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  904 Reviews by Eric D. Snider

904 Reviews by
Eric D. Snider of  EricDSnider.com



Movie: Bee Movie
Release date: 11/2/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        It's a minor film. It'll be amusing once and then forgotten.
44 other reviews of this movie

Movie: American Gangster
Release date: 11/2/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Directed with dazzling energy by Ridley Scott.
167 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Martian Child
Release date: 11/2/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        It's sweet and lovely and honest, and it made me laugh and cry, and John Cusack and the little bo...
81 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Music Within
Release date: 10/26/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        When the subject is not well-known, and the film about his life is unremarkable, the whole thing ...
17 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Saw 4
Release date: 10/26/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        It is impossible to take a movie seriously when the movie obviously doesn't care if you do or not...
33 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Wristcutters: A Love Story
Release date: 10/19/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        This is one of the more creative, unusually entertaining things I've seen in a while.
54 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Gone Baby Gone
Release date: 10/19/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        A riveting mystery/thriller ... absorbing and carefully constructed.
74 other reviews of this movie

Movie: The Comebacks
Release date: 10/19/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        I wouldn't be surprised if the football player Tom Brady is actually a better filmmaker than the ...
27 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Things We Lost in the Fire
Release date: 10/19/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Finds its substance in the personalities and relationships of the characters -- so much substance...
82 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rendition
Release date: 10/19/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        I have no qualms with any of the performances, or with the film's individual components. It's the...
124 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Reservation Road
Release date: 10/19/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Centered around coincidences so extraordinary they pull me out of the film.
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lars and the Real Girl
Release date: 10/12/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        There are a million ways this film could go wrong, and it succumbs to none of them.
97 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
Release date: 10/12/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        A simple, feeble-minded film with a high-school-level screenplay.
32 other reviews of this movie

Movie: We Own the Night
Release date: 10/12/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        It couldn't have taken seven years to write a screenplay this leaden and uninspired. Surely somet...
77 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Release date: 10/12/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Simply takes a chunk out of Elizabeth's life and says, 'Here's what happened during these years,'...
110 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Michael Clayton
Release date: 10/5/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Tasty mix of crowd-pleasing action and whip-smart storytelling.
126 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Heartbreak Kid, The
Release date: 10/5/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        If they could have found a way to re-create the hair-gel scene, you know they would have.
119 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lust, Caution
Release date: 9/28/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Strangely inert and passionless, with a running time that is far too long for a movie so devoid o...
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Kingdom, The
Release date: 9/28/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        The Kingdom offers the satisfaction of a crowd-pleasing police procedural -- the mystery is solve...
107 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Feast of Love
Release date: 9/28/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Everyone in Feast of Love is messed up in some way, but none of those ways make them interesting.
85 other reviews of this movie

Movie: The Jane Austen Book Club
Release date: 9/21/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        The movie's sunny demeanor and frivolous (but not dumb!) story make it a winner.
77 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Trade
Release date: 9/21/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Tells the story with gritty realism, but waters it down with laughable melodrama.
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: December Boys
Release date: 9/14/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        No reason to see it. No reason not to see it, either. Shrug.
57 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mr. Woodcock
Release date: 9/14/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's actually not a bad movie, with enough scattered laughs to make it worth seeing. At matinee p...
95 other reviews of this movie

Movie: In the Valley of Elah
Release date: 9/14/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Where 'Crash' was full of contrivances and coincidences, Elah is honest, raw, and real.
105 other reviews of this movie

Movie: The Brave One
Release date: 9/14/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Somehow, Foster and Howard make it work.
143 other reviews of this movie

Movie: The Brothers Solomon
Release date: 9/7/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It won't work for everyone, but it will work for some people. I was one of those people. You migh...
39 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Signal, The
Release date: 9/7/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You don't often see horror movies as scary, nor comedies as funny, as The Signal.... The executio...
7 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shoot 'Em Up
Release date: 9/7/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        Within the genre of baffling, what-the-hell-is-this? movies, Shoot 'Em Up is a fine specimen.
98 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 3:10 to Yuma
Release date: 9/7/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It combines Old West values with modern filmmaking sensibilities, and it never fails to be compel...
159 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Death Sentence
Release date: 8/31/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bacon's performance ensures that even at its most bombastic, the film remains grounded in truth.
93 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Balls of Fury
Release date: 8/29/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An Enter the Dragon parody? Really? Did it take 34 years to come up with a really good premise?
98 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mr. Bean's Holiday
Release date: 8/24/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Atkinson's amazing physical prowess and impeccable timing help him compare favorably with Chaplin...
92 other reviews of this movie

Movie: September Dawn
Release date: 8/24/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An asinine chunk of Mormonsploitation that mixes historical fact with fictional romance and bald-...
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Right at Your Door
Release date: 8/24/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Not since the Jehovah's Witnesses came by has opening the front door seemed so terrifying.
42 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Resurrecting the Champ
Release date: 8/24/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The fact that a film so seemingly middle-of-the-road could, as it turns out, be so thoughtful and...
92 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Superbad
Release date: 8/17/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I've seen a few movies that were a little funnier, but I don't think I've ever seen so many indiv...
151 other reviews of this movie

Movie: The Last Legion
Release date: 8/17/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I will at least smile as I recall its harmless idiocy, in much the same way that one smiles at re...
38 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rocket Science
Release date: 8/10/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It offers plenty of smart laughs and genuine character development.
71 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 2 Days in Paris
Release date: 8/10/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Smug and grating, having the form of the low-key Richard Linklater films Delpy has worked on but ...
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rush Hour 3
Release date: 8/10/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I'm not gonna lie to you: A lot of the movie is straight-up stupid.
139 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Skinwalkers
Release date: 8/10/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You'll laugh and roll your eyes, but at least you won't be annoyed.
26 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stardust
Release date: 8/10/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An utterly beguiling, magical film from start to finish.
123 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Daddy Day Camp
Release date: 8/8/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The screenplay is attributed to three writers. That means if the film's funny parts were divided ...
50 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Becoming Jane
Release date: 8/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Take Jane out of the equation -- replace her with any of your basic period-piece-romantic-costume...
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bourne Ultimatum, The
Release date: 8/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Ultimatum is as lean, efficient, and ruthless as Bourne himself.
177 other reviews of this movie

Movie: The Ten
Release date: 8/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The comedy itself is hit or miss -- mostly hit for me, but humor is incredibly subjective, and th...
66 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Cantante, El
Release date: 8/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        To put it bluntly: Why should I care who Hector Lavoe was? El Cantante does nothing to answer tha...
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hot Rod
Release date: 8/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You're either going to wet your pants laughing, or you're going to scratch your head and wonder i...
87 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Underdog
Release date: 8/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Hollywood once again demonstrates its ability to take a mediocre idea and destroy what little pot...
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: I Know Who Killed Me
Release date: 7/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Lurid, over-sexualized, and boring when it's not being actively unpleasant.
55 other reviews of this movie

Movie: No End in Sight
Release date: 7/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It comes across as something of a horror story: This happened, it was a fiasco -- and now there m...
80 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Who's Your Caddy?
Release date: 7/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of eFilmCritic.com: (7/0)
        There are two clues that this movie will be worthless: 1) The premise is old and tired; 2) It's c...
20 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Simpsons Movie, The
Release date: 7/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has the same anarchic spirit of the TV series, the lightning-fast sight gags, the clever self-...
154 other reviews of this movie

Movie: No Reservations
Release date: 7/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Watching it would have the exact same impact on you as not watching it.
134 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Moliere
Release date: 7/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/0)
        An amusing and clever film, often laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sparkling characters.
70 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Arctic Tale
Release date: 7/25/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I'm willing to overlook some lowest-common-denominator idiocy in favor of some well-produced natu...
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Release date: 7/20/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Plays on male fears of women and homosexuality so well that you'd think the movie had been made b...
113 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sunshine
Release date: 7/20/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        More compelling and engrossing than any sci-fi film of the last few years.
121 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Captivity
Release date: 7/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Courtney Solomon tried to polish the turd by adding some torture scenes, but all he did was make ...
60 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Talk to Me
Release date: 7/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It starts out breathlessly funny, fast-paced, and energetic before ultimately settling in to a st...
80 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Release date: 7/11/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie works the way a Harry Potter movie ought to. It's not perfect -- a few ends remain loos...
179 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Joshua
Release date: 7/6/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is not an objectionable or dull film; it merely lacks everything except good intentions.
87 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Introducing the Dwights
Release date: 7/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A surface-level examination of family dynamics that can't escape its trite origins.
55 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rescue Dawn
Release date: 7/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Even if this story weren't true, it would still be riveting. Herzog has found inspiration in the ...
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: License to Wed
Release date: 7/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of the year's worst comedies, and in a year that has already contained 'Norbit' and 'Wild Hog...
96 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Transformers
Release date: 7/3/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's like spending a day at the state fair: a little bit of actual entertainment, a lot of embarr...
177 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sicko
Release date: 6/29/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Having been chided in the past for getting his facts wrong, this time he just doesn't present ver...
150 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Evening
Release date: 6/29/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's the kind of female-centric syrup that isn't conceived creatively so much as it's calculated ...
110 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ratatouille
Release date: 6/29/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Almost as funny, joyful, and heartfelt as anything that Pixar's merry band of genius-nerds has ev...
152 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Live Free or Die Hard
Release date: 6/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's been a while since we've had something as enjoyably bombastic and explosive as this. It feel...
166 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Broken English
Release date: 6/22/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of eFilmCritic.com: (7/0)
        It's only an average film, but that first half is a pip, and the whole thing is refreshingly simp...
64 other reviews of this movie

Movie: You Kill Me
Release date: 6/22/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There's more comedy in the tale of a drunk assassin than you might expect, and a surprising amoun...
81 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Evan Almighty
Release date: 6/22/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        With Carell in the lead, it sails along smoothly and merrily, with enough laughs and feel-good me...
142 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mighty Heart, A
Release date: 6/22/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It works very well on its own terms as an examination of hope in our increasingly frightening wor...
131 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 1408
Release date: 6/22/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you like 'spooky' but not 'gross' -- if you like to be scared without being assaulted -- then ...
120 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Nancy Drew
Release date: 6/15/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film has a wry, buoyant sense of humor, and you get the feeling that the odd touches are inte...
104 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Release date: 6/15/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a vast improvement over 2005's laughably dim-witted superhero tale, though it still lacks an...
119 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ocean's Thirteen
Release date: 6/8/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's more apparent than ever that Soderbergh, Clooney, and company don't care -- and that sense o...
157 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hostel Part II
Release date: 6/8/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is little more than a retread of the previous film, which makes it lazy on top of everything e...
67 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Surf's Up
Release date: 6/8/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Nothing about the movie marks it as one for the ages, but it's a pleasant and amusing enough way ...
87 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Crazy Love
Release date: 6/1/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Despite knowing some of the story's more jaw-dropping developments beforehand, I was still rivete...
48 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Knocked Up
Release date: 6/1/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a near-perfect mix of juvenility and intelligence, and of coarseness and sweetness.
160 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Gracie
Release date: 6/1/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As labors of love go, this one is harmless enough. It's just not particularly elegant or well-cra...
76 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mr. Brooks
Release date: 6/1/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of eFilmCritic.com: (7/0)
        Even its most absurd ideas are tantalizingly creative and sinister, enough to make you want to se...
119 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Day Watch
Release date: 6/1/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Wearying and hard to follow at times, sure, but fun.
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bug
Release date: 5/25/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you can be absorbed in it the way Friedkin intended, you'll find yourself suitably disturbed b...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Release date: 5/25/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For the first time, I can see why many people love this series.
165 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Paprika
Release date: 5/25/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Some have suggested that taking drugs first would enhance the experience, but really, I don't see...
71 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Angel-A
Release date: 5/25/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a wisp of a film, recommendable for a lark, but not nearly as ambitious or entertaining as y...
51 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Golden Door
Release date: 5/25/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The whole picture, real and surreal, is hauntingly beautiful.
65 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Even Money
Release date: 5/18/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's all so ham-fisted and clumsy, a movie whose agenda looms heavily over the proceedings.
25 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shrek the Third
Release date: 5/18/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of the few film franchises to retain a high level of quality even on the third outing.
149 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Once
Release date: 5/16/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a smiling, hopeful film, simply constructed and very emotionally appealing.
110 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 28 Weeks Later
Release date: 5/11/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The sequel feels cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, and is nearly as good.
134 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ex, The
Release date: 5/11/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Talented actors can turn a so-so script into something mildly worthwhile, but come on, they're no...
77 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Georgia Rule
Release date: 5/11/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Sloppy and awkward and inappropriate, as if the most insensitive student in the class was put in ...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Georgia Rule
Release date: 5/11/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Sloppy and awkward and inappropriate, as if the most insensitive student in the class was put in ...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Delta Farce
Release date: 5/11/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An almost inconceivably bad movie, i.e., it is so bad that it is hard to conceive how someone cou...
36 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lucky You
Release date: 5/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Despite being full of platitudes and aphorisms and neat, tidy dialogue that sounds like it's summ...
101 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spider-Man 3
Release date: 5/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Despite its many flaws, I still essentially enjoyed the film, if not nearly as much as the previo...
159 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Paris je t'aime
Release date: 5/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A masterful achievement, both as a film and as a heartfelt love letter to one of the world's most...
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Waitress
Release date: 5/2/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The ending is both realistic and happy -- and I do mean happy, as in, make-you-cry, exit-the-thea...
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Kickin' It Old Skool
Release date: 4/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Kennedy believes he is one of those performers whose every move is funny, who can keep an audienc...
32 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Next
Release date: 4/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Primarily just a fun, mind-bending story, not too brainy but not too stupid, either.
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Invisible, The
Release date: 4/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It straddles the line between appealing to young audiences and flat-out pandering to them, and it...
42 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Condemned, The
Release date: 4/27/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A sloppy, black-hearted pile of crap, calculated to titillate an audience of tools by giving them...
87 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Fracture
Release date: 4/20/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The central mystery is a tidy piece of prestidigitation, and the movie that surrounds it is smart...
133 other reviews of this movie

