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TOM MEEK

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Review: New In Town

Predictable squalls of melodrama and touching resolve flow like "poop through a tall Swede"
In the teeth of the recession, this fluffy Renée Zellweger vehicle uncorks a fairy-tale panacea for the latest CNN economic update.
By TOM MEEK  |  January 27, 2009

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Review: Outlander

It's the viewer who's in real danger
One can only imagine writer/director Howard McCain on vacation at a Norwegian fjord and gazing up into the starry night and hatching this brilliant idea: Beowulf from Outer Space.
By TOM MEEK  |  January 20, 2009

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Review: My Bloody Valentine 3-D

Not for the squeamish
Back in the early '80s, before Michael, Jason, and Freddy took off as slasher all-stars, there were other less famous genre seedlings, like the homonymous source for this pedestrian hack-'em-up about a pickax-wielding wonk gone berserk in a sleepy mining town.
By TOM MEEK  |  January 20, 2009

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Review: Hotel for Dogs

Aw-shucks cuteness
In Thor Freudenthal's heartwarming wag based on Lois Duncan's book, the strays aren't your usual mangy curs but well-groomed pedigreed show dogs.
By TOM MEEK  |  January 20, 2009

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Review: The Unborn

Oy
'Tis the season of the Hollywood dumps.
By TOM MEEK  |  January 13, 2009

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Holding firm

Bill Duke's Not Easily Broken
 It's an uneven yet affecting effort, clotted with cliché and stereotype early on but becoming confluent and even provocative as it places a salient spin on responsibility, race, and going the distance.
By TOM MEEK  |  January 09, 2009

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Review: The Tale of Despereaux

A glorified hunk of cheese
This animated mouse epic aspires to grand scale but falters in its execution.
By TOM MEEK  |  December 16, 2008

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Review: Delgo

Somewhat less impressive than the Geico gecko
In a far-away animated land resembling Middle-earth by way of George Lucas's Clone Wars , two races clash over a common territory in a situation akin to the current conflict in the Middle East.
By TOM MEEK  |  December 16, 2008

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Nothing Like the Holidays

A fruitcake is a fruitcake is a fruitcake
Alfredo De Villa's uneven regifting of Home for the Holidays wraps up a Latin family Christmas in familiar paper and bows.
By TOM MEEK  |  December 11, 2008

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Punisher: War Zone

Punishment level high
As former commando turned Cosa Nostra terminator Frank Castle, Ray Stevenson is pretty much what you'd expect — all business.
By TOM MEEK  |  December 11, 2008

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Transporter 3

A poor man’s version of the latest James Bond outing
The new Transporter spills out in a jumble of frenetic action vignettes.
By TOM MEEK  |  November 26, 2008

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The Haunting of Molly Hartley

A flimsy ghostly-possession puff piece
It’s like a bad teen drama with a spook factor.
By TOM MEEK  |  November 05, 2008

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RocknRolla

Plot holes spackled over with slick visual wizardry
Wilkinson and Butler put in game performances, and the rest of the eclectic ensemble perform with gusto.
By TOM MEEK  |  November 06, 2008

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Saw V

The previous entries have bled dry every variation on tormenting a victim
As always, several unluckies get to squirm through a maze of death; meanwhile, a rogue FBI agent (Scott Patterson) tries to make sense of it all.  
By TOM MEEK  |  October 31, 2008

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Sex Drive

The usual preoccupation with nut sacks and virgins
Sex Drive doesn’t venture anywhere new, but it makes the same old scenery amusing again.  
By TOM MEEK  |  October 15, 2008

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Quarantine

About as scary as a creaky door
Every second horror film these days seems to be shot by some desperate character with a hand-held digital camera who half the time is running for his or her life.  
By TOM MEEK  |  October 15, 2008

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Morning Light

A curio of a documentary
If it weren’t for the ritzy camera work and the trumped-up soundtrack orchestrated by directors Paul Crowder and Mark Monroe, this tub would be dead in the water.  
By TOM MEEK  |  October 15, 2008

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The Express

Football bio-pic offers a reflection on our not-so-proud past
Ernie Davis may be the greatest running back never to play in the NFL.  
By TOM MEEK  |  October 09, 2008

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Beverly Hills Chihuahua

A kooky Disney cross-breed
About the only one who unleashes any enthusiasm is Jamie Lee Curtis as Chloe’s obscenely rich owner.  
By TOM MEEK  |  October 09, 2008

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Appaloosa (2008)

A revisionist Western in the vein of Unforgiven
From its shaky start, you’d think Appaloosa a first-time effort, but director/star Ed Harris already has Pollock to his credit.  
By TOM MEEK  |  October 02, 2008
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