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10/06/11 |
Poor |
 "Once director Tom Six's conceptual project becomes clear, his escalating audience-mocking torture is increasingly pointless." |
| 2. |
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10/05/11 |
Poor |
"A smug fuck-you to 'Human Centipede' fans, it's perhaps the sequel we deserve. But that doesn't mean this dumb, blunt follow-up is worth sitting through." |
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12/30/10 |
Poor |
 "The further the characters are etched, the harder it becomes to figure out with whom Leigh intends us to identify..." |
| 4. |
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12/29/10 |
Poor |
"...full of highly exaggerated performances that intermittently tip into caricature... openly invited me to revile each and every one of its characters..." |
| 5. |
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08/25/11 |
Poor |
 "...gives permission for a genre already prone to solipsism to finally close in on itself entirely." |
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08/24/11 |
Poor |
"...a rarely laugh-out-loud dysfunctional-sibling comedy.... does such a half-assed job of reflecting the ways in which real people communicate.... and then, it gets worse..." |
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06/23/11 |
Poor |
 "Here, a 'strong woman' means a lazy, lying, scheming, slutty, and obstinately materialistic one, whose sole redeeming virtue is her hard body..." |
| 8. |
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06/22/11 |
Poor |
"...lazy writing, style-free direction and visual design, and a general refusal to aim above the lowest common denominator..." |
| 9. |
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02/11/10 |
Poor |
 "...rote episodic construction reduces each of its couplings to a couple of shopworn money shots, flattening any potential for their chemistry or our vicarious pleasure." |
| 10. |
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02/10/10 |
Poor |
"...has relentless, nonsensical forward motion.... Think of it as the 'Crash' of romance, the 'Short Cuts' of bullshit." |
| 11. |
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09/13/12 |
Poor |
 "...a truly stunning misuse of talent and resources, and for others, it's the film of the Toronto Film Festival, if not the year.... inconsistent, tone-deaf..." |
| 12. |
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02/29/12 |
Poor |
 "...a dull thriller.... this slog adds up to nothing other than the shocking truism that average people will do horrible things primarily because someone tells them to." |
| 13. |
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02/01/12 |
Poor |
 "...the work of a woman who apparently hasn't spent time with normal human beings in a while.... Madonna's anachronistic use of music is the least of her movie's problems." |
| 14. |
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12/22/11 |
Poor |
 "...about as Hollywood as it gets." |
| 15. |
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12/21/11 |
Poor |
"...a United Nations extra-credit project about the Bosnian War... a sanctimonious vanity commercial for Angelina Jolie's own good intentions." |
| 16. |
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12/08/11 |
Poor |
"...falls increasingly deeper into the fetishization it takes as its subject, repeatedly imbuing clothes and jewelry with heavy symbolism, forgetting any impulse to critique." |
| 17. |
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07/21/11 |
Poor |
 "...there's not so much as a single mention of the ideological divides that plagued the times -- and, subsequently, spawned the original... So what is Captain America fighting for?" |
| 18. |
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07/20/11 |
Poor |
"...a hokey, hacky, two-hour-plus exercise in franchise transition/price gouging, complete with utterly unnecessary post-converted 3-D." |
| 19. |
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06/16/11 |
Poor |
 "As Ryan Reynolds breathes in and out in the skin-tight, digitally enhanced Lantern suit, each abdominal muscle seems to pulse independently." |
| 20. |
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06/15/11 |
Poor |
"...personality-free... never rewards the viewer for even trying to keep track of what is going on." |
