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TY BURR Movie Reviews

665 reviews, averaging 64.7% positive
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1. 12/04/10 Poor "...the Worst Christmas Movie of All Time.... Andrei Konchalovsky has taken 'The Nutcracker' and turned it into a disastrously misconceived musical fantasy adventure."
2.

All About Steve

Boston Globe
09/04/09 Poor "...easily the worst movie of the week, month, year, and Bullock's entire career. It is to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai: a plague best contemplated from many miles away."
3.

Your Highness

Boston Globe
04/08/11 Poor "...a tedious, dung-colored misfire... potty-mouthed, peepee-obsessed, and devoid of such comedy basics as timing or punch lines.... Dude, where's my taste?"
4.

The Virginity Hit

Boston Globe
09/17/10 Poor "...a thoroughly depressing teen farce in which Internet voyeurism has replaced human intimacy and where privacy is so 20th century.... everyone in it is hateful..."
5.

Furry Vengeance

Boston Globe
04/30/10 Poor "The jokes never rise above the groin. The trees look plastic, the characters more so. The animals -- oh dear god, the animals."
6.

Old Dogs

Boston Globe
11/25/09 Poor "...what you'd get if Williams and Travolta went out, got hammered, scrawled scenes on a bar napkin in random order, gave the napkin to Walt Becker, and filmed it."
7.

The Canyon

Boston Globe
10/30/09 Poor "...so singularly inept it gives you a whole new appreciation for the ept.... aggravating enough to have you actively rooting for the couple's demise, the sooner the better."
8.

Waiting for Dublin

Boston Globe
03/13/09 Poor "...so unendurably bad it deserves to be put down like a sick dog.... with no sense of period, a romance wholly lacking in chemistry, a comedy without laughs..."
9.

Pain & Gain

Boston Globe
04/26/13 Poor "...jokey but flatly tone-deaf.... plays like 'Fargo' for idiots.... Bay is unable to establish a comic rhythm or a larger momentum..."
10.

Identity Thief

Boston Globe
02/08/13 Poor "...an obnoxious comedy made worse by obnoxious sentimentality. Unfunny, predictable, and vulgar, it's the generic equivalent of a Judd Apatow movie."
11. 06/22/12 Poor "...joyless, deafening... Bekmambetov's filmmaking style manages to be both frantic and ponderous, and he has the humor of a nightclub bouncer."
12. 06/08/12 Poor "...this limp culture-clash comedy with a heart of patchouli just made me want to stab my eyeballs out.... it's crystals and smugness all the way..."
13. 03/09/12 Poor "...an overdirected, conceptually obnoxious art film that's torture to sit through, listen to, and think about."
14. 10/14/11 Poor "...delicate and sensitive and utter bollocks - a bourgeois wet dream made to soothe the souls and stir the loins of powerful men in midlife crisis."
15.

One Day (2011)

Boston Globe
08/19/11 Poor "You know that couple you sometimes get stuck with at a dinner party or over a weekend?"
16.

Yogi Bear

Boston Globe
12/17/10 Poor "...actively painful, a frenetic, unfunny mix of action, romance, dud dialogue, and icky things popping out of the screen. There's a plot... but no one appears to notice."
17.

The Last Airbender

Boston Globe
07/01/10 Poor "...it's a tossup as to which is worse: the script, which regularly grinds to a halt to Explain Everything... the shockingly dingy camerawork; or the execrable 3-D."
18.

The Lovely Bones

Boston Globe
01/15/10 Poor "It's as if the filmmaker, faced with an endless series of daunting creative choices, proudly took the wrong road each and every time."
19.

Irene in Time

Boston Globe
12/11/09 Poor "It's never clear with what mixture of pity and adoration Jaglom wants us to see this creature..."
20.

Couples Retreat

Boston Globe
10/09/09 Poor "...if the thought of a little boy pooping in a showroom toilet fills you with joy, here's your movie..."

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