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Review of The Quiet American (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 07 Feb 2003

Old-fashioned storytelling in the best sense of the term…

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Review of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 24 Jan 2003

Clooney, who on the basis of this movie has a big career ahead of him behind the camera, demonstrates a real flair for visual comedy…

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Review of City of God (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 24 Jan 2003

A grim, outrageous, blisteringly effective underworld thriller destined to become a classic of its kind…

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Review of The Isle (2000)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jan 2003

There is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how, in the flip-flop of courtship,…

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Review of National Security (2012)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jan 2003

It's meant to wear down and demoralize critics who are about to launch into a whole new year of worthless buddy comedies…

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Review of National Security (2003)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Jan 2003

It's meant to wear down and demoralize critics who are about to launch into a whole new year of worthless buddy comedies…

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Review of 25th Hour (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Jan 2003

It's a long, complex, deeply flawed work -- and also quite possibly Lee's most ambitious and accusatory movie since Do the Right Thing in 1989…

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Review of Chicago (1927)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Dec 2002

A piece of stagecraft so thrilling -- and spontaneously combustible -- that audiences at the two screenings of the movie I attended kept erupting…

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Review of Chicago (2002)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Dec 2002

A piece of stagecraft so thrilling -- and spontaneously combustible -- that audiences at the two screenings of the movie I attended kept erupting…

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Review of Catch Me If You Can (2002)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Dec 2002

DiCaprio gives a radiant, movie-star performance…

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Review of Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 25 Dec 2002

Noyce has worked wonders with the material…

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Review of Antwone Fisher (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Dec 2002

A movie that resonates with truth and caring and, thanks to the uncommon rapport between Luke and Washington, grabs at the heart like nothing…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Dec 2002

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is the Tolkien trilogy's middle passage through Middle earth, and the middle is a bit of a muddle…

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Review of Evelyn (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2002

Proves a pleasant enough way to while away a rainy afternoon…

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Review of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2002

Won't go into the captain's log as the U.S.S…

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Review of Maid in Manhattan (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2002

Made-to-order for the singer-actress's target audience, preteen girls and their obliging moms…

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Review of Analyze That (2002)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 06 Dec 2002

Where the first movie struck just the right tone, blending anxiety attacks with machine-gun attacks to come up with a comic La Cosa Neurosis,…

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Review of Personal Velocity (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Dec 2002

Boasts the finest female ensemble of the year…

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Review of Solaris (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Nov 2002

If you give it half a chance, it will bore into your subconscious, mess with your mind and leave you mumbling, 'Hmm, what if --…

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Review of Treasure Planet (2002)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Nov 2002

It's a pleasant enough way to mark time, which is exactly what the rest of the Disney crew is doing -- until inspiration, like a beam from…

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