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Nico Icon
March 5, 2007 – 5:53 AM | No Comment

She had Alain Delon’s love child, got him hooked on heroin, and the best you can do is 67 minutes of sophomoric montage techniques while Jackson Browne blathers on about…whatever it is people who have …

Ned Kelly
March 5, 2007 – 5:52 AM | No Comment

Two-dimensional, kind of, like the Young Guns movies — but those were diverting and fun, in their way. This isn’t very good, yet it has a certain pep in spite of the hilarious beard trying …

Napoleon Dynamite
March 5, 2007 – 5:52 AM | No Comment

I liked it, but I love Rushmore, and this felt…not derivative of Rushmore, quite, but very similar to it, and without its charm and depth. A lot of it seemed like eccentricities for their own …

My Life as a Dog
March 5, 2007 – 5:51 AM | No Comment

I enjoyed it, but found it more depressing than the movie probably intended. And I wish movies had been made about the cross-dressing soccer girl and about Ingemar’s brother, too. It’s sweet, and well worth …

Monument Ave.
March 5, 2007 – 5:51 AM | No Comment

Nothing you haven’t seen before, plot-wise, but it has a lot of that patented Leary/Rescue Me riffing about nothing much that I always enjoy. It can be painful at times to watch Leary try to …

Monster
March 5, 2007 – 5:50 AM | No Comment

A pleasant surprise: entertaining, occasionally discomfiting, and a great, hype-worthy performance by Theron. (9/18/06)

Million Dollar Baby
March 5, 2007 – 5:49 AM | No Comment

I didn’t know about the last act, going in, but I was still expecting it to be pretty cheesy — I mean, it’s a boxing movie. But it’s very good at what it does; I …

A Mighty Wind
March 5, 2007 – 5:49 AM | No Comment

It’s not as out-and-out meanly funny as Best In Show, and Guest maybe might have leaned on a couple of the gags a little too hard, but my stomach still hurt from laughing afterward. Fred …

Midnight Run
March 5, 2007 – 5:49 AM | No Comment

I didn’t see the last five minutes (Netflix sent me a dicked-up disc), but I liked what I did see; it’s a little too long, but the number of different ways Farina comes up with …

Mean Girls
March 5, 2007 – 5:48 AM | No Comment

I could find about a hundred things to nitpick here, having gone to girls’ school and gathered reams of firsthand anthropological data on “girl world” sort of against my will, but the fact is that …