Movie: In the Land of Women
Release date: 4/20/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It hits all the emotional cues right on schedule, pushing an audience's buttons with dull factory...
106 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Vacancy
Release date: 4/20/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Uses the simplicity of its premise to its advantage, reducing the story to its purest elements an...
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hot Fuzz
Release date: 4/20/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The jokes can be broad one minute, subtle the next. The main thing is, they're funny.
167 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Disturbia
Release date: 4/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today, and if he wanted to remake one of his own films for an MTV ...
120 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Slow Burn
Release date: 4/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Its cavalcade of 'twists' in the last 20 minutes come off the conveyor belt so quickly and haphaz...
29 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Release date: 4/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        At one point there is a live chicken on fire, running around the room like, well, a chicken on fi...
54 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Perfect Stranger
Release date: 4/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What's next? 'Growing Pain'? 'Family Tie'? Any of those would probably be better (though not funn...
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Year of the Dog
Release date: 4/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A film that can make you laugh without making you feel anything ... except maybe a little wearine...
90 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Redline
Release date: 4/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You could watch it with the sound off and the plot wouldn't make any less sense than it does with...
23 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pathfinder
Release date: 4/13/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Pure cheesy spectacle, as bad as anything you'd find on 'Mystery Science Theater 3000,' and with ...
50 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Grindhouse
Release date: 4/6/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As an exercise in aging-movie-geek nostalgia, Grindhouse is a bloody good time.
160 other reviews of this movie

Movie: TV Set, The
Release date: 4/6/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The TV Set is therapy for actors and writers, and other people's therapy is almost always fun to ...
56 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Reaping, The
Release date: 4/5/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Ads for The Reaping ask 'What hath God wrought?,' but I don't think it's fair to pin this on Him.
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Are We Done Yet?
Release date: 4/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I've never even seen the old Cary Grant version, and yet I know that even if it was the worst fil...
75 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Black Book
Release date: 4/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The director of 'Hollow Man' and 'Showgirls' made a movie about the Holocaust. You were expecting...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Firehouse Dog
Release date: 4/4/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's about a boy and his dog, and also about firefighters, and so I don't see how it's possible n...
66 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Blades of Glory
Release date: 3/30/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is modestly entertaining, but it would have been much funnier if Ferrell had had a more ...
140 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lookout, The
Release date: 3/30/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Gordon-Levitt commands sympathy, affection, and understanding, perfectly executing the role witho...
55 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Meet the Robinsons
Release date: 3/30/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Tries and fails a few times before getting on track and delivering an hour of comedy that ranges ...
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pride
Release date: 3/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I couldn't help thinking a documentary about the man would be so much more interesting than a wat...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: TMNT
Release date: 3/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        TMNT is as good a movie about teenage mutant ninja turtles as there can possibly be.
89 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Last Mimzy, The
Release date: 3/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There are weak spots in the story, but it's such a fun story, and there's so much warmth in the c...
58 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hills Have Eyes 2, The
Release date: 3/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Feels like an exercise, not a real film.
40 other reviews of this movie

Movie: First Snow
Release date: 3/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Takes a silly premise -- a fortune teller predicts imminent doom! -- and spins it into a thoughtf...
33 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shooter
Release date: 3/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has just enough straight-faced bravado that you can sort of buy it, the same way you swallow t...
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Reign Over Me
Release date: 3/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Always feels like it's TRYING to be a Meaningful Film, rather than just BEING one. It wears its e...
113 other reviews of this movie

Movie: I Think I Love My Wife
Release date: 3/16/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The problem with Chris Rock writing, directing, and starring in a film is that every character wi...
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Premonition
Release date: 3/16/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Just a rehashed 'Twilight Zone' plot stretched over 90 minutes while Sandra Bullock stumbles arou...
119 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dead Silence
Release date: 3/16/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A straightforward, chilly ghost story like this is rare, and this one is good enough for a few sc...
55 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 300
Release date: 3/9/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Marked by spectacularly excessive visuals, with warfare transformed into a beautiful ballet of bl...
188 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Namesake, The
Release date: 3/9/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Kal Penn's performance is a good cornerstone to a good, worthwhile film.
92 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Host (Gwoemul), The
Release date: 3/9/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I hesitate to use the word 'rollicking' for any reason, especially in the context of a horror fil...
112 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Wild Hogs
Release date: 3/2/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Why watch this film when you could stay home and put your head in the oven instead?
106 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Zodiac
Release date: 3/2/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        When it's over I can't help feeling as disappointed as the cops must have been -- which might act...
169 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Wild Tigers I Have Known
Release date: 2/28/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you allow yourself to be immersed in its often beautiful images and its reflective, ethereal a...
19 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Astronaut Farmer, The
Release date: 2/23/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has heart and soul but no depth.
115 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Starter for 10, `
Release date: 2/16/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There's nothing particularly insightful or brilliant about the film, but its charm and good humor...
24 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ghost Rider
Release date: 2/16/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Whoever the inept Mark Steven Johnson had to sell his soul to in order to get put in charge of tw...
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Breach
Release date: 2/16/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's smart, it doesn't pander, and it keeps us intrigued from start to finish.
117 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Music and Lyrics
Release date: 2/14/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A frothy, funny, frivolous affair, largely because of Grant's contributions.
156 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hannibal Rising
Release date: 2/9/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Traumatic early-life experiences can only go so far, can only prove so much. Lots of people have ...
118 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Messengers, The
Release date: 2/2/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Apart from being completely derivative and lacking even one original idea, it's not a bad movie. ...
71 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Smokin' Aces
Release date: 1/26/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's never boring for a minute, and it's a ridiculous, fun waste of time.
133 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Catch and Release
Release date: 1/26/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The multiple story threads make it a little unfocused from a thematic standpoint, but it's a gene...
97 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hitcher, The
Release date: 1/19/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If only they had a good story and enough solid thrills to sustain it for longer than a half-hour.
42 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stomp the Yard
Release date: 1/12/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not a great movie, no, and maybe not even a particularly good one. But it's likable and unas...
74 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Alpha Dog
Release date: 1/12/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A gritty urban crime drama involving teenagers, guns, drugs and sex, all sharply acted, well-dire...
61 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Happily N'Ever After
Release date: 1/5/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Deeply lame.
66 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Flyboys, The
Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:31 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The romance doesn't feel necessary to the film -- an observation that makes me realize the entire...
94 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Danny Roane: First Time Director
Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:29 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a chance to watch two filmmakers, one real and one fictional, screw up their movies at the s...
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Movie: Pan's Labyrinth
Release date: 12/29/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This morbid, visually stunning fairy tale gives you plenty to think about and plenty to be entert...
160 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dead Girl, The
Release date: 12/29/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Some chapters are more useful than others, but I'm not sure you could omit any of them, either, a...
41 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Miss Potter
Release date: 12/29/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        Even the extremely simple 'Peter Rabbit' has more going on than this.
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Release date: 12/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Ghastly and horrific, entertaining and mesmerizing, and it smells fantastic.
54 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Good Shepherd, The
Release date: 12/22/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Solid, respectable filmmaking, egregiously overlong (a plague this time of year, it seems) but st...
104 other reviews of this movie

Movie: We Are Marshall
Release date: 12/22/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Directed with surprising restraint and compassion by McG, earning our tears rather than jerking t...
98 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Letters From Iwo Jima
Release date: 12/20/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Eastwood directs the personal scenes with tenderness and the battle scenes with shocking franknes...
152 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rocky Balboa
Release date: 12/20/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A tender and emotional finale that stirs the soul almost as well as the first one did.
145 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Venus
Release date: 12/20/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Every adjective I can think of to describe the movie applies to O'Toole's performance, too: funny...
124 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pursuit of Happyness, The
Release date: 12/15/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What The Pursuit of Happyness does better than most by-your-bootstraps films is to make us root f...
135 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Charlotte's Web
Release date: 12/15/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a beautiful story, rendered only semi-precious in this earnest but flawed re-creation.
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Breaking and Entering
Release date: 12/15/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Minghella seems intent on making Merchant-Ivory films now, and I don't mean that in a good way.
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Good German, The
Release date: 12/15/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You can ignore the behind-the-scenes technicalities and enjoy the movie on face value: as a moder...
96 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Family Law
Release date: 12/8/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a nice film, offering a few smiles and very likable performances. It could stand to have its...
37 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Unaccompanied Minors
Release date: 12/8/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If Feig is working below his usual cleverness level here, at least he and the kids seem to be hav...
63 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
Release date: 11/22/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a one-joke movie -- sort of how Tenacious D is a one-joke band -- but it's a joke that can b...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Fountain, The
Release date: 11/22/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I was utterly absorbed in watching it, yet when it was over I had no idea what had happened.
54 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Deja Vu
Release date: 11/22/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a smart, fleet-footed action drama -- with sci-fi thrown in for good measure -- that bene...
94 other reviews of this movie

Movie: History Boys, The
Release date: 11/21/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A wonderfully literary, wordy, and wise film.
85 other reviews of this movie

Movie: For Your Consideration
Release date: 11/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's nice to see a comedy that leaves you wanting more instead of making you wish it had ended 20...
128 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Happy Feet
Release date: 11/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        In a year that's had a glut of animated films, it's nice to see one so different from the norm.
124 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Fast Food Nation
Release date: 11/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As weak and bland as a McDonald's hamburger patty.
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stranger Than Fiction
Release date: 11/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Never self-consciously wacky or cloyingly sentimental, Stranger Than Fiction is instead a breezy,...
131 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Return, The
Release date: 11/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A bleak, listless horror film that hews so closely in plot and tone to Gellar's The Grudge that i...
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Come Early Morning
Release date: 11/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The performances are admirable all around, but they're in the service of a film that doesn't othe...
32 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Good Year, A
Release date: 11/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Like spending two hours with someone who is tiresome but who thinks you should find him exceeding...
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 Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's scathing satire, audacious, ridiculous and screamingly riotous -- but it's not mean-spirited...
170 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Flushed Away
Release date: 11/3/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There are singing slugs, and I don't know what else you could want.
109 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Volver
Release date: 11/3/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Doesn't have the emotional impact of Almodovar's best films, nor the whacked-out lunacy of his mo...
67 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Catch a Fire
Release date: 10/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Both men are ordinary, flawed characters, neither of them grand or outsize enough to warrant biop...
65 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Death of a President
Release date: 10/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is a neat little experiment and an alarming 'what if?' scenario.
38 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Saw III
Release date: 10/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Is it an enjoyable feel-bad film? I guess. Is 'enjoyable' even the right word?
66 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Flags of Our Fathers
Release date: 10/20/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's emotionally stirring in some places, eye-opening in others, and a well-told story all the wa...
158 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Running With Scissors
Release date: 10/20/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A two-hour film needs characters we believe, like, and feel connected to, not freaks from a sides...
101 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Man of the Year
Release date: 10/13/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's more Jay Leno than Jon Stewart, and there's no way that's a compliment.
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Infamous
Release date: 10/13/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        even without comparisons to Capote, Infamous is not particularly good.
109 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Departed, The
Release date: 10/6/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A reminder that movies can have weight to them and still be enjoyable as entertainment.
189 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Little Children
Release date: 10/6/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Presenting sunny suburbia as having a dark side is not a new tactic, but Fields and company prese...
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Queen, The
Release date: 9/30/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A completely absorbing and meticulously well-acted drama.
152 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A
Release date: 9/29/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The flavor of the film is exactly right, with the humor, innocence, drama and anxiety of youth al...
54 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Last King of Scotland, The
Release date: 9/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        We are in awe not that the character is so wildly unstable, but that Whitaker has made such a wil...
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Science of Sleep, The
Release date: 9/22/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        Every element of the set design, cinematography, dialogue and sound blurs the line between realis...
118 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Black Dahlia, The
Release date: 9/15/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Ambitiously well-made, sometimes laughably trashy, always interesting, and occasionally so odd yo...
146 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Everyone's Hero
Release date: 9/15/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you've always wanted to hear inanimate objects argue with each other in the personas of Cranky...
56 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Gridiron Gang
Release date: 9/15/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is the type of film that has nothing wrong with it, really, but that doesn't have anything p...
87 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Protector, The
Release date: 9/8/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        When the fight scenes, choreographed by Jaa himself, kick in, boy howdy.
82 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Wicker Man, The
Release date: 9/1/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I don't know whether this remake is faithful. Did the original include a scene in which the leadi...
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Crossover
Release date: 9/1/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The entire film is just so over-the-top, feeling more like an After School Special than a serious...
62 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Invincible
Release date: 8/25/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a lean, efficient, classy film, uplifting without being schmaltzy.
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Illusionist, The
Release date: 8/18/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a marginal story, and passionless in the way it's been antiseptically brought to the screen,...
94 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Trust the Man
Release date: 8/18/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For people who enjoy watching smug, self-involved, upper-class New Yorkers complain about their p...
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Snakes on a Plane
Release date: 8/18/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a relief to discover that Snakes on a Plane actually is what we hoped it would be: a really,...
75 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Zoom
Release date: 8/11/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Seeing the once-great Chevy Chase reduced to this bug-eyed buffoonery is sad, like watching an ol...
16 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pulse
Release date: 8/11/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As usual, this cheaply made PG-13 horror flick is all atmosphere and no horror.
58 other reviews of this movie

Movie: World Trade Center
Release date: 8/9/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not too soon for a 9/11 movie, but it IS too soon for one that brings it up for no reason.
215 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Descent, The
Release date: 8/4/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bring a change of pants, because this one's a soiler.
68 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Night Listener, The
Release date: 8/4/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A slick, mostly engaging drama.
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Movie: John Tucker Must Die
Release date: 7/28/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not grating the way many of its genre are, and the pandering it does to its teenage female a...
34 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Little Miss Sunshine
Release date: 7/26/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's good for some laughs, though I don't see it holding up to multiple viewings.
84 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Monster House
Release date: 7/21/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Had it been released at Halloween (where it surely belongs), you might count it as marginal seaso...
122 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Clerks II
Release date: 7/21/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        When it's on, it's really on: sharp, funny and geeky, just like you remember.
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Movie: Little Man
Release date: 7/14/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The Wayans family's latest dim-witted fart comedy is even worse than its last one
75 other reviews of this movie

