419 Reviews by Mark Palermo


	419 Reviews by Mark Palermo 419 Reviews by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Movie: 3:10 to Yuma Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) 3:10 to Yuma's sanitized view is flatly middlebrow - even the line readings are delivered to make... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Halloween Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Once it steps into a remake of the Carpenter film in its second half, it loses its seriousness. 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Balls of Fury Release date: 8/29/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Balls of Fury is intended as a spoof of Enter the Dragon. That's important to know before walking... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Rod Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Through Hot Rod's manic weirdness, its take on young suburban males is completely authentic. It's... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Captivity Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The irony is that Captivity is ABOUT the things it's hated for - a culture that views women as ob... 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Release date: 7/11/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's accomplished, but par for the course: A bloated, basically watchable light show. 179 other reviews of this movie Movie: License to Wed Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Sadie (Mandy Moore) and Ben (John Krasinski) are getting married (because they met at the start o... 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Transformers Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Indulging in the playground of technology at his disposal, Bay makes Transformers' hugeness perso... 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sicko Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) No other major filmmaker patronizes his audience this much. 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ratatouille Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a variation of Cyrano De Bergerac with its own comic sensibility. 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evening Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Evening's take on defining life choices reveals its manic depressive nature. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Live Free or Die Hard Release date: 6/27/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It finds the defining spirit of these films and maintains it about half the time. 166 other reviews of this movie Movie: 1408 Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's when the momentum remains inescapable that it's really on. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It takes no risks, so it leads nowhere. 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nancy Drew Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Relocating with her single father to the land of Hollywood wealth, Nancy Drew just plays as a dev... 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ocean's Thirteen Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's the best looking of the bunch. For a movie that's all posteur, that counts for a lot. 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gracie Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The movie treats Gracie as a cause rather than an impassioned athlete. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Brooks Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Earl Brooks is presented as an admirable killer, because he's an upperclass, educated white man. 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Knocked Up Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Its best and worst attribute is how nice it is. 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It features good story and visual concepts in its first 75 minutes, before opting for the usual b... 165 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bug Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Friedkin gets political in exposing the value of dependence for people who believe they can depen... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shrek the Third Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The sequel hasn't been imagined as the next level with which to bring Shrek. It's just more of th... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Severance Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The sadistic silliness is given a heavy-hand. 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: 28 Weeks Later Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It falls prey to the usual pessimism-as-realism crutch (most notable in its silly final 10 second... 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lucky You Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a small film, but a rewarding one. 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man 3 Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It would be more suited as a Fantastic Four sequel. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paris je t'aime Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Even the downbeat segments are optimistic, and that's what unifies them. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Fuzz Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Hot Fuzz is more comfortable as a play on action films than it is as social satire. 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vacancy Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Though Vacancy plays as gruesome horror in its own right, it's also director Nimrod Antal's criti... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Land of Women Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The "young man's post-traumatic discovery of life's value through quirky people tale" is an obscu... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Fuzz Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Hot Fuzz is more comfortable as a play on action films than it is as social satire. 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vacancy Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Though Vacancy plays as gruesome horror in its own right, it's also director Nimrod Antal's criti... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fracture Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Director Gregory Hoblit's sterile blue visuals are par for the lack of dramatic impact. 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Land of Women Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The "young man's post-traumatic discovery of life's value through quirky people tale" is an obscu... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Disturbia Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It hasn't the openness to find a perspective on teenage life. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfect Stranger Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a movie that exists to showcase an actor more than it exists to be a movie. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Grindhouse Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) What we're mainly getting is two big directors with expensive movies pretending they're niche dir... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reaping, The Release date: 4/5/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Between effects-shots is a whole movie of people discussing how fascinating things are. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Are We Done Yet? Release date: 4/4/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The slapstick isn't sadistic. But that doesn't make this sequel's propensity of scenes where anim... 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lookout, The Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) That The Lookout isn't stronger as a whole is due to its effort to fit a character piece into thr... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Meet the Robinsons Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) This shrine to Disney is really the world's most overstuffed Hanna-Barbera cartoon, right down to... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blades of Glory Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The comedy is disposable because Ferrell and Heder don't bother being recognizably human. 