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Fight Club (1999) 81% 2.5/4 EDIT “As eye-catching and energetic as it is, it's too much on the surface, a little too empty. The trouble is, Fight Club's preachiness is mostly broad and obvious. It's too easy to pass it off as the ramblings of a madman.” – Florida Times-Union Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Titanic (1997) 88% 4/4 EDIT “The real star of the movie is filmmaker Cameron, who tells his story with unexpected passion and without an ounce of fashionable irony.” – Florida Times-Union Apr 8, 2026 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Schwarzenegger handles this comedy with a deft touch, but he can still knock heads and glare his trademark glare, which is played for laughs here.” – Florida Times-Union Apr 8, 2026 Full Review Mouse Hunt (1997) 50% 2/4 EDIT “Mouse Hunt, though chockfull of amusing stunts, is sadly lacking in the personality department.” – Florida Times-Union Apr 8, 2026 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Shot almost completely with handheld cameras, with Soderbergh himself at the controls most of the time, Traffic has some of the visceral pop that's largely been missing from movies since Pulp Fiction.” – Florida Times-Union Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% 3/4 EDIT “Gladiator, a movie that has had action-starved salivating for months on the Internet, is here today. And it delivers.” – Florida Times-Union Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 66% 3/5 EDIT “It is routinely mind-boggling.” – Florida Times-Union Jan 13, 2026 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 69% 3/4 EDIT “American Psycho works for several reasons, the most important being the performance of Bale.” – Florida Times-Union Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% 3/4 EDIT “One thing you notice about the new Star Wars movie is how people who did little but stand around in the previous story now get up and get down and actually do something.” – Florida Times-Union Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 4/4 EDIT “It turns out that Jackson, the creator of one art film and a host of blood-splattered horror films, is the perfect man for this job. He loves the scary villains, and he loves his heroes.” – Florida Times-Union Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Jerry Maguire (1996) 86% 5/5 EDIT “Unlike so many big-name productions, you can feel a singular presence behind Jerry Maguire. No meddling studios, no squads of writers beating the life out of the script. No, this is writer-director Cameron Crowe's baby all the way.” – Florida Times-Union Aug 24, 2016 Full Review Shakespeare in Love (1998) 92% 4/4 EDIT “There's so much to like about this film, which is giddily romantic, funny and clever, chock-full of Shakespearean touches like doomed love, mistaken identity and men dressing as women and women dressing as men.” – Florida Times-Union Feb 22, 2016 Full Review Casino Royale (2006) 94% 3/4 EDIT “It's as close to Fleming's books as we've seen since the early days of Sean Connery. And it's darker, for sure, and more brutal than almost all of the movies.” – Florida Times-Union Nov 2, 2015 Full Review Die Another Day (2002) 55% 2/4 EDIT “Adding to the grimness: The title song is from Madonna, a dreary bit of lightweight electro-pop that goes on and on to little effect.” – Florida Times-Union Nov 2, 2015 Full Review Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) 58% 2.5/4 EDIT “The good news in Tomorrow Never Dies is that Pierce Brosnan fills out James Bond's tux considerably better. In his second go at Bond, he seems tougher and less-lightweight.” – Florida Times-Union Nov 1, 2015 Full Review The Simpsons Movie (2007) 87% 3/4 EDIT “It's impossible to keep the Simpsons down. Even during those draggy parts, you need to stay alert: You never know when the film's 11 credited screenwriters will unleash another zinger.” – Florida Times-Union Aug 2, 2015 Full Review Finding Nemo (2003) 99% 3/4 EDIT “It looks great, of course: All the Pixar movies do. But the genius of those other movies lay in their actual stories -- stories as inspired as the animation.” – Florida Times-Union Jul 29, 2015 Full Review Daredevil (2003) 42% 3/4 EDIT “Much of the film is a setup for hoped-for sequels, so the plot isn't really the thing. But Daredevil benefits from some strong supporting roles.” – Florida Times-Union Jul 14, 2015 Full Review Blade II (2002) 57% 2/4 EDIT “The original Blade movie was a chilling, gory vampire story, energetic and stylish -- all in all, a bloodthirsty success. The second one's chaotic and dumb and almost completely without thrills.” – Florida Times-Union Jul 14, 2015 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Spider-Man is the most modest would-be summer blockbuster in a long while, an adaptation of the 40-year-old Marvel comic book that's surprisingly heartfelt, but also a bit pokey and underwhelming.” – Florida Times-Union Jul 7, 2015 Full Review E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 99% 4/4 EDIT “There are many big moments in E.T., but also plenty of magical small ones that make it work after all these years.” – Florida Times-Union Jun 29, 2015 Full Review Shrek (2001) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “The story's simple, the quest not that complicated. But the joy of Shrek is in the telling, in the details along the way.” – Florida Times-Union Jun 9, 2015 Full Review Children of Men (2006) 92% 4/4 EDIT “Children of Men is so boldly told, so thought out, so infused with the joy of filmmaking, that it's absolutely exhilarating. It's one of the best movies of the past year.” – Florida Times-Union Apr 1, 2015 Full Review The Departed (2006) 91% EDIT “It's a convoluted, rich plot that goes back decades, but The Departed is so sure-footed it all makes sense.” – Florida Times-Union Jan 25, 2015 Full Review Merry Christmas (2005) 74% 3/4 EDIT “A compelling war-what-is-it-good-for? film, a simple, empathetic story based on a real event.” – Florida Times-Union Dec 14, 2014 Full Review
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