Movie: You, Me and Dupree
Release date: 7/14/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Funny that Owen Wilson should star in a film about a guy who wears out his welcome....
145 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Release date: 7/7/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        That's how these movies make me feel: a little dazzled and amused, but not in any kind of special...
186 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The
Release date: 6/30/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It still isn't very substantive and probably would have been even less so without Meryl Streep in...
154 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Strangers With Candy
Release date: 6/28/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Certainly the first 30 minutes of this film are among the most hilarious first 30 minutes of any ...
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Superman Returns
Release date: 6/28/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a thinky blockbuster, yes, though there is plenty of deft humor and breathtaking visuals and...
258 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Great New Wonderful, The
Release date: 6/23/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There are amusing moments sprinkled throughout the film, a few genuine laughs, and some nicely pl...
34 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Click
Release date: 6/23/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The comedy is weak and the tugs at the heartstrings are only slightly stronger.
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The
Release date: 6/16/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Much of the film is harmlessly generic, but in its last half-hour it plumbs new depths of dumbnes...
80 other reviews of this movie

Movie: District B13
Release date: 6/2/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A ridiculously entertaining action flick that's loaded with style, wit and jaw-dropping feats of ...
95 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Break-Up, The
Release date: 6/2/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The surprising thing about it is not how funny it is, as that's to be expected, but how serious i...
157 other reviews of this movie

Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand
Release date: 5/26/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's fun enough to be worth seeing, but it's nowhere near as slick, action-packed or entertaining...
204 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lower City
Release date: 5/26/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Yes, it can be hard having a girlfriend who's a hooker.
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Movie: Over the Hedge
Release date: 5/19/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A buoyant and funny animated lark in its own right, regardless of its funny-pages origins.
55 other reviews of this movie

Movie: See No Evil
Release date: 5/19/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It isn't the least bit scary -- a considerable liability for a horror film -- but it's watchable ...
30 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Keeping Up With the Steins
Release date: 5/12/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Scott Marshall has managed to make a film as bad as one of his dad's.
74 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Just My Luck
Release date: 5/12/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Every single scene is an abominable assemblage of mind-boggling stupidity, completely unmotivated...
92 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Proposition, The
Release date: 5/5/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's surprising that a film this unflinchingly violent can be so thought-provoking, and that the ...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Art School Confidential
Release date: 5/5/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A lazy, unsatisfying comedy noir.
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Movie: Water
Release date: 4/28/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film's visuals hold almost as much power as its story does.
78 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Silent Hill
Release date: 4/21/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I would admire the atmosphere a lot more if it amounted to something scary, creepy or original.
78 other reviews of this movie

Movie: La Mujer de Mi Hermano
Release date: 4/14/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Stars actors from all over South America and was shot in Chile by a Peruvian director, yet what i...
30 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Kinky Boots
Release date: 4/14/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I can't think of any reason for you to see it, but I can't think of any reason not to, either.
100 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Scary Movie 4
Release date: 4/14/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For slapsticky, loose-limbed, MAD Magazine-style movie satires, you can do no better than the wor...
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Friends With Money
Release date: 4/7/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Smart, snarky dialogue and a few insightful observations about the upper-middle class.
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Phat Girlz
Release date: 4/7/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I'm recommending it, barely, because I think it speaks pretty well to a certain audience and does...
33 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Freshman Orientation
Release date: 4/1/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (4/3)
        The film's abundant humor and sharp tongue give way to watery romantic-comedy conventions in the ...
1 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ice Age: The Meltdown
Release date: 3/31/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The so-so dialogue is balanced by the film's often hilarious physical humor.... It's the film's b...
121 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Release date: 3/31/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Long on good intentions but short on believability.
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Basic Instinct 2
Release date: 3/31/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An utterly hilarious piece of camp trash that elicited more laughs from me than 'She's the Man,' ...
125 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
Release date: 3/24/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It reeks of desperation, among other things.
29 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lonesome Jim
Release date: 3/24/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is a sweetness, eventually, under the detached comedy of this funny, uneven film.
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stay Alive
Release date: 3/24/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This week's stupid but harmless PG-13 cookie-cutter horror film.
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Inside Man
Release date: 3/24/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You go home satisfied -- but not blown away -- and the movie never crosses your mind again.
150 other reviews of this movie

Movie: She's the Man
Release date: 3/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The protagonist's stupidity is a powerful, brutish force, a fog that hangs over the entire film l...
96 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Don't Come Knocking
Release date: 3/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is lightweight drama, sure, but it's a charming example of it.
101 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Don't Come Knocking
Release date: 3/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is lightweight drama, sure, but it's a charming example of it.
101 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Thank You for Smoking
Release date: 3/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A straight-faced dark satire.... Confident, razor-sharp comedy.
74 other reviews of this movie

Movie: V for Vendetta
Release date: 3/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It may go a little overboard in its desire to convince us of both its coolness and its insightful...
204 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Find Me Guilty
Release date: 3/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A well-made and amply entertaining courtroom dramedy.
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Movie: Find Me Guilty
Release date: 3/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A well-made and amply entertaining courtroom dramedy.
75 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hills Have Eyes, The
Release date: 3/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        At some point, it stops being fun and just becomes grueling.
114 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shaggy Dog, The
Release date: 3/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Quintessential Disney cannibalization, with no wit or energy to justify its existence.
94 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ask the Dust
Release date: 3/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The details add up to a story, but it's not cohesive and fluid enough to be engaging. How are we ...
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Aquamarine
Release date: 3/3/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie does it what it does well enough, and without condescension or egregious illogic, to be...
73 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Release date: 3/3/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        In a year that has already suffered from the embarrassing shuckin' and jivin' of Martin Lawrence ...
100 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Tsotsi
Release date: 2/24/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is an uncommonly moving film, with almost no fireworks to highlight the parts that are suppo...
104 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Doogal
Release date: 2/24/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Seldom have I heard such lame jokes and pseudo-savvy dialogue.
42 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Running Scared
Release date: 2/24/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher shared a brain, developed a fever, then read 'Hansel and G...
53 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Eight Below
Release date: 2/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you've ever read an inspiring article in Reader's Digest that involved animals, I dare say the...
121 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Date Movie
Release date: 2/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This would-be spoof of romantic comedies falls prey to the misconception -- common in modern Amer...
70 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Unknown White Male
Release date: 2/17/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Paints an absorbing, even haunting picture of one life wiped away and a new one begun.
77 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pink Panther, The
Release date: 2/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An endless procession of forced shtick and cartoon-style anarchy that's been watered down into bl...
44 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Firewall
Release date: 2/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Ford is back in action, albeit a little more slowly and cautiously than before, and in the servic...
128 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Final Destination 3
Release date: 2/10/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The series has made it work with macabre humor and devilishly clever setups.
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Something New
Release date: 2/3/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As stale as last year's canceled UPN sitcoms.
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Movie: When a Stranger Calls
Release date: 2/3/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The bare-bones story simply can't survive being stretched to a feature-length running time.
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Nanny McPhee
Release date: 1/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What could have been just a middling kids' movie turns out to be sweet and humorous, the first tr...
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Release date: 1/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A self-referential, keenly absurd comedy with several layers of humor.
93 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Imagine Me & You
Release date: 1/27/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A little more thought into the characters' motives and the consequences of their actions might ha...
89 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Why we Fight
Release date: 1/20/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is just a Michael Moore film without Michael Moore -- without the ego and the bombast and th...
82 other reviews of this movie

Movie: End of the Spear
Release date: 1/20/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Only marginally uplifting and just passably enjoyable as a film. I know in my mind that these exp...
21 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Glory Road
Release date: 1/13/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you have not already seen Remember the Titans or Miracle or The Rookie or Hoosiers or Coach Ca...
126 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bloodrayne
Release date: 1/6/2006
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It never occurs to you to think of the film as anything other than a silly swords-and-castles tal...
41 other reviews of this movie

Movie: War Within, The
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:48 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Taut and suspenseful even when it's just being introspective.
48 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Travellers & Magicians
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It will probably not be long remembered, but it charms and entertains in the moment, at least.
51 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Turtles Can Fly
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        We realize how pitiful the situation is, how hopeless and desperate life has become for these peo...
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:44 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film has a serious, urgent tone, but not a preachy or strident one.
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sin Destino
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:44 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Questionable storytelling methods aside, it's just not a very good movie anyway.
1 other reviews of this movie

Movie: New York Doll
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:39 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A straightforward rockumentary that is as heartwarming as it is rockin'.
34 other reviews of this movie

Movie: King of the Corner
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:36 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Amusing, but not the sort of transcendent human comedy that it wants to be. It is, instead, a mid...
9 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Matador, The
Release date: 12/30/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Brosnan's performance as a once-smooth hitman who has lost his mojo is as funny and as fearlessly...
57 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Match Point
Release date: 12/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A delicious little drama.
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Movie: Rumor Has It...
Release date: 12/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        While there are high points here and there, in general the film moves ploddingly, with individual...
84 other reviews of this movie

Movie: New World, The
Release date: 12/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a beautiful and difficult work of art.
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Movie: Wolf Creek
Release date: 12/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A fairly effective slasher movie, equal parts tense set-up and horrific prolonged climax.
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Munich
Release date: 12/23/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of his best films, a riveting political thriller that's as thought-provoking as it is excitin...
163 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Producers, The
Release date: 12/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The humor is large, loud and fast-paced, rarely subtle. Watching it is like watching an old movie...
122 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Family Stone, The
Release date: 12/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        While some may roll their eyes at the outrageous fantasyland the Stones live in, others will look...
123 other reviews of this movie

Movie: King Kong
Release date: 12/14/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's an epic experience, three solid hours of high-flying entertainment and special effects wizar...
203 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
Release date: 12/14/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film works on three levels: as a visually appealing modern Southwestern saga, as an old-fashi...
104 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha
Release date: 12/9/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A very sterile film, one where we spend a great deal of time with the characters without ever get...
127 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Brokeback Mountain
Release date: 12/9/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Powerful and moving enough to be one of the best films of the year
146 other reviews of this movie

Movie: First Descent
Release date: 12/2/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        Honestly, with all due respect to Alaska, one guy zipping down a mountain on a snowboard looks ab...
52 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ice Harvest, The
Release date: 11/23/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        But is it funny? Yes, for a while.
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Movie: Walk the Line
Release date: 11/18/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I don't know if non-Cash fans will be converted, but people already in his camp will find that it...
177 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Breakfast on Pluto
Release date: 11/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It does one of the best things a movie can do: It makes you feel good.
114 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
Release date: 11/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Silverman is everything Margaret Cho used to be (and thinks she still is): socially observant, wi...
58 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Zathura
Release date: 11/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Zips along with speed and confidence, and though I'd never have guessed it, goofy Jon Favreau can...
123 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bee Season
Release date: 11/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is a lot of smug mysticism masquerading as universal truth in Bee Season. It's a movie so c...
55 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Saw II
Release date: 10/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It lacks the sick imagination of the first film, the demented audacity of its twisted scenarios.
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Winter Passing
Release date: 10/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Stand in the middle of a film festival and swing a stick and you're bound to hit a movie just lik...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Legend of Zorro, The
Release date: 10/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is good fun, but not great fun, and it's much longer than it ought to be.
64 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Weather Man, The
Release date: 10/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film's ultimate point has to do with the title character's epiphany, and it's a funny, tortuo...
106 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Prime
Release date: 10/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I like that a movie with such a farcical premise can be so upscale and witty.
62 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Doom
Release date: 10/21/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Hollywood has rarely produced a series of films as consistent as those based on video games: A do...
104 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Release date: 10/21/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        'Tis the season for over-the-top violence and delightfully absurdist humor!
61 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shopgirl
Release date: 10/21/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I remember noting when I read the book a few years ago how beautiful the language was. And now I'...
122 other reviews of this movie

Movie: North Country
Release date: 10/21/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It weakens the film's case to have the villains portrayed so one-dimensionally....
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Movie: Elizabethtown
Release date: 10/14/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not just the main character who doesn't have a plan -- it's Crowe, too.
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Movie: Two for the Money
Release date: 10/7/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Completely forgettable except for Pacino, whose performance can be admired for being 'interesting...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Squid and the Whale, The
Release date: 10/5/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This film thinks it has more to say than it actually does. Ignoring its pretensions, however, it'...
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Movie: Greatest Game Ever Played, The
Release date: 9/30/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There's a par for every hole, and Paxton pretty much hits exactly that -- sometimes over and some...
54 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Into the Blue
Release date: 9/30/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Sometimes when a movie gets boring, I start to wish that a shark would eat someone, just for some...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: History of Violence, A
Release date: 9/23/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie is enthralling, with secrets, surprises, turns and twists, all in the service of a psyc...
164 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Flightplan
Release date: 9/23/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Flightplan is two-thirds of a great movie and one-third of a mediocre one, but hey, even the medi...
150 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Roll Bounce
Release date: 9/23/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Comes to life only when the characters are roller skating, which is not often enough.
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Movie: Dirty Love
Release date: 9/23/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        McCarthy has no comedic skills, and the film more than adequately proves it.
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Movie: Dorian Blues
Release date: 9/23/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a sweet and likable movie, if not an expert one, and a respectable entry in the genre.
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Movie: Thumbsucker
Release date: 9/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If it sometimes overdoes its indie-film quirkiness, it ultimately makes up for it with real depth...
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Movie: Lord of War
Release date: 9/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I just wish the film made its points about guns and governments better, and less heavy-handedly.
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Movie: Everything Is Illuminated
Release date: 9/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A contemplative, bittersweet film, as much a sublime comedy as it is a drama about the urgency of...
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Movie: Just Like Heaven
Release date: 9/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An agreeably cute rom-com.
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Movie: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Release date: 9/16/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is fanciful and whimsical, but only marginally entertaining. It's the kind of movie you ...
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Movie: Exorcism of Emily Rose, The
Release date: 9/9/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is, essentially, a flat courtroom movie that has been spiced up with a few scenes of demonic p...
139 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Cave, The
Release date: 8/26/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Without 'scary' and 'surprising,' what is The Cave left with? Flying amphibian monsters. Which ar...
76 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Memory of a Killer, The
Release date: 8/26/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A Belgian film as energetic and clever as many a Hollywood production -- though ultimately as cli...
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Brothers Grimm, The
Release date: 8/26/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Not just weird, but randomly, elaborately weird.... It's a total wreck.
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Movie: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Release date: 8/19/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's more of a freak show -- although freak shows can be fun, too.
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 40-Year-Old Virgin, The
Release date: 8/19/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A near-perfect sex comedy, made by smart people who understand that crassness itself is not funny...
168 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Supercross: The Movie
Release date: 8/17/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Supercross is like a porno where all the sex scenes have been replaced with motorcycle scenes.
61 other reviews of this movie

