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03/08/12 |
Weak |
 "There are only so many baggy vagina jokes one can take.... it's maddeningly conventional and clichéd." |
| 2. |
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02/16/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...cinematic oddities (and one terrific toddler actor) lift the film above easy tears, and the outcome is never boring.... involving, and ultimately thought-provoking..." |
| 3. |
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12/15/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Preachy dialogue aside, Theron and Patton Oswalt's subtle chemistry deepens this surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a bitch on the brink." |
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09/22/11 |
Moderate |
 "...aside from the charismatic Winter and Morgan Freeman as the prosthetics expert tasked with engineering her new tail, none of the characters makes much of a splash..." |
| 5. |
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04/28/11 |
Moderate |
 "Ominous narration by Samuel L. Jackson telegraphs their peril... by the time someone loses an eye, the unflinching footage has more than established the stakes." |
| 6. |
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01/13/11 |
Moderate |
 "Kristin Scott Thomas remains a mesmerizing mix of carnality and class, and through richer and poorer, she keeps Catherine Corsini's bourgeois fantasy from overheating." |
| 7. |
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12/16/10 |
Weak |
 "None of it is funny or entertaining... Boring, pointless, and instantly forgettable, this return to Jellystone Park is no picnic." |
| 8. |
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09/30/10 |
Moderate |
 "...wildly uneven..." |
| 9. |
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06/17/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...competent... revelations that the 75-year-old comic is needy, hard-driving, and relentlessly self-flagellating aren't all that surprising." |
| 10. |
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06/17/10 |
Very Good |
 "If the images of poultry without beaks don't inspire a trip to Whole Foods, the mouth-watering harvest of an organic farm in downtown Milwaukee will." |
| 11. |
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06/10/10 |
Poor |
 "...dreadful live-action adaptation of the long-running comic strip to the pantheon of dog flicks that'll make you cry -- for all the wrong reasons." |
| 12. |
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05/06/10 |
Moderate |
 "...spare, occasionally stirring... stops short of it's-a-small-world platitudes to elicit awe -- and awwws." |
| 13. |
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04/29/10 |
Weak |
 "...skips no maternity cliché... That the film manages to be largely inoffensive seems faint praise -- painful but not excruciating, it's like a cinematic epidural." |
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04/29/10 |
Poor |
 "Violent, coarse, and mirthless, this 'eco'-themed dud stars Brendan Fraser as a real-estate developer hired to raze a forest for luxury homes." |
| 15. |
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04/29/10 |
Weak |
 "The topic may be urgent, and the fallout heartbreaking, but this clumsy treatment barely passes." |
| 16. |
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03/25/10 |
Poor |
 "...abysmal... ticks through a predictable checklist of clichés, from home-room hell to gym-class gynecomastia.... utterly mortifies." |
| 17. |
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03/11/10 |
Very Good |
 "With passionate commentary from art experts... the gripping yet hyperbolic drama examines the ownership of art and the public's right to it." |
| 18. |
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02/11/10 |
Moderate |
 "Writer/director Hue Rhodes stokes the 'Inferno' metaphor (lots of fire, a thug dubbed Lou Cipher), but he never transcends self-conscious quirkiness." |
| 19. |
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11/26/09 |
Poor |
 "...the cringingly unfunny fart, crotch, and urine gags uncork at 15-minute intervals; racist and homophobic jokes are equally well paced." |
| 20. |
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10/01/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Although the visuals and the score are often elegant, the sudsy drama and muddled ironies of a complicated love life (Alessandro Nivola shows up) wear badly..." |
