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776 Reviews by Peter Travers
776 Reviews by
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone
Movie: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The
Release date: 5/16/2008 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
If anything, this sequel could have used more hellfire. You leave feeling covered in a blanket of...
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Movie: Starting Out in the Evening
Release date: 11/23/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
Remarkable film, indelibly marked by Langella's deeply felt portrait of a lion in winter.
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Movie: Bee Movie
Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
...truly beguiling...
44 other reviews of this movie
Movie: American Gangster
Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
Call it the black Scarface or the Harlem Godfather or just one hell of an exciting movie, but the...
167 other reviews of this movie
Movie: The Kite Runner
Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
Both boys give such heart-rending performances...
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Movie: Dan in Real Life
Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
...characters manage to be romantic, hilarious and recognizably human at the same time.
92 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
All the actors are first-rate: Hoffman continues to astonish, Hawke digs deep to create a hauntin...
15 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Rendition
Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
What a cast, indeed. And what a bust as persuasive drama.
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Movie: Reservation Road
Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
Even the best actors -- and I'd rank Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo among their generation's fi...
49 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
Cate Blanchett can do anything, even play Bob Dylan, but she can't save this creaky sequel to her...
110 other reviews of this movie
Movie: We Own the Night
Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
...defiantly, refreshingly unhip.
77 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Heartbreak Kid, The
Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
...smacks of comic desperation.
119 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Michael Clayton
Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
Deliberate, demanding and character-driven...
126 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Grace is Gone
Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
No politics, no pleading. No artifice.
12 other reviews of this movie
Movie: The Darjeeling Limited
Release date: 9/29/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
...magically compelling...
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Movie: Lust, Caution
Release date: 9/28/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
...potently erotic and suspenseful...
88 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Kingdom, The
Release date: 9/28/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
(Director) Berg stages every ambush, gun battle and car chase as if his life depends on it.
107 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Into the Wild
Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
...beautiful, wrenching film...
73 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Eastern Promises
Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
How like David Cronenberg -- the master of body horror as a path to the soul -- to begin his mesm...
88 other reviews of this movie
Movie: In the Valley of Elah
Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/0)
The haunting, heart-piercing Elah isn't perfect. It's something better: essential.
105 other reviews of this movie
Movie: In the Shadow of the Moon
Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Want to know what the 'right stuff' really is? Take a look.
78 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Shoot 'Em Up
Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This wet dream for action junkies leaves out logic and motivation -- you know, all the boring stu...
98 other reviews of this movie
Movie: 3:10 to Yuma
Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Maybe this redo didn’t need so many bells and whistles, but Mangold brings it home.
159 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Superbad
Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It helps that the fun doesn’t stop. It helps even more that the pitch-perfect script doesn’t step...
151 other reviews of this movie
Movie: King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The
Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Who would have guessed that a documentary about gamers obsessed with scoring a world record at Do...
66 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Hot Rod
Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Just when you want Hot Rod to rev, it stalls.
87 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Simpsons Movie, The
Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This one feels incomplete, an underachiever still searching for a real reason to exist beyond enr...
154 other reviews of this movie
Movie: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
No comedy this year can beat this dud for mealy-mouthed hypocrisy.
113 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Hairspray
Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hairspray has a beat. And you sure can dance to it.
27 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Release date: 7/11/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Order of the Phoenix, the best of the series so far, has the laughs, the jitters and the juice to...
179 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Sicko
Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In a summer of dumb, shameless drivel, Moore delivers a movie of robust mind and heart. You’ll la...
150 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Ratatouille
Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What makes Ratatouille such a hilarious and heartfelt wonder is the way Bird contrives to let it ...
152 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Evening
Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Susan Minot’s resplendent novel of a dying woman, Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave), remembering her de...
110 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Live Free or Die Hard
Release date: 6/27/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the stunts are terrific fun.
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Movie: 1408
Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Heebie-jeebies are guaranteed.
120 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Evan Almighty
Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
... shamelessly juvenile...
142 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Mighty Heart, A
Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film¿s strict avoidance of exploitation and sensationalism only adds to the film¿s emotiona...
131 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a plotless, brainless, witless bore.
119 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Ocean's Thirteen
Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The movie is all heist, which Soderbergh carries off in high style.
157 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Knocked Up
Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
If you want to hate on Judd Apatow's Knocked Up -- and the anti-crowd-pleaser contingent will sur...
160 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Crazy Love
Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Crazy Love uses archival footage and fresh interviews to get at the dark heart of a passion that ...
48 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Paprika
Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Fiercely provocative...
71 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the third chapter proves that there can indeed be too much of a good thing.
165 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Angel-A
Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Angel-A never finds the heart in a promising It¿s a Wonderful Life premise.
51 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Shrek the Third
Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Who wrote this thing, Dr. Phil?
149 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Severance
Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director and co-writer Christopher Smith, mischievously blending The Office with Friday the 13th,...
67 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Once
Release date: 5/16/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a magical, beguiling wonder.
110 other reviews of this movie
Movie: 28 Weeks Later
Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a sequel that doesn¿t suck.
134 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Spider-Man 3
Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...uneven, ungainly and frayed at the edges but there's lively mischief in it still.
159 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Away From Her
Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Christie, a Sixties screen goddess in Darling and Doctor Zhivago, shows that her spirit and grace...
92 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Waitress
Release date: 5/2/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This sweetheart of a comedy boasts a hilarious and heartfelt performance by Keri Russell...
111 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Fracture
Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Just because a movie is freakin' preposterous doesn't mean it can't be diabolical fun.
133 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a perversely entertaining movie.
54 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Lonely Hearts
Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
When Hayek and Leto are onscreen, you do not look away.
32 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Disturbia
Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Cool stuff. Cool movie.
120 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Grindhouse
Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Tarantino and Rodriguez rock it.
160 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Black Book
Release date: 4/4/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...wildly entertaining...
102 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Blades of Glory
Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...takes a hard fall long before it can even nab a medal for fluff.
140 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Lookout, The
Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a haunting and hypnotic film...
55 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Blades of Glory
Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Blades takes a hard fall long before it can even nab a medal for fluff.
140 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Reign Over Me
Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Veering between sentimentality and exploitation with a few misguided stops at raunchy sex farce, ...
113 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Shooter
Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Props to Mark Wahlberg, an actor whose fierce gaze and sneaky humor can carry a movie over the ro...
111 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Color Me Kubrick
Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director Brian W. Cook should know that hopes are seldom high for movies that debut on DVD the sa...
57 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Color Me Kubrick
Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director Brian W. Cook should know that hopes are seldom high for movies that debut on DVD the sa...
57 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Premonition
Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
I have a premonition you won't give a damn.
119 other reviews of this movie
Movie: I Think I Love My Wife
Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Mixing Rock with ooh-la-la turns out to be as appetizing as chalk and cheese.
83 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Host (Gwoemul), The
Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Is it that scary? Yes. Will it reduce you to quivering jelly? Oh, my, yes! Does it bust the bonds...
112 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Namesake, The
Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a generational family saga everyone can relate to...
92 other reviews of this movie
Movie: 300
Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...fanboys will thrill to the carnage and presumably forgive the puffed-up dialogue and regrettab...
188 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Zodiac
Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Put your whodunit expectations away when you visit Zodiac. It's the process that pins you to...
169 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Wild Hogs
Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
No cliche goes unloved in this piddle about four aging Cincinnati dudes who try to find their bli...
106 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Black Snake Moan
Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Offensive on multiple levels -- if only the plot had any levels at all...
146 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Ghost Rider
Release date: 2/16/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The real evil in this flick isn't Blackheart (Wes Bentley), the devil's son, it's the soul-suckin...
103 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Breach
Release date: 2/16/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...steadily gripping hothouse of a thriller...
117 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Starter for 10, `
Release date: 2/16/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
All the actors are spot on...
24 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Catch and Release
Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...wants to respect the mess of love and loss but winds up smoothing all its rough edges with a H...
97 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Smokin' Aces
Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...shamelessly and unapologetically a guy movie.
133 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Alpha Dog
Release date: 1/12/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Timberlake walks off with the movie. Too bad it's not worth stealing.
61 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Freedom Writers
Release date: 1/5/2007 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...gets to you.
42 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Days of Glory
Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a wounding indictment of discrimination in the trenches.
43 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Army of Shadows, The
Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:26 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
From the first sight of German soldiers goose-stepping past the Arc de Triomphe to a postscript t...
38 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Pan's Labyrinth
Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
To hail 'Pan's Labyrinth' for its visionary ravishments is hardly to do it justice.
160 other reviews of this movie
Movie: We Are Marshall
Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Matthew McConaughey hams it to the hilt...
98 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Good Shepherd, The
Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...it's tough to slog through a movie that has no pulse.
104 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Curse of the Golden Flower
Release date: 12/22/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The final effect is stunning, but also sadly impersonal.
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Movie: Letters From Iwo Jima
Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...quality from first frame to last, a war film that is almost a tone poem...
152 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Painted Veil, The
Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The Painted Veil has the power and intimacy of a timeless love story. By all means, let it sweep ...
101 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Rocky Balboa
Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Just when you're ready to puke, the old Bill Conti theme ('Gonna Fly Now') kicks in -- are you fe...
145 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Venus
Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
O'Toole gives a staggering performance -- fearless, defiantly untamed and in its own way a work ...
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Movie: Pursuit of Happyness, The
Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The role needs gravity, smarts, charm, humor and a soul that's not synthetic. Smith brings it. He...
135 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Amateurs, The
Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It would be easy as hell to tell you what a comic shambles The Amateurs is, but I had too goo...
5 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Good German, The
Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...pure moviegoing bliss.
96 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Breaking and Entering
Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
... despite Minghella's admirable attempt to tackle major themes on an intimate scale, the film g...
103 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Fountain, The
Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a risk worth taking.
