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Get Smart

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.08] :. Get Smart makes rudimentary efforts to update, with passing references to terrorists, profiling, and inter-agency competition.

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‘Smart’ Sucks

by Bill Gibron

[19.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, something that’s “generic” is seen as “having no particularly distinctive quality or application”. This doesn’t make the object in question...

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DVD Film Review

The Longest Yard: Widescreen Collector’s Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.05] :. Given the prison's largely nonwhite population, Paul's friendship with Caretaker (Chris Rock) is invaluable in assembling the team.

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Tommy Boy: Holy Schnike Edition (1995)

by Jesse Hassenger

[29.Aug.05] :. It seems odd that this well-executed formula buddy comedy would have such a tortured birthing process.

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Film Review

The Longest Yard (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.05] :. Sandler is resolutely unriled, whether abused by guards, the warden, or his own teammates, which makes him a decidedly peculiar action comedy hero.

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50 First Dates: Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Jun.04] :. Always in the present, Drew Barrymore's Lucy is changed in an instant. And she's irresistible.

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50 First Dates (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Feb.04] :. Henry sets his sights on doing the right thing for Lucy, who will always be a childish girl, never have agency, never be able to make an informed decision that she can count on lasting.

 

Anger Management (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Apr.03] :. Dave (Adam Sandler) grumbles okay, to everything, his face reorganized into a permanent twist.

 

Hidden Hills

by Stephen Tropiano

[7.Oct.02] :. Even more problematic is the moment when it's time for the episode's moral message, delivered with the subtlety of a bumper sticker.

 

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

From start to finish, the film is suffused with Eddie Murphyness, his elevated sense of himself and his desire to do 'what no one else has done before.'"

 
 
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