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	706 Reviews by Walter Chaw 706 Reviews by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central Movie: Martian Child Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Heartfelt pap. 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Gangster Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Things are only as bad as they ever were and there's no life preserver left that's not taking on ... 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rendition Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) A naive, poorly-thought out, badly-reasoned left-wing(nut) manifesto that gives the Right all the... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Things We Lost in the Fire Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Maudlin, mawkish, unintentionally hilarious, and utterly devoid of human emotion. The word I'm se... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (5/1) Just f***** retarded. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eastern Promises Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) London as a murky wood filthy with wolves. 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: 3:10 to Yuma Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Scarily implies that the bad guys now were playing along all along. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exiled Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It has about it the feeling of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Halloween Release date: 8/31/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If Rob Zombie ever decides to direct a horror movie, watch out. 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superbad Release date: 8/17/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It is what it is. 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Ultimatum, The Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's The Manchurian Candidate, but Raymond Shaw has hypnotized himself and the evil government lo... 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Simpsons Movie, The Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The flipside of the Bush Admin. being a boon to comics and satirists is that things are so absurd... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Release date: 7/11/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Dark as pitch: unsettling, unsettled, unresolved, and utterly remarkable. 179 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rescue Dawn Release date: 7/4/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Exactly no more and no less than what it is. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Transformers Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Like so many of Bay's films, Transformers suffers from a form of cinematic prostatitis. 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sicko Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The problem with Sicko isn't that it's wrong, it's that the messenger has become too much like th... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ratatouille Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) At first glance, this is Bird's lightest film; upon further reflection, it deepens into perhaps h... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mighty Heart, A Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Blame the demands of a high-profile production on the sensibilities of someone who, success or fa... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evan Almighty Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) God (Morgan Freeman) is not at all unlike Br'er Rabbit, whose amorality was often a positive forc... 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: 1408 Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Yes, it's that kind of film--what kind of film did you think it was going to be? 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nancy Drew Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Fleming's Nancy Drew isn't just bad, it's fascinatingly bad. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Surf's Up Release date: 6/8/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Seems like a personal project compromised with the need in the United States for animation to be ... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Knocked Up Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) As observational satire, it lacks the outcast verve that comes with real outrage. 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) And so it goes. 165 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paprika Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) This is how post-modernism should always behave: like an acid trip narrated by Derrida. 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shrek the Third Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The prime example of what happens when you craft something for the express purpose of entertainin... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: 28 Weeks Later Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The first great surprise of 2007. 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man 3 Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) What saves the enterprise is its moral centre: there are consequences in this universe; every act... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lucky You Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I'm exhausted that Hanson, a director I genuinely like and admire, has made it his mission to pro... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Fuzz Release date: 4/20/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Like a more carefree Tarantino, obviously the product of guys intoxicated by the strange wine of ... 167 other reviews of this movie Movie: Grindhouse Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Too bad Tarantino didn't do the zombie pic, too. 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reaping, The Release date: 4/5/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Has consummate, dedicated emptiness as its only lingering aftertaste. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blades of Glory Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Exhausted and riddled with bad timing. 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reign Over Me Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) What these men need is a shot of Adult Contemporary Movie perspective. 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shooter Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) You do wish somewhere along the way that "nuance" were as effective as all those dead patriots. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Color Me Kubrick Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Any picture featuring a sped-up version of the "William Tell Overture" is so drunk on its own whi... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Premonition Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I like that they use crows, because the stink of this carrion has flushed out a few guilty jackda... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: 300 Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Until the wheels come off, 300 has about it a certain lean, alien quality. 188 other reviews of this movie Movie: Zodiac Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The best film of its kind since All the President's Men. 169 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lives of Others Release date: 2/9/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It has a heart you believe in and a working brain to match. 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pan's Labyrinth Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The kind of familiar that astonishes with our inability to imagine it better than the way del Tor... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Painted Veil, The Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A lovely trifle not unlike other well-done bits of instantly-forgotten prestige. 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Letters From Iwo Jima Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Finally finishes a thematic trilogy begun with Unforgiven and A Perfect World. 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breaking and Entering Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A betrayal of a dedicated cast and a middlebrow demographic that deserves better than this handso... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pursuit of Happyness, The Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A message that should bring tears to the eyes of The Man everywhere. 135 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Life of Words, The Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Can't resist the meaningful political backstory that will transform her characters into symbols--... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fountain, The Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) As deeply emotional and damnably frustrating as any work of pure individual vision must be. 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Deja Vu Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Who woulda thunk that crap-meister Tony Scott could be so in tune with the spirit of the times? 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Beyond that? Not much. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast Food Nation Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The animals' deaths are more exploited (and rendered senseless) by the film itself than they are ... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stranger Than Fiction Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A backhanded compliment to call it the first real disappointment of the season. 131 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 Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) We might be stuck in the quagmire in which we're stuck because the best intended were too deadene... 170 other reviews of this movie Movie: Prestige, The Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It lodges itself as not much more than a (perhaps shockingly) bitter little pill. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: All the King's Men Release date: 9/22/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Gather 'round and marvel at how little Horner and Zaillian think of their leading man. 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Science of Sleep, The Release date: 9/22/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) More exhausting than illuminating. 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Protector, The Release date: 9/8/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Tony Jaa is a bad motherer. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hollywoodland Release date: 9/8/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Deadening, dull, sepia-drenched faux-noir period hokum of a suddenly popular variety. 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wicker Man, The Release date: 9/1/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If a successful marriage were ever engineered to join this artist's personal Heaven and Hell, the... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Quiet, The Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The world's most inappropriate Harlequin romance novel: a heavy-breather of a potboiler for Judy ... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Illusionist, The Release date: 8/18/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Though it's tempting to laud it for having no pretensions to greatness, it's equally tempting to ... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Miss Sunshine Release date: 7/26/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Boils down to the movie version of that Blind Melon music video with the chubby girl in that bumb... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster House Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) When all's said and done, you wish the film had been about Nebbercracker and his girl. 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lady in the Water Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The new film by M. Christ Shyamalan. 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Man Release date: 7/14/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Slathers itself in scatology, crotch-punching, hilarious elder/child abuse, and a brutal ration o... 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Release date: 7/7/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Yo ho-hum. 186 other reviews of this movie Movie: Superman Returns Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The saddest, most desperately lonesome and melancholy mainstream film in recent memory. 258 other reviews of this movie Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car? Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The film is well-meaning but so desperate to entertain that it begins to grate like the left-wing... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lake House, The Release date: 6/16/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Genuinely insipid. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cars Release date: 6/9/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Pixar's corporate merging with Disney makes more sense now. 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Break-Up, The Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) She's identified almost entirely by her haircut at the end--just as the actress who plays her has... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Michael Bay's Schindler's List. 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Poseidon Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A waste of life, a waste of cash, and a step backwards somehow from the original waste of life up... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mission: Impossible III Release date: 5/5/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The only thing more boring than nothing happening is a lot of nothings happening. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Friends With Money Release date: 4/7/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Takes a step backwards here by trusting the tactile fidelity of her assumed, imaginary daguerreot... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Release date: 3/31/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's little more than a decently-compiled, fan-inspired research project as opposed to something ... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inside Man Release date: 3/24/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Not terribly deep as insights go, but when Spike connects on one of his roundhouses, it feels lik... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Don't Come Knocking Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) When Wenders spins his camera around Shepard in a 24-hour pan Don't Come Knocking finds an invisi... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: V for Vendetta Release date: 3/17/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) May be the ballsiest, angriest picture of the current administration. 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hills Have Eyes, The Release date: 3/10/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I don't care for a French filmmaker making a contemptuous, smug, proselytizing allegory about the... 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Running Scared Release date: 2/24/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An example of a film I recommend just because it tickled my undercarriage. 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Below Release date: 2/17/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The story of dog-like Paul Walker's never-in-doubt reunion with his people-like charges. 121 other reviews of this movie Movie: Firewall Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A flaccid insurance-company audition to get Ford covered for one more round as Indiana Jones. 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Destination 3 Release date: 2/10/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) You have all the ingredients here of the pernicious id roiling in the secret think-pan of most th... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: When a Stranger Calls Release date: 2/3/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Films like this are more sad than anything else. 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Not so much a mindf* as a mindlovemaking. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Why we Fight Release date: 1/20/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I can't help but be bugged by propaganda, no matter its point-of-view. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Glory Road Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Exacerbates difficult issues by blowing them into underdog sports cliches and, more damning, race... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bloodrayne Release date: 1/6/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Only as bad as ordinary bad films and not as bad as getting your eyelid caught on a nail. 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matador, The Release date: 12/30/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Neither challenging nor incompetent, the picture isn't courageous enough to fail and thus not cou... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wolf Creek Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) No new ideas, and runs out of old ones fast. 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Munich Release date: 12/23/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) As good a film as Spielberg has made in decades. No worse and, alas, no better. 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: Producers, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's not funny, and not because it's shocking, but because it's old--so old, in fact, that it's j... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Family Stone, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An absolute freakin' nightmare. 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Crash by way of Cormac McCarthy. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brokeback Mountain Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Heath Ledger's extraordinary. . . though Lee's passion for this project seems several degrees co... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mrs. Henderson Presents Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If you squint even a bit, you could swear that Miramax is alive and well. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha Release date: 12/9/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Icky. 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: The World's Fastest Indian Release date: 12/7/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) No mystery why Hopkins climbed on board, the only mystery is why anyone else did. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Walk the Line Release date: 11/18/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A biography of an iconoclast whose life is an exact simulacrum of every other iconoclast's life. 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breakfast on Pluto Release date: 11/16/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A Technicolor'd bird, flashed at the ridiculous capriciousness of life and Sartre's other people. 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic Release date: 11/11/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Lame. 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Get Rich or Die Tryin' Release date: 11/9/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Marcus sells dope. Marcus buys a gun. Marcus buys a microphone. Marcus goes to prison. Marcus get... 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Weather Man, The Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Over-writing at its most obvious and patronizing. 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paradise Now Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Doesn't ascribe morality so much as paint a picture of confusion, anger, and desperation. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Nihilistic, misanthropic, and it just might hate its audience a little, but damn if it doesn't wa... 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Doom Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I've already seen enough of everything that Doom has to offer. 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: President's Last Bang, The Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An alchemical brew of balls and technical brilliance. 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabethtown Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Dunst plays an android programmed to bestow idiosyncrasy like a Pez dispenser geeked at regular i... 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Serenity Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Has a certain audacity that's the product of Whedon, sure, but it also betrays a sense of "I told... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Into the Blue Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Like plastic, extruded action figures involved in a sadistic child's bathtub-masturbation fantasi... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flightplan Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's not a good movie despite its stylishness and performances, but it does have a short window o... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: History of Violence, A Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The aftershocks aren't that things will never be the same, but the infinitely more troubling poss... 164 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thumbsucker Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There simply isn't much heart left in this pursuit, this punching of holes into the fa?e of plann... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lord of War Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A trippy, high-budget public service announcement shot like a luxury car commercial. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Separate Lies Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) At the mercy of material so fussy that no amount of frenetically-chopped vegetables can lend the ... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just Like Heaven Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Just Like Heaven is just awful. It's gonna do great business. 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cave, The Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If you gotta rip something off, might as well be a classic. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brothers Grimm, The Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A film with all the drama and flair of a Tuesday Morning tchotchke shop. 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Four Brothers Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Unable to inspire, it's equally incapable of offending. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pretty Persuasion Release date: 8/12/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Pretty much just a geek show with a tacked-on, bed-wetting moral. 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The only thing The Dukes of Hazzard has in abundance is hate. 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dead and Breakfast Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A parsing of better splatter flicks; like a Cliff's Note, it's good for cheating but bad for a sc... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Junebug Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Restores some of the lustre to the indie dysfunction genre. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Island, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Hokey, retrograde cornpone. 161 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Rejects, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Casts light on what it is about the way we are that make wickedness so damnably attractive. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Rejects, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Casts light on what it is about the way we are that make wickedness so damnably attractive. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bad News Bears, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Often a shot-for-shot redux--the worst kind of cover song. 114 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A plastic patina of thin freakshow-ism that, at times, seems perverse merely for the sake of it. 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wedding Crashers Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The key word is "waste." 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Murderball Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Glimpses of a more affecting documentary surface now and again, and for what's there, Murderball ... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saraband Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The message is the medium. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dark Water Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A mature film about the courage it takes to survive in a mortal world that's dependent on tempora... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beat That My Heart Skipped, The Release date: 7/1/2005 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Takes an excellent film that was very much a part of its time and place and re-imagines it as an ... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: George A. 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It'... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Finding Neverland Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Tugs at the heartstrings like a toe-fingered harpist. 137 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bright Future Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A remarkable companion piece to Gus Van Sant's similarly haunted, lyrical, allegorical Elephant. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kinsey Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Opens the conversation again on the infinite varieties of human sexuality. 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: After the Sunset Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A moment where Brosnan quietly retracts his fishing pole says volumes about the sadness at the so... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alfie Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An underdog story about over-dogs. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saw Release date: 10/29/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A bad film badly written, badly performed, badly scored, and most of all, badly directed, Saw's a... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Undertow Release date: 10/22/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Undertow is good, but the perhaps unfair expectation based on just two pictures is that Green's f... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Machinist, The Release date: 10/22/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Wish it all added up to more than a stock morality play. 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Cut Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Everything of minor interest in the piece (and Williams' late career) is crystallized in the lyri... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shall We Dance? 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If you're a thirteen-year-old girl, it mig... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pauly Shore is Dead Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Key revelation is that Shore is a bitter, unpleasant, petty, humourless little man--and that his ... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's disconcerting to consider that the aims of the villain jibe with the aims of the film itself... 165 other reviews of this movie Movie: Silver City Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Tilting at windmills with dull ripostes. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wimbledon Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The umpteenth edition of Tired Romantic Comedy Theater. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cellular Release date: 9/10/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) 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Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's bad enough that not only are careers over, but somebody should be slapped. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Outfoxed Release date: 7/13/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Not about anything except the lead-balloon revelation that Fox feeds rage and fuels disinformatio... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kaena: The Prophecy Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An animated film without a hint of anima. 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Riding Giants Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Equal parts ecstatic archival sports video and hagiography of the pioneers of the deep water. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Arthur Release date: 7/7/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Boasts as its main selling points a beautiful young starlet with about twenty minutes of screenti... 66 other reviews of this movie Movie: De-Lovely Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The tears start leaking--for all the wrong reasons, of course. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Two Brothers Release date: 6/25/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of L.A. Weekly: (7/0) Speaks eloquently to old-fashioned ideas of love, loyalty and decency. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminal, The Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Chicken soup for the narcoleptic and the easily distracted. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Sort of reminds of The Saddest Music in the World, if only Guy Maddin had a sense of humour about... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Around the World in 80 Days Release date: 6/16/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Plays like a suicide note: full of references to past glories, past fight scenes played at half-s... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chronicles of Riddick, The Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Plays like a fabulously outfitted boy's adventure serial. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stepford Wives, The Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A Stepford Wife itself: scrubbed clean of controversy, stupid and servile, and only ugly for the ... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garfield Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I'm not betting on a sudden resurgence of interest in a long-comatose strip that battles "Family ... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Soul Plane Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) How best to explain a film this mean-spirited, this unfunny--this dispiriting? 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Baadasssss! Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Polarizing and potentially galvanizing. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Me If You Dare Release date: 5/21/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture is the equivalent of a little boy eating a worm to impress the little girl he has a c... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Springtime in a Small Town Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A map of the inner rhythms of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke... 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Troy Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Were Pitt a more charismatic lead, its sin of insignificance would probably have been redressed t... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: New York Minute Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Interesting that the two groups naturally attracted to it are pre-teen girls and dirty old men, a... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Van Helsing Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Rome burns when stuff like this makes it into the collective unconscious. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mean Girls Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Mean Girls is the dork giving up its uniqueness and disguising its intelligence in the quest to b... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saddest Music in the World, The Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Maddin frustrated and self-immolating, forced to toil in a medium he sees only the death of and f... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man on Fire Release date: 4/23/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Revealing of the seething core of terror, wrath, and provincialism in our America. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: 13 Going On 30 Release date: 4/23/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Another flick that makes you want to read the first draft of the screenplay to see exactly how mu... 127 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alamo, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A few dollars lighter, a few hours closer to death, get a chance to glimpse your own mortality re... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: I'm Not Scared Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Lovely to behold and almost as lovely to reflect upon. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whole Ten Yards, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I didn't laugh once because I'm not amused by gay jokes anymore... am sick of white comedians doi... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Home on the Range Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Insufferable. 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hellboy Release date: 4/2/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) One part fierce, one part vulnerable: like the director, like his heroes. 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ladykillers, The Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A Fargo without that crucial, defining final speech about the beauty of a new day dawning. 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jersey Girl Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A Kevin Smith movie in all its over-written, half-baked smugness, now with a thin shellac of hone... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taking Lives Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A socio-political horror film trapped in the body of a game show hostess. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Wings Release date: 3/12/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The intricacies of a family implosion told in the minimal, spare, largely unsentimental fashion o... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spartan Release date: 3/12/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Mamet is now only as he has ever been: a good academic and a really bad filmmaker, though on the ... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reckoning, The Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A whored-up take on In the Name of the Rose, itself no fresh Irish rose, come to think of it. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Starsky & Hutch Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The filmic equivalent of a roofie: you're sure that something happened while you were out, but da... 141 other reviews of this movie Movie: Passion of the Christ, The Release date: 2/25/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Preaching to the choir and doing so in shorthand. 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eurotrip Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Comprised wholly of urban fairy tales and sex fantasies, and damned if it doesn't work more often... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Against the Ropes Release date: 2/20/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) It patronizes us with caricatures for characters. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: 50 First Dates Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) That 50 First Dates is awful is no surprise--that it appears to have had the potential to be grea... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barbershop 2: Back in Business Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Even when it falters, Barbershop 2 is sharp and hilarious. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Bounce, The Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture is thus misogynistic enough to be a Michael Bay film, but it's not nearly as exciting... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Along Came Polly Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It almost seems as though there are whole scenes missing--the ones containing the punchlines, for... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tokyo Godfathers Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The greatest danger for Tokyo Godfathers is that it's read as drama when, in fact, it's a gentle,... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Things Release date: 1/2/2004 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Part sexual odyssey (more a sexual inferno), part trenchant sociological expos�. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taking Sides Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:45 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Exists in the over-written, claustrophobic confines of the Ronald Harwood stage play. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Great American Songbook, The Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:32 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) More travelogue than encyclopedia. 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gaz Bar Blues Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:32 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It cares enough about its creations to forgive a multitude of sins. 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cold Mountain Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Rather than challenge with its ideas, Cold Mountain favours epic romance and movie star postures,... 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Peter Pan Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's not a good movie, but it's almost a great one. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dracula II: Ascension Release date: 12/21/2003 11:01:29 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The only use for reviews of disposable, interchangeable garbage is to offer puerile consumer repo... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Sand and Fog Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Difficult to gauge on its own merits given the typically invasive grandiosity of another abominab... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mona Lisa Smile Release date: 12/19/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's not a smile, it's a smirk, and it's predatory. 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Release date: 12/17/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Sometimes intoxicating, occasionally exhilarating. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stuck on You Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Where this picture really fails is in the fallacy that it needs to be a comedy at all. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Don't Cost a Thing Release date: 12/12/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Ah, true equality: not being held to a higher standard and, accordingly, producing the same kind ... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Fish Release date: 12/10/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) In love with telling tales and the transplant heart of the United States. 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: What Alice Found Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Heavy with self-importance and dolphin symbolism. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Samurai, The Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The phantom of the real deal, Zhang Yimou's astonishingly Zen Hero, lurks in the wings. 166 other reviews of this movie Movie: Triplets of Belleville, The Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An extraordinary, melancholy ode to the endless, mercurial peculiarity of life. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Abandon hope all ye who enter. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Release date: 11/14/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Weir is at his best when examining the dangers of individuals at odds with tradition, and the rew... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Actually Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Hellish, protracted, and by turns so sickly sweet and disturbingly caustic that it must stand as ... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: In My Skin Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Perverse and revelatory. . . (it) cuts into the underbelly of human behaviour with a mortician's ... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matrix Revolutions, The Release date: 11/5/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Drunk on itself and the possibilities of cinema to present allegory in grandiloquent gestures and... 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shattered Glass Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The film is ingratiating, and more dangerous than it seems because of it. 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scary Movie 3 Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture doesn't even respect the movies it mocks enough to understand what it is about them t... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beyond Borders Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Reason enough why the rest of the world just hates America's guts. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Singing Detective, The Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A film deserving of a conversation and, in no higher praise, of unreasonable comparisons. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pieces of April Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A white fantasy of helpful, unflaggingly one-dimensional minorities. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Most resembles not Tobe Hooper's 1974 masterpiece, but James Cameron's 1986 masterpiece, Aliens. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flower of Evil, The Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Chabrol continues his slide into quaint, comfortable insignificance with his umpteenth treatment ... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1 Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) See the film if you love the movies--it's the old iron for a new day. 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of the Dead, The Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Sad to say that after its unpromising opening minutes, the film defies the odds by getting progre... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mystic River Release date: 10/8/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There's something to the tribal primitivism of the picture, the idea that man at his essence is c... 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: Out of Time Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Only good enough to remind of the kind of filmmaker that Franklin has been and, hope springing et... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wonderland Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) More than a film flirting with unwatchable, the music video sexiness of Wonderland is dangerous. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Prey For Rock & Roll Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Gershon is the only reason to watch the film. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Station Agent, The Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's a wonderful picture that hides its sprawling aspirations in a modest package. 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: School of Rock Release date: 10/3/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) With guys like Linklater and White at the helm, anonymity is a tremendous disappointment, and tha... 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rundown, The Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's slick, it's loud, and it's catalyzing--a gadfly of a film from a subversive filmmaker approa... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Casa de Los Babys Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) dramatically inert 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A short time spent in love with an amiable whimsy. 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secondhand Lions Release date: 9/19/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) To see Osment react to a door closing is akin to watching someone get defibrillated. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lost In Translation Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The title doesn't refer to a misunderstanding so much as a state of being. 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: So Close Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) could suck a tennis ball through a keyhole 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Once Upon a Time in Mexico Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Rodriguez is less filmmaker now than freakshow, but at least it can be said that freakshows aren'... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Greendale Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) On-the-sleeve enough to ultimately prove a little embarrassing. 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Order, The Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Frequently descends into unintentional hilarity, nervous camp, and eventually exasperation. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Home Room Release date: 9/5/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Not only awful but also possessed of the potential for being truly offensive to the victims of th... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Zero Day Release date: 9/3/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Exactly the kind of broad, simple-minded exploration of the root causes of violence that its prot... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Marci X Release date: 8/22/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's the kind of movie that Mel Brooks used to make, warts and all. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Splendor Release date: 8/15/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The problem with post-modernism is that the end of post-modernism is the destruction of the scrut... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Uptown Girls Release date: 8/15/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Between this and I Am Sam, someone should call protective services on behalf of young Fanning. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Princess Blade, The Release date: 8/8/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An indescribably cool post-apocalyptic martial arts fairy tale. 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Wedding Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Joins the Porky's triptych as teensploitation smut franchises that have made it to three installm... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gigli Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Gigli attracts venom mostly for its cast: the mortal blunder of believing that either Affleck or ... 135 other reviews of this movie Movie: Magdalene Sisters, The Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture is passionate without question, but perhaps passionate to a fault. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Demonstrates that few are immune to the corrosive effect that technology can have on story, chara... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mondays in the Sun Release date: 7/25/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) While there's a certain poetic symmetry to a lethargic film about lethargy, it doesn't make for a... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Pretty Things Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Too didactic by half, but when it works it pulses with a bracing nihilism. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garage Days Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Swatting flies with Buicks is effective, but it's overkill at best and showing off at its worst. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Capture the Castle Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Its chief selling point is, damning with faint praise, its complete inoffensiveness. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Northfork Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There is a posture of icy remove to the Polish brothers' film that washes everything in the same ... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Release date: 7/9/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) One foot of the film is in Terry Gilliam's ethics of the stratum surreal, with the other in Spiel... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Release date: 6/27/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) What the picture represents, in a very real way, is the death of cinema. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Alex & Emma Release date: 6/20/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) So precise a distillation of genre clich� that it's at once dada and military. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hulk, The Release date: 6/20/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Struggles mightily between the requirement to awe and the desire to mean something. 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hollywood Homicide Release date: 6/13/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Feels a great deal like a tired exhalation. 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Release date: 6/13/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There is no audience for this film, because retarded monkeys don't have money. 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whale Rider Release date: 6/6/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There is an indescribable power to the film that springs from firelight--what we've lost in moder... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whale Rider Release date: 6/6/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There is an indescribable power to the film that springs from firelight--what we've lost in moder... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious Release date: 6/6/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An example of what can happen when the lowest common denominator meets a director in sulky declin... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Together Release date: 5/30/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It doesn't have very much to say, but doesn't offend in its inconsequence. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweet Sixteen Release date: 5/16/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Loach invests a level of exhilaration into his wayward youths that honours the halcyon highs of c... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matrix Reloaded, The Release date: 5/15/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) So magnificently punch-drunk on its own sense of the messianic that it's possible to appreciate t... 228 other reviews of this movie Movie: Daddy Day Care Release date: 5/9/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An anemic, flaccid little curiosity with nary a hint of life. 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shape of Things, The Release date: 5/9/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) [Labute's] existential rage is cooling in direct proportion to the rise of his self-pitying belie... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: X2: X-Men United Release date: 5/2/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) X2 isn't inspired, but it's fine. 179 other reviews of this movie Movie: It Runs in the Family Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A family freakshow complete with legless crooners, extreme flatulence gags, and Michael shrugging... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bulletproof Monk Release date: 4/16/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Accompanies every appearance of an Asian person onscreen with bamboo flutes and reverential gongs... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of 1,000 Corpses Release date: 4/11/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) That rare film that strives for cult status and will most likely achieve it. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Better Luck Tomorrow Release date: 4/11/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture's relative uniqueness is what intrigues and compels, marking Better Luck Tomorrow as ... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man Without a Past, The Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Hopeful about the ability for man to persevere in a capricious world. 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Phone Booth Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) High-concept hokum invested equally in the Catholic and the apocalyptic. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) "cowboy," no question; "bebop," another matter altogether. 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Levity Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Sort of Frank Capra without the subtlety. 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Head of State Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Just a sickly version of Bulworth, a movie that wasn't much in the final analysis but at least ha... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Assassination Tango Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) More a song about living and dying well than a picture that makes much sense in the traditional d... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Boat Trip Release date: 3/21/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) As painful as you imagine it is. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Agent Cody Banks Release date: 3/14/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Just another threadbare, gravely puerile James Bond movie but marketed directly at your children.... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hunted, The Release date: 3/14/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Breathless and testosterone-bloated and best forgotten before the "hey, wait a minute" catch up p... 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Under the Skin of the City Release date: 3/14/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Bani-Etemad's gift is her ability to make immediate the human struggle at the heart of a family c... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bringing Down the House Release date: 3/7/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) That Martin even has a pink house-servant costume for Latifah to wear suggests a dysfunction far ... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ten, The Release date: 3/5/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) A point made to distraction. 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Life of David Gale, The Release date: 2/21/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Politicism is charted on a circle, and the extremes of both ends tend to meet at the bottom. 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shanghai Knights Release date: 2/7/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Knowing what it's not worse than is the worst sort of praise. 123 other reviews of this movie Movie: Final Destination 2 Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The audience in a very direct way becomes that invisible cold wind that announces the arrival of ... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Recruit, The Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Two acts in search of a third. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Darkness Falls Release date: 1/24/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There's only so much sustainable interest things jumping randomly out of dark corners can hold fo... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: City of God Release date: 1/17/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The question of the picture isn't what to do with the City of God, but really why do anything whe... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kangaroo Jack Release date: 1/17/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A formula film that seeks to entice horny teenagers and animal-loving children with the sort of p... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just Married Release date: 1/10/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The sort of eighties teensploitation falderal that wasn't good to begin with and is somewhere jus... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Around the Bend Release date: 1/1/2003 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An ugly secret changes the mood of the piece from maudlin and trite to jarringly maudlin and trit... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tarzan & Jane Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:45 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Just when things seem like they couldn't get any worse, a couple of songs by Phil Collins and Man... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Powerpuff Girls Movie, The Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:41 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length ... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Outta Time Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:40 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Enough robotically delivered blather to fill half a George Lucas flick. 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:34 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There's a brilliant moment that finds Scooter in S&M gear, gyrating in a cage in a leather bar as... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hunchback of Notre Dame II, The Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:33 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Bolstered by an astonishing voice cast (excepting Love Hewitt), an interesting racial tension, an... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elvis: His Best Friend Remembers Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:30 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird Masterpiece Theater sketch with neither a point ... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:29 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Meant to reduce Blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of anima... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dog Soldiers Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:29 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) essentially an exceptionally well-written, well-edited, well-directed, well-acted, bald rip-off o... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chat Room Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A celluloid chlamydeous test and a complete waste of precious life. 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Con Express Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The main problem of action films that rely on unused footage from bigger-budgeted films is that s... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Psycho 2 Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:26 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The first mistake, I suspect, is casting Shatner as a legendary professor and Kunis as a brillian... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: 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Beginning as Martin Scorsese's Apocalypse Now, by the end of the auteur's thirty-year dream of Ga... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Thornberrys Movie, The Release date: 12/20/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: 25th Hour Release date: 12/19/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A fascinating failure, but a failure all the same. 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evelyn Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Evelyn sports the sort of diminishing returns cheered by idiots. 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Maid in Manhattan Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Suffocated at conception by its Munchausen-by-proxy mum. Punish the vehicle to adore the star. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Adaptation Release date: 12/6/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Provides a porthole into that noble, trembling incoherence that defines us all. 141 other reviews of this movie Movie: Treasure Planet Release date: 11/27/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Lends itself to the narcotizing bland (sinister, though not nearly so sinister as the biennial Di... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Solaris Release date: 11/27/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) By winnowing the picture down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsk... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Personal Velocity Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please, and contorting itself into an idea of exp... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Friday After Next Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Friday After Next is the kind of film that could only be made by African-Americans because of its... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Emperor's Club, The Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity. 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Interview With the Assassin Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Interview with the Assassin impresses most with a super-creepy home-invasion sequence and Berry's... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) That the film is a worthy swan song for Richard Harris is first a surprise then an incalculable r... 195 other reviews of this movie Movie: 8 Mile Release date: 11/8/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) By its 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other reviews of this movie Movie: Rules of Attraction, The Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Feral and uncomfortable. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: White Oleander Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A broad, melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own right. 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Probably the best case for Christianity since Chesterton and Lewis. 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bloody Sunday Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) what remains is as clear an explanation as any of how a tinderbox sometimes erupts into conflagra... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Heaven Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated t... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Moonlight Mile Release date: 9/27/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An inconsequential if effective little drama that commits its one fatal mistake by attempting to ... 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tuxedo, The Release date: 9/27/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's difficult to say whether The Tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--I'm prepared to call it ... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spirited Away Release date: 9/20/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) At its heart and most importantly, Spirited Away concerns a little girl learning to honour her fr... 115 other reviews of this movie Movie: Invincible Release date: 9/20/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Edifies Herzog's preoccupation with blurring the distinction between performance and naturalism, ... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Das Experiment Release date: 9/18/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) When a picture about the roots of evil takes the easy way out, the price is potentially more grav... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stealing Harvard Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A shame that Stealing Harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating, ... 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Igby Goes Down Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee. 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Swimfan Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Dialogue so deadening and repetitive that it takes on the cadence of MAD Magazine set to a Gregor... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: City by the Sea Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Satin Rouge Release date: 8/23/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been watching ... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: XXX Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The joyful misogyny and almost pathological lack of pretension are both of the saving graces of X... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret Ballot Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Samuel Beckett applied to the Iranian voting process. 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Signs Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Bill Paxton's 'Frailty,' with similar intentions but a meaner streak, did it all so much better. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Master of Disguise, The Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The Master of Disguise is funny--not "ha ha" funny, "dead circus performer" funny. And for all th... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Full Frontal Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) So claustrophobically masturbatory that it becomes something only an avowed art film crowd can po... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Who Is Cletis Tout? 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That is, unless it pertains to the scope of one's ambition, invention, and c... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Legged Freaks Release date: 7/17/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Somewhere short of Tremors on the modern B-scene: neither as funny nor as clever, though an agree... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Wife is an Actress Release date: 7/12/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Not so much farcical as sour. 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Me Without You Release date: 7/5/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) finely crafted, finely written, exquisitely performed 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Men in Black II Release date: 7/3/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If we don't demand a standard of quality for the art that we choose, we deserve the trash that we... 153 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mr. Deeds Release date: 6/28/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pumpkin Release date: 6/28/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Pumpkin struts about with "courage" pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wid... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, The Release date: 6/28/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's also curious to note that this film, like the similarly ill-timed Antitrust, is easily as ba... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sunshine State Release date: 6/21/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Although ripe for an auteurist deconstruction, it falls short of the standard Sayles set for hims... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Minority Report Release date: 6/21/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Only the latest Spielberg film to work best as an 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Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Manages in two minutes what Malcolm Lee's cousin Spike's Bamboozled couldn't in over two hours. 