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Movie: History Boys, The
Release date: 11/21/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Bennett's dialogue sparkles and skewers with killer wit. Dig in.
85 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Casino Royale
Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There's one whopper of a reason why Casino Royale is the hippest, highest-octane Bond film in age...
65 other reviews of this movie
Movie: For Your Consideration
Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...hilariously twisted...
128 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Fast Food Nation
Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...less an expose of junk-food culture than a human drama...
108 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Stranger Than Fiction
Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a gently absurdist fable.
131 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the movie feels like it's still in the darkroom.
98 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Good Year, A
Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Russell Crowe has many talents, but a gift for light comedy is not one of them.
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 Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Borat will make you laugh till it hurts, and you'll still beg for more.
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Movie: Volver
Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You do not want to miss this one.
67 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Babel
Release date: 10/27/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Pitt, raw and emotionally bruised, gives his most mature and moving performance to date.
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Movie: Death of a President
Release date: 10/27/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
I think the failure of the movie as drama or political provocation makes it unworthy of fuss.
38 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Prestige, The
Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Nolan directs the film exactly like a great trick, so you want to see it again the second it's ov...
61 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Flags of Our Fathers
Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Flags of Our Fathers is a film of awesome power and blistering provocation.
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Movie: Flags of Our Fathers
Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a film of awesome power and blistering provocation.
158 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Running With Scissors
Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...despite actors who give their all, it lies there waiting for an animating force that never com...
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Movie: Infamous
Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Bullock gives the film what it otherwise lacks: the ring of truth.
109 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Departed, The
Release date: 10/6/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a new American crime classic...
189 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Little Children
Release date: 10/6/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...unnervingly funny and quietly devastating...
103 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Queen, The
Release date: 9/30/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
All hail Helen Mirren, who delivers a master class in acting in The Queen.
152 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Last King of Scotland, The
Release date: 9/27/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Whitaker is on fire, and as long as he's onscreen, King keeps you riveted.
108 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Science of Sleep, The
Release date: 9/22/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Gondry's hallucinatory brilliance holds you in thrall.
118 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Black Dahlia, The
Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
De Palma throws everything at the screen, but almost nothing sticks.
146 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Last Kiss, The
Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Only the most rabid chick-flick fan will fail to notice that it's the movie that's all wet.
100 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Last Kiss, The
Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...this script, anemically adapted by Crash Oscar-winner Paul Haggis from a hotblooded Italia...
100 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Hollywoodland
Release date: 9/8/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a steadily engrossing movie...
114 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Sherrybaby
Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the kind of pretend-arty Sundance thing that gives indie cinema a bad name.
55 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Snakes on a Plane
Release date: 8/18/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
[We] have SoaP to remind us of what a B movie can be when it's produced with utter contempt for i...
75 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Snakes on a Plane
Release date: 8/18/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's not so bad that it's good. It's so bland that it's boring. Not even worth a hissss.
75 other reviews of this movie
Movie: World Trade Center
Release date: 8/9/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...cautious, earnestly factual and emotionally unassailable...
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Movie: World Trade Center
Release date: 8/9/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The script, by newcomer Andrea Berloff, who worked with both couples to get the details right, ha...
215 other reviews of this movie
Movie: World Trade Center
Release date: 8/9/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...cautious, earnestly factual and emotionally unassailable...
215 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Descent, The
Release date: 8/4/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Prepare to be scared senseless, and then, when you think you have it figured, your certainty will...
68 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Release date: 8/4/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Cohen and Ferrell riff off each other with inspired lunacy.
12 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Descent, The
Release date: 8/4/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Prepare to be scared senseless, and then, when you think you have it figured, your certainty will...
68 other reviews of this movie
Movie: John Tucker Must Die
Release date: 7/28/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...screamingly unfunny rip-off...
34 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Little Miss Sunshine
Release date: 7/26/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching ...
84 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Clerks II
Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...flies high on its own laughing gas.
98 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Lady in the Water
Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...if Lady is a misfire for Shyamalan -- every non-hack filmmaker has them -- it is also the ...
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Movie: Clerks II
Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
All is well with the Clerks world when these stoners take the screen... and prove that guys can g...
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Movie: Monster House
Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Until this animated horrorfest turns shrill, debuting director Gil Kenan delivers enough visual g...
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Movie: Lady in the Water
Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The movie is a muddle, burdened with too many characters and a sorry lack of thrills, flair and c...
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Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Release date: 7/7/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's the triumphant rogue in Depp that keeps this pirate ship afloat...
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Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The
Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Everyone knows that Meryl Streep is the high priestess of drama, but she never gets enough credit...
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Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The
Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Everyone knows that Meryl Streep is the high priestess of drama, but she never gets enough credit...
154 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The
Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...sinfully funny...
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Movie: Superman Returns
Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Singer's movie is all about proving that Superman's selfless heroics are precisely what the world...
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Movie: Superman Returns
Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
That 'S' on his suit has a whole new meaning: He's a Soul man.
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Movie: Click
Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Sandler has a sappy side that makes me puke. I damn near choked on Click.
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Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The
Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Look out for a star cameo -- it’s the only surprise you'll get from this heap.
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Movie: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The
Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There is no excuse for this second sequel unless you don't mind watching a muscle car showroom di...
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Movie: Cars
Release date: 6/9/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Fueled with plenty of humor, action, heartfelt drama, and amazing new technical feats, Cars is a ...
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Movie: Cars
Release date: 6/9/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...family fun, brimming with surprises too good to spoil in a review.
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Movie: Break-Up, The
Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Until a cop-out ending, this is War of the Roses territory, where laughs take no prisoners....
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Movie: Break-Up, The
Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Until a cop-out ending, this is War of the Roses territory, where laughs take no prisoners.
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Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand
Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Billed as the climax of a trilogy, the third and weakest chapter in the X-Men series is a blatant...
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Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand
Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the third and weakest chapter in the X-Men series...
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Movie: Inconvenient Truth, An
Release date: 5/24/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It grabs you like a thriller with an ending that will haunt your dreams.
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Movie: Poseidon
Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It may be cheese, but Poseidon lays out a mighty fine spread.
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Movie: Mission: Impossible III
Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The movie to beat this summer in the race to push your pulse rate past the danger zone. And pleas...
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Movie: Mission: Impossible III
Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...best when it stirs it up.
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Movie: Notorious Bettie Page, The
Release date: 4/14/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Gretchen Mol...is hot stuff in every sense of the term.
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Movie: Kinky Boots
Release date: 4/14/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Kinky Boots trips on its contrived plot, but this blend of trash and sass is a comfy fit.
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Movie: Friends With Money
Release date: 4/7/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
For a movie rich in hilarity, heartbreak and a sense of life in all its vibrant, messy sprawl, wa...
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Movie: Devil and Daniel Johnston, The
Release date: 3/31/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's the way Feuerzeig walks with him on the line between creativity and madness that digs this h...
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Movie: Basic Instinct 2
Release date: 3/31/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...deliciously awful...
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Movie: Lonesome Jim
Release date: 3/24/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
No tricks. No tears. But, damn, it gets you good.
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Movie: Lonesome Jim
Release date: 3/24/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
I can't recall having a better time at a movie about depression.
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Movie: Inside Man
Release date: 3/24/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Washington has the kind of star quality other actors would die for: unfakeable cool.
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Movie: She's the Man
Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There I sit, suffering total numbness of body and brain, no longer having to wonder what it might...
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Movie: She's the Man
Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There I sit, suffering total numbness of body and brain, no longer having to wonder what it might...
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Movie: Find Me Guilty
Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Except for a scene with the electrifying Annabella Sciorra as Jackie's ex-wife, Diesel cuts up wh...
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Movie: Thank You for Smoking
Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This film will make you laugh till it hurts.
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Movie: Thank You for Smoking
Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Ethics never get in the way of the jokes. Both sides of the political fence will feel royally ske...
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Movie: V for Vendetta
Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...an action film that is not afraid to stop for thoughtful debate...
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Movie: V for Vendetta
Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
V packs an urgent filmmaking energy that pins you to your seat.
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Movie: Hills Have Eyes, The
Release date: 3/10/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Aja also comes out squarely against nuclear testing. How brave. What good is a wallow in sicko sa...
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Movie: Ask the Dust
Release date: 3/10/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film, which is literary to a fault, includes an earthquake, but if the earth moves at all, th...
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Movie: Tsotsi
Release date: 2/24/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This remarkable movie means to shake you, and boy does it ever.
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Movie: Firewall
Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A passable distraction. Nothing more.
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Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...inventive and bizarre and marvelously entertaining.
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Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It sounds confusing, but it's really inventive and bizarre and marvelously entertaining.
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Movie: Why we Fight
Release date: 1/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Why We Fight wants to shake us up, and boy, does it ever.
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Movie: Why we Fight
Release date: 1/20/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...deserves high praise for making it that much tougher to wear blinders.
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Movie: Glory Road
Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Authenticity is confined to the court action...
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Movie: Match Point
Release date: 12/28/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Woody Allen's best movie in years...
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Movie: New World, The
Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Rapturously romantic and haunting.
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Movie: Munich
Release date: 12/23/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This is new territory for Spielberg, and he completes the journey with honor.
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Movie: Munich
Release date: 12/23/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film moves like a thriller, and a tremendously exciting one...
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Movie: White Countess, The
Release date: 12/21/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
As the last film from the legendary team of Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, who died in May, ...
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Movie: Producers, The
Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...their (Lane and Broderick) comic spontaneity has evaporated.
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Movie: Family Stone, The
Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Writer-director Thomas Bezucha lays it on thick, but he knows the mad-dog anarchy of family life ...
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Movie: King Kong
Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Here is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we've been waiting for all year.
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Movie: King Kong
Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we've been waiting for all year.
203 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Sam Peckinpah lives!
