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Rocket Science

An authentic script on teen angst
Blitz knows his adolescent cruelty and his adult misbehavior, and he details them with barbed wit and compassion.
By TOM MEEK  |  August 15, 2007

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Stardust

A visually lush adaptation
Who knew that Matthew Vaughn had an inner Narnia?
By TOM MEEK  |  August 07, 2007

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Underdog

Lacking the orginal bite
The My Name Is Earl star sounds scruffy enough, but it just doesn’t fit.
By TOM MEEK  |  August 07, 2007

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Who's Your Caddy?

The gamut of taste
In this big-screen vehicle for pop sensation Antwan Andre Patton, nearly every element of the plot rips off the mangy 1980 comedy Caddyshack .
By TOM MEEK  |  August 01, 2007

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The Ten

Hallelujah the hodgepodge
Winona Ryder, for example, plays a newlywed who gets sexually liberated by a dummy (the wooden kind).
By TOM MEEK  |  August 01, 2007

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No Reservations

The side dishes make the feast
The give-and-take among the three leads takes the cake.
By TOM MEEK  |  July 24, 2007

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck + Larry

Mainstream gay-marriage endorsement
Who knew that Adam Sandler had a political movie in him?
By TOM MEEK  |  July 24, 2007

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Talk to Me

Giving Petey Greene his due
Not only do the two actors play off each other with perfect synergy, they also take on the eccentricities of the era and the politics of race.
By TOM MEEK  |  July 11, 2007

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Fido

Dark, potent, gory
It may sound silly, but director Andrew Currie stews together gore, social commentary, screwball camp, and dark comedy with savory potency.
By TOM MEEK  |  July 03, 2007

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The Shining gets squeezed
If you know your Stephen King, then you know haunted hotels have killer pasts.
By TOM MEEK  |  June 27, 2007

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La Môme|La Vie en Rose

A wonder of a bio-pic in lush, matted reds
As Piaf, Marion Cotillard is a lioness in the guise of a bird, with large, luminescent eyes that serve as windows into the singer’s troubled soul.
By TOM MEEK  |  June 13, 2007

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Hostell: Part II

Ocean's Thirteen is the better sequel
Cut a guy’s dick off and feed it to a dog? Just more leftovers.
By TOM MEEK  |  June 13, 2007

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Georgia Rule

An extension of Lohen's bad girl persona
Abusive sex with a minor is no trite matter, yet in  Georgia Rule  it’s bandied about like a tennis ball on a summer day.
By TOM MEEK  |  May 17, 2007

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Jindabyne

Raymond Carver's human tragedy in near perfect form
If you’ve seen Short Cuts , you’ll recall the fishing-trip segment in which Huey Lewis pisses into a stream.
By TOM MEEK  |  May 17, 2007

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The Hip Hop Project

A project in opportunity
Like basketball, hip-hop offers a way out of the inner-city cycle of violence and poverty.
By TOM MEEK  |  May 08, 2007

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The Invisible

Visibly just too bad
In this retooling of the 2002 Swedish film Den Osynlige , David S. Goyer pipes the high-school halls full of class division, bullying, and trendy tunes.
By TOM MEEK  |  May 02, 2007

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Kickin' It Old Skool

Revenge of the Nerds did it better
Eighties nostalgia and breakdancing get sent up in this feeble Jamie Kennedy comedy.
By TOM MEEK  |  May 02, 2007

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Next

A pendantic thriller
If you know your Philip K. Dick, you know screen adaptations of his work are all over the map.
By TOM MEEK  |  May 02, 2007

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The Condemned

A sleeper hold even Stone Cold can't break
Like SNL alums, star wrestlers on their way out get a big-screen vehicle — sort of a retirement gift, no matter how much of a jalopy it is.
By TOM MEEK  |  April 25, 2007

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Offside

A game of universal humanity
The Iranian government has banned Jafar Panahi’s latest contemplation of the oppression of women in Iran.
By TOM MEEK  |  April 25, 2007
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