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01/26/12 |
Poor |
 "Director-for-hire Asger Leth ('Ghosts of Cité Soleil') does what he can with the pedestrian material..." |
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01/25/12 |
Poor |
"There are nods to Occupy Wall Street and 'Dog Day Afternoon,' but the whole thing plays like random outtakes from 'Law & Order.' " |
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06/10/10 |
Poor |
 "...only wants to embrace the drab. 'I'd kill for a normal life,' Kutcher says. Unfortunately for us, he does both." |
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05/06/10 |
Poor |
 "The old midlife crisis plot gains no freshness when staged back in 1979... appears constructed from the old sets, costumes and extras from 'Annie Hall.' " |
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05/04/10 |
Poor |
"A vanity production... the kind of odious, self-validating wish fulfillment that actually makes you appreciate the more generous self-absorption of Henry Jaglom films." |
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03/11/10 |
Poor |
 "Just because you're a hit on YouTube doesn't mean you should be making movies.... Two or three minutes is fine, but 105 minutes is excruciating." |
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01/29/09 |
Poor |
 "...we get a standard assortment of sitcom-ready characters: oversharing rube secretary... gruff foreman... and hunky bachelor..." |
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01/28/09 |
Poor |
" 'I will not get personally attached to this town or anyone in it,' says Zellweger. Ultimately, we feel the same way about her." |
| 9. |
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01/28/09 |
Poor |
"With a cheap, for-hire Danish director and a co-writer whose major credit is 'Sweet Home Alabama,' the movie wrong-foots Zellweger from the start." |
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05/10/12 |
Weak |
 "...earnest family melodrama.... That means urgent hospital scenes, teary phone calls, and bedside declarations like, 'Remember, you'll be riding with me always'.... 'Anything can happen.' Not in this movie." |
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12/07/11 |
Weak |
 "An arrogant, struggling actor leaves his wife for a sexy, unstable younger woman, which would be a perfectly serviceable starting point for Ibsen or Woody Allen.... Theresa Rebeck can't find a consistent tone for her material or players." |
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11/03/11 |
Weak |
 "Directors Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis fail to plumb their subject's frustrations or any other insightful biographical details." |
| 13. |
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11/02/11 |
Weak |
"Master Steinway piano sound technician Stephan Knüpfer loves his dog, and his wife makes a mean cheesecake -- that's all we learn.... it's unclear if he even loves music." |
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06/01/11 |
Weak |
 "...caught in the fatal demographic desert between the 'Scream' and 'Baghead' crowds -- neither funny nor quirky enough to sustain interest during its long march." |
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11/11/10 |
Weak |
 "...an unmanned runaway freight train, laden with toxic waste, is careening across Pennsylvania! There's another train with innocent schoolchildren on the same tracks!" |
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11/11/10 |
Weak |
 "...has its heroine return home under circumstances mysterious only to her small-town friends. Why ex-major Alexandra (Dreya Weber) has been booted from the Marines is certainly easy for us to guess, despite the wedding ring." |
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11/10/10 |
Weak |
"...let's go get that train! Oh, do you need to be told this is a Tony Scott film? ...like a mashup of classic commercials for Ford pickup trucks, Bud Lite, and Hooters..." |
| 18. |
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11/03/10 |
Weak |
"More topical than dramatic... a lesbian amalgam of 'Walking Tall' and 'Billy Jack.' Relentlessly clumsy and predictable... its abrupt, wishful postscript is still just a fairy tale." |
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03/18/10 |
Weak |
 "...embraces every stereotype about bickering, mismatched couples: He's the slovenly lout with a bruised heart; she's the Type-A career woman..." |
| 20. |
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03/17/10 |
Weak |
"Jennifer Aniston's hair plays a New York Daily News crime reporter... Gerard Butler's scowl plays her ex..." |