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reign Over Me Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Binder's strength is in connecting characters to the world and then connecting them to each other... 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: TMNT Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The striking use of image and motion allows each of its action sequences to leave an impression. ... 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Mimzy, The Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It dumbs down sci fi clich� in hopes of reaching a child audience, creating a false sense of wond... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hills Have Eyes 2, The Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Despite having almost as much ick-content as the last film, The Hills Have Eyes 2 hasn't the skil... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dead Silence Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Dead Silence is boring as often as it is insane. For a movie about a dead old woman who doesn't c... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Think I Love My Wife Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Rock's observations seem authentic. The problem is they aren't especially funny. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: 300 Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The movie finds its unique look in replicating the source's water colour images within a mostly l... 188 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Hogs Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's City Slickers with horses and cattle replaced by motorcycles and a lot of gay jokes. The cel... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Zodiac Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Missing the operatic sense of doom that helped characterize 1995's Seven, Zodiac's effort to avoi... 169 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Snake Moan Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The collision of ideals is also where Black Snake Moan shines as a statement on the value of the ... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Zodiac Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Missing the operatic sense of doom that helped characterize 1995's Seven, Zodiac's effort to avoi... 169 other reviews of this movie Movie: Astronaut Farmer, The Release date: 2/23/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It earns emotion because Farmer's arguments with the F.A.A. and his own wife appeal to basic hope... 115 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amazing Grace Release date: 2/23/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Amazing Grace's examination of men in power moved to change risks ridicule and righteousness for ... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ghost Rider Release date: 2/16/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) When Blaze explains that he may not have a soul but he still has spirit, it's a little like sayin... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls Release date: 2/14/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Perry's habit of reducing drama to verbal sermons is the main thing keeping his movies within the... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lives of Others Release date: 2/9/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Von Donnersmarck moves certain sequences too slowly, but matches his tightest suspense with human... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hannibal Rising Release date: 2/9/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) To stay invested in the dulldrum vigilantism of Hannibal Rising requires siding with a psychopath... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Because I Said So Release date: 2/2/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) There's not a scene in its ode to dating-quota acceptability and capitalist victory that isn't aw... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Messengers, The Release date: 2/2/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Though The Messengers stands above its ilk, the filmmakers work with too limited a tone, and rest... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catch and Release Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) That Catch and Release doesn't amount to much is because it treads lightly on big emotions. 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Epic Movie Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Next to Epic Movie and Date Movie, the Scary Movies are French cuisine. 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Smokin' Aces Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The movie's shrill posturing precludes fun. It's combo heartless and brainless. 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Smokin' Aces Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The movie's shrill posturing precludes fun. It's combo heartless and brainless. 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stomp the Yard Release date: 1/12/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The promising beginning goes unrealized. 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happily N'Ever After Release date: 1/5/2007 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Happily N'Ever After is a cutting edge contraction for Happily Not Ever After. It's a shame other... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pan's Labyrinth Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Del Toro parallels the horror of two civilizations (one real, one imagined, each with their own m... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Miss Potter Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's so charming that it threatens to reduce Beatrix Potter to a series of fairy tale virtues. Bu... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Release date: 12/27/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Plenty of high profile movies are about the tormented lives of artists. Perfume: The Story of a M... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Release date: 12/27/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Plenty of high profile movies are about the tormented lives of artists. Perfume: The Story of a M... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Christmas Release date: 12/25/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Lacey Chabert are pretty, but ... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Curse of the Golden Flower Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Theatrical drama becomes largescale cinema. It's a spectacular take on family ties that bind so t... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Shepherd, The Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) At nearly three hours, the reach is so vast the movie never finds its shape. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Letters From Iwo Jima Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Letters From Iwo Jima is less interesting as the counter-perspective to last year's Flags of Our ... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rocky Balboa Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Stallone is so well-meaning with this project, he keeps an average movie extremely likable. 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Painted Veil, The Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The marital problems played out by Naomi Watts and Edward Norton are of trivial concern when set ... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good German, The Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's an achievement so hermetic it hardly bothers to be a movie. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Arthur and the Invisibles Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Mess that it is, it carries a distinctive tone and visual effort. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unaccompanied Minors Release date: 12/8/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The movie keeps on its toes from the cast's enthusiasm. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The camaraderie that Penelope Spheeris sharpened in the first Wayne's World is missing. So is the... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Deja Vu Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's delivered with an assured pacing and discovery where the story is still revealing itself aft... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: For Your Consideration Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The Hollywood machine is so thoroughly documented in other movies, the lampooning gets stuck in a... 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happy Feet Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) By not being afraid of delivering an experience, its impact and enjoyability are unmeasured among... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Return, The Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) An entirely internalized portrait of a character without a clear interior. 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stranger Than Fiction Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The progress Harold makes in this unconventional romance is the peak of Stranger than Fiction. 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Year, A Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Every Scott movie has worthwhile visual dazzle, but this is what happens when Hollywood giants le... 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 Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Cohen stages his gags with a fearlessness where viewer-discomfort is part of the thrill. 170 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flushed Away Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's infused with a freewheeling energy - helpful given the story's been-there-done-that vibe. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Babel Release date: 10/27/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Through it all is the motif of children at prey in a social order that's ready to destroy them. 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flags of Our Fathers Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's as though Eastwood expects audiences to be stunned at his insight that the truth is more mul... 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: Running With Scissors Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The excruciating display of bohemian spoils wears the word "delightful" in quotation marks, with ... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man of the Year Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Eschewing personality, it mistakes pandering for insight. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Infamous Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The triad of performances by Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock and Daniel Craig keep it on its feet, but... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Departed, The Release date: 10/6/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Scorsese's treatise on honour and trust has a sprawl that's at once epic and cohesive. 189 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Children Release date: 10/6/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Little Children's stone-cold suburbia reaches for Kubrick, but is also half Spielberg. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Queen, The Release date: 9/30/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) It's all strongly performed, and smartly assembled in its scene-to-scene progression, despite Fre... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last King of Scotland, The Release date: 9/27/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a deconstruction of Idi Amin's persona, played with such dedication by Whitaker the surround... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Science of Sleep, The Release date: 9/22/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The Science of Sleep is Gondry's loosest, most confident movie journey into the imaginative mind. 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Dahlia, The Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It meticulously resembles a 60 year-old Hollywood artifact, but with a contemporary cynicism. 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wicker Man, The Release date: 9/1/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a troubled strangeness - the uncommon sight of a literate studio film extolling messages mos... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Quiet, The Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The fatalistic woe becomes an indie film mockery. It's truly adolescent. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pulse Release date: 8/11/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Boring youth movies are the result of boring youth characters. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: World Trade Center Release date: 8/9/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's 9/11 ingeniously structured as the basis of a Beckett play. 215 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Miss Sunshine Release date: 7/26/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It works better than most movies with a quirky Sundance pedigree, because the filmmakers aren't ... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster House Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Maintaining macabre spirit, Monster House is a happy horror film. 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: You, Me and Dupree Release date: 7/14/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) You, Me and Dupree doesn't risk failure, so it amounts to nothing. 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Man Release date: 7/14/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) There's a degree of social comedy in White Chicks' black cops posing as wax mannequin exaggeratio... 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Release date: 7/7/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Verbinski's pacing of action appears to use every available take of cannons firing and pirates be... 186 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Involvement with Andy's pursuit requires numb identification with her desire to assimilate - sell... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superman Returns Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) One of the few satisfying event films so far this summer. 258 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superman Returns Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) One of the few satisfying event films so far this summer. 258 other reviews of this movie Movie: Click Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Sandler goes through a Scrooge story where he learns to step beyond contemporary arrogance - the ... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The third entry in the Fast and the Furious franchise burrows culture shock in dishonesty. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Rather than deepen the group dynamic, Ratner's movie is just overcrowded. 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: See No Evil Release date: 5/19/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's deliberate exploitation, but not clever enough to be much fun. 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mission: Impossible III Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It gets the job done, only without the added flourish and precision of what De Palma brought prev... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Silent Hill Release date: 4/21/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Without gristle on it, and disturbance behind it, there's little to invest in. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inside Man Release date: 3/24/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The dog-eat-dog hustle is an interesting backbone for Lee, but the movie is too understated for i... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: She's the Man Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The script is too busy trumpeting gender divide stereotypes to give Bynes' character Viola a chan... 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: V for Vendetta Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) To put it Wachowski style: Saying it shouldn't be read as a political film is to say that it does... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hills Have Eyes, The Release date: 3/10/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Everything great horror used to be: Disturbing, outrageous, subtextual, and (don't run from it) m... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dave Chappelle's Block Party Release date: 3/3/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Block Party captures a communal gathering with an honesty that makes what could be a dull lack of... 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tsotsi Release date: 2/24/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) As the movie doesn't shy away from much real feeling, its shortcuts can be forgiven. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Date Movie Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) There's no level of dumb a person can be that's too stupid for Date Movie. 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Destination 3 Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's disturbing by not being disturbing at all. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Travellers & Magicians Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The exotic landscapes combine with subtle realizations for a moving human work. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Match Point Release date: 12/28/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a classy, enjoyable, sometimes uncomfortable working of the writer/director's neuroses. But ... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wolf Creek Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Once you wade through a deathly long setup, it delivers the cinematic equivalent of watching a pu... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: New World, The Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's the discovery of a new world conveyed through a filmmaker's distinctive way of seeing. Open ... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Family Stone, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) In a time when even movie reviews are quick to qualify everything by perceived left or right lean... 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Producers, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) When it works (which is more than half the time), it's because the source material is funny and f... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Kong Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Fancy outweighs the ferocious, but the film's also brazen enough to be unmissable. 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It has to keep reminding us how tragic it is. 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brokeback Mountain Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a nice movie when it needs to be an impassioned one. 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Mix Release date: 11/23/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) People richer than you get paid to come up with this stuff. 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saw II Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Real porn is more dignified than this. 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Doom Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It�s a loyal screen version of the game. 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And why do they all preach that being differe... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pretty Persuasion Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) The very dark comedy is about the crossing point of righteousness and exploitation. 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Flowers Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Jarmusch isn�t blessed with as rounded a social collision as Mystery Train and Night on Earth. 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But it�s full of good elements, and it never made me furious. 161 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Rejects, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The film ups the stakes on armchair support of underdogs vs. the system, asking, �NOW how much do... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The result isn�t dark. It�s cheerily unsettling in a way that only leftfield satirists like Burto... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The result isn�t dark. 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to Miller, the devotion also makes Sin City somewh... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guess Who Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) None of this addresses true familial concerns about interracial relationships. 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ring Two, The Release date: 3/18/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Ring Two goes far enough into dementia that (if you can stick with it that long), you may wish it... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Upside of Anger, The Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Too much of The Upside of Anger is informed by unquestioned social mores. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Robots Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The subject of robots is reduced to a cute story rather than being motivated by a substantial the... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: 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It�s the middle hour that�s a drag. 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Village, The Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Shyamalan wants his audience as brainwashed to the truth as his characters, but as the final twis... 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: She Hate Me Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Tighter focus would have incited the fury that She Hate Me�s ambition demands. It�s left saying t... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garden State Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Braff views these people sincerely. More importantly, he locates their humanity. 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catwoman Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Halle Berry is doing herself no favours with a screenplay so routine it seems to be trying to go ... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Supremacy, The Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) [Although] less intriguing than it is skillful, the follow-up to the 2002 hit delivers its chara... 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: I, Robot Release date: 7/16/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) I, Robot is an enthralling bit of genre fiction; overcoming an uncertainty of focus with a handfu... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Uncompromising but never hateful, Some Kind of Monster is a very good movie and, within its own s... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Arthur Release date: 7/7/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Seeking realism, director Antoine Fuqua conforms the Arthur legend. He makes it boring. 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: De-Lovely Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Winkler�s technique is to proceed a scene of Porter experiencing something with a scene of a song... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man 2 Release date: 6/30/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) This isn�t just great filmmaking, it�s great filmgoing. 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminal, The Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The Terminal is a surefooted fable about what connects us as humans. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chronicles of Riddick, The Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Ambitious, sprawling, uninhibitedly goofy and almost great, [it's] a love-it or hate-it affair, m... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stepford Wives, The Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Director Frank Oz�s starstudded quirk-machine is a distastefully simpleminded view of gender rela... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Napoleon Dynamite Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The spite is evident: the movie is meant to appeal to less-extreme dorks than Napoleon so they ca... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Van Helsing Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The movie�s too imaginatively crafted to be boring, and too conceptually insane to be awful. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: New York Minute Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The girls learn the value of sisterhood during an afternoon full of freaky encounters with other ... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mean Girls Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) High school social hierarchy gets a bright and funny treatment. 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: 13 Going On 30 Release date: 4/23/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) [It's] observant of the distance between children and adults, and has radiant work from Garner an... 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whole Ten Yards, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Disoriented by characters always shooting and yelling at him, Chandler spends the film tripping o... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl Next Door, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) [It] captures contemporary teenage life with an observance rarely seen in movies, but its directo... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alamo, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) When it feels like its winding to a close, [director] Hancock inserts a five minute scene of Denn... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Johnson Family Vacation Release date: 4/7/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It was probably a sign that I was in for a rough time when I first checked my watch and discovere... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Home on the Range Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Finding a creative pleasure freed from musical constraints, Home on the Range is a definite curio... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hellboy Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Set within Del Toro�s typical world of yellow gothic decay, the monsters are gruesome, the spirit... 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ladykillers, The Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The Coens appropriate their caricatures to serve a greater payoff: The Ladykillers is devised as 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you by telling them you went to a... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Peter Pan Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Peter Pan is so loaded with visual wonder that even when aspects of it fall short, it�s gorgeous ... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Peter Pan Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Peter Pan is so loaded with visual wonder that even when aspects of it fall short, it�s gorgeous ... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cold Mountain Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Even for a movie that works in pieces, all three leads are miscast. 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Don't Cost a Thing Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) It isn�t entertaining enough to get away with its minimal contributions to familiar material. 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: 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(Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The latest in this popular spoof franchise is funnier than Scary Movie 2 (which means I came clos... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beyond Borders Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Affecting moments appear sporadically in Beyond Borders, but they can�t amend for the movie�s lac... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The makers of this new version of Tobe Hooper�s 1974 drive-in classic may revere the original, bu... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1 Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Cinematically exhilerating... 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cinema, Goldmember only functions as a ... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: K-19: The Widowmaker Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Bigelow creates a sombre, claustrophobic atmosphere that doesn't let the suspense play as gleeful... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Legged Freaks Release date: 7/17/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It knows the cliches of B movies, but not the intentions. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Halloween: Resurrection Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) An unsatisfying hybrid of Blair Witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare, where the most conservati... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Deeds Release date: 6/28/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Nothing in it adds up logistically or comedically. It appears to have been photographed by volunt... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Juwanna Mann Release date: 6/21/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote tim... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Minority Report Release date: 6/21/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Wraps a detective thriller and a paranoid Orwellian future into a metaphor for the submissive act... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scooby-Doo Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It'll babysit your kids for 90 minutes, but cruelly reveals that the secret behind the nostalgia ... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Identity, The Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The Paris locations are as central a flavour here as they've been in any espionage film since 196... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Release date: 6/7/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It doesn't help that the script considers elderly characters swearing and discussing alcoholism t... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sum of All Fears, The Release date: 5/31/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The exposition-heavy screenplay favours deathly dialogue scenes over actually showing us action u... 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: Insomnia Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Insomnia is a good movie that's falsely convinced it's a great one. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: About a Boy Release date: 5/17/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) About A Boy is so smart in execution and tone that its abhorrent subject matter becomes irrelevan... 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Release date: 5/16/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's the breakdown of genre influences that expresses Clones' melodrama in grandiose, exciting te... 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: New Guy, The Release date: 5/10/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war, let alone conscious o... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Always striking the right balance of whimsy, peril, and real-world angst that's fueled Stan Lee a... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jason X Release date: 4/26/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) This newest puritan-pukefest is as joyless as they come...you can count each shock-moment down to... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scorpion King, The Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Maybe [Hu and The Rock's] next film showcase will amount to something more than a throwaway episo... 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweetest Thing, The Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Fundamentally ugly in its supposition of normalcy in its uncreative, sex-starved protagonists. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Changing Lanes Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Shamelessly preachy, but so slickly made that it works despite itself. 