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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"We're in for a bumpy ride on Anderson's Bi-polar express where the line between homage and ripoff is never as blurry as his action sequences. His Ben-Hur chariot race would have needed nothing more than one set of horses, a couple human heads and a wheel."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Despite its breezy quality and occasional big laugh, The Rocker just never completely clicks as A-side material."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Stiller has rediscovered the subversive humor from the best moments of his career and created a near-classic that is his funniest film since the remake of Meet the Parents."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"While the pot comedy genre has strived more on memorable characters (Spicoli, Cheech & Chong, Harold & Kumar) than memorable movies, Pineapple Express is the rare exception."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Neither are merely satirizing the late '80s string of age reversal comedies. Instead in their own bizarro way have a charm that results in their commitment to the premise."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The most brilliantly complex, perfectly paced, nerve-jangling, moral-wrangling film ever based on a graphically detailed literary work and, dare I say, one of the most important American films to be made in years."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's an all-ages type of show, doesn't cost much, you'll laugh a few times and smile even more. Then when he makes his way around again to DVD and onto cable, you may just be inclined to take in another matinee."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Light as a feather, but never boring, Journey 3-D, brought me back just a little to my days as a youth watching adventures and for 90 minutes it was a welcome spelunk."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"May have an indie budget but equally evokes the rich landscapes of early Terrence Malick and the grimy grindhouse tales of the '70s, converging poetically into its heartmashing climax."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"By the expedited conclusion it all feels less like a Peter Berg film and just another chapter in Will Smith's tentpole history of major creative failures."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"When we, the audience, are confronted directly at the end and asked "what the #$!% have you done lately?" at least you can readily answer, "well, I sure didn't make a film as crappy as Wanted.""
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Not since Titanic will you have heard two prospective partners cry out each other's names with as much longing (and frequency) and if there's any karma, fate, or pure love out there to believe in than WALL-E will equal its attendance and then some."
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The greatest excuse yet to get that anti-M. Night petition started. The last thing we want is a future of Shyamalan films with the knowledge that we all could have done something sooner."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"If you can clock a feature film by its transformations (25-&-50) style and still wish that you could skip through the commercials in-between, precisely how far removed are you from what's come before."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dreamworks is bringing old school to the new school with Kung Fu Panda, which quietly lumbers around in its first half before proving itself a worthy master of the art in its action-packed second."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A film to unnerve us enough to either buy some extra deadbolts or kill the next bastard who walks across our lawn."
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Having the story of Cinderella play a significant role in the feature introduces the deadpan irony that this version is told through the eyes of the stepsisters like a big screen version of Wicked only without the happy ending."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"To all of the wannabes, imposters and posers out there – it’s time to go back to school and learn how a real adventure picture is made."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Speed Racer devolves into one of the most painfully ill-conceived borefests to ever grace a summer movie season and an easy candidate of one of 2008's worst films."
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A distinctly awful cover version of 'I Want A New Drug' plays on the soundtrack and is a direct thought to the audience who is going to need something a lot stronger to make it through this unrelentless excuse for a romantic comedy."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The digression of the film's setup into an expedited version of The Spanish Prisoner would be less unnerving if what followed didn't turn out to be so irreversibly ridiculous."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Forgive me if I've already forgotten what The Favor is really about, but the truth is so does Miss Aridjis. So drastically in fact, that the film doesn't even qualify for After School Special exemption status."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Like every path to success, there is an origin story and Iron Man ranks as one of the most instantaneously satisfying of all of them."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Wolverines and Cougars aside, there are more than one strokes responsible for violating their own rules and putting a name on the film that is only an introduction to what's wrong with it."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Deal has to take the title of the worst film ever about the game and that includes the how-to videos with Joan Rivers impersonators you see in your Vegas hotel room."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's still average schlock, albeit one with a little something for every discerning male; big breasts, fake breasts, heavily pierced breasts, breasts with star pasties and bloody pasty breasts that are the true stars."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"At times it's almost like Pacino has been lured into a Bobby Bowfinger production except the best blackmail material around to get his permission for release is 88 Minutes itself."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"From The Lion King to the Monkey King director Rob Minkoff goes and along with him goes the reverse evolution of the American martial arts epic."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Despite only sharing credit as a co-writer, the story has Ellroy's fingerprints all over it and those familiar smudges become a detriment to an otherwise well-made film by director David Ayer."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Promotion, beyond what's a deeper screenplay than some may give it credit for, is consistently funny in a build-up-and-release way that, much like The Weather Man, supplements those one-liners with uncomfortable behavior and a comedy of manners."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Hitchcockian elements are actually much subtler than recognized, partly because the film is generally more a comedy than some Peeping Tom-esque thriller."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"One of the best documentaries I've ever seen and I am not prone to such hyperbolic statements. This is Oscar-worthy material and hopefully enough people on the committees will see it and cast a vote for next year."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Modigliani is there from the beginning which helps bring potency and unexpected tragedy to the lives of both Bush's local supporters and his dissenters."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ellison's lasting contributions to science-fiction and the medium in general are well-documented in-between interludes where Ellison himself reads passages from his work and reminds us how beautiful the written word can be when put into the hands of a tru"
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A portrait of insulated America, FrontRunners is a political documentary that for a change doesn't pit left vs. right and invites all partisan followers to enjoy."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Stamm is able to diminish our misgivings over its authenticity by mastering the "documentary of a documentary" style and satisfying the gravity of the drama through situations that have more truth to them than a lot of staged situations in non-fiction."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It seems as if the MPAA unfairly upped a clear "PG" movie into a "PG-13". But adding numbers can't even the score on the edge that Leatherheads lacks in the sharpness of its humor delivery and the hits on the field."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Between the climactic musical number that changes a horror classic forever, and at least 90 minutes of sustained laughter, what possible reason could you have to want to forget Sarah Marshall?"
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Stop-Loss' inability to find any coherent statement to make about what's happening to our soldiers is only a source of greater frustration."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"You have a director so inept that he doesn't even understand what genre he's working within and he's helped destroy potentially one of the most riveting and important social statements about Las Vegas the movies could have seen."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A lethargic, incomprehensible event picture that is the action film equivalent of Phil Collins' Take Me Home video."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Certainly there's a nihilist streak on Palahniuk's sleeve, but as Clark Gregg's adaptation of his 2001 novel shows us, up that sleeve seems to rest the heart of a tortured romantic."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's superfluous overkill is less about endearing us to these characters' simplistic plights and all about how in touch the filmmakers are with an almanac."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Nearly blindsides us with moments of such genuine thoughtfulness and surprises that wouldn't be out-of-place in a script by Cameron Crowe or Richard Curtis."
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Justin Zackham's screenplay should be the first to be banned from writing classes everywhere let alone hospitals and support groups."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Should have been a standing triple for Burton to hit off the wall instead of hitting it head-on until the guignol nature became less than grand."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"You may find better films that deal with the precursors of our present blowback in the Middle East, but you won't find many more entertaining."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This is a full-force, all-purpose performance by Faris with the kind of grace that would get winks from the likes of silent screen greats."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I Am Legend simply sucks but that's putting it a little too mildly when the last man on earth is liable to skip over it in favor of I Am Sam."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Calls into question why Hosseini's novel was such a chart-climber in the first place other than being one of the first published pieces of fiction to use the Taliban as a subplot after 9/11."
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