Movie: The Last Days
Release date: 8/15/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If there's a real person in all this, he is lost in your stubbornly experimental filmmaking techn...
78 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pretty Persuasion
Release date: 8/12/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What Pretty Persuasion seems to want most of all is to be outrageous,
57 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Great Raid, The
Release date: 8/12/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not bad, nor are its intentions anything less than noble. But it feels like countless movies...
33 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Four Brothers
Release date: 8/12/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As Hollywood-ized as the details are, the overall picture feels independent and honest.
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Broken Flowers
Release date: 8/5/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has a straightforward, cleanly structured story and a few solid laughs amid the existential ag...
125 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The
Release date: 8/5/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Considering how funny it could have been -- either as a faithful big-screen adaptation or as a wi...
143 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Must Love Dogs
Release date: 7/29/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The dialogue in general is a notch above the norm, snappy and tight and remarkably unlike the dri...
123 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Edukators
Release date: 7/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Sublimely funny, surprisingly warm-hearted little story about the war between the idealistic youn...
42 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Island, The
Release date: 7/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        But despite all of Bay's best efforts, he still managed, through sheer dumb luck, to wind up with...
161 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bad News Bears, The
Release date: 7/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        We're supposed to laugh because of the shock value, but that wears off after about five minutes, ...
114 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Devil's Rejects, The
Release date: 7/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There's nothing worthwhile about a single moment of it, not even in a prurient, I-love-to-wallow-...
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Movie: Warrior, The
Release date: 7/15/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The story is dumb and the paper-thin characters are motivated only by the needs of the plot. But ...
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Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Release date: 7/15/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Burton's fondness for telling darkly comic stories and Depp's knack for playing off-kilter reclus...
204 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Wedding Crashers
Release date: 7/15/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Too long by 30 minutes, but the two leads are a good pair, Vaughn's rapid-fire delivery nicely co...
69 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Release date: 7/13/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a slow, ponderous film -- too slow and too ponderous, maybe -- but an intriguing one, often ...
31 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Saraband
Release date: 7/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Ullmann and Josephson are old Bergman pros and have evidently learned, over the decades, how to a...
61 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Beautiful Country, The
Release date: 7/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        While Damien Nguyen is more than capable as an actor, the character is a little dull, perhaps a b...
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Movie: Murderball
Release date: 7/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Every bit as exciting, funny, heartwarming and uplifting as any Hollywood sports movie.
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Movie: Dark Water
Release date: 7/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Japan's chief horror export used to be a giant fire-breathing lizard who smashed cities and dest...
125 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rebound
Release date: 7/1/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie's bad, but at least it isn't aggressively annoying. It has puke jokes, but hey -- no fa...
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Movie: War of the Worlds
Release date: 6/29/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Spielberg's technical skills are second to none, and his childlike love for a good story remains ...
207 other reviews of this movie

Movie: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
Release date: 6/24/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Good, but not great ... Romero has been surpassed by his imitators, who have learned to make zom...
139 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Herbie: Fully Loaded
Release date: 6/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Harmless, witless, unoriginal, uninventive, mildly entertaining and not liable to do any permanen...
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Perfect Man, The
Release date: 6/17/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I would say the filmmakers must be retarded, but even the mentally challenged know not to center ...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: My Summer of Love
Release date: 6/17/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is, in short, a very good coming-of-age story of love and obsession, but not a remarkable one.
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know
Release date: 6/17/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You laugh now and then, but mostly you smile -- at the simple connections people make, at the gui...
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Movie: Honeymooners, The
Release date: 6/10/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A big-thinking schemer and dreamer like Ralph Kramden was amusing in the quaint days of 1955. In ...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 5x2
Release date: 6/10/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's character is the one to watch throughout the film, as it is in her demea...
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Movie: High Tension
Release date: 6/10/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie is certainly tense, but only from a gut-reaction standpoint. Emotionally, psychological...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Cinderella Man
Release date: 6/3/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Oh sure, it's a good movie, but only by process of elimination: You like it because there's no re...
171 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Apres Vous
Release date: 6/3/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has the makings of a farce -- a French farce, no less! -- but never fully embraces them.
63 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Longest Yard, The
Release date: 5/27/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Seems like it was made by 14-year-old boys, for 14-year-old boys. If that's you, then go and have...
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Movie: Saving Face
Release date: 5/27/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The story is not unique, but Wu manages to give it enough charming humor to make it fresh and enj...
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Release date: 5/19/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Almost exactly what it needs to be, a powerful middle film to end one trilogy and presage another...
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Movie: Shake Hands With the Devil
Release date: 5/18/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Through it all is Dallaire himself, a woeful, pitiable figure, the stuff of Shakespearean tragedy...
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Movie: Layer Cake
Release date: 5/13/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It does nothing revolutionary, but it handles the basics with entertaining aplomb.
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Movie: Monster-in-Law
Release date: 5/13/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Maybe 35 years from now Jane Fonda will apologize for this picture, too.
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Movie: House of Wax
Release date: 5/6/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Paris Hilton is the least of the film's problems, and when Paris Hilton is the least of your prob...
138 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mysterious Skin
Release date: 5/6/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        So profoundly unsettling that I can't imagine watching it again -- except that it's also so finel...
38 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The
Release date: 4/29/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie is never dull, but it does seem to wander a bit, with an odd, almost delirious storylin...
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Movie: XXX: State of the Union
Release date: 4/29/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The sequel, rather than being big and dumb, is just dumb.
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Movie: Interpreter, The
Release date: 4/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This unmemorable thriller has been gussied up real pretty-like with prestigious actors and intell...
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Movie: King's Ransom
Release date: 4/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Mean-spirited, unpleasant comedy about characters who are both nasty and stupid and who deserve e...
36 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lot Like Love, A
Release date: 4/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For the most part, it's a nice, reasonably entertaining little ride along the tortuous path of lo...
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Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Release date: 4/22/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Boils it down and tells the story in clear terms, but make no mistake: It's still a complex issue...
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Movie: Sahara
Release date: 4/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A little inventiveness is one thing, but this movie strains credibility at every turn.
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Movie: Winter Solstice
Release date: 4/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Such a low-key drama that I'm not sure anything happens in it at all.
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Movie: Kung Fu Hustle
Release date: 4/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Wildly funny and inventive, a giddy re-imagining of martial-arts flicks that might be one of the ...
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Movie: Fever Pitch
Release date: 4/8/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie -- often amusing, occasionally funny -- rides on their friendly shoulders well enough t...
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Movie: Sin City
Release date: 4/1/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film retains not just the look of its source material but its tone, too -- its dark mood swin...
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Movie: Look At Me
Release date: 4/1/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bacri and Jaoui happens to have a soft spot for their countrymen, which results in a warm, funny ...
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Movie: Dust to Glory
Release date: 4/1/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Could be more tightly focused, but its funny, audacious and profoundly exciting moments are abund...
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Movie: Beauty Shop
Release date: 3/30/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is the very picture of bland, uncreative filmmaking, and the fact that it was made by Africa...
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Movie: Old Boy
Release date: 3/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There's a singular vision at work here, a mind full of imagination and cleverness, and a sharp sk...
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Movie: Nina's Tragedies
Release date: 3/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Ayelet Zorer gives Nina grace, sexiness and a real personality. She's someone you'd want to see a...
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Movie: Guess Who
Release date: 3/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Mac and Kutcher are the saving graces of what is otherwise a poorly written, misguided rehash of ...
130 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ballad of Jack and Rose, The
Release date: 3/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A quiet, character-driven piece that slowly gets too big for itself.
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Movie: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Release date: 3/24/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The sequel is predictable, dumb and flaccid, too, but to a greater degree. It is everything its p...
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Movie: Ice Princess
Release date: 3/18/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The only thing wrong with Ice Princess is that I am not enough of a 14-year-old girl to appreciat...
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Movie: Ring Two, The
Release date: 3/18/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Nothing but sudden jolts and senseless eeriness, scattershot elements that might be frightening i...
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Movie: In My Country
Release date: 3/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I do not question the filmmaker's sincerity, but he has made a flat, uninvolving movie. The road ...
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Movie: Millions
Release date: 3/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        That the director of Trainspotting can make something as sweet, wonderful and nearly perfect as M...
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Movie: Robots
Release date: 3/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It feels like they sat around thinking of robot-world gags and neglected everything else.
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Movie: Hostage
Release date: 3/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bombastic, audacious and slick, yes -- but in this genre, those are often good attributes.
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Movie: Mail Order Wife
Release date: 3/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A sly skewering of class warfare ... and a pitch-perfect indictment of what idiots men are.
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Movie: Dear Frankie
Release date: 3/4/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A sweet little heart-tugger ... served by a plot that dares to go in directions we would not have...
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Movie: Be Cool
Release date: 3/4/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A desperate, wheezing mess.
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Movie: Jacket, The
Release date: 3/4/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Moves like a thriller yet rarely does anything thrilling.
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Movie: Around the Bend
Release date: 3/2/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        How does a film like this get national distribution when dozens of films exactly like it wallow i...
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Movie: Up and Down
Release date: 2/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Hrebejk suggests, through this tragi-comic film, that while things are rough now, they've got to ...
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Movie: Man of the House
Release date: 2/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a movie with a solid lead actor, appealing supporting actresses, a reasonably good idea -...
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Movie: Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Release date: 2/25/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Displays a blind ineptitude on the level of some of the worst films I've ever seen.... This movie...
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Movie: Constantine
Release date: 2/18/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A good enough movie to make you forget, most of the time, how truly dreadful Reeves' stilted, mon...
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Movie: Son of the Mask
Release date: 2/18/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Instead of Jim Carrey's clowning being the film's raison d'etre, it is the sub-par mayhem of Jami...
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Movie: Uncle Nino
Release date: 2/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It means well, darn it, and if it fails to entertain, at least it fails to annoy, too.
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Movie: Schultze Gets the Blues
Release date: 2/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An uncommonly good-natured and simple film, bearing no malice, holding no agenda, desiring no und...
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Movie: Harry and Max
Release date: 2/4/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The dialogue is either porn-film cheesy or soap-opera trite, and the performances are far from co...
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Movie: Wedding Date, The
Release date: 2/4/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Directed with muddled confusion, the movie goes through its stock characters and obligatory plot ...
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Movie: Assisted Living
Release date: 2/2/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a slight movie, setting a poignant scene but not quite filling out even its running time. St...
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Movie: Alone in the Dark
Release date: 1/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For as busy as this movie is, you'd think it would have more going on. Instead, it's just a big, ...
104 other reviews of this movie

Movie: White Noise
Release date: 1/7/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Hearing dead people's voices through static loses its spine-chilling power after a few minutes, a...
114 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Twilight Samurai, The
Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:45 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Twilight Samurai is to Japanese samurai flicks what Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven was to American W...
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Movie: Dawn of the Dead
Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:29 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Scene after scene of near-misses, direct hits and incredibly tense confrontations with the undead...
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Movie: Confessions of a Burning Man
Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:28 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        All 87 minutes of the film seem like B-roll footage that could be used as an introduction to a co...
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Movie: Sky Blue
Release date: 12/31/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is an epic, even Shakespearean, story of love, technology and environmentalism lost in the ...
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Movie: In Good Company
Release date: 12/29/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Brilliantly walks the line between comedy and poignancy, being utterly funny without being shtick...
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Movie: Woodsman, The
Release date: 12/24/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A character who is doomed from the start because of his own actions is difficult to support, and ...
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Movie: Meet the Fockers
Release date: 12/22/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A little coarser, a little more desperate and a lot less funny than its predecessor. But Dustin H...
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Movie: Hotel Rwanda
Release date: 12/22/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A powerful, sobering film, alive with energy and urgency. It brings immediacy to a tragedy that m...
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Movie: Beyond the Sea
Release date: 12/21/2004 11:01:27 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is as smooth as Darin himself, slickly produced and well-paced, and it also happens to b...
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Movie: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Release date: 12/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If the movie were as wildly creative as it looks, it would be brilliant, instead of merely OK.
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Movie: Sea Inside, The
Release date: 12/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Javier Bardem is the soul of the movie.
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Movie: Spanglish
Release date: 12/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It needs to be trimmed, toned and focused better before it is put on public display -- but since ...
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Movie: Million Dollar Baby
Release date: 12/15/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The boxing-as-life metaphors that have permeated a thousand other stories never felt as true as t...
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Movie: Born Into Brothels
Release date: 12/8/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If the film itself is not stellar, the humanitarian efforts it documents are. In this case, the c...
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Movie: Blade: Trinity
Release date: 12/8/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Not a comedy, but its funny parts are more memorable than its action-horror parts, which are comp...
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Movie: House of Flying Daggers
Release date: 12/3/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is, at its heart, an emotional story about love and betrayal. In many ways, it is Yimou's most...
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Movie: Christmas with the Kranks
Release date: 11/24/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Movies like this make me want to skip everything, including the remainder of my natural life.
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Movie: National Treasure
Release date: 11/19/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's fun and occasionally amusing and it didn't give me a headache. That's not the sort of endors...
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Movie: Bad Education
Release date: 11/19/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A ribald story of desire, lust and obsession.
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Movie: After the Sunset
Release date: 11/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Do the people who make movies not realize that most of us have seen movies before and are therefo...
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Movie: Finding Neverland
Release date: 11/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Barrie is played with astonishing perfection by Johnny Depp, who at this rate is going to become ...
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Movie: Seed of Chucky
Release date: 11/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is about as good as could be expected, considering it's the fifth installment and its pr...
58 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Release date: 11/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        If this were the first film in the series rather than the second, there wouldn't be a second.
105 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Kinsey
Release date: 11/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It overstates its subject's importance just a bit, but it also covers an impressive number of sid...
148 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Polar Express, The
Release date: 11/10/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The stilted animation can't keep up with Hanks' effervescence. ... Besides, all the vivacity in t...
127 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Alfie
Release date: 11/5/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Law ... gives an honest, pitch-perfect performance in a film that is otherwise unremarkable.
52 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Saw
Release date: 10/29/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If Whannell's script doesn't get all the talky parts quite right, he certainly nails the mechanic...
125 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Machinist, The
Release date: 10/22/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An unsettling psychological thriller despite being composed of old, familiar parts, the film has ...
48 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Undertow
Release date: 10/22/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The story itself, though occasionally compelling, is mostly just a means to an end. It's the peop...
87 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Being Julia
Release date: 10/15/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It’s impossible to take your eyes off Bening when she’s on the screen, not just because she’s lov...
78 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Vera Drake
Release date: 10/10/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Every detail of the film breathes with authenticity, fully creating the grimy, working-class worl...
125 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stage Beauty
Release date: 10/8/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A droll, tart-tongued film, brimming with comic and dramatic possibilities.
90 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Taxi
Release date: 10/8/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        So Jimmy Fallon leaves 'Saturday Night Live' and immediately starts making bad movies. And the ci...
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Friday Night Lights
Release date: 10/8/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Tells an engrossing story with such conviction and honesty, embedded in a surplus of stylistic fl...
135 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dirty Shame, A
Release date: 9/24/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a braying, garish movie in which, as usual, Waters has cast actors who think a bad performan...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shaun of the Dead
Release date: 9/24/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is that rare, lucky film that gets to have its brains and eat them, too.
135 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Motorcycle Diaries, The
Release date: 9/24/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is a rare biopic that does not venerate its subject beyond all reason, and The Motorcycle Diar...
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Release date: 9/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        When all of the movie's elements are working together -- the familiar characters and story, and t...
165 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Silver City
Release date: 9/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Becomes mired in Sayles' weakness for enormous ensemble casts and murky plots. The guy can tell a...
39 other reviews of this movie

