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C |
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(2009) |
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"While visually arresting and peculiar enough to hold your interest, in the end it proves to be pretty empty inside."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Offers just a few moderately amusing moments, and by and large proves curiously flat, despite all the talent on the screen."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"If you're gullible enough to accept the backstory given here, you're probably the sort of person who'll take Criswell's assurances that Plan 9 from Outer Space is based on sworn testimony at face value."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Clear evidence of the limitations of the performance-capture method of animation and of the excesses it invites...there's more of artifice than art in it."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"A suspenseful, often riverting drama of World War II resistance that combines old-fashioned virtues of craft and style with a more modern sense of nuance and complexity."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Takes what's essentially a soap-operatic plot and spins it into something very like cinematic gold...instructive about how a very familiar story can be given new vibrancy by filmmakers and actors working at peak form."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"The rare picture nowadays that takes satiric aim at the pomposity of the world of high art and hits the target, even if the blows are more often than not only glancing ones."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"All winded wind-up and no dazzling follow-through. Hogwart's wizards have absolutely nothing to fear from this bunch of sad second-raters."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"The tawdry use of important real-life social issues in the service of what amounts to nothing more than another exercise in malignant sadism makes this picture even worse than earlier episodes."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Not really a sequel but more a misguided prequelish follow-up...obviously enjoyed a much larger budget than its titular predecessor, but it's nowhere near as much fun."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Decked out in snazzy computer-generated animation, but comes across as more rote than exhilarating."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Comes off more like a museum exhibit than a vital drama...Amelia never takes flight, but it certainly crashes."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Even if you're not a soccer fan you should respond to...another expert mining of historical record by Peter Morgan [that's] not so much a sports movie as a character study."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Stylistically unpretentious but highly informative and enjoyable documentary [on] one of radio's great stars and a television pioneer."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A surprisingly fascinating subject that...yields lots of laughs."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"A bland tourist souvenir, the equivalent of an authorized biography rather than an independent one."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Merely lets the facts of forty years ago speak for themselves, and one can't deny that its dramatization of them has enormous energy and urgency."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"A botched remake...A real thriller has you on the edge of your seat; watching this one, you're more liable to sit back and snooze."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"This love letter to the Big Apple has more than its share of worms."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"One of the silliest action yarns in years...There's room for good pulp trash on screen, but lousy pulp, which is what this picture is, deserves a quick trip to the dumpster."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"One appreciates the mixture of fidelity and imagination that Jonze has lavished on Sendak's little book, but in the end the magic spark that marks a classic eludes him."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"A loud, crude, dreary misfire that feels like it was cobbled together from material cut from other lousy comedies."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't much more than an extended exercise in horror tropes, but it's a clever one, expertly designed and executed, depending more on pulse-pounding suggestion rather than explicit violence."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2009) |
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"You can always while away the hour and a half playing 'Count the Cliches.' One wishes Bleu all the best, but on the evidence of this picture his career might be a lot shorter than his hair."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"As cool and elegant as its heroine. Unfortunately it's also equally impassive, opaque and--at least in this incarnation--dull."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Piercingly funny, wrenchingly sad and always brilliant...a small but genuine masterwork from a team that's already given us plenty of them."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"For the most part it's a tearjerker that works...testimony to the good judgment--and good taste--of everyone involved."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"The Dardennes have once again captured the harsh reality of the modern underclass while also injecting a note of moral hopefulness into what might have been a bleak and heartless tale."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Though deliberately paced and somewhat repetitive, it's...powerful and enlightening."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(1999) |
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"Colorful and witty...the mixture of action and humor proves as irresistible as ever."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(1995) |
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"Colorful and witty...the mixture of action and humor proves as irresistible as ever."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Nothing more than a Troma schlockfest with a bigger budget, but it boasts an amusing script, a quick tempo and...a cast that milks the madness for all it's worth."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"An unexpected pleasure...goofily enjoyable."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Starts with a clever premise and raises the prospect of really biting satire, only to trail off into weakly sweet comedy that falls far short of its potential."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"What [Moore] offers isn't an argument as much as a polemic. But as in the past, he proves a skilled polemicist,...[and] looked at dispassionately, it's fun."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"A turgid tale of adultery among the rich and boring."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"So bad it ought to be based on a video game."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Particularly silly...the sort of emptily bombastic popcorn movie that might make you wish you had a surrogate to go and sit through it in your place."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Riddled with cliches from beginning to end...[a] misguided exhumation of what was once a pretty lively piece."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"An earnest comedy-drama, which covers familiar territory but in an unpretentious, and so reasonably pleasant fashion."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"You have to give Cody and her cohorts credit for trying to pump some new blood into a stale genre, and there are moments of inspired cleverness...but they're not frequent or sustained enough."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"Yeah, love happens. So does something else. Sappy, overemphatic and cloying...[a] mountain of narrative cliches."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Doesn't soar like Up, but it stays afloat long enough to remain a pleasant family treat."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A mellow, pictorially attractive period piece in which the characters seem actually to breathe rather than merely pose, as so often happens in such films."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A movie of chuckles rather than belly-laughs...but they really add up. In its unforced, loopy way, this is one of the funniest pictures of the year."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Intricacy of construction takes precedence over depth of meaning or characterization, and the work entailed in figuring things out isn't rewarded by any emotional insight."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"You have to admit that it's faithful to its source. The original was lousy, and so is this retread."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"This isn't so much sitcom fare as dinner-theatre material, directed without an ounce of style or panache and played more broadly than an old vaudeville routine."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"A hopelessly cliche-ridden tale that wouldn't be out of place on a family-oriented cable channel but is several sizes too small for the big screen."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"An Antarctic-set murder mystery that might have played well on the printed page but emerges as a slushy mess on the screen."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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