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"You get the strong impression that no one involved wanted to risk being labeled "depressing," so they inserted a lot of lame comic moments into a film that doesn't need them."
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"The Pacifier is what you would politely call “product.” It is manufactured according to a specific formula – one that is familiar, comforting, and non-threatening."
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"The Painted Veil has a real pulse. It sweeps you up in the characters' journey from the beginning, and keeps you riveted from moment to moment."
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"Pan's Labyrinth is bold and original, a mini-masterpiece of fantasy filmmaking that deserves to be seen by a wide audience."
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"One of the year's ten best films!"
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"Panic Room is like the Energizer bunny of suspense; it just keeps going and going and going."
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"When a movie is so dishonest – so ignorant – about its own subject matter, it’s impossible for the audience to care about anything that happens."
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"Paranormal Activity goes on the short list of films that totally, completely freaked me out."
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"It is a film worth seeing and talking about, for better or worse. It gets some things very right, but the violence threatens to overshadow the message."
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"Thanks to Kevin James' earnest portrayal of an earnest guy, I was won over by the film's goofy charms."
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"On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. On May 25, 2001, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay did it again."
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"From start to finish, Bulls--t! is a treat to watch…and that’s the honest truth."
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"With a little more anti-authoritarian spirit, The Perfect Score might have been a rousing call to arms for a whole generation."
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"Perfect Stranger makes a fatal mistake that too many modern-day thrillers make: it so desperately wants to fool you with its plot twists that it ends up playing unfairly."
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"This is the kind of thriller I most enjoy seeing - one that really pulls me in, makes me feel the danger, and keeps me thinking on my way out the door."
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"If this film doesn't inspire you, nothing will."
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"[The masterstroke is] keeping the family apart for most of the movie and using character analysis as a way of suggesting the dysfunction."
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"Piglet’s Big Movie, like The Tigger Movie before it, has an innocence and a sweetness to it that is welcome. It put a smile on the face of this big kid."
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"Pineapple Express pulls off the amazing trick of elevating the stoner comedy into something resembling art."
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(2006) |
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"If you can divorce yourself from total allegiance to the original %u2013 or if you have no allegiance to the original - then this is an enjoyable movie with some real laughs courtesy of a modern day comic genius."
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"While The Pink Panther 2 certainly has moments of hilarity, they are fewer and farther between this time."
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"It is debatable whether a movie can be "blockbustered" to death, but I advance this one as Exhibit A. Almost every frame of it feels manufactured to fit a preconceived - and inaccurate - notion of what a bigger, "better" sequel should be."
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(2006) |
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"I'll admit that the film is intermittently amusing, but it also reeks of the dreaded "bigger, louder, more" syndrome that has undone many a sequel."
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"It’s not so much the minor flaws as it is the fact that Pirates of the Caribbean just wasn’t enough fun for me."
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"The characters in this movie don't talk like real people; they all talk like overly clever screenwriters."
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"Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea is funny, enlightening, informative, and most importantly of all - admiring."
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"In the tradition of Independence Day, Twister, and the original Jurassic Park, this is a great Summer Movie."
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(2006) |
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"The film is concerned only with getting to the action, with no intention of exploring the horror of an unexpected tragedy or its impact on the people involved."
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"LaBute effortlessly glides back and forth between the period part of the story and the modern day part, connecting them instead of making them seem distant."
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"I can't necessarily say that I'd be more inclined to listen to the show [on the radio], but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it on the big screen."
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"Premonition is a shoo-in for my list of the year's worst films, assuming that I can even remember what it is nine months from now."
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"The Prestige quite brilliantly replicates the experience of a great magic trick. You know what you have just seen isn't possible, and while you recognize some of the trickery, you can't spell it all out. You walk away completely amazed."
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"That noise you hear is the soundtrack of We Own the Night, which is playing next door in the multiplex of your memory. Yes, there are undeniable similarities between the two pictures."
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(2005) |
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"This is a vibrant, funny film that doesn't feel like a period piece. (And I mean that as a big compliment.)"
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(1998) |
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"Truly spectacular."
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(2001) |
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"As far out of the intended demographic as I am, I have to admit there were certain pleasures to the movie."
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(2004) |
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"Obviousness is what does The Princess Diaries 2 in. Everything in this plot marches along to a prefabricated beat."
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(2008) |
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"The 1980 Prom Night was by no means a masterpiece, yet it begs the question of the remake: If you're going to make a slasher movie and you take out all the actual slashing, what else is left?"
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(2009) |
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"A great example of moviemaking on autopilot. The screenplay not only heads for the predicable finish line, it also makes sure to hit all the predictable stops along the way."
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(2009) |
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"Public Enemies is, at its core, a fascinating portrait of criminal narcissism."
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(2006) |
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"Pulse is a lesson in Horror Filmmaking 101 - a generic, uninspired slog through just about every single genre cliché ever committed to celluloid."
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(2004) |
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"Although the concept is old, The Punisher puts some clever variations on the vigilante theme."
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(2006) |
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"An honest, intense look at the kind of day-to-day survival that too many Americans must contend with...This is absolutely one of my favorite movies of the year."
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