Rachel Deahl

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Apr 16, 2004 With its French Canadian setting and strong (rather, strong-looking) cast, Taking Lives is elevated above its genre cliches. Go to Full Review Taking Lives (2004) 21% 54%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Apr 16, 2004 ...Director Todd Phillips (Road Trip, Old School) proves once again that he has a hand for feel-good comedies. Go to Full Review Starsky & Hutch (2004) 63% 49%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Apr 16, 2004 The Perfect Score is amenable, enjoyable and as quickly forgotten as all those tricks you learned in your SAT prep class. Go to Full Review The Perfect Score (2004) 15% 44%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Jan 8, 2004 Coming up short on just about everything - from the casting and dialog to the action sequences - Woo rides the high of a strong story into the ground. Go to Full Review Paycheck (2003) 27% 45%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Jan 8, 2004 ...It does achieve, if only intermittently, the aching feelings of love and loss, for both country and countrymen, that Frazier depicted so unforgettably in his novel. Go to Full Review Cold Mountain (2003) 69% 77%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Dec 23, 2003 The Return of the King delivers the same awe-inspiring visuals as Jackson's two previous films without ever coming off like it's simply 'more of the same.' Go to Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% 86%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Dec 18, 2003 ...Winds up trying to tug at your heart strings more than strike your funny bone Go to Full Review Stuck on You (2003) 61% 35%

Rachel Deahl Fast Forward Weekly (Calgary) Nov 25, 2003 ...ultimately reduced to a barrage of unintentionally hilarious one-liners. Go to Full Review Gothika (2003) 15% 45%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Nov 5, 2003 ...Although the story's high on gore and low on almost everything else, Leatherface still inspires a hell of a lot more fear than Freddy or Jason. Go to Full Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) 37% 58%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Nov 5, 2003 ...With School of Rock director Richard Linklater delivers a warm-hearted and irresistible valentine to the music he loves. Go to Full Review The School of Rock (2003) 92% 64%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Oct 1, 2003 ...Some unexpectedly good subplots and beautiful scenery make this fluff particularly palatable. Go to Full Review Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) 62% 78%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Oct 1, 2003 Matchstick Men ultimately plays its audience for the fool. And while the sting is well orchestrated and enjoyable, the effect is fleeting. Go to Full Review Matchstick Men (2003) 82% 74%

Rachel Deahl Local Planet Weekly (Spokane, WA) Aug 20, 2003 Thankfully the director who made Dances With Wolves shines through here, mostly overshadowing that guy who gave us Waterworld and The Postman. Go to Full Review Open Range (2003) 79% 84%

Rachel Deahl Pulse Weekly Aug 13, 2003 Played out like a cop show that should have been cancelled seasons ago, S.W.A.T. is nothing if not boring. Go to Full Review S.W.A.T. (2003) 48% 52%

Rachel Deahl Pulse Weekly Aug 13, 2003 Luckily the creative minds behind the third installment in this teen trilogy haven't run out of things for their young stars to hump... Go to Full Review American Wedding (2003) 53% 63%

Rachel Deahl Pulse Weekly Aug 13, 2003 Although Jolie is perfect in the lead with her cartoonishly provocative figure, the comely starlet can't make this shoddy story work. Go to Full Review Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) 24% 44%

Rachel Deahl Pulse Weekly Aug 13, 2003 Clocking in at a shockingly long two and a half hours, this campy Evil Dead homage from director Gore Verbinski is nonetheless giddy fun. Go to Full Review Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 79% 86%

Rachel Deahl Pulse Weekly Aug 13, 2003 The amusing freshness of T2 is unsuccessfully recycled in this less superior carbon copy. Go to Full Review Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) 70% 46%

Rachel Deahl Pulse Weekly Aug 13, 2003 A wonderful pastiche of seventies and eighties pop culture, Full Throttle is a kitschy joyride complete with wonderful cameos, joyous dance numbers and acrobatic ***-kicking. Go to Full Review Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) 41% 40%

Rachel Deahl Pulse Weekly Aug 13, 2003 The tepid lead characters, housed by actors who don't even share any chemistry, finally have nowhere to go in a film as flat as its interior dime-store novel. Go to Full Review Alex & Emma (2003) 11% 41%