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Articles tagged "ben stiller" Film ReviewThe Hearbreak Kid (2007)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Oct.07] :. Blond and dim, Lila seems the perfect match, or rather, the clunky point of departure for the disaster that will be Eddie's honeymoon. NewsBen Stiller: Funny or the heartbreak kid?by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][3.Oct.07] :. Just prior to last year’s opening of the Ben Stiller comedy “Night at the Museum,” the film’s screenwriters, Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, were asked if they wrote the... DVD Film ReviewNight at the Museum (2006)by Bill Gibron[16.May.07] :. A digital love letter to the fine art of F/X, a celebration of promotion and publicity, and a lot of misguided arrogance.  Film ReviewMadagascar (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[28.May.05] :. What could be better -- you have four legs, all kinds of energy, and all the room in the world?"  DVD Film ReviewPauly Shore is Dead (2003)by Brian James[2.Feb.05] :. Decked out in his vintage gear, Rico Suave has been reduced to selling oranges with his young son on the side of a California highway.  Film ReviewMeet the Fockers (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Dec.04] :. Streisand brings her own potent barrage to this company of self-interested men, not to mention the melt-away women. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Jun.04] :. The team is scrappy and determined, willing to endure repeated -- and I mean repeated -- batterings with wrenches and balls. Envy (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Apr.04] :. Scheduled to open a year ago, Envy is as dopey, uninventive, and smug as you'd expect from a movie that's 'all from shit'. Starsky & Hutch (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Mar.04] :. Who could have anticipated that Snoop would be the saving grace of a major studio buddy flick?" Along Came Polly (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[15.Jan.04] :. Though plainly Ben Stiller's vehicle, Along Came Polly features an endearing, oddly delicate performance by Jennifer Aniston. Duplex (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[2.Oct.03] :. Mrs. Connelly's revenge is strange, but in the current political environment, as seniors are ignored, abused, and repressed, also rather sweet. There’s Something More About Mary (1998)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Jun.03] :. It's easy to deride the Farrellys' work, to dismiss their brand of humor or their dogged efforts to be 'politically incorrect.' Still, they serve more substantive functions than dosing 12-year-old boys with chickens-up-the-butt jokes. Keeping the Faith (2000)by Ben VarkentineThe directorial debut of actor Edward Norton, Keeping the Faith wastes his considerable talents and those of his co-stars on a script that cannot hold many surprises for anyone who has been to the movies in the last quarter-century. Keeping the Faith (2000)by Josh JonesThe representative New York of Keeping the Faith lies somewhere in between the hyperreal absurdity of NYPD Blue and the boutique-chic, antiseptic Manhattan of Friends. Meet the Parents (2000)by Renee Scolaro RathkeThe storyline develops as we know it will. Except for one thing: the primary couple is DeNiro and Stiller. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)by Lucas HilderbrandIt is The Royal Tenenbaums's hyperbole that both makes the fantasy so lively and reveals the self-delusions at its foundation. Zoolander (2001)by Robert Ara SvihlaZoolander's parody of the fashion industry is a pretty pointless endeavor, for the simple fact that ultimately, it parodies itself. |
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