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04/26/13 |
Poor |
 "Even the premise, borrowed from the French comedy 'Mon Frère Se Marie' (2006), is one hoary sitcom cliche.... This is all one starry, starry blight." |
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12/19/12 |
Moderate |
 "...despite some funny offhand moments, the film doesn't jell.... the inevitable hard-truths scene feels early and unearned." |
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11/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...blends poignancy and a piston-powered plot that revels in both visual inventiveness and a vaudevillian sense of timing." |
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10/12/12 |
Moderate |
 "...except for a few moments of effective slapstick -- the best of it involving vomiting in the ring, as hard as that is for me to write -- there's not much funny..." |
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09/21/12 |
Moderate |
 "The film's one believably human scene involves Anderson meeting the family of a gang member she's killed. Otherwise, it's all tough-guy talk and humorless cynicism." |
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09/07/12 |
Weak |
 "...instead of being a dark examination of human frailty, it's romanticized claptrap. It's also oddly circuitous for no great reason... confounding without being intriguing." |
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08/25/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...won't take you anyplace new.... [but] for casual viewers desiring a few scares, some suspense and a sustained sense of dread and malevolence, you could do worse." |
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08/24/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...mostly delivers, with its adrenaline-junkie bicycle messenger chased all over Manhattan by a crooked cop.... it has a tone as all-over-the-map as the story..." |
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07/27/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the closest thing so far to an American Bollywood musical... It's no spoiler to say everything works out in the end..." |
| 10. |
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12/16/11 |
Weak |
 "The power of cute can go a long way, but that just makes 'Chipwrecked' no more substantial than a YouTube kitten video." |
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10/14/11 |
Poor |
 "Birdbrained attempt at comedy." |
| 12. |
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08/12/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Surprisingly, no franchise fatigue, thanks to spectacular effects and still-inventive death machinations." |
| 13. |
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04/29/11 |
Poor |
 "...feels rote and uninspired. And the puffy, Cabbage Patch doll designs look nearly 20 years out of date.... the jokes are as dopey as Disney's seventh dwarf." |
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04/01/11 |
Weak |
 "A floppy-eared flop.... James Marsden, all hammy, bug-eyed exaggeration, is simply working beyond his range." |
| 15. |
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04/01/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a thoroughly original, imaginative and fast-flying tale in which the 'Groundhog Day' aspects are secondary to a story of service, honor and dedication." |
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03/25/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a phantasmagoric feast for any present or former high schooler who wanted to escape into a heavy-metal album cover. We mean that in a good way." |
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10/29/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The trick to keeping it fresh is in the specifics of the particular culture, which help make this modest romantic drama more interesting than its schematic plot and characters.... a middling indie..." |
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09/24/10 |
Poor |
 "...features comedically tone-deaf direction.... a mean-spirited mess.... the screenwriter should have worked out with his therapist and not with an audience." |
| 19. |
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09/01/10 |
Very Good |
 "...there's also no lack of characters' questing for meaning, for connection and for a way out of one priest's definition of hell: a place where love does not exist." |
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06/18/10 |
Outstanding |
 "A police inspector and a crazed, charismatic tribal leader in a remote rain forest stage a deadly battle of wills. Two of Bollywood's biggest stars go without glamour..." |