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sum of All Fears, The Release date: 5/31/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Aspires for a nihilistic weariness that our new reality has made na�ve and conventional. 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Surprisingly dark and (probably) unintentionally twisted. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Importance of Being Earnest, The Release date: 5/22/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The niftiest trick perpetrated by The Importance of Being Earnest is the alchemical transmogrific... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: About a Boy Release date: 5/17/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) that it'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of t... 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Release date: 5/16/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Its screenplay serves as auto-critique, and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure. 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: New Guy, The Release date: 5/10/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) What begins as a potentially subversive take on the inner-city school problem becomes the unlikel... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Spider-Man is about growing strange hairs, getting a more mature body, and finding it necessary t... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shot at Glory, A Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Alarms for Duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he ta... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Deuces Wild Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A Sha-Na-Na sketch punctuated with graphic violence. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jason X Release date: 4/26/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Plays like one of those conversations that Comic Book Guy on "The Simpsons" has. 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Life or Something Like It Release date: 4/26/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An unwise amalgam of Broadcast News and Vibes. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Murder By Numbers Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A subtle variation on I Spit On Your Grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges ... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Scorpion King, The Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Every time Johnson performs a body-slam or a suplex the creepy wet sound of a thousand eyeballs r... 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: Triumph of Love, The Release date: 4/17/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweetest Thing, The Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) The Sweetest Thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into th... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cat's Meow, The Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Welles groupie/scholar Peter Bogdanovich took a long time to do it, but he's finally provided his... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Changing Lanes Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A story and character-driven reminder of the classic paranoia cinema of Arthur Penn and Alan Paku... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: High Crimes Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Consider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your dat... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Trouble Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attend... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Panic Room Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Not even the expansion of Psycho's peephole into a bank of video monitors can convince of Panic R... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rookie, The Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The Rookie feels like baseball itself: sort of boring, sort of stately, yet possessed of an ineff... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death to Smoochy Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The sinister inspiration that fuelled DeVito's early work is confused in Death to Smoochy into so... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Margarita Happy Hour Release date: 3/22/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The film's apocalyptic urban setting and unrelentingly icy zeitgeist is message enough without a ... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Resident Evil Release date: 3/15/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Resident Evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an MTV, sugar hysteria, an... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ice Age Release date: 3/15/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Dreadfully inanimate for an animated entertainment. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Queen of the Damned Release date: 2/22/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's not so much an archetypical romantic irony as a manic-depressive fancy brought on by a hormo... 81 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monsoon Wedding Release date: 2/22/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose, poorly structured film throug... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crossroads Release date: 2/15/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The only thing separating Crossroads from a Showtime soft porn is the lack of any actual nudity. ... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Collateral Damage Release date: 2/8/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Enough similarities to Gymkata and Howie Long's Firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawl... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Birthday Girl Release date: 2/1/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and, by extension, its surprise... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Slackers Release date: 2/1/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's too interested in jerking off in all its Byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its aud... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Storytelling Release date: 1/25/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Too much of Storytelling moves away from Solondz's social critique, casting its audience as that ... 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mothman Prophecies, The Release date: 1/25/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The Mothman Prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine jour... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Snow Dogs Release date: 1/18/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Snow Dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter th... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Release date: 1/11/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Imagine what it'd be like if John Woo were a French guy obsessed with Lautrecian brothels. 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Business of Fancydancing, The Release date: 1/1/2002 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There is a certain literariness about The Business of Fancydancing that I found fascinatingly unc... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Others , The Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:40 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The Others is that most atypical of Hollywood productions: it is magnificently understated and de... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kurosawa Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:36 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A collection of mildly interesting vignettes about legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa that lacks ... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hostage High Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:33 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) One tour de force acting turn can't recommend an ineffective treatment of a thorny topic. 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Be My Star Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:27 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A painful portrait of that confused liminal period between childhood and sexual maturity. 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ali Release date: 12/25/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Highlights to either a more ambitious treatment or a more traditional one, living a half-life of ... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kate & Leopold Release date: 12/25/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's a stupid film but not a malicious one. 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: A Beautiful Mind Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A play for the fickle attentions of middlebrow moviegoers looking for an easy cause they can cham... 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: How High Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Not all the gags work, not all the gross-outs serve the greater good, but How High is funny, quic... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Joe Somebody Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Joe Somebody isn't as bad as Glitter, but it's harder to watch--and that's pretty much as bad as ... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Release date: 12/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There are moments in The Fellowship of the Ring that I have only seen in my most winsome and wild... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Royal Tenenbaums, The Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A mellifluous, labyrinthine thing, indescribably delicious and ambitiously literate. 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Other Side of Heaven, The Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) To call The Other Side of Heaven "appalling" would be to underestimate just how dangerous enterta... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Not Another Teen Movie Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A willfully bad film that makes fun of inadvertently bad films: the results are predictably unwat... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lantana Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) it's walking a perilous tightrope with "too stagy" on the one side and "too affected" on the othe... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kandahar Release date: 12/14/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A collection of malformed ideas, ineffectual performances, and, perhaps unfortunately, the occasi... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ocean's Eleven Release date: 12/7/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Free of cruelty and sexuality, free of violence and very much profanity, and free of the pretence... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Affair of the Necklace, The Release date: 11/30/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Rolled out in limited release in the hopes of making some lists--the last and cruellest irony of ... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil's Backbone, The Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) the gorgeous Tennysonian aecidia of the film is such as to explain if not entirely forgive its oc... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Out Cold Release date: 11/21/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Out Cold is essentially a spineless, unfunny Animal House. The pretence of plot is distracting an... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Release date: 11/16/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The ultimate example of a synergic multi-media construct: a familiarity with the source lends the... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monsters, Inc. Release date: 11/2/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Make no mistake that Monsters Inc. would be a fine work nonetheless, but only half the film in an... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: K-Pax Release date: 10/26/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) When Prot engages the Powell family dog in conversation, it explains the inevitable success of K-... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Life As A House Release date: 10/26/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Adrift in a turbid morass of Forrest Gump-isms 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Burnt Money Release date: 10/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Its highlight comes in a cunning series of cuts that fade between fellatio performed at gunpoint ... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mulholland Dr. Release date: 10/12/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) As with any dream-product, it's possessed of endless rewards for the patient, the curious, and th... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Training Day Release date: 10/5/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) In Antoine Fuqua and Dominic Sena's race to become David Fincher, Fuqua, with his colour-bleached... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Glitter Release date: 9/21/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Destined for bad cinema lore. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: O Release date: 8/31/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It neglects the requirements of narrative in favour of allegorical socio-political notions that a... