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2.5/5 |
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"[C]omplaints about Speed Racer's volume and visuals sounds like the lamentations of a bunch of grandparents pining for the days of penny candy and segregated fountains."
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"To counter the character's relatively low Q-rating among the non-fanboy masses, Paramount has jacked up the f/x budget and made some interesting casting choices..."
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1/5 |
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"[...]as dumb a movie as you're likely to see this year, and may go down as Pacino's worst ever."
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Street Kings feels like Lethal Weapon mashed up with The Shield, only without the former's goofy '80s vibe or the latter's relative authenticity."
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3.5/5 |
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"The most shocking thing put forth in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay just might be the proposition that George W. Bush is actually a pretty cool guy."
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2.5/5 |
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"Even when we learn the film's somewhat less than astounding twist about midway through, the movie's happy outcome is never really in doubt."
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2/5 |
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"There are a handful of intense sequences and a few scenes of squirm-inducing gore in The Ruins, but not much else. The film is based on Scott Smith’s excellent book, but does little to capture the novel’s sense of terror and hopelessness."
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3/5 |
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"Leatherheads is as trifling as Clooney's second movie (Good Night and Good Luck) was significant, but that's okay."
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3/5 |
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"[T]here's a serious movie struggling to emerge from behind all the chiseled features and overwrought dialogue."
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"I'd call it a pointless endeavor, except now we might finally be able to pinpoint the source of Wilson's recent depression."
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2.5/5 |
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"Okay, so she's got a snout, but it's far from Rocky Dennis or John Merrick levels of grotesque."
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2/5 |
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"If all this sounds similar to another sports underdog movie about a certain endangered hockey franchise, rest assured that Slap Shot's legacy is safe."
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"[...] one would expect events to be gradually fleshed out until the mystery behind the attack is finally revealed, just in time for a bodacious climax, right? Yeah."
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1.5/5 |
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"Does McConaughey have some codicil in his contract stipulating he must spend at least 51% of a movie shirtless?"
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4/5 |
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"Watching Rambo and Sarah on screen together, one is reminded less of Rick and Ilsa and more of Kong and Ann Darrow."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"If I can forgive Lane for dating uber-douchebag Jon Bon Jovi, marrying Christopher Highlander 2 Lambert, and making Must Love Dogs, I can forgive her this."
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2.5/5 |
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"Ultimately, the last thing we normal looking folk would hear as the firestorm engulfed us would be the mad cackling of these neo-Aryans as they made our world theirs."
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3.5/5 |
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"Abrams' intimate POV renders everything that much more harrowing (or "nauseating," depending on your shaky-cam tolerance and the general condition of your inner ear)."
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.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"And doesn't all of this have a familiar Ringu to it?"
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Unfortunately for Bayona, pretty much everyone will be able to figure out how events are going to play out after the first 20 minutes."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Is Walk Hard funny? Sure; very much so, in places. At least I think it is. It might just be the Date Movie talking."
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1.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The Bucket List is further proof that even our most critically lauded thespians are eminently capable of churning out garbage."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"My devotion to Jesus and love for my fellow man have been replaced with profound emptiness and contempt, and I have The Golden Compass to thank for it."
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"[W]e haven't seen this much hemoglobin in a Johnny Depp film since the infamous blood geyser in A Nightmare on Elm Street."
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"Sure, he glowers to some effect, and is obviously handy with small arms and melee weapons, but otherwise is about as menacing as one of the extras in THX-1138."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Is love a disease, as Marquez possibly wanted us to believe? Maybe, but in the case of this adaptation, it's more of a laughing sickness."
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1.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Watching this kind of talent forced to muddle through this minefield of tired and embarrassing jokes is almost enough to make you reject the baby Jesus altogether."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Darabont and King are more concerned with speculating how people deal with alien monsters laying siege to their town like so many Phish fans."
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1.5/5 |
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"Belligerently unfunny."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Fortunately for [Redford], Lions for Lambs is a less ham-handed effort than Sayles' Silver City, but it's a near thing."
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2/5 |
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"[T]o quote many other fathers, including my own, I'm not mad at Reservation Road, I'm just disappointed in it."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Decent vampire movies are few and far between, and I'm having a hard time remembering a recent one that impressed me like 30 Days of Night."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Amanda's neighborhood is the kind of place where Will Hunting would've gotten an icepick in the neck for that "How do you like those apples" speech."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Kapur also demonstrates he has no knack for shooting fight scenes, meaning the boffo climax looks less like epic warfare and more like Shark Attack 3."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"What elevates it above the depressingly familiar storyline are the performances."
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1.5/5 |
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"The Heartbreak Kid is better than I expected, but since I expected it to be a horrific failure, that isn't saying much."
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Into the Wild didn't make me want to eke out a living in an abandoned bus, but it did make me yearn - just a little bit - for my younger, less cynical days"
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Whatever other problems it caused, at least [9-11] solved our cinematic villain dilemma for the foreseeable future."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"It’s noisy, nonsensical, and will fade from your consciousness even before you make it out of the theater lobby, but it’s entertaining enough, and Tamahori throws us a few curve balls to keep things interesting."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"I could probably spend an entire weekend watching Milla twirl her kukris"
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1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"[...]they have about as much chemistry as John Hinckley and Jodie Foster"
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Mueller-Stahl - equal parts grandfatherly and malevolent - conveys more menace in an offhand remark than most actors do pointing a loaded gun."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Erica finds herself in mortal danger so often you'd think New York had reverted to pre-Giuliani anarchy."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Indeed, the entire movie can be seen to exist on the comic ultraviolence spectrum that began with Bugs and Elmer's arms race from The Rabbit of Seville"
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1.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"I realize horror remakes are with us for good, but maybe four and out is a good philosophy for anyone considering yet another Body Snatcher film."
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.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The biggest loser in all of this is Chan, whose legacy over here won't be his 20 years as a martial arts pioneer, but rather his playing straight man to the likes of Tucker"
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"We know Bourne is more or less the baddest dude on the planet, and could probably take on Col. Guile, Sub-Zero, and Liquid Snake at the same time, but maybe enough is enough."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The Simpsons Movie is everything it has no right to be, based on the past several seasons: it's funny, it's smart, and it pokes fun at exactly the things it should ..."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"If nothing else, Travolta is convincing as an ugly broad. More to the point, he's obviously having a good time"
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.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"... so remarkably free of laughs I might as well have been watching John Wayne Gacy's home movies."
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