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Review of Beyond the Sea (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Dec 2004

This is one of those rare movies that's so bad it's good, with lavish production numbers in which Spacey sings out of sync with the voice track…

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Review of Meet the Fockers (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Dec 2004

More than any recent comedy I can think of, Meet the Fockers seems likely to split audiences between those who find it deliriously funny and…

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Review of The Aviator (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Dec 2004

Someone is going to have to prove to me that those events occurred in that order. Watching The Aviator, I didn't buy a minute of it…

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Review of House of Flying Daggers (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Dec 2004

House of Flying Daggers pierces the mind's eye with its crazy beautiful images, then rends the heart…

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Review of Ocean's Twelve (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Dec 2004

With Ocean's Twelve, Hollywood moves a step closer to the glorious day when it will no longer have to rouse itself to the bothersome task of…

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Review of Closer (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 02 Dec 2004

Everything about Closer -- from its four wonderful performances to Nichols' stunning work -- looks and feels perfect…

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Review of Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Nov 2004

One of the things the film captures most astutely is the beginnings of the American media frenzy that has become a staple of the news cycle…

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Review of Alexander (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Nov 2004

Despite a budget reportedly north of $150 million, Stone fails to make war on an epic scale, preferring to allow Alexander to talk the world to death…

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Review of Finding Neverland (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Nov 2004

It is Depp who makes the magic real enough to believe…

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Review of Kinsey (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Nov 2004

As Kinsey, the remarkable new film about his life, clearly reveals, there was more to the biologist in the bow tie than met the eye…

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Review of National Treasure (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Nov 2004

The picture is 25 minutes of fun, spread over 125 minutes…

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Review of National Treasure (1927)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Nov 2004

The picture is 25 minutes of fun, spread over 125 minutes…

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Review of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Nov 2004

Why, in other words, should we care about this woman, when the filmmakers obviously do not…

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Review of The Polar Express (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Nov 2004

Barrels across the trackless landscape of our affections, arriving where no one would have thought to look for a big-budget Hollywood movie…

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Review of The Incredibles (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Nov 2004

Pixar has delivered its first pure action picture, while still managing not to lose sight of its preoccupation with family…

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Review of Alfie (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Nov 2004

The newly remade Alfie does for Jude Law what the 1966 original accomplished for Michael Caine: It makes him a star…

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Review of Being Julia (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Oct 2004

The play is supposed to serve as both the centerpiece and the climax of the film, which may explain why it wobbles until the end…

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Review of Vera Drake (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 20 Oct 2004

The question that makes the movie subversive is one it never asks, even though contemporary audiences probably will: Where would women be if…

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Review of Primer (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Oct 2004

Writer-director Shane Carruth makes a low-tech, low-budget entry into a staple of science fiction and manages to make it feel like a genre…

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Review of Ladder 49 (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Sep 2004

Morrison, trapped beneath burning rubble, reviews his cliche-ridden life…

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