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02/18/11 |
Poor |
 "CGI sequences are murky and dark... performances negligible... script genuinely inept." |
| 2. |
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02/04/11 |
Poor |
 " 'The Poseidon Adventure' without an ocean liner; folks are dropping off right and left, with the guessing game of who'll die next providing the chief narrative thread." |
| 3. |
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11/13/09 |
Poor |
 "There's perhaps 40 minutes of cheesy but genuinely spectacular special effects -- the stuff you came for -- and two additional hours of painfully idiotic plot." |
| 4. |
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05/20/11 |
Weak |
 "Swash, Buckle, Repeat As Necessary." |
| 5. |
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05/01/09 |
Weak |
 "The most terrifying thing about the movie, really, is that plural: Originsssss. So many mutants, so much time. Thank God we can leave that for another summer." |
| 6. |
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01/21/11 |
Fair |
 "...proof of the maxim that epic elements don't mean much without engaging characters to hang them on." |
| 7. |
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10/15/10 |
Fair |
 "...a slow-motion tidal wave of afterlife hokum, and you can feel it slipping away, bit by bit, despite Eastwood's best efforts to keep it on life support.... it sort of works." |
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04/02/10 |
Fair |
 "Everything's bigger and louder and faster, and if much of the action is therefore incoherent, the 'Transformers' crowd is going to be cool enough with that." |
| 9. |
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05/15/09 |
Fair |
 "...there's only so much Ron Howard can do with novelist Dan Brown's genuinely idiotic plotline..." |
| 10. |
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02/05/09 |
Fair |
 "Director Kyle Newman and his screenwriters started with a 'Harold and Kumar'-style road trip full of raunchy chatter, then made the details equal-opportunity nerdy." |
| 11. |
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06/04/10 |
Moderate |
 "Jonah Hill and Russell Brand look relaxed together no matter what level of inebriation or awkwardness... But the movie around them goes kind of sloppy and sentimental..." |
| 12. |
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05/14/10 |
Moderate |
 "Celebrity's tough to let go of, apparently, even when you know it's undeserved. Best Worst Movie doesn't plumb that thought very deeply..." |
| 13. |
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12/18/09 |
Moderate |
 "...as each subsequent number does more or less the same thing, you realize how useful it would be to have an old-fashioned plot to hang all this gorgeousness on." |
| 14. |
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10/02/09 |
Moderate |
 "Gervais long ago perfected being a walking punching bag for his own punch lines. Still, if the truth be told, by the end of the film, even his invention is starting to flag." |
| 15. |
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09/20/09 |
Moderate |
 "The film is hardly a disaster, and its eccentricity is even intriguing in formal terms. But as comedy, it's a missed opportunity, undeserving of the exclamation point." |
| 16. |
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05/23/09 |
Moderate |
 "...the director treats the story throughout as the melodrama it always was underneath -- the tale of a hypocritical family and a lady with a past..." |
| 17. |
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05/22/09 |
Moderate |
 "...breathless and nerve-jangling.... McG proves a capable enough director of people. More to the point, his way with special effects is indeed pretty special." |
| 18. |
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03/06/09 |
Moderate |
 "...backstories tend to clutter up a movie... director Zack Snyder is still doling out origin flashbacks two hours and seven minutes into his little epic." |
| 19. |
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05/06/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...give the producers credit for casting that slab of beefcake with the blazing smile. Hemsworth looks and acts like a comic-book superhero come to life..." |
| 20. |
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03/18/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...subtle the picture is not, but pretty funny when 'Superbad's' director Greg Motolla is keeping things brisk... it's breezy and undemanding." |
