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Ashford and Simpletonnew

Music and Lyrics proves that even Hugh Grant can't save every romantic comedy.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  02-22-2007  |  Reviews

Scary Movie 12new

Some horror cliches are truly scary.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  02-15-2007  |  Reviews

Lust in the Time of Choleranew

The story follows a fair middle-class girl named Kitty as she settles in with the new doctor in town, the timid Walter Fane.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  02-08-2007  |  Reviews

Muddy Watersnew

Set aside the legions of similar stories that have come before -- didn't Eastwood say all this in his last war movie?
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  02-05-2007  |  Reviews

High Heels and Hopesnew

The Devil Wears Prada has the fashion sense to be a fairly predictable melodrama.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  07-14-2006  |  Reviews

'Code' Unknownnew

This feels like a dumbed-down synopsis of something cracked to begin with.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  07-06-2006  |  Reviews

Superman’s Blue Clothesnew

This version is merely a souped-up, CGI-enhanced extension, with fancy new tights on the hero that look like they were skinned from some kind of red, yellow and blue intergalactic reptile.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  06-29-2006  |  Reviews

It's No Mitzvahnew

Most of the film's scenes are awfully slow and empty of interes, and its rhythm and timing are nonexistent.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  06-14-2006  |  Reviews

It’s Getting Hot in Herenew

The overhead images of Lake Chad are just a couple of many illustrations he uses to point out the simple, terrible, unavoidable "truth" in the title of his film: If we don't do something, we all gonna die, peoples.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  06-01-2006  |  Reviews

The Bloodline Gangnew

Spotty acting, uneven pacing, goofy dialogue -- The Da Vinci Code often feels like a dumbed-down synopsis of the original.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  05-25-2006  |  Reviews

The Good Life?new

Friends With Money investigates an insular set of Los Angelenos.
Style Weekly  |  Wayne Melton  |  05-04-2006  |  Reviews

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