Movie: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Release date: 9/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        By the 30-minute mark, I was praying for the sweet release of death.
38 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mr. 3000
Release date: 9/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not that the jokes aren't funny. It's that the jokes aren't THERE.
44 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Head in the Clouds
Release date: 9/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is emotionally distanced from its audience, too stoic and stuffy. You'd never guess a fi...
37 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Wimbledon
Release date: 9/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A pleasant, funny, utterly predictable film that won't hurt you to watch but won't hurt you to mi...
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Anatomy of Hell
Release date: 9/17/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I hate this movie, but only because it hated me first.
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Movie: Criminal
Release date: 9/10/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It isn't quite as witty or gritty as Nine Queens, but if you didn't see that film, then see it no...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Cellular
Release date: 9/10/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you've seen everything else, and if you're standing outside the theater at 7:10 and there's a ...
68 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Paperclips
Release date: 9/8/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (4/3)
        The film is constructed simply, even amateurishly, but the power of what's being done comes throu...
48 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Release date: 9/3/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Takes all the elements of the classic Westerns, mixes them with Eastern spiritualism, and comes o...
26 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hero
Release date: 8/27/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is a stunning achievement. Nearly every shot is beautiful, impossible, or both.
151 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Suspect Zero
Release date: 8/27/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Suspect Zero has two good ideas, and it squanders them both.
109 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Release date: 8/27/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This movie features a scene of a snake chasing a monkey, which is more than I dared hope for.
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Brown Bunny, The
Release date: 8/27/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If this is a 'feature film,' then so are your old home movies, or videotapes from a convenience s...
63 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Release date: 8/27/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a film so thunderingly unfunny that it makes 'White Chicks' look like 'Blazing Saddles.'
34 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bright Young Things
Release date: 8/20/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A droll Jazz-Age satire ... with many spirited performances and lively supporting characters, but...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mean Creek
Release date: 8/20/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If this smart, psychologically suspenseful film is any indication, Jacob Estes is a new voice wor...
50 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Without a Paddle
Release date: 8/20/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is the kind of movie where the centerpiece scene involves dropping poop on people's heads. I...
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: We Don't Live Here Anymore
Release date: 8/13/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Nothing more than a series of scenes set in darkened rooms in which grownups argue with and lie t...
45 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Alien vs. Predator
Release date: 8/13/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Most of the film is good enough that way: dumb, but not boring.
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, The
Release date: 8/11/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This movie is so intent on going nowhere that it introduces new characters just to give them noth...
86 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Saints and Soldiers
Release date: 8/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is dramatic, in the most complimentary sense of that word. It engages the emotions and the sen...
24 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Open Water
Release date: 8/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Its positives outweigh its negatives; certainly it will send shivers up the spine of anyone who h...
154 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Collateral
Release date: 8/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Mann has made a solid film here, effectively atmospheric and intelligent, minor defects notwithst...
188 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Little Black Book
Release date: 8/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        I hesitate to call it a 'good' movie, because much of it is useless. But overall, it feels just q...
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Village, The
Release date: 7/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Shyamalan has followed his own template, but neglected to fill in the most important parts. The m...
158 other reviews of this movie

Movie: She Hate Me
Release date: 7/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        Is Lee satirizing something? Is this all a metaphor for something? Or is it just a heavy-handed m...
71 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bourne Supremacy, The
Release date: 7/23/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Offers the double agents and delicious espionage you expect from a CIA thriller, but without beco...
163 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Maria Full of Grace
Release date: 7/16/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a 'good person in a bad situation' movie, and while the grim realities of life are dealt wit...
35 other reviews of this movie

Movie: I, Robot
Release date: 7/16/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's fun, sure, but uninspired. We've seen it all before... Will Smith does his old Will Smith th...
131 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Door in the Floor, The
Release date: 7/14/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is sweet, and nice, and very sad, but also very refreshing and funny.
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Riding Giants
Release date: 7/9/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An enthralling, entertaining, jaw-dropping look at the history of surfing.
42 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Release date: 7/9/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        By the time the film is over, you'll have witnessed a curious creative process, seeing not just a...
90 other reviews of this movie

Movie: King Arthur
Release date: 7/7/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        King Arthur is a good enterprise, and it makes a good run at it, but by the last act, it's just t...
66 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Before Sunset
Release date: 7/2/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Jesse and Celine are perfectly likable, sympathetic people, and seeing them begin to fall in love...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: De-Lovely
Release date: 7/2/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Keeps making the point that Cole Porter was a fun-loving, carefree man-about-town -- but if that'...
120 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spider-Man 2
Release date: 6/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It isn't all action, or all laughs, or all drama. It's an ingenious combination of the three. It'...
131 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Two Brothers
Release date: 6/25/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is merely OK -- tedious for long stretches, but lovely and guileless the rest of the time.
93 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Terminal, The
Release date: 6/18/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Takes you on such a funny, good-natured ride that you forgive its destination being so ordinary a...
154 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Release date: 6/18/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        That there even exists a movie called Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and that it has sportscas...
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Seducing Dr. Lewis
Release date: 6/16/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film has a wistful, summer-evening feel to it.
45 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Around the World in 80 Days
Release date: 6/16/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Spends about an hour getting past its casting and screenwriting hurdles before finally settling i...
101 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Napoleon Dynamite
Release date: 6/11/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A gloriously quirky, hysterically funny ode to rural dullness that is probably the fairest, most ...
129 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Chronicles of Riddick, The
Release date: 6/11/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        More than mere ambition is required to pull off something as bombastic and bloated as this withou...
124 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stepford Wives, The
Release date: 6/11/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The Internet Movie Database classifies The Stepford Wives as 'comedy/drama/thriller,' and I suppo...
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Release date: 6/4/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The other films felt like nothing more than companion pieces to the novels, illustrations to go a...
70 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel, The
Release date: 6/4/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Like many animal-centric films try to be, this one is sweet and joyous and wonderful.
86 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Baadasssss!
Release date: 5/28/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Benefits from being a true story, but it would be a giddy, fast-paced romp even if it were fictio...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Raising Helen
Release date: 5/28/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of Garry Marshall's better efforts. It is gently witty and occasionally entertaining, if you ...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shrek 2
Release date: 5/19/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A giddy stew of pop-cultural references and fairy tales elements, flavored by a witty screenplay ...
75 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Breakin' All the Rules
Release date: 5/14/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You wouldn't think a movie with this much plot could be this dull, but you'd be wrong.
67 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Van Helsing
Release date: 5/7/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a massively silly film, silliness on a grand scale, so silly and over-the-top yet simulta...
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Super Size Me
Release date: 5/7/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What could have been just an anti-fast food screed is instead a remarkably watchable, high-spirit...
131 other reviews of this movie

Movie: New York Minute
Release date: 5/7/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is not a minute of it that makes sense. Cause and effect are meaningless. There is no real ...
105 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mean Girls
Release date: 4/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        It's what would happen if you took a John Hughes film, removed the sap, heightened the laughs, an...
126 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Saddest Music in the World, The
Release date: 4/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It shows the positive side of cinematic weirdness. It's weird in an accessible, amusing way. It's...
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Laws of Attraction
Release date: 4/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film doesn't have a 'plot' so much as it has a series of weak, pointless scenes that aren't f...
67 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 13 Going On 30
Release date: 4/23/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a pleasant surprise that the movie holds up as well as it does for as long as it does.
127 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Thousand Clouds of Peace, A
Release date: 4/16/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A ponderous, quiet little mess that has nothing to say and no idea how to say it anyway.
18 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Young Adam
Release date: 4/16/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie ladles out its atmosphere of quiet dread admirably, but atmosphere alone seldom makes a...
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Alamo, The
Release date: 4/9/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's no wonder 'Remember the Alamo!' is spoken so often as a rallying cry. If the new film ... is...
117 other reviews of this movie

Movie: I'm Not Scared
Release date: 4/9/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Brilliantly shows the frivolity of childhood and the joy of summertime -- an effectively contrast...
63 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Girl Next Door, The
Release date: 4/9/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Its premise is pure sex-farce, but its themes are introspective. It has, for all its audacious la...
120 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Whole Ten Yards, The
Release date: 4/9/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Perry resembles nothing so much as a jittery sitcom character plopped into a big-screen story, ou...
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Movie: Johnson Family Vacation
Release date: 4/7/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A paralyzingly unfunny and desperate comedy. It dulls the senses and aggravates the mind. There h...
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Walking Tall
Release date: 4/2/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a classic example of a film assuming we will be on the side of its protagonist just BECAU...
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Prince & Me, The
Release date: 4/2/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is really two movies in one, and both are sub-par.
82 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hellboy
Release date: 4/2/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The ingredients may be ordinary, but the presentation -- the tone, the flavor, the texture -- is ...
145 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Home on the Range
Release date: 4/2/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's frustrating to note that if all of Disney's recent animated films had been as funny, simple ...
90 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ladykillers, The
Release date: 3/26/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I like the movie, but with the top-notch acting, cinematography and dialogue it has, I should hav...
148 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dogville
Release date: 3/26/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Its problem is that while its concepts are interesting, its content is only marginally so... Too ...
109 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Jersey Girl
Release date: 3/26/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        So by-the-numbers, so depressingly average, that I'm tempted to believe Smith is PARODYING by-the...
109 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Taking Lives
Release date: 3/19/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It all culminates in a final showdown so ludicrous that if I explained it to you in detail, you w...
124 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Secret Window
Release date: 3/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A deliciously pulpy thriller ... equal parts comedy and suspense, and the mix is nice.
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Broken Wings
Release date: 3/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bergman doesn't allow hokey weeping or melodrama into his picture; instead, he sets events in mot...
22 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spartan
Release date: 3/12/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's good, enthralling stuff, as far as it goes. It's nothing new, for sure, but it's old tricks ...
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Movie: Reckoning, The
Release date: 3/5/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (6/1)
        It is, despite the distractions, just a simple murder story, and the revelations in the end are h...
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Movie: Starsky & Hutch
Release date: 3/5/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is fitfully amusing but never quite reaches the heights it ought to.
141 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Broken Lizard's Club Dread
Release date: 2/27/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Less funny than a comedy and less scary than a horror, but the comedy works (when it tries to).
21 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Eurotrip
Release date: 2/20/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An exuberant, unabashedly raunchy tale about the magical powers of hormones and alcohol.
88 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Against the Ropes
Release date: 2/20/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I hate to keep harping on Meg Ryan, but seriously, Meg Ryan, when are you going to be in a good m...
95 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Best Two Years, The
Release date: 2/20/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It isn't about how to convert someone. It's about converting yourself, about figuring out what yo...
21 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Release date: 2/20/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Even at less than an hour and a half, it still feels absurdly padded.
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Movie: Almost Peaceful
Release date: 2/14/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The combination of happy plot resolutions, spring-like classical music and beautiful scenery put ...
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Movie: 50 First Dates
Release date: 2/13/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Tries to cram Sandler's typically vulgar modus operandi into a format that is entirely foreign to...
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Movie: Monsieur Ibrahim
Release date: 2/13/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Director Francois Depeyron evokes the look and feel of nostalgia extremely well, recalling films ...
65 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dreamers, The
Release date: 2/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bertolucci and cinematographer Fabio Cianchetti construct every shot carefully, often building sh...
117 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Catch That Kid
Release date: 2/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Apart from a few serious leaps in logic, the story moves along swiftly and painlessly, and is not...
21 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Miracle
Release date: 2/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Such is the power of patriotism, under-dog heroics and a movie that knows when to cue the inspiri...
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Movie: Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Release date: 2/6/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You get the feeling the screenwriter is scraping around inside a mine that wasn't meant to be vis...
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Movie: Perfect Score, The
Release date: 1/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's about as useless as the MTV that created it, full of shiny objects and pretty people and alm...
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Movie: You Got Served
Release date: 1/30/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I could watch the dance scenes all day; unfortunately, they are broken up by simple-minded, stre...
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Movie: Along Came Polly
Release date: 1/16/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie has a breezy, negligible feeling to it. It earns quite a few solid laughs, and while it...
122 other reviews of this movie

