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03/06/09 |
Poor |
 "Alan Hruska's tin ear for dialogue remains unchanged, as does his penchant for clumsy Billy Wilder borrowings... 'Reunion' lacks even the misguided energy of his previous, genre-based efforts ('Nola,' 'The Warrior Class')..." |
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11/28/12 |
Poor |
 "...stodgy, amateurish.... aside from flashing lights and some anxious neck-craning, onscreen action is virtually non-existent." |
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10/02/12 |
Poor |
 "Unfortunately, with its unconvincing action, preachy script and flat performances, the pic winds up less moving than most typical journeyman documentaries on the subject." |
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12/29/11 |
Poor |
 "While there is a great deal of weeping and wailing going on in the town of Angels Crest, little of it is connected to a comprehensible or cohesive plot." |
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11/17/11 |
Poor |
 "...naive, amateurish... Some six or seven men (women conspicuously absent), including a mayor, an immigration lawyer, a congressman and a 'coyote,' offer views on immigration.... it's nothing new, affecting or articulate." |
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11/10/11 |
Poor |
 "Pairing Steve Guttenberg with an attractive girl half his age in a sitcom-like platonic relationship headed straight for the sheets borders on the delusional, particularly when the actor misses no opportunity to doff his shirt and flash his pumped-up pecs." |
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10/20/11 |
Poor |
 "...tosses together spare parts from assorted action genres... glued together with the characters' blind pursuit of money and sprinkled with reborn family values." |
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08/04/11 |
Poor |
 "...hits every meller cliche in the 'self-destructive rock star' playbook. Even Peter Fonda, typecast as an over-the-hill road manager, rings true only intermittently." |
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07/29/11 |
Poor |
 "...an unsettling mix of low-tech cinematic tricks and temporal reshufflings to simulate the process of enlightenment to sometimes laudable, usually ludicrous effect.... A certain dream logic struggles for expression..." |
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06/24/11 |
Poor |
 "...frenetic, ponderously overproduced... the movie is never sufficiently grounded for all the constant plot reversals to register as humorous or surprising.... generally fails to achieve any satisfyingly comical choreography." |
| 11. |
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05/24/11 |
Poor |
 "Woefully amateurish... High-concept, 'Hard Candy'-type two-handers require strong thesping and assured scripting, both absent here." |
| 12. |
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03/14/11 |
Poor |
 "Odd-couple road movie pairs a taciturn Asian-American singer-songwriter with the loudmouth TV actor hired to portray him.... relies completely on its actors' chemistry for momentum. Unfortunately, the two strike no sparks." |
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02/17/11 |
Poor |
 "...old-fashioned, poorly written, unevenly thesped, family-friendly tales of redemption starring beefy wrestlers and a bunch of kids... Lame..." |
| 14. |
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12/13/10 |
Poor |
 "...delivers wearisome brutality but little finesse.... directed by tyro helmer Anton Bormatov with neither dynamism nor ingenuity.... simply too old-fashioned..." |
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12/08/10 |
Poor |
 "...mannered, bloodless and appallingly thesped... aims for a level of sophistication miles beyond tyro scripter James Scott Linville's callow reach." |
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10/07/10 |
Poor |
 "A muddled script, spatially confounding direction and four thesps seemingly acting in four different movies are only a few of the problems with this misbegotten political thriller..." |
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09/26/10 |
Poor |
 "...the rape is grueling and degrading... Sarah Butler brings little to the table, reading as a cipher both before and after her brutalization..." |
| 18. |
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04/18/09 |
Poor |
 "...a creaky period piece glazed with arch gentility and ersatz quaintness.... the three principal geezers are encouraged to mug with a lack of subtlety..." |
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06/26/08 |
Poor |
 "Schickner appears perfectly willing, nay eager, to sacrifice subtlety, ambiguity, character development and tonal integrity on the altar of melodramatic desperation and pointedly meaningful wrap-ups." |
| 20. |
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11/26/12 |
Weak |
 "Lisa Kirk Colburn's focus is so single-mindedly laudatory that the whole collaborative process is reduced to people either helping or hindering the visiting genius." |
