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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/12/09 |
Poor |
 "Stone embraces a '70s dippiness that evokes the worst of 'The Hired Hand,' leans hard on Brian Eno, and indulges in retro-sounding waterlogged audio." |
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03/11/09 |
Poor |
"Orn -- played, by the way, by writer/director Tony Stone himself -- is slipped a berry roofie by a babelicious Greenlander and ridden to Thorgasm... obscene." |
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04/05/13 |
Poor |
 "...the filmmakers' aversion to coherent narrative and genuinely suspenseful visuals keeps the movie's mystery stew from hitting the spot." |
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03/22/13 |
Poor |
 "...a story so clichéd and brainless that it's almost more disturbing than laughable.... The performances dissolve instantly in the mind without a trace..." |
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03/02/11 |
Poor |
 "...as systematically offensive and boisterously vulgar as its degenerate punk protagonists.... the movie falls over itself to present one comic grotesque after another..." |
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04/13/10 |
Poor |
 "...ludicrous interrogation scenes, a drunken colleague who provides comic relief and redemptive tragedy, and a climactic flood of memories that plays like a trailer." |
| 7. |
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04/23/09 |
Poor |
 "A Saturday pile-on of therapy sessions for the Bernstein family provides the bleeding heart of the film, as well as its numbing formula of root causes for its characters' mental makeup." |
| 8. |
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04/02/09 |
Poor |
 "...reconfirms that car-chase movies -- good, bad, or mediocre -- all assume the future employment of the quaint old fast-forward button." |
| 9. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
04/02/09 |
Poor |
"...sequences in 'Fast & Furious' are as up-front about imminent adaptation to video game as some directors used to be about accounting for future TV broadcast." |
| 10. |
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04/01/09 |
Poor |
"...the film's befuddling direction and tone, queasy HD interiors and tin-eared, often preposterous screenplay prove disastrous." |
| 11. |
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04/01/09 |
Poor |
"...notably slack... incidental beatdowns are often more exciting than the flaunting of reinforced-steel nerves during cruddily shot speed-racing." |
| 12. |
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05/03/13 |
Weak |
 "It is surprisingly boring to watch a movie being made, on the set or off, and a beleaguered production is not necessarily an exception.... unlovely..." |
| 13. |
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03/15/13 |
Weak |
 "Sweet in conception but a lost cause.... a fitful sidewalk daydream.... it might have been better off in a kid's-size portion as a short." |
| 14. |
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03/01/13 |
Weak |
 "...this promisingly tragic tale is sunk by cartloads of context and an overbearing, slanted narration.... muddy explanations on basic points of fact don't help." |
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12/07/12 |
Weak |
 "Filled with crushing facts about animal cruelty yet also overstuffed and overwrought, it's emotionally and visually tough to watch.... a well-intentioned mess..." |
| 16. |
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11/02/12 |
Weak |
 "...unsatisfying... shot over 12 years and aspires to a degree of intimacy, yet this glancing treatment is not very enlightening." |
| 17. |
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05/18/12 |
Weak |
 "Fluffy, repetitive, not nearly funny enough... Spurlock's film already feels a few years late to the discussion of an easily mockable subject, but it is a dud as a diversion." |
| 18. |
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04/27/12 |
Weak |
 "...the endless pursuit begins to feel a little pointless and, even with a couple of false-bottom shocks, repetitive.... As black comedy, the film is crude and downright sloppy..." |
| 19. |
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04/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...corny... The bloody chaos can be suitably overwhelming, but you're too aware of the whizzing camerawork, helter-skelter editing and bombastic score." |
| 20. |
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07/28/11 |
Weak |
 "...feels like a hey-that's-neat troll... the movie yields to the imperative of database art: serial accumulations of heartwarming/eye-catching/weird/emo moments..." |
