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Review of Semi-Pro (2008)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Feb 2008

Ferrell is capable of a great deal more than he's been delivering. It might surprise him to learn that white men can jump. But first they have to try…

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Review of The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Feb 2008

Chadwick and Morgan have cooked up a potboiler, the sort of thing that might have been fun to watch with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as the…

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Review of Vantage Point (2008)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Feb 2008

The bones of a good idea for a conspiracy thriller lie buried in the corpse of Vantage Point. It feels more like a movie with a personality disorder…

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Review of Jumper (2008)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 15 Feb 2008

The only force on Earth so dense that it apparently can't be moved even by the movie's special effects is Christensen's wooden acting…

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Review of In Bruges (2008)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Feb 2008

It somehow manages to never stop being brutally funny, while also becoming tragically bleak…

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Review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 31 Jan 2008

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days feels like a kind of appendix -- and a bursting one at that -- to Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue…

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Review of Nanking (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Jan 2008

Anyone who sees Nanking should know going in what a brutal story it is, but no one should miss it because of a restrictive rating…

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Review of Cloverfield (2008)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Jan 2008

Cloverfield is the ultimate movie for people who don't feel a cataclysm has really happened until they can videotape it, upload it and stream…

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Review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Jan 2008

Director Julian Schnabel uses his skill as a painter to assemble a collage of fantastical images to reveal the exquisite physical wreck that…

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Review of The Kite Runner (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Dec 2007

By the time it arrives at its final kite-flying scene back in the Bay Area, The Kite Runner has soared occasionally, but remains too grounded…

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Review of Atonement (1971)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2007

In its first 45 minutes, Atonement achieves a kind of perfection rare even for big Oscar-bait movies…

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Review of Atonement (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2007

In its first 45 minutes, Atonement achieves a kind of perfection rare even for big Oscar-bait movies…

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Review of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Nov 2007

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is what happens when too many sappy sweet instincts chase too few original ideas…

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Review of No Country for Old Men (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Nov 2007

Working from a Cormac McCarthy novel that has the heedless, headlong force of an action movie screenplay, Joel and Ethan Coen have improved…

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Review of Southland Tales (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Nov 2007

By the time the movie rolls into its third hour, it's exhausted most of its comic energy, leaving you disoriented and unable to remember much…

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Review of American Gangster (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 02 Nov 2007

In its title character, the movie has created a murdering, dope-slinging millionaire from the streets that even Denzel Washington has managed…

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Review of Brother's Shadow (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Oct 2007

Brother's Shadow is an admirable first film…

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Review of Gone Baby Gone (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Oct 2007

The film is full of scenes that make the hair stand up on the back of your neck…

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Review of Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Oct 2007

It's a premise as fanciful as Jimmy Stewart's Harvey, and yet the movie has a sweetness that manages to be pixilated and plausible at the same time…

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Review of Lust, Caution (2007)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Oct 2007

In the broad strokes and beautiful particularity of its bittersweet love story, Lust, Caution could not come from any other place but China…

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