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1/5
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45%
|
The Caveman's Valentine (2001) |
"
The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2001
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|
1/5
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91%
|
Ed Wood (1994) |
"
This Ed Wood is dead wood."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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41%
|
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) |
"
On a hot summer day, a family trip to the movies can be a time-filler or a time-waster. Apprentice honorably fits the second category."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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|
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89%
|
Spider-Man (2002) |
"
In emphasizing angst over energy, the movie is much like its hero -- not the dashing crime fighter in a red-and-black bodysuit but the introspective nerd who both endears and exasperates."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 14, 2010
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|
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6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
Please, Hollywood, if there's to be another Airbender movie, hand the job to some efficient hack, and not to a once mesmerizing artist who's lost his way."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2010
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73%
|
Get Him to the Greek (2010) |
"
Nobody goes to an R-rated man-love comedy for spiritual renewal. We just want more outlandish gags. Down with the uplift; up with the suppository jokes."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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|
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74%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010) |
"
[Downey] gives Iron Man 2 its fascination. The rest is a cluttered, clattering toy story."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted May 6, 2010
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|
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74%
|
This Boy's Life (1993) |
"
Something more subtle is going on in Wolff's book, a confrontation with a richer, quirkier past and his emerging self that the movie too often brushes aside."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2010
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|
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87%
|
The Aviator (2004) |
"
This handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2010
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|
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37%
|
Nine (2009) |
"
Only Cotillard, as Guido's long-suffering wife Luisa, is in command of her character whether she's singing, speaking or just staring darts at her philandering mate."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 25, 2009
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|
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12%
|
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
"
The movie is like a car wreck in which no one is injured but the onlookers."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2009
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|
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39%
|
2012 (2009) |
"
Any sentient viewer will be able to predict every lumpy twist of this ludicrous, fitfully enjoyable movie."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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|
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18%
|
The Fourth Kind (2009) |
"
You'd do better downloading an old Art Bell show -- say, the one about the guy who put an alien in his freezer -- than investigating this evidence of subnormal activity."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 6, 2009
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|
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25%
|
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
Butler has the showier part, but his impersonation of the tragic hero is undercut by his weird resemblance to Soupy Sales."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2009
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34%
|
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"
The only collateral damage is in the audience, where, as you sit through the movie, you can feel your IQ drop minute by minute."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Aug 7, 2009
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|
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68%
|
Funny People (2009) |
"
It's as if, halfway through, you went out for popcorn and mistakenly returned to an auditorium showing a different picture. And that second movie ends immolating itself."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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|
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13%
|
The Ugly Truth (2009) |
"
In its wan attempt to be raunchy, the picture fails where Judd Apatow has usually succeeded; written by three women, this is a girl's mistaken idea of an R-rated comedy."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 23, 2009
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|
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87%
|
(500) Days of Summer (2009) |
"
I guess maybe I'm not Tom but Summer. I like your looks, and heaven knows I appreciate the energy you put into wooing me, but I don't want us to be a couple."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2009
|
|
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68%
|
Public Enemies (2009) |
"
All this docudrama grit allows for precious little dramatic juice."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 30, 2009
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|
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46%
|
Forces of Nature (1999) |
"
DreamWorks' first reprehensible fiasco."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2009
|
|
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71%
|
Tetro (2009) |
"
The movie plays not like an old man's film but like a promising, frustrating student effort."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
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78%
|
The Hangover (2009) |
"
This is a bromance so primitive it's practically Bro-Magnon."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jun 5, 2009
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|
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98%
|
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
"
A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted May 18, 2009
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|
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37%
|
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) |
"
Wolverine doesn't rise above the level of familiar competence."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted May 1, 2009
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|
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96%
|
Do the Right Thing (1989) |
"
Lee cagily provides a litmus test for racial attitudes in 1989, but he does so by destroying the integrity of his characters, black and white."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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|
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84%
|
State of Play (2009) |
"
For a handy compare-and-contrast, check out the small- and big-screen versions of State of Play. You'll see the difference between a vital work of popular art and a patched-up retread."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 17, 2009
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|
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51%
|
Observe and Report (2009) |
"
Beyond the weirdness, if you can get there, is a quick portrait of trailer-park America pursuing its urges by any means necessary."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 9, 2009
|
|
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27%
|
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"
Boiled down to its essentials, F&F is four pretty swell auto-race video games encased in the bloated carcass of a script, by Chris Morgan, that must have been researched in the Archive of Movie Cliches."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 3, 2009
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|
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96%
|
Missing (1982) |
"
A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2009
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|
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74%
|
The Cotton Club (1984) |
"
Given its garish production history, one rather expected The Cotton Club to sing with hot-jazz desperation. Instead, we get the mediocre craftsmanship of a pit band in Vegas."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2009
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80%
|
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) |
"
Director Amy Heckerling has failed to provide the raunch or poignancy that would interest young moviegoers, all of whom have seen American Graffiti and its 467 imitators. Ridgemont High? A nice place to visit, but who would want to transfer there?"
