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Amélie (2001) 90% 4/4 EDIT “It is the feel-good escapist film that most of us need right now, but with a frequent twist of tartness and a cinematic giddiness that intoxicates.” – Palm Beach Post Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 76% A EDIT “Flags of Our Fathers is a complex, contemporary take on a battle that happened more than 60 years ago. It is big, brawny filmmaking, but filled with ideas and questions about then and now. ” – Palm Beach Post Nov 11, 2023 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% 2.5/4 EDIT “In any event, it still plays out like a generic male fantasy without sufficient dramatic motivation.” – Palm Beach Post Sep 9, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “John Leguizamo is a wondrously perverse, pint-sized presence as Toulouse-Lautrec.” – Palm Beach Post Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Mulholland Drive is a twisty, lengthy road, worth cruising into its mysteries.” – Palm Beach Post Jul 11, 2023 Full Review Wild Things (1998) 65% 2.5/4 EDIT “The movie equivalent of an airport novel. It entertains, it moves briskly and you can throw it away at the end of the flight, so no one has to know that you indulged yourself. ” – Palm Beach Post Feb 2, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 79% 2/4 EDIT “The entire cast jumps headfirst into this strained frivolity, acting as willing accomplices to this intermittently amusing, but ultimately pointless, diversion. The problem is with the Coens' jointly written script, which gets lost in its own tangents.” – Palm Beach Post Jan 19, 2023 Full Review Beloved (1998) 71% 3/4 EDIT “As a cerebral ghost story and a bitter slice of history, Beloved is as hard a movie to watch as it is to shake off afterward.” – Palm Beach Post Feb 2, 2022 Full Review Money (2016) B+ EDIT “A violent thriller of captor and captives, with plenty of reversals, adding up to a familiar, but entertaining white knuckle entertainment.” – Palm Beach Post Nov 9, 2016 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 77% EDIT “The role belongs to Ford, and he is his usual sly self, with dry comic delivery and intrepid air, which was always more important than death-defying acrobatics.” – Palm Beach Post May 18, 2008 Full Review Rocket Science (2007) 84% B+ EDIT “Blitz cleverly constructs another tale around a competition and again takes us beneath the surface of those vying for the prize.” – Palm Beach Post Aug 27, 2007 Full Review Bug (2006) 62% B+ EDIT “The film has a few horrific jolts and plenty of violence, but at its core it is simply a mind-twisting head trip.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 24, 2007 Full Review The Valet (2006) 70% B+ EDIT “Veber's script is masterfully constructed to increase the laughs as the scheme grows more and more convoluted.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 19, 2007 Full Review The Ex (2006) 18% C- EDIT “Braff has a natural likability, but the screenplay gives him so many stupid, far-fetched and annoying things to do that The Ex loses credibility quickly.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 19, 2007 Full Review Climates (2006) 73% C EDIT “There is an undeniable beauty to some of [director] Ceylan's imagery, but as drama goes, this film is simply too inert for general audience tastes.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 12, 2007 Full Review The Hoax (2006) 85% B+ EDIT “A gripping little film that is well told and well performed.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Apr 12, 2007 Full Review Color Me Kubrick (2005) 51% B+ EDIT “A ludicrous, but entertaining look at a real-life Kubrick impersonator, played with over-the-top glee by Malkovich.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mar 22, 2007 Full Review Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 73% A- EDIT “Stranger Than Fiction is the most original comedy of the year, a mind-bending tale with one foot in the real world and the other in pure fiction.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 9, 2006 Full Review The Quiet (2005) 22% C- EDIT “In retrospect, it is Belle who manages to acquit herself best with a role that never quite makes sense, but affords her some expressive, silent sequences. Surely she will find other film work and then quietly drop The Quiet from her biography.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sep 23, 2006 Full Review Twelve and Holding (2005) 73% B EDIT “The film careens from crisis to crisis. Yet each time it threatens to spin out of control, [director Michael] Cuesta demonstrates a firm hand that keeps us leaning in with interest.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 6, 2006 Full Review Peaceful Warrior (2006) 26% C- EDIT “Maybe there are worthy films buried in collections of spiritual homilies, but Peaceful Warrior is not one of them.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 6, 2006 Full Review You, Me and Dupree (2006) 21% B- EDIT “You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome but a compilation reel of Wilson's scenes would make for fairly funny viewing.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 6, 2006 Full Review The Ritchie Boys (2004) 100% B+ EDIT “A compelling account of German migrs trained to infiltrate and fight their former countrymen.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 6, 2006 Full Review Boynton Beach Club (2005) 62% EDIT “[D]irector-writer Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) is hoping her target audience will abandon the shuffleboard courts for the multiplex.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 4, 2006 Full Review Running Scared (2006) 41% D EDIT “Presumably patterned after Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, but substantially more graphic, there is surely an audience for this empty brutality, but you would not want to know anyone to whom this picture appeals.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mar 11, 2006 Full Review
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