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Review of Casino Royale (2006)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Gone are the clichés of recent Bond adventures - the too-clever quips, the loveless conquests, the gaudy gadgetry and the BMW-sponsored sports…

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Review of Rocky Balboa (2006)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Stallone, now 60, has something in common with Rocky - he's an awkwardly bulked-up dinosaur, fighting to prove that the game hasn't passed…

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Review of Saw IV (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Poor Jigsaw…

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Review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Blanchett is again director Shekhar Kapur's greatest asset…

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Review of Casino Royale (1954)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Gone are the clichés of recent Bond adventures - the too-clever quips, the loveless conquests, the gaudy gadgetry and the BMW-sponsored sports…

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Review of Shrek the Third (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Though the devious wit of the original remains, it is obscured by too many classic-rock interludes (courtesy of Led Zeppelin, Heart and Paul…

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Review of I Am Legend (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

The monsters are routine CGI creations, crudely animated and unconvincing…

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Review of Casino Royale (1967)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Gone are the clichés of recent Bond adventures - the too-clever quips, the loveless conquests, the gaudy gadgetry and the BMW-sponsored sports…

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Review of Across the Universe (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 09 Apr 2008

Across the Universe' is whimsical silliness, imaginatively constructed but precious and gratingly excessive…

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Review of The Golden Compass (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

Will it be enough to satisfy fans of Philip Pullman's widely read 'His Dark Materials' trilogy? Hard to say…

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Review of Fred Claus (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

Rather than creating imaginative situations for Vaughn to explore, director David Dobkin merely asks that Vaughn be himself, as if his personality…

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Review of Cloverfield (2008)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

Cloverfield' is a sleek, silly product of green filmmaking: It recycles old ideas and molds them into a lean, briskly paced thriller that…

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Review of 30 Days of Night (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

The action is fast and gruesome, but beyond Niles and Templesmith's unique setting, in which the typical race to daylight is stretched out…

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Review of 1408 (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

From the start, it builds to a point of unbearable tension and then rewards us with a payoff that is cleverly executed and genuinely terrifying…

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Review of The Mist (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

The Mist is a classic monster movie turned morality play, and for a while it works on both counts…

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Review of Transformers (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

Transformers' is a loud, unsophisticated testament to the visceral thrills of effects-driven mayhem…

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Review of Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2007)

By Rossiter Drake (177) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 08 Apr 2008

As an illustrated audio tour through the life of a gifted but self-destructive performer, 'About a Son' is enlightening to a point, but one…

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Review of Ransom (1996)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 05 Mar 2008

Ransom is every bit as taut and expertly directed, and it's another in the emergency genre, one in which Howard excels…

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Review of The Wedding Singer (1998)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 24 Feb 2008

The considerable appeal of this movie has to do with its roots in those nice, comforting love stories of the 1930s…

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Review of Buffalo '66 (1998)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 17 Feb 2008

The movie is an ill-advised work of egomania by someone who clearly has some talent, but not as much as he seems to think…

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