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MADAGASCAR
Release: May 05 - Review: 16 Apr 07

Mad at Gascar.

The action is loud, slapstick, colorful and - unless you are eight - generally unfunny.
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MAFIA
Release: Jul 98 - Review: 7 Dec 06

"What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?"

This movie is the severed horse's head bleeding all over the pajamas of intelligent moviegoers everywhere.
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THE MAIDEN HEIST
Release: Oct 09 - Review: 20 Nov 09

Beauty is in the hands of the Beholders.

A quaint little heist comedy, with a nifty romantic resolution...
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MALCOLM X
Release: Nov 92 - Review: 11 Feb 09

Malcolm in the Shizzle.

Before MLK, Before O, there was - X.
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MANHATTAN
Release: Apr 79 - Review: 13 Jun 10

Allen's Town.

On the island city of MANHATTAN, Woody Allen's masterful study of how every person is an island.
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MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
Release: Nov 07 - Review: 6 Apr 09

The Family that frays together...

What do you get when you reunite two high maintenance sisters after years of not speaking to each other? Higher maintenance.
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MARLEY & ME
Release: Dec 08 - Review: 27 Apr 09

The Pursuit of Crappyness.
I guess dog lovers think this is funny? Like Hurricane Katrina was funny to New Orleans.
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MATCH POINT
Release: Jan 06 - Review: 2 Sep 06

Unmatched.

Woody Allen is like Clint Eastwood - well, not in terms of Man With No Name, raptor-eyed, iconic screen presence - but as a film-maker. The older he gets, the more mature and well-made his films become.
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ME, MYSELF AND IRENE
Release: Jun 00 - Review: Oct 01

So Much Effort, So Little Movie.

Jim Carrey in another 10-star performance. Alas, for a mere 7-star movie.
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MEET THE FOCKERS
Release: Dec 04 - Review: 9 Apr 06

Fock This!

There are two big laughs in MEET THE FOCKERS - but I can't remember where they are.
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MEMENTO
Release: Mar 01 - Review: 28 Nov 06

The Reverse Genius Principle.

Christopher Nolan has crafted a film where the clues to a murder fall neatly OUT of place. Backwards.
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MILK
Release: Nov 08 - Review: 9 Apr 09

Got Rights?

MILK follows the short, comet-across-the-skies career of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), the first gay official elected to public office in the Close-minded United Hypocrite States of America.
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MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Release: Jan 05 - Review: 19 jUL 10

Punch drunk love.

Clint Eastwood's magnificent tone-poem of determination, respect, redemption, salvation, loyalty... oh, and there's some boxing and stuff...
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MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET 1994
Release: Nov 94 - Review: 30 Mar 06

A Muddle-Headed Miracle
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...one of those well-intentioned "dangerous" movies which purport to wholesome "family" entertainment, whilst insidiously intimating that intelligence and reason are only for fools.
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MISSION TO MARS
Release: Mar 00 - Review: 29 May 06

Mission To Farce.

... exhibiting so many misdemeanors, misrepresentations, misapplied physics laws, missteps and misapprehension of spacefaring dialect that one wonders which second-grader took three months off school to helm it.
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MOBY DICK
Release: Jun 56 - Review: 3 Dec 09

Taming the Beast of Man.

So there I am, big white sperm whale, enjoying the ocean green, going about my whaley business, when along comes Cap'n Ahab and harpoons me! Without so much as a "By your leave!"
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MONSTER HOUSE
Release: Jun 06 - Review: 20 Feb 07

Property Impropriety.

Adults will be technically delighted, teens might be somewhat amused and little kids won't even conceptualize the psychotic horror beneath the surface scares.
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MONSTER-IN-LAW
Release: May 05 - Review: 18 May 06

Dogwalker Meets Bitch.

... though she has barely made a clutch of films worth remembering, Fonda's family name deserves better than to be sullied with moronic sewage spill such as this.
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MONSTERS VS ALIENS
Release: Mar 09 - Review: 24 Oct 09

Monstrous Alienation.

MONSTER VS ALIENS is a suitably giggly concept, well executed in 3D animation, well written, with funny characters and a straightforward storyline that kiddies will understand. Yet it fails for a fundamental reason - it advocates Guantánamo Bay!
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MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Release: Mar 75 - Review: 4 Aug 07

How we know the Earth to be Banana-Shaped.

...Python schools Hollywood on the Shakespearean value of playing all the parts yourselves, attending to authenticity in set dressing and costuming, and using really, really silly voices.
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MOON
Release: Jul 09 - Review: 30 Mar 10

Space Oddity.

...an intelligent, thoughtful, unsettling, dialog-driven drama and the first true science fiction movie in a light year.
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MR AND MRS SMITH
Release: Jun 05 - Review: 18 May 08

Emasculation Proclamation.

Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to popcorn and die – that’s how stupid this movie treats us.
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MR BROOKS
Release: Jun 07 - Review: 3 Feb 09

Serial-licious.

Serial killer. Not a sympathetic role, but in MR. BROOKS, Kevin Costner dives into the psychotic title character with a violinist's verve.
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MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS
Release: Jan 96 - Review: 17 Mar 10

Mopus Opus.

A well-intentioned redemption movie that follows all its formulas sweetly, then tries one last tear-jerk that just makes us feel dirty...
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MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
Release: Oct 39 - Review: 31 Oct 09

Pure as the driven ho.

...embarrassing idealistic fantasy. Without any solutions. It relies on the age-old tactic of being a drama queen to get through the armor of corrupt politicians.
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MR WOODCOCK
Release: Sep 07 - Review: 18 Dec 08

Wooden Cack.

It's BAD SANTA meets any Will Ferrell sports movie. Which means it's Billy Bob Thornton in a comedy that really sucks.
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MULTIPLICITY
Release: Jul 96 - Review: 24 Jan 10

Keaton's Bravura Quadriformance.

One person sells MULTIPLICITY: Michael Keaton. And Michael Keaton. And Michael Keaton. And Michael Keaton.
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MUNICH
Release: Dec 05 - Review: 8 Jan 06

An Ingenious Fantasy by a Fantasy Genius.

MUNICH is not about Munich. Nor is it about events which followed the massacre of Israeli athletes. It is about Steven Spielberg's ego.
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MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND
Release: Jul 06 - Review: 24 Feb 10

High Maintenance Heroine.

It's a very funny movie - even WITH the double-standard woman-empowering out of control.
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