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05/18/12 |
Poor |
 "...a flick that deploys bloody brutality to a cast of anonymous characters to make no point beyond 'Ain't asskicking cool?' Except it isn't." |
| 2. |
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05/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...perhaps Sacha Baron Cohen doesn't realize that he's not a movie pratfall artist: he's a cultural critic.... He doesn't need to invent scenarios to be knocked down..." |
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05/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...sweet and amusing... And yet it ends up making you wish it realized its own potential to be truly original instead of going down a well-trod path..." |
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05/14/12 |
Poor |
 "The women are somehow meant to be 'sexy,' not in spite of but because they are in fear for their lives... a disgusting movie." |
| 5. |
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05/10/12 |
Poor |
 "...a disaster of depressingly small ambitions and immeasurably enormous incompetence..." |
| 6. |
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05/08/12 |
Excellent |
 "...gorgeously photographed, astonishingly intimate.... We have never seen lions and cheetahs like this before..." |
| 7. |
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05/03/12 |
Poor |
 "...the same tedious sitcom blend of crude vulgarity and sappy sentiment." |
| 8. |
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05/03/12 |
Poor |
 "...the humor falls flat -- waaaay flat... completely inexcusable under any sort of governmental or social organization in the 21st century are the recurring motifs of gay-bashing and homophobia." |
| 9. |
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05/03/12 |
Poor |
 "...when a film that wants to champion women and push back against the abuses we are often subjected to treats the young woman at its core so abysmally, I get angry." |
| 10. |
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04/26/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...something magical happens, and it becomes so exciting and so involving that you never want it to end... This is pure nonsense in the best sense..." |
| 11. |
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04/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "There are, wonderfully, no foregone conclusions to be found in this charming and cheeky film... a hugely rewarding tale of dreaming big, building big, and living big." |
| 12. |
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04/23/12 |
Moderate |
 "If the trickery isn't quite as multilayered as we might hope, there's still Samuel L. Jackson's furious performance to appreciate. He's as fun to watch as he always is." |
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04/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...wholly remarkable... those of us who don't mind a little -- or a lot -- of inventive and bloody mayhem as long as there's something meatier accompanying it are in for a treat." |
| 14. |
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04/23/12 |
Poor |
 "...this sorry excuse for a film is laughable. If it merely wants to be an involving, provocative thriller... well, it fails miserably..." |
| 15. |
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04/20/12 |
Poor |
 "...cheesy claptrap... Never let it be said that Nicholas Sparks doesn't prefer easy fake greeting-card melodrama instead of something that looks more like complicated reality." |
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04/16/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...funny, clever, and wittily animated, basically pure delightful perfection... there's a silly, cheeky absurdity to the goofy claymation, another triumph from the folks at Aardman..." |
| 17. |
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04/13/12 |
Poor |
 "...pretty much the dullest alien invasion movie ever... and pretty much the least effective cautionary tale ever... a soggy mess." |
| 18. |
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04/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Absolutely genius movie. Totally brilliant.... You know how they say there are only six basic stories? I think Whedon and Goddard may have found a seventh." |
| 19. |
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04/06/12 |
Fair |
 "...an awkward blend of solemn and silly... will likely bore, confuse, or terrify small children, while adult fans of animation may find the shifts in tone jarring." |
| 20. |
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04/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a hilarious satire on male inadequacy disguised as an outrageously violent crime thriller... Much of it is just so wrong that it ends up just so right." |