Movie: My Baby's Daddy
Release date: 1/9/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie has no idea what to do with its premise, so instead it churns out scene after scene of ...
39 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Screaming Men
Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:44 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not revolutionary or extraordinary. The choir is just a bunch of silly men doing silly thing...
0 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Peter Pan
Release date: 12/25/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of eFilmCritic.com: (7/0)
        It is not a film for the ages, nor [is it] the definitive presentation. But its marvelous visuals...
93 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Cold Mountain
Release date: 12/25/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is epic in length but narrow in scope.... The tragedy of war is a factor, but it is not ...
156 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mona Lisa Smile
Release date: 12/19/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you are a fan of Julia Roberts’ huge, horse-like head and her equally equine braying laugh, re...
112 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Calendar Girls
Release date: 12/19/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What's notable is the movie's gently funny, quaint sense of humor, and the endearingly daft perfo...
96 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Fog of War, The
Release date: 12/19/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What McNamara says may not shake me to my very soul, but it's assembled as sharply and savvily as...
32 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stuck on You
Release date: 12/12/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The jokes are hit-or-miss, but most of what they come up with is pretty good.
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Girl With a Pearl Earring
Release date: 12/12/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Dazzles the eye while dulling the senses. It is as gorgeous as a painting, and almost as motionle...
133 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Honey
Release date: 12/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If I had never seen a movie before, I would probably find Honey perfectly enjoyable. But I have s...
90 other reviews of this movie

Movie: What Alice Found
Release date: 12/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It neither glamorizes nor demonizes truck-stop whoredom; it merely depicts it, with little of the...
31 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Last Samurai, The
Release date: 12/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's an epic, to be sure, but it keeps a close eye on the humanity of its story and eschews needl...
166 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Missing, The
Release date: 11/26/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Those old values of family, loyalty and bravery don't get trotted out much anymore.... The film d...
45 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Triplets of Belleville, The
Release date: 11/26/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Animation was invented so that movies like The Triplets of Belleville could be made.
96 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 21 Grams
Release date: 11/21/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film tries to sound ponderous in matters of death and fate, but achieves only the level of ar...
132 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
Release date: 11/21/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bearing a slight, coincidental resemblance to a book by Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat is an 82-mi...
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Release date: 11/14/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a film that is literally all about the journey, not the destination. It is, though, a rat...
157 other reviews of this movie

Movie: My Architect
Release date: 11/12/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I suspect Nathaniel got a lot out of it, and good for him, but it did little for me.
23 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Love Actually
Release date: 11/7/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The performances are droll, every one of them, the dialogue wry and witty, and the emotional mome...
149 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Matrix Revolutions, The
Release date: 11/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It doesn't have the gee-whiz factor of Vol. I, nor its mind-bending ideas... What it is, is a fai...
158 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Die Mommie Die!
Release date: 10/31/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Would be hysterical in a series of five-minute sketches. But with a flimsy plot and a reliance on...
54 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shattered Glass
Release date: 10/31/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The purpose is not to suggest that some journalists are appalling, but to suggest that some of th...
118 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Alien
Release date: 10/29/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Remains one of the best examples of sustained tension. There is a sense of ominousness, a sense t...
64 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Scary Movie 3
Release date: 10/24/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        "74 minutes is just about right for a slappy, goofy film that remembers how funny it is to see pe...
76 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Brother Bear
Release date: 10/24/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Just rehashed man-and-nature, circle-of-life, colors-of-the-wind, 'Pocahontas'-style conservation...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Beyond Borders
Release date: 10/24/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        While most movies insist on having 'plots,' this one boldly proceeds without one, flying in the f...
77 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pieces of April
Release date: 10/17/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        What a pleasant and touching little movie this is.
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Release date: 10/17/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bloody isn't the same thing as scary. It's got the atmosphere and the tone to a T. Lay off the ab...
120 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Runaway Jury
Release date: 10/17/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        How can we choose a hero to cheer for when we don't know who the potential heroes are or what the...
87 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Veronica Guerin
Release date: 10/17/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Why would you make a biopic about someone that showed only her actions, without attempting to sho...
41 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1
Release date: 10/10/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An indulgent, outlandish, and thoroughly entertaining ballet of blood.
163 other reviews of this movie

Movie: House of the Dead, The
Release date: 10/10/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of eFilmCritic.com: (7/0)
        The sort of delightfully bad teen splatter flick that exists without any excuse in the world. It ...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Out of Time
Release date: 10/3/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's perfectly good as a mystery-thriller, I suppose, but it could have been so much more.
97 other reviews of this movie

Movie: School of Rock
Release date: 10/3/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Whether you take it as an homage or a parody -- that is, whether you take rock 'n roll seriously ...
148 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rundown, The
Release date: 9/26/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A perfectly delightful comedy adventure.
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Movie: Under the Tuscan Sun
Release date: 9/26/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If it were a half-hour shorter -- and thus better-focused, story-wise -- I would recommend it. As...
51 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep
Release date: 9/19/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It passes the time pleasantly enough, but it's less funny than a comedy and less scary than a mon...
72 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Secondhand Lions
Release date: 9/19/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's an altogether funny, charming piece, with much to hold a viewer's interest in an uncomplicat...
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Movie: Anything Else
Release date: 9/19/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Woody Allen's Anything Else is what his Annie Hall would have been if he had cast less-talented a...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Cold Creek Manor
Release date: 9/19/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I don't think there is even one thing that happens that I didn't foresee. It's the sort of movie ...
53 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Cabin Fever
Release date: 9/12/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        'Cabin Fever' is not great as art, but it deserves a place alongside its predecessors in the pant...
110 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Matchstick Men
Release date: 9/12/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        "Nicolas Cage ... gives some more of his best work."
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lost In Translation
Release date: 9/12/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a quiet, contemplative comedy whose comedic moments seem secondary in importance to its d...
156 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Release date: 9/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        David Spade has never had a hit film on his own, and he has given us little reason to think he de...
78 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Party Monster
Release date: 9/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a fun movie, for the most part. Its only trouble is that it doesn't add up to as much as it ...
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Order, The
Release date: 9/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A movie with no place to go, and no idea how to get to where it's not going.
52 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Greendale
Release date: 9/5/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Everyone knows rock stars shouldn't make movies, but that goes double for old, drug-addled ones l...
28 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Zero Day
Release date: 9/3/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Gripping, compelling work. It feels pulled from real life, and real life is the most frightening ...
27 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Jeepers Creepers 2
Release date: 8/29/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I can recommend the film ... as a competently made, relatively scary horror flick.
94 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Legend of Johnny Lingo, The
Release date: 8/29/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not a bad film, and it has a certain sweetness to it. It's just so unnecessary, that's all.
11 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Freddy vs. Jason
Release date: 8/15/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you ever saw and enjoyed a Freddy or Jason film, this should be a bloody, grotesque delight.
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Uptown Girls
Release date: 8/15/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The sort of film that shuffles along sleepily, dazedly, barely aware of what it's doing and hardl...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: American Splendor
Release date: 8/15/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and it's not hard to see why.
133 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Gigli
Release date: 8/1/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a movie that manages to keep finding new ways of being stupid.
135 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Secret Lives of Dentists, The
Release date: 8/1/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        [Campbell Scott gives] a brilliant performance, with hints of humor, rage and agony all lurking a...
74 other reviews of this movie

Movie: American Wedding
Release date: 8/1/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For what it means to be, and what it wants to do, it is largely successful.
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Release date: 7/25/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It repeats the mistakes of the first film and compounds them with the cardinal sin of taking itse...
132 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mondays in the Sun
Release date: 7/25/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has nice little touches, and some solid performances, but in the end nothing is accomplished. ...
53 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Release date: 7/25/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This one is so niggling and forgettable, it may not even be worth seeing to begin with, in any di...
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dirty Pretty Things
Release date: 7/18/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It does not revel in the darkness, nor does it seek to drag us down into it. The whole point is t...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Northfork
Release date: 7/11/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It plays out, dreamlike, often beautifully shot and visually appealing, but seemingly without pur...
63 other reviews of this movie

Movie: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
Release date: 7/11/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Anemic and forgettable, but not entirely unlikable.
77 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Release date: 7/9/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Buckles swashes, shivers timbers and battens down hatches the way summertime adventures ought to,...
152 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Release date: 7/2/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It delivers as a knock-’em-down powerhouse popcorn flick, and though it may be nothing new, it’s ...
89 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Release date: 6/27/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The sequel ... is just more of the same, and the novelty has worn off. Once you've gone over the ...
96 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Alex & Emma
Release date: 6/20/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Top to bottom, this is made from the Romantic Comedy Template. The problem is, it’s JUST the temp...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: From Justin to Kelly
Release date: 6/20/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The notion behind it is as contrived, forced, manipulated and fake as any film ever made.
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Gloomy Sunday
Release date: 6/20/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a film worth seeking out, a good fit for a rainy Saturday or any other less-than-bright day ...
48 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hard Word, The
Release date: 6/13/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film seems unsure what it wants to be about, only that it wants to be edgy while it’s doing i...
26 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Whale Rider
Release date: 6/6/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I'm sure I have never seen a film like this before. It is subtle, but makes its points clearly an...
119 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious
Release date: 6/6/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A disappointing step downward ... betraying what simple vision the original film had.
106 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious
Release date: 6/6/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A disappointing step downward ... betraying what simple vision the original film had.
106 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Finding Nemo
Release date: 5/30/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A gem of a movie, and exactly what we expect from our friends at Pixar.
136 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Down With Love
Release date: 5/16/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is not as funny as a satire of this nature ought to be, but satire is tricky, comedy is hard, ...
115 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Matrix Reloaded, The
Release date: 5/15/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Its structure of leaden philosophical conversation followed by butt-kicking, repeated repeatedly,...
228 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shape of Things, The
Release date: 5/9/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        LaBute is a writer first and a director second. What he does visually is unobtrusive and function...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Man on the Train
Release date: 5/9/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film, in a curious way, gives them a sort of second chance at things, and I enjoyed watching ...
78 other reviews of this movie

Movie: X2: X-Men United
Release date: 5/2/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        X2: X-Men United is such an entertaining, action-packed film that you almost forget it’s about to...
179 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spellbound
Release date: 4/30/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I almost hate to tell you it's a documentary, because I'm afraid you won't believe me that it's t...
105 other reviews of this movie

Movie: People I Know
Release date: 4/25/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The misshapen People I Know is not especially worth knowing. In fact, it barely seems to know its...
30 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Blue Car
Release date: 4/25/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A moody, almost somnolent film in which good performances outweigh the oppressive subject matter.
20 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Winged Migration
Release date: 4/18/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Seeing the beauty of nature unfold on the big screen and having it wash over you the way this doe...
33 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Holes
Release date: 4/18/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Made by adults who know the best kids' movies are the ones that don't talk down to kids.
36 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bulletproof Monk
Release date: 4/16/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is not offensively stupid or anything; it's just silly. None of it makes any sense, and its ma...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Better Luck Tomorrow
Release date: 4/11/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is amusing and entertaining, and more than a little thought-provoking.
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Movie: What a Girl Wants
Release date: 4/4/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I really did enjoy it, overall, and here's why: the considerable charm of Colin Firth.
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Phone Booth
Release date: 4/4/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I, for one, will never answer a pay phone again.
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Movie: Levity
Release date: 4/4/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is probably a good film in Levity, but it's hidden beneath layers of heavy-handed dramatizi...
70 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Raising Victor Vargas
Release date: 3/28/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of the most deliciously authentic films I've ever seen.
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Movie: Boat Trip
Release date: 3/21/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The real issue is that it is not funny.
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Movie: Agent Cody Banks
Release date: 3/14/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Unfortunately for Agent Cody Banks, someone already made a movie about spy kids, and it was calle...
74 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bend It Like Beckham
Release date: 3/12/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is not a perfect film, nor a hilarious one, but it is likable.
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Tears of the Sun
Release date: 3/7/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you have accepted that there are few new stories in Hollywood, or even old stories being told ...
131 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Life of David Gale, The
Release date: 2/21/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's an average movie of average intellect with mostly average acting, but with below-average ski...
113 other reviews of this movie

Movie: All the Real Girls
Release date: 2/14/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film brings you into its world and into the lives of its characters in such a way that spendi...
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Movie: Jungle Book 2, The
Release date: 2/14/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You should skip the theatrical release and rent it -- don’t buy it -- when it arrives on video, w...
57 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Darkness Falls
Release date: 1/24/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's just boring.
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Movie: Kangaroo Jack
Release date: 1/17/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a a simple-minded comedy of errors in which a lot of errors are made, but few of them are...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Son, The
Release date: 1/10/2003
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        See if you don't find Olivier Gourmet's performance one of the most compelling and natural of the...
45 other reviews of this movie

