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"So bereft of intelligence, style and excitement that I can't figure out who in the world it's supposed to appeal to."
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(2008) |
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"Even its clichés -- including a dashing rescue on horseback -- are trotted out with bland indifference."
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(2008) |
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"Although Downey spends a certain amount of screentime inside that suit, his face still carries the movie, giving it emotional weight."
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(2008) |
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"Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay embraces America's capacity for decency and kindness. The possibility that we could actually be that great country isn't just a pipe dream. Only sometimes you need a pipe to truly believe in it."
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(2008) |
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"To his credit, Langenegger keeps things relatively simple instead of resorting to lots of fast cutting and fancy camera angles. To his detriment, the picture he has made barely moves at all."
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(2008) |
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"Even if the picture is softer than it needs to be, it still resists devolving into something warm and squishy."
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(2008) |
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"When Chan and Li match wits, each celebrates the other's presence. This isn't just a martial-arts display; it's generosity and camaraderie in motion."
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(2008) |
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"Avnet lays all this stuff out before us with a straight face -- the picture is humorless and witless."
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(2008) |
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"Forgetting Sarah Marshall follows the Apatow formula faithfully enough. All that's missing is charisma -- the je ne sais quois that makes us fall in love in the first place."
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(2008) |
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"This is a small picture that explodes the boundaries of what size really means. Sometimes it's the smallest gesture that makes you feel most alive."
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(2008) |
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"Memo to the Miramax marketing department: You might want to think about changing that title."
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(2008) |
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"This is a transportive picture, the kind with the power to carry you outside of yourself; it is itself a flotation device."
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(2008) |
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"[Has] a breezy, affable spirit, and its very casualness is something that's extremely rare in mainstream movies these days."
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(2008) |
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"The filmmaking tries to generate excitement; it doesn't capture it."
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(2008) |
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"Stop-Loss tries to be about so many things that it addresses none of them adequately."
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(2008) |
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"Deserves credit for not working us over the way so many modern comedies too. It brings us to the finish line with energy to spare, instead of leaving us feeling sapped."
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(2008) |
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"Numerous inane plot twists and a convenient villain whose behavior defies logic or meaning."
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(2008) |
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"Meet the Browns is packed with raucous dinner-table banter and broad double takes; sometimes the gags are funny, but usually they're just trying too hard."
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(2007) |
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"This hypnotic, angular thriller about sex, murder, betrayal and money takes you on a feverish journey from nowhere to somewhere."
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(2008) |
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"Wilson gets by on his delivery and his demeanor. It doesn't matter what he says; it's how he says it."
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(2008) |
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"Sleepwalking is a frustrating case because Stahl, Robb and Theron all give performances that are subtle, delicate and smart -- it's just that they're steamrollered by the movie's relentlessness."
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(2008) |
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"Miss Pettigrew is one of those rare cases where a filmmaker's good intentions, and the enthusiasm of his actors, are enough to fill in the cracks."
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(2008) |
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"10,000 BC would be much better if it allowed itself the freedom to be kitsch."
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(2008) |
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"You need the right actors to make a movie as intelligent and as engaging as this one is, and [director] Donaldson knows how to make each character in this rather complex ensemble seem whole and distinct."
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(2008) |
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"The picture has a hapless, meandering quality that's tolerable at first but ultimately becomes maddening, as if it were a cartoon narrative recounted by a distracted 4-year-old."
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(2008) |
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"A genteel soap opera in which the sex and intrigue are so muted, so tasteful, that they practically blow off the screen in a scattering of dust."
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(2008) |
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"There isn't enough going on in Semi-Pro, comically or otherwise, to sustain the movie even through its first half-hour. This may be one of the most sluggish sports comedies ever made -- even the supposedly rousing final sequence feels belabored."
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(2008) |
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"A semi-adventure and even less of a romantic comedy, only pretends to whip up excitement."
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(2008) |
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"Over Her Dead Body may be the worst romantic comedy I've ever seen, although I hesitate to make such a resolute pronouncement about a movie that's so barely even there."
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(2008) |
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"The movie is neither cathartic nor entertaining."
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(2008) |
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"Over and over again, Hoblit misses opportunities to make an engaging picture, instead giving us a merely pedestrian one."
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(2008) |
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"The picture is unfocused and indistinct; there's a noncommittal quality to the filmmaking. Teeth hinges on one strong idea but doesn't know quite where to take it, wobbling awkwardly between going for laughs and making its semi-delineated points."
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(2008) |
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"Maybe we now live in a world where we record the moment first and feel it later. If that's the case, Cloverfield leaves us waiting to feel."
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(2008) |
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"This movie is designed to be fun, and its intentions are signaled to us over and over again, as when the women jump around on a bed, giggling and flinging old, dirty money around in a wanton display of pure idiocy."
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(2008) |
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"The movie is designed to be uplifting and inspirational, but everything about it is tired and listless. It doesn't so much make you feel the spirit as drain it out of you."
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(2007) |
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"There Will Be Blood strives for boldness, instead of just being bold. It doesn't cut, and it doesn't bleed."
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(2007) |
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"The message of The Bucket List is that we should stop and smell the roses, count our blessings, hug someone we love, before it's too late. That's an audacious demand, coming from a movie that squeezes the life force right out of you."
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(2007) |
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"This Sweeney Todd is all subtext and no substance. It starts off large and swaggering but doesn't know where to turn next: Burton seems fixated on serving up an event, to the extent that he neglects to dig into the story."
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(2007) |
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"Walk Hard is funniest in its first half, when you're not quite sure where it's going, and drags in the second, by which time you realize it's going nowhere."
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(2007) |
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"A terrific tale of political wheeling and dealing."
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(2007) |
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"While a movie doesn't have to make literal sense to be good, a filmmaker can't be so lost in his own universe that he forgets his job is to open it out to the rest of us. And that, apparently, is what has happened to Coppola here."
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(2007) |
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"I Am Legend is a blockbuster like no other, one that finds its grandness in modesty. It's a star vehicle with a star who knows his place in the universe."
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(2007) |
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"The Perfect Holiday is so modest and good-natured that its flaws are hardly glaring."
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(2007) |
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"Wright has made a film that honors the imaginative responsibility of an adapter."
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(2007) |
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"This is the kind of movie that was made by throwing dollars at stuff, as opposed to using imagination, thought or even just common sense."
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(2007) |
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"The picture is so beautiful to look at that it's practically buoyant."
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(2007) |
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"The picture feels both intimate and immediate, a model for what smart young filmmakers can do with good material."
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(2007) |
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"one of the most inventive and joyous movies of the year."
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(2007) |
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"Of all the war-themed pictures that have been released so far this fall, it stands apart, and it stands alone: Redacted is confrontational, rough, immediate and confounding."
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(2007) |
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"It's bad enough that the movie is about uninteresting people's problems. What's worse is that it's about snobs, and Baumbach buys into their snobbery."
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