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	893 Reviews by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) 893 Reviews by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press Movie: No Reservations Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No Reservations? I have some reservations. 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) I now pronounce it better than you'd think. 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: Talk to Me Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) There is one good movie in Talk to Me and about four bad ones. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Transformers Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Director Michael Bay appears to have neither a sense of timing nor an awareness that, as a movie ... 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: License to Wed Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) It used to be annoying when Robin Williams insisted on wrecking comedies with his overbearing sht... 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ratatouille Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) The Ratatouille concept could be off-putting -- a rat who dreams of using his bubonic paws to coo... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vitus Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) If I had to select one movie genre to never withstand again, it would be the precocious- child-sh... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: 1408 Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Your check-in time for the Dolphin Hotel's room 1408 should be whenever the movie hits video stor... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nancy Drew Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Emma Roberts, as Nancy, is perfection: smart, bemused, unflappable, a know-it-all without acting ... 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Brooks Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) After its sleek, hard-edged first hour, the second half slides into rote action-adventure scenes,... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crazy Love Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) I don't know if Crazy Love is a love story or a hate story, but I do know it's unlikely there wil... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Once Release date: 5/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) The perfect movie for people who love music. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Once Release date: 5/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) The perfect movie for people who love music. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Delta Farce Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Larry the Cable Guy makes the men and women of the armed forces wait until the tail-end of his Ir... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ex, The Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) It's smarter and riskier than most comedies, and that counts for a lot. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Away From Her Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Away From Her is a film of piercing clarity, one that knocks you out over and over again with its... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paris je t'aime Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Eighteen short films, each done by a different director with a different cast and set in a differ... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: 300 Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) In the end, 300's visual splendors don't give moviegoers anything to hang onto other than a batch... 188 other reviews of this movie Movie: Namesake, The Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Namesake is not just a visual experience. The script is witty, the story is beautifully paced, an... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Return, The Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Although it's being advertised as a horror movie, The Return actually invents a new genre: the bo... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Kiss, The Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) ... occasionally stumbles onto something interesting. 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Quiet, The Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) The Quiet doesn't have the wit of American Beauty, and, in fact, what's most interesting about it... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mini's First Time Release date: 7/14/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) The characters in Mini are played by fine performers (Alec Baldwin, Jeff Goldblum, Carrie-Anne Mo... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mission: Impossible III Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Abrams knows what Mission fans want, and he gives us most of it. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: I, Robot Release date: 7/16/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) I, Robot is the best kind of adventure movie, one that engages your heart, your sense of humor an... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: I'm Not Scared Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) A small movie but, like the thematically similar To Kill a Mockingbird, it leaves with you a sens... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: L'Auberge Espagnole Release date: 5/16/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) A buoyant, extremely enjoyable film that coasts along on a quality few movies manage to capture: ... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man on the Train Release date: 5/9/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) For me anyway, it just seemed to disappear. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Recruit, The Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Director Roger Donaldson is so preoccupied by mood that he forgets about story. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Max Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) I'd have thought it was impossible to overdo the role of Hitler, but Noah Taylor does just that i... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hours, The Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) The Hours has made the transition from page to screen gracefully. 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Below Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Consistently clever and suspenseful. 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Kiss, The Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Affectionately reminds us that, in any language, the huge stuff in life can usually be traced bac... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: O Release date: 8/31/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) As played by St. Paul's Josh Hartnett, Hugo is a fascinating, disturbing character. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: A.I. Artificial Intelligence Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) A cold, boring retread of Pinocchio with no characters to grab onto. 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shrek Release date: 5/16/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) Points the way toward some new uses of enchantment. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dish, The Release date: 3/14/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) There's an old-fashioned, can-do quality to The Dish, which is inspiring without being schmaltzy. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: 3,000 Miles to Graceland Release date: 2/23/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (7/0) An entertainingly heartless movie, made with style, energy and a modicum of humor. 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Know Who Killed Me Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/5) Login Required A choppy, cheap-looking mess with awkward dialogue and huge gaps in the plot. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sicko Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Moore still hasn't learned some basic rhetorical skills: Will he ever figure out that acknowledgi... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evening Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/5) Login Required Evening is a very pretty, very bad movie. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Live Free or Die Hard Release date: 6/27/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/5) Login Required Goofy fun. 166 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mighty Heart, A Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Detailed and quietly moving. 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evan Almighty Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required The effects are so gargantuan and so distractingly cheesy that the movie loses track of the idea ... 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: You Kill Me Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Director John Dahl expresses his affection for the film's absurdist humor by not overdoing it. In... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Unlike many recent superhero movies, Silver Surfer doesn't have a heavy, overblown quality. For t... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hostel Part II Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required It's beautifully put-together and it builds to a satisfying climax in which Roth implies that if ... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Surf's Up Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required In addition to being pretty, Surf's Up is pretty funny. Too often, animated films go for big-name... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gracie Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Gracie balances its sentiment with gritty scenes on the soccer field. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Knocked Up Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Yes, it's often gross and even more often funny, but it also gets at what it might really be like... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required World's End lacks the lugubrious quality of many big-budget blockbusters because director Gore Ve... 165 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paprika Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/5) Login Required Paprika tries to do too much and doesn't do any of it especially well. 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bug Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/5) Login Required Even when it doesn't quite succeed, it's interesting. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: 28 Weeks Later Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required The opening is fantastic, and the rest of it won't bore you, even if it's a little disappointing. 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lucky You Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required When you reach the 90-minute mark in Lucky You, it may occur to you that nothing has happened exc... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man 3 Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/5) Login Required What's left is about as thrilling as walking into a cobweb. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Waitress Release date: 5/2/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/5) Login Required A gentle film that never strains for laughs but that gets plenty of them. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jindabyne Release date: 4/27/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/5) Login Required Jindabyne is an eventful movie, but director Ray Lawrence gives the events a simple, plainspoken ... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vacancy Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required What drives Vacancy is its ingenious premise, from which director Nimrod Antal wrings every ounce... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Land of Women Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Kasdan has talent and intelligence, but he hasn't quite figured out how to tackle this story. 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fracture Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required This could easily have become a stupid twistorama like last week's Perfect Stranger. But, with th... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vacancy Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required What drives Vacancy is its ingenious premise, from which director Nimrod Antal wrings every ounce... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Fuzz Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Hot Fuzz plays like a funny movie you wish were even funnier (Fuzz That's Actually Quite Warm mig... 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fracture Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required This could easily have become a stupid twistorama like last week's Perfect Stranger. But, with th... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Year of the Dog Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required If you have a taste for off-center characters, you're barking up the right tree. 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required The movie version of Aqua offers pretty much the same surreal, gross, half-baked antics as the TV... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Disturbia Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required A sneak-up-and-touch-you-on-the-shoulder movie, rather than a smash-you-in-the-face-with-an-anvil... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfect Stranger Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Stranger isn't as bold as Basic Instinct, which was all about goofing on what voyeurs moviegoers ... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: TV Set, The Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required There's a smugness to TV Set that undercuts the humor. The movie is so confident of its artistic ... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Meet the Robinsons Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required An overstuffed movie with a style of storytelling that's like a kid in a toy store: What's that? ... