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3/4
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98%
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) |
"
At a time when Hollywood seems to be releasing everything this side of Dead Sea Scrolls documentaries in 3-D, How to Train Your Dragon is a briskly paced computer-animated entertainment that uses the format to maximum effect, the way Avatar does."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 26, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
64%
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Duplicity (2009) |
"
With its smart writing delivered by an in-synch quartet, savor Duplicity as the ideal spring gift."
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USA Today
Posted Mar 20, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
61%
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The Express (2008) |
"
Despite appealing performances and kinetic football scenes, the storytelling is mostly conventional, except for two outstanding set pieces."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
1/4
|
13%
|
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"
Remarkably, the plot has much in common with Hellboy II: The Golden Army, yet that bundle of fun has enough vision to make even its Barry Manilow interlude seem appropriate."
—
USA Today
Posted Aug 1, 2008
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|
—
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96%
|
When the Levees Broke (2006) |
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 20, 2007
|
|
—
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96%
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House of Games (1987) |
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 1, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
24%
|
Lady in the Water (2006) |
"
Though the result is too idiosyncratic to be regarded as just one more summer-movie whiff, those who see it may feel a need to act like a pool lifeguard and blow the whistle on Shyamalan."
—
USA Today
Posted Jul 20, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
Running Scared (2006) |
"
A potential howler done in by a tendency to wear too much body tissue on its sleeve."
—
USA Today
Posted Feb 23, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
45%
|
Final Destination 3 (2006) |
"
At its heart, this second sequel is standard slasher stuff, though director James Wong does rise (or maybe sink) to the occasion with grisly staging."
—
USA Today
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
22%
|
The Pink Panther (2006) |
"
Even if you give Sellers the edge in facial expressions, Martin is his equal in mangled verbiage."
—
USA Today
Posted Feb 9, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Something New (2006) |
"
Sanaa Lathan's classiness flows from the poise she projects...Her cool understatement helps put over Something New's premise -- which, if not old, is no longer in its 20s."
—
USA Today
Posted Feb 2, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
70%
|
Roving Mars (2006) |
"
The movie is more compelling than exciting with one exception: the kind of rocket blast-off sequence for which IMAX screens were seemingly invented."
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
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2/4
|
32%
|
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"
Maddening politeness rules the day in this London-based comedy ..."
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
10%
|
Annapolis (2006) |
"
Annapolis moves at a decent clip, but it's all cliches ..."
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Why We Fight (2006) |
"
It's thoughtful, and you have to take it seriously and with respect."
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 19, 2006
|
|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
Glory Road (2006) |
"
An appealing Disney sports movie that underplays its potential, Glory Road is at least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's Coach Carter."
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 13, 2006
|
|
1/4
|
47%
|
Hoodwinked (2005) |
"
Why would a distributor suddenly yank an animated family film from its intended wide December opening until mid-January? Could it be that the advance word of mouth wasn't very good-winked?"
—
USA Today
Posted Jan 12, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
53%
|
Wolf Creek (2005) |
"
There's no substitute for bad taste. And this one has it double-barreled, both in the timing of its release and as a movie, one said to be loosely based on fact."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 25, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
61%
|
The New World (2005) |
"
That sound you're about to hear is the cracking of spines as Terrence Malick enthusiasts like me bend over backward trying to cut The New World a break."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 22, 2005
|
|
3.5/4
|
78%
|
Munich (2005) |
"
This is a smart and often tense work whose ultimate merit isn't completely calculable now."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 22, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
The Ringer (2005) |
"
No matter how daring today's comedies think they are, someone has been there before and done it funnier."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 22, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
7%
|
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) |
"
Give Dozen a slight edge to the mournful Yours, Mine & Ours as a holiday season bottom-feeder, because Martin and Levy are better at slapstick than Dennis Quaid."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 20, 2005
|
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3/4
|
52%
|
The Family Stone (2005) |
"
This is one busy wannabe heart-tugger."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 16, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
"
It's an old-style virtue for a film that's old-style in the best way: unassuming but people-oriented and aiming to endure."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 9, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
First Descent (2005) |
"
An adequate if slightly overlong history of the sport, Descent adheres to the same storytelling trajectory as documentary predecessors on surfing and skateboarding."