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: High Crimes Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a serviceable courtroom mystery, geared for unadventurous Saturday night crowds who know exa... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Trouble Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Nothing in Big Trouble occurs for any reason other than to appease director Barry Sonnenfeld's ye... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Lampoon's Van Wilder Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) What more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from juni... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Panic Room Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) An uneven mainstreaming of Hitchcock and De Palma, Panic Room's thrills are in the right place, b... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blade II Release date: 3/22/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Del Toro balances action and atmosphere masterfully -- it's a better video game movie than Reside... 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Age Release date: 3/15/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Far from the over-polished sheen of recent CGI features... the [animation's] basic line-structure... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Time Machine, The Release date: 3/8/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) A catatonic B-schlock-Indiana Jones-video game (trust me, the result is less interesting than it ... 115 other reviews of this movie Movie: Queen of the Damned Release date: 2/22/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's a soundtrack in search of a movie. 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: John Q. Release date: 2/15/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) John Q's agitprop requires audiences who think art is worthy if it affirms their moral beliefs. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crossroads Release date: 2/15/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) A cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains...Crossroad... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Collateral Damage Release date: 2/8/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) It's the colourful supporting performances that help Arnold keep face through this enjoyable, if ... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Slackers Release date: 2/1/2002 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Its effect could appeal only to hardcore masochists: you pay it $9.50 and it spends the next two-... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Hawk Down Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Ridley Scott's look at combat finds a simple, potent approach � it portrays Earth-bound hell as b... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Am Sam Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) A supremely well-acted TV movie. But, like a lot of microwaveable insta-films, it has a capacity ... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ali Release date: 12/25/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) A clothesline rundown of Muhammed Ali's life...so preoccupied with realism, it neglects to have a... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: A Beautiful Mind Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Until the unbearably sappy final minutes, the film moves at an absorbing pace and -- in the rares... 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Not Another Teen Movie Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Not Another Teen Movie is a little like watching Christina Aguilera make fun of Britney Spears. 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Vanilla Sky Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Its biggest misstep is the talky, explanatory conclusion, which leaves attentive viewers with lit... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kandahar Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Although a surreal darkness pervades several passages of Kandahar, through the misfortune of its ... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kandahar Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Although a surreal darkness pervades several passages of Kandahar, through the misfortune of its ... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Behind Enemy Lines Release date: 11/30/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The whole endeavor is wound up in heroic pontificating that renders it boring and cornily pretent... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spy Game Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Crisply photographed and relentlessly compelling. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amelie Release date: 11/2/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Amelie is both brave and wise enough to consider happiness an emotion worthy of artistic taste. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Y Tu Mama Tambien Release date: 10/17/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) Whatever room might have been opened for introspection is vanquished by intrusive narration that ... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: A.I. Artificial Intelligence Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The most densely layered science fiction film in years: a visionary bedtime story for adults. 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dogtown and Z-Boys Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) What there's too much is interviews with middle-aged, self-proclaimed radicals indulged in endles... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Bedroom Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Wields a hypnotic sadness, handled so powerfully that it's only in hindsight when you start to qu... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Business of Strangers, The Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) [A] critique of embittered p.c. extremism...but Stettner can't restrain his yuppie-clan feminists... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ed Wood Release date: 9/28/1994 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) [It] remains the greatest movie about the pleasures and hardships of independent filmmaking. 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Short Cuts Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:44 PM Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The interwoven stories articulate a virus of self-absorbtion that�s overtaken family-lives, roman... 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: History of Violence, A Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:33 PM Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) When dealing with themes of identity, this is very much a tragic spin on a superhero story. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beauty and the Beast Release date: 11/22/1991 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) The tale's as old as time, but Beauty and the Beast has gotten somewhat banal. 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honeymoon Killers, The Release date: 12/31/1970 11:01:33 PM Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Such a wild and sad piece of cinema that the knowledge that it�s based on truth seems incidental. 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sword of Doom Release date: 12/31/1965 11:01:44 PM Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (7/0) Open-minded viewers will be treated to a gripping work of style and tension � an expression of ra... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paperclips Release date: 9/8/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (3/4) No reference Paper Clips is a nice social interest project, but not much of a documentary. 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man on Fire Release date: 4/23/2004 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) No reference By avoiding politics, Man on Fire avoids responsibility. It�s without purpose. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia): (6/1) No reference Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life hasn�t the nerve to be truly bad, but it�s unexciting, has no att... 132 other reviews of this movie Served turbo style


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