|
1/5
|
96%
|
One Lucky Elephant (2011) |
"
Why should you pay for a feature-length animal rights PSA?"
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SpoutBlog
Posted Jun 8, 2011
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1/5
|
44%
|
Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo) (2006) |
"
No amount of thoughtful dissection can make up for the unpleasant, uncomfortable and unnecessary experience of actually sitting through the thing."
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Cinematical
Posted Sep 17, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
38%
|
Twixt () |
"
Never mind post-production conversion atrocities, Twixt is the worst thing for the 3D format in years."
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Movies.com
Posted Sep 20, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
69%
|
Horrible Bosses (2011) |
"
The kind of lazy writing that ignores reason in order to accommodate easy and incredibly predictable storytelling."
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SpoutBlog
Posted Jul 8, 2011
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1.5/5
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73%
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POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) |
"
I didn't laugh as much as some, but I have to give him credit for continuing to bring a humorous and entertaining viewpoint to non-fiction film with his gimmicky experiments."
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Cinematical
Posted Feb 3, 2011
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|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
South of the Border (2010) |
"
I can't accept [it] to be classified as propaganda. I think I'd have preferred it as such. Instead the documentary is as much a vanity project as I've ever seen on film."
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Cinematical
Posted Jun 25, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Surviving Progress (2012) |
"
It was very, very difficult to get behind Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks' doom-and-gloom-fueled Surviving Progress"
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Movies.com
Posted Apr 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
94%
|
Marley (2012) |
"
I'd have preferred more of the material presented during the final credits, a montage showing Marley's influence and fanbase in different parts of the globe. "
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Movies.com
Posted Mar 18, 2012
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2/5
|
——
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Ambassadøren (The Ambassador) () |
"
I had trouble finding the humor and the point and wasn't concerned enough to be as provoked as I'm sure is intended."
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Movies.com
Posted Mar 7, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (2011) |
"
A warm but uneven tribute solely for the fans."
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SpoutBlog
Posted May 10, 2011
|
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2/5
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
A movie like Thor has to do a lot more than a comic book does, and I don't mean just turning the stationary 2D drawings into animated 3D computer art."
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SpoutBlog
Posted May 7, 2011
|
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2/5
|
71%
|
African Cats (2011) |
"
It's the typical savanna ecosystem stuff, only embellished and dramatically forced a lot to keep the crowd involved and occasionally thrilled. "
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SpoutBlog
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Dumbstruck (2011) |
"
Documents the Underappreciated Craft of Ventriloquism But Has Little to Say"
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SpoutBlog
Posted Apr 20, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Hall Pass (2011) |
"
Isn't even as smart as No Strings Attached in either what it says about polygamous desires or how it tries to tonally balance the immature with the mature."
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SpoutBlog
Posted Feb 25, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Plastic Planet (2011) |
"
[Boote] is somewhere between [Michael] Moore's obnoxious antagonist ... and Ross McElwee's ancestral investigator"
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Cinematical
Posted Jan 12, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Season of the Witch (2011) |
"
I thought the movie had some balls in being so anti-religion and then concluded that maybe it still has balls for being so anti-anti-witch-hunt. "
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SpoutBlog
Posted Jan 7, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Howl (2010) |
"
A well-acted yet well-worn documentary."
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Jan 4, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
The American (2010) |
"
As mindless as The Expendables, if not more so."
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SpoutBlog
Posted Dec 28, 2010
|
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2/5
|
——
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Anthony Zimmer (2005) |
"
Takes the wrong-man scenario and makes it as dull as possible ... basically "North by Northwest" excluding all the best parts. "
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SpoutBlog
Posted Dec 17, 2010
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2/5
|
53%
|
I'm Still Here (2010) |
"
You won't personally be ridiculed and physically attacked. You'll just leave the theater feeling like you were."
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Cinematical
Posted Sep 8, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
The Shock Doctrine (2009) |
"
The worst that comes out of the documentary's final moments is the sense that Winterbottom and Whitecross ultimately don't know what their film is supposed to be about."
—
Cinematical
Posted Jan 31, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
Elegy (2008) |
"
A slow, uninteresting depiction of a selfish fool who possibly too-late realizes that he's grown old before he's actually grown up."
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Cinematical
Posted Aug 8, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
59%
|
Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs) (2008) |
"
Would actually have worked, and been better off, in my opinion, if it didn't feature any of its 14 songs at all."
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Cinematical
Posted Mar 19, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
21 (2008) |
"
Comes off as an extremely interesting, though likely unintended concept: a gangster/crime film for nerds."
