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Dueling Critics

starstarstarstar Edvins Beitiks - SF Examiner
starstarstar Wade Major - Boxoffice Magazine
starstarstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Richard Schickel - TIME
starstarstar Keith Simanton - Seattle Times
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Jack Kroll - Newsweek
starstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online

Good-looking, preachy in an Old West kind of way, wobbling between humor and murder, hellbent and periodically brilliant

- Edvins Beitiks

If you want any kind of layered storytelling or character development – this movie is not for you

- Rob Blackwelder

Enemy of the State

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Will Smith is targeted by the government in this conspiratorial thriller. Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Gabriel Byrne, Jason Lee, Jamie Kennedy, Regina King, Scott Caan, Lisa Bonet, Stuart Wilson, Laura Cayouette, Tom Sizemore, Loren Dean, Barry Pepper, Ian Hart, Jake Busey. Director: Tony Scott (1998, R)

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