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Frank Houston

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Superman Returns (2006) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “Like many superhero movies, Superman Returns relies on special effects to create the swooshing sense of exuberance that should also be a part of the storytelling.” – Palm Beach Daily News Jun 28, 2006 Full Review Cars (2006) 74% 3/4 EDIT “Cars is a pleasant joyride through some spectacular terrain. But from start to finish, there isn't a curve in the highway that you don't see coming from miles away.” – Palm Beach Daily News Jun 9, 2006 Full Review Friends With Money (2006) 72% 3/4 EDIT “An appealingly low-key look at friendships and status, and how the two co-exist, sometimes uncomfortably.” – Palm Beach Daily News Apr 20, 2006 Full Review Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Infectiously fun.” – Palm Beach Daily News Mar 2, 2006 Full Review The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) 84% 4/4 EDIT “By turns brutal and sadistic, humorous and moralistic, Jones weaves a tale that has the moral heft of a fable and the gritty realism of 1970s cinema.” – Palm Beach Daily News Feb 24, 2006 Full Review Why We Fight (2005) 78% 3/4 EDIT “A well-researched, impassioned, talking-head-filled treatise on the militarization of America.” – Palm Beach Daily News Feb 14, 2006 Full Review Match Point (2005) 77% 3.5/4 EDIT “This sexy morality play further bolsters the case for Woody Allen's continued vitality and relevance.” – Palm Beach Daily News Jan 19, 2006 Full Review Brokeback Mountain (2005) 88% 4/4 EDIT “Lee has made one of the most memorable - and undoubtedly the most important and relevant - love stories in movie history.” – Palm Beach Daily News Jan 18, 2006 Full Review Munich (2005) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “Purports to raise questions about the human toll of retribution - on its victims as well as on its practitioners. But Spielberg has no real tatste for the complexities.” – Palm Beach Daily News Dec 22, 2005 Full Review King Kong (2005) 84% 4/4 EDIT “A nearly seamless blend of cutting edge technology with much of the original's sensibility - Jackson's giant ape may be a special effect, but he is also a real character.” – Palm Beach Daily News Dec 21, 2005 Full Review Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) 35% 2/4 EDIT “As gorgeous as it is lifeless.” – Palm Beach Daily News Dec 14, 2005 Full Review Syriana (2005) 73% 2/4 EDIT “A political thriller should have a little mystery to it, but Syriana, while certainly noble in its ambition, is too indecipherable to add up to a great or even good movie.” – Palm Beach Daily News Dec 9, 2005 Full Review The Squid and the Whale (2005) 91% 4/4 EDIT “You could call it the filet of the divorce movie genre.” – Palm Beach Daily News Dec 9, 2005 Full Review Walk the Line (2005) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Walk the Line is buoyed by such sharp writing and strong performances that it floats above the tired conventions of the movie biography.” – Palm Beach Daily News Dec 9, 2005 Full Review Separate Lies (2005) 72% 3.5/4 EDIT “Wilkinson roars through Separate Lies with all the bitter tenacity of a successful man blindsided by the news that everything in his life is not an unqualified triumph.” – Palm Beach Daily News Oct 20, 2005 Full Review Where the Truth Lies (2005) 41% 3/4 EDIT “A stylized, sin-filled film noir, the film is also a meta-narrative about show business, in which no character bothers with the pretense of seeming to be one thing.” – Palm Beach Daily News Oct 18, 2005 Full Review Grizzly Man (2005) 93% 4/4 EDIT “A haunting documentary about the fine line between devotion and delusion that deepens our appreciation for both animal and human nature.” – Palm Beach Daily News Sep 27, 2005 Full Review A History of Violence (2005) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “With foreboding and tension in almost every shot, Cronenberg's taut thriller doesn't revel in violence, but reflects in ambivalence on its grim consequences.” – Palm Beach Daily News Sep 27, 2005 Full Review The Brothers Grimm (2005) 38% 2/4 EDIT “Gilliam's film is trapped somewhere between fable and comedy. It's as if he is so entranced by his own visual inventiveness that he completely loses sight of his storytelling.” – Palm Beach Daily News Aug 24, 2005 Full Review Broken Flowers (2005) 87% 4/4 EDIT “Don's journey becomes a vision of lost opportunities and paths not taken, and in Murray's hands it is sublime.” – Palm Beach Daily News Aug 10, 2005 Full Review The Aristocrats (2005) 79% 3/4 EDIT “The Aristocrats may not be as insightful as it purports to be, but it is good for a few gut laughs - if you've got the stomach for it.” – Palm Beach Daily News Aug 4, 2005 Full Review Murderball (2005) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Its honesty makes Murderball compelling and rewarding. What makes it so downright entertaining is its subjects' charisma and strength - both spiritual and physical.” – Palm Beach Daily News Jul 14, 2005 Full Review Wedding Crashers (2005) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Wedding Crashers is a comedy that is unabashedly for adults, bless its bawdy, sentimental heart.” – Palm Beach Daily News Jul 13, 2005 Full Review Happy Endings (2005) 54% 3/4 EDIT “In a season of overpriced cookie-cutter movies that underestimate their audience, the ambition and intelligence of Roos' film is a happy outcome indeed.” – Palm Beach Daily News Jul 12, 2005 Full Review Hustle & Flow (2005) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “The movie's effortless charm and earthy naturalism, combined with strong performances from its main and supporting actors, are beguiling enough to draw in any audience” – Palm Beach Daily News Jul 8, 2005 Full Review
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