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Release date: 8/24/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Though it's every bit as dialogue intensive as Smith's other films, it lacks any pretence of rele... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Outlaws Release date: 8/17/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Marks the second time that O'Quinn has been in Young Guns and Dalton in The Rocketeer, leading me... 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rush Hour 2 Release date: 8/3/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) a series of high-decibel Chris Tucker improvisations alternating with a series of truncated Jacki... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bread and Tulips Release date: 7/27/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) We've seen this film way too many times in countless permutations, and its lack of originality is... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ghost World Release date: 7/20/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Ghost World soars with the poetry of Buscemi's performance. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss of the Dragon Release date: 7/6/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The whole film plays a great deal like an extended episode of "Iron Chef": lots of edged weapons,... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: Strictly Sinatra Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A smalltime flick in which a smalltime crooner accidentally becomes a smalltime hood. 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Atlantis: the Lost Empire Release date: 6/15/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Atlantis, although some very smart people were involved in its making, is not the least bit inter... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Release date: 6/15/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Mostly incomprehensible but theoretically enjoyable for a teenaged boy, like a visit to Hooters m... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anniversary Party, The Release date: 6/8/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The Anniversary Party is heartfelt and affected in equal part, the product of actors' occasional ... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Along Came A Spider Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) You begin to feel like the butt of some absurd joke or embroiled in a wilfully obscure Buddhist k... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweet November Release date: 2/16/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Is it still necrophilia if two corpses have sex with each other? 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Together Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A cross between Lars Von Trier's The Idiots and an irritating home video made by flower children. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Our Lady of the Assassins Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) At its worst, the film slathers on the symbolism and unabashed pontification with such relentless... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Go Tigers! Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) a caution against an entire American culture grown fat, brutal, and stupid on their own frugal re... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mutant Aliens Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's not without its pleasures, but I'll stick with The Tune. 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Velvet Goldmine and All that Jazz by way of The Wall--a bombastically endearing romp that is as i... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jump Tomorrow Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) I loved Jump Tomorrow ... for a heart that beats with wisdom and warmth and nary a trace of contr... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Bedroom Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An emotionally brutal and laudably ambiguous film that does justice to the sober restraint and ta... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: L.I.E. Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and refreshingly free of the dim-witted pandering that is endemic ... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Antitrust Release date: 1/12/2001 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Antitrust, in other words, suffers from what I call the "Wizard of Oz malady:" no heart, no brain... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Deep in the Woods Release date: 12/31/2000 11:01:29 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A great-looking film that honours its forebears while providing the catalyst for a re-examination... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Five Aces Release date: 12/31/1999 11:01:31 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) With a small movie like this, I'll savour what pleasures I can get. 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: American Beauty Release date: 9/15/1999 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's like Norman Bates getting good advice from Mother. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Limbo Release date: 6/4/1999 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Proximate politics replaced by archetype and what Wordsworth would have called "the story of plac... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, The Release date: 12/31/1998 11:01:27 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A definite spark of the subversive that by itself earns it a recommendation. 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bug's Life, A Release date: 11/25/1998 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Of all of Pixar's films, it's the first and thus far only one whose pleasures are almost complete... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Object of My Affection, The Release date: 4/17/1998 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Suggests a Nacho Cerda exploitation piece scored by the world's most optimistic organ grinder. 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Men With Guns Release date: 12/31/1997 11:01:38 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A Wizard of Oz construct in the same way as Apocalypse Now is a Wizard of Oz construct. 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Casper: A Spirited Beginning Release date: 12/31/1997 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Taking place in a scary netherworld where up is down, black is white, and Steve Guttenberg, Rodne... 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anaconda Release date: 12/31/1997 11:01:26 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Voight's performance alone is absurd enough to merit the film a look. 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Secret of Roan Inish, The Release date: 12/12/1997 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) As menacing and wondrous as films get. 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Soul Food Release date: 9/26/1997 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Such ease of shorthand (the earth Mother Hubbard, the three sisters as mother, whore, and lawyer)... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jingle All the Way Release date: 11/22/1996 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The practice of buying indulgences didn't die with the Middle Ages, it just sort of metastasized ... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lone Star Release date: 6/21/1996 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It is among the best films of the nineties and the best independent features ever made in the Uni... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whisper Of The Heart Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:48 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Shame how John Denver appears at regular intervals to remind us of how peculiar a beast cultural ... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perez Family, The Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:41 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Sensuous and lush with a hint of Allende's magical realism in the bleeding of a man's broken hear... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Living in Oblivion Release date: 12/31/1995 11:01:37 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Meaty and witty, the sort of product that rewards a closer examination even as it buggers intimac... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Troll in Central Park, A Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:45 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) While sitting in thrall of it, it's only natural for the abused mind to scramble to find reason i... 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shawshank Redemption, The Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:44 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Drawn in straight, brutal lines. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pagemaster, The Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:41 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) a nice starting point for an important conversation with your child about why so many cartoons th... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Next Karate Kid, The Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:39 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Swank, here demonstrating that for as wooden and exasperating as her performance is in this pictu... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Milk Money Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:38 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Every bit as misguided as its appalling premise would suggest. 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cobb Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Completely uncompromising in a way that films, especially sports films, just aren't. 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Release date: 12/21/1994 11:01:38 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's Greek tragedy, and when its characters utter invocations to the gods in turn, it manages to ... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ed Wood Release date: 9/28/1994 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If you love movies, you've got a little Ed Wood inside you. 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flesh and Bone Release date: 12/31/1993 11:01:31 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There are few pictures more deserving of critical revisionism. 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Passion Fish Release date: 12/31/1992 11:01:41 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture is sure-footed and accomplished and, to this point, the auteur's most satisfying marr... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: City Hunter Release date: 12/31/1992 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Garbage--fetid and painful. 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Newsies Release date: 4/10/1992 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If the crick in my neck is any indication, I watched Kenny Ortega's Newsies like a dog hears a ne... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fried Green Tomatoes Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:31 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The picture is about gender politics and a legacy of communal repression that is itself too embar... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bride of Re-Animator, The Release date: 12/31/1991 11:01:27 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) If it lacks the intimate cohesion of the first film despite its desire to resurrect a feeling of ... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Father of the Bride Release date: 12/21/1991 11:01:31 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) For all its glad-handing of cheer and all-encompassing warmth, has a heart as tiny and cold and c... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Point Break Release date: 1/1/1991 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Keanu Reeves is Johnny Utah. F* yeah! 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Three Fugitives Release date: 12/31/1989 11:01:45 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Interesting now only as a better-forgotten relic of a time in which people actually paid full-tic... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eight Men Out Release date: 12/31/1988 11:01:30 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Men Out plays like an American Gothic, sowing the seeds of wrath. 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn Release date: 1/1/1987 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A marvel for its invention and fury. 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Less Than Zero Release date: 1/1/1987 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The quality of dislocation in Marek Kanievska's Less Than Zero is startling and sinister. 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Castle in the Sky Release date: 12/31/1986 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Interesting for the Miyazaki scholar for sure but still feeling its way in terms of the connectiv... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fly, The Release date: 12/21/1986 11:01:31 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) One of the saddest explorations of love and loss captured in one of the most underestimated films... 