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Mar 12, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Protagonist (2007) |
"
Suffers for the same reasons that a lot of 'issue' documentaries are problematic -- it is way too heavy-handed, only in style and concept rather than preachiness."
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Cinematical
Posted Nov 30, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
The Lost City (2005) |
"
Garcia obviously has more ambition than skill."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 18, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
The Boys of Baraka (2005) |
"
I feel that all its acclaim and awards are meant more for the cause than for the artistic or journalistic achievements of presenting the cause."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 18, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
——
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The Sci-Fi Boys (2006) |
"
Doesn't work as even a broad look at sci-fi film history ... nor does it work completely as a tribute to [Forrest] Ackerman thanks to all the additional figures represented."
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Cinematical
Posted Sep 17, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
Phat Girlz (2006) |
"
It does suffer ... from actually having way too much heart and not enough soul, its identity lost far beneath its ambitions for affirmation."
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Cinematical
Posted Sep 17, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
Tsotsi (Thug) (2006) |
"
The Johannesburg equivalent of any stateside gangster fairy tale, Tsotsi actually feels even more forced than Hollywood's modern urban dramas."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 17, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Annapolis (2006) |
"
What Annapolis really is, more than a college movie or a boot-camp movie, is a boxing movie, and a run of the mill one at that."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 17, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
88%
|
Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007) |
"
The Real Dirt on Farmer John offers no discovery or mystery into the Peterson family or their farm, only matter-of-fact self-importance."
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Cinematical
Posted Sep 17, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Bay Of All Saints () |
"
A familiar film about a familiar cause ... your basic commercial for a cause. But it's commendable for not being another piece of poverty porn."
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Movies.com
Posted Mar 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
88%
|
Buck (2011) |
"
A bit stretched as far as its point is concerned."
—
Movies.com
Posted Oct 5, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
25%
|
The Change-Up (2011) |
"
Half-assed and half-hearted from Dobkin ... I'd love to see where [Katie] Aselton would go with the same situation played with here."
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Aug 5, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
87%
|
Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011) |
"
For a film that's all archival clippings and talking heads, it's a beautifully shot and polished-looking film and quite enjoyable to watch."
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Jun 8, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
61%
|
The Beaver (2011) |
"
Only half as powerful as it could have been. "
—
SpoutBlog
Posted May 6, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
Rio (2011) |
"
Good for Kids, Better for Tourism"
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Apr 17, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
Peep World (2011) |
"
Whatever you do, don't go in expecting this to satisfy your hunger for an Arrested Development movie."
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Mar 22, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
58%
|
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) |
"
Kind of insulting to the reality of mental illness and general psychological suffering ... "The Devil Wears Hospital Scrubs""
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Feb 8, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
17%
|
Flypaper (2011) |
"
May not be well executed, too broad for a script that obviously wants to be a very profane and twisted black comedy, but it's not without a silly charm."
—
Cinematical
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Another Earth (2011) |
"
If anything Another Earth is most like a super low-budget M. Night Shyamalan film without any of the suspenseful moments"
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
48%
|
Love and Other Drugs (2010) |
"
Love and Other Drugs is The Social Network for Old People."
—
SpoutBlog
Posted Nov 28, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
40%
|
Gerrymandering (2010) |
"
The film's final statement is literally, "end gerrymandering,' which is hardly non-partisan itself. "
—
Cinematical
Posted Oct 24, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
93%
|
The Tillman Story (2010) |
"
Merely puts Tillman on a different kind of pedestal and celebrates him as a different sort of idol than the military and media had done in the past. "
—
Cinematical
Posted Jun 30, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
65%
|
Freakonomics (2010) |
"
Swift and easily digestible. None of it will likely provoke discussion, though ... doesn't seem to be anything more substantial than interesting yet trivial data."
—
Cinematical
Posted Jun 25, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
A bit too silly for its own good ... Yet even if this is my least favorite Winterbottom since 9 Songs, I'd be lying if I said I don't appreciate the effort."
—
Cinematical
Posted Apr 28, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
75%
|
Tales From the Script (2010) |
"
I implore any prospective or fledgling screenwriters out there to see the new documentary Tales from the Script."
—
Cinematical
Posted Mar 11, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
88%
|
Boy A (2007) |
"
Even though the film is a narrative disappointment, it is possibly of interest for Garfield's performance."
—
Cinematical
Posted Jul 23, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
35%
|
Diminished Capacity (2008) |
"
The problem with this film ... is that it features too many other sad sack characters who ... contribute to an excess of sad-sackness."
—
Cinematical
Posted Jul 3, 2008
|
85%
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