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Charles Savage

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Secondhand Lions (2003) 60% 3/4 EDIT “Even without handicapping for the limitations of its gentle genre, the film has moments of whimsical humor and thoughtful plotting that soar tantalizingly close to something that could be enjoyed on its own merits.” – Miami Herald Sep 19, 2003 Full Review Underworld (2003) 30% 2/4 EDIT “A loud and relentlessly overstated B-movie, and yet not entirely stupid.” – Miami Herald Sep 18, 2003 Full Review Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) 22% 1.5/4 EDIT “After a few initial pratfalls, the humor gives way to a saccharine pathos as Dickie is supposed to be growing up emotionally and becoming mutually attached to the family. Unbelievable conversations and stupid dance numbers replace the humor.” – Miami Herald Sep 5, 2003 Full Review Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) 25% 1/4 EDIT “A stark regression from the intelligence of the Scream franchise, this teen horror sequel is about as satisfying as low-budget food that's been under the heat lamps too long.” – Miami Herald Aug 29, 2003 Full Review The Medallion (2003) 17% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Medallion exposes Jackie Chan as a shrunken master.” – Miami Herald Aug 22, 2003 Full Review XXX (2002) 48% 2/4 EDIT “This is a movie that wants to do nothing more than show its hero blowing things up, punching bad guys and wooing PG-13 hotties. For what it is trying to be, it's good.” – Miami Herald Aug 8, 2002 Full Review The Master of Disguise (2002) 1% 1/4 EDIT “The Master of Disguise is full of jokes, but just about the only one that provokes widespread giggles from the short-pants set is the villain's tendency to have his maniacal laughing fits cut short by inadvertent toots of flatulence.” – Miami Herald Aug 2, 2002 Full Review Juwanna Mann (2002) 9% EDIT “A sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply.” – Miami Herald Jun 21, 2002 Full Review Bartleby (2001) 36% 2.5/4 EDIT “Though this film can be clumsy, its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial.” – Miami Herald Jun 7, 2002 Full Review The New Guy (2002) 7% 1/4 EDIT “This is nothing but familiar territory.” – Miami Herald May 9, 2002 Full Review Life or Something Like It (2002) 28% 2/4 EDIT “The quirky potential of Herek's background and Jolie's charismatic persona ought to have been shaped into something more interesting than such pseudo-profound fluff.” – Miami Herald Apr 26, 2002 Full Review National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) 18% 1/4 EDIT “The problem is not that it's all derivative, because plenty of funny movies recycle old tropes. The problem is that Van Wilder does little that is actually funny with the material.” – Miami Herald Apr 4, 2002 Full Review Resident Evil (2002) 36% EDIT “Such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show.” – Miami Herald Mar 15, 2002 Full Review 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) 40% 3/4 EDIT “The material may be lightweight, but it's been shaped into a film that deserves to become a classic in an admittedly lightweight genre.” – Miami Herald Mar 7, 2002 Full Review Queen of the Damned (2002) 17% 2/4 EDIT “Aaliyah rarely dampens her diva persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with Townsend. When she speaks, her creepy Egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music.” – Miami Herald Feb 22, 2002 Full Review Big Fat Liar (2002) 45% EDIT “The result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel.” – Miami Herald Feb 7, 2002 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) 74% EDIT “The film excels at the small touches.” – Miami Herald Jan 24, 2002 Full Review Orange County (2002) 47% EDIT “The essential problem in Orange County is that, having created an unusually vivid set of characters worthy of its strong cast, the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do.” – Miami Herald Jan 11, 2002 Full Review Joe Somebody (2001) 21% EDIT “There's plenty of ABC After School Special dialogue here, along the lines of 'You've gotta find people in life who are there for you whether you're somebody or not.'” – Miami Herald Dec 21, 2001 Full Review How High (2001) 25% EDIT “Most of the movie is simply a series of sex-and-drug adventures as Method Man and Redman romp through campus and play pranks on the dean.” – Miami Herald Dec 20, 2001 Full Review Not Another Teen Movie (2001) 32% EDIT “Like the generations it entertains, the vitality of the teen movie genre waxes and wanes.” – Miami Herald Dec 13, 2001 Full Review Behind Enemy Lines (2001) 36% EDIT “Moore, just up from television commercials, relies too heavily on a pastiche of stylistic elements cribbed from others.” – Miami Herald Nov 29, 2001 Full Review The One (2001) 13% EDIT “When one actor plays both hero and villain, the viewer knows that what is being shown is not an authentic dance.” – Miami Herald Nov 1, 2001 Full Review Thirteen Ghosts (2001) 19% EDIT “The set design of Thirteen Ghosts may have been expensive, but its thrills are cheap.” – Miami Herald Oct 25, 2001 Full Review Baise-moi (2000) 22% EDIT “The movie's only value is in unwittingly defining more clearly how played out the whole transgressing-boundaries- as-art thing has become.” – Miami Herald Oct 19, 2001 Full Review
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