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04/27/12 |
Good |
 "...twangy, homespun observations interrupt and annotate the narrative until Black and MacLaine's scenes start to feel as trivial as reenactments on a true-crime TV show." |
| 2. |
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04/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...radiates a warmth that no mind-bending number of pixels can match.... even when the whimsy feels a bit forced, the magic of the medium never does." |
| 3. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...gives us a fully smoothed-out story -- about an orphan ape named Oscar -- populated with chimps so cute and Disney-fied that you half expect them to break out in an Alan Menken song." |
| 4. |
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02/24/12 |
Weak |
 "...burns plenty of rubber trying to swerve around plot holes and thinly written characters.... most of the movie's action-horror set pieces play like lame Gwar music video outtakes..." |
| 5. |
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01/27/12 |
Good |
 "Just sit tight till the next action sequence (it won't be long), and get ready to laugh -- with equal parts scorn and fanboy joy -- as Beckinsale strikes another Rodinesque pose under a slo-mo shower of inhuman innards." |
| 6. |
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01/27/12 |
Fair |
 "A few blips of sex and drug use aim to make the movie feel more grown-up. Instead, they make it off-limits to the only age group likely to find any charm in its smug Britcom cutesiness." |
| 7. |
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12/16/11 |
Fair |
 "Good news: The shrill CG rodents are stranded on a jungle island with little hope of survival. Bad news: They've brought us along." |
| 8. |
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11/14/11 |
Very Good |
 "Director Tarsem Singh has no apparent love or patience for storytelling, but he is a visualist on par with Julie Taymor and Tim Burton." |
| 9. |
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09/09/11 |
Poor |
 "...a ho-hum series of kills and lulls so predictable that it doesn't even look like much fun for the sharks; when they open wide, they might as well be yawning." |
| 10. |
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06/23/11 |
Very Good |
 "...uncovers the sweat and toil behind all the sparkly outfits and clickety-clack footwork." |
| 11. |
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05/27/11 |
Poor |
 "...numbingly chipper rom-com (directed by Dermot Mulroney) might be of historical value someday as an A-to-Z guide to the genre's most overworked clichés." |
| 12. |
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05/13/11 |
Fair |
 "...this unholy mess of horror and Western clichés is, at least, blessed with a wonderfully loony premise. A band of superpowered priests is all that stands between mankind and hordes of vampires..." |
| 13. |
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04/29/11 |
Fair |
 "...owes an embarrassingly big blood debt to HBO's 'True Blood'.... Look for this one to make a swift retreat to the DVD afterlife." |
| 14. |
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03/05/11 |
Poor |
 "...stunningly bad... Spectacularly poor judgment in everything from acting to costuming... right on the cusp of the so-bad-it's-good Hall of Shame." |
| 15. |
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02/25/11 |
Weak |
 "Clowning around underneath that fat suit must be exhausting. Almost as much as watching it." |
| 16. |
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02/04/11 |
Very Good |
 "A B movie in the best sense... has a narrative pull as sure as gravity." |
| 17. |
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01/28/11 |
Poor |
 "...an indistinct romantic-dramedy-ish something or other about the rekindled romance of an actress (Rachel Bilson) and her childhood best friend (Tom Sturridge)..." |
| 18. |
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01/21/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "At best, the poker-faced vignettes (which span from 1948 to the present) nail the icy comedy of war... At worst, they're totally opaque and unmoving." |
| 19. |
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12/03/10 |
Weak |
 "Samurais kill cowboys, cowboys kill circus freaks -- all for no particular reason other than to give director Sngmoo Lee a chance to go buck wild with eye-catching visuals..." |
| 20. |
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11/24/10 |
Poor |
 "The artist formerly known as The Rock has spent so many years undercutting his own tough-guy image (see: 'Tooth Fairy,' 'The Game Plan'), you half expect him to wink every time he pulls the trigger." |
