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01/07/09 |
Poor |
 "The final exorcism-by-committee, performed in an abandoned asylum that looks like it was laid out by the Illinois chapter of the Knights Templar..." |
| 2. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
01/08/09 |
Poor |
"...complete with a climactic exorcism-by-committee that plays like a pandenominational, PC update of 'TheExorcist's' implicit verification of Catholicism's One True Faith." |
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01/08/09 |
Poor |
"Tune out the battle royale bombast, and start wondering where to eat after the movie." |
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01/21/09 |
Moderate |
 "...every concession's been made to keep the book's big cast of characters relatively intact while condensing 535 pages from the English-language hardcover..." |
| 5. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
01/21/09 |
Moderate |
"Fraser intones, 'The written word: It's a powerful thing,' as though sitting for his 'Reading Is FUNdamental' poster." |
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01/21/09 |
Moderate |
"It all smacks of that overdone 'passion for literature' common in English teachers who send any healthy-minded kid running from books." |
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01/21/09 |
Fair |
 "Oliver Blackburn submerges the film into seeing-tracers, pharmaceutical euphoria, the gals flitting about -- until everything jackknifes on an amateur porn mishap." |
| 8. |
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01/22/09 |
Fair |
"...a workmanlike thriller that works as an (unconscious?) autocritique of mainstreamed Internet-age hedonism..." |
| 9. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
01/22/09 |
Fair |
"...a workmanlike thriller that works as an (unconscious?) auto-critique of mainstreamed Internet-age hedonism..." |
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01/27/09 |
Poor |
 "As soon as a pointy wizard hat shows up in a movie, I'm done. And this film is lousy with wizard hats.... To one unsteeped in Terry Pratchett lore, this celluloid spin-off -- released as a two-part telefilm in the U.K. -- is unwatchable, and nothing more." |
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02/04/09 |
Fair |
 "...a not-very-good movie marked by filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar's consistent inability to let the material speak for itself. Photos of a young Jason are accompanied by a slightly creepy telegraphic litany of coming-of-age moments..." |
| 12. |
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02/25/09 |
Poor |
 "The chief cinematographic achievement is finding creative ways to shoot around tits, adding to the air of blushing suggestiveness that one wouldn't think could still find an adult audience in the age of easy-and-anonymous online wank mining." |
| 13. |
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02/25/09 |
Moderate |
 "Presuming the brothers have distinct personalities, they don't shine in the 'casual' filler... they're an all-Davy Jones Monkees with varsity soccer co-captain good looks." |
| 14. |
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02/26/09 |
Moderate |
"...here's a dose of America's favorite soft-serve rockers for the local pubescents." |
| 15. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
02/26/09 |
Moderate |
"The chaste Jonases sport promise rings and keep the trouser bulge under control, but some subconscious lasciviousness bubbles up..." |
| 16. |
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03/04/09 |
Poor |
 "...the screenplay's blind trowelling of action clichés ('You try to run and I will hunt you down!') seems like the work of Final Draft operating on its own." |
| 17. |
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03/04/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the movie missteps when departing wholly from the intrinsic nostalgia of its subject, as the seventysomething director imposes his idea of contemporary cool..." |
| 18. |
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03/05/09 |
Weak |
"...the climax tries to juice tension out of someone using a search engine and staring at a download countdown." |
| 19. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/05/09 |
Weak |
"...the screenplay's blind trowelling of action clichés ('You try to run and I will hunt you down!') seems like the work of Final Draft operating on its own." |
| 20. |
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03/11/09 |
Poor |
 "...will, most likely, attract no especial outrage and have no subsequent obligation to justify its gunky, atavistic subject matter, untouched by the light of higher reason." |