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: After the Wedding Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required Just when we start to find these people interesting and credible, the plot tosses us something we... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: TMNT Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required The story's nothing special, but the movie is vigorously directed, with a camera that moves at a ... 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shooter Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required The movie's called Shooter, not Tea Cozy, so it's no surprise it's a man's man's man's movie. And... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reign Over Me Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/5) Login Required A lot isn't immediately clear in Reign Over Me, and that's what pulls us in. 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nomad (The Warrior) Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/5) Login Required Everything would be OK if the actors didn't open their mouths. 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Red Road Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/5) Login Required A detailed character study that yanks us into the emotions of someone we might not glance at twic... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Ultimatum, The Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) No reference A witty, relentlessly paced thriller with one of the year's classiest supporting casts. 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Release date: 7/11/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) No reference There are plenty of clever, magical effects in the film, but Yates zeroes in on the real stuff: t... 179 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pathfinder Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The film is one expertly staged battle after another, but it seems to be less about violence than... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Book Release date: 4/4/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) No reference By the end, Black Book no longer makes sense, the plot having twisted around itself so much that ... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Premonition Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The script and direction are so humorless that the film becomes unintentionally funny, and, perha... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Think I Love My Wife Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference There's an undercurrent of misogyny in Wife, which is odd, since it ultimately wants to be a cele... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dead Silence Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A perfunctory, cynical movie, made by people who must know how unfrightening their film is and ho... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Host (Gwoemul), The Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Not a cheery movie, but it is a frequently hilarious one. The monster, as terrifying as it is, al... 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Zodiac Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Quite simply, this is a great, great movie. 169 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Hogs Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference None of the actors has a character to play, but each brings a likable persona to Wild Hogs, and t... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amazing Grace Release date: 2/23/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference How could Michael Apted, who directed those towering pillars of truth the 7 Up documentaries, mak... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Astronaut Farmer, The Release date: 2/23/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference In a way, the whole movie is like a dream. Opening with a sunrise and closing with a sunset, the ... 115 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ghost Rider Release date: 2/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference What should be scuzzy, goofy fun becomes morose, off-key dreck in the hands of writer/director Ma... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breach Release date: 2/16/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Reese Witherspoon has already done what would need to be done to make Breach a better film: Kick ... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Release date: 2/14/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The script isn't much better than Perry's Madea's Family Reunion... but it helps that Perry doesn... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Music and Lyrics Release date: 2/14/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Writer-director Marc Lawrence's script is clever, and he has created memorable supporting roles f... 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lives of Others Release date: 2/9/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference An intricately plotted thriller about good people who do bad things and bad people who do good, L... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Smokin' Aces Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference [Carnahan] directs with enough energy and style to hide the fact that his movie is nothing more t... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitcher, The Release date: 1/19/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The cast is sharp and director Dave Meyers keeps the dread building exponentially. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: War Tapes, The Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:48 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference In its portrait of the conflicted men who served their country, it honors the complexity and chal... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flyboys, The Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:31 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Even the aerial battle scenes are frustrating because they've been shot with no sense of space (t... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Following Sean Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:31 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's a must-see for documentary lovers. 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pan's Labyrinth Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro is a master at making the otherworldly seem this-worldly an... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Miss Potter Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Like firelight, Miss Potter has a warm, golden glow. 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: We Are Marshall Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Bright spots can't get at the script's failure to make this into a story about something bigger t... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Curse of the Golden Flower Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference It's not as good as Zhang's masterpiece, Hero, but it's in that neighborhood. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Oliver Twist Release date: 12/21/2006 11:01:40 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Roman Polanski's new version finds the humor in Dickens' story without glossing over the essentia... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Painted Veil, The Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Watts' quietly intense performance is the best thing about Veil. 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Letters From Iwo Jima Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Iris Yamashita's screenplay is a thing of beauty. The Japanese soldiers are vivid characters, wit... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rocky Balboa Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Don't expect to be knocked out by the originality of Rocky Balboa. But if you've enjoyed previous... 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Venus Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Venus is a modern, vigorous movie ... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pursuit of Happyness, The Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference It's more interested in the concrete details of Chris Gardner's life: finding a place to sleep, t... 135 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlotte's Web Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Pork producers may not be high on it, but moviegoers are going to love Charlotte's Web. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unaccompanied Minors Release date: 12/8/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference There isn't a single original plot development in Unaccompanied Minors, which is why it's a surpr... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference ... deficient in the joke department. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: For Your Consideration Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference For Your Consideration, better than anything I've ever seen, articulates my own feelings about th... 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Candy Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Director Neil Armfield reaps rewards for the trust he places in his actors. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happy Feet Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The computer-animated Happy Feet gets even weirder with a late-in-the-game development that is me... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) No reference Fur knows how to get under our skin, and it also knows something Arbus demonstrated in her unsett... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Year, A Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference If nothing else, A Good Year conveys why the people in Provence are sick to mort of tourists who ... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Borat is gasp-for-breath, wipe-your-eyes, hurt-your-stomach, try-to-stop-laughing-so-you-don't-mi... 170 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flushed Away Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Flushed Away was made by Aardman Animation, which also did Chicken Run and the Wallace and Gromit... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death of a President Release date: 10/27/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Who would think a movie about an incendiary subject like the murder of the current president coul... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flags of Our Fathers Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Clint Eastwood is a great filmmaker, and the public relations campaign that helped turn around Wo... 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: Running With Scissors Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The movie gets the pain of [the author's] story, but it misses the humor that got him through the... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Infamous Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference We see Capote's charm in Infamous, which is a witty, heartfelt attempt to understand his contradi... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man of the Year Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Many actors were paid to pretend Williams is still funny in Man of the Year. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Driving Lessons Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Veers all over the place in tone, especially in the scenes with Linney, who seems so much like a ... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Departed, The Release date: 10/6/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference [A] luridly entertaining gangster movie. 189 other reviews of this movie Movie: Facing the Giants Release date: 9/29/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Facing the Giants falls victim to the tell-don't-show brand of filmmaking, in which every charact... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last King of Scotland, The Release date: 9/27/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Although Last King is faithful to the novel, it is superior in almost every way. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Dahlia, The Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A film as vivid, outrageous and thrilling as Hollywood itself. 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Everyone's Hero Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference As if being the lousiest team in baseball isn't bad enough, now the Chicago Cubs are being called... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hollywoodland Release date: 9/8/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Its wayward script lumbers between the Affleck and Brody storylines without making a meaningful c... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Protector, The Release date: 9/8/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference After we're supposed to get off on a bunch of ironmen getting their shoulder blades handed to the... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wicker Man, The Release date: 9/1/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference I may be alone in this -- and you'll have to give it the benefit of a lot of doubt -- but I thoug... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crossover Release date: 9/1/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference You could watch Crossover, or you could check out the Salvation Army gift shop to see what inspir... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Invincible Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Aside from the obligatory wife-who's-holding-Papale-back, Invincible gets almost everything right... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Illusionist, The Release date: 8/18/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference I don't even like magic, but the film imbues Norton's tricks with so much emotion and wonder that... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Trust the Man Release date: 8/18/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Bizarrely obsessed with bathroom humor (this would-be sparkling comedy actually begins with a poo... