the story is tissue-thin and simple to the point of being simpleminded…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

It's a pretty joyless ride, even with all the CGI wizardry a quarter of a billion bucks can buy…

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Review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Diving Bell is modishly slick, visually inventive and vaguely immaterial but ultimately moving because, well, how could it not be…

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Review of Trippin' (1999)

By Mark Halverson (98) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

This recklessly constructed mix of social messages, sexual fantasies and street profanity certainly won't be accused of trying to preach to the choir…

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Review of The Love Guru (2008)

By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The whole vaguely pitiable enterprise has tiny flickers of brilliance which can't be denied, but almost can't be detected, either…

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