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2009
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|
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62%
|
Pretty Woman (1990) |
"
This is old-fashioned, assembly-line moviemaking without the old panache."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2009
|
|
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84%
|
Pennies From Heaven (1981) |
"
Perhaps this was not the project on which to lavish so many MGM millions. The BBC show was an enchanted cottage; this is the Las Vegas Grand Hotel."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
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58%
|
Taken (2009) |
"
If a movie's high points are a quick smack of carnage and a steely speech that everyone's already seen in the trailer, you know it must be January."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2009
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|
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30%
|
Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (2009) |
"
I'd provide more detail of plot and dialogue, but the visual palette was way too dark for me to take legible notes; and frankly, though I saw it at a midnight screening hours ago, the movie just wasn't that memorable."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2009
|
|
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25%
|
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"
After sitting through this fractious fairy tale, we feel as plucked as a Christmas goose."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 29, 2008
|
|
|
79%
|
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) |
"
The Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even ludicrous."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2008
|
|
|
92%
|
Pale Rider (1985) |
"
Pale Rider does nothing to disprove the wisdom that this genre is best left to the revival houses. A double feature of Shane and Eastwood's High Plains Drifter will do just fine, thanks."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 26, 2008
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|
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16%
|
Max Payne (2008) |
"
The moviegoers are passive hostages on a long ride they've taken so many times before. So gameboys are advised to man their PlayStations this weekend; action-movie fans in search of red meat can wait for the inevitably more graphic DVD version."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2008
|
|
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69%
|
For Your Eyes Only (1981) |
"
Moore is merely the best-oiled cog in this perpetual motion machine."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2008
|
|
|
47%
|
Octopussy (1983) |
"
Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2008
|
|
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71%
|
Licence To Kill (1989) |
"
The Bond women are pallid mannequins, and so is the misused Dalton -- a moving target in a Savile Row suit. For every plausible reason, he looks as bored in his second Bond film as Sean Connery did in his sixth."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2008
|
|
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91%
|
Malcolm X (1992) |
"
Lee sketches Malcolm's life colorfully, if by the numbers. But he falls victim to the danger of movie biography: he elevates Malcolm's importance until the vital historical context is obscured."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2008
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|
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25%
|
Gone in 60 Seconds (Gone in Sixty Seconds) (2000) |
"
In this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2008
|
|
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98%
|
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) |
"
The opening cartoon upstages the movie that emerges from it."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2008
|
|
|
78%
|
Burn After Reading (2008) |
"
Burn After Reading is a movie about stupidity that left me feeling stupid."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2008
|
|
|
60%
|
Interview with the Vampire (1994) |
"
Why would Tom Cruise be playing Lestat, a gaunt, suave European vampire with a taste for young men? Because a big movie star can do whatever he wants."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Aug 24, 2008
|
|
|
80%
|
The Green Mile (1999) |
"
To more than a few viewers, this one will feel like a life sentence."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Aug 24, 2008
|
|
|
62%
|
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"
There's nothing remarkable, or witty, or particularly engaging about Hamlet 2."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2008
|
|
|
85%
|
The Blues Brothers (1980) |
"
A demolition symphony that works with the cold efficiency of a Moog synthesizer gone sadistic."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2008
|
64%
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97%
