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(C+) About Adam
It begins as a sweet, simple love story. A flirtatious waitress named Lucy (Kate Hudson) falls for a man named Adam (Stuart Townsend). All the other men in Lucy's life...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(A-) About Schmidt
Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) sits at his desk as though he was standing at attention during a full-dress inspection. As he watches the clock move from 4:58 to 5:00, he...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(A) Adaptation
There are people who care so passionately about something that it fills them up completely. And then there are the rest of us, who can never lose themselves that way,...
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Posted on Thursday December 19, 2002
(B+) Adventureland
We all have at least one, a summer when everything changes, when we first start to become the person we truly are. Every writer tries at least once to tell...
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Posted on Tuesday August 25, 2009
(A+) The African Queen
Rose Sayer and her brother Samuel are English missionaries in 1914 German East Africa. Their rare contact with the outside world is through Charlie Allnut, who delivers their occasional...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(D) Alexander
Alexander the person was great. "Alexander" the movie is not. It is a horrendously bad movie, a genuine 40-car pile-up of literally epic proportions, a three-way head-on collision of bad...
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Posted on Saturday November 20, 2004
(B) Alfie
What's it all about, Charlie? Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers used to be married and they used to make movies together (Baby Boom, the remakes of Father of the Bride...
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Posted on Tuesday October 19, 2004
(A+) Ali
Will Smith delivers a knock-out punch as Muhammed Ali in this outstanding film that follows the champ from his first heavyweight title to the "Rumble in the Jungle" when he...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(D) All About the Benjamins
"All About the Benjamins" is to Ice Cube what "Crossroads" is to Britney Spears, a vanity vehicle designed by a star who has very little sense of how people like...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(D) Alone in the Dark
There's something far scarier about this movie than its CGI monsters, whose lack of any apparent weight makes them seem as threatening as the floating Clifford balloon in the Macy's...
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Posted on Wednesday January 26, 2005
(D-) Along Came a Spider
Morgan Freeman returns as Dr. Alex Cross in this prequel to "Kiss the Girls." Like the original, this movie has a nursery rhyme title and centers on a kidnapped girl....
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(C) Alpha Dog
"This whole thing is about parenting," explains the ironically named Sonny Truelove (Bruce Willis). He is telling an off-screen questioner about his son Johnny (Emile Hirsch). Or, the questioner is...
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Posted on Wednesday January 10, 2007
(A) Amelie
"Amélie" is filled with whimsical charm the way that a chocolate soufflé is filled with air. Amélie (Audrey Tatou) grows up the lonely child of parents who do not know...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B+) American Beauty
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a 42-year-old man who has lost touch with anything that made him feel alive. His wife Carolyn (Annette Benning) is a realtor, so highly focused...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B) American Pie
This is a movie about teenagers who promise each other that they will have sex before the night of the prom, and then do whatever they can to make it...
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Posted on Friday December 13, 2002
(B-) Apocalypto
There are at least three movies here and two of them are great. There is the classic adventure saga of the hero who is trying to get home and save...
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Posted on Tuesday December 5, 2006
(B) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
This movie may be about one of the most famous outlaws in the days of the Wild West, but it is not a bang-bang shoot-em-up Western. It is a broody...
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Posted on Tuesday February 5, 2008
(A-) Atonement
Genre: Genre, Based on a book, Epic/Historical, Romance
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler
Little toy jungle animals are lined up on the rug. Typewriter keys bang like gunshots. Briony (Saoirse Ronan) is writing a play called "The Trials of Arabella." It is...
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Posted on Tuesday December 4, 2007
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