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The Valet: Another Unfunny Farce From Francis Veber
Of all of Francis Veber’s farces (The Dinner Game, La Cage aux Folles, The Closet, etc.), this is…
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Everything’s Gone Green : Winsome Tale of Vancouver Slacker
With, say, a Fox Searchlight or some other mini-major behind it, director Paul Fox’s charming adaptation of Doug…
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Little Children and Other New Releases
Bored suburban dad must choose between Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly.
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Civic Duty: Post-9/11 Paranoia as Subtle as Gitmo Waterboarding
Playing a creep even colder than the stiffs he tended on Six Feet Under, Peter Krause makes a…
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The Queen, Planet Earth, and More
Payback: the Director’s Cut Paramount, $19.99 This is no standard-issue repackaging of a failed film, with a few…
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In The Condemned, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin Makes Like De Niro Not!
Can someone explain where a movie executive-produced by World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon gets off lecturing viewers…
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Paul Rudd Helps Rescue the ’70s From Ford-era Kitsch in Diggers
A death in the family forces Hunt (Paul Rudd), a Long Island clam digger, to face up to…
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Ex-Seattle Director Turns Queer Eye Candy Into Fluff in Boy Culture
Boy Culture is a film made by people just smart enough to acknowledge that the tropes of modern…
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The Occupied Territory
Homegrown terrorists fight an overextended foreign empire in The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Sound familiar?
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Late night cartoon humor is processed into a belly bomb.