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| 1. |
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03/22/13 |
Fair |
 "...an animated film that goes lamely where many have gone before." |
| 2. |
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03/22/13 |
Good |
 "...a placidly nostalgic tale of teenage love and camaraderie in the Japanese city of Yokohama before the 1964 Olympics... pleasant and weightless..." |
| 3. |
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03/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "A handful of adrenalizing sequences of animated anarchy can't save this story from feeling overly primitive." |
| 4. |
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03/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...surprisingly good, and surprisingly gruesome, fun.... Michael Eklund makes the most of the maniac role, and Breslin is a sympathetic victim..." |
| 5. |
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03/01/13 |
Fair |
 "...the absurdity of its he-man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown." |
| 6. |
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01/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...intermittently fun, but overexcited and predictable... indulges fully in its own childish fixations on brainless action and mindless violence." |
| 7. |
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11/02/12 |
Excellent |
 "...the real success of the film is its emotional core and the relationship between the two misfits... there's a lot of heart packed into these zeroes and ones." |
| 8. |
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10/26/12 |
Weak |
 "An ugly, assaultive collection of jump-scares... It feels like a Nine Inch Nails music video could break out at any moment.... This sequel is very grim pickings." |
| 9. |
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09/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...awkward at times, yet it's also passionate in a surprisingly smart way. It makes a genuine drama out of impossible issues. It's also, for the most part, very nicely acted." |
| 10. |
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09/14/12 |
Fair |
 "...lively but utterly scatterbrained... the deep-rooted silliness makes it hard to take anything in the film seriously. But at least it has the decency never to ask us to." |
| 11. |
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09/07/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Natasha Calis is appropriately creepy as that increasingly malevolent kid. Still, the scary bits are too familiar: It seems clichés are nondenominational." |
| 12. |
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08/24/12 |
Poor |
 "Despite endless jarbled techno-nonsense about EEGs and spectral energy, the ghostly terror at the center of this generic scarer remains a paranormal nonentity." |
| 13. |
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01/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "Despite the occasional dumb fun, the leap of logic required to make it all work is enough to leave your brain pancaked on the sidewalk." |
| 14. |
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12/30/11 |
Weak |
 "...surprisingly thrill-less... You should be rooting for the humans, but you might as well be rooting for the blobs. Most likely, though, you'll just be rooting for the credits." |
| 15. |
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11/25/11 |
Excellent |
 "...more clever than outright funny, but it's also genuinely sweet, and the complicated relations among Santa's clan are surprisingly believable." |
| 16. |
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10/28/11 |
Moderate |
 "...stupid fun, with an emphasis on stupid.... Everything in the film is puffed up absurdly... It floats, but it's mainly filled with hot air." |
| 17. |
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10/07/11 |
Moderate |
 "...eventually devolves into over-the-top drama and a suffocating heavy-handedness.... for all intents and purposes the theater seats might as well be pews." |
| 18. |
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09/23/11 |
Good |
 "While the plot occasionally feels like 'Free Willy' without the drama, it's a cute story if you don't mind temporarily trading in your cynicism for a bag of popcorn." |
| 19. |
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09/10/11 |
Poor |
 "...a one-note joke played over and over and over. Like a bad movie adaptation of a recurring Saturday Night Live character that never existed... pretty hard to watch." |
| 20. |
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09/09/11 |
Weak |
 "In space no one can hear you scream. Or groan.... 'Apollo 18' fails to stay with you because, like the cratered satellite on which it's set, it has no atmosphere." |
