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Review of White Chicks (2004)

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

Much of what passes for humor in White Chicks derives from such charming plot devices as the lactose intolerance of one of the brothers…

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Review of DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)

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

Some movies are funny because they're smart, while other movies are equally funny because they're dumb…

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Review of Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

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

Anyone who has not seen the original movie will wonder why Chan is gadding about in the bowler derby of an English valet, and anyone who has…

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Review of The Stepford Wives (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Jun 2004

The Stepford Wives has been Stepfordized into a big-budget, star-heavy commodity, complete with computer effects and not-so-subliminal product…

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Review of A Day Without a Mexican (2004)

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

Arau has expanded his satirical short from 1998 into one joke that he solemnly beats to death for 100 minutes…

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Review of The Corporation (2003)

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

The Corporation is an act of intentional provocation that manages to be both enormously entertaining and an affront to the business titans…

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Review of A Slipping Down Life (1999)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 May 2004

This is one of those rare dramas that drops us into the heart of the Dairy Queen/Bible Belt without seeming in the least patronizing or superior…

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Review of The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

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

A summer snow job that produces the season's first perfect storm of pleasure…

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Review of Love Me If You Dare (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 May 2004

The kind of clever, color-saturated novelty that dares you not to like it…

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Review of Carandiru (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 May 2004

There are numerous standout performances…

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Review of Troy (2004)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 May 2004

An action picture of stunning scope and stirring spectacle, with a love story between two callow nitwits that is its Achilles heel…

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Review of Van Helsing (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 May 2004

Stephen Sommers' follow-up to his popular Mummy remakes is all climax and no foreplay, all computer effects but zero sense of dread…

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Review of Man on Fire (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Apr 2004

One of the longest, dumbest and most savage revenge fantasies extant…

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Review of Man on Fire (1987)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Apr 2004

One of the longest, dumbest and most savage revenge fantasies extant…

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Review of 13 Going on 30 (2004)

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

Subplots make the story feel labored, as if no one wanted to confront what it actually feels like to be a kid trapped in an adult's life…

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Review of The Punisher (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 14 Apr 2004

No, The Punisher isn't pretty. But, like its low-rent superhero, it gets the job done and then some…

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Review of The Alamo (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Apr 2004

Yes, a lot of The Alamo is chauvinistic hokum. But what entertaining hokum it is…

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Review of Dogville (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Apr 2004

A tenacious, brutal drama that dares you to turn your back…

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Review of Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 31 Mar 2004

It starts as a black comedy about suicide along the lines of Harold and Maude, then softens into a well-meant but sentimental piece about terminal…

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Review of Walking Tall (2004)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 31 Mar 2004

This is Vigilante Justice 101, made vaguely more palatable by the Rock's undeniable charisma…

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