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Review of Mean Creek (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Aug 2004

One of the year's very best independents…

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Review of Hero (1992)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Aug 2004

Hero is without question the year's most beautiful film…

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Review of Hero (2015)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Aug 2004

Hero is without question the year's most beautiful film…

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Review of Hero (2010)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Aug 2004

Hero is without question the year's most beautiful film…

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Review of Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Aug 2004

It rates fairly high on both the Scare-O-Meter and Gross-Out Scale, with an early hyena attack guaranteed to have you flinching in terror…

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Review of She Hate Me (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Aug 2004

It's a muddled, overlong, politically incorrect satire that goes wrong in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin dismantling the thing…

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Review of Stander (2003)

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

Adds up to what is less a movie than an entertainingly episodic rap sheet…

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Review of AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 Aug 2004

Among the verbal howlers: 'This is like finding Moses' DVD collection' and, from Lathan's team leader, 'This is starting to make sense…

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Review of Garden State (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Aug 2004

A comedy with so many moments of found insight and irony that it can scarcely contain them all…

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Review of Open Water (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Aug 2004

It's a scything fin in the pit of your stomach, a gathering shark storm beneath the surface of the life you take for granted…

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Review of The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Jul 2004

As literal-minded and dramatically flaccid as its predecessor was allusive and taut…

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Review of The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

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

With its foot pressed to the floor from beginning to end, Bourne is a non-stop gas…

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Review of Festival Express (2003)

By Brad Kava (2) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Jul 2004

It sheds new light on psychedelic rock and shows viewers heretofore unseen, career-defining performances by some legends…

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Review of Catwoman (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Jul 2004

Another phony story of female empowerment…

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Review of Riding Giants (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 14 Jul 2004

Catching the perfect wave may not be something most of us will ever do, but it's comforting to know that somebody is out there catching it for us…

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Review of The Door in the Floor (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Jul 2004

[Bridges] bursts through The Door in the Floor like it was made of plywood and, in the process, delivers the year's first full-bodied dramatic…

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Review of Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)

By Brad Kava (2) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Jul 2004

It goes to places no other band has dared to explore in public: finances, fights, families, real feelings about one another and the things…

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Review of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Jul 2004

Burgundy is dim, vain and unrepentantly horny, but there is something so limited about him that he seems more pitiable than funny…

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Review of De-Lovely (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Jun 2004

A refreshing change from Hollywood's typical wages-of-sin sermon…

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Review of Spider-Man 2 (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Jun 2004

[The first big fight scene] looks so realistic that it's hard to believe the whole thing was shot in a computer…

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