Movie: She Gets What She Wants
Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:44 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The humor is sharp and the satirical targets are mercilessly skewered.
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Movie: Good Thief, The
Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:32 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Though the movie is not spectacular, it is effective enough to warrant watching it, and pays off ...
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Movie: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Release date: 12/31/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An entertaining film, if not exactly an insightful one.
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Movie: Max
Release date: 12/27/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is, or even its attitude toward its...
84 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Chicago
Release date: 12/27/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's about time a movie gave us a reason to tap our toes again. Here's to the resurgence of a gra...
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Movie: Catch Me If You Can
Release date: 12/25/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        DiCaprio more than adequately conveys the kid-in-a-candy-store mentality of a teenager who has st...
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Movie: Star Trek: Nemesis
Release date: 12/13/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Should be the final nail in the coffin of this franchise.
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Movie: Maid in Manhattan
Release date: 12/13/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Factory-made romantic comedy without an ounce of creativity or a shred of unpredictability.
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Movie: Adaptation
Release date: 12/6/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The genius of this remarkably clever and funny film is how non-confusing it is to watch.
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Movie: Solaris
Release date: 11/27/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It tells its story in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotte...
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Movie: Extreme Ops
Release date: 11/27/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        These are grossly uncompelling characters, written without regard for believability or intelligen...
58 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
Release date: 11/27/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An excessively gross, dull film ... lacking originality or wit.
81 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Talk to Her
Release date: 11/22/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A rumination on love that becomes more twisted as it goes.
104 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Way Home, The
Release date: 11/15/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Writer/director Jeong-hyang Lee, in only her second feature, establishes a situation rife with ge...
39 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Half Past Dead
Release date: 11/15/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        No, I don't know why Steven Seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action fi...
81 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Release date: 11/15/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Where Chamber of Secrets will be viewed a success is in accurately, and occasionally imaginativel...
195 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Release date: 11/15/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Fans of all types of popular music will find it irreplaceable.
75 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Far From Heaven
Release date: 11/8/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Haynes has tapped into that most tragic of ideas -- forbidden love -- and mined some excellent me...
147 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Far From Heaven
Release date: 11/8/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Haynes has tapped into that most tragic of ideas -- forbidden love -- and mined some excellent me...
147 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 8 Mile
Release date: 11/8/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is a quietude to the film, even though it is punctuated by a lot of music and even more yel...
143 other reviews of this movie

Movie: All or Nothing
Release date: 10/25/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Some of the events are unpleasant, but we are glad to accompany these people, who seem like our f...
68 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Swept Away
Release date: 10/11/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Gone are Ritchie's style and wit. Gone is the mischievous sense of fun that pervaded his other fi...
50 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bloody Sunday
Release date: 10/4/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A dreadful day in Irish history is given passionate, if somewhat flawed, treatment.
78 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Red Dragon
Release date: 10/4/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is, in its own right, a thrilling and compelling film, meeting the dual goals of telling a goo...
136 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Tuxedo, The
Release date: 9/27/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A confused film that aspires to be a superhero flick, screwball comedy and martial arts movie all...
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spirited Away
Release date: 9/20/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An animated film that is among the most delightful, imaginative stories I've seen all year.
115 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Stealing Harvard
Release date: 9/13/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Green ruins what might have otherwise been a reasonably mediocre movie.
95 other reviews of this movie

Movie: City by the Sea
Release date: 9/6/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A well-acted, but one-note film.
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: feardotcom
Release date: 8/30/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It cannot be enjoyed, even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick, primarily because it...
85 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Blood Work
Release date: 8/9/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        We have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting.
48 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 24 Hour Party People
Release date: 8/9/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Fans of that period of music should see the film post-haste; others may enjoy it purely from a fi...
25 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Good Girl, The
Release date: 8/7/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Adequately funny and reasonably well-executed, and nothing more.
114 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Master of Disguise, The
Release date: 8/2/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Rarely has such a talented comedian been so wildly out of touch with what's funny.
43 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Signs
Release date: 8/2/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A creepy good time -- and perhaps a surprisingly emotional one -- will be had by all.
76 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Country Bears, The
Release date: 7/26/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bearable. Barely.
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Men in Black II
Release date: 7/3/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        We watch and think, 'Yeah. So? What else can they do?' It's not that it's dull so much as that it...
153 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mr. Deeds
Release date: 6/28/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An unfunny, careless piece of trash riddled with directorial, editing and acting mistakes.
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Minority Report
Release date: 6/21/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As thought-provoking and visionary as it is flat-out entertaining.
117 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Scooby-Doo
Release date: 6/14/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Only for young children, if them. Their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and ...
116 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bourne Identity, The
Release date: 6/14/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The action scenes are generally pulse-pounding and gritty; the problem is that they don't build t...
146 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Release date: 6/7/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A decent movie, but a terrible adaptation.
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Movie: Sum of All Fears, The
Release date: 5/31/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Thirty years ago, it would have been groundbreaking. Now it's just tired.
134 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Release date: 5/24/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        As simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine. This is a movie you can trust.
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Importance of Being Earnest, The
Release date: 5/22/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has neither the wit nor the timing of the play, though much of the charm has remained intact.
77 other reviews of this movie

Movie: New Guy, The
Release date: 5/10/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Occasionally loud and offensive, but more often, it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma.
68 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spider-Man
Release date: 5/3/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Probably the best superhero ever made. So many deft touches.
157 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Deuces Wild
Release date: 5/3/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I accuse films of being generic and unoriginal on a regular basis, but rarely have I seen a movie...
49 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hollywood Ending
Release date: 5/3/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Allen can do better, and has done better, but perhaps this is as good as he does anymore.
33 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Enigma
Release date: 4/19/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        'Enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable. A waste of good p...
24 other reviews of this movie

Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Release date: 4/19/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of the funniest, most joyous comedies to come along since the Greeks invented comedy.
92 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Murder By Numbers
Release date: 4/19/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It thinks it is original and incisive, when really it's the same old movie-of-the-week.
101 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Scorpion King, The
Release date: 4/19/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An unbelievably stupid film, though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity.
107 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sweetest Thing, The
Release date: 4/12/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is a goulash made of leftovers that weren't good to begin with.
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Changing Lanes
Release date: 4/12/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        That a high-profile movie with big-name actors could inspire such philosophical reflection is imp...
106 other reviews of this movie

Movie: High Crimes
Release date: 4/5/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a lazy, perfunctory movie.
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Movie: Big Trouble
Release date: 4/5/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The pace is quick, the movie is short, the jokes are fast and the timing is sharp.
79 other reviews of this movie

Movie: National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Release date: 4/5/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks, college flicks, or even flicks in gene...
76 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Panic Room
Release date: 3/29/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this year.
126 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Blade II
Release date: 3/22/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It culminates in some pretty amazing fights and plot twists, and you may rest assured that good e...
107 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Time Machine, The
Release date: 3/8/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A few pieces of the film buzz and whir; very little of it actually clicks. The thing just never g...
115 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Release date: 3/1/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An entertaining sex farce.
57 other reviews of this movie

Movie: We Were Soldiers
Release date: 3/1/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Offers no new insight on the matter, nor do its characters exactly spring to life.
56 other reviews of this movie

Movie: We Were Soldiers
Release date: 3/1/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Offers no new insight on the matter, nor do its characters exactly spring to life.
56 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Queen of the Damned
Release date: 2/22/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        ... just a big mess of a movie, full of images and events, but no tension or surprise.
81 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Crossroads
Release date: 2/15/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A non-Britney person might survive a screening with little harm done, except maybe for the last 1...
83 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Big Fat Liar
Release date: 2/8/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A pretty decent kid-pleasing, tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie.
45 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Collateral Damage
Release date: 2/8/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Whether this one makes any money will be the answer to the question of whether Schwarzenegger can...
97 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Slackers
Release date: 2/1/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The simple fact is, I laughed more than not-laughed at the movie -- a fact I'm almost embarrassed...
92 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mothman Prophecies, The
Release date: 1/25/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You may not care about the unresolved issues, because the film gives you such a good case of the ...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Snow Dogs
Release date: 1/18/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For some reason, Disney keeps making really, really crappy live-action films.
59 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sister Helen
Release date: 1/1/2002
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If it weren't 100 percent true, it would be perfectly acceptable as fiction. Real life, it turns ...
10 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Others , The
Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:40 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is some of the giddiest, creepiest fun I've had in a while.
52 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Focus
Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:31 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Put this one in the category of decent material, good cast, and misguided execution.
58 other reviews of this movie

Movie: I Am Sam
Release date: 12/28/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Rather than go the long way around to your emotions -- you know, with sympathetic characters and ...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Gosford Park
Release date: 12/26/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The performances are utterly delightful, from Stephen Fry's inspector to Maggie Smith as a hilari...
46 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Monster's Ball
Release date: 12/26/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Forster is confident enough in his script and actors, as well he should be, and is content to let...
38 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Kate & Leopold
Release date: 12/25/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An amusing diversion while we're waiting for something better to come along.
74 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ali
Release date: 12/25/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        We see a lot of events, and hear a lot of talking, but it never seems to mean anything in terms o...
102 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Majestic, The
Release date: 12/21/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Up until the climax, The Majestic is a perfectly good film, with equal parts humor, whimsy and sw...
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: A Beautiful Mind
Release date: 12/21/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's crisp and well-organized and thoughtful.
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Movie: Vanilla Sky
Release date: 12/14/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's really just a lot of whacked-out psychological mumbo-jumbo.
48 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Royal Tenenbaums, The
Release date: 12/14/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It soars to great comedic heights, but without even breaking a sweat.
122 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Not Another Teen Movie
Release date: 12/14/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        In director Joel Gallen's attempt to spoof the genre, he has merely added another lame entry to i...
71 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Other Side of Heaven, The
Release date: 12/14/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Nothing happens, and it happens to flat characters.
30 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Lantana
Release date: 12/14/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        These are, for the most part, believable and honest characters, though I'm not sure they always b...
72 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ocean's Eleven
Release date: 12/7/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's the kind of movie you really like, but not as much as you want to.
56 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Behind Enemy Lines
Release date: 11/30/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A war movie, and a solid one at that.
111 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Texas Rangers
Release date: 11/30/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It won't win any prizes, but for fans of old-time Westerns, it may be a pleasant-enough diversion...
32 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Out Cold
Release date: 11/21/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you've made a movie in which former TV star Lee Majors ... is the funniest person present, the...
41 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Spy Game
Release date: 11/21/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (5/2)
        A satisfying and entertaining spy movie.
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Movie: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Release date: 11/16/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Here's the long and short of it: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is good, but not great.
39 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Monsters, Inc.
Release date: 11/2/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Pound for pound, no film this year has been as genuinely witty as Monsters, Inc.
117 other reviews of this movie

Movie: On the Line
Release date: 10/26/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is faux-wacky, thoroughly bland and predictable, and possessed of no emotion whatsoever.
16 other reviews of this movie

Movie: K-Pax
Release date: 10/26/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Kevin Spacey, consummate actor that he is, avoids the preachiness that would have resulted if, sa...
92 other reviews of this movie

Movie: From Hell
Release date: 10/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I suspect you'll find the whole thing unsatisfying and the ending unnecessarily grim.
114 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Last Castle, The
Release date: 10/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A movie that makes you want to rally behind it, even though you have a sneaking suspicion that wh...
44 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Mulholland Dr.
Release date: 10/12/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Your friend isn't going to be interested in hearing about your dream, and I can't imagine anyone ...
118 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Ma Soeur!, A
Release date: 10/12/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Few Hollywood child actors could pull off anything close to what Reboux and Mesquida achieve.
33 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Training Day
Release date: 10/5/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Reminds me of the films of the 1970s that were gritty and violent but that also showcased stellar...
105 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hearts in Atlantis
Release date: 9/28/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The acting from Hopkins and young Yelchin is consistently strong.
47 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Don't Say A Word
Release date: 9/28/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's not interesting enough to watch, and not dull enough to walk out of. It prompts a mild state...
42 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hardball
Release date: 9/14/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        By the end ... I fled the theater with ill wishes for everyone involved, including the projection...
63 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Iron Ladies, The
Release date: 9/7/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is still just a basic 'underdog sports team' movie. It's a charming one, but it's nothing sp...
24 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Rock Star
Release date: 9/7/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The life of a rock star is fun, and this movie is fun, too ... up to a point.
93 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Djomeh
Release date: 9/5/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It is a sublime, carefully assembled movie.
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Movie: O
Release date: 8/31/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This is a movie that holds your interest, but doesn't do anything with it.
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Movie: Summer Catch
Release date: 8/24/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For cheap drama, clumsy comedy and weak romances, you've come to the right place.
20 other reviews of this movie

Movie: John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars
Release date: 8/24/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's hard to call this a thriller, since there is nothing thrilling about it.
25 other reviews of this movie

Movie: American Outlaws
Release date: 8/17/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I'm not sure how dumb it was supposed to be, but laughing at it -- if not with it -- is a good en...
26 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Release date: 8/17/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Sluggish, dull and altogether mediocre.
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Movie: Osmosis Jones
Release date: 8/10/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Fortunately, the guts (pardon me) of the story -- i.e., everything animated -- outweigh the paltr...
68 other reviews of this movie

Movie: American Pie 2
Release date: 8/10/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        These are people we don't mind seeing again, and it makes sense to show what happened to them aft...
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Movie: Princess Diaries, The
Release date: 8/3/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Uninspired and forgettable.
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Movie: Original Sin
Release date: 8/3/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A dull, languid film full of unsurprising plot twists and ludicrous soap opera-style melodrama.
62 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Planet of the Apes
Release date: 7/27/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I can't think of a better person to have directed this film than Tim Burton. His touch is sly and...
101 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Bread and Tulips
Release date: 7/27/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A slow-going but very, very sweet movie.
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Movie: Jurassic Park III
Release date: 7/18/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Whatever their goal is, Jurassic Park III is a little jagged and a little harsh. But it's also ra...
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Movie: Jurassic Park III
Release date: 7/18/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Whatever their goal is, Jurassic Park III is a little jagged and a little harsh. But it's also ra...
95 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Legally Blonde
Release date: 7/13/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        With a talented actress like Reese Witherspoon in the lead, it becomes easy to suspend disbelief ...
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Movie: Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within
Release date: 7/11/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Darned if the thing doesn't feel like a Saturday-morning adventure cartoon stretched out to featu...
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Movie: Kiss of the Dragon
Release date: 7/6/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This movie needed something to give it a fresh spin.
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Movie: Scary Movie 2
Release date: 7/4/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There are seven writers credited for Scary Movie 2. That's approximately two writers per laugh.
72 other reviews of this movie

