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Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Oct 26, 2018
2/4
Throughout Portrait there is a nagging sensation that makes one want to ask, "But where is all this going?"
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The Portrait of a Lady
(1996)
48%
51%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Apr 4, 2011
2.5/4
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Anna
(1993)
- -
86%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 23, 2006
2/4
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Ghost Rock
(2003)
- -
36%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
May 27, 2006
1.5/4
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House of D
(2004)
10%
73%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
May 27, 2006
2.5/4
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Don't Move
(2004)
47%
80%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 23, 2005
2/4
David Cronenberg is out of his element in A History of Violence, and it shows.
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A History of Violence
(2005)
88%
76%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 22, 2005
2.5/4
The film's last act almost completely self-destructs, falling into blind, metaphor-baiting machinations.
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Dear Wendy
(2005)
36%
66%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 21, 2005
2.5/4
Director Malcolm D. Lee has a gift for finding gold nuggets of personality and comedy in the tailings of over-mined plots.
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Roll Bounce
(2005)
66%
70%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 21, 2005
2/4
The third act begins with another twist - but this one is so arduous, absurd and out of character for the film that the entire plot, stretching back to Scene One, is sabotaged
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Flightplan
(2005)
37%
48%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 21, 2005
3/4
Blessed with memorably iconic characters and a creative, if fairly predictable plot, Corpse Bride is quick, droll, and destined to be a perennial Halloween favorite.
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
(2005)
84%
77%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 15, 2005
2/4
When it comes to romantic chemistry, they never quite mesh, no matter what twinkle effect Waters puts on the screen when Ruffalo's hand touches Witherspoon's ethereal plane.
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Just Like Heaven
(2005)
54%
75%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 9, 2005
3/4
The movie's simple yet spot-on characters and performances make the laughs timeless, no matter how firmly the film is set in 1995.
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Clueless
(1995)
82%
72%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 8, 2005
2.5/4
Part spine-tingling horror movie, part unorthodox courtroom drama, Emily Rose runs into trouble because it's ironically more credible as the former than the latter.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
(2005)
46%
60%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 8, 2005
4/5
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The Thing
(1982)
84%
92%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 8, 2005
1/4
A boring, all-you-can-regurgitate buffet of buddy-movie/cop-movie banality, it would collapse under the weight of its own generic stupidity (without) Jackson and Levy.
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The Man
(2005)
13%
41%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 8, 2005
4/5
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The Sting
(1973)
93%
95%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 8, 2005
4/5
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The Candidate
(1972)
89%
74%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 8, 2005
2.5/4
Another sleepy, sweeping soft-serve melodrama from director Lasse Hallstrom...the story arc seems to have been drawn on graph paper rather than written in a script.
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An Unfinished Life
(2005)
53%
67%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 2, 2005
3/5
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Alice in Wonderland
(1951)
82%
78%
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Sep 2, 2005
2/4
The only thing that prevents The Memory of a Killer from seeming 100-percent Hollywood is the characters' speaking in subtitled Dutch.
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The Alzheimer Affair
(2003)
83%
80%
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