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Miss Sunshine Release date: 7/26/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference It's a comedy about things that are not funny -- suicide, drug overdoses, busted relationships --... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Clerks II Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Juvenile? Yes. Silly? Yes. But it's also often hilarious. 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster House Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference After a promising beginning, with some clever dialogue -- Monster House can't figure out where to... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lady in the Water Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Why should the gifted Shyamalan even waste his time trashing critics? His attitude should be: If ... 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Man Release date: 7/14/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Oscars will not be forthcoming, but the Wayanses have hit on a formula -- gross-out humor, goofy ... 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Release date: 7/7/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Just when things look dire in Dead Man's Chest, Depp makes like Harry Houdini and gets himself --... 186 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference By now, it's gotten boring to talk about how wonderful Streep is, but her delicate underplaying i... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superman Returns Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It fulfills the minimum requirements for summer blockbusters without going the extra mile as last... 258 other reviews of this movie Movie: Great New Wonderful, The Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's in the Magnolia/Short Cuts vein and, although it's not as good as those classics, the charac... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The drivers do things Click and Clack would never dream of, and that lets Drift do what all three... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The 'best' part is that it looks better than the previous Garfield movie, where the computer-anim... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: District B13 Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference District B13 may have nothing new to say but, boy, does it say it fast. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Break-Up, The Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The movie's crazy insistence on going its own way shows flashes of genius. 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference A couple of mutants die in X-Men: The Last Stand but not nearly enough to save this boring mess. 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inconvenient Truth, An Release date: 5/24/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference An Inconvenient Truth is entertaining and for the last reason you'd expect: Al Gore is good compa... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Keeping Up With the Steins Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference There are no laughs in Keeping Up with The Steins, which is problematic, since it appears to thin... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just My Luck Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Just My Luck is an old-fashioned comedy about two nice people who would fall in love if they coul... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Proposition, The Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference One of the most intriguing things about The Proposition is that it's not clear who the main chara... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Water Release date: 4/28/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference [Mehta's] graceful direction keeps Water from feeling like medicine. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scary Movie 4 Release date: 4/14/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Watching the movie is quite a bit like reading a slightly out-of-date Mad magazine or, I guess I ... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Phat Girlz Release date: 4/7/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference As the title hints, Phat Girlz is a plus-sized Cinderella. 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Age: The Meltdown Release date: 3/31/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The wacky creatures from the first Ice Age return for a witty, poignant sequel made by people who... 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inside Man Release date: 3/24/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference As Inside Man works its way toward its satisfying finale, Lee trusts that we're smart enough to w... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Find Me Guilty Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Entertaining because it's a good, old-fashioned yarn. 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: She's the Man Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Loses the most important part of Shakespeare: his insight into human behavior. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: V for Vendetta Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference V for Vendetta is provocative, exciting, funny, beautiful, disturbing, moving and stylish. In fac... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hills Have Eyes, The Release date: 3/10/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The Hills Have Eyes, a remake of a 30-year-old shocker, is concerned with the impact of violence.... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ask the Dust Release date: 3/10/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference With its sunset colors and haunting music, Ask the Dust is very beautiful. And very empty. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dave Chappelle's Block Party Release date: 3/3/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A good-timey vibe lasts from beginning to end of Party. 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tsotsi Release date: 2/24/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Oscar was right. It's a winner. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Below Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference There are human beings in this movie and they are fine, but it is the magnificent four-legged act... 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unknown White Male Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's well worth seeing, although Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter is a better documentary with a ... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unknown White Male Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's well worth seeing, although Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter is a better documentary with a ... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Firewall Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's the skill of the actors that keeps Firewall anchored in something recognizably human. 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Something New Release date: 2/3/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference There's a Harlequin romance feel to Something New, but it's a good Harlequin. 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Imagine Me & You Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference I really like the people in Imagine Me and You, but I can't stand the movie they're stuck in. 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nanny McPhee Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Imaginative and funny, Nanny McPhee resembles a Julie Andrews film festival -- without Andrews. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The playful British Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story is a comedy for anyone fascinated by the... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Glory Road Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The big game at the end of the film has the momentum and rhythm of a really exciting basketball g... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tristan & Isolde Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Tristan and Isolde is the story on which William Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet, and, judging... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Time and Tide Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Unless you are a close personal friend of director Tsui Hark, I wouldn�t recommend it. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Travellers & Magicians Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference So pretty you want to put it on your wall. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ninth Day, The Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:39 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference An absorbing Holocaust drama that suggests the forces that drive us toward good or evil are const... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:38 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Ireland, who made the brilliant, equally unfashionable The Whole Wide World, respects the kindnes... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matador, The Release date: 12/30/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Buoyant and jazzy, The Matador is like one of those '60s capers where Michael Caine was surrounde... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rumor Has It... Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The result is a wayward movie, sort of like a trip to Florida from New York via Cairo, Ill. -- th... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wolf Creek Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference There's no suspense, really, and the movie is carelessly vague about the victims, who have as muc... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: New World, The Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Malick is a filmmaker who understands the quiet power of the image. 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Munich Release date: 12/23/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference One of its strengths is that it does not pretend to have answers. 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: Producers, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference You could think of The Producers as a way to see most of the Broadway cast for 1/12 the price of ... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Family Stone, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The Family Stone shows us the world through several different sets of eyes, and, by the end, we s... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Kong Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Peter Jackson's new movie is the king of Kongs. 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The clothes in Memoirs of a Geisha are pretty, the women are pretty, the snowstorms are pretty, a... 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Harvest, The Release date: 11/23/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The movie builds some suspense around our curiosity about the theft, but we don't know enough abo... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Walk the Line Release date: 11/18/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A person's life story is also the story of the people around him. Recognizing that is the secret ... 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Release date: 11/18/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Goblet of Fire is the second-best of the Potter films. 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pride & Prejudice Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The new Pride & Prejudice is faithful to the manners of 200 years ago, but it moves with speed an... 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Zathura Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The movie has just the right amount of scariness, just the right amount of humor and just the rig... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saw II Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The second Saw isn't as accomplished or precise as the first, but it's well worth watching becaus... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Prime Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Streep finds lots of fresh ground in scenes in which her character has to wrestle with her profes... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Weather Man, The Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference I'll save you a couple of hours and tell you its message: Life can be a bummer. Deal with it. 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Legend of Zorro, The Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The Legend of Zorro is so stodgy and slow, it makes even an out-of-control steam engine seem like... 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paradise Now Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The movie makes us care by observing the details of their lives, by reminding us that they are fe... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Doom Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference When a movie is based on a video game, we expect it to kick butt and take names, and Doom does. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Emmanuel's Gift Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Emmanuel's Gift isn't great, but the story is and so, unquestionably, is Emmanuel himself. 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabethtown Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Elizabethtown sticks to a pattern -- joke, pronouncement about life, meaningful song, repeat -- t... 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Serenity Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference For me, watching Serenity was like watching the sequel to a movie I missed. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Roll Bounce Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A portrait of a neighborhood where families are hurting, healing and helping each other. 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Quite entertaining. 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thumbsucker Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The actors, under the detail-oriented direction of Mike Mills, give vivid performances. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just Like Heaven Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The sharp, slangy script, coupled with a dynamite cast and direction that balances the magical wi... 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Constant Gardener, The Release date: 8/31/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A political drama that assumes you'll be able to keep up. 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cave, The Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Its job is to deliver a few jolty thrills and a couple of laughs and wrap things up before it sta... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Release date: 8/19/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The best way to describe it is as the work of an artist -- director Chanwook Park -- who possesse... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Supercross: The Movie Release date: 8/17/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Supercross is completely random and goofy. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pretty Persuasion Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference An often-funny movie that has two dumb ideas for every good one. 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Goebbels Experiment, The Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The star power in The Goebbels Experiment comes from Kenneth Branagh, who narrates, but it's the ... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Flowers Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Jarmusch has given the movie an intriguing structure that begins outside Murray's character -- at... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Features low-rent humor and high-speed chases. 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bad News Bears, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference These kids are closer to Jose Canseco than to Abner Doubleday, and, for moviegoers, that's good n... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Unlike some Burton films, this one doesn't just wow us with its looks. It's also a sweet movie, c... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saraband Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Like the Bach piece that gives it its title, Saraband is a stately, mournful movie. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Murderball Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Poignant and funny and suspenseful. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: War of the Worlds Release date: 6/29/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference When the guy who made Saving Private Ryan uses the word 'war' in a title, audiences should believ... 207 other reviews of this movie Movie: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead Release date: 6/24/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference All of Romero's experimentation comes to fruition in Land, which proves he has not exhausted zomb... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Herbie: Fully Loaded Release date: 6/22/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference 'Walking on Sunshine' is casting a dark cloud over the movies. 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfect Man, The Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Arrives at some thoughtful conclusions that are likely to strike chords with mothers and daughter... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A comedy/drama that is unusually attuned to the halting, tentative way people connect with each o... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honeymooners, The Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The script is no better than it has to be, and the movie doesn't stretch anyone's talents, but it... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: 5x2 Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The effect of the reverse sequencing is to make us view everything in the film -- even hopeful ev... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cinderella Man Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Having Russell Crowe in a movie makes a huge difference. 171 other reviews of this movie Movie: Longest Yard, The Release date: 5/27/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Yard isn't bad, although not as funny as Sandler's presence might make you expect. 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Release date: 5/19/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference 'Triumphant' is the word I'd use for Sith, particularly for its superb light-saber battles, which... 250 other reviews of this movie Movie: Interpreter, The Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's one of those good movies you watch with a nagging awareness that the elements are in place f... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lot Like Love, A Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A witty, sharply observed romantic comedy. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happily Ever After Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The story in the French Happily Ever After is about as exciting as that bland, mistranslated titl... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kung Fu Hustle Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference There's nothing in Kung Fu Hustle you haven't seen before, but you've never seen it put together ... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Look At Me Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Gently funny and wise, Look at Me has lots to say about the power of art to make us see the world... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sin City Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Sin City is jazzed by excess, by the thrill of crafting a sharp-edged, high-contrast shadow world... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beauty Shop Release date: 3/30/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Starring the endlessly likable Queen Latifah, the force behind Beauty Shop is girlfriend power. 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hostage Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's a tossup whether the crying jags are inspired by this jumbled script or by the fact that Wil... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Upside of Anger, The Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Quite a bit of fun. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jacket, The Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Raises unsettling questions about identity and about how accurately we perceive the world we thin... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Be Cool Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Be Cool is not cool (in fact, Aerosmith is so jurassically uncool, it's about due for an album-of... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Best of Youth (La Meglio 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other reviews of this movie Movie: White Noise Release date: 1/7/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A little skepticism would have gone a long way in this movie, because if the characters don't pau... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Riri Yeye Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:43 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference I'm not sure All About Lily Chou-Chou made sense in my head, but it made sense in my heart. 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfect Strangers Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:41 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference When horror heroines are this lame-brained, my impulse is to start rooting against them. 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dawn of the Dead Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:29 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference A masterpiece of its genre. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blind Shaft Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:27 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference If Martin Scorsese had been born in China, Blind Shaft is the sort of movie he might have made. 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hotel Rwanda Release date: 12/22/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Sobering film. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beyond the Sea Release date: 12/21/2004 11:01:27 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference A movie so inventive and varied in its badness that it's almost good. 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Aviator, The Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference As entertaining and glamorous as it is, The Aviator falls into the same trap: It's content to sho... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Release date: 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of this movie Movie: House of Flying Daggers Release date: 12/3/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference You could overdose on beauty at House of Flying Daggers. 136 other reviews of this movie Movie: Christmas with the Kranks Release date: 11/24/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A USA network-quality script, cobbled together from parts of Home Alone, The Grinch and National ... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Seed of Chucky Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Career lows don't get much lower than Jennifer Tilly's in Seed of Chucky. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kinsey Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A compassionate, moving and witty film. 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: After the Sunset Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Chris 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our expectations, and Undertow does both. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shall We Dance? 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Grand C... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brown Bunny, The Release date: 8/27/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The result plays like a visual version of the Keats line, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.' 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid Release date: 8/27/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference All it promises is a few cheesy thrills and, on that promise, it delivers. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exorcist: The Beginning Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference 'If you can't scare 'em, repulse 'em' would appear to be the motto of Exorcist: The Beginning. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Collateral Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Taut, exciting and intelligent, Collateral is just the movie this summer needed. 188 other reviews of this movie Movie: Open Water Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A nasty piece of work that effectively raises the creepiness bar ... but the premise is limiting. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Village, The Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The Village is probably Shyamalan's subtlest movie and his least scarificating. 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catwoman Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Catwoman mixes its messages, but it mixes them with style. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catwoman Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Catwoman mixes its messages, but it mixes them with style. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Door in the Floor, The Release date: 7/14/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference As tenderly acted as Door is, it never finds its tone or purpose. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Occasionally, it entertains us for three minutes or so, but it lurches from one skitlike scene to... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Riding Giants Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Some of [the surfers] are articulate representatives of their sport, and one or two -- including ... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: De-Lovely Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Like most Mexican food in Minnesota, De-Lovely is a bold idea, timidly executed. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man 2 Release date: 6/30/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Spider-Man 2 is spectacular, mostly because it's more 'Man' than 'Spider.' 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Truly a team effort, and it's a winning one. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminal, The Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Hopeful but not sappy. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Around the World in 80 Days Release date: 6/16/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference I don't know why they call it Around the World in 80 Days. Watching it feels like it takes only f... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Napoleon Dynamite Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference We laugh at all the nerdy behavior in the movie, and there's a reason that's OK: Because, deep do... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chronicles of Riddick, The Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Whereas Pitch Black served up witty, elegant suspense, the new one is dull, blunt gun-and-run. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mother, The Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference An intriguing, if chilly, film. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Me If You Dare Release date: 5/21/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Writer-director Yann Samuell is a wizard, crafting a movie universe that steals a little of Ameli... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Troy Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Eyes blazing, O'Toole's work is the highlight of the flawed but enjoyable Troy. 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Super Size Me Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Fast-food restaurants are not looking after their customers, Spurlock argues, and his film does a... