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01/07/10 |
Good |
 "...it's rare and a little wonderful to see a comedy about the sex lives of teenagers that suffers from an excess of ideas and ambition instead of a dearth." |
| 2. |
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04/07/11 |
Fair |
 "There's nothing inherently wrong with prizing entertainment over art, but what happens when the big, dumb popcorn fare isn't even fun?" |
| 3. |
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01/24/13 |
Good |
 "The film's central romance veers into the realm of wish-fulfillment, but it's still drawn with tenderness and sensitivity... sweet and affecting..." |
| 4. |
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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..." |
| 5. |
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02/07/13 |
Poor |
 "...ultimately less interested in examining the depths people will sink to for the sake of survival than in delivering a steady stream of fresh corpses." |
| 6. |
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09/27/12 |
Fair |
 "...clumsy.... the nauseatingly maudlin ending betrays the formulaic manipulation lurking behind the film's thinly applied coat of gritty, timely faux-realism." |
| 7. |
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07/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a storybook brought to life with intelligence, wit, and palpable affection... 'Winnie The Pooh' is bravely quiet, old-fashioned, and wry." |
| 8. |
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09/02/10 |
Moderate |
 "...a forgettable bit of romantic-comedy fluff... pretends to delve into serious subject matter, but it flatters rather than challenges..." |
| 9. |
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09/29/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...takes place in a strange time warp where attitudes about sex and promiscuity change dramatically from scene to scene." |
| 10. |
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10/28/10 |
Fair |
 "...relentlessly dour... less a passionate duet than the sad spectacle of two people humming softly, sadly, and tunelessly to themselves in unison." |
| 11. |
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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." |
| 12. |
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09/23/10 |
Excellent |
 "...can sometimes feel more like a lecture and an info-dump than a gripping narrative, but to his credit, Guggenheim never lets us forget the high, human stakes involved..." |
| 13. |
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02/02/12 |
Poor |
 "...a glorified cinematic romance novel with blindingly slick, expensive production values that never begin to mask the fundamental emptiness at its core." |
| 14. |
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03/17/11 |
Excellent |
 "...bittersweet, elegiac... tells a riveting story of triumph littered with tragedy.... the tale of a man who refused to let his humble origins dictate the course of his life..." |
| 15. |
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08/18/10 |
Poor |
 "...merits commendation for such non-triumphs as telling a relatively coherent story, settling on one genre as a satirical target, and conveying a knowledge of its source material..." |
| 16. |
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02/11/10 |
Poor |
 "...explores love in all its myriad forms, from the sickeningly sappy to the cornball to the groaningly precious and obnoxiously cute.... overstuffed..." |
| 17. |
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03/29/13 |
Weak |
 "It isn't until the film grows flamboyantly bad in its final act that it rises to the level of good dumb fun in the trashy tradition of Perry's most entertainingly awful films." |
| 18. |
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04/22/11 |
Weak |
 "...everything is pitched to jarring emotional extremes of good and evil, joy and pain, chitlin'-circuit broad comedy, and melodramatic speeches." |
| 19. |
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03/31/11 |
Moderate |
 "...all tension and frustration with no crowd-pleasing release.... ends up feeling cryptic and opaque rather than genuinely complex." |
| 20. |
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10/13/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...mounts in craziness until it's frothing-at-the-mouth... It's hard to sustain that level of inspired lunacy over the course of 90 minutes, but 'Trespass' is up to the challenge." |
