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02/23/12 |
Poor |
 "A movie whose cinematic ineptitude is matched only by its ideological rottenness..." |
| 2. |
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07/07/11 |
Poor |
 "...convoluted mess sets new lows in underimagined, overplotted narrative -- not to mention grade-Z thesping and dimly portentous dialogue." |
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07/06/11 |
Poor |
"Brian Metcalf never bothers to ground motivations in even a minimum of characterization, simply throwing his undefined figures into the CGI necromantic-undead stew and letting them fend for themselves." |
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08/03/10 |
Poor |
 "The characters (and the direction and the writing) finally aren't interesting enough to warrant our attention. Sometimes to be superficial is just to be boring." |
| 5. |
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04/27/13 |
Poor |
 "...graceless, intellectually bankrupt... Mann proves that the generation(s) he portrays indeed have little more to say than the faltering utterance indicated by the film's title..." |
| 6. |
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02/28/13 |
Poor |
 "...strikes the worst possible balance, soft-pedaling the antics while still managing to use women and minorities as punch lines.... a terribly shot movie." |
| 7. |
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11/15/12 |
Poor |
 "None of this is very convincing... This is how it happened folks, the film says -- and if it didn't unfold quite like this in real life, isn't it nicer to imagine that it did?" |
| 8. |
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08/12/12 |
Poor |
 "...a sadistic exercise in deliberate, relentless unpleasantness... to what purpose does writer-director Craig Zobel put the audience through their squirm-inducing paces?" |
| 9. |
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07/01/12 |
Poor |
 "...without the eye for composition or feel for father-child dynamics... feels as empty an exercise as its lead character's adventures in barely there existence." |
| 10. |
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06/24/12 |
Poor |
 "...this dry-as-dust enterprise bogs down in an almost total lack of energy and imagination that no amount of faux earnestness can overcome." |
| 11. |
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03/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...slogs along with arbitrarily altering camera angles and weak suspense-building devices... no different than an average fear-mongering news broadcast..." |
| 12. |
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03/01/12 |
Poor |
 "...awesomeness seems to be the chief quality prized by both the film and its characters... Being accepted by mindless peers is the only goal recognized..." |
| 13. |
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11/13/11 |
Poor |
 "...hopelessly amateurish and given to desperate assertions of auterist 'virtuosity'... seems as lost as its perpetually confused and gratingly childlike protagonist." |
| 14. |
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07/24/11 |
Poor |
 "...embraces a faux-populism of the least committed variety... In Kevin Macdonald's project, what ultimately unites mankind is its banality." |
| 15. |
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06/18/11 |
Poor |
 "...foregrounds the potential ugliness of modern technology in order to comment on it. But that doesn't make the film's visuals any less hideous." |
| 16. |
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05/03/11 |
Poor |
 "...a puzzling mix of sentiment, black humor, and loads of nonsensical behavior.... This is clearly supposed to be deliciously offbeat... it's far more puzzling than enjoyable." |
| 17. |
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04/17/11 |
Poor |
 "...after subjecting us to two reels of Arquette's embarrassing routine, Ankush Kohli and Chad Waterhouse devote the rest of their film's running time to a nonstop infusion of manufactured good vibes." |
| 18. |
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04/03/11 |
Poor |
 "...cruelly unfunny.... the type of comedy whose idea of 'edgy' humor is to show its nerdy 17-year-old lead driving around in a 'Weiner Wiz' hot dog truck..." |
| 19. |
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02/27/11 |
Poor |
 "...can't hide the fact that the film's principal project is to trade in questionable racial characterization as a catalyst for its white protag's personal fulfillment." |
| 20. |
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01/09/11 |
Poor |
 "...deals with, respectively, incest/suicide, the psychotic aftereffects of anal fingering, gay cross-racial adoption, infanticide/suicide, and rape, a headache-inducing catalogue of human transgression." |
