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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "The problem isn't unoriginality, but incompetence.... goes from being merely lousy to stupendously, lifeforce-suppressingly awful." |
| 2. |
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10/05/12 |
Poor |
 "...a deranged hodgepodge of tones and acting styles and strange mannerisms and affectations and narrative dead ends... the most alienating movie of the year." |
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07/13/12 |
Poor |
 "...borders on so-bad-it's-good-ness in a way that makes you wonder if it might be an intentional goof -- a sort of ridiculously mannered gothic melodrama..." |
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11/30/12 |
Poor |
 "...in many ways a terrible movie... The problem here isn't the gore or the cruelty on display, but rather the kind of all-of-the-above ethos that governs the enterprise." |
| 5. |
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02/27/12 |
Poor |
 "...it's always tough to spend most of a movie wondering whether the characters are morons and/or lunatics... played mostly straight, it comes off as ludicrous and lame." |
| 6. |
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01/30/12 |
Poor |
 "...it feels slipshod and disjointed, almost as if scenes have been placed out of order." |
| 7. |
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02/01/13 |
Poor |
 "...the film avoids anything that feels like a challenge and settles for the generic... a mostly terrible film that misses the opportunity to be a merely mediocre one." |
| 8. |
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01/25/13 |
Poor |
 "...it's not too much to ask that the movie go beyond its one and only joke.... amid all the fake Sturm und Drang, all we hear is the movie giggling to itself." |
| 9. |
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12/28/12 |
Poor |
 "...it collapses on all fronts, delivering hot-button platitudes and just-add-water character development... its attack on natural gas is so lazy that it actually backfires." |
| 10. |
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12/07/12 |
Poor |
 "...wants to be taken seriously, but it can't stop humping its own leg." |
| 11. |
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11/21/12 |
Poor |
 "Watching a bunch of frantic chase scenes featuring characters you don't care about ends up feeling like a lot of noise and little else." |
| 12. |
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09/28/12 |
Poor |
 "...has neither the contextual detail nor the stylistic panache to sell its cloying, wish-fulfillment narrative. It can't decide what it wants to be, so it settles for nothing." |
| 13. |
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06/29/12 |
Poor |
 "...typical fish-out-of-water clichés... so wan and dispiriting that it might make you yearn for the uncomfortable tonal hodgepodge of earlier Tyler Perry movies." |
| 14. |
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05/11/12 |
Poor |
 "...pointless.... For a movie that deals with rape, criminality, and even racks up a real body count, 'Hick' is whisper-thin and instantly forgettable." |
| 15. |
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03/12/12 |
Poor |
 "...all those years of acting opposite animals and CGI effects for the kiddies appear to have taken their toll on the actor... another in a line of dispiriting failures..." |
| 16. |
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04/26/13 |
Weak |
 "...a 'wasted opportunity' would be a good way to describe the entirety of this tepid, inoffensive trifle." |
| 17. |
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03/29/13 |
Weak |
 "That G.I. Joe silliness the first film embraced has been steamrolled into tentpole flatness this time around. It's not stoopid anymore, but just plain stupid." |
| 18. |
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03/01/13 |
Weak |
 "Ed Gass-Donnelly undercuts it all by haphazardly tossing in jump scares of the cheapest, most predictable kind... somewhere inside this film is a very good thriller..." |
| 19. |
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02/08/13 |
Weak |
 "...moves in fits and starts, as gorgeous as it is frustrating.... The character seems like a jerk lost inside what might have otherwise been a beautiful film." |
| 20. |
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12/07/12 |
Weak |
 "...a cool, collected, concise film -- to its detriment.... If the film can't be bothered to care for its characters, why should we?" |
