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Veronica Guerin: Pure laziness. Structured like 1,000 other biopics, not a single moment of inspiration or imagination in the entire running time. Shot in a completely plain and conventional "style". Cate Blanchett does what she can, but if the filmmakers are so clearly uninterested in the material, why should I be? The ending is the worst, a drawn-out 5 m slo-mo sequence of information we were already given in the opening moments of the film set to the most banal new age music imaginable. The Secret Lives of Dentists has competition for worst movie of the year. D-
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2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 314 Last Watched: An Autumn Afternoon
Last 10 Films Watched:
The Happening - D- / Standard Operating Procedure - B+
Wanted - B- / Mongol - B+
Flicka - C+ / Bicycle Thieves - A
Le Deuxième Souffle - A- / Transsiberian - B
Fanfan la Tulipe - B+ / Hancock - B-
DVD BEAVER My Collection
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