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David Germain

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Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% 2.5/4 EDIT “Give an infinite number of chimpanzees an infinite number of film crews, and odds are none will make a movie that looks as cool as Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. A few of those chimps might come up with something more interesting, though.” – Associated Press Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% EDIT “The film twists time and space, perspective and proportion, to its own ends. On one level, the movie is the most elaborate and original music video ever made. On another, the film is a simple story of love and loss cloaked in garish splendor.” – Associated Press Aug 30, 2023 Full Review Hubble (2010) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The view is humbling and heavenly enough to make you feel puny and exhilarated at the same time.” – Associated Press Sep 23, 2020 Full Review The Story of Us (1999) 25% A- EDIT “A funny, teary, endearing movie that marks [Rob Reiner's] return to the romantic comedy formula he mined so well in When Harry Met Sally.” – Associated Press Apr 7, 2020 Full Review Ice Princess (2005) 52% EDIT “There's nothing wrong with that old fashioned, squeaky-clean Disney formula. When it's well done, it can be a refreshing break from the crude comedy of most family films today. Yet Ice Princess is not particularly well done.” – Associated Press Mar 22, 2019 Full Review The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) 85% EDIT “The sumptuous production, eclectic score, grand performances and engrossing moments of suspense make Ripley one the year's finer offerings.” – Associated Press Feb 21, 2019 Full Review Radio (2003) 34% EDIT “Gooding and Harris' characters are too pure and high-minded to exist in the real world. Yet the small-town sense of community and compassion they evoke is so goodhearted, the movie manages an amiable, if fleeting, rise in spirits.” – Associated Press Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Runaway Jury (2003) 73% EDIT “Director Gary Fleder's brisk, assured pacing also makes the implausibilities go down easier.” – Associated Press Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Mystic River (2003) 89% EDIT “Eastwood and his actors create a brooding drama whose events and interrelationships seem surreally improbable yet painfully authentic.” – Associated Press Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Being John Malkovich (1999) 94% EDIT “Fabulously funny and delightfully disturbed, "Being John Malkovich'' is the ultimate voyeur movie, a dark and at times malevolent take on what it's like to be in someone else's skull, looking out.” – Associated Press Jun 12, 2018 Full Review The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) 42% EDIT “While the movie continually teeters on the brink of abject corniness, it never quite topples off. And it doesn't hurt to have Robert De Niro, Rene Russo and Jason Alexander camping it up as cartoon villains come to life.” – Associated Press Jan 18, 2018 Full Review Hannibal (2001) 39% EDIT “The story line of Hannibal is far less interesting than Silence of the Lambs and lacks the emotional subtlety of its predecessor. However, Hannibal is visually and aurally sumptuous, powered by Hans Zimmer's lovely score and brimming with flashy imagery.” – Associated Press Jan 18, 2018 Full Review Say It Isn't So (2001) 9% EDIT “Like the failed humor, the sight gags aren't so much bad taste as merely bad.” – Associated Press Jan 18, 2018 Full Review Chuck & Buck (2000) 85% EDIT “Chuck & Buck is a dark misfit of a movie that's sweet, scary, thought-provoking and off-putting all in one package. It's a bold, original achievement.” – Associated Press Jan 18, 2018 Full Review The Contender (2000) 76% EDIT “The movie has plenty going for it: a terrific cast led by Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges and Gary Oldman, a captivating story line, a sharp script. Most important, The Contender has timing.” – Associated Press Jan 18, 2018 Full Review Rent (2005) 46% EDIT “High hopes, flat results.” – Associated Press Jan 17, 2018 Full Review Sleepover (2004) 15% EDIT “Sleepover objectifies early teenage girls in a manner that's disagreeable and indelicate at best, cheap and vulgar at worst.” – Associated Press Jan 17, 2018 Full Review X2 (2003) 85% EDIT “Performances are solid throughout, with the actors managing to straight-face their way through some truly inane dialogue.” – Associated Press Jul 14, 2015 Full Review Blade II (2002) 57% EDIT “Blade II is a better vampire movie than recent entries such as Queen of the Damned or Dracula 2000. That said, Wesley Snipes' return as slayer of the undead still is fairly anemic.” – Associated Press Jul 14, 2015 Full Review Saw (2004) 50% EDIT “How such a cruelly empty and infantile movie got made is mystery enough. More puzzling is why Cary Elwes, Danny Glover and Monica Potter would sign on as co-stars.” – Associated Press Oct 27, 2014 Full Review Bad Boys II (2003) 23% EDIT “Producer Bruckheimer and director Bay have sunk to a new low for irresponsible, inhuman violence, dragging Will Smith and Martin Lawrence along for a ghastly, deafening display of bloodshed.” – Associated Press Jun 6, 2014 Full Review Pearl Harbor (2001) 24% EDIT “For all the 118 actors listed, the movie offers almost no sense of authentic humanity. The faces the filmmakers plaster on their characters are as flat and stereotyped as those on war-recruitment posters.” – Associated Press May 27, 2014 Full Review The Rookie (2002) 84% EDIT “Morris ultimately lasted two partial seasons in the majors, and the film's rendering of his minor-league struggle is so enjoyable you want to see more of that and less of the everyday life preceding it.” – Associated Press May 12, 2014 Full Review The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 81% EDIT “While the situations sometimes feel forced, Anderson has mounted an elegant production, beautifully filmed and accentuated by pleasant narration from Alec Baldwin and classy storybook transitions.” – Associated Press Mar 4, 2014 Full Review The Polar Express (2004) 55% EDIT “People in Hollywood should never work with children or animals, W.C. Fields once said. Maybe that should be expanded to hyper-realistic computer-generated children and reindeer, too.” – Associated Press Dec 9, 2013 Full Review
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