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: 13 Going On 30 Release date: 4/23/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's an appealing package and, like Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan, Garner seems designed for romantic... 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Since Otar Left Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Bertucelli has some pace problems -- the pokey movie is at least 15 minutes longer than it needs ... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl Next Door, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference As horny and undisciplined as a 16-year-old, and it's as formulaic as geometry, but it's entertai... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alamo, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The Alamo is handsomely shot and written with plain-spoken eloquence. But the characters are indi... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Prince & Me, The Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Not an ideal romantic comedy, but at least its cliches are benign ... and at least it has the tal... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ladykillers, The Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference In Hanks' ornately, bizarrely funny performance, Dorr is one of the great Coen brothers-created c... 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dogville Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Sarcastic humor, inventive staging and a brutal story combine to give Dogville the force of a bon... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Wings Release date: 3/12/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Wonderfully acted and sharply observed, Broken Wings is marked by a strong sense of what it's lik... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Window Release date: 3/12/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Familiar as it is, Secret Window is fun because writer/director David Koepp is so adept at smooth... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spartan Release date: 3/12/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Spartan is studded with Mamet-style, macho one-liners, but its dialogue doesn't have the musical ... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Starsky & Hutch Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Starsky & Hutch might seem funnier if the Naked Gun movies hadn't already parodied cop show clich... 141 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eurotrip Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The movie doesn't push its outrageousness hard enough to give us that I-can't- believe-I'm- laugh... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kitchen Stories Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Almost perfect, a film about loneliness that makes you feel less alone. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: 50 First Dates Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Sweet, deeply felt and funny. 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Robot Stories Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The title encourages us to think of Robot Stories as the cinematic equivalent of a book of short ... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Miracle Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Miracle boasts a batch of lively supporting characters, and the on-ice action is both fast and fu... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: You Got Served Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Unleashes one dazzling routine after another. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The Release date: 1/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Still powerful and upsetting because of its unpolished immediacy ... and because the movie declin... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Butterfly, The Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:27 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Just once, I'd like to see a foreign film about a cranky old person and an adorable tyke who don'... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cold Mountain Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Minghella's detail-rich film is like a beautiful piece of fabric, lovingly crafted by hand. And Z... 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Peter Pan Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Maxfield Parrish- influenced look, unhurried storytelling, heartfelt performances and graceful di... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mona Lisa Smile Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Isn't a subtle movie, but it does allow for surprising shades of meaning: The teacher is not alwa... 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl With a Pearl Earring Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A graceful book becomes an even more graceful movie. 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Triplets of Belleville, The Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Watching The Triplets of Belleville is like getting lost in a storybook you never want to put dow... 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barbarian Invasions, The Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Basically, it's The Big Chill, but more full of itself and not as entertaining. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's not exactly the story you love, but at least it's a story you'll recognize. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Release date: 11/14/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Exciting, intelligent and unambiguous in its depiction of heroism on the high seas, it's a they-d... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Actually Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference There are enough stories in Love Actually that even if some don't appeal to you, others will. 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matrix Revolutions, The Release date: 11/5/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference So tedious and unoriginal that it's more like The Matrix Repetitions, with one numbing battle seq... 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shattered Glass Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The portrait of Glass is particularly sharp. 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scary Movie 3 Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Current horror movies are so ironic, they parody themselves, which means they have beaten (and st... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Singing Detective, The Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The Singing Detective is like that old joke about the Minnesota weather: If you don't like it, wa... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pieces of April Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Hedges never gets a bead on April, and Holmes doesn't supply the missing details. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference So creepily obsessed with the specifics of torture and pain that it's not much fun. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Veronica Guerin Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Intelligent but bloodless. 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1 Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A gift for action fans. 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Boy! Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Doesn't add much to the oft-told story of a boy and his dog, and it never establishes the rules o... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mystic River Release date: 10/8/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Mystic River is a rare movie that improves on its source material. It was a very good book, but t... 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: Out of Time Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Stylish, suspenseful and spiked with sly wit. 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rundown, The Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference No need to run down The Rundown. The latest from The Rock is solid. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rundown, The Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference No need to run down The Rundown. 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reviews of this movie Movie: Drumline Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band. 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evelyn Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The sentiment is balanced with cheeky Irish humor, Pierce Brosnan is fine as Desmond, and there's... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Maid in Manhattan Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Occasionally, the script ventures into territory that makes it seem like a different kind of fair... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Chick, The Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference This is a movie that starts out like Heathers, then becomes Bring it On, then becomes unwatchable... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Release date: 12/12/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Once again, Jackson and crew have crafted an astonishing-looking movie. 166 other reviews of this movie Movie: Adaptation Release date: 12/6/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference Watching Adaptation is exhilarating because it affects how you think about movies. 141 other reviews of this movie Movie: Analyze That Release date: 12/6/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference De Niro needs to play another mobster like Martha Stewart needs to take another stock tip, but he... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Treasure Planet Release date: 11/27/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference No matter how confused the story gets or how unclear Jim's motivations are, we still have Long Jo... 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of information to ponder, but I did wish th... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rules of Attraction, The Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The Rules of Attraction is a movie about waste -- wasted minds and worse -- and a smart, stylish ... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: White Oleander Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Most of the darker parts of the book have been brightened up, making the movie feel shallow. 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bloody Sunday Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) No reference The film uses an artless, documentary approach to buttress its impassioned argument that soldiers... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Red Dragon Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Gripping and gruesome. 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Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference This Cinderella story is not new, but director Raja Amari makes the scenes in the club so vibrant... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: XXX Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference An xtremely xciting movie. 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams Release date: 8/7/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A worthy successor to last year's surprise hit. 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Girl, The Release date: 8/7/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference These people have funny/awful lives (as opposed to funny/upbeat), and they could seem like object... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Signs Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference In the end, Signs is all about faith: the characters' faith in each other, Shyamalan's faith in u... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Master of Disguise, The Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so ... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember Release date: 7/26/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Sadly, the new Austin Powers is only shagiocre. 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stuart Little 2 Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference In every department, the new movie is a blander affair [than the first]. 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: K-19: The Widowmaker Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The story hits too many notes we've heard before. 120 other reviews of 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But when these characters open their mouths and sing, you believe every w... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Forsaken, The Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Has no style, humor or scary parts. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Driven Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The scenes appear to have been thrown in a hat and then glued together with nonstop voice-over na... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: One Night At Mccool's Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A clever idea that isn't executed cleverly enough. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: With A Friend Like Harry Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) No reference Spooky, wickedly funny and keenly insightful about character. 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The most unwelcome comeback since anthrax. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Luzhin Defence, The Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Further proof that director Marleen Gorris ... can't shape a scene. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Joe Dirt Release date: 4/11/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Joe Dirt is not a good movie, but it's so strange it's almost worth seeing anyway. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Along Came A Spider Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Along Came a Spider is much like its star: methodical, smooth, unflashy. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shadow Magic Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference What an unremarkable movie this is. