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| 1. |
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11/13/09 |
Weak |
 "No one knows the recipe for this kind of fare better than Emmerich..." |
| 2. |
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10/23/09 |
Weak |
 "Take your pick of aviation-themed quips - 'Amelia' sputters and stalls, 'Amelia' runs out of runway, never takes off, never leaves the ground. Any will do." |
| 3. |
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05/15/09 |
Fair |
 "There are so many plot points and twists that just don't work or don't make any sense, but there's no way to even hint at them that wouldn't serve as a spoiler." |
| 4. |
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12/18/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "While 'Avatar' is impressively seamless, you're never fooled. This doesn't look like a documentary film; it looks like a video game." |
| 5. |
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01/09/09 |
Weak |
 "...not just witless and boring, it's insulting." |
| 6. |
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03/05/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...well-acted and occasionally flashy wheel-spinning.... When just about everybody shoots just about everybody else, the only appropriate response is relief." |
| 7. |
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07/10/09 |
Moderate |
 "...has moments of absurd hilarity, but too much comes off as forced, faked or just not that funny." |
| 8. |
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10/09/09 |
Very Good |
 " 'Coco's' greatest strength, fittingly, is the performance of Audrey Tautou." |
| 9. |
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02/13/09 |
Fair |
 "There's a wearying, wearing franticness to this comedy that manages to waste the talents of everyone, starting with its leading lady, brilliant comic actress Isla Fisher." |
| 10. |
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02/06/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...the best kind of children's entertainment..." |
| 11. |
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01/07/11 |
Weak |
 "...a muddled mess of achy-breaky clichés and claptrap.... achieves that rarest of qualities in our age of snark and knowingness: unintended parody." |
| 12. |
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07/02/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...melds creepy and comic so seamlessly that almost every laugh is undercut by a cringe. That's a tricky balance to strike in a way that doesn't veer into slapstick." |
| 13. |
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04/09/10 |
Very Good |
 "...isn't great. But it's fine, funny enough to keep you engaged.... give it time and repeat broadcasts, and it will likely insinuate itself..." |
| 14. |
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09/17/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...amid all this glib and relentlessly hip fun, there is a movie that never establishes a story or characters that make much sense." |
| 15. |
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09/25/09 |
Excellent |
 "...the production numbers are great, sometimes jaw-droppingly so." |
| 16. |
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02/05/10 |
Weak |
 "The experience is more like watching a video game than a movie. There are some clunky scenes, which are to be endured until the next action sequence kicks in..." |
| 17. |
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07/31/09 |
Moderate |
 "...compounds its weaknesses by wandering through a too-long story line that doesn't know when to end." |
| 18. |
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04/17/09 |
Fair |
 "There's not much story here... Dano's performance is so flat and internalized that getting a fix on him is like looking for shapes in the clouds." |
| 19. |
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12/24/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a diversion, an excuse to take the kids and visiting relatives to a theater where everybody can forget about one another for 90 minutes and have a few laughs." |
| 20. |
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02/06/09 |
Good |
 "...a movie that stays on its feet. Scenes and exchanges convey that rarest of qualities in romantic comedies, they seem genuine..." |
