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09/10/09 |
Moderate |
 "...older viewers may find little to admire about Acker's feature-length expansion of his Oscar-nominated 10-minute 2005 short, other than its CGI visuals. But what visuals!" |
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05/05/11 |
Outstanding |
 "The 45 minutes of unrelenting carnage that conclude it are as crimson-soaked as fans would expect. And yet this tale is also moving." |
| 3. |
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09/06/12 |
Poor |
 "...a political hatchet job, adapted from D'Souza's nonfiction (and non-fact) books... the unsubstantiated mess isn't much of a movie or a documentary." |
| 4. |
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03/07/13 |
Poor |
 "...before passing out, Jeff stands atop a bar, drops trou, and pisses all over the patrons. I know how they feel." |
| 5. |
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07/14/11 |
Moderate |
 "...heavy-handed? Sí, y algo más." |
| 6. |
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01/17/13 |
Poor |
 "...a movie that thinks homophobia is the height of hilarity. That, and the image of Wayans taking a shit - a fitting metaphor for this film." |
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03/25/10 |
Very Good |
 "...a look at a group of blue-collar Israeli men (and one woman) and how they came to accept who they are. Sounds like your usual coming-out tale, no? Except that they're not gay." |
| 8. |
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05/06/10 |
Poor |
 "...director Samuel Bayer's remake color-codes the transitions. How helpful!" |
| 9. |
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02/28/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...heartbreaking... at less than 90 minutes, it feels a bit overstuffed. Even though they focus on three separate individuals, the filmmakers hit their bullet points over and over." |
| 10. |
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03/15/12 |
Weak |
 "...from auteur Brian Robbins ('Norbit')... Murphy plays a philandering husband with a kid and a job as a fast-talking, prevaricating literary agent." |
| 11. |
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07/22/10 |
Very Good |
 "We're but tiny specks in the cosmos, a point Alejandro Amenábar ('The Sea Inside') drives home via nigh-omnipresent powers-of-10 shots..." |
| 12. |
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09/10/09 |
Poor |
 "They should have called it 'There's Something Insane About Mary.' " |
| 13. |
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10/15/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Director Lone Scherfig avoids most of the pitfalls of the coming-of-age genre." |
| 14. |
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10/14/10 |
Very Good |
 "...a fine cinematic adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1891 novella about a young antihero aristocrat..." |
| 15. |
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08/25/11 |
Very Good |
 "...you might smile as you acknowledge, 'Hey, I'm beginning to like these hoodies.' Even as you struggle (at first) to understand some of their slang, bruv." |
| 16. |
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06/30/11 |
Weak |
 "...will anyone sitting through this slog actually believe the lazy money-grubber will augment her perfectly perky B-cups to attract an overly agreeable imbecile?..." |
| 17. |
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04/30/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Say you want to produce an independent computer-animated sci-fi epic but you don't have the deep pockets of Pixar or DreamWorks -- what to do?... you simplify." |
| 18. |
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07/09/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...captures some of the visceral thrills of the nine-year-old anime. Credit Corey Yuen's gravity-defying fight choreography and some cut-rate CGI." |
| 19. |
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04/12/12 |
Poor |
 "...this cartoonish movie centers on the journey of a disillusioned Christian who discovers that he's... still a Christian. Heavens!" |
| 20. |
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06/21/12 |
Moderate |
 "...merely good. But after the successive triumphs of the past decade, it's hard to accept anything less than transcendence from the animation studio." |
