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02/24/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...another potty-mouthed, middle-of-the-road comedy that relies heavily on Rudd..." |
| 2. |
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03/09/12 |
Weak |
 "...no talking means less dialogue... Awesome. The bad news? You have to spend the rest of the movie watching Murphy play charades." |
| 3. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "The movie desperately wants to make things better... It's a sloppy cry for help, but one that deserves to be heard." |
| 4. |
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04/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...you've seen it dozens of times.... it recycles the same tired battle-of-the-sexes premise employed by every third romantic comedy that gets made." |
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04/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...cinematic junk food. It's 'Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Movie,' where every landscape shot has the warm glow of a Thomas Kinkade painting." |
| 6. |
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05/11/12 |
Weak |
 "...offers dodgy production values and a bland cast of forgettable characters... even the most ardent lover of feel-good biopics would have a hard time backing this horse." |
| 7. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "Although the film's intentions are good, the chasm between the rigid demands of Catholic doctrine and homosexuality can't be closed with a group hug." |
| 8. |
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05/25/12 |
Poor |
 "...a hard movie to get close to.... not because it's genuinely challenging, but because, underneath all the metaphors and nature photography, there's nothing much there." |
| 9. |
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06/01/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a funny-enough stoner comedy with a likable cast. But, like any self-respecting stoner, the film doesn't aim any higher than it absolutely has to." |
| 10. |
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06/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a welcome feminist perspective on an issue dominated by male voices.... big-hearted and well-intentioned as the film is, it's frequently undone by its own silliness." |
| 11. |
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06/22/12 |
Weak |
 "The filmmakers have approached this high-camp concept with a straight face, sucking all the fun out of a geeky romp and leaving behind an oddly joyless slog..." |
| 12. |
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06/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "Soderbergh has a gift for magicking undercooked characters and wafer-thin plot lines into sexy, stylish romps (take 'Haywire,' for example)." |
| 13. |
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06/29/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a melodrama on a mission to teach its cast of broken characters about what's really important in life. It's a soapy, predictable ride... mostly sweet." |
| 14. |
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07/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "Either an hour and a half of pretty people gyrating in a dance film's third sequel is enough for you, or it isn't. And on that front, it delivers." |
| 15. |
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08/03/12 |
Poor |
 "Not even the snickering juvenile who lives in the deepest gutters of your brain will get a cheap thrill out of these antics." |
| 16. |
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08/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...far more calculated to tug at the heartstrings than the original.... It's manipulative, sure, but a pointedly old-fashioned and gorgeously staged exercise in formalism." |
| 17. |
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08/24/12 |
Moderate |
 "It's just a few sticks of dynamite and a 10-ton anvil short of going full Looney Tunes, and is all the worse for that restraint.... It's silly right down to its tire tread..." |
| 18. |
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08/31/12 |
Poor |
 "Defiantly humorless... little more than a grab-bag of familiar high school-film cliches populated with bland characters played by barely-there actors." |
| 19. |
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09/07/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a solid debut from the first-time screenwriters, who hustled outside the studio system to get the film financed... strikes just the right balance of sugar and sass." |
| 20. |
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09/07/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a lush but fumbling literary melodrama outfitted with an attractive, generations-spanning cast and a puzzle box of three competing narratives." |
