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Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 28 Jan 2009

Ask ten people who've seen this movie what the title's miracle is referring to, and you'll get a couple of different guesses and a whole…

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Review of Meet Dave (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 27 Jan 2009

If you think Eddie Murphy lost his mojo about 20 years ago and has been lacking clear comedic judgment ever since, then you've got to see…

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Review of Revolutionary Road (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 26 Jan 2009

This is a movie by and for the actors, especially for Kate Winslet, whose prodigious talents are well used throughout this bleak, troubling…

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Review of Mary Poppins (1964)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 23 Jan 2009

Arguably, it already seemed dated by the early 1970s, within a decade of its 1964 release…

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Review of Lakeview Terrace (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 21 Jan 2009

As a thriller, it's passable, but at what point do we say to director Neil LaBute, Enough already with the misogynistic themes…

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Review of Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 20 Jan 2009

While it's been a long time since I trashed the original Stargate movie, I must say that this latest incarnation leaves me about equally cold…

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Review of The Wackness (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 19 Jan 2009

Dumb title? Certainly. Perfectly proportioned? Nope. True-to-life? Certainly not. An enjoyably quirky indie comedy? You bet…

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Review of The Pink Panther (2006)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 16 Jan 2009

I hope nobody misunderstands when I say: Steve Martin, you are no Peter Sellers. And while I'm at it; Shawn Levy, you are no Blake Edwards…

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Review of City of Ember (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 13 Jan 2009

In addition to being fascinating and exciting, City of Ember invites its young viewers to constantly ask questions and never give up…

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Review of Space Chimps (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 12 Jan 2009

It's likely that few people will ever even notice the success it might have been or the unremarkable failure it turned out to be…

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Review of Babylon A.D. (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 12 Jan 2009

With bland protagonists and power figures unpleasant enough for us to want them out of our sight more than we want them defeated, it…

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Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 06 Jan 2009

A fascinating tall tale until the incredible Tilda Swinton appears, vulnerable, full of regrets and compelling us to start thinking, but…

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Review of Swing Vote (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 06 Jan 2009

Goes for cheap laughs with its politics, but wins back at least some respect when it presents its central characters as real people and…

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Review of Swing Vote (1999)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 06 Jan 2009

Goes for cheap laughs with its politics, but wins back at least some respect when it presents its central characters as real people and…

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Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 03 Jan 2009

The story is predictably pedestrian, the conflict laughable and the dialogue too lifeless to be laughable, but closer to that than…

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Review of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 01 Jan 2009

It's like getting two movies for the price of one %u2013 light romantic comedy and a relatively effective human drama at the same time…

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Review of Southland Tales (2007)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 30 Dec 2008

This is not just another hodgepodge of a movie that's all noise and excess; writer/ director Richard Kelly has a point here; he has plenty to say…

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Review of Eagle Eye (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 21 Dec 2008

Lowest-common-denominator filmmaking at its most discouraging, with makers who believe moviegoers too stupid to think, so instead opt for…

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Review of American Teen (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 20 Dec 2008

Doesn't take full advantage of the opportunity offered by a year-long glimpse into young lives…

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Review of Pineapple Express (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 19 Dec 2008

More an inconsistent collection of gags and skits than a cohesive feature, but the highs are funny and the lows hard to get worked up…

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