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amores Perros Release date: 3/30/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) No reference You know you're in the hands of a gifted storyteller. 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tailor of Panama, The Release date: 3/30/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference In the midst of that fascinating, sad setting, Panama gives us great characters. 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: Enemy At the Gates Release date: 3/16/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference In the end, we're left with the impression that millions died and countries were decimated, all s... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Company Man Release date: 3/9/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference With its incredible vanishing hero and its forgettable jokes, there's nothing to stick with you, ... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gleaners and I, The Release date: 3/7/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Agnes Varda finds that one man's trash is literally another man's treasure in her highly personal... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blow Dry Release date: 3/7/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Things ... get hinky as the script struggles to wrap up its numerous tragedies and conflicts this... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweet November Release date: 2/16/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A syrupy, phony romantic tragedy that made me feel like I was being licked by a large, smelly dog... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Go Tigers! 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Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The sort of movie that leaves us room to participate in its meaning, and that's the sort of movie... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference As she struts her stuff onstage, Hedwig blossoms into one of the most outrageously compassionate,... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dogtown and Z-Boys Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference The people in Dogtown and Z-Boys are so funny, aggressive and alive, you have to watch them becau... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Caveman's Valentine, The Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference An inconsistent movie, but the good stuff is built on top of the bad stuff, so there's a sense th... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Mirth, The Release date: 12/22/2000 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference Exquisite, devastating. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Way Home, The Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:48 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference It's not revolutionary, but it's satisfying. 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hard Candy Release date: 12/31/1976 11:01:33 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) No reference A harrowing drama that keeps kicking up the intensity another notch until it kicks it two notches... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fallen Idol, The Release date: 12/31/1948 11:01:31 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) No reference Watching The Fallen Idol is like setting off one of those milelong mazes of dominoes, with ramps ... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Gangster Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) Not Reachable [Ridley Scott] wants to make a Godfather-style epic, and he doesn't have the horses -- or the sto... 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Martian Child Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) Not Reachable The quirky allure of Joan Cusack can offset a lot of sentiment in a movie, but even she drowns in... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dan in Real Life Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) Not Reachable Carell makes it worthwhile (Dane Cook almost makes it not worthwhile). 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gone Baby Gone Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) Not Reachable It's not a feel-good film, but it's terrific. 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Heartbreak Kid, The Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) Not Reachable It's still pretty funny to see Ben Stiller take one -- or eight -- for the team. 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Feast of Love Release date: 9/28/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) Not Reachable The Feast movie, while not as transcendent as the book, is still pretty good. 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Woodcock Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) Not Reachable There are a decent number of laughs, but with all that potential, it's hard not to think Mr. Wood... 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Silk Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) Not Reachable Here's a little game you can play if you get bored during Silk, and you will get bored during Sil... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Brave One Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable The Brave One thinks it has something to say about how we live in this real world today, and it w... 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shoot 'Em Up Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable Simultaneously declares its love for over-the-top action movies and demonstrates how ridiculous t... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: 3:10 to Yuma Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Superb. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Halloween Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable I was hoping for greatness from Rob Zombie's Halloween, but got pretty-goodness, instead. 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death Sentence Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable Even as the film slides into unintentional comedy, it's almost redeemed by John Goodman's demente... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Balls of Fury Release date: 8/29/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Not Reachable There are laughs in Balls, but not nearly enough of them. 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Bean's Holiday Release date: 8/24/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Not Reachable Mr. Bean's Holiday is sporadically funny. 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superbad Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable Superbad is also something more important than the movie where Cera says the f-word. 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visualization of D... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Introducing the Dwights Release date: 7/4/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable How is it possible that none of the people who made Introducing the Dwights or put it in theaters... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death at a Funeral Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) Not Reachable A heartless film in which dozens of selfish people don't care at all about the dead guy, which al... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken English Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) Not Reachable Posey does what she can -- her distinctive style is always worth watching, even when her characte... 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lady Chatterley Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) Not Reachable The nudity will put some off, but it's effective: The movie is not unlike a Merchant/Ivory-type f... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ocean's Thirteen Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Ocean's 13 knows everybody loves to see the house lose, which is what makes watching the gang rig... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day Watch Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) Not Reachable Day Watch is a bit like Vegas: a bunch of crazy, gaudy stuff that all fits together surprisingly ... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ten Canoes Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Not Reachable A comic mystery with a whimsical, unique tone. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fay Grim Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (6/1) Not Reachable The joke in Hal Hartley's deadpan semi-comedy Fay Grim is that the smart, self-aware characters c... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shrek the Third Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (5/2) Not Reachable Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, and Antonio Banderas are three of the all-time best matches of actors t... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Show Business misses lots of fascinating stuff. 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Condemned, The Release date: 4/27/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable The Condemned occupies moral ground shiftier than the San Andreas fault. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Slow Burn Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (4/3) Not Reachable Deficiencies aside, Slow Burn is almost worth seeing. 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: 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118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catch and Release Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Catch and Release is an all-too-appropriate title for the glum new Jennifer Garner movie. 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mission of Roving Mars is to get us jazzed again about outer space, it's mission: accompli... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Why we Fight Release date: 1/20/2006 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The biggest accomplishment of the movie is that it eschews name-calling rhetoric and focuses on t... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Turtles Can Fly Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The movie has something to say, but director Bahman Ghobadi hasn't gotten a handle on how he want... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:44 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The movie reminded me of one of those books for young readers that skims the surface, taking care... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: New York Doll Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:39 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A nimble, handsome film that also happens to be about a noteworthy guy: the late Arthur 'Killer' ... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dear Wendy Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:29 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A dumb movie that thinks it's smart is the worst kind of awful. 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Match Point Release date: 12/28/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Match Point has something you don't associate with Allen: suspense. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ringer, The Release date: 12/23/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A warm, pleasant quality is what distinguishes The Ringer. 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable At times, Burials seems to be arguing that 'civilization' is a joke and that we're kidding oursel... 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt Release date: 12/2/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Unlike many music documentaries, this is not a drab, talking-heads affair but a portrait assemble... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breakfast on Pluto Release date: 11/16/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It seems like a simple movie, but it means more the more you think about it. 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breakfast on Pluto Release date: 11/16/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It seems like a simple movie, but it means more the more you think about it. 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable More like a play than a stand-up act, the material is woven together so skillfully, it's not unti... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Get Rich or Die Tryin' Release date: 11/9/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The premise of Get Rich would be ridiculous if it weren't close to the truth and if the movie wer... 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three...Extremes Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Three Extremes would be better if it were Two Extremes. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Where the Truth Lies Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Swipes the structure of Agatha Christie's The Mirror Crack'd and tacks on a bunch of coincidences... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Two for the Money Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable There's no disguising the fact there isn't a likable character in the whole movie, or even a bear... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: In Her Shoes Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable In Her Shoes has enough homespun wisdom to make you hurl, but the tone and acting are so sharp, i... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flightplan Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Foster should get frequent crier miles for this role; she shifts her character into panic mode so... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lord of War Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Plays like a smarty-pants Esquire essay by David Foster Wallace. Even if you agree with it, the m... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Release date: 9/9/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The most devilish behavior in Emily Rose comes from bait-and-switch marketers who are selling it ... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Memory of a Killer, The Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Consistently involving and intelligent. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brothers Grimm, The Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Director Terry Gilliam hasn't made a movie this playful since his Monty Python days, scattering v... 