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Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha
Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...puts new luster on the word 'gorgeous.'
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Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha
Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Any doubts about three Chinese actresses speaking English with Japanese accents vanish in the fac...
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Movie: Walk the Line
Release date: 11/18/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Phoenix and Witherspoon are dynamite, and their chemistry is palpable.
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Movie: Walk the Line
Release date: 11/18/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There's no denying the biopic cliches, but Phoenix and Witherspoon jump even those hurdles. It's ...
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Movie: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Release date: 11/18/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Newell also does the action proud, staging an exciting Triwizard Tournament and an underwater cha...
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Movie: Breakfast on Pluto
Release date: 11/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Murphy is an actor to watch. Even in heels.
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Movie: Bee Season
Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a detour into mumbo jumbo.
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Movie: Bee Season
Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Fine directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (The Deep End) take a detour into mumbo jumbo.
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Movie: Pride & Prejudice
Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Romantic yearning hasn't looked this sexy onscreen in years.
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Movie: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Release date: 11/9/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film is shockingly light on music and heavy on crime scenes that play as bogus.
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Movie: Prime
Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hilarious and heartfelt.
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Movie: Paradise Now
Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The director puts a human face on the headlines.
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Movie: Weather Man, The
Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In the face of a character no one cares about, can audiences be faulted for asking: Why should we...
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Movie: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
I couldn't have liked it more.
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Movie: Shopgirl
Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Martin (gives) a sharp, subtle performance...
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Movie: Shopgirl
Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The May-December thing worked in Lost in Translation and it works here, thanks to the perceptive ...
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Movie: Where the Truth Lies
Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Awful finds new meaning in this monumental misfire from Atom Egoyan.
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Movie: Elizabethtown
Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film's problems lie with the lack of spark between a wired Dunst and a bland Bloom.
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Movie: Elizabethtown
Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Peter Travers of ReelViews:
(7/0)
The film's problems lie with the lack of spark between a wired Dunst and a bland Bloom...
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Movie: In Her Shoes
Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...sexy, touching and astringently funny...
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Movie: Squid and the Whale, The
Release date: 10/5/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Without jerking tears or reducing the acid content of his wit, Baumbach's humane movie gets under...
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Movie: Oliver Twist
Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...why, then, is his (Polanski's) Oliver Twist so drab and unfeeling, so lacking the Polanski...
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Movie: History of Violence, A
Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Other films this year will have to sweat bullets to match the explosive power and subversive wit ...
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Movie: History of Violence, A
Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It slams you like a body punch and then starts messing with your head.
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Movie: Thumbsucker
Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Pucci is an actor to watch: He rides this spellbinder without softening the truths that plague th...
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Movie: Everything Is Illuminated
Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
(Elijah) Wood, whose mostly mute turn is defined by his black suit and glasses, can only stare in...
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Movie: Lord of War
Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The poison arrows of satire that writer-director Andrew Niccol aims at international arms dealing...
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Movie: Everything Is Illuminated
Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Wood, whose mostly mute turn is defined by his black suit and glasses, can only stare in stupefac...
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Movie: Lord of War
Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...frustratingly scattershot.
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Movie: Separate Lies
Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...mesmerizing...
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Movie: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In the guise of a family film, Burton evokes a darkly erotic obsession that recalls Edgar Allan P...
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Movie: Exorcism of Emily Rose, The
Release date: 9/9/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...drivel.
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Movie: Exorcism of Emily Rose, The
Release date: 9/9/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson thinks he's not ripping off the 1973 Exorcist, presumably...
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Movie: Constant Gardener, The
Release date: 8/31/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Prepare for a thrilling ride.
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Movie: Constant Gardener, The
Release date: 8/31/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Long after it's over, you still feel its sting.
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Movie: Brothers Grimm, The
Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Even when Gilliam flies off the rails, his images stick with you.
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Movie: Brothers Grimm, The
Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's Gilliam's chance to run amok, and watching him do it is eye-popping fun.
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Movie: 40-Year-Old Virgin, The
Release date: 8/19/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A howlingly comic revel in bad taste.
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Movie: 40-Year-Old Virgin, The
Release date: 8/19/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A howlingly comic revel in bad taste...
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Movie: The Last Days
Release date: 8/15/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
[Van Sant's] journey is labored but undeniably hypnotic.
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Movie: Four Brothers
Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...you can't deny the sparks.
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Movie: Four Brothers
Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What holds us are the actors, including Terrence Howard as a cop who grew up with the brothers.
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Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The
Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There's a stink coming off the big-screen Dukes of Hazzard that even fans of the TV series (1979 ...
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Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The
Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There's a stink coming off the big-screen Dukes of Hazzard that even fans of the TV series wo...
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Movie: Broken Flowers
Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Broken Flowers is a rare film that richly rewards the attention it demands.
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Movie: Must Love Dogs
Release date: 7/29/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Just when you think you have Goldberg figured, he springs fresh surprises.
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Movie: Bad News Bears, The
Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Billy Bob Thornton is the best weapon against cute that a kid baseball movie ever had.
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Movie: Island, The
Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What the clone lovers find is a new world -- it's 2019 -- of highway collisions, flying motorbike...
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Movie: Hustle & Flow
Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/1)
...explosive entertainment.
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Movie: Devil's Rejects, The
Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...perversely watchable...
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Movie: Devil's Rejects, The
Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Indefensible on a moral level, Rob Zombie's perversely watchable follow-up to his much-reviled cu...
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Movie: Island, The
Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
I've elevated the rating by half a star because Scarlett Johansson is a luminous camera subject t...
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Movie: Wedding Crashers
Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...bawdy as hell and unafraid of naked carnality.
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Movie: Murderball
Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's original, outrageous and murderous fun.
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Movie: Dark Water
Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...unleashes a torrent of suspense for one purpose: to plumb the violence of the mind.
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Movie: Dark Water
Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A classy ghost story is just the ticket in a summer of crass jolts.
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Movie: March of the Penguins
Release date: 6/24/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Documentaries are the surprise hits of the summer, and none is scoring bigger than Luc Jacquet's ...
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Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know
Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...hilarious and heartfelt...
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Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know
Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Performance artist Miranda July hits a grand slam as the writer, director and star of her first f...
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Movie: Batman Begins
Release date: 6/15/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The buildup is steadily engrossing.
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Movie: Howl's Moving Castle
Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Miyazaki won an Oscar for 2001's Spirited Away. He should clear space for more gold.
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Movie: Rock School
Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
'Dynamo' doesn't begin to describe Frank Zappa freak Green, who brings the cream of his crop to G...
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Movie: Cinderella Man
Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Not only is Cinderella Man Howard's best movie, it is also his most personal and deeply felt.
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Movie: Cinderella Man
Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Not only is Cinderella Man Howard's best movie, it is also his most personal and deeply felt....
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Movie: Rock School
Release date: 6/3/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You cheered Jack Black in School of Rock, now give it up for Paul Green in the real thing.
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Movie: Longest Yard, The
Release date: 5/27/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A mean, lean laugh machine.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Release date: 5/19/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Drink the Kool-Aid. Wear blinders. Cover your ears. Because that's the only way you can totally e...
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Release date: 5/19/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In this heretic's opinion, Sith is a stiff, brought down by that special knack Lucas has of t...
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Movie: Monster-in-Law
Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Knockabout comic is just the latest incarnation in Fonda's life so far. Let her rip.
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Movie: Monster-in-Law
Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo...
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Movie: Crash
Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Despite its preachy moments, the film is a knockout.
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Movie: House of Wax
Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hilton runs the gamut of emotions from A to A-minus...
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Movie: House of Wax
Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hilton runs the gamut of emotions from A to A-minus, and the others look desperate to forget that...
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Movie: Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The
Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Adams would be pleased.
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Movie: Lot Like Love, A
Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...seven years of them is a bit much.
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Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a ringing indictment of corporate greed...
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Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Alex Gibney's riveting documentary is a rape story, with the public trust as the victim.
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Movie: Interpreter, The
Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...builds suspense at an unrushed pace that defies short attention spans.
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Movie: Amityville Horror, The
Release date: 4/15/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This house springs so many FX shocks it plays like a theme-park ride. Result? It's not scary, jus...
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Movie: Sahara
Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...has all the heft of marshmallow.
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Movie: Fever Pitch
Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Swung at and missed.
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Movie: Kung Fu Hustle
Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...dumb fun this smart is a gift.
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Movie: Kung Fu Hustle
Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Does the plot spin out of control? You bet. But dumb fun this smart is a gift.
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Movie: Look At Me
Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph...
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Movie: Look At Me
Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of th...
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Movie: Old Boy
Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
An explosively exciting psychosexual revenge drama from Korean powerhouse Park Chanwook that make...
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Movie: Old Boy
Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...explosively exciting...
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Movie: Guess Who
Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Guess what? It's almost bearable.
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Movie: Guess Who
Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Guess what? It's almost bearable.
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Movie: Ring Two, The
Release date: 3/18/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...cliched horror gimmickry.
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Movie: Ring Two, The
Release date: 3/18/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Ehren Kruger's script for The Ring Two not only veers from Ringu 2 but strains credulity at every...
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Movie: Hostage
Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...secondhand goods.
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Movie: Mail Order Wife
Release date: 3/11/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It looks like a documentary, but filmmakers Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland are hunting something f...
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Movie: Jacket, The
Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the movie straps you in for a head trip that promises hallucinatory wonders but delivers the s...
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Movie: Dear Frankie
Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film is unhurried, unslick and easy to hold dear.
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Movie: Jacket, The
Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Straps you in for a head trip that promises hallucinatory wonders but delivers the same old Holly...
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Movie: Dear Frankie
Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Unhurried, unslick and easy to hold dear.
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Movie: Be Cool
Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What the hell happened?
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Movie: Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventu), The (2005)
Release date: 3/2/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The acting is electric.
