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Fortunate Son

Westword | April 12, 2005

This film directed by the son of Michael Eisner is a stunning piece of work -- stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every way imaginable.

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Tags: Penelope Cruz, Breck Eisner, Sahara, based on a novel by Clive Cussler, John C. Richards and James V. Hart, Joshua Oppenheimer, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn and Lambert Wilson, Thomas Dean Donnelly

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What's most impressive about Shall We Dance? is how Peter Chelsom wipes the glitter and glamour off his stars and makes them seem like ordinary people.

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There's nothing at all sweet or endearing about Shark Tale, no warmth compensating for the clinically cold computer-generated animation.

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Mr. 3000 isn't really about the athletes. It's more about the fans and even the beat writers who adore them and reward them and forgive them, no matter their arrogance or insolence.

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Tags: John Carney, Once

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