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BOSTON GLOBE Movie Reviews

1,559 reviews, averaging 60.8% positive
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1. 01/07/12 Poor "...reminds us how little it takes to make some people scream in a crowded movie theater."
2. 10/14/11 Poor "...all Tom Six is going for, with the generous application of both hardware supplies to the skin and feces to the camera, is a tired commentary on his shallow talents..."
3. 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."
4. 04/09/10 Poor "...the Special Victims Unit edition of 'Jumanji'.... the Kidz Bop version of 'Saw'.... no one needs this. But the movie continues anyway..."
5. 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."
6.

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Wesley Morris
01/05/13 Poor "...has acting often associated with sketch comedy that has bad acting in its crosshairs, with the self-consciousness of reality-television personhood."
7. 09/14/12 Poor "...expressly aimed at conservative viewers.... The problem with this numbskull travesty isn't that it's fatuous and smug. It's that it's slack and dull. The storytelling is inept..."
8.

The Inbetweeners

Mark Feeney
09/07/12 Poor "Crude, moronic teen sex comedies aren't an American monopoly. Who knew that when the 'Porky's' movies (finally) died, they went to England?"
9.

Compliance

Mark Feeney
08/24/12 Poor "People do stupid things all the time... but there is a level of stupidity displayed by the people in this movie that beggars belief."
10.

Straw Dogs (2011)

Wesley Morris
09/16/11 Poor "...a crude, queasy, ugly remake... Lurie is such an obvious director that he can't even allow Peckinpah's fascist subtext to stand on its own."
11. 09/02/11 Poor "...badly written, directed, and conceived... lacks the necessarily thematic coherence to accomplish proselytism of any kind."
12. 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?"
13.

Saw 3D

Wesley Morris
10/30/10 Poor "...a dull, 3-D disaster."
14.

You Again

Wesley Morris
09/24/10 Poor "...another miserable movie about women at war over nonsense.... The cast isn't terrible; they're simply failed by the filmmaking."
15. 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..."
16.

Standing Ovation

Taylor Adams
07/17/10 Poor "...processed cheese molded into a series of loosely related, sloppily choreographed, and inexplicably auto-tuned dance numbers.... little more than a series of cliches..."
17.

Marmaduke

Wesley Morris
06/04/10 Poor "...it's likely that your family will hate 'Marmaduke,' a sleepy carnival of talking animals based on a laughless comic strip that debuted in 1954 and refuses to go away."
18. 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."
19.

Remember Me

Wesley Morris
03/12/10 Poor "...full of non-people, living non-lives. The angst on display is inversely proportional to its cause.... the movie crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches."
20.

Transylmania

Tom Russo
12/05/09 Poor "...seems like a setup for 'Hostel' parody, but when the 'Van Helsing' riffs start about 10 minutes into the movie, it's clear that we're headed for awfully musty territory."

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