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Review of Jane Eyre (2011)

By Karen D'souza (30) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 24 Mar 2011

True aficionados will doubtless wish the film etched every aspect of the Brontë experience but that's a quibble in light of the movie's intoxicating…

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Review of How Do You Know (2010)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Dec 2010

What's truly perplexing about the failures of How Do You Know is that the film was written and directed by James L…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Dec 2010

Firth makes us feel his alienation, his self-loathing and his sense of privilege…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Nov 2010

Much of the heavy lifting falls to Watson, and, in such moments as the one where she must wipe out her family's memories of her to protect…

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Review of The Social Network (2010)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Sep 2010

You will know The Social Network is something very special from its first scene…

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Review of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 Aug 2010

For most of its hour and 53 minutes, it's a dazzling and thoroughly engaging ride through a fantasy world born of Wright's (and O'Malley's)…

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Review of Inception (2010)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 14 Jul 2010

Inception is the blockbuster we've all been thirsting for, a sleek brain-twister that makes the other 2010 mainstream releases look puny, drab…

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Review of Knight and Day (2010)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Jun 2010

After so many bad romance movies, it's a treat to see genuine sparks fly between two major stars…

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Review of Shrek Forever After (2010)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 May 2010

There is no happy ending for the Shrek franchise…

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Review of Iron Man 2 (2010)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 May 2010

It's a solid blockbuster with a few faults that you just don't mind overlooking…

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Review of The Runaways (2010)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Mar 2010

It may be, as Fowley says near the end of the film, that the Runaways were a conceptual rock project that failed…

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Review of Dear John (1988)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Feb 2010

Dear John succeeds where Sparks duds like Rodanthe crumbled because it harnesses fresher talents to pull off a comforting tale about the enduring…

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Review of Dear John (1964)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Feb 2010

Dear John succeeds where Sparks duds like Rodanthe crumbled because it harnesses fresher talents to pull off a comforting tale about the enduring…

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Review of Dear John (2010)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Feb 2010

Dear John succeeds where Sparks duds like Rodanthe crumbled because it harnesses fresher talents to pull off a comforting tale about the enduring…

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Review of The Lovely Bones (2009)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 15 Jan 2010

Most often, Jackson's magical other world resembles the land of Oz on steroids or, in one scene, a feminine hygiene ad…

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Review of 2012 (2009)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Nov 2009

Preposterous? You bet. But 2012 delivers the disaster-movie goods better than any other popcorn movie we've seen since the '80s…

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Review of Bright Star (2009)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 24 Sep 2009

Bright Star is a rich, sumptuous and, yes, challenging experience…

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Review of Julie & Julia (2009)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Aug 2009

Sometimes a meal can be less than perfect but still so thoroughly enjoyable that a missed ingredient here or a bit of overcooking there doesn't…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

By Charlie Mccollum (48) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 Jul 2009

Half-Blood Prince shows the Potter film franchise and Rowling's story are in very good hands indeed…

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Review of Star Trek (2009)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 May 2009

Writers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman manage to morph the new actors into the general outlines of the original crew, but even as they slip…

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