—
USA Today
Posted Dec 2, 2005
|
|
|
6%
|
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005) |
"
Yes, this groaner retreads the ground of the middling-at-best 1968 movie of the same name."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 23, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
42%
|
Just Friends (2005) |
"
After peaking with the unsurpassable glories of 2003's Bad Santa, the humbug holiday genre may be getting run into the ground."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 23, 2005
|
|
|
46%
|
Rent (2005) |
"
Stage original Taye Diggs, playing an erstwhile friend turned evictor, actually made a stronger screen impression in Malibu's Most Wanted."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 23, 2005
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"
What we really get from son Mark's unusual take is a sterling movie about fathers (especially famous fathers) and offspring."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 22, 2005
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Walk the Line (2005) |
"
A Johnny Cash biopic equally packed with music and frustrated love, Walk the Line goes from compelling to enthralling."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 18, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
Zathura (2005) |
"
Thanks in part to its over-reliance on special effects, the result seems all too familiar."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 10, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
20%
|
Derailed (2005) |
"
Drawn-out, clunky and uneasily acted, as well as exasperating."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 10, 2005
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Jarhead (2005) |
"
Director Sam Mendes' third screen outing pretty well nails Swofford's tone, which was mordant without being disrespectful, and, in fact, is begrudgingly reverent of the Corps."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 4, 2005
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
Chicken Little (2005) |
"
The invasion material is acceptably funny."
—
USA Today
Posted Nov 4, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
26%
|
The Legend of Zorro (2005) |
"
Though there's worse entertainment around, there may be more people rabid for the return of Prohibition than for a Zorro sequel seven years after the fact."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 28, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
The Weather Man (2005) |
"
This is one glum outing, with occasional pings of wry wit and hearty chuckles."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 28, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
35%
|
Saw II (2005) |
"
Essentially, this is one more movie that, regardless of its setting or even planet, exists to knock off its cast members one by one."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 27, 2005
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
North Country (2005) |
"
At its best, North Country conveys what it's like to be a small-town social pariah and to fear for yourself in the workplace."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 20, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
20%
|
Doom (2005) |
"
It's surprising The Rock's latest is as bearable as it is."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 20, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) |
"
All three actors give it their all, but Monaghan stands out with a sexy yet oddly down-to-earth variation on the Midwest girl gone wrong, thanks partly to a dark dysfunctional family secret."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 20, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
64%
|
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) |
"
Fanning and Russell make this watchable family entertainment, if not necessarily at today's prices."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 20, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
41%
|
Where the Truth Lies (2005) |
"
Atom Egoyan's stilted film squanders an intriguing premise."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 13, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
19%
|
Domino (2005) |
"
You can't accuse this film of bogging down in cheap psychology, yet you come out dissatisfied and without a clue about what made this person tick."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 13, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
21%
|
Two For the Money (2005) |
"
The movie has a lot of built-in flash and is thus mildly entertaining, though the running time grinds it down."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 7, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
30%
|
Waiting (2005) |
"
As in waiting for it to be over."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 7, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) |
"
George Clooney's second directorial outing couldn't be more topical, though the events it chronicles occurred over half a century ago."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 7, 2005
|
|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"
Collette's performance is so full of juice and the beneficiary of good dialogue that Diaz's may end up being underrated."
—
USA Today
Posted Oct 7, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
Into the Blue (2005) |
"
Too long at 110 minutes, the movie gets a lot more complicated with its array of peripheral characters. But it's never very deep on characterizations."
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 30, 2005
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
A History of Violence (2005) |
"
Violence is in the spirit of the hardest-hitting film noir offerings from the '50s, but far more explicit."
—
USA Today
Posted Sep 23, 2005
|
85%
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