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03/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are surprisingly amusing together... more enjoyable than most of Hollywood's unimaginative remakes and updates." |
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04/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...hits every button you expect very ably. It riles.... It uplifts.... Yet like a sleepy, low-scoring ballgame, it's not the jolt of energy and entertainment we wish it could be." |
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01/14/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Profane, irreverent bluster by five very loud men might carry a choice scene, but it cannot carry an entire movie.... densely packed but ultimately slight..." |
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06/23/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an inconsequential and unoriginal look at East L.A. gang life, though the casting of some colorful former gang members adds depth and authenticity that the script lacks." |
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02/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...epic, riveting... unfolds with relentless intensity, wicked humor and a fanciful spirit that puts it in a class apart from the usual dour prison drama." |
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12/10/09 |
Very Good |
 "...engaging drama as well as the sumptuous collection of images you'd expect from first-time director Ford.... The detail Ford applies to the production design is a marvel." |
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03/09/12 |
Weak |
 "...a thin, pointless idea with dumb slapstick and pratfalls and a lot of wordless mugging by Murphy, who proves he can be just as insufferable when he's not talking..." |
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04/08/10 |
Weak |
 "...decomposes and stinks up the joint faster than a body rotting in a desert swarming with flies. At its most titillating, it amounts to necrophiliac porn..." |
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10/18/12 |
Weak |
 "...a movie built on bad ideas... Tyler Perry has little allure... the standard-issue cop-vs.-serial-killer story presents Cross as more of a dopey psycho-babbler..." |
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10/22/09 |
Moderate |
 "Lovely aerial images, lush landscapes and rich sets and costumes are the film's lone strengths. In almost every other regard, 'Amelia' veers off course." |
| 11. |
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04/07/11 |
Moderate |
 "...a benign bit of fluff... has little of its own to offer.... Like almost every remake, the movie has no reason to exist, other than to cash in with today's fans..." |
| 12. |
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11/17/11 |
Very Good |
 "...has the old-fashioned spirit of Christmas... the visual gags will carry youngsters along, while there are plenty of clever wisecracks to keep their parents occupied." |
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12/02/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...sardonically funny and bitterly sad... moves effortlessly between churlish hilarity and aching melancholy..." |
| 14. |
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12/28/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...agonizing to watch yet relentlessly compelling, even illuminating... a film that should be seen by as many people as possible." |
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03/04/10 |
Moderate |
 "...a fine cast... [but] the movie is relentlessly bleak and barbarous, Fuqua grinding viewers down through his cavemen-with-badges depiction of police work." |
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05/06/10 |
Very Good |
 "The story will leave you disturbed and disgusted, and a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information director Gibney packs in..." |
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07/29/10 |
Weak |
 "...a bore, despite a somewhat clever twist -- somewhat because it momentarily jolts the story out of the doldrums before the movie settles back to sleep." |
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03/25/10 |
Moderate |
 "...dead on arrival from the moment suspicious wife Moore, convinced husband Neeson is cheating on her, hires call girl Seyfried to push the man's buttons..." |
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10/14/10 |
Very Good |
 "...it's enormous fun to watch Swank in her element, pounding down legal barriers with the same tenacity she used to knock out opponents in 'Million Dollar Baby.' " |
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07/28/11 |
Moderate |
 "...a mush-up, an action yarn aiming to be both science fiction and Old West adventure but doing neither all that well.... the only clever thing is the basic idea itself." |
