Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Over the Hedge

  Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  After the recent deluge of truly terrible animated kid pix, Over the Hedge comes as a mild surprise. Based ever so loosely on the comic str...

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  Lonesome Jim

  Steve Buscemi

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Mr. Pink cries the blues in a film that’ll have you blacked out in minutes. The second film helmed by Steve Buscemi features Casey Affleck...

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  Casualties of War: SE

  Brian DePalma

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Opening just as the 1980s Vietnam spasm was ending, Casualties of War got the bum’s rush at the box office and promptly disappeared. Too ba...

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  Compulsion

  Richard Fleischer

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  It’s Hollywood vs. Nietzsche in a duel to the death, with the former dealing the latter some serious tough love. Based on the famous Leopol...

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  Don't Come Knocking

  Wim Wenders

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  You want to hope that sometimes people can make it back. Specifically, you hope that the once great Wim Wenders can turn around his losing...

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  The Sentinel

  Clark Johnson

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Proving once again that conservatives have no aesthetic sense anymore, this chipper would-be ’70s paranoia movie is loaded with gaffes that...

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  RV

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Thanks to some above average direction by a veteran hand at comedy, this family vacation disaster movie is better than it absolutely had an...

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  Stick It

  Jessica Bendinger

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  You think that they’re not going to make it, that this unassuming teen pic will ultimately grind down its rebellious heroine for the sake o...