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14%
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Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) |
"
Too many frantic CGI critters ruin this spy movie with pets."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 26, 2010
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81%
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) |
"
This is a discouragingly limp movie where nothing is at stake."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 23, 2010
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91%
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The Father of My Children (Le pere de mes enfants) (2010) |
"
A modest drama about a suicide and its aftermath that never quite moves an audience as it should."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 23, 2010
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41%
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) |
"
A tired relic of summer-movie cliches, clearly beaten to death by far too many credited writers."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jul 9, 2010
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6%
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The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
Even during the climax, the film still is struggling to introduce the world of the film and its strange rules."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 30, 2010
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53%
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Knight & Day (2010) |
"
Logic and plausibility take a holiday in this nonstop actioner that counts on stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz to sell the nonsense."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 21, 2010
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47%
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The A-Team (2010) |
"
The film seems nearly writer-free. Absolutely no time gets wasted on story, character development or logic."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jun 9, 2010
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81%
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Solitary Man (2010) |
"
A terrific cast can't salvage a downer story about an arrogant heel."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 17, 2010
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44%
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) |
"
The movie ends just when complications start to set in, which makes you wonder how invested Allen really is in the little melodramas within this comedy."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted May 17, 2010
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74%
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Iron Man 2 (2010) |
"
Everything fun and terrific about Iron Man, a mere two years ago, has vanished with its sequel. In its place, Iron Man 2 has substituted noise, confusion, multiple villains, irrelevant stunts and misguided story lines."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 27, 2010
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48%
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The Losers (2010) |
"
An action film designed for those suffering from ADD."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 21, 2010
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75%
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Greenberg (2010) |
"
Noah Baumbach again investigates psychologically screwed-up people, although this time with much less comedic impact."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 16, 2010
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40%
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Who Do You Love? (2010) |
"
All period details and, of course, the music remain scrupulously authentic. The characters feel slightly less so."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Apr 2, 2010
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19%
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The Last Song (2010) |
"
A dramatic showcase for a more grown-up Miley Cyrus, but not much more."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 31, 2010
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64%
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) |
"
A potentially wry comedy about time travel plunges into a hot tub of tepid juvenilia."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 24, 2010
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21%
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The Red Baron (Der rote Baron) (2008) |
"
Drama about World War I flying aces never gets off the ground."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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12%
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The Bounty Hunter (2010) |
"
Silliness prevails in this lame thriller comedy."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 17, 2010
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42%
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010) |
"
Hugely implausible and relentlessly downbeat cop thriller lacks any sense of authenticity."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Mar 2, 2010
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28%
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Dear John (2010) |
"
A lame romance coupled with more handicaps and hardships than any film can survive without the charge of audience manipulation."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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43%
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The Extra Man (2010) |
"
"Man" is always likable. Indeed, the film works hard to be so. One longs, though, for a glimpse of the humanity behind the shtick and comic gestures. The film just never gets that intimate with its characters."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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87%
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Please Give (2010) |
"
A muted, almost Rohmer-like moral tale that doesn't quite dive deeply enough into its several characters."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 25, 2010
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60%
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The Shock Doctrine (2009) |
"
This movie, clearly assembled in haste, throws surprisingly poor archival footage into the mix with a Klein lecture, scant original interviews and a narration from on high that will brook no dissent."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Jan 25, 2010
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70%
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"
The plot? Wish you hadn't asked."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 16, 2009
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37%
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Nine (2009) |
"
The disappointments are many here, from a starry cast the film ill uses to flat musical numbers that never fully integrate into the dramatic story."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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75%
|
Invictus (2009) |
"
We applaud the final game but must leave the cheering to the on-screen fans."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 3, 2009
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46%
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Everybody's Fine (2009) |
"
A thoroughly fake movie with trite characters that is about, of all things, the need for truthfulness."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Dec 3, 2009
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5%
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Old Dogs (2009) |
"
Insipid, predictable, broad comedy mixed with Disney Family Values makes for one exasperating sit."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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61%
|
Brothers (2009) |
"
A remake of a Danish film has much to admire but never comes together with the impact of the original."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 23, 2009
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29%
|
Love Hurts (2009) |
"
A flat-footed sitcom with unconvincing situations and comedy."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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53%
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Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"
A Christmas Carol is, in its essence, a product reel, a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer animation and 3D technology. On that level, it's a wow. On any emotional level, it's as cold as Marley's Ghost."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 3, 2009
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86%
|
The House of the Devil (2009) |
"
A horror film with no punch."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 26, 2009
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38%
|
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"
A vampire movie in sore need of a transfusion."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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12%
|
The Stepfather (2009) |
"
This remake turns a fondly remembered horror/thriller into a mild and tedious suspense film."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 18, 2009
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25%
|
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
An implausible thriller with a few horror elements in the guise of social criticism."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 15, 2009
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73%
|
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"
A reverential but uninvolving adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic illustrated book for children."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 12, 2009
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12%
|
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"
This intermittently funny tale of four couples undergoing relationship therapy struggles hard for its occasional laughs."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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39%
|
Surrogates (2009) |
"
Just as the dystopian world the movie portrays is arid and specious, the movie itself is a mechanical sci-fi'er absent of logic or emotions."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 24, 2009
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63%
|
Leaves of Grass (2010) |
"
An identical twins comic crime drama goes seriously wrong."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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43%
|
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"
An unoriginal and mostly unscary horror-comedy from, surprisingly, the pen of Diablo Cody."
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Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 10, 2009
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78%
|
The Informant! (2009) |
"
A comedy about corporate fraud, malfeasance and a mental disorder that never quite succeeds as a comedy."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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30%
|
Gamer (2009) |
"
Crass, nonstop action triumphs over narrative and character in this movie-length simulation of a video game."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 8, 2009
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6%
|
All About Steve (2009) |
"
A total misfire from the first scene to the last."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 3, 2009
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30%
|
The Final Destination (2009) |
"
Death comes in 3D but everything else is tedious."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 1, 2009
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7%
|
Post Grad (2009) |
"
A homogenized piffle about the "ordeal" of a middle-class college grad momentarily without a job."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 19, 2009
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63%
|
Extract (2009) |
"
Not for a single moment does anyone in this film make a good decision. Consequently, you quickly catch on and easily anticipate the bad decisions before they happen."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 19, 2009
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56%
|
9 (2009) |
"
It certainly is a valuable introduction to an exciting new talent, but by expanding the film's length, characters and otherworldly environment things are strangely diminished."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 18, 2009
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76%
|
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) |
"
It is very good at stating the obvious but fails to bring new insight to this age-old morality tale."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 18, 2009
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37%
|
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"
Bana and McAdams make you feel the pain and the ultimate acceptance of their dilemma but never convey the magic that allows the couple to persevere through such a grand but trying love."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 10, 2009
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43%
|
Shorts (Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock) (2009) |
"
The CG slapstick soon grows wearying and even predictable."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 10, 2009
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60%
|
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"
A gimmicky, tricked-out tale that is all too self-aware. But the film does keep you guessing and probably guessing wrong."
—
Hollywood Reporter
Posted Aug 7, 2009
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