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Movie: Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventu), The (2005)
Release date: 3/2/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
By the end of this haunting, hypnotic film, you feel you have watched lives being lived, not just...
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Movie: Constantine
Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Lawrence has a witty eye for composition -- his vision of hell is playful and scary -- but he ...
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Movie: Constantine
Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Has enough subtextual codes to spawn its own cult.
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Movie: Hitch
Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Smith and sexy Mendes spar nicely, but they don't spark.
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Movie: Assault on Precinct 13
Release date: 1/19/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Restores thirteen to its place as the unluckiest number.
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Movie: Assault on Precinct 13
Release date: 1/19/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director Jean-Francois Richet (shows a fan's worship for the surface of the Carpenter film while ...
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Movie: White Noise
Release date: 1/7/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Thrill-free thriller.
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Movie: Broadway: The Golden Age
Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's one for the time capsule.
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Movie: In Good Company
Release date: 12/29/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Fresh comic thinking spices up this smart cookie of a satire.
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Movie: Hotel Rwanda
Release date: 12/22/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Despite flaws in execution, this is a film of rare courage and imperishable heart.
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Movie: Hotel Rwanda
Release date: 12/22/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a film of rare courage and imperishable heart.
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Movie: Beyond the Sea
Release date: 12/21/2004 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Doing his own singing, Spacey is a marvel.
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Movie: Beyond the Sea
Release date: 12/21/2004 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Spacey is a marvel.
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Movie: Spanglish
Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
With his unerring eye for characters, even their hidden dark corners, Brooks makes Spanglish a ri...
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Movie: Sea Inside, The
Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What could have been a preachy biopic becomes poetry in the hands of the gifted director and writ...
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Movie: Imaginary Heroes
Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What the movie damagingly lacks is a personality of its own.
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Movie: Imaginary Heroes
Release date: 12/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...trying so hard and so futilely to duplicate Ordinary People.
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Movie: Million Dollar Baby
Release date: 12/15/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The knockout punch comes from Eastwood. His stripped-down performance -- as powerful as anything ...
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Movie: Million Dollar Baby
Release date: 12/15/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a stunningly drawn map of the human heart disguised as a boxing yarn.
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Movie: House of Flying Daggers
Release date: 12/3/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Prepare your eyes for popping.
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Movie: Bad Education
Release date: 11/19/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A rapturous masterwork.
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Movie: National Treasure
Release date: 11/19/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Rancid cinematic cheese.
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Movie: Kinsey
Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Kinsey wanted to snap the public out of sexual ignorance. And Condon's knockout of a movie tries ...
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Movie: After the Sunset
Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A movie utterly devoid of wit , excitement and any reason for being.
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Movie: Finding Neverland
Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Finding Neverland is glorious entertainment.
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Movie: Alfie
Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...Jude Law gives a sexy, witty star performance that should make his likeness suitable for frami...
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Movie: Incredibles, The
Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
While delivering the goods as a rip-roaring action-adventure and in the process rocketing the art...
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Movie: Incredibles, The
Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a film that breaks fresh ground and defies fogy rules.
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Movie: Saw
Release date: 10/29/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director James Wan hits the grisly button without shame.
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Movie: Machinist, The
Release date: 10/22/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Anderson tightens the screws of suspense, but it's Bale's gripping, beyond-the- call-of-duty perf...
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Movie: Being Julia
Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Annette Bening can act but she works too hard to prove it in Being Julia.
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Movie: Shall We Dance?
Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Miscast, misguided and woefully misbegotten, this clumsy American remake of the deftly delicate 1...
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Movie: Vera Drake
Release date: 10/10/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Using Staunton's face as his canvas, Leigh crafts a powerfully moving film that is unmissable and...
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Movie: Friday Night Lights
Release date: 10/8/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Berg takes you so deep into the action, you can hear the bones crunch.
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Movie: Shark Tale
Release date: 10/1/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...it's stale, like something you wrap in yesterday's newspaper.
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Movie: Shark Tale
Release date: 10/1/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This star-laden animated fable feeds off Finding Nemo and Shrek, but it's stale, like something y...
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Movie: Motorcycle Diaries, The
Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A mesmerizing look at an asthmatic, rich-boy medical student in the act of discovering his insurg...
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Movie: Shaun of the Dead
Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...blast of fright and fun...
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Movie: Shaun of the Dead
Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Though I prefer the hard-core zombie scares of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, Pegg and Wright -- wh...
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Movie: Last Shot, The
Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...never achieves liftoff.
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Movie: Last Shot, The
Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Never achieves liftoff.
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Movie: Dirty Shame, A
Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Wicked, kinky fun.
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Movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a gimmick, it's not a movie.
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Movie: Silver City
Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The real action in Silver City happens on the fringes, where the mischief is.
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Movie: Wimbledon
Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There's no script to speak of, just two appealing actors volleying comic-romantic cliches at each...
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Movie: Head in the Clouds
Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...melodrama of epic silliness and supreme vapidity.
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Movie: Criminal
Release date: 9/10/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The movie was made just four years ago by Argentinian director Fabian Bielinsky. It is called Nin...
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Movie: Bright Young Things
Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
By the time Fry lets darkness encroach on these bright young things, including a flapper and a su...
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Movie: Collateral
Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Mann hits a new peak, orchestrating action, atmosphere and bruising humor with a poet's eye for u...
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Movie: Open Water
Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You can feel the water, stretching against an unsheltering sky, seep into your bones.
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Movie: Little Black Book
Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Treat this sucker like the actors should have done when they read the script: Kick it to the curb...
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Movie: Garden State
Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a hilarious and heartfelt ode to twentysomething angst.
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Movie: She Hate Me
Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
When a Spike Lee film doesn't fly, it sinks like a stone. This one is Gibraltar.
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Movie: Bourne Supremacy, The
Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
If you've forgotten the kick you get from watching a globe-trotting, butt-kicking, whiplash-paced...
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Movie: Door in the Floor, The
Release date: 7/14/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Extraordinary in every way, from the pitch-perfect performances to the delicate handling of explo...
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Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Don't let anyone spoil the surprises of this thrashing, thrilling chunk of cinematic gold. It's o...
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Movie: De-Lovely
Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In voice, manner, patrician charm and private torment, Kevin Kline is perfection as legendary com...
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Movie: Terminal, The
Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Even the best of talents misfire. Here's Exhibit A.
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Movie: Napoleon Dynamite
Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You'll laugh till it hurts.
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Movie: Raising Helen
Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Like tumbling into chick-flick hell.
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Movie: Day After Tomorrow, The
Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The only truly scary thing about this doomsday popcorn flick is the momumental ineptitude of the ...
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Movie: Van Helsing
Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A shrieking bore.
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Movie: Super Size Me
Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Spurlock proves himself a supersize talent; he makes you choke on every laugh.
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Movie: Mean Girls
Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Fey subverts formula to find comic gold.
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Movie: Young Adam
Release date: 4/16/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The adultery and murder that follow when McGregor signs on to work for Swinton and her husband (P...
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Movie: I'm Not Scared
Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A fierce, frightening and deeply moving study of childhood.
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Movie: Girl Next Door, The
Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What if you were a horny high school geek and a porn star moved in next door? Your answer will su...
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Movie: Walking Tall
Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There was a time when guys would grab a six-pack and watch this kind of flick at a drive-in. I me...
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Movie: Hellboy
Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hellboy is on fire with scares and laughs and del Toro's visionary dazzle.
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Movie: Ladykillers, The
Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You'll have to watch the original film to see it done right.
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Movie: Jersey Girl
Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Affleck is modest and engaging, which keeps the movie out of Gigli territory. But it's close.
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Movie: Dogville
Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Von Trier, light years from the formula doggerel at the multiplex, delivers something rare these ...
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Movie: Taking Lives
Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
If you can buy the pillow-lipped Angelina Jolie as a psychic FBI agent in Montreal to hunt a seri...
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Movie: Starsky & Hutch
Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
While the gags in Starsky and Hutch are more hit-and-miss than nonstop inspiration, the movie doe...
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Movie: Passion of the Christ, The
Release date: 2/25/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The Passion of the Christ is powerfully moving and fanatically obtuse in equal doses.
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Movie: Welcome to Mooseport
Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Devoid of wit and point.
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Movie: Against the Ropes
Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A miscast Ryan struggles with a Detroit accent and a script that goes nowhere.
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Movie: Dreamers, The
Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Bertolucci provokes audiences instead of pacifying them. Boy, do we need him now.
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Movie: Cold Mountain
Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
One stunner of a movie.
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Movie: Mona Lisa Smile
Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Women of the Fifties, rise up in protest.
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Movie: Girl With a Pearl Earring
Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
First-time director Peter Webber and cinematographer Eduardo Serra nearly make up for the biopic ...
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Movie: Last Samurai, The
Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The script lays on hokey narration and bombastic dialogue.
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Movie: Triplets of Belleville, The
Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Comic, touching and a visual knockout.
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Movie: Barbarian Invasions, The
Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Moves you to laughter and tears without cheating to do it.
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Movie: 21 Grams
Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You won't see more explosive acting this year.
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Movie: Shattered Glass
Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A scarily compelling thriller that puts journalistic ethics on trial.
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Movie: Pieces of April
Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A playful comedy laced with heartbreak.
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Movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
All the bad-rehash mojo from Friday the 13th to The Blair Witch Project has infected Scott Kosar'...
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Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1
Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In Kill Bill, Tarantino brings delicious sin back to movies -- the thrill you get from something ...
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Movie: Mystic River
Release date: 10/8/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/1)
A movie of startling power and intimacy.
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Movie: Station Agent, The
Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's something special.
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Movie: Out of Time
Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a kick to watch Denzel Washington do a movie just for the hot, sexy fun of it.
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Movie: Under the Tuscan Sun
Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Wells loads a cliched plot on Mayes' lighter-than-air memoir.
