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Friday, March 13 2009

Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain holds no surprises (even granting that it's a remake).


Sunday, March 1 2009

Cheech and Chong: Still Smokin’: I Love the 80’s edtion

In short, this is among the least funny films you will ever see. This is in and of itself quite a serious problem for a comedy, but it gets worse.


Thursday, September 7 2006

Celebrity Duets

As Michael Bolton oozed across the floor, my interest began to go south faster than a carpetbagger on roller skates.


Friday, June 9 2006

Cars (2006)

Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it.


Friday, September 2 2005

Underclassman (2005)

Before you can say, 'Drew Barrymore', Tre's got himself a spot just outside the cool-kids-on-campus clique.


Monday, January 17 2005

This So-Called Disaster (2004)

This So-Called Disaster is more impressionistic than comprehensive.


Friday, November 19 2004

Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

Tim Allen needs to stop making Christmas movies.


Thursday, May 13 2004

This So-Called Disaster (2004)

The real surprise is Sam Shepard's candor when recounting for Michael Almereyda the painful details of his father's deterioration.


Friday, August 9 2002

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

Juni and Carmen's perspective, part convincingly ingenuous and part movie-kid calculated, organizes the film's general view of things.


Sunday, January 1 1995

Spy Kids (2001)

'Spy Kids' is all fun, sometimes obnoxious, and incessantly cheerful -- having your parents kidnapped is a minor inconvenience, leading to the chance to ride in a submarine that looks like a blowfish. How neat is that!"


Spy Kids (2001) (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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  19. Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom (Reviews)
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  23. A Look to the Past, An Insight Into the Present: The Use of Gender in 'Mad Men' (Features)
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  26. Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro: A Rock Star’s Midlife Crisis or Valid Literature? (Features)
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