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The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (review)

Fri, Jan 11, 2008
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Three ordinary, modern-day, working-class veggies are dragged back in time, where they are mistaken for pirate-esque heroes who have to help a pretty green princess do something or other on the high seas.

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The Bucket List movie review: dead-end boys

Tue, Jan 08, 2008
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I was not crying, I tell you, not crying by the end of The Bucket List. It’s just that the screening room was hot and dry and my eyes were itchy.

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Grace Is Gone (review)

Fri, Jan 04, 2008
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There are enough tender and nicely realized touches in this family drama to make you wish the overall effect was more, well, affecting.

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There Will Be Blood movie review: Citizen Plainview

Fri, Dec 28, 2007
29 comments

There Will Be Blood slaps you in the face. It’s Joe Pesci in Goodfellas raging, “Do I amuse you? Do I entertain you?” in that way that suggests that it could not give two figs what you think of it.

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Smiley Face (review)

Wed, Dec 26, 2007
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Maybe this is funny if you’re actually stoned. When taken sober, not so much.

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Hula Girls (review)

Wed, Dec 26, 2007
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Genuinely and cheerfully uplifting…

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Antonia (review)

Wed, Dec 26, 2007
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Triumphs over other similar movies with its dedication to authenticity and its refusal to accede to sentimentality…

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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (review)

Mon, Dec 24, 2007
15 comments

Think *Free Willy* meets director Jay Russell’s own *My Dog Skip*…

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Honeydripper (review)

Mon, Dec 24, 2007
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John Sayles’ latest movie, his 16th, is another wonder of beautifully observant cinema, a sneakily magical immersion in a lost place and time…

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The Great Debaters (review)

Mon, Dec 24, 2007
4 comments

Denzel Washington has done it before, so why wouldn’t he do it again?

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