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05/27/10 |
Poor |
 "...worse than 'Sex and the City 1,' and that alone is a remarkable achievement." |
| 2. |
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01/25/13 |
Poor |
 "...along comes Marlon Wayans to do in this film what he once did in 'Scary Movie.' And do it much, much worse." |
| 3. |
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08/10/12 |
Poor |
 "You don't watch this movie so much as serve it out, a light comedy doled out as a heavy sentence.... Anyway, guess who's coming to dinner..." |
| 4. |
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07/27/12 |
Poor |
 "The Direction. Huh? The Dialogue. Ostensibly, this is written by Jared Stern, with a doctoring assist from no less than the team of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg." |
| 5. |
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06/15/12 |
Poor |
 "...another of those plots whose sole purpose is to find reasons to exhibit bulges in the front of pants and poop in the back, to display arcing streams of pee..." |
| 6. |
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02/24/12 |
Poor |
 "So I tried it out. I left the theatre doing what I didn't do once in the theatre. I smiled. I even laughed. Sorry, no luck - apparently, a pummelled brain just can't be tricked." |
| 7. |
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02/25/11 |
Poor |
 "In short, zilch happens." |
| 8. |
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01/14/11 |
Poor |
 "...where the hell is the movie? Not that director Ron Howard seems remotely worried by such a teensy absence." |
| 9. |
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10/15/10 |
Poor |
 "Extremely exploitative because a lone woman, assaulted and raped by a gang of men, doubled as both the initial victim and the subsequent avenger." |
| 10. |
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09/03/10 |
Poor |
 "In the virtual absence of a script, filler and padding and other assorted time-wasting techniques are essential.... the cinematic equivalent of landfill..." |
| 11. |
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06/25/10 |
Poor |
 "Close-up of dog poo. Medium shot of man's face falling in slow motion toward the dog poo. Splat. Repeat." |
| 12. |
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05/21/10 |
Poor |
 "It's MacAwful." |
| 13. |
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05/14/10 |
Poor |
 "Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe have drained every drop of merriment right out of the myth.... a ponderous, leaden, grey lump of a flick this is..." |
| 14. |
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03/12/10 |
Poor |
 "What does a movie do when it lacks even the semblance of a plot?... (1) Play softball; (2) Start a food fight; (3) Cast a goat. Yes, a goat..." |
| 15. |
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02/05/10 |
Poor |
 "Dear 'Dear John': Sorry for the kiss-off, but I can't see you again. Once was more than enough. The fault is entirely mine.... you're just too good for me." |
| 16. |
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01/29/10 |
Poor |
 "In the case of 'When in Rome,' oh to do what the Romans used to do: Toss the bloody thing to the lions." |
| 17. |
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11/13/09 |
Poor |
 "...the cannon speaks with an expensive bang, while the fodder gets afforded nary a whimper. Of course, that's just part of disaster's simple recipe: Blow us up, then blow us off." |
| 18. |
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10/23/09 |
Poor |
 "Enough, enough. When a culture has its noggin this far up its derrière, everybody's head aches.... how do you make fun of boredom without being boring?" |
| 19. |
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10/09/09 |
Poor |
 "...here's the review: Couples, Retreat.... vamoose, unless you harbour an abiding curiosity about how eternally long 100 minutes can feel." |
| 20. |
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03/27/09 |
Poor |
 "Ho-hum, one more slapped-together exercise in pre-fab horror -- in short, another haunted-house flick." |
