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Review of Shopgirl (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 20 Oct 2005

Danes, who has seemed too artificially precocious in most of her work before this, delivers her most intelligent, genuinely grown-up…

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Review of Where the Truth Lies (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 13 Oct 2005

Nailing comedian Lanny Morris' sleazy come-ons and barely veiled air of pained regret, Bacon has rarely been better…

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Review of Elizabethtown (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 11 Oct 2005

The blandest, most emotionally inexpressive performance yet from the least distinguished member of The Lord of the Rings' ensemble cast…

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Review of Two for the Money (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 06 Oct 2005

At least when Pacino does one for the money, he doesn't look nearly as miserable as De Niro does in similar cinematic circumstances…

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Review of Two for the Money (1972)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 06 Oct 2005

At least when Pacino does one for the money, he doesn't look nearly as miserable as De Niro does in similar cinematic circumstances…

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Review of Serenity (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 29 Sep 2005

As joyless, lurching, and filled with dull exposition as the TV show was giddy, fleet-footed, and packed with lively conversation…

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Review of Serenity (2015)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 29 Sep 2005

As joyless, lurching, and filled with dull exposition as the TV show was giddy, fleet-footed, and packed with lively conversation…

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Review of Just Like Heaven (1930)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 15 Sep 2005

Somehow, the film thrives on the opposites-attract tension of throwing together the angular blonde goddess with the unconventionally…

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Review of Just Like Heaven (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 15 Sep 2005

Somehow, the film thrives on the opposites-attract tension of throwing together the angular blonde goddess with the unconventionally…

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Review of Transporter 2 (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 01 Sep 2005

The scene involving a bomb planted on the bottom of Martin's Audi A8 is bound to provoke an astonished gasp of disbelief from even the most…

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Review of Pretty Persuasion (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 17 Aug 2005

It's both the joy and folly of Pretty Persuasion that it attempts to skewer Beverly Hills, underage schoolgirls, post-9/11 America, TV news…

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Review of The Skeleton Key (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 11 Aug 2005

Director Ian Softley seems shamelessly more interested in getting Kate Hudson into gratuitous shower scenes than into the nuances of her character…

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Review of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 04 Aug 2005

With a hideously fake tan and an eerie smile, Simpson recites her lines with a chipper hollowness that makes it seem like she has just…

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Review of Wedding Crashers (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 14 Jul 2005

The scene at a crowded dinner table is bound to become the most widely referenced sex gag since Cameron Diaz discovered a new kind of hair…

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Review of Lords of Dogtown (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 02 Jun 2005

I couldn't help but think of the episode of The Simpsons where the Itchy & Scratchy canine sidekick so self-consciously 'in-your-face…

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Review of Mindhunters (2004)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 14 May 2005

How much fun you have depends on whether or not you can warm up to the idea of Agatha Christie done in the wildly overbaked style of Deep Blue Sea…

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Review of Madison (2008)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 21 Apr 2005

Unembarrassed with its rah-rah populism, the movie is definitely anti-cynicism, and often quite enjoyable in its sincerity…

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Review of Madison (2005)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 21 Apr 2005

Unembarrassed with its rah-rah populism, the movie is definitely anti-cynicism, and often quite enjoyable in its sincerity…

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Review of Winter Solstice (2004)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 17 Apr 2005

Director Sternfeld's sense of drama is so underdeveloped that he pretends swirling characters in inert tornadoes of grief is enough for a…

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Review of Winter Solstice (1974)

By Brett Buckalew (107) for FilmStew.com (638) on 17 Apr 2005

Director Sternfeld's sense of drama is so underdeveloped that he pretends swirling characters in inert tornadoes of grief is enough for a…

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