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05/07/13 |
Weak |
"Like any of the corpses that litter its second half, the movie just lies there, inner workings splayed out and obvious for all to see.... lazy..." |
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04/15/13 |
Very Good |
"...tops the original in terms of explicit gore. The difference, though, lies in context and execution, as the film isn't nasty simply for the sake of it." |
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04/15/13 |
Moderate |
"...a film that, notwithstanding its (almost) uniformly able cast, is all squandered potential, beholden to sledgehammer blows of contrived thematic convergence." |
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03/12/13 |
Weak |
"...a bizarre jailhouse variation on the trope of a ragtag group of unlikely allies banding together against common enemies, complete with sentimental bonding sessions..." |
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12/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...hits every sitcom-esque cliché... And yet, it's difficult to condemn outright a film in which Christopher Walken and Al Pacino kick butt together." |
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11/18/12 |
Moderate |
"A haphazard patchwork of talking-head interviews and fly-on-the-wall footage... director Lisa Kirk Colburn never figures out what she's really interested in." |
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09/22/12 |
Moderate |
"...a decent, potentially thorny premise bogged down in a mess of treacly sentiment and tedious moralizing... complexity and characterization quickly go out the window." |