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09/24/10 |
Poor |
 "...an unlikable and excruciatingly unfunny comedy based on the premise that you can graduate high school but you never leave." |
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01/29/10 |
Poor |
 "An inert comedy... a rom-bomb." |
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12/07/12 |
Weak |
 "If Gerard Butler exudes rakish charm and Jessica Biel a charming flintiness, then why is this so utterly charmless?" |
| 4. |
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09/16/11 |
Weak |
 "...almost succeeds as an object lesson in the difference between being a man and being a macho animal. But it fails as a gripping home-invasion thriller." |
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06/17/11 |
Weak |
 "An intermittently amusing, interminable affair that for sheer ugliness and a scenery-chewing performance by Peter Sarsgaard has a certain Camp appeal." |
| 6. |
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03/18/11 |
Weak |
 "...a case of when bad scripts happen to good actors.... While individual scenes are appealing, the movie does not cohere." |
| 7. |
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01/14/11 |
Weak |
 "Hard to think of a more mystifying mismatch of filmmaker and material.... plot mechanics overwhelm Gondry, who fails to put his stamp on the material..." |
| 8. |
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03/19/10 |
Weak |
 "Andy Tennant aims for a contemporary version of 'The Thin Man'... To say that he falls short of the mark is understatement. He doesn't even come close." |
| 9. |
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03/19/10 |
Weak |
 "Director Miguel Sapochnik is a former storyboard artist more attentive to how his atmospherics look than to storytelling or acting." |
| 10. |
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01/22/10 |
Weak |
 "Michael Lembeck directs with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, pounding every joke and cliche until they are flat, flat, flat." |
| 11. |
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12/18/09 |
Weak |
 "...a movie with everything going for it and nothing working.... Rarely in the field of human comedy has so little been achieved by such big talents." |
| 12. |
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07/24/09 |
Weak |
 "...lacking in chemistry.... here's hoping that this unfunny comedy doesn't set both sexes back by 50 years." |
| 13. |
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04/28/09 |
Weak |
 "...a schlockily entertaining film that would make any daytime soap look subtle... a 'wreck the homewrecker!' movie." |
| 14. |
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01/09/09 |
Weak |
 "How bad can a movie be, with Goldilocks Hudson and Cinderella Hathaway?... Hudson's sunshine can't warm it and Hathaway's rose redolence can't mask its stink." |
| 15. |
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09/21/12 |
Moderate |
 "...pleasant, but not especially dramatic... 'Backwards' - its title referring to the wisdom that life is lived forward but understood backward - has no forward propulsion." |
| 16. |
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09/07/12 |
Moderate |
 "The film (a) is not recommended for the prudish and (b) does not live up to its title... It delivers a few laughs, many cringes..." |
| 17. |
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06/22/12 |
Moderate |
 "...while Dodge and Penny are pleasant enough company, they don't strike sparks.... The bad news: The end of the world comes with a whimper. Worse: And two wimps." |
| 18. |
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06/15/12 |
Moderate |
 "...an unfinished portrait of an unfinished womanchild with fidgety poise nicely embodied by Gerwig... a charming actress in a charmless picture." |
| 19. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the filmmakers do little to unify the multi-strand narrative and its ensuing extreme mood shifts." |
| 20. |
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02/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "Madonna, don't preach: If material things mean so little, why photograph them with such obvious care?" |
