Category: Movie Reviews
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50 First Dates
Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Sean Astin, Missi Pyle, Rob Schneider Studio: Sony Rating: 5.5/10 Corporate Line: Henry Roth (Sandler), a veterinarian at an aquarium in Hawaii, falls in love with a girl, Lucy (Barrymore), with short-term memory loss, but he has to keep getting her to fall in love with him every time they…
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Barbershop 2
Cast: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Garcelle Beauvais , Queen Latifah, Eve Studio: MGM Rating: 5.5/10 Corporate Line: Calvin, Eddie, Terri, Jimmy, Isaac, Ricky, and Dinka are open for business again at Calvin’s Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business. Calvin is again…
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My Boss’s Daughter
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Carmen Electra, Andy Richter, Molly Shannon Studio: Touchstone Rating: 3/10 Corporate Line: When his mean boss asks him to housesit, a young man (Kutcher) tries to use it as an opportunity to win the heart of his boss’s daughter (Reid), on whom he has long had a crush. What he…
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Under The Tuscan Sun
Cast: Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Dan Bucatinsky Studio: Touchstone Rating: 4/10 An American lawyer (Lane) quits her stressful job and travels to Tuscany , Italy looking for a new life, deciding to buy a derelict villa near the village of Cortona . While rebuilding her new home and learning how to…
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The Perfect Score
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen Studio: Paramount Rating: 3/10 Corporate Line: Six high school students band together and develop a plan to steal the answers for the S.A.T. in order to prevent the test from unfairly defining who they’ll become. Each student in the group has his or her own set of circumstances that leads…
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The Big Bounce
Cast: Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: Set on the exotic North Shore of Oahu, The Big Bounce stars Owen Wilson as a likeable drifter who hooks up with a thrill-loving woman (Sara Foster) specializing in good looks and petty crime. When she tries to seduce…
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Monster
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Bubba Baker Studio: New Market Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Aileen Wuornos (Theron) had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan , becoming a prostitute (and pregnant) by the age of 13. Wuornos eventually moved to Florida where she became a…
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The Butterfly Effect
Cast: Ashton Kutcher , Amy Smart , Eldon Henson , Eric Stoltz , Ethan Suplee Studio: new line cinema Rating: 3/10 Corporate Line: A young man (Kutcher) struggling with the psychological effects of sublimated childhood memories devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body, but he finds that every trip…
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Along Came Polly
Cast: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hank Azaria Studio: Universal Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: Ben Stiller plays risk-averse Reuben Feffer, whose best-laid plans for life and love careen wildly off track when his bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor. Stunned, humiliated and in the grip of…
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The Shield: The Complete Second Season
Cast: Michael Chiklis Studio: Fox Rating: 9/10 Corporate Line: 2002 Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2002 Television Critics Association Award Winner for Individual Achievement in Drama. Michael Chiklis returned to series television this year in the groundbreaking drama THE SHIELD starring as “Detective Vic Mackey,” leader of the elite…