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Reviews in a Hurry that begin with A.
About a Boy
"Hugh Grant's best cad."
About Schmidt
“beware the elderly!”
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
“The man's been through solid matter, for crying out loud! Who knows what's happened to his brain?”
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
“a likable character goes on a journey to find where he belongs.”
Akira (1988)
“mad messiah wiping out the decadence with his flesh-based powers and telekinetic prowess”
Aladdin (1992)
“a fine line between tapping icons and being cliché”
Alexander (2004)
“defeats that a man can be proud of”
Ali
“moments of brilliance…lacks a sense of storytelling outside these images.”
Alien (2003 Director's Cut)
“Its chief characteristics are to remain unexplained and in shadow for as long as possible.”
Alien3
“thoughtful, frightening, exciting, well-made…unremittingly cruel.”
Alien Resurrection
“the ‘Alien’ universe…as an arena for a long, protracted fight sequence.”
Aliens
“courage under fire and under exhaustion.”
All the Pretty Horses
"an allegory of the breaking of boys into men."
All the Real Girls
“the extraordinary nature of everything ordinary”
American Splendor
“wonderful tale of a curmudgeon just a little too crotchety to face the world”
America's Sweethearts
“not especially pointed.”



Anaconda
“not quite bad enough.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
“leaden and uninvolving, even for...a Broadway musical”
The Animatrix
“as eye candy…is a success.”
Apocalypto
“the apocalypse set to a calypso beat”
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
“don’t need no instruction manual to know how to rock”
The Aristocrats (2005)
“relentless and quickly dull”
As Good as It Gets
“Mean Schmuck Who Turns Out To Be a Nice Guy.”
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
“Southern”
Auto-Focus
“little temptations turn into big temptations.”
The Aviator (2004)
“Howard Hughes as the ultimate American”