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Release date: 8/19/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's hilarious, it's sex-obsessed and it's 15 minutes longer than it needs to be. 168 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Last Days Release date: 8/15/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Last Days has the blank, discombobulated feeling you get when you wake up in a hotel room and you... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Great Raid, The Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The raid is, indeed, great. The rest of the film, sadly, is not. 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Four Brothers Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Director John Singleton is a bit like an agile DJ who creates something exciting and illuminating... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Must Love Dogs Release date: 7/29/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Romantic comedies usually stand or fall on the likability of the leads, and the leads in Must Lov... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Island, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The Island is not a great popcorn movie. 161 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Rejects, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable One nasty, brilliantly constructed scene after another. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beautiful Country, The Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A textured, moving drama. 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dark Water Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Dark Water is based on one of those low-key Japanese chillers where there are a whole lot of pote... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: March of the Penguins Release date: 6/24/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Few cinematic moments this year will be more moving than a scene of hundreds of besotted penguins... 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rock School Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Green is a complicated guy who's only dimly aware that he surrounds himself with children because... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Apres Vous Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable No deeper than a crepe but, with its bright performances, swift pace and six-balls-up-in-the-air ... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saving Face Release date: 5/27/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The people in Saving Face make plenty of mistakes, but Wu's script views their mistakes with comp... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster-in-Law Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable In any case, the news here is not the movie but the movie star. Jane Fonda is back, and let's hop... 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mysterious Skin Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A disturbing and oddly beautiful movie. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Wax Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable House of Wax is suspenseful, well-paced and, other than Hilton, capably acted. 138 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable If you haven't read Hitchhiker, I doubt if watching it will work for you. 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man Who Copied, The Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The Brazilian romantic comedy careens down such an elaborately entertaining route that I hesitate... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Holy Girl, The Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Martel finds ways to make sure we know that, as much of life as she has managed to capture on-scr... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: XXX: State of the Union Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The stunts and explosions are effective, but the dialogue and characters are not. 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Enron quickly settles down, cogently laying out how Ken Lay and other hot-dogging big shots sank ... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amityville Horror, The Release date: 4/15/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable You might think The Amityville Horror is just a copy 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and th... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Around the Bend Release date: 3/2/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The premise is one of those only-in- the-movies deals: Walken, Lucas and Bobo take off on a road ... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Diary of a Mad Black Woman Release date: 2/25/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It becomes clear that the strength of Diary is its refusal to bow to convention. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inside Deep Throat Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A good movie about what appears to be a very bad one. 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Release date: 2/9/2005 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Parrots has some problems on the filmmaking side -- attention-getting camera freezes 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Reachable Like Michael Moore Hates America, the real purpose of Incident at Loch Ness is to point out how d... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Go For Zucker Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:32 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Because it's from Germany and we're not onto the tricks of the lead actors, the way this familiar... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broadway: The Golden Age Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:27 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Whether it's Julie Harris weeping as she recalls an Ethel Waters performance she saw 60 years ago... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Meet the Fockers Release date: 12/22/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Formulaic but consistently funny. 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sea Inside, The Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A deceptively well-put-together film. 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Born Into Brothels Release date: 12/8/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Briski gives herself too much screen time, making sure we see how tirelessly she fights to give t... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Changing Times Release date: 12/8/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Techine is so intrigued by the dramatic differences between the sisters that you might not even n... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst Release date: 11/26/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Unlike the recent Weather Underground, which dealt with another group of '60s radicals and showed... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Treasure Release date: 11/19/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer 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Each layer of the sto... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Novelist Helen Fielding created a lovable, klutzy, endearing character in Bridget Jones, and Zell... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Polar Express, The Release date: 11/10/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable For a book with no characters or plot, The Polar Express makes a surprisingly smooth transition t... 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Cut Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable We're so used to/sick of/bored by Robin Williams' busy-work performances that he's more interesti... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vera Drake Release date: 10/10/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Staunton's performance as Vera is so majestic and compassionate that we feel we know everything a... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Woman Thou Art Loosed Release date: 10/1/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Unlike many films with Christian agendas, this one doesn't sweep ugliness under the rug. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Shame, A Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Waters' ace in the hole is his fine actors, who help him take the bizarre and make it understanda... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Head in the Clouds Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's all very haphazard and infuriating, because the movie unerringly focuses on the least intere... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable In the way it humiliates its actors and rips off its audience, a more accurate title would be Nat... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paperclips Release date: 9/8/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Paper Clips is two movies: the movie its makers think it is, and the movie it actually is. One of... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Red Lights Release date: 9/3/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The power of suggestion is so strong in Red Lights that, when it ends, you may feel like the whol... 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Suspect Zero Release date: 8/27/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Creepy but derivative. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bright Leaves Release date: 8/25/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Ross McElwee's movies have the rhythms of a person who is writing -- considering this possibility... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mean Creek Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A rare film that cares to explore what's going on in the bully's head. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Without a Paddle Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Without a Joke would be a better title. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, The Release date: 8/11/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable [The movie tries] too slavishly to duplicate the original without taking it in any new directions... 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bang Rajan Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The acting is facial-expressions- visible-from- 100-feet overdone and the choppy editing makes fo... 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Black Book Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Gets stronger as it goes, acknowledging that nice people don't always behave nicely and that scre... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garden State Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Impeccably cast. 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: She Hate Me Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable As visually electric as it is conceptually stupid. 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Festival Express Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Made with style. 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Supremacy, The Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A dandy paranoid thriller that begins confusingly but gets swifter and leaner as it goes. 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's not the sort of film that will make you like its subjects, but you will understand them and ... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: America's Heart and Soul Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable You know those heartwarmingly whimsical, three-minute segments that usually come at the end of th... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Two Brothers Release date: 6/25/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's refreshing to see an animal movie in which the animals don't talk, sing or cooperate in the ... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Seducing Dr. Lewis Release date: 6/16/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Buoyed by nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, but it's not sentimental about it. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stepford Wives, The Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable After a promising beginning and wayward middle, Stepford pulls itself together for a snappy final... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel, The Release date: 6/4/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Watching Camel is like watching a movie about an endangered species, and I don't mean the camels. 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Soul Plane Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A slapdash affair that pitches jokes at all races, creeds and stupidities, but it turns casualnes... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Baadasssss! Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A jolting, lively film. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Strayed Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable What's interesting about the reserved, delicate Strayed is that it's satisfied to imply its theme... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breakin' All the Rules Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Breakin' has tons of quippy dialogue, not all of it sterling. But it comes at us so quickly, and ... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: New York Minute Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen ... have evolved into nimble comic actresses, with expressive voices a... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mean Girls Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Fey's script balances acid humor and a sweet understanding that the viciousness of high school is... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Laws of Attraction Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The whole movie reminded me of a Halloween superhero cape: thin, flimsy and fake. 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whole Ten Yards, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Ten Yards regathers the cast of quirky killers and neurotic nebbishes and gives them almost nothi... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Johnson Family Vacation Release date: 4/7/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Johnson Family is, basically, National Lampoon's Vacation with darker skin and a better star. 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Caruso gives the movie some life, particularly in a stylishly energetic footrace, b... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reckoning, The Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Basically, it's Law & Order: Medieval Victims Unit. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Passion of the Christ, The Release date: 2/25/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Powerful and upsetting. 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: Against the Ropes Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable There's virtually no information about the sport in the movie, which means it has about as much t... 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monsieur Ibrahim Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Ibrahim transcends the cliche with the delicacy of the two central performances. 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dreamers, The Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable No matter how many mirrors he uses to fracture his characters into meaningful multiple images or ... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barbershop 2: Back in Business Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Takes the characters deeper than the first film, revealing new dimensions to all of them, and it ... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Along Came Polly Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's likable acting that keeps us involved in Polly, not only from Stiller and Aniston but also f... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tokyo Godfathers Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A schmaltzy story gets grit from an unlikely place: animation. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Baby's Daddy Release date: 1/9/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Not so memorable. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Letter to True, A Release date: 1/7/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Like a blog, True is a rambling discourse into the heart and mind of its creator, a series of dis... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Things Release date: 1/2/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Soft-core cornography. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Touch the Sound Release date: 1/1/2004 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Touch the Sound is a completely joyful moviegoing experience and, like the best movies, it takes ... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Japanese Story Release date: 12/31/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's entirely about the unique, unexpected ways we behave and the way our behavior can change if ... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Young Black Stallion Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A choppy, disjointed film that feels like it was edited down to suit the typical, 45-minute runni... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fog of War, The Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Morris' smart, argumentative film is deceptively simple. 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Sand and Fog Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A devastating movie. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Calendar Girls Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Funny and hopeful but not particularly dramatic. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Something's Gotta Give Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable When Nicholson tells Keaton, 'You're not like anybody,' her fans in the audience can't help but s... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stuck on You Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The Farrellys are definitely trying something here, conjoining pathos and humor, and even if it d... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Don't Cost a Thing Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable This awkwardly directed version takes way too long to get where we knew it was going the whole ti... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Samurai, The Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Zwick ... has crafted a handsome movie (it's set in the Land of the Rising Sun, but the sunsets a... 166 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honey Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The movie is so energetic, sincere and funny that I didn't mind the bad parts. 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: 21 Grams Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's a movie where other people go through awful things and we have the privilege of trying to ma... 132 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Architect Release date: 11/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Kahn and cinematographer Robert Richman work miracles, capturing the majesty and beauty of Kahn's... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The Release date: 11/5/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable An eye-opener that focuses on world-shaking events and makes you feel like you are there. 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Die Mommie Die! Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A loving homage to every movie Joan Crawford ever barreled her shoulder pads through. 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beyond Borders Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Beyond Borders devotes more time to one person's nobility (Angelina Jolie's) than to a world of s... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flower of Evil, The Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Flower toys with us, holding back information and hinting that there's more to the story than mee... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: School of Rock Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's been ages since I've seen a movie as joyous, as sweet and as hilarious. 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Station Agent, The Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Each of these characters has a generic, can-be- summed-up- with-one- character-trait quality, and... 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Once the whole thing begins to play out, the movie's inventiveness drags. 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Life Without Me Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A movie that is spare, candid and beautiful in every detail. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Casa de Los Babys Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A drama whose characters are so sketchy and unpleasant they keep tripping over the movie's one-no... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: So Close Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable The action in So Close is so giddily relentless that it makes you realize how stodgy most America... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matchstick Men Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Wildly entertaining. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cabin Fever Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Mishmashes together every plot element from every slasher film you've ever seen, without adding a... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Like David Spade's underrated Joe Dirt, Dickie is great in concept, so-so in execution. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Weather Underground, The Release date: 8/29/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A fascinating study of naivete, disillusionment and foolhardy rationalization. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jeepers Creepers 2 Release date: 8/29/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Salva may not be doing anything new, but he does it well enough to suggest it won't be 23 more ye... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stoked Release date: 8/22/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable [Stickler] does such a fine job of depicting the skill and thrill of skateboarding, she also help... 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Battle of Shaker Heights, The Release date: 8/22/2003 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A movie as awkward and embarrassing as when you're 13 and your grandma sends you a birthday card ... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Freddy vs. 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Absolutely power corrupts absolutely. 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It gets better. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: feardotcom Release date: 8/30/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Despite the up-to-the-minute trappings, there's nothing here that's newer than rotary-dial phones... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: 24 Hour Party People Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It gives you the privilege of feeling what it would be like to have been at the gig where Joy Div... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blood Work Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Eastwood's skill with actors and with the tone of Blood Work, which is weary, bemused and suspens... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Ballot Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A rarity among recent Iranian films: It's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Full Frontal Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable My feeling about Full Frontal is that I would rather have been told about it than seen it. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Who Is Cletis Tout? 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Eh. 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this movie Movie: Thomas in Love Release date: 8/3/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable A sex film for the Bill Gates age, and it's about as sexy as Gates, too. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Planet of the Apes Release date: 7/27/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Planet is impressive but cold. 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Legally Blonde Release date: 7/13/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Witherspoon ... gives a star-making, revelatory performance. 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scary Movie 2 Release date: 7/4/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Even the funniest 40 percent of Scary has that not-so-fresh feeling. 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lumumba Release date: 6/27/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Bites off way more than it can chew, it is often artlessly made, and it assumes that we know more... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Princess and the Warrior, The Release date: 6/22/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Isn't as playful and giddy as Run Lola Run, but ... it may stick to your ribs longer. 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Down From the Mountain Release date: 6/15/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable There are plenty of musical highlights here. 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Under the Sand Release date: 5/4/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Characters will do or say something that seems inexplicable until Ozon provides a context, and su... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taste of Others, The Release date: 2/9/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Jaoui ... has an unerring eye for the things men and women do to impress each other. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Signs & Wonders Release date: 2/9/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Signs takes us into Alec's confused head, and, although it can be disturbing there, it's never du... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Things Behind the Sun Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Feels as surprising as the truth often does. 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Our Lady of the Assassins Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Treats us to half-baked philosophizing along the lines of 'Life is short and ends when you least ... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Together Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable It's a joyful movie (how can a movie with an ABBA sing-along not be?), but there's sadness too, s... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jump Tomorrow Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable One of those stories where two opposites meet and learn important lessons from each other, but it... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Himalaya Release date: 1/1/2001 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Real people, facing real dilemmas, would have been more convincing than the contrivances of Himal... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: History of Violence, A Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:33 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Lean and packed with meaning, A History of Violence is almost like a biblical parable about honor... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Red One, The Release date: 12/31/1980 11:01:27 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Fuller wrote and directed The Big Red One with a reporter's respect for detail and a humanist's r... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Release date: 12/31/1975 11:01:38 PM Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/4) Not Reachable Not their best, but it holds up surprisingly well. 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: King of the Corner Release date: 1/30/1900 Review by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press: (3/3) Not Reachable Riegert doesn't pretend to have answers, but he does have a unique point of view and the sort of ... 16 other reviews of this movie Served turbo style