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Dreary, With Occasional Outbursts of Humornew
Scuttling his reputation for liveliness, Gore Verbinksi proves that following a fictional TV weatherman around a secondary market can be as dull as the real thing.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
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Rainy-Day Man
In The Weather Man, director Gore Verbinski has achieved the impossible: making Bob Seger's Chevy-pushing "Like a Rock" poignant again (or, perhaps more accurately, for the first time).
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-04-2005 |
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Dreary Forecastnew
The Weather Man is typical, uninspired melodramatic fare.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-03-2005 |
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Forecast Calls for Clouds and Sunshinenew
In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2005 |
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Forecast: Gloomy
Gore Verbinski and Nicolas Cage suffer a mid-film crisis.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-27-2005 |
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Midlife Crisis Turns Film Partly Cloudynew
Frequently running to the crowd-pleasing Hollywood formula, the director and the screenwriter have ambitions to make the character's midlife crisis into a pointed statement about the hollowness of American values. The film seldom proves as profound as it thinks it is, but you appreciate its attempt to be serious.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
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Partly Funny, With a 65 Percent Chance of Redemptionnew
Director Gore Verbinski tells a tale of yet another loner in the long line of hapless American-middle-class movie characters.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
10-26-2005 |
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