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James Hebert

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) 21% EDIT “We'll spare you the spoiler. And though it has its moments, you might want to spare yourself the movie.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Dec 11, 2008 Full Review Mamma Mia! (2008) 55% 3/4 EDIT “There's something infuriatingly entertaining about this silly story, those slumming actors (Meryl Streep! Pierce Brosnan!) and those cruel, cruel songs.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 17, 2008 Full Review The Heartbreak Kid (2007) 29% 3/4 EDIT “In this remake of the 1972 film, the Farrellys -- proud perpetrators of Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary and other jolly assaults on good taste -- turn Neil Simon's script inside out and flog it like a piñata.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Oct 5, 2007 Full Review Hairspray (2007) 92% 3/4 EDIT “A goofy bouffant of a movie primped with rich '60s atmosphere and held together by the gloss coat of Marc Shaiman's swinging music.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 19, 2007 Full Review Transformers (2007) 57% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's a Hasbro ad. It's a Chevy commercial. It's a pitch for Homeland Security. (A pretty ineffective one.)” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 11, 2007 Full Review Live Free or Die Hard (2007) 82% 3/4 EDIT “In this fourth film, there's a zip to the dialogue and a lift to the storytelling that recalls the spark of the original '88 Die Hard.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jun 25, 2007 Full Review Snow Cake (2006) 63% 3.5/4 EDIT “Snow Cake reflects a sense of the almost infinite ways autism manifests itself, in all its baffling and fascinating and sometimes agonizing realities.” – San Diego Union-Tribune May 25, 2007 Full Review Miss Potter (2006) 68% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's buttoned-up to a fault, as proper as clotted cream, and at times as exciting.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Mar 16, 2007 Full Review Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) 21% 2/4 EDIT “The story [Besson] co-wrote for Arthur is workable, even clever at times, but the visualization of the Minimoys and their crib is weird and almost aggressively off-putting -- like an episode of When CGI Attacks!” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jan 12, 2007 Full Review Fast Food Nation (2006) 49% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a lot of food for thought -- even if sometimes, a bit too much is on the menu.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Nov 17, 2006 Full Review Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 73% 3/4 EDIT “Stranger Than Fiction is subversive in its own, low-key way.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Nov 10, 2006 Full Review The Lake House (2006) 35% 1.5/4 EDIT “This is the first time Reeves and Bullock have been paired since the 1994 hit Speed, where they were stuck on a bus that would blow up if its speed dropped below 50 mph. There's no danger of that kind of velocity here.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jun 16, 2006 Full Review X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) 56% 3/4 EDIT “Like the first two films, this one crackles with action, delves smartly (but not smarmily) into social relevance, and salts in enough humor to make all the vaporizings and razor-izings feel a bit more festive.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jun 7, 2006 Full Review ATL (2006) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “But the story behind ATL (credited to Antwone Fisher, the onetime Navy man in San Diego who had a movie made about his life four years ago) for the most part feels genuine and resonant.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Mar 31, 2006 Full Review Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “Block Party itself doesn't kill, exactly, but its charms are enough to disarm.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Mar 3, 2006 Full Review Something New (2006) 60% 2.5/4 EDIT “Something New has some surprisingly wise and nuanced things to say about navigating racial attitudes -- both society's and one's own.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 3, 2006 Full Review The Family Stone (2005) 52% 1.5/4 EDIT “Strangely, though, it's not an overdose of sentimentality that makes the family - - and the film - - so hard to buy. It's that most of its members are so blithely cruel.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Dec 16, 2005 Full Review Lords of Dogtown (2005) 55% 2.5/4 EDIT “The action sequences are real and raw, and if Lords never quite gets airborne, it does justice to a scene whose legacy rolls on.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jun 3, 2005 Full Review Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “The movie's tone -- which is as naturalistic as the plot is fantastic -- heightens the tantalizing sense that maybe, finally, this is the real Carrey we're seeing.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Mar 19, 2004 Full Review 24 Hour Party People (2002) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's part of the charm of 24 Hour Party People ... that the filmmakers gleefully embellish or downright invent scenes -- and often admit that they're doing it.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Aug 30, 2002 Full Review Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “An account that's as raw and colorful as the misfits it mythologizes.” – San Diego Union-Tribune May 3, 2002 Full Review Scotland, Pa. (2001) 59% 3/4 EDIT “Underachieves only in not taking the Shakespeare parallels quite far enough.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Apr 26, 2002 Full Review Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) 79% EDIT “Makes for deft (if weightless) entertainment.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Apr 13, 2001 Full Review Beyond the Mat (1999) 82% EDIT “The film manages to put a pin on pro wrestling's harsh realities.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Frequency (2000) 70% EDIT “Frequency probably won't rewrite the history of time-bending movies, but the movie works in enough dimensions to make it a pleasant one-way trip.” – San Diego Union-Tribune Jan 1, 2000 Full Review
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