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Review of Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

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

The creator of such pulp prodigies as Hellboy and Blade II, del Toro mingles myth and history in Pan's Labyrinth, and produces a masterpiece…

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Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Jan 2007

The movie talks suggestively about smells but can't quite find a way to bring them to life, so [director Tom] Tykwer uses images to rub our…

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Review of Grease (1978)

By Julie Hinds (9) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Dec 2006

An unembarrassed movie musical, something my generation experienced only in Sunday-afternoon movies on TV…

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Review of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Dec 2006

This movie manages with great economy to show that soldiers on both sides had far more in common than they thought…

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Review of The Good German (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Dec 2006

The trouble is the movie never really seems to go anywhere…

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Review of Rocky Balboa (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Dec 2006

What makes this vanity project so pleasurable is that Stallone has written a script filled with wit, and even self-deprecation…

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

By Jim Harrington (5) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Nov 2006

Far from a hit, Tenacious D probably will do just fine on the midnight-movie circuit…

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Review of The Departed (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Oct 2006

In Martin Scorsese's thrilling, throbbing reinterpretation of [Infernal Affairs], it is the war that rages within all of us -- between our…

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Review of Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Oct 2006

Franken doesn't allow the knee-jerk predictability of his liberal pronouncements to deflate the great gasbag that he becomes as the movie proceeds…

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Review of 49 Up (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Oct 2006

In the same way that none of us ever do turn out as expected, neither do they…

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Review of Open Season (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Sep 2006

A little bit like Over the Hedge, and a lot like the upcoming Flushed Away, in which an animated house mouse is forced to fend for himself…

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Review of Open Season (1974)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Sep 2006

A little bit like Over the Hedge, and a lot like the upcoming Flushed Away, in which an animated house mouse is forced to fend for himself…

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Review of Quinceañera (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Aug 2006

What makes this modest little movie better than it sounds is the insistent beating of its heart…

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Review of World Trade Center (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Aug 2006

World Trade Center delivers to its audience a calculated dose of uplift and gooses us along to feel suspense here, compassion there and hope…

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Review of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 03 Aug 2006

Talladega Nights is very funny at times, even if the Ballad part mostly boils down to a series of comedy sketches connected by a recurring character…

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Review of Miami Vice (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Jul 2006

The movie isn't perfect, but it's good enough, and better than most…

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Review of Lady in the Water (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Jul 2006

It is yet another of Shyamalan's attempts to wade into the deep end of the profundity pool, where not even chlorine can kill the brackish residue…

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Review of Monster House (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Jul 2006

Monster House is like an amusement park ride through a fun house…

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Review of Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Jul 2006

I'm Your Man never quite gets its man in a coherent frame, but for all its zigs and zags outside the lines, the portrait of Cohen that emerges…

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

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Jul 2006

This installment in the trilogy feels more like filler between the first and the last episodes, and with no obvious story to tell, it remains…

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