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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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(2007) |
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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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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Amateurs turns out to be a mini-classic of sweet vulgarity, much in the vicinity if not the exact class of the recent spate of the Judd Apatow canon."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Has all the rhythms that made films like Little Miss Sunshine and Garden State so beloved by audiences and critics alike, but invents its own rhyme to buck familiarity thanks to its brilliantly funny and exceptionally wise screenplay by Diablo Cody."
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If there is someone out there willing to support Hitman and who believes that it conforms to the basic attributes of a cinematic experience, then there is something wrong with you."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Frank Darabont's The Mist is easily the best horror film since The Blair Witch Project and the most socially frightening statement about humanity in the post 9/11 era."
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A tediously unimaginative short story run amok that will somehow put kids to sleep who are already sleeping and maybe wake up adults who were overly harsh on Barry Levinson for Toys."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Robert Zemeckis doesn't just give English classes new interpretations to discuss but advances the technological limitations of animation to a level that makes high-definition look like a Falkirk Transmitter."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Coens have found the perfect source material to continue their dominance of the crime genre while making a second viewing an absolute must to appreciate all the voices involved."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Lions for Lambs poses a lot of questions, but you won't have to wait around until the end to find the answers, because you know right from the beginning exactly what you're getting."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Boasting one of the least imaginative idea-to-execution screenplays to come along in memory, all the film has is some ad libbing from Vince Vaughn to keep the film afloat from the ill-inspired direction of David Dobkin."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Begins warily as a mild chucker and then reveals itself to be an increasingly clever and very funny appreciation of a bee's existence."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"More like a whitewashed blaxploitation effort in the hopes of classing it up without the necessary respect paid to its origin; biography without context, but still an interesting and mostly entertaining one."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"You get all the weight of dishonorable people and the choices they make and the added pounds of a more modern style that probably keeps a very good film from ranking with Lumet's classics."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Thankfully, Hedges keeps his focus and doesn't allow the film to just become a series of sketches and syrupy confessionals."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Its near impossible to even faint praise a film for having its heart in the right place when it opens with a whimsical montage about miscarriages."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If you're going to lecture us on the evils of torture, you better not make a film where in the end we feel there's more information to be discovered."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Gone, Baby, Gone is not just one of the strongest pictures of the year, but one of the best debuts behind the camera for any filmmaker, moviestar or otherwise."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"So the remaining survivors huddle together. A few get bitten and turn. Some splatter kills in-between. Remind me again of what exactly is 'groundbreaking' about this."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The final moment of the film is a shining light of hope that most romantic comedies would kill to craft a fantasy around."
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