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05/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...a time-waster that lives down to its title.... singularly devoid of insight.... Hell, 80 minutes of John Waters sleeping would be more fun..." |
| 2. |
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05/11/12 |
Poor |
 "...so artificial and self-satisfied that it's seldom infected by the messiness and unpredictability of reality." |
| 3. |
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04/26/12 |
Poor |
 "Jenna Fischer trudges joylessly through this independent quirk-fest with all the pep of a condemned man being led to the gallows." |
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04/26/12 |
Moderate |
 "The tone is mild, the setting is peaceful to the point of sleepiness, and the stakes are incredibly low, even with the heart-tugging central presence of an adorable animal in danger." |
| 5. |
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04/25/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a lovely, sweet, funny, romantic, and supremely worthwhile endeavor that unfortunately takes longer to wrap up than it should." |
| 6. |
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04/19/12 |
Poor |
 "...the film's silky buppie charms are barely enough to support a trailer, let alone a film that drones on for two interminable hours." |
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04/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...maintains a respectable distance from its subject that ultimately doesn't work in its favor... it's hampered by too much reverence and not enough insight." |
| 8. |
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04/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...ballsy, audacious, and uncompromising, but the overall effect of Kahn's Hellzapoppin-meets-Twitter aesthetic is exhausting rather than energizing.... so relentlessly 'fun,' it's borderline obnoxious." |
| 9. |
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04/12/12 |
Excellent |
 "...all roads eventually lead back to Jesus.... The film makes a virtue of open-mindedness. It's affectionate and unexpectedly sophisticated in its depiction of bohemian college life..." |
| 10. |
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04/05/12 |
Good |
 "...a valentine to geek culture that's crowd-pleasing but superficial, glibly entertaining in the time-tested Spurlock fashion, but unlikely to linger." |
| 11. |
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03/29/12 |
Poor |
 "...never even aspires to be particularly good; it merely aspires to be good enough, and fails. It's a tale of gods and monsters that fails to do right by both parties..." |
| 12. |
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03/22/12 |
Fair |
 "...wants to speak eloquently and powerfully for the disabled. Instead it speaks down to them in the vernacular of bad television comedies, cheeseball underdog dance movies, and abysmal soap operas." |
| 13. |
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03/15/12 |
Poor |
 "This thrill-free thriller doesn't have the intellectual heft or moral authority to justify a plot driven by jaywalking, let alone something as ugly and emotionally loaded as sexual assault." |
| 14. |
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03/15/12 |
Good |
 "...proudly goofy... appropriately devoid of novel concepts... more consistently amusing and inspired than an adaptation of an '80s TV show has any right to be." |
| 15. |
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03/15/12 |
Very Good |
 "...featherweight and inconsequential, but at 83 minutes, it never wears out its welcome. It's slight but savvy enough to know exactly how far to stretch a thin but ultimately clever conceit." |
| 16. |
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03/15/12 |
Very Good |
 "The Duplass brothers give the film an ingratiatingly ramshackle tone in keeping with their meandering protagonist, until a third act betrays that low-key naturalism with an assault of melodrama." |
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03/01/12 |
Excellent |
 "...an enormously likable coming-of-age comedy... recaptures the vulnerability and optimism of childhood without becoming twee or maudlin in the process.... its modesty also constitutes much of its homemade charm." |
| 18. |
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02/23/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...any aspirations to satire or social commentary get lost in the film's all-too-easy comedy." |
| 19. |
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02/17/12 |
Weak |
 "At best, the Neveldine/Taylor team is capable of transforming ingeniously trashy premises into pop art, but here, they inherit a promisingly trashy franchise and fail to give it the allure and go-for-broke energy of superior trash." |
| 20. |
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02/16/12 |
Weak |
 "...the fact that the 36-year-old actor 50 Cent -- who thoroughly looks his age -- felt he could convincingly play an athlete in his early 20s says even more about the self-delusion and narcissism behind this unintentionally hilarious vanity project.... laughably bad... 50 remains a rank amateur..." |
