Articles by Brendan Willis

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  Mr. Bean's Holiday

  Steve Bendelack

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2007

  The world last saw Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) in the uninspired 1997 film Bean. He’s back and much funnier in his second big screen outing,...

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  Perfect Stranger

  James Foley

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  Perfect Stranger, starring Bruce Willis and Halle Berry, is perfectly awful. There are so many problems with this film that I can't hope to...

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  Seven Swords

  Tsui Hark

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  A lot can be lost in translation, and Tsui Hark’s Seven Swords is a prime example. Based on the novels of Liang Yusheng, Seven Swords suffe...

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  Wild Hogs

  Walt Becker

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  Is there anything funnier than middle-aged, middle-class men riding motorcycles? The answer, of course, is yes, but Wild Hogs takes this pr...

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  The Invasion

  Oliver Hirschbiegel

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  As the third major motion picture adaptation of Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers, The Invasion is, sadly, the weakest of the three. B...

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  Robocop: 20th Anniversary Special Edition

  Paul Verhoeven

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

  Twenty years after its theatrical release (and only a few removed from the release of the entire trilogy on box-set), Paul Verhoeven’...

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  The Last Legion

  Doug Lefler

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2007

  The Last Legion is a juvenile "sword and sandals” epic that seems out of place in contemporary film culture. When compared to recent offeri...

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  Disturbia

  D.J. Caruso

  PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2007

  Though it’s obviously inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window, with a hint of Joe Dante’s The ’burbs, Disturbia is an enjoyable...