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05/18/12 |
Good |
 "Good-humored and endearing, full of energy and color if not quite Pixar-level invention... A bit crammed but not too crowded, zipping along at a well-modulated, rarely frenetic pace..." |
| 2. |
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05/07/12 |
Fair |
 "...an extravagantly empty postmodern artifact, an object lesson in the perils of camping up a property that had no shortage of camp appeal to begin with." |
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04/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "...buoyant, witty and robustly entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order... deftly blends comedy, tension and on-the-fly character recaps..." |
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04/18/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...offers strong visual compensations for its meandering structure, syrupy tone and excessive sampling of Paul McCartney's back catalog." |
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04/11/12 |
Fair |
 "...crammed with enough melodramatic incident for three movies, all of them seemingly scripted by Tyler Perry in a very foul mood... a dubiously therapeutic tribute to ravaged-but-resilient black femininity." |
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04/09/12 |
Moderate |
 "...tackles a nifty futuristic premise with bargain-basement efficiency and a deadpan, devil-may-care attitude. It's an initially invigorating tactic that proves slapdash and unsatisfying over the long haul..." |
| 7. |
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04/04/12 |
Fair |
 "...glancing, incidental pleasures are almost completely divorced from a repetitive, overworked screenplay that proves rather less mature and evolved than its characters." |
| 8. |
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03/29/12 |
Weak |
 "...a gaudy, over-frosted cream puff of a movie... a mostly mirthless affair, littered with stray amusements but more often bogged down by strained whimsy." |
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03/15/12 |
Good |
 "Proficient, involving, ever faithful to its source... yet no one seems to have taken the artistic gambles that might have made this respectable adaptation a remarkable one." |
| 10. |
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03/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...tries to deviate from the earnest, preachy norms of so much faith-based cinema.... mostly engaging if somewhat fuzzy-headed..." |
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03/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...this amiably straight-faced spoof of soap/horse operas doesn't deliver enough consistently funny business to sustain its 'Tombstone'-on-Telemundo conceit." |
| 12. |
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03/08/12 |
Weak |
 "...if the pic means to teach a lesson about the importance of choosing one's words wisely, Steve Koren's screenplay can't be accused of practicing what it preaches." |
| 13. |
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02/29/12 |
Fair |
 "...has its share of eye-popping amusements, but its wobbly pacing and routine kidpic elements make for an experience that feels not just tiresome and rudderless but antithetical to the Seuss spirit." |
| 14. |
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02/17/12 |
Fair |
 "...a flailing English-language adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's much-filmed novel... Robert Pattinson registers a visible strain in negotiating the character's shifts from slick, droll charm to animal-like desperation and thwarted rage." |
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02/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a viciously energetic South Africa-set actioner that makes up in sweaty atmosphere and brute force what it lacks in surprise.... mechanically effective... doesn't have an original bone in its body..." |
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02/01/12 |
Good |
 "A Reagan-era whale of a tale fictionalized in broad, simplistic but modestly engaging strokes... won't make auds blubber but does well enough by its subject... admirably unsentimental..." |
| 17. |
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01/24/12 |
Weak |
 "...a shrill, wedding-themed snipefest that seems determined to elevate backstabbing bitchery to the level of art. It doesn't quite get there." |
| 18. |
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01/23/12 |
Weak |
 "...cloddishly contrived... too busy to bore, but too farfetched to thrill, combining routine heist-thriller machinations with dialogue that often thuds like a body hitting asphalt." |
| 19. |
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01/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "...an often hilarious, mostly infuriating chronicle of the rise and fall of one of America's most obscenely wealthy families.... elicits both sympathy and schadenfreude..." |
| 20. |
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01/11/12 |
Good |
 "...maintains a hard-driving line of action and a commitment to one-damned-thing-after-another storytelling that carries it past any number of narrative speed bumps and preposterous detours." |
