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05/18/12 |
Weak |
 "...has a plot as unambitious as a macaroni dinner... indulges in shameless button-pushing, with greatest-generation homages and shout-outs to injured veterans..." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Fair |
 "...serves up its material with an excess of treacly music and an overabundance of glowing reminiscences... would have been better served by subtlety than by excess." |
| 3. |
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05/11/12 |
Fair |
 "...takes an old idea and tosses in a few today-sounding phrases in hopes of coming up with a fresh-feeling movie. But that isn't enough." |
| 4. |
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04/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "Mario Van Peebles tries awfully hard to disguise the heavy-handed messages he has ladled into 'We the Party,' a high school movie that he wrote and directed and filled with his relatives." |
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04/06/12 |
Good |
 "...shines a light on an interesting bit of WWII history: the Japanese-American soldiers who did vital work with the Army's Military Intelligence Service even as their countrymen were being thrown into internment camps." |
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03/30/12 |
Moderate |
 "...includes a disappointing amount of the mutual-admiration fluff that show-business types traffic in.... It is at its most interesting when it leaves such blather behind and catches the distrust and skepticism between the old and the new." |
| 7. |
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03/23/12 |
Weak |
 "...needs one more word in its title... It ought to be 'All In: The Poker Propaganda Movie'... the film is so padded with cheerleading that it doesn't have time for a serious exploration..." |
| 8. |
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03/16/12 |
Poor |
 "...lazy... The script includes little back story and lots of button-pushing shorthand, none of which feels genuine: a Holocaust connection, a clumsy subplot involving guerrilla fighters in Africa, a shameless pregnant-woman-in-jeopardy bit." |
| 9. |
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03/14/12 |
Fair |
 "...a lightweight romance that occasionally shows a sense of humor but seems afraid to turn it loose.... thin stuff..." |
| 10. |
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03/09/12 |
Good |
 "Ms. Macdonald and Mr. Tennant make a sweet pair.... The movie, like an island vacation, passes pleasantly and all too quickly." |
| 11. |
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03/09/12 |
Weak |
 "...there isn't much movie there... the film's most interesting aspects are its gimmicks rather than its frights." |
| 12. |
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03/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...so courageous it deserves consideration for the Nobel Prize.... The 'Animal House' of the iPhone generation? Could be. Pretty enjoyable for parents too." |
| 13. |
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02/18/12 |
Fair |
 "...has a bit more coherence and considerably more humor than the first installment, released in 2007. And humorously is the best way to view this silly enterprise..." |
| 14. |
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02/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the movie makes no effort to do anything other than what is expected, and it succeeds at that." |
| 15. |
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01/27/12 |
Poor |
 "...self-aggrandizing... None of it is convincing; Mr. Schaeffer's acting is shallow (Ms. Brocheré's isn't); and the Shakespearean-tragedy ending stands a good chance of drawing guffaws." |
| 16. |
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01/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...wants to be both an action movie and a soap opera. But the merging of the two genres by Dante Lam, a director based in Hong Kong, is clumsy, and so is the film." |
| 17. |
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01/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "Ian Cheney's film is a personal lament for the star-filled night sky he experienced growing up in Maine, but it is neither sorrowful nor a rant; he somehow manages to give this engaging work a sense of humor." |
| 18. |
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01/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the most expensive home movie ever made.... But Garriott is a personable host throughout, and the images of his father watching him blast off and return lend the proceedings real poignancy." |
| 19. |
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01/06/12 |
Poor |
 "There is not an original thought in this story, written by Bruce Wilkinson, or in the way it is directed by Martin Guigui. That makes for few genuine scares and, by the end, some unintended laughter as the proceedings grow too silly to bear." |
| 20. |
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12/23/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a pleasantly quirky, family-friendly fable with lots of meowing.... silly and light as a feather, but who doesn't love gossiping cats?" |
