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08/12/11 |
Good |
 "...isn't a frame longer than necessary... the scenes with Ansari and Eisenberg pop -- particularly during their laugh-out-loud amateur robbery." |
| 2. |
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08/07/09 |
Very Good |
 "I've seldom seen a thriller go from eye-rollingly dull to clever, funny and exciting as dramatically as 'A Perfect Getaway' does about 40-odd minutes into its running time." |
| 3. |
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04/03/09 |
Fair |
 "One gets the sinking feeling as 'Alien Trespass' drags on that director R.W. Goodwin thought he could build a whole movie out of a few formal gags about bad editing." |
| 4. |
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04/06/12 |
Poor |
 "...worthless, cynical, tone-deaf, witless, cash-grabbing garbage.... Even worse, very little of it is remotely funny." |
| 5. |
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08/05/11 |
Weak |
 "...exasperating.... it desperately wants to say something profound about forgiveness and regret. But in the telling, it's not much more than pretty, pretentious junk." |
| 6. |
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04/08/11 |
Moderate |
 "The actors are good enough to wring occasional laughs out of remarkably slight material... But they're fighting a tired story..." |
| 7. |
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11/23/11 |
Very Good |
 "Arthur is sort of a dull hero, but the grandfather is classic, hilarious Aardman -- a thoroughly British eccentric prone to weird nostalgic/fatalistic utterances." |
| 8. |
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09/09/11 |
Excellent |
 "...a tough, funny, fast-moving and tightly constructed John Carpenter riff in which a bickering group fights a pack of space monsters in and around a single location." |
| 9. |
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05/18/12 |
Weak |
 "...grindingly dull, digitally rendered naval warfare; the flick could easily be retitled 'Flying Ordinance and Forgettable Stars: The Motion Picture.' " |
| 10. |
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04/06/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a big-hearted, bittersweet story about a boy desperate to connect with his father." |
| 11. |
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05/13/11 |
Very Good |
 "...while it's uneven in a couple of key areas, it is frequently very funny -- playing like an entire film populated by the Wacky Best Friends in other, lesser comedies." |
| 12. |
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01/18/13 |
Moderate |
 "...too complex and competently crafted to dismiss as junk, but it's also nowhere near sharp enough to work as the serious grown-up detective movie it clearly wants to be." |
| 13. |
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03/05/10 |
Moderate |
 "...half-successful... Fine moments, images and performances stand cheek-by-jowl with the clichéd, the on-the-nose and the slightly dopey." |
| 14. |
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11/24/10 |
Moderate |
 "Christina Aguilera has magnificent pipes... Unfortunately, the movie they built around that soundtrack is a clichéd drag that wastes talented actors." |
| 15. |
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06/24/11 |
Very Good |
 "...if it's going to be diet Pixar, at least it's action-packed diet Pixar -- with overwhelming, detail-choked production design that occasionally had my jaw lowering like a forklift." |
| 16. |
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09/10/10 |
Good |
 "...mostly moves at speed, and it's awesomely, needlessly, hilariously gory... If I believed in the concept of 'guilty pleasures,' I'd classify 'Centurion' as one..." |
| 17. |
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10/26/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The surfing scenes are gorgeous and overwhelming. But the rest of the film never quite manages to feel like more than a surface-scraping, by-the-numbers sports flick." |
| 18. |
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10/05/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it's affecting as near-operatic melodrama (particularly during one heartbreaking, late-film montage) and it's fascinating as an offbeat storytelling exercise." |
| 19. |
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10/23/09 |
Moderate |
 "...competent without being spectacular or thrilling.... I suspect that little kids will enjoy 'Cirque du Freak' quite a bit..." |
| 20. |
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09/04/09 |
Good |
 "...gorgeously shot by cinematographer Andrij Parekh... the general tone is a fairly confident tightrope-walk between dry farce and existential gloom..." |