Movie: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Release date: 6/29/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A sad, strangely fascinating story that holds a viewer's interest but mostly leaves his emotions ...
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Movie: Princess and the Warrior, The
Release date: 6/22/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Potente and Furmann give fine performances in their respective tortured roles.
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Movie: Dr. Dolittle 2
Release date: 6/22/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Pretty harmless, family-friendly and laugh-out-loud funny.
39 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Fast and the Furious, The
Release date: 6/22/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a loud, pointless movie, but it performs its loud pointlessness pretty well.
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Atlantis: the Lost Empire
Release date: 6/15/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        When it moves, the film is wildly exciting, recalling the great adventure films of the past.
76 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Anniversary Party, The
Release date: 6/8/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Its excellent cast is better than the overall product, but it's an entertaining party nonetheless...
72 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Swordfish
Release date: 6/8/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Uses ultra-modern trappings but fills them with time-worn cliches.
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Movie: Animal, The
Release date: 6/1/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's altogether far funnier than it should be.
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Movie: What's The Worst That Could Happen?
Release date: 6/1/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A dishonest comedy in which far too many of the jokes are based on faulty premises.
34 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Pearl Harbor
Release date: 5/25/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        When it's over, the positive feelings have outweighed the negative ones, and Pearl Harbor will go...
107 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Road Home, The
Release date: 5/25/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An old-fashioned and heartfelt film.
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Movie: Angel Eyes
Release date: 5/18/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A movie with two main characters who are so dour all the time is bound to make the audience feel ...
86 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Moulin Rouge
Release date: 5/18/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A movie that, while incredibly strange and diverse, actually has some of the clearest vision of a...
118 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Shrek
Release date: 5/16/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        You may not want young, impressionable kids seeing it and reveling in the gross stuff, but everyo...
103 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Under the Sand
Release date: 5/4/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The acting is tremendous.
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Movie: Mummy Returns, The
Release date: 5/4/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is almost unceasing loudness, numerous explosions, a lot of action and mayhem. But it all s...
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Movie: Driven
Release date: 4/27/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Enjoy those racing scenes, and take a nap the rest of the time.
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Movie: Forsaken, The
Release date: 4/27/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Strangely unenergetic.
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Movie: With A Friend Like Harry
Release date: 4/20/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A low-boiling suspense film that is made all the more creepy by masquerading as an 'unwelcome gue...
41 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Freddy Got Fingered
Release date: 4/20/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Dull, insipid, horrific, uninspired, painful, ill-conceived, amateurish, embarrassing, foolish, m...
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Movie: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Release date: 4/20/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's all harmless, relatively entertaining stuff.
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Movie: Luzhin Defence, The
Release date: 4/20/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is a letdown, alas, almost squandering all the fine acting and lovely scenery.
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Movie: Joe Dirt
Release date: 4/11/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Gets old fast.
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Movie: Along Came A Spider
Release date: 4/6/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The plot twists come in the final 30 minutes, and while they are entertaining, they're also ludic...
91 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Amores Perros
Release date: 3/30/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It has an underlying warmth that elevates it to greatness.
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Movie: Say It Isn't So
Release date: 3/23/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Tastelessness is one thing; we've learned to deal with it and even enjoy it at times. Unfunny tas...
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Movie: Enemy At the Gates
Release date: 3/16/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Law's performance is powerful, though Harris's steely-eyed (but friendly-looking) glare makes him...
28 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 15 Minutes
Release date: 3/9/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An ugly, depraved movie that is not so much an indictment of American celebrity culture as it is ...
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Movie: See Spot Run
Release date: 3/2/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Leaving aside the constant crudeness, this is a bad movie anyway.
32 other reviews of this movie

Movie: 3,000 Miles to Graceland
Release date: 2/23/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The longer the film gets, the less sense it makes.
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Movie: Monkeybone
Release date: 2/23/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Perhaps Selick was so intent on getting the crazy stuff right, he neglected to look at the mundan...
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Movie: Down to Earth
Release date: 2/16/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For all his skill as a stand-up, Chris Rock is most assuredly not an actor just yet, and certainl...
63 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Sweet November
Release date: 2/16/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I hate to beat a dead horse here, but Keanu Reeves can't act.
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Movie: Saving Silverman
Release date: 2/9/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Once you accept that it's all for laughs and not grounded in reality, it truly is very funny.
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Movie: Head Over Heels
Release date: 2/2/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's bad. Apocalyptically bad. It's actually worse than I thought it would be, and I thought it w...
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Movie: Valentine
Release date: 2/2/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Can a film being released in 2001 really expect to be taken seriously when its killer wears a mas...
57 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Memento
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Fantastically taut, crafty and utterly original.
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Movie: Chopper
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There's not nearly enough actual intrigue or suspense to maintain a feature film.
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Movie: Jump Tomorrow
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The whole affair is fun and light, to be sure; so fun and light it almost floats away.
44 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Verbally witty and musically appealing.
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Movie: Caveman's Valentine, The
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A satisfying bit of eeriness.
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Movie: Series 7
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of the most devastating satires of American pop culture ever conceived.
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Movie: Beautiful Creatures
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Has a violent, wacko energy that keeps it alive.
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Movie: In the Bedroom
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Spacek and Wilkinson are dazzling, utterly convincing. You might as well be watching a documentar...
108 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Dogtown and Z-Boys
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A fine, interesting documentary.
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Movie: Donnie Darko
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A mish-mash of disparate, non-cohesive ideas, the sort of film that thinks it's brilliant just be...
41 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Waking Life
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An unusual and intriguing film full of philosophy and social theories.
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Movie: All the Pretty Horses
Release date: 12/25/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Thornton's directorial style is one of careful, loving devotion.
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Movie: House of Mirth, The
Release date: 12/22/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        So mannered and discreet that it's dull.
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Movie: Space Cowboys
Release date: 12/22/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is much potential with the cast.
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Movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Release date: 12/22/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie has taken us for such a joyful wild goose chase that we're inclined to believe anything...
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Movie: Emperor's New Groove, The
Release date: 12/15/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Will you be rewatching this again and again a decade from now? Unlikely. But will you laugh quite...
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Movie: What Women Want
Release date: 12/15/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film has its flaws, but darned if you don't like [Gibson] and it anyway.
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Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Release date: 12/15/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Even without the exhilarating action sequences, Michelle Yeoh's powerful, stoic performance is a ...
38 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Unbreakable
Release date: 11/22/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Darkly exhilarating.
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Movie: Bounce
Release date: 11/17/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A moody, plodding film.
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Movie: Men of Honor
Release date: 11/10/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A second-rate melodrama.
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Movie: You Can Count on Me
Release date: 11/10/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A smart movie with a lot of love behind it.
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Movie: Little Nicky
Release date: 11/10/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's nearly impossible to even tolerate the title character, let alone like him, with Sandler pla...
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Movie: Charlie's Angels
Release date: 11/3/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        At last, a movie based on a TV show that actually gets things right.
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Movie: Room for Romeo Brass, A
Release date: 10/27/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Charms and entertains with its lovable characters and occasional bursts of unforeseen suspense.
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Movie: Little Vampire, The
Release date: 10/27/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A surprisingly enjoyable film that its young target audience will love, while their parents will ...
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Movie: Legend of Drunken Master, The
Release date: 10/20/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        While the plot does get in the way of what viewers are really after, there's enough of the fun st...
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Movie: Pay It Forward
Release date: 10/20/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Spacey and Osment can wrench a few tears out of me anytime they want. Being led by the nose was n...
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Movie: Contender, The
Release date: 10/13/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An intelligent, thought-provoking, genuinely thrilling potboiler of a movie.
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Movie: Dr. T And The Women
Release date: 10/13/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        There is never anything in the film to make you want to keep watching it. Not one thing about it ...
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Movie: Digimon: the Movie
Release date: 10/6/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Digimon isn't deserving of much, as it's still not a very good movie. But at least it's not as ba...
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Movie: Meet the Parents
Release date: 10/6/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Stiller is brilliant.
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Movie: Remember the Titans
Release date: 9/29/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A cheerfully uplifting triumph, that rare film that conveys emotion without sentimentality, and w...
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Movie: Best in Show
Release date: 9/29/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Everyone will find it extremely entertaining, often hilarious -- but ultimately not nearly as res...
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Movie: Urban Legends: Final Cut
Release date: 9/22/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It starts bad, is bad in the middle, has some more badness near the end, and then erupts into a g...
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Movie: Nurse Betty
Release date: 9/8/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Its originality and sheer wacked-out likability compensate for its weaknesses in pacing.
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Movie: Bring It On
Release date: 8/25/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Full of snarky (but not terribly mean-spirited) dialogue, the film is a triumph for first-time sc...
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Movie: Bless the Child
Release date: 8/11/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        For a film about the ultimate triumph of Good over Evil, Bless the Child sure is bleak and moody.
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Movie: Titan A.E.
Release date: 6/16/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The plot contains not one original idea.
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Movie: Battlefield Earth
Release date: 5/12/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This movie could not be stupider.
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Movie: Gladiator
Release date: 5/5/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Great performances from Crowe and Phoenix.
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Movie: Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, The
Release date: 4/28/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Nothing new or clever is employed in Viva Rock Vegas.
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Movie: U-571
Release date: 4/21/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A taut, exciting action film with surprising depth.
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Movie: American Psycho
Release date: 4/14/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Bale is outstanding as Bateman.
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Movie: Rules of Engagement
Release date: 4/7/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This film was born without an ending. Instead, it just sort of stops going, in an extremely disap...
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Movie: Return to Me
Release date: 4/7/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film is largely entertaining, often sweet, occasionally even moving.
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Movie: Road to El Dorado, The
Release date: 3/31/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's animated fluff, separated from the eye-candy you see on the Cartoon Network only in its leng...
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Movie: High Fidelity
Release date: 3/31/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        So cool that it doesn't even seem to be trying.
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Movie: Next Best Thing, The
Release date: 3/3/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Zero chemistry, zero tension, zero laughs, zero everything.
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Movie: Down to You
Release date: 1/21/2000
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Call me old-fashioned, but I still think movies should have plots.
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Movie: Angela's Ashes
Release date: 12/25/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I'm not sorry I saw it, but I wouldn't see it again.
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Movie: Galaxy Quest
Release date: 12/25/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        With dry, understated wit and an attitude that is giddy without being sophomoric, Galaxy Quest su...
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Movie: Any Given Sunday
Release date: 12/22/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I could hardly take my eyes off the screen. It's unflinchingly real, but explosively entertaining...
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Movie: Magnolia
Release date: 12/17/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Unfortunately, only a few of the stories really do intersect.
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Movie: All About My Mother
Release date: 11/19/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Succeeds in a number of gentle, gratifying ways.
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Movie: Mansfield Park
Release date: 11/17/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Mansfield Park is not boring, exactly...Unfortunately, the middle, while remaining upbeat, never ...
52 other reviews of this movie

Movie: Insider, The
Release date: 11/5/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        One of the most engrossing, interesting movies of the year.
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Movie: Show Me Love
Release date: 10/15/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Liljeberg is a talented young actress, perceptively playing all of Agnes's moods.
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Movie: Three Kings
Release date: 10/1/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Kind of cynical, really -- but maybe that's what a '90s film about a '90s war should be.
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Movie: Simon Sez
Release date: 9/24/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If you must watch it -- and I shudder to imagine the circumstances under which one must -- watch ...
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Movie: American Beauty
Release date: 9/15/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Compelling to watch, full of black humor, evocative imagery and wrenching sadness.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Release date: 5/19/1999
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Let the movie speak to the child inside you -- the child that is still optimistic and that still ...
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Movie: Batman & Robin
Release date: 12/31/1997 11:01:27 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        I'm not going to beat around the bush here. This is a bad movie.
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Movie: Men in Black
Release date: 7/2/1997
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The movie is fun. It's hard not to like it, because Smith and Jones have so much charm and charis...
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Movie: Lost World: Jurassic Park, The
Release date: 5/23/1997
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        This film works for those interested in suspenseful bone-crunching and cool computer generated ca...
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Movie: Mortal Kombat
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:38 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        If the movie Mortal Kombat were a character in a Mortal Kombat video game, its special maneuver w...
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Movie: Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:35 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        The film suffers from bad continuity, sloppy editing, bland acting, ridiculous plot developments ...
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Movie: Cop and A Half
Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:28 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It was made either by people who were never children, or who have forgotten what it was like to b...
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Movie: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Release date: 12/31/1989 11:01:33 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        'Halloween 5: The Failure of Michael Myers' would be more accurate, though admittedly not as appe...
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Movie: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Release date: 1/1/1988
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        While Part 4 is better than Part 3, it is still worse than, say, being bitten in the retina by fi...
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Movie: Halloween II
Release date: 12/31/1981 11:01:33 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's a little cheap to have a sequel that merely completes the story you SHOULD have told in Part...
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Movie: Friday the 13th Part 2
Release date: 12/31/1981 11:01:31 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        A little better than its predecessor, but that's not saying much.
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Movie: Kramer vs. Kramer
Release date: 12/21/1979 11:01:36 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        Hoffman excels at being an Everyman, a modern professional whose life is rearranged by a child, a...
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Movie: Halloween
Release date: 10/25/1978
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        It's hard to get behind a main character who's so unexciting. But maybe Michael Myers is the real...
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Movie: Hard Candy
Release date: 12/31/1976 11:01:33 PM
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (7/0)
        An intense, well-acted film that deals with its alarming subject matter in an audacious way.
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Movie: Eve and the Fire Horse
Release date: 7/6/2007
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (3/4) No reference
        A remarkably good-natured and gentle film about spirituality's place in a family's life.
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Movie: Mrs. Henderson Presents
Release date: 12/9/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (3/4) No reference
        A humorous, daft little film about a humorous, daft little lady.
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Movie: Three...Extremes
Release date: 10/28/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (3/4) No reference
        So you'd like to see work from a few Asian horror directors, but don't have time to watch three s...
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Movie: Good Night, And Good Luck
Release date: 10/7/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (3/4) No reference
        A fantastically compact little film, with barely an extraneous moment.
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Movie: Dead and Breakfast
Release date: 8/5/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (3/4) No reference
        It takes more than a singing narrator and an unusual finale to set you apart from the dozens of o...
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Movie: Bride and Prejudice
Release date: 2/11/2005
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (4/3) No reference
        If the movie were always as footloose and creative as it is during the musical numbers, it would ...
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Movie: Shall We Dance?
Release date: 10/15/2004
Review by Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com: (3/4) No reference
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