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B |
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(2008) |
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"A two-hour-and-fifteen-minute sugar rush of a film, dazzling and exciting, a little too frantic and a little too long."
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D |
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(2008) |
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" I am so tired of these miserable things that pass for romantic comedies these days, thoughtless assembly-line products that recycle the same components in ever-dumber packaging over and over again."
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F |
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(2008) |
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"It's offensive because it's so incredibly, almost supernaturally, stupid."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Every time the movie feels like it's about to cross over into the realm of the genuinely inspired, something or someone slams on the brakes."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Minkoff and Fusco blur the line between homage and laziness."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"A movie for those of us who have wanted to see Wong Kar Wai's talents applied to storytelling rather than abstraction."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"For something that was pitched as a screwball comedy, Leatherheads is kind of lumbering, unwieldy, and awkward."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"I defy you to find another movie with this much contempt for its audience."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"Speaking as someone who approached Never Back Down with curiosity and hope rather than a sense of obligation, I implore you to stay away."
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Precise, clever, wonderfully strange, and so funny it hurts, it is simply the best studio comedy since The 40-Year Old Virgin."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Enormously entertaining storytelling but highly problematic documentary filmmaking."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"No less eager than its predecessor to use pointed political incorrectness to poke fun at our prejudices."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"In its desperation to deliver an action-packed suspense set piece of an ending, 21 asks the audience to suspend all disbelief, and basically begs to be laughed at."
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D- |
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(2008) |
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"Roland Emmerich has a remarkable talent for draining all the life out of interesting stories."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"It's not the cinema of the century, but it's delicious and it melts in your mouth."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"This out-of-nowhere wonder charms from the first frame to the last, and joins Charlie Bartlett on the list of early-2008 films that are both wholesome and intelligent."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"I am sick to death of the clueless, arrogant buffoon that Will Ferrell has made his stock-in-trade, and desperate to see the talented comic do something -- anything -- else."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"It's a straightforward, unpretentious joy, and one of the most purely enjoyable films I've seen in some time."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Alternately so whacked out as to be inaccessible, and so sweet and naïve as to be irresistible."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"It's easy to pick apart an action movie. It's much harder to produce one this clever, fast-paced and involving."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Charlie Bartlett is rated R but is perfect, even salutary for young teens and older tweens. It's sincere, unabashedly positive, smart and funny -- a supernaturally rare combination."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"[Christensen's] utter vacancy is a bane on Jumper, an otherwise serviceable sci-fi thriller that would have benefited from a compelling center."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"After lovingly setting up the intricate relationships among its characters Spiderwick loses itself in the action and pretty special effects, only recovering in time to do a rushed, pat wrap-up."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Definitely, Maybe is what happens when someone decides to make a romantic comedy, then sits down and thinks about it for a while before setting out to write."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"Each year, I happily endure much at the movies that most people are smart enough to avoid, and I am telling you that watching Lawrence here is a punishment."
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Untraceable's knee-jerk moralizing is reprehensible and stupid."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"At its best when it considers the shell of a man its hero has become; the ways that war and violence have become a part of his being, and what that has done to him."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"If Cassandra's Dream doesn't have the heft of Match Point, mostly due to an ending that tries too hard, I'd argue that it's a much more human film."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"You won't miss much if you choose to let 27 Dresses come and go this month -- except perhaps the unassuming starring debut of a comedienne who, I suspect, will soon become a Hollywood powerhouse."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"It's a hell of a visceral experience -- but it's a purely visceral experience, apparently to the point of causing some viewers to vomit. Unless you're one of those unfortunate few, you'll soon forget the details."
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(2003) |
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Click here to see the review!
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"For a film like One Missed Call to be frightening or good would have required far more art and intelligence than this shoddy little production could possibly muster."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"It goes down easy, has some great scenes, and knows how to tug on the heartstrings. But unlike its characters, it settles for less."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Contrives the sappiest plot scenario imaginable and proceeds to ornament it with obscene hysterics."
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B |
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(2007) |
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"a small, personal film spruced up with a touch of the marketable. 'Lovely' is the best word to describe it."
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D |
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(2007) |
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"A clearinghouse for Things You Wouldn't Expect to See A-List Actors Say With a Straight Face."
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B |
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(2007) |
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"I'm glad the artform that Zucker-Abahams-Zucker brought us in the 1980's survives. It's gotten raunchier, meaner, maybe rougher, but it lives on."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"The sub-par singing detracts from the film, as it must. Then again, the whole point is that Tim Burton is smart enough not to make Sweeney Todd about the songs."
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Good enough that the mistakes it makes are genuinely frustrating rather than feeling par for the course."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"By far the funniest thing about this painful, if not quite insufferable, family comedy from Fox is its bold stance against merchandising and tie-in marketing."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"The problem is not that The Golden Compass has been stripped of its rabble-rousing anti-Christian content, though it surely has been. The problem is that the rest of it has been sterilized too."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Positively demands a second viewing."
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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"Even the legion of Ritchie fans hooked on the kineticism and casual violence of Snatch will surely turn on the man after seeing Revolver. He has added an insufferable pretense to his usual smugness."
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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"Far from the year's worst film, but it might be the year's biggest debacle -- it's hugely, ostentatiously bad."
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Film Blather |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"This isn't your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother's Beowulf."
[movie review] |
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Film Blather |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Jesus Christ, Redford, if you wanted to make a feature-length cinematic editorial, why didn't you just go balls-out and have done with it?"
[movie review] |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"There are problems here, but they're of the good-natured variety -- the flaws of a smart film that aims high."
[movie review] |
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Film Blather |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Part of the reason it works is that the film at least tries to make the Kid something other than a face you'd see on a cereal box."
[movie review] |
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Film Blather |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Its politics could have muddled and distracted, but instead the presence of a point of view staved off biopic boredom."
[movie review] |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"A good film that's at its best when it's not talking so much."
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