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Movie: Rundown, The
Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The Rock has a flair for action and comedy; he's a real movie star.
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Movie: Casa de Los Babys
Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film feels more like a thesis than vivid drama.
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Movie: Cold Creek Manor
Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The only things haunting this movie are cliches.
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Movie: Matchstick Men
Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Cage and Rockwell play off each other with devilish finesse.
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Movie: Cabin Fever
Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a blast of good gory fun that just won't quit.
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Movie: Party Monster
Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This film feels fake, forced and indigestible.
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Movie: Order, The
Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's The Exorcist warmed over...
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Movie: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Ouch! Spade goes sweet and gooey.
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Movie: American Wedding
Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A worn-out gross-out.
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Movie: Secret Lives of Dentists, The
Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Scott and Davis could not be better. You're in for something special.
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Movie: Seabiscuit
Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Ross restores the good name of crowd-pleasing.
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Movie: Swimming Pool
Release date: 7/2/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance, not to ...
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Movie: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Release date: 6/27/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Watching Full Throttle is like being pummeled for two hours with a feather duster. It leaves no s...
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Movie: Alex & Emma
Release date: 6/20/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a static film that searches vainly for a consistent tone.
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Movie: Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Release date: 6/13/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Christian Olsen to mug so hard as Lloyd that he looks like Carrey being demonically possessed by ...
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Movie: Whale Rider
Release date: 6/6/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Castle-Hughes is a star in in the making. She and her movie are worth cheering for.
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Movie: In-Laws, The
Release date: 5/23/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Everything sly and low-key about The In-Laws, a 1979 comedy about a dentist and a rogue CIA agent...
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Movie: Only the Strong Survive
Release date: 5/9/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It gets to you, watching R&B legends such as Sam Moore, Jerry Butler, the Chi-Lites, Carla Thomas...
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Movie: X2: X-Men United
Release date: 5/2/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A summer firecracker.
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Movie: Spellbound
Release date: 4/30/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Whether from a Texas ranch, a Missouri trailer park or a Washington, D.C., housing project, these...
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Movie: Confidence
Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This is a one sweet sexy sting of a movie.
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Movie: Phone Booth
Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Farrell is a dynamo. And Kiefer Sutherland, whose sniper role is essentially a voice on the phone...
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Movie: Man Without a Past, The
Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A delicious blend of hilarity and heartbreak.
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Movie: Levity
Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Near torture to sit through.
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Movie: What a Girl Wants
Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's slick girlie stuff, but the cast makes it go down easy.
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Movie: Head of State
Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A missed opportunity.
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Movie: Raising Victor Vargas
Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A coming-of-age movie that really nails it.
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Movie: Assassination Tango
Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Duvall missteps in trying to mesh suspense with a love story.
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Movie: Hunted, The
Release date: 3/14/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Just a Rambo rehash.
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Movie: Tears of the Sun
Release date: 3/7/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Fuqua ... can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Holl...
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Movie: Life of David Gale, The
Release date: 2/21/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A convoluted mystery that thinks it's way smarter than it is.
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Movie: Shanghai Knights
Release date: 2/7/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Grating. That's the best word to describe this flat follow-up to Shanghai Noon.
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Movie: Guru, The
Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's better than it sounds.
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Movie: Recruit, The
Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
An entertaining ride.
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Movie: Darkness Falls
Release date: 1/24/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Do you really need me to tell you how scary this horror show isn't?
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Movie: Kangaroo Jack
Release date: 1/17/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Aussie-set comic fiasco.
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Movie: National Security
Release date: 1/17/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's too bad Martin already made What's the Worst That Could Happen? The title really fits this o...
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Movie: Harrison's Flowers
Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:33 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director Elie Chouraqui, who co-wrote the script, catches the chaotic horror of war, but why both...
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Movie: Good Thief, The
Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:32 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 Bob le Flambeur tries for a stylish, shambling grace. ...
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Movie: Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The
Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
First-time director Peter Care crafts something darkly funny and touching.
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Movie: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Release date: 12/31/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Confessions isn't always coherent, but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching, so hold the ...
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Movie: Max
Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a big idea, but the film itself is small and shriveled.
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Movie: Hours, The
Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Kidman's acting is superlative, full of passion and feeling.
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Movie: Catch Me If You Can
Release date: 12/25/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes.
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Movie: Catch Me If You Can
Release date: 12/25/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes.
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Movie: Adaptation
Release date: 12/6/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Few scripts toss more challenging balls in the air, and Jonze juggles them all with artful, light...
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Movie: Analyze That
Release date: 12/6/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Painfully padded.
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Movie: Solaris
Release date: 11/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A mind-bender in the best sense of the word: The spell it casts follows you all the way home.
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Movie: Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
Release date: 11/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
I'd prefer to think of Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, the one good movie of the three he did this y...
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Movie: Talk to Her
Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's unmissable and unforgettable.
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Movie: Emperor's Club, The
Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hoffman sprays on the tears like a toxic mist. Avoid like the plague.
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Movie: Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a glorious groove that leaves you wanting more.
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Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Once again, director Chris Columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to Rowling that stifles creativi...
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Movie: Far From Heaven
Release date: 11/8/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Haynes makes you drunk on movies again, on raw emotion delivered without the cushion of irony.
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Movie: 8 Mile
Release date: 11/8/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Qualifies as a cinematic event by tapping into the roots of Eminem and the fury and feeling that ...
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Movie: Femme Fatale
Release date: 11/6/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
De Palma -- a master of kinky, delirious visuals -- hooks you good.
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Movie: Roger Dodger
Release date: 10/25/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs.
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Movie: Real Women Have Curves
Release date: 10/18/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Patricia Cardoso's first film is a marvel of pointed humor, and Ontiveros and Ferrera could not b...
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Movie: Swept Away
Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
No yacht was harmed during shooting. It's the movie that's the shipwreck.
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Movie: White Oleander
Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The estrogen overload damn near did me in.
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Movie: Red Dragon
Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Brett Ratner's Red Dragon delivers the goods in scary fun.
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Movie: Sweet Home Alabama
Release date: 9/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Even in this less-than-magic kingdom, Reese rules.
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Movie: Four Feathers, The
Release date: 9/20/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities.
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Movie: Igby Goes Down
Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Darkly hilarious, unexpectedly heartbreaking.
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Movie: In Praise of Love
Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
For all its bile and incoherence, In Praise of Love is filled with haunting images and insights. ...
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Movie: Swimfan
Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck, preferably a semi.
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Movie: City by the Sea
Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
De Niro may enjoy the same free ride from critics afforded to Clint Eastwood in the lazy Bloodwor...
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Movie: XXX
Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Cohen ... loads the film with pow.
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Movie: Good Girl, The
Release date: 8/7/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A creepy, funny, steamy, oddly touching movie.
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Movie: Full Frontal
Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Is it a total success? No. Is it something any true film addict will want to check out? You bet.
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Movie: Signs
Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
[Shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit, purpose and ...
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Movie: Last Kiss, The
Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
An exuberantly unleashed comedy.
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Movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember
Release date: 7/26/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
All praise to Michael Caine, who plays Austin's studly spy daddy, Nigel, and to Beyonce Knowles, ...
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Movie: Tadpole
Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Tadpole may be small, but it's something special -- a cheeky comedy knockout.
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Movie: K-19: The Widowmaker
Release date: 7/19/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A salute is in order for Bigelow, a director who knows how to navigate macho terrain without losi...
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Movie: Men in Black II
Release date: 7/3/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
As summer escapism goes, you could do worse.
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Movie: Mr. Deeds
Release date: 6/28/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in ...
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Movie: Scooby-Doo
Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Get out your pooper-scoopers.
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Movie: Bourne Identity, The
Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In these dog days, Bourne earns what passes as high praise: It doesn't suck.
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Movie: Sum of All Fears, The
Release date: 5/31/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into, a role that Ford effort...
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Movie: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It takes a while for this oddball film -- a mosaic of stories in the style of Magnolia -- to take...
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Movie: Importance of Being Earnest, The
Release date: 5/22/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Parker pushes a bit -- who knew Earnest had a love duet sung by Algy and Jack? -- but he proves t...
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Movie: About a Boy
Release date: 5/17/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The acid comedy of Grant's performance carries the film.
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Movie: Spider-Man
Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Raimi gives this unapologetic fluff a mind, a heart and a keen sense of fun.
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Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Like Vardalos and Corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by Joel Zw...
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Movie: Murder By Numbers
Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Bullock ... seems to have nothing deeper in mind than doing a sappy big-screen version of TV's CS...
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Movie: Changing Lanes
Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Despite slick production values and director Roger Michell's tick-tock pacing, the final effect i...
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Movie: Cat's Meow, The
Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Elegant, funny and unexpectedly touching, this whodunit about a murder aboard the yacht of Willia...
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Movie: Big Trouble
Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The big problem with Big Trouble, despite a fine cast and director, is that the damn thing isn't ...
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Movie: National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
[A] painfully flat gross-out comedy ...
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Movie: Death to Smoochy
Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
DeVito, who appears as Smoochy's devious agent, errs by pitching the performances too high, makin...
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Movie: Panic Room
Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Foster nails the role, giving a tight, focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling.
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Movie: We Were Soldiers
Release date: 3/1/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Has an impact that transcends politics and some dramatic overreaching by writer-director Randall ...
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Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Release date: 3/1/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Lehmann, far from the glory days of Heathers, has made a movie about a hard-on, in which he relen...
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Movie: Collateral Damage
Release date: 2/8/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Abort! Abort! It's that time of year when Hollywood releases movies it should never have made in ...
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Movie: Birthday Girl
Release date: 2/1/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Keep your eye on Kidman, whose kinky, kittenish performance turns unexpected emotional corners th...
