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05/12/12 |
Weak |
 "...uncharacteristically arid and unfunny... lacks the utilized vigor of mad happenstance that colored Baron Cohen's last two Larry Charles collaborations." |
| 2. |
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05/08/12 |
Poor |
 "...an aimless tumbleweed of a road movie if ever there was one.... doesn't have much at all to say about anything, save the usual lowlife blather..." |
| 3. |
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05/01/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "If the film, directed with middlebrow snuggliness by John Madden, were on the same profound plane as its cast, there may have been something truly unforgettable here." |
| 4. |
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04/26/12 |
Moderate |
 "...kudos to Marling and her cohorts for leaving knots untied, but no great psychological depths are being plumbed, which unfortunately, seems to render nil the raison d'être." |
| 5. |
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04/23/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...ably intertwines a women's film with a risqué slice of history... It falters in that it sees fit to stuff in a complete romance too, forcing the co-leads together with routine tidiness..." |
| 6. |
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04/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a simple story of simple people intentionally told in simple terms, and the only issues with which it's concerned are those of pure personal connection." |
| 7. |
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04/17/12 |
Moderate |
 "Fans will happily sigh as Efron waxes romantic while pinning his sea-blue eyes on his costar.... the problem with movies like this is they reduce everything to a thin, useless soup..." |
| 8. |
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04/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the movie is malleable and curious... remains atypical by being hip while also treating religion fairly.... feels like a rare tour of the role of God in young American culture..." |
| 9. |
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03/29/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a dialed-down game board of elaborate pieces that's akin to the human chess set captained by evil Queen Clementianna... less cinematic than it is purposefully theatrical." |
| 10. |
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03/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "...hard and tough in nasty bursts, and it ratchets tension into the white-knuckle zone when such a potency is utterly crucial." |
| 11. |
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03/06/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...odds are you'll find something to like here... a crude, thinly modernized version of a more-than-friends rom-com you've seen too many times to count." |
| 12. |
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02/27/12 |
Poor |
 "DeNiro plays nothing more than a poorly fleshed-out, redemption-bound quack..." |
| 13. |
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02/25/12 |
Weak |
 "The script by Allison Burnett (who recently unleashed 'Underworld: Awakening') is a layer cake of easy plot propellers, iced with rib-tickling garbage like a wooded crime scene dubbed Forest Park..." |
| 14. |
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02/14/12 |
Moderate |
 "...it's safe to assume the punchy product is a few generations removed from Simon Kinberg and Timothy Dowling's original script..." |
| 15. |
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02/09/12 |
Moderate |
 "What Tatum and McAdams create has a genuine sweetness. Everything else is as saccharine and prepackaged as the cheap treats at Leo and Paige's favorite haunt..." |
| 16. |
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02/02/12 |
Poor |
 "...a big ol' mess of a fact-based weeper... primarily an exercise in how not to translate real life to film. Any goodwill it boasts is terminally suppressed, buried beneath a layer of bullshit as thick as blubber." |
| 17. |
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01/27/12 |
Poor |
 "This isn't girl-power filmmaking, this is cutesy contentment, a production team of gals enforcing their own stereotypes by willfully succumbing to demographic views of sexist Hollywood honchos." |
| 18. |
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01/14/12 |
Moderate |
 "Soderbergh finally gets his Luc Besson fanboy on... It may sound enticing, but it's all aloof propulsion, and like 'Contagion,' it's ultimately inconsequential." |
| 19. |
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01/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the kind of thing you keep grinning at and grooving with, but wouldn't eagerly admit to liking.... the film isn't out to change your life or desperately steal your tears." |
| 20. |
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01/06/12 |
Weak |
 "It's basically one big offensive gesture, which, really, is what you should expect from a movie whose poster image mirrors the universal symbol for cunnilingus." |
