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Review of Get Smart (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Jul 2015

The movie is hurt more than helped by having to carry over character names and shoehorn in the show's greatest hits, Carell and Hathaway's…

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Review of Sicko (2007)

By Michael Joshua Rowin (30) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Jul 2015

While Moore's sins aren't nearly as terrible or significant as those of the political system to which he stands opposed, his unabashed tendency…

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Review of The Love Guru (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Jul 2015

The Love Guru just feels lazy, filling time with jokes about Celine Dion, Oprah Winfrey, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Myers and Kanye…

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Review of You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 28 Jul 2015

It's perhaps not much of a schtick, but it's a cohesive schtick, with the sub-schticks of the entire cast well integrated in support and counterpoint…

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Review of A Serious Man (2009)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Stop Smiling (70) on 31 May 2015

It's methodical, distancing and sarcastic, like all of their movies…

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Review of Children of Men (2006)

By Michael Joshua Rowin (30) for Stop Smiling (70) on 31 Mar 2015

Cuarón is implementing a verisimilitude that both matches the film's edge-of-your-seat escalations and demonstrates a new understanding of…

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Review of The Incredible Hulk (1977)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Stop Smiling (70) on 19 Jan 2015

Before his initial transformation inside the bottling plant where he works, Banner warns, Something bad is about to happen. He's right…

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Review of The Incredible Hulk (2008)

By Justin Stewart (31) for Stop Smiling (70) on 19 Jan 2015

Before his initial transformation inside the bottling plant where he works, Banner warns, Something bad is about to happen. He's right…

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Review of Girlfriend Experience (2008)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 30 Sep 2014

Given the film's timestamp and the illusory nature of Chelsea's transacted affections, she may be the Aughties bubble economy incarnate…

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Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 30 Sep 2014

Given the film's timestamp and the illusory nature of Chelsea's transacted affections, she may be the Aughties bubble economy incarnate…

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Review of Margot at the Wedding (2007)

By Kristi Mitsuda (3) for Stop Smiling (70) on 29 Sep 2014

As in the minutely observed anatomy of a divorce in The Squid and the Whale, the pleasures and pains of Margot reside in the smallness of scope…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By Michael Koresky (14) for Stop Smiling (70) on 29 Sep 2014

Perhaps the best barometer of Anderson's astonishing success here is that he manages to invest this weighty allegory with such a wealth of…

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Review of Diary of the Dead (2007)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 29 Sep 2014

One needn't be a splatter junkie to miss Romero's marshalling of action across multiple theaters…

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Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By Mark Asch (48) for Stop Smiling (70) on 29 Sep 2014

Sweeney Todd is maybe a bit too Grand for its own good. It's all danse, no macabre…

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Review of Cloverfield (2008)

By Michael Joshua Rowin (30) for Stop Smiling (70) on 29 Sep 2014

Cloverfield should be best appreciated for throwing down the gauntlet for a new cinematic representation of mass destruction and, thus, the…

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Review of The Simpsons Movie (2007)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Stop Smiling (70) on 23 Aug 2014

The consensus is right: It's only pretty funny, which is all it needed to be…

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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Michael Joshua Rowin (30) for Stop Smiling (70) on 22 Aug 2014

How welcome, then, that Basterds, while no masterpiece, manages to get at something more than its creator's too often frivolously exercised…

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Review of Factotum (2005)

By Josh Tyson (1) for Stop Smiling (70) on 24 Mar 2014

The fact that Chinaski can be ably transplanted from the '40s to the early 21st century, and from LA to MN, speaks to his endurance as American…

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Review of United 93 (2006)

By James Hughes (2) for Stop Smiling (70) on 05 Mar 2014

Above all, one truth remains: the sacrifice of the 40 passengers on Flight 93 is truly remarkable…

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Review of A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Stop Smiling (70) on 05 Mar 2014

It's remarkable how charitable, on the whole, this movie feels; in all of the previous examples, the vision of pop and people is at best tangled,…

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