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Weeds: Season Five Premiere

by Daynah Burnett

[8.Jun.09] :. I want to laugh at Weeds, but its constant oscillation between vilification and victimization of its female characters leaves me frustrated.

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Weeds: Season Three

by Stuart Henderson

[27.Jun.08] :. This isn’t clever satire anymore, but something like an unintentionally Bergmanesque study of moral self-destruction.

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Big

by Adam Besenyodi

[12.Jun.07] :. Over the course of eight months, four body switch movies were released in the late '80s. Only one Big remains standing.

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Weeds

by Jesse Hicks

[16.Aug.06] :. Once more, Mom slips into her "Godmother" persona, wades into the tall weeds of moral ambiguity, ready to make one more compromise, one more sacrifice.

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Weeds

by David Swerdlick

[25.Aug.05] :. Weeds is clear about its stance on getting stoned.

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Must Love Dogs (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Jul.05] :. This family thing is looking rather grim now, as if it's about to swallow the rest of the movie whole.

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Hercules

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.May.05] :. The labors are colorful on paper, somewhat less than thrilling in execution.

 

The Ring 2 (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.05] :. Rachel misses the fact that she's living in a horror movie sequel, which ordains that she's not anywhere near 'starting over' in the usual sense.

 

28 Days (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The pleasure Gwen takes in all this chaos -- not to mention Bullock's signature sunniness -- makes this introductory sequence look like the opening to a broad Farrelly brothers-style comedy.

 

Cats & Dogs (2001)

by Tracy McLoone

In 'Cats & Dogs', the colors are a little too bright, everything is a bit too perfect. And all is not as swell as the humans would think: it's 'American Beauty' for pets.