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04/13/12 |
Poor |
 "...suggests an evening of determined, incoherent channel-hopping -- with the help of a remote control that's apparently stuck on 'random.' " |
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06/19/09 |
Poor |
 "...unconvincing... by the time the word 'existential' turns up -- spoken by Jack's precocious 11-year-old pal, Sophie -- you may have lost all patience with Jack, Sophie and their Manhattan friends, including his obnoxious best friend, Scotch." |
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01/18/13 |
Weak |
 "...dull and humorless and artificial.... Brian Tucker's script wastes a capable cast... transforms into shameless catalogs of genre clichés..." |
| 4. |
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08/31/12 |
Weak |
 "...ponderous... tends to trivialize everything it re-creates: the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, French-American relations during the AIDS crisis, 9/11." |
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09/30/11 |
Weak |
 "If you mixed up the reels, if you showed Reel 6 before Reel 3, it wouldn't make a lot of difference... essentially one long, extensively choreographed fight sequence..." |
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09/02/11 |
Weak |
 "...a cluttered, empty drama that uses (or tries to use) golf, painting, dinner-table prayers and fly-fishing as pathways to enlightenment." |
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07/08/11 |
Weak |
 "...a collection of disconnected sight gags. The team of five writers, including James, simply fails to provide a narrative that would make us care about what happens next." |
| 8. |
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04/15/11 |
Weak |
 "A sense of style can make up for a lot at the movies.... 'Super' succeeds only in demonstrating that without it, you may not have much of anything." |
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01/22/10 |
Weak |
 "...a shamelessly derivative fantasy... The script borrows heavily from 'Miracle on 34th Street,' 'Peter Pan' and even 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'..." |
| 10. |
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11/25/09 |
Weak |
 "While Bill Maher's film 'Religulous' was no classic, it was occasionally provocative and funny -- qualities that are mostly missing from Peter Rodger's hodgepodge." |
| 11. |
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05/22/09 |
Weak |
 "...a collection of disconnected chase sequences, machine-gun battles and state-of-the-art CGI explosions, including, most impressively, a towering atomic cloud..." |
| 12. |
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04/24/09 |
Weak |
 "...nearly plotless, mostly boring... the biggest problem with 'Fighting' is that 'Fight Club' got there first." |
| 13. |
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02/13/09 |
Weak |
 "Everyone's working with a much bigger budget this time, but the end result is just as stupid and not as scary as the original." |
| 14. |
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02/06/09 |
Weak |
 "Martin behaves as if he dislikes Clouseau's clueless, hopelessly romantic awkwardness -- which Sellers always embraced as the source of his enduring appeal." |
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03/22/13 |
Moderate |
 "While the result seems authentic, the movie is a collection of very thin stories, many of which feel incomplete." |
| 16. |
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08/03/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a soulless mess, reminiscent of the unwatchable 'Matrix' sequels.... the original still makes sense visually and metaphorically, and the rehash is, well, a rehash." |
| 17. |
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04/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the lecture can sometimes sound like a series of slogans. That doesn't mean the message isn't valid, but much of it feels familiar and unnecessarily predigested." |
| 18. |
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10/21/11 |
Moderate |
 "...all over the place, searching for an identity that proves almost entirely elusive.... the goofiness ultimately turns to goo." |
| 19. |
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08/26/11 |
Moderate |
 "Miranda July rarely draws indifferent reactions. Her unique mixture of naiveté and quirkiness annoys some people and turns others into fierce followers." |
| 20. |
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06/24/11 |
Moderate |
 "...costly, sometimes spectacular, emotionally remote... Hardly any of the actors are given the opportunity to build a performance and establish a character." |
