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AV CLUB Movie Reviews

1,447 reviews, averaging 62.5% positive
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1. 02/07/13 Poor "...isn't a movie so much as a feature-length perfume commercial for a Charlie Sheen signature cologne with gorgeous packaging and absolutely nothing inside."
2. 10/12/12 Poor "...the middle installment of an epic six-hour temper tantrum... Rand's polemics translate awkwardly... a second act of huffery and puffery doesn't get it anywhere..."
3.

Mansome

Nathan Rabin
05/17/12 Poor "...a time-waster that lives down to its title.... singularly devoid of insight.... Hell, 80 minutes of John Waters sleeping would be more fun..."
4.

October Baby

Alison Willmore
03/22/12 Poor "...comes wrapped in the gauze of a teen romance/road trip movie... This isn't a movie; this is propaganda for the already converted."
5. 01/06/12 Poor "...contains all the elements for a wacky parody of exorcism movies, except a sense of humor about itself... the laughs are unintentional."
6. 12/27/11 Poor "...a film utterly devoid of merit, a dreary sci-fi slog so tedious even its own actors seem bored.... They're in a film that tries to make a variation on static cling terrifying."
7. 12/22/11 Poor "...an appalling adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel... both too literary and too sentimental, cloying yet aestheticized within an inch of its life."
8.

Shark Night 3D

Tasha Robinson
09/02/11 Poor "...lacks the tension of a good horror film, or the self-aware humor of a fun bad one.... 'Shark Night 3D' barely bothered to show up, let alone deliver the minimal goods."
9.

Apollo 18

Keith Phipps
09/02/11 Poor "Unpleasant when it isn't dull... Like so many lazy horror directors, Gonzalo López-Gallego knows how to startle, but not how to frighten.... interminable, intolerable..."
10.

Flipped

Nathan Rabin
08/26/10 Poor "...hilariously overwrought... slathers on multiple coats of sentimentality, just in case a solitary moment of restraint or understatement somehow slipped through."
11. 07/29/10 Poor "...unbelievable piece of shit.... The action plays out much like an all-human third-rate Bond thriller would..."
12.

The Last Airbender

Keith Phipps
06/30/10 Poor "Viewers who see it in 3-D will pay more for an even shittier experience than the one they would have had in 2-D."
13.

Jonah Hex

Keith Phipps
06/17/10 Poor "...every once in a while, a film limps into theaters so stitched together, it's a wonder it doesn't rip apart in the projector."
14.

The Big Wedding

Nathan Rabin
04/25/13 Poor "...manages to cram three hours' worth of nonsensical subplots, extraneous characters, and implausible plot points into 90 minutes of streamlined idiocy."
15.

Upside Down (2013)

Tasha Robinson
03/14/13 Poor "...the most embarrassing, hilarious, obliviously stupid movie since M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening'... Exasperating idiocy abounds throughout..."
16.

Movie 43

Nathan Rabin
01/25/13 Poor "...the most star-studded collection of jokes involving menstruation, flatulence, incest, bestiality, Snooki, and nutsacks ever assembled... brazenly tasteless..."
17. 12/24/12 Poor "...hilariously dated.... the film's ham-fisted oscillation between schmaltz and scatology indelibly marks it as a product of Crystal's hokey, mothballed sensibility."
18. 12/06/12 Poor "...a bedroom farce without the farce... a story of fatherly redemption that barely gets past the hair-mussing stage.... At every turn, it follows the path of least resistance."
19.

The Words

Nathan Rabin
09/06/12 Poor "...has no sense of humor or of its own ridiculousness.... egregiously, aggressively stupid... no classier than a florid primetime soap opera."
20.

Assassin's Bullet

Alison Willmore
08/02/12 Poor "Elika Portnoy's acting remains roundly flat and affectless... her bravado in creating this crazy role for herself deserves a salute, though certainly not applause."

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