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: Return of the Living Dead Release date: 12/31/1985 11:01:43 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/1) Turns a satirical eye on Reagan's hawkish heart, the sprung logic of Italian zombie movies, and J... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day of the Dead Release date: 12/31/1985 11:01:29 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Far from the weak sister that critics and fanboys have branded it. 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Brother From Another Planet, The Release date: 12/31/1984 11:01:27 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) brave and pure and an unlikely (though oddly appropriate) introduction to the first film of Sayle... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension, The Release date: 12/31/1984 11:01:26 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The best thing about a movie this wilfully silly is that it never patronizes its audience for lov... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amadeus Release date: 9/1/1984 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The urge to revisit old successes in an attempt to "improve" upon them is a risky venture at best... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Osterman Weekend, The Release date: 12/31/1983 11:01:40 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Never been more current than it is now--and if it's imperfect, it's imperfect in exactly the righ... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Howling, The Release date: 12/31/1981 11:01:33 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Its monsters are curiously wimpy, these hulks don't so much smash as paw meekly. 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Castle of Cagliostro, The Release date: 12/31/1979 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Missing is a sense of completion and the deeper examination of themes that one will come to assoc... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breaking Away Release date: 12/31/1979 11:01:27 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There's a joy to Breaking Away that forgives its occasional skylarking and narrative dips into th... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Halloween Release date: 10/25/1978 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) very possibly no other seminal seventies film--not The Godfather, not Star Wars, perhaps not even... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Lampoon's Animal House Release date: 7/1/1978 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Gonzo made manifest, aided by massive amounts of alcohol and an astringent stupidity too calculat... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stroszek Release date: 12/21/1977 11:01:44 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Every time I revisit it, it has a new gift for me. 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man Who Fell to Earth, The Release date: 12/31/1976 11:01:38 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It isn't so much the lightness of being that is unbearable as the gravity of its entropy. 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wind and the Lion, The Release date: 12/31/1975 11:01:48 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The marriage of epic romance and the epic romanticization of brutality. 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bang the Drum Slowly Release date: 1/1/1973 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Another one of those films better remembered than revisited. 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Junior Bonner Release date: 12/31/1972 11:01:35 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There's something essential about boys playing men in front of the women they love. 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Straw Dogs Release date: 12/31/1971 11:01:44 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A glimpse into the hell of our secret selves. 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen Release date: 12/31/1970 11:01:26 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) There are few films in the director's portfolio as beautifully shot, scored, and composed as this... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie:** MASH Release date:* 1/25/1970 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Altman boiled away the muddled meat of literary pretension intended to smokescreen the essence of... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Performance Release date: 1/1/1970 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) We were always building monuments to our power and we always will be--performance is just one ave... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Release date: 1/1/1969 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The genius of Argento once upon a time was the understanding that every mystery is, at its essenc... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Release date: 12/31/1968 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) It's some fresh circle of hell to revisit childhood favourites only to inevitably discover that, ... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blood of Fu Manchu, The Release date: 12/31/1968 11:01:27 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) An incomprehensible, sprawling mess of a picture. 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Night of the Living Dead Release date: 10/1/1968 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A tightly-edited, claustrophobically-framed horror film that retains, along with its relevance, i... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Producers, The Release date: 3/18/1968 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Wilder's like a baby monkey--you get the feeling he'd cling to your leg if you let him. 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mad Monster Party Release date: 12/31/1967 11:01:38 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) What it does best is remind that children's entertainment need not be an empty sideshow free of c... 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Release date: 12/31/1966 11:01:48 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) A merciless dissection of the intellectual's disease of ennui and gamesmanship. 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sound of Music, The Release date: 4/1/1965 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) God, The Sound of Music is so freakin' nice. 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: State Fair Release date: 12/31/1962 11:01:44 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) At least kind of fun in a zero-aspiring, Pat Boone sort of way. 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Judgment at Nuremberg Release date: 12/31/1961 11:01:35 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) An eloquent snapshot of the way that the ground was shifting--in both the Nuremberg of 1948 and t... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: West Side Story Release date: 10/18/1961 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Technically faultless and a surprisingly pointed introduction to the "medium cool" films of the 1... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Never On Sunday Release date: 1/1/1960 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Her earthiness is grounding, the only element keeping the world from spinning off its axis; bewar... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: North By Northwest Release date: 12/21/1959 11:01:39 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) More than a clearing house for Hitchcock's auteur tendencies. 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wet Asphalt Release date: 12/31/1958 11:01:48 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Relentlessly ridiculous. 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Release date: 1/1/1958 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) A mousetrap with teeth that grip and a musky atmosphere of frustrated sex and milky desperation t... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: South Pacific Release date: 1/1/1958 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) What the hell could anyone have been thinking in literalizing an "enchanted evening" as a toxic c... 0 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bob le Flambeur Release date: 12/31/1955 11:01:27 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Watching Bob Le Flambeur in its newly restored 35mm print is a little of the old religion. 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: Oklahoma! Release date: 1/1/1955 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Pretty fun in spite of itself. 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: On the Waterfront Release date: 10/1/1954 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) requisite viewing for any student of the art; it is among the best American films 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: War of the Worlds, The Release date: 12/31/1953 11:01:48 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (5/1) peculiarly fifties-bound 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: It Came From Outer Space Release date: 12/31/1953 11:01:34 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (5/1) Serling observed that for as lovely as Bradbury was to read, his prose proved nearly impossible t... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Confess Release date: 12/31/1953 11:01:34 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (5/1) One of the most astonishing-looking films in all of black-and-white cinematography. 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Streetcar Named Desire, A Release date: 12/31/1951 11:01:44 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) That melancholy we feel as it closes is a mourning for me that I'll never be able to see this fil... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sunset Boulevard Release date: 1/1/1950 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) The closest thing Wilder made to a horror film (in lighting, score, and character dynamic) after ... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Release date: 1/1/1948 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) ... so good that writing about it is embarrassing. 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Night in Casablanca, A Release date: 12/31/1946 11:01:39 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) An undercooked espionage spoof that takes meek aim at Casablanca a time or two but generally just... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Sleep, The Release date: 8/31/1946 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Tribes of monkeys doing monkey things, albeit things related to the perforation of the flesh: mur... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Laura Release date: 12/31/1944 11:01:37 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) A camp classic of a very particular variety. 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Casablanca Release date: 1/1/1942 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) Wars come and go, but that sense of cascading entropy is eternal. 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day at the Races, A Release date: 12/31/1937 11:01:29 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Groucho's power is his smoothness with language, his Kryptonite Chico's elaborate doublespeak. 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Women Release date: 1/1/1933 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) A twee fantasy of frictionless sorority and romantic deaths as scant diversion from the carnage o... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Horse Feathers Release date: 12/31/1932 11:01:33 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) The grandfather in spirit and fact of both Tex Avery and Billy Wilder. 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monkey Business Release date: 12/31/1931 11:01:38 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) Probably only bettered by Horse Feathers and Duck Soup in the Marx library. 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dracula Release date: 12/31/1931 11:01:29 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (7/0) After Lugosi, all vampire performances are doomed to be compared against him as either homage or ... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crowd, The Release date: 12/31/1928 11:01:28 PM Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) A stalwart repository for many of the themes and images of German Expressionism. 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wrong Turn 2 Release date: 1/30/1900 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (6/0) As the first half is so abominable, color me surprised that the second half is actually good in a... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: We Own the Night Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (3/3) No reference An obviously talented director relying on an obviously limited screenwriter/scenarist. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Heartbreak Kid, The Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (3/3) No reference Finally the gross exploitation picture that detractors have accused the Farrellys of perpetrating... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: Into the Wild Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (3/3) No reference The only Truth is that the quest to reclaim the best of what we were disillusions us. . . before... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happy Feet Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central: (3/4) No reference There's a road map to saving ourselves in Happy Feet and it has something to do 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