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Movie: Slackers
Release date: 2/1/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You may want to toss a gooey wad of something at the screen.
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Movie: Mothman Prophecies, The
Release date: 1/25/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Plays like The X Files on Prozac. No wonder the actors look narcotized.
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Movie: Italian for Beginners
Release date: 1/18/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Sweetly sexy, funny and touching.
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Movie: Italian for Beginners
Release date: 1/18/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Sweetly sexy, funny and touching.
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Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf, The
Release date: 1/11/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This new take on horror is more of the bloody same.
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Movie: Others , The
Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:40 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
When it comes to turning the screws of psychological terror, Amenebar is an expert technician.
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Movie: Focus
Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:31 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Slavin ... overdoes the portent, but in this time of Muslims being wounded by the same arrows aim...
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Movie: Ali
Release date: 12/25/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ's left hook.
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Movie: Kate & Leopold
Release date: 12/25/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Flies on the sweet chemistry of Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman.
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Movie: Kandahar
Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You won't forget this film -- it's devastating.
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Movie: Royal Tenenbaums, The
Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
That it works is due to director Wes Anderson, who has made something eccentric and hilarious tha...
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Movie: Lantana
Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The acting is top-notch, and LaPaglia, who makes the cop's torment palpable, gives the performanc...
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Movie: Kandahar
Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You won't forget this film -- it's devastating.
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Movie: Tape
Release date: 11/2/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The wrenching result is impossible to shake.
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Movie: Riding in Cars With Boys
Release date: 10/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The rough edges of Donofrio's life are either ignored or smoothed away, replaced by broad laughs ...
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Movie: From Hell
Release date: 10/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The Hughes boys blow it by burying a fine cast ... in stock scares, sappy romance and cliches tha...
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Movie: From Hell
Release date: 10/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The Hughes boys blow it by burying a fine cast ... in stock scares, sappy romance and cliches tha...
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Movie: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Release date: 10/17/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Road movies don't come hotter than Y Tu Mama Tambien ...
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Movie: Ma Soeur!, A
Release date: 10/12/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
An absolute stunner.
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Movie: Training Day
Release date: 10/5/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Washington, who just keeps getting better, is a sparking, snapping live wire in the role of Detec...
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Movie: Hearts in Atlantis
Release date: 9/28/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hicks ... coats the film in a bogus idyllic mist that substitutes cheap sentiment for blunt truth...
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Movie: Rock Star
Release date: 9/7/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Can't disguise the bogus core of the script.
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Movie: Original Sin
Release date: 8/3/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The film aspires to Hitchcock ... but it comes off like one of those soft-core Red Shoe Diaries f...
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Movie: Rush Hour 2
Release date: 8/3/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The whole film plays like an outtake, and that I do mean as a compliment.
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Movie: Planet of the Apes
Release date: 7/27/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Call it a letdown, worsened by the forces of shoddy screenwriting.
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Movie: Legally Blonde
Release date: 7/13/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A Clueless wanna-be, but Reese rocks.
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Movie: Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within
Release date: 7/11/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
At first it's fun to watch the characters ... But then you notice a coldness in the eyes, a mecha...
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Movie: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
[A] fascinating wreck.
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Movie: Crimson Rivers, The
Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Wisely focuses his attention on the film's two magnetic stars.
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Movie: Dr. Dolittle 2
Release date: 6/22/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A fast, fat paycheck for star Eddie Murphy.
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Movie: Fast and the Furious, The
Release date: 6/22/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Rob Cohen, who last directed The Skulls -- ouch! -- can consider this one another career-killing ...
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Movie: Anniversary Party, The
Release date: 6/8/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
They turn what could have been an acting stunt into an intimate and compelling study of bruised e...
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Movie: What's The Worst That Could Happen?
Release date: 6/1/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's worse than the title suggests.
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Movie: Animal, The
Release date: 6/1/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Certainly reeks like something produced from a squatting position.
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Movie: Angel Eyes
Release date: 5/18/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Director Luis Mandoki lets another film drown in the tear-jerker tide.
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Movie: Shrek
Release date: 5/16/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A world-class charmer.
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Movie: One Night At Mccool's
Release date: 4/27/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Tyler, a true beauty, gives the role a valiant try, but her range is too limited to play this ama...
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Movie: Freddy Got Fingered
Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You can see Green sweating for effect, ratcheting up the cruel jokes just to keep his street cred...
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Movie: Joe Dirt
Release date: 4/11/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In one scene, raw sewage is dumped on Joe. See Joe Dirt and you'll know how that feels.
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Movie: Along Came A Spider
Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hollywood has screwed up again, big-time.
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Movie: Say It Isn't So
Release date: 3/23/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Minus a shred of Farrelly wit.
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Movie: Saving Silverman
Release date: 2/9/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The script ... smacks of desperation beyond saving.
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Movie: In the Mood for Love
Release date: 2/2/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A beauty.
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Movie: Million Dollar Hotel, The
Release date: 2/2/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The script that Nicholas Klein has conjured from Bono's idea is a quicksand that sucks down a sol...
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Movie: Invisible Circus, The
Release date: 2/2/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The sisters cut to the heart.
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Movie: Sugar & Spice
Release date: 1/26/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Not in the same clever league as Bring It On.
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Movie: Memento
Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This jolting jigsaw puzzle of a movie grabs you and won't let go.
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Movie: Waking Life
Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Linklater's cerebral provocations allow for tickling visuals -- check out that car-boat -- and li...
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Movie: Series 7
Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A cautionary fable whose time has come.
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Movie: In the Bedroom
Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
An uncommonly good movie -- a thriller that transcends thrills to become a heartfelt and heart-st...
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Movie: Antitrust
Release date: 1/12/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There's not an original note in Howard Franklin's screenplay or Peter Howitt's direction.
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Movie: Save the Last Dance
Release date: 1/12/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Stiles and Thomas supply what this movie needs most: a heartbeat.
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Movie: Shadow of the Vampire
Release date: 12/29/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A shockingly funny spellbinder.
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Movie: Claim, The
Release date: 12/29/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The power of the tale, and the visuals, exert a hold.
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Movie: Traffic
Release date: 12/27/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A real cannonball, a hardass drama about the drug trade that Steven Soderbergh directs like a thr...
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Movie: Space Cowboys
Release date: 12/22/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a rare pleasure to watch four terrific actors having the time of their lives.
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Movie: State and Main
Release date: 12/22/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartes...
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Movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Release date: 12/22/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a wild, whacked-out wonder.
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Movie: Chocolat
Release date: 12/15/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.
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Movie: Charlie's Angels
Release date: 11/3/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
These kickass Barbies bring heart to a machine-tooled genre.
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Movie: George Washington
Release date: 10/27/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A work of startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.
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Movie: Pay It Forward
Release date: 10/20/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Not since Gump has there been such a pandering, faux-virtuous package of populist pap for Hollywo...
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Movie: Meet the Parents
Release date: 10/6/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A hilarious hodgepodge of The In-Laws and Annie Hall, in which De Niro gives his best comic perfo...
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Movie: Remember the Titans
Release date: 9/29/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
When the hard battle for integration is served up as a feel-good package, we've all been bamboozl...
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Movie: Remember the Titans
Release date: 9/29/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
When the hard battle for integration is served up as a feel-good package, we've all been bamboozl...
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Movie: Dancer in the Dark
Release date: 9/22/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Aims right for the heart and aces its target.
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Movie: Under Suspicion
Release date: 9/22/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat.
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Movie: American Psycho
Release date: 4/14/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.
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Movie: High Fidelity
Release date: 3/31/2000 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You're still smiling when the film is over.
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Movie: Magnolia
Release date: 12/17/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Magnolia makes it three-for-three for writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson
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Movie: Anywhere But Here
Release date: 11/12/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You start wishing you were anywhere but here -- preferably at last year's far funnier Slums of Be...
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Movie: Insider, The
Release date: 11/5/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Mann turns a moral issue into riveting suspense.
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Movie: American Beauty
Release date: 9/15/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The kind of artful defiance that Hollywood is usually too timid to deliver: a jolting comedy that...
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Movie: American Pie
Release date: 7/9/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Paul Weitz, who never directed before; Chris Weitz - his brother - who never produced before; and...
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Movie: General's Daughter, The
Release date: 6/18/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A lurid mess, a Southern gumbo simmering in Gothic cliche.
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Movie: Matrix, The
Release date: 3/31/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The Matrix soars with its feet in the air -- the rest crash-lands.
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Movie: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Release date: 3/5/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and...
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Movie: 200 Cigarettes
Release date: 2/26/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Hit-and-mostly-miss retro comedy.
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Movie: Payback
Release date: 2/5/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In the popcorn sense, it certainly delivers on mindless escapism. In the artistic sense, let's ju...
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Movie: Rushmore
Release date: 12/11/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
To call Rushmore a romantic triangle about clinical depressives doesn't allow for the film's brac...
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Movie: Very Bad Things
Release date: 11/25/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Berg is so in love with his escalating shock tactics that they quickly cease to shock.
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Movie: Beloved
Release date: 10/16/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A knot of fierce emotions that is left for the viewer to untangle. Make the effort.
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Movie: Your Friends & Neighbors
Release date: 8/19/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
With LaBute, you get a filmmaker who cuts to the timeless heart of sexual warfare.
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Movie: Slums of Beverly Hills, The
Release date: 8/14/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What lifts this brash comedy above the vulgar herd is Tamara Jenkins in a heartfelt feature debut...
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Movie: How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Release date: 8/14/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.
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Movie: Conspiracy Theory
Release date: 12/31/1997 11:01:28 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the strong impact that Gibson makes as damaged goods is diluted by selling Jerry as cute and r...
