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"If you are ten years old fan of video games with a short attention span and no knowledge of history, you will love this movie. The further you stray from these core qualifications, the less you will love it."
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"It relies primarily on charm and unabashed sweetness that perfectly suits Efron's easy grace."
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""2012" is yet another example of technological genius and story-telling mediocrity."
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"Watching this film is like hoping to be tossed a bride's bouquet."
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"By the time we see those first, early moments of heady connection, we realize how the sweetness of those initial feelings will become almost unbearably poignant."
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(2009) |
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"Tim Burton protege Shane Acker has proven a better student of the letter of his mentor's work than the spirit."
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"Writer/director Max Mayer has crafted a sensitive, even lyrical, script that quickly makes us care about both of these characters."
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"Mottola manages to avoid the cliches and create characters with warmth and specificity and -- that rarest quality in movies of this genre -- some grace"
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"The shrewd script has two of the 1950's primary fixations: the couple who exemplify "togetherness" and the teenagers who could be juvenile delinquents."
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"What works best in the film are the special effects, clearly the primary focus as the talented cast gets less attention than the CGI and wire work."
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"Somewhere, like the pea in the bed of the princess, is an idea that could be interesting. Unfortunately, it's smothered in 20 mattresses of awful and 20 more of dumb."
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(2007) |
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"It becomes a little difficult to distinguish exploitive "Uncle Ian" from the folks trying very hard to keep this fragile idea alive and making money. The big difference is that Uncle Ian wears out the Chipmunks and this movie wears out its welcome."
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"It just never takes off."
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"Nicole Beharie makes one of the most thrilling feature film debuts in years."
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"Carey Mulligan, in a star-making turn, makes this into one of the best films of the year."
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"Once again the heavy exposition translates unevenly to the screen as the actors chew through paragraphs of detailed information while careening through the streets of Rome."
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"It is a broody psychological Western, a lot of peering out into endless prairie landscapes, as much Ingmar Bergman as John Ford, with a little bit of Heathcliff thrown in."
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"If you think it's a good idea to begin a movie for children by killing off a young boy in an industrial accident as his father looks on, raise your hand. Anyone?"
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"Wright's direction and the highly literary adaption of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel by Christopher Hampton give this story an epic sweep."
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"Those who are willing to open their hearts to this urban fairy tale will find its pleasures, as long as they they don't think about it too hard."
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"It's always nice to see pretty people doing great things, but in telling the story that should have been most his own, Luhrmann has ceded his vision to someone else."
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""Baby Mama" is not just smart, warm, funny, and romantic, it is an especially welcome dose of XX chromosome humor in an Apatow-flooded XY era."
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(2009) |
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"A little edgier than "High School Musical" and a little smarter than the usual tween fare, "Bandslam" is a refreshing late-summer treat for tweens, teens, and their families."
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"Stylish direction from Roger Donaldson and British understatement balance the tension with sly and often-outrageous humor."
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"The animation may be three-dimensional but the story is one-dimensional in this dull saga of humans invading an alien planet -- from the perspective of the aliens."
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"This charming little fairy tale is more than a sweet and heart-warming story; it is a thoughtful exploration of the power of stories, why we are enthralled byhearing and watching them and why we are even more captivated by telling them."
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(2008) |
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"Once upon a time there was a movie studio that tried to make a hit with a guy best known for raunchy slacker comedies. This story does not turn out happily ever after."
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(2007) |
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"Seinfeld's observational humor is relegated to the edges of a lightweight story."
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"One of the oldest surviving stories is retold through one of the most modern of technologies in a thrilling 3-D adventure from director Robert Zemeckis."
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"Could Cheech Marin ever have predicted that he would once again appear in a movie that features his signature song, "Low Rider," and that it would be such a dog?"
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"This movie is smarter than it had to be, which gives its emotional core even more of punch."
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"The movie has the fungible quality of the kind of book you buy for an airplane trip and toss as soon as you arrive."
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"In its best moments, it gently shows us how Bolt's discoveries parallel those of a child in learning self-reliance."
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"an unpretentious little comedy about a crazy "sport" that makes the most of its low budget with an easy-going good humor in a goofy but sweet story."
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"Movies thrive on smackdowns. "Clash of the Titans." "Alien vs. Predator." "Freddy vs. Jason." Rocky vs. Apollo Creed. And now, Bridezilla vs. Bridezilla."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Dying just seems an excuse for a geriatric, spend-it-all Spring Break."
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"Another Coens twisty, genre-tweaking movie filled with deadpan delivery by characters who are venal, dumb, or both, plus some shockingly grisly violence."
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"Magnificent performances and soul-shaking music make up for some narrative stumbles and dubious fictions in this film about the legendary Chicago record label."
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(2009) |
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"Moore's most telling argument is about the extinguishing of the middle class, and the consequences of losing the crucial foundation of our economy and our culture."
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(2008) |
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"Eastwood's meticulous direction and the sheer outrageousness of the story make for absorbing drama though the strangeness of the facts makes the material seem overpacked."
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(2007) |
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"The film's message about the way that listening and being listened to are essential and life-changing is honest and touching. But it runs out of ideas and the conclusion feels rushed. Like the main character, the film should have had more faith in itself."
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(2007) |
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"Sorkin's fast, smart talk perfectly captures the smart, self-aware characters who like to pretend they can hide how much they care."
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"A grand and visually stunning epic with thrilling battle scenes and powerful themes."
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"It true to the tone of the series, a combination of teenage angst and outrageous grotesquery, with the recognition that sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference."
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"A gorgeously imagined and visually sumptuous but still bleak and dystopic vision."
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(2009) |
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"This is a fresh and clever film, with both wit and heart, a family delight, more fun than a hailstorm of jellybeans followed by pizza flurries."
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"A clever premise keeps the audience literally off-balance."
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(2008) |
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"[The] plot would make even the lightweight storylines of "That's So Raven" seem literary. It would make the lightweight storylines of a Bazooka Joe comic strip seem literary."
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C |
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(2009) |
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"It is always a mistake for a movie to be more in love with its heroine than the audience is."
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"The creepier it gets, the more mesmerizing the visuals, ravishingly grotesque and dazzlingly inventive."
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