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10/27/11 |
Poor |
 "...a flashy, gratingly broad action-comedy hybrid whose family values are meaningless.... its indifferently demeaning scenario proves just how meaningless its creators' supposedly good intentions really are." |
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10/16/11 |
Moderate |
 "...mostly fun in a head-scratching kind of way.... once the film reaches its end, and shit hits the fan at a furious pace for no good reason, director Todd Rohal looks like he's just rubbing the fact that his movie never really had an ending in his audience's face." |
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09/02/11 |
Moderate |
 "...there really isn't that much to applaud in 'Shark Night 3D.' It's just an intermittently promising bit of schlock, nothing more and nothing less." |
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08/31/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...it is, in a sense, director Sion Sono's equivalent of the Great Russian novel.... his substantial disaffection for societal conventions is matched only by his monumental love for his spectacularly messed-up protagonists." |
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07/06/11 |
Poor |
 "...one of the most grating things that will be excreted onto the screen this year.... monumentally terrible.... It really has no redeeming qualities to it..." |
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06/29/11 |
Moderate |
 "The film's wildly uneven comedic sensibility, if anything, suggests a raunchy Bollywood version of Looney Tunes." |
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06/15/11 |
Poor |
 "...just another lazy, family-friendly stock patriarch in a long line of clueless but basically well-meaning fathers that Carrey has played over the years." |
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05/04/11 |
Moderate |
 "Branagh's film is reasonably well put-together, but unlike even his worst films, it has no internal life, instead feeling like an impersonal, assembly-line product." |
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05/01/11 |
Very Good |
 "...an intentionally overheated and very funny comedy about how the best-laid plans tend to fall apart in spectacular fashion.... funny first and quietly didactic after that." |
| 10. |
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04/29/11 |
Poor |
 "...writer-director Paco Cabezas is a deeply confused Guy Ritchie rip-off artist.... this is just a hopped-up and totally seedy film about superficial crooks who like abusing women and enjoy being unlikable." |
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04/24/11 |
Moderate |
 "...a mindless melodrama about a druggie that fought the good fight for reasons that we'll probably never understand." |
| 12. |
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04/24/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a consummately bizarre crowd-pleaser that throws everything at the viewer from makeshift plastic surgery by acupuncture to death by spontaneous combustion." |
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04/16/11 |
Outstanding |
 "You'll get a migraine and your nerves will be frayed by the end, and only then will you be able to decide whether Panos Cosmatos is the next Gaspar Noé or just an over-weaning movie brat..." |
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04/15/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...an attractive and consummately intriguing documentary that thankfully never feigns proximity with its elusive subject." |
| 15. |
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04/06/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...high on its own stupidity.... a crudely satisfying series of mad libs; toss in a few 'motherfuckers,' a bunch of homophobic jokes, and a liberal amount of cannabis-centric humor and, bam..." |
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03/25/11 |
Poor |
 "...[a] kind of American independent quirkfest that needs to be quarantined and examined, not valorized.... twee to the extreme..." |
| 17. |
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03/25/11 |
Moderate |
 "Director Paddy Considine goes to such great lengths to sensationalize his unlovable protagonist's myriad acts of violence that it's almost impossible to take him seriously. But only almost." |
| 18. |
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03/24/11 |
Weak |
 "...a perfectly innocuous, cliché-riddled kid's film whose sole inventive hook is its hand-painted, Cray-Pas-by-way-of-water-colors animation style." |
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03/15/11 |
Poor |
 "...so over the top it's impossible to know if he's being serious or not.... Flatley's explosive bad taste is jaw-dropping and it will not be denied its place in the annals of ludicrous performance art." |
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03/10/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The film's production values are almost enough to make the film's monumental shortcomings worth overlooking. But only almost." |
