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05/08/12 |
Poor |
 "These horses ride in a vacuum, safe from dirt and shit and everything else. There's no activity there. 'The Cup' just gestures vaguely at something closer to bad TV than to real life." |
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04/24/12 |
Poor |
 "The premise is so loaded with simplistic psychoanalytic implications that the screenplay might as well be co-credited to Jacques Lacan..." |
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04/20/12 |
Poor |
 "...clearly torpedoed by overzealous slicing and dicing, and what might have been a competent blockbuster is now borderline unwatchable." |
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04/05/12 |
Poor |
 "I don't begrudge these veterans an opportunity to speak out, but that puts a lot of pressure on the filmmakers to deliver a film that's strong enough to support the weight of their shared experience, and this film simply isn't up to the task." |
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03/28/12 |
Poor |
 "...muddled and noncommittal; too abstract to suggest a coherent moral lesson, but too remote to foster a satisfying emotional connection... barren, an attempt to do too much that ultimately does very little." |
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03/19/12 |
Poor |
 "...it's incredible that we get to see autobiographical movies by biophysicists with PhD's from Harvard... [but] this is not a personal story.... It's a poor approximation of a genre built around artifice and cliché." |
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03/06/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The film, much to its credit, recognizes how resolutely derivative it is, and it deigns to relish rather than efface that quality. The result is a trifle, but a fairly amusing one." |
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02/15/12 |
Weak |
 "...while the story at its core is told with both force and conviction, 'Bullhead' ultimately oversells itself, posing as an epic without the substance of one.... It's just too stubborn and self-serious to see it." |
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02/14/12 |
Poor |
 "...works so hard to affect the look and feel of a typical Hollywood action film that it even manages to replicate the utter mediocrity of any given real one... so full of stock types and clichés it makes 'The Breakfast Club' look like 'Nashville.' " |
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01/29/12 |
Weak |
 "There's a paucity of thought and feeling here that's irredeemable. Rather than express any emotional truth of its own, 'Bad Fever' merely adopts an attitude that resembles one. That it thinks that's good enough is a shame." |
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01/18/12 |
Poor |
 "...bends over backward to impress us with its superficial stylistic flourishes -- needlessly colorful title cards, exaggerated camera movements, hokey POV shots -- suggests that 'Scalene,' though made badly, was at least labored over, the product of much time and effort." |
