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Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar Barbara Shulgasser - SF Examiner
starstarstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar John Petrakis - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar Roger Moore - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Bill DeLapp - Syracuse New Times
starstar Rita Kempley - Washington Post
starstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
star Susan Stark - Detroit News
star Sean Means - Film.com

“[Mike Myers’] comic instincts are fine-tuned . . . Myers also knows how to edge up to the brink of too muchness and stop before we lose interest”

- Barbara Shulgasser

“A tasteless and humorless waste of time, a crass opportunity for former Saturday Night Live comic Mike Myers to labor vainly to show how funny he is”

- Sean Means

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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Mike Myers stars as a super-spy  frozen in the '60s and thawed out to fight crime in the '90s. Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Fabiana Udenio, Mindy Sterling, Paul Dillon, Charles Napier, Will Ferrell. Director: M. Jay Roach (1997, PG-13)
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