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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
The premise of Paul Blart: Mall Cop is hilarious by itself. Here you’ve got a mall security guard, with no gun and no social authority, vying for respectability in an upper-class shopping mall,… more →
J. & C.'s Movie Reviews
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
J wrote 2 months ago: The premise of Paul Blart: Mall Cop is hilarious by itself. Here you’ve got a mall security g … more →
The Karate Kid
J wrote 2 months ago: Ah, the mid-1980s. When Italian-Americans could team up with Japanese-Americans to defeat rich, whi … more →
Knowing
J wrote 4 months ago: Knowing is yet another Hollywood commercial product that dumbs down the philosophical material it co … more →
Open Range
J wrote 5 months ago: Open Range is Kevin Costner’s tone poem to “freegrazers,” or cowboys who once coul … more →
Fireproof
J wrote 6 months ago: Although under high standards it deserves a trouncing, Fireproof is decent entertainment. Realize t … more →
Flash of Genius
J wrote 8 months ago: In this movie, Greg Kinnear plays the guy who invented intermittent windshield wipers and wound up s … more →
Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia)
J wrote 10 months ago: Sometime after the release of Braveheart, movies took a horrible visual turn. Since then, during an … more →
Holiday Inn
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J wrote 11 months ago: An acceptable song-and-dance movie. As with almost any musical, the plot is wholly irrelevant and s … more →
Enchanted
J wrote 1 year ago: Enchanted is another fouled-up fairy tale, like Shrek and whatever snarky twists on folk stories the … more →
Papillion
J wrote 1 year ago: Papillion is a jailbreak movie that doesn’t induce claustrophobia. It might induce some yawni … more →
Bad Day at Black Rock
J wrote 1 year ago: Bad Day at Black Rock will strike you in different ways, depending on how you watch it. On the one … more →
Rio Grande (1950)
J wrote 1 year ago: The third movie in John Ford’s loosely connected Cavalry Trilogy, Rio Grande is the worst of t … more →
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
J wrote 1 year ago: Just sixty years old, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon looks ridiculously old-fashioned now. The entire mov … more →
Star Trek: First Contact
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J wrote 1 year ago: This might be our one and only Star Trek review, so listen up. Star Trek: First Contact is the seco … more →
There Will Be Blood
J wrote 1 year ago: We have finally reached that point. We finally have a well-regarded story — a movie in this c … more →
Rope (1948)
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J wrote 1 year ago: Rope is the Reader’s Digest version of Crime and Punishment. It even knows this because it me … more →
Unbreakable
J wrote 1 year ago: The gods have made a comeback. We don’t know how many superhero stories we’ve been subj … more →
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
J wrote 1 year ago: No, this is not about Saddam Hussein. The Thief of Bagdad is an early special effects fantasy, most … more →
College (1927)
J wrote 1 year ago: Buster Keaton’s The General is now widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made, but … more →