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Movie: Ice Storm, The
Release date: 9/26/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The best film about family so far this year. Just don't think Disney.
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Movie: L.A. Confidential
Release date: 9/19/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Against all odds, L.A. Confidential succeeds brilliantly, right down to Jerry Goldsmith's score, ...
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Movie: Face/Off
Release date: 6/27/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Scenes of high-voltage action vie with wild hilarity as two guys with guns switch faces and ident...
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Movie: My Best Friend's Wedding
Release date: 6/20/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Roberts puts her heart into this one. Audiences are likely to return the favor.
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Movie: Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Release date: 4/25/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Kudrow's Michele is a deadpan delight.
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Movie: Private Parts
Release date: 3/7/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A comic firecracker with a surprising human touch.
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Movie: Donnie Brasco
Release date: 2/28/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Pacino and Depp are a match made in acting heaven, riffing off each other with astonishing subtle...
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Movie: Ghost and the Darkness, The
Release date: 12/31/1996 11:01:32 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
When the movie sticks to fact, the result is a hypnotic spectacle.
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Movie: English Patient, The
Release date: 11/15/1996 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Get ready for the great romance of the movie year.
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Movie: That Thing You Do!
Release date: 10/4/1996 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...a brightly entertaining blend of humor and heartbreak about four fresh-faced guys in a band fr...
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Movie: Big Night
Release date: 9/20/1996 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A feast of a film done on a low budget with a menu featuring top-grade acting, writing and direct...
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Movie: Courage Under Fire
Release date: 7/12/1996 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Courage Under Fire honors its subject and its audience.
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Movie: Nutty Professor, The
Release date: 6/28/1996 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Eddie Murphy is funny again. Sadly, he lacks the guts to follow through on the cathartic self-sat...
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Movie: Rock, The
Release date: 6/7/1996 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A popcorn-movie deluxe.
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Movie: Seven
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:44 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Seven wants to abrade, not ingratiate.
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Movie: Strange Days
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:44 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Undeniably thrilling and troubling.
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Movie: Murder in the First
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:38 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
More than likely you will forgive the compromises -- the story of Henri Young needed to be told.
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Movie: Jeffrey
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:35 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Rudnick, adapting his off-Broadway hit, deftly blends uproarious fun and touching gravity.
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Movie: Higher Learning
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:33 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Higher Learning is often clichéd, unfocused and didactic. But Singleton has a goal most of his co...
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Movie: Fair Game
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:31 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Crawford packs a phallic pistol and traipses through the rain in a transparent slip. Share the fa...
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Movie: Dangerous Minds
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Pfeiffer gives a funny, scrappy performance that makes you feel a committed teacher's fire to mak...
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Movie: Devil in A Blue Dress
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The movie simmers with pungent suspense, humor and eroticism.
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Movie: Desperado
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Desperado is best when Rodriguez lets his playful side cut through the blare of a born filmmaker ...
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Movie: Doom Generation, The
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a savagely funny ride fueled by Araki's insight and blunt compassion.
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Movie: Circle of Friends
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:28 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Driver's tough core of honesty and wit is bewitching. So's the movie.
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Movie: Bad Boys
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's all special-effects noise and nonsense.
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Movie: Beyond Rangoon
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Yet one more film -- that defines Third World political unrest through its effect on a white libe...
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Movie: 12 Monkeys
Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:10 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Bruce Willis, in an eruptive performance of startling emotional intensity, stars as Cole, a priso...
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Movie: Sabrina
Release date: 12/15/1995 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Ford looks as stiff and old hat as his homburg.
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Movie: Clueless
Release date: 7/21/1995 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Silverstone is a winner. And so is the movie, which also functions as a lunatic update of Emma, t...
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Movie: Batman Forever
Release date: 6/16/1995 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Batman Forever is in and out but wins in the end by staying true to its unbridled comic spirit.
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Movie: Party Girl
Release date: 6/9/1995 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What makes it delicious fun is Posey, a party girl for the ages.
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Movie: Braveheart
Release date: 5/26/1995 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Though the film dawdles a bit with the shimmery, dappled love stuff involving Wallace with a Scot...
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Movie: Serial Mom
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:44 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A killingly funny spoof of crime and nonpunishment.
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Movie: Shawshank Redemption, The
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:44 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's the no-bull performances that hold back the flood of banalities.
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Movie: River Wild, The
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:43 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The perfect high old time for audiences in the mood to be tossed into the spin cycle for a pulse-...
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Movie: Quiz Show
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:42 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What Redford is saying isn't new, but it has rarely been said in a mainstream movie with this kin...
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Movie: Paper, The
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:41 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's all slick, fizzy fun. But the film's fighting spirit gets snatched.
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Movie: Natural Born Killers
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:39 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This is one of my all time favorite movies, and it put Oliver Stone on my list of 'Best Directors...
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Movie: Head in the Clouds
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:33 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A World War II melodrama of epic silliness and supreme vapidity.
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Movie: Forrest Gump
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:31 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace.
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Movie: Beverly Hills Cop III
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Gimmicks replace characterization at every turn.
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Movie: Pulp Fiction
Release date: 10/14/1994 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
There's a special kick that comes from watching something this thrillingly alive.
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Movie: Ed Wood
Release date: 9/28/1994 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Outrageously disjointed and just as outrageously entertaining, the picture stands as a successful...
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Movie: Crow, The
Release date: 1/1/1994 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Lee is sensational on all counts in a final performance that brims over with athleticism and ardo...
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Movie: True Romance
Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:45 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.
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Movie: Schindler's List
Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:44 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Schindler's List, despite blatant compromises, is a rending historical document.
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Movie: Much Ado About Nothing
Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:38 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The picture is overripe, and with few exceptions, so are the performances.
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Movie: Joy Luck Club, The
Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:35 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Four different actresses play the aunties in their youth, which sometimes keeps us struggling to ...
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Movie: Jurassic Park
Release date: 6/11/1993 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
You won't believe your eyes.
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Movie: Remains of the Day, The
Release date: 1/1/1993 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
What do you call filmmakers who make literary entertainment box office in the age of Beavis and B...
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Movie: Unforgiven
Release date: 12/31/1992 11:01:46 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
In three decades of climbing into the saddle, Eastwood has never ridden so tall.
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Movie: Player, The
Release date: 12/31/1992 11:01:41 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only w...
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Movie: Patriot Games
Release date: 12/31/1992 11:01:41 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
The movie kills most of the fun by watering down Clancy.
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Movie: Last of the Mohicans, The
Release date: 12/31/1992 11:01:37 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
...the action is richly detailed and thrillingly staged.
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Movie: Batman Returns
Release date: 6/19/1992 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Burton uses the summer's most explosively entertaining movie to lead us back into the liberating ...
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Movie: Boomerang
Release date: 1/1/1992 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
For all the sex talk in Boomerang, there's very little nudity. The only thing naked is Murphy's v...
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Movie: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:45 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A kinder, gentler terminator. What an affront.
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Movie: Rambling Rose
Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:43 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
It's a beauty.
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Movie: Hudson Hawk
Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:33 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This unspeakably awful can make an audience a little crazy. You want to throw things, yell at the...
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Movie: Dead Again
Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A miscalculation from a prodigious talent who has forgotten that you squeeze the life out of roma...
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Movie: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Blame the smash of Home Alone for the new herd of kids-on-the-loose movies. Let's hope none are d...
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Movie: Silence of the Lambs, The
Release date: 2/13/1991 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
For all the unbridled savagery on display, what is shrewd, significant and finally hopeful about ...
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Movie: Point Break
Release date: 1/1/1991 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Bigelow can't keep the film from drowning in a sea of surf-speak. But without her, Point Break wo...
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Movie: Cape Fear
Release date: 1/1/1991 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Though Scorsese doesn't always transcend the pulp in Cape Fear, watching him try allows us to sha...
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Movie: Barton Fink
Release date: 1/1/1991 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Partly hilarious, partly horrific, totally mesmerizing.
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Movie: Robocop 2
Release date: 12/31/1990 11:01:43 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
RoboCop 2 is all machine, and it's all vile.
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Movie: Mo' Better Blues
Release date: 12/31/1990 11:01:38 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
For the only time in his remarkable career, Spike Lee has failed to tell it like it is.
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Movie: Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Release date: 7/3/1990 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Though the follow-up is bigger, it's not really better. The surprise is missing.
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Movie: Wild At Heart
Release date: 1/1/1990 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Lynch's kinky fairy tale is a triumph of startling images and comic invention.
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Movie: Glory
Release date: 12/31/1989 11:01:32 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Matthew Broderick [is] catastrophically miscast as Shaw.
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Movie: Field of Dreams
Release date: 12/31/1989 11:01:31 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
[A] gooey fable.
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Movie: Driving Miss Daisy
Release date: 12/31/1989 11:01:29 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
This is Tandy's finest two hours onscreen in a film career that goes back to 1932.
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Movie: When Harry Met Sally...
Release date: 7/12/1989 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
A ravishing, romantic lark brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit.
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Movie: Star Trek V: the Final Frontier
Release date: 6/9/1989 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Bloated, bombastic and maddeningly pretentious.
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Movie: Born on the Fourth of July
Release date: 1/1/1989 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(7/0)
Stone has found in Cruise the ideal actor to anchor the movie with simplicity and strength.
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Movie: Good Night, And Good Luck
Release date: 10/7/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
In ninety-three tight, terrifically exciting minutes, Clooney makes integrity look mighty sexy.
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Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Johnny Depp's deliciously demented take on Willy Wonka, the candy man of Roald Dahl's book, deman...
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Movie: Bright Young Things
Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...a movie that would make Paris Hilton feel at home.
