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Review of Derailed (2002)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Nov 2005

As a thriller, Derailed proceeds with the same unearned swagger as a bad magic act, revealing its astonishments to the evident surprise of…

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Review of Derailed (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Nov 2005

As a thriller, Derailed proceeds with the same unearned swagger as a bad magic act, revealing its astonishments to the evident surprise of…

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Review of Chicken Little (2005)

By Christopher Kelly (28) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Nov 2005

Chicken Little is much too glib to make us feel what its characters are experiencing; the filmmakers would much rather explode their animated…

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Review of Chicken Little (1943)

By Christopher Kelly (28) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Nov 2005

Chicken Little is much too glib to make us feel what its characters are experiencing; the filmmakers would much rather explode their animated…

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Review of North Country (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Oct 2005

Theron has once again deglamorized herself for a meaty dramatic role, and she gives a persuasive performance that surely will not be overlooked…

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Review of In Her Shoes (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Oct 2005

As it was winding down, I remember thinking I wasn't ready for this movie to end. These were people I liked, and I wasn't ready to give them up…

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Review of The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Sep 2005

The film doggedly pursues its obsession with class, repeatedly teeing the point up and then following it like a duck hook into the rough…

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Review of A History of Violence (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Sep 2005

In A History of Violence, director David Cronenberg's delirious wow of a movie about violence and sex and the American dream, cinema regains…

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Review of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 28 Sep 2005

Evelyn's behavior just seems surreal, and it doesn't help that the movie never settles on a consistent tone, looking back from an ironic distance…

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Review of Flightplan (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Sep 2005

Here is a picture whose pleasures rise quickly to 37,000 feet - -and remains there until the captain has turned off the fasten seat belt sign…

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Review of The Constant Gardener (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Aug 2005

The director's fluttering hand keeps the ground constantly shifting beneath our feet, which is just what this beautifully wrenching adaptation…

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Review of Bad News Bears (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Jul 2005

The charm of listening to 10- and 11-year-old children swearing at one another begins to wear off quickly…

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Review of Wedding Crashers (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Jul 2005

Vaughn, Owen and McAdams form a perfect three-way union…

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Review of March of the Penguins (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Jul 2005

Comes with the shapely narrative of such animated classics as Bambi and The Lion King, and yet the penguins are all quite real…

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Review of Rize (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Jun 2005

Rize is uplifting without being manipulative, and if -- at 85 minutes -- it is a little longer than it needs to be, LaChapelle is clearly committed…

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Review of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Jun 2005

A high-gloss, high-caliber domestic squabble, a lip-lock and load romance that might just as easily have been called 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith & Wesson…

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Review of Cinderella Man (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 01 Jun 2005

Cinderella Man consistently delivers less than it wants to by trying for more than it should…

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Review of Saving Face (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 01 Jun 2005

Wu's film takes the received wisdom of The Joy Luck Club for a delightful spin through unwed motherhood, lesbianism and Chinese-American family…

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Review of Roly Poly (1968)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 May 2005

A corrosive confection of style and bile, its gleaming, butter cream-frosted contours not really concealing the crumbs who have curdled British…

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Review of Layer Cake (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 May 2005

A corrosive confection of style and bile, its gleaming, butter cream-frosted contours not really concealing the crumbs who have curdled British…

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