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12/22/11 |
Good |
 "Director Cameron Crowe is back to what he's good at: small stories populated by everyday people." |
| 2. |
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12/21/11 |
Good |
"...a sweet, sincere, utterly affable kids' movie about how parents are all kinds of screwed up and unable to tell their kids what they want or show them how they feel..." |
| 3. |
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09/22/11 |
Excellent |
 " 'North Dallas Forty' on the big screen was mean, cold, brutal -- a tale of betrayal and violence told from the perspective of the abused player left for dead meat. 'Moneyball's' not like that at all." |
| 4. |
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09/21/11 |
Excellent |
"It really happened, it's really corny, and it's really great. Who needs Roy Hobbs? Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?" |
| 5. |
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03/17/11 |
Moderate |
 "...its fondness for sex and drugs and four-letter words rescues its references from the soft hands of wee ones into which they've fallen of late." |
| 6. |
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03/16/11 |
Moderate |
"...the smart-ass stoner's 'E.T.,' the movie the fanboy parent won't be able to hand down like some tattered, squeaky-clean memento to their action-figure-collecting kids." |
| 7. |
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01/13/11 |
Poor |
 "...a myriad of subplots piled into the trunk of a lemon." |
| 8. |
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01/12/11 |
Poor |
"...a mess, in short -- not comedy, not drama, not clever, not insightful, only forgettable. What were we talking about again?" |
| 9. |
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11/04/10 |
Weak |
 "Boring superhero ripoffs voiced by check-cashing actors." |
| 10. |
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11/03/10 |
Weak |
"A seven-year-old boy asked me, halfway through: 'Is this supposed to be funny?' 'Dunno,' I said. 'Because it's not,' he said. 'Nor any fun, either.' " |
| 11. |
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10/14/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever." |
| 12. |
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10/13/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
"Not the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest -- Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich and Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfuss) can spruce up any pulp." |
| 13. |
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08/12/10 |
Excellent |
 "...conveys the ache pulsating between the lines in O'Malley's original, which was so simply drawn that it looks like the work of a child not even trying very hard." |
| 14. |
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08/11/10 |
Excellent |
"Wright fits in more ideas per frame than most filmmakers per feature.... You don't have to be dazzled or tickled by the movie, or get every joke, to be touched by it..." |
| 15. |
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08/05/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...its relatively short running time leaves no room for depth of feeling or character exploration... Easily Luke WIlson's best performance since 'Bottle Rocket'..." |
| 16. |
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08/04/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...ultimately Scorsese-lite -- 'Goodfellas' set in naked lady-filled San Fernando Valley office complexes... the compelling story holds, mostly due to Wilson." |
| 17. |
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07/08/10 |
Good |
 "...grown-ups, be warned: I had more fun watching the kids giggle through the screening than I did watching the movie itself." |
| 18. |
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07/07/10 |
Good |
"...fart guns, shrink rays, and squid shooters! ...a cavalcade of kiddie giggles, titters, and belly laughs with as much heft as helium. It's rather joyful and heartfelt." |
| 19. |
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07/01/10 |
Poor |
 "...written entirely in fanboy shorthand.... appears to have been shot using stereo instructions. Worse still: This could have been directed by anyone. Or no one." |
| 20. |
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07/01/10 |
Poor |
"Confusing! Drab! Sluggish! Where's the twist?" |