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Movie: Collateral
Release date: 8/6/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Mann hits a new peak, orchestrating action, atmosphere and bruising humor with a poet's eye for u...
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Movie: Manchurian Candidate, The
Release date: 7/30/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...a mesmerizing mind-teaser that finds its own way into the material...
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Movie: Bourne Supremacy, The
Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
This one has everything, starting with a knockout performance from Matt Damon in what may become ...
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Movie: Catwoman
Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Not to be catty about it, but the stench of the litter pan is all over this big-screen $90 millio...
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Movie: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Release date: 6/4/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...by far the best and most thrilling of the three Harry Potter movies to date...
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Movie: Day After Tomorrow, The
Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Kill me now. The avalanche of cliches just won't quit.
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Movie: Shrek 2
Release date: 5/19/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Shrek 2 is double the fun of the original: more magical and more technically assured.
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Movie: Troy
Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...tremendously entertaining...
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Movie: Van Helsing
Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...a shrieking bore of a horror flick...
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Movie: Laws of Attraction
Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...a script of... colossal banality and gross stupidity...
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Movie: Laws of Attraction
Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(6/1) No reference
[The cast and crew] are all victims of a script of such colossal banality and gross stupidity tha...
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Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 2
Release date: 4/16/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
It's a bold swing, and Tarantino knocks it out of the park.
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Movie: Walking Tall
Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
It’s the Rock’s star quality that gives this headbanger a heartbeat.
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Movie: Hellboy
Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
For starters, it’s funny.
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Movie: Ladykillers, The
Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Sadly, The Ladykillers never lives up to its promise.
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Movie: Bon Voyage
Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
It’s sexy, suspenseful fun, and gorgeous-looking to boot.
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Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...retread thriller.
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Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Don't expect anything standard-issue from this uniquely funny, unpredictably tender and unapologe...
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Movie: Kitchen Stories
Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...the movie does get a fair share of laughs...
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Movie: 50 First Dates
Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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50 First Dates rolls unapologetically off the Adam Sandler assembly line...
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Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...seduces with eroticism and resonates with ideas.
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Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...except for a rare scene of shaggy charm, nothing works. Nothing.
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Release date: 12/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...haunting and hypnotic...
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Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...insulting swill...
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Release date: 12/17/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
To praise Jackson isn’t enough. He’s more than director, he’s a miracle worker.
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Movie: Big Fish
Release date: 12/10/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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This marvel of a movie lives up to its buzz as an Oscar contender...
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Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...the script lays on hokey narration and bombastic dialogue.
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Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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(Tommy Lee) Jones hams like a Hormel...
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Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...forceful, funny and impassioned...
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...(Billy Bob) Thornton and director Terry Zwigoff...deck the halls with comic toxicity.
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Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
It's a winner.
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Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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It all smacks of exhausted inspiration.
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Release date: 11/14/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...a rousing high-seas adventure that sweeps you into another world.
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Movie: Love Actually
Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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One movie, ten love stories -- only half of them funny...
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At the risk of understatement, The Matrix Revolutions sucks.
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Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Picture Far From Heaven done as a farce with a drag queen in the Julianne Moore role. Or don't pi...
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Movie: Veronica Guerin
Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...well-meaning but by-the-numbers...
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Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
...Holmes nails every laugh without missing the dramatic nuances.
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Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Kill Bill is damn near as good as Tarantino thinks it is.
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Release date: 10/8/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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The sheer brilliance of (Sean) Penn's performance anchors the film.
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Movie: School of Rock
Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Hail! Hail! Jack Black: He's the clown king of rock & roll.
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Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...the film feels more like a thesis than vivid drama.
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Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...the only things haunting this movie are cliches.
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Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...altogether remarkable...
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Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Nicolas Cage is at the top of his game...
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Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
It's a blast of good gory fun that just won't quit.
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Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Ouch! Spade goes sweet and gooey.
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This film feels fake, forced and indigestible.
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Release date: 8/15/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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You're in for a scrappy, free-form blast.
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...a worn-out gross-out...
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...jaw-droppingly awful...
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...remarkable...
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Sadly, scenery can't save this blindingly dull sequel.
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Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Scenery can't save this blindingly dull sequel.
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Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...the cinematic equivalent of toxic waste...
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Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...League did prove extraordinary in its rank ineptitude...
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Release date: 7/9/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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It could have been worse, but that's no excuse.
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Release date: 7/2/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...color me pleasantly surprised.
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Release date: 6/27/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...watching Full Throttle is like being pummeled for two hours with a feather duster. It leav...
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Movie: 28 Days Later
Release date: 6/27/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...creeps you out big-time.
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Release date: 6/20/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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It's a static film that searches vainly for a consistent tone...
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...there is still much to keep you riveted.
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Release date: 6/13/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Believe me, you don't want to be there.
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Release date: 6/6/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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It's a posturing, pandering tale of sexual obsession in thrall to its own overweening self-import...
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Release date: 5/30/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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The Italian Job is just the latest lemon in the used-car lot we call Hollywood.
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Release date: 5/30/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...hugely entertaining and way cool.
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Release date: 5/23/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...uniquely seductive.
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Release date: 5/15/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Loved the idea of a sequel to The Matrix, hated the hit-and-miss execution.
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Release date: 5/9/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...one for the time capsule.
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Release date: 5/9/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Murphy looks comatose delivering the played-out poopy jokes.
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Release date: 4/30/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Spell this movie: g-r-e-a-t.
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Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...one sweet sexy sting of a movie.
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Release date: 4/11/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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There's a sting to this film that gets to you.
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Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...merely a missed opportunity.
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Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...an entertaining ride.
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Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...an entertaining ride.
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Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...a movie that puts a smile on your face.
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Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...second to none in unflinching honesty.
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Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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I'd call it dynamite.
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Release date: 12/27/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Kidman's acting is superlative, full of passion and feeling.
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Release date: 12/20/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive.
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Nicholson's acting sets a new gold standard...
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...spectacular in every sense of the word...
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Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a rare species.
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Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...unmissable and unforgettable.
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Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...leaves you wanting more.
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Release date: 11/8/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Talk about movie heaven -- this is it.
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...qualifies as a cinematic event by tapping into the roots of Eminem and the fury and feeling th...
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Release date: 11/6/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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De Palma -- a master of kinky, delirious visuals -- hooks you good.
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Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...Sandler will shock a lot of people with the ferocity and feeling of his performance...
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Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...delivers the goods in scary fun.
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What naughty fun.
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(Kate) Bosworth is a star in the making, but even she can't outshine the surfing footage, which i...
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...swollen with show-off effects...
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...director Rick Rosenthal soon buries everything in the same repetitive tricks.
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Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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It takes a while for this oddball film...to take hold, but when it does, it grabs you hard.
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Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...a sappy big-screen version of TV's CSI.
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...painfully flat gross-out comedy...
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...watching (Isabelle) Huppert, a great actress tearing into a landmark role, is riveting.
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Release date: 3/1/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...relentlessly pounds a flaccid premise.
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...a subpar episode of ER.
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Director Gregory Hoblit is merely arranging cliches in new patterns...
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...[Kidman] brings heart and erotic heat to the role of Nadia...
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...what genius thought of calling this twaddle about three college cheaters Slackers? Right a...
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Release date: 1/25/2002 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...keeps the action percolating...
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...a fearlessly funny movie whose laughs draw blood...
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Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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As Despentes lets the brutality overwhelm the relationship between the women, the film loses its ...
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Release date: 12/28/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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You will be shaken.
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Release date: 12/26/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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It's a feast, and one of Altman's best.
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...unique and unforgettable.
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...darkly surprising.
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Fellowship is the real deal, a movie epic that pops your eyes out, piles on thrills and fun, ...
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Release date: 11/16/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Is the movie any good? At the dawn of the twenty-first century, when art is defined by commerce, ...
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Release date: 10/12/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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It grips you like a dream that won't let go.
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Release date: 8/10/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Only some bumpy, arid passages in the script keep The Others out of the master class...
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Release date: 7/13/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...Reese rocks.
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Release date: 5/18/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...excess is [director Luhrmann's] Achilles' heel.
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Movie: Down to Earth
Release date: 2/16/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
A ham-handed fantasy that manages the damn near impossible feat of making Chris Rock unfunny.
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Release date: 1/26/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...marks a lively debut for writer-director Neil Turitz.
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Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Kingsley [is] dynamite. Ditto the movie.
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Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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This hilarious and humane film nails its subject.
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Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Oscar would be a fool not to salute the career-crowning performances of Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilk...
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Release date: 5/19/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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The actors are wallpaper, the jokes are juvenile, there's no romance, and the dialogue lands with...
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Movie: Matrix, The
Release date: 3/31/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
A futuristic kung-fu fantasy with terrific stunts and a stunted script.
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Movie: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Release date: 3/5/1999 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...a dynamite bundle...
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Movie: Enemy of the State
Release date: 11/20/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...dynamite thriller...
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Movie: Meet Joe Black
Release date: 11/13/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
(3/4) No reference
Is it bad? Indisputably.
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Movie: Elizabeth
Release date: 11/6/1998 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...the film belongs to Blanchett -- this hellcat Virgin Queen is something to see.
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Release date: 7/2/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...director Barry Sonnenfeld loads the bases with action, fantasy and laughs, and hits a grand sl...
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Release date: 6/20/1997 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Roberts puts her heart into this one.
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Release date: 11/15/1996 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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...proves that a movie love story can be smart, principled and provoking, and still sweep you awa...
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Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:27 PM Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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... the bad boys achieve something a budget can't buy: an easy, natural rapport that makes you ro...
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Release date: 6/11/1993 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Compared with the dinos, the human characters are dry bones, indeed.
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Movie: Alien3
Release date: 5/22/1992 Review by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone:
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Bold and haunting
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However impressively made, Die Hard 2 begins to wear thin.
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