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Review of WarGames (1983)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 May 2008

Badham and company elide a lot of technical details of hacking, but the basics of the nascent computer culture still feel spot-on, right down…

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Review of Alex & Emma (2003)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 May 2008

The movie and the movie-within-a-movie share a chemistry even more awkward than that of their flat-footed leads…

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Review of The Perfect Holiday (2007)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 May 2008

It's a measure of the film's lack of imagination that Morris Chestnut, as an aspiring songwriter logging time as a mall Santa, can't even think…

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Review of Stolen Summer (2002)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 May 2008

Beyond fulfilling the dreams of a seemingly nice fellow, the whole venture is a victory of hype over substance, loudly accomplishing nothing…

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Review of The President's Last Bang (2005)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 May 2008

Though The President's Last Bang is undeniably dense-with more than a dozen significant characters-the particulars aren't too tough to understand…

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Review of Changeling (2008)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 May 2008

Eastwood creates a tone that's at once stately and unsettling, allowing a lot of breathing room for Jolie's sad, unyielding performance…

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Review of The Manitou (1978)

By Zack Handlen (8) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 May 2008

While Manitou does have its slower sections, the climax is a thing of beauty to be enjoyed forever, with crummy special effects, bad lightning,…

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Review of Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story (2005)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 May 2008

There are no surprises in Dreamer--except that for all its visible and unselfconscious schmaltz, it's actually pretty enjoyable…

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Review of The Deal (2005)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2008

If Epstein and Kahn's plot mechanics were as fresh as the headlines from which they borrow, they might have been on to something…

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Review of Exit: The Right to Die (2006)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 May 2008

In the wrenching final scene, the concept of dying with dignity becomes much more than just a catchphrase used to justify a controversial practice…

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Review of The Hours (2002)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 May 2008

That makes it hard to watch Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry's adaptation without thinking of the one Almodóvar might have made -- which…

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Review of The Reckoning (2004)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 May 2008

Maddeningly dull. It works on the cerebrum while the rest of the body drifts off to sleep, and the dullness only intensifies as the film goes on…

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Review of Smart People (2008)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 May 2008

Dennis Quaid could stand in for Jeff Daniels' similarly toxic snob in The Squid And The Whale, if only he were a little smarter and a little…

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Review of Date Movie (2006)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Apr 2008

It's kind of amazing that a joke-a-second comedy like Date Movie doesn't contain a single laugh…

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Review of Paparazzi (2004)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Apr 2008

Paparazzi follows the vigilante playbook in all its banality, without much in the way of moral reflection…

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Review of The Hawk Is Dying (2007)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Apr 2008

A fragile little movie, occasionally ridiculous, but with M…

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Review of Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Apr 2008

Turns a fond look back at the great Federico Fellini into an occasion for the kind of talky tedium Fellini's own movies would never have allowed…

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Review of The Machinist (2004)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Apr 2008

Unrelentingly dreary, and seemingly destined to be remembered, if at all, as that movie Christian Bale lost a full third of his body weight…

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Review of Lipstick & Dynamite (2005)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Apr 2008

Leitman gets some wonderful tall tales from her subjects, who open up like they've been waiting for years for someone to come along and ask,…

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Review of The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Apr 2008

Part courtroom drama, part otherworldly shocker, the film basically restages the Scopes Monkey Trial and comes out once more against Mr…

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