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F+
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60%
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Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
Inevitably, given this cast, there are a few actorly moments worth savoring, and the clothes some of the characters wear delight. But this is, quite simply, as bad a film as you could ever fear to see."
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Oregonian
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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F+
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51%
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CJ7 (2008) |
"
It's awful. Awful. That's all. Keep walking. For the love of all that's holy. Keep. Walking."
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Oregonian
Posted Mar 21, 2008
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F
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14%
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Welcome To Mooseport (2004) |
"
A foul dog of a film."
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Oregonian
Posted Feb 20, 2004
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D-
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22%
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Taking Lives (2004) |
"
Really awful lady-cop- chasing-psycho- killer picture with dumb twists and dull dialogue aplenty."
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Oregonian
Posted Mar 19, 2004
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D
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11%
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Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
A dreary tale of love and lycanthropy set in a muddied past, it affords neither the titillation of sex nor the thrill of violence."
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Oregonian
Posted Mar 10, 2011
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D
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21%
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Amelia (2009) |
"
Better luck trying to find out what truly happened to the real Earhart than trying to diagnose all that's wrong with this hapless film."
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Oregonian
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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D
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10%
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House of D (2004) |
"
A movie that with its own review in its title."
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Oregonian
Posted Apr 29, 2005
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55%
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Australia (2008) |
"
Yes, you can enjoy bits and pieces along the way, more than a few, even. At the end of this journey, though, you feel more exhaustion and relief than catharsis or satisfaction."
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Oregonian
Posted Nov 26, 2008
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11%
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Pathfinder (2007) |
"
Muddled, ugly, pointless, silly, incoherent, overly familiar and exceedingly dull."
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Oregonian
Posted Apr 13, 2007
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76%
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Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"
In all three of his capacities here -- writer, director, star -- Stallone is wobbly."
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Oregonian
Posted Dec 20, 2006
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65%
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The History Boys (2006) |
"
The film feels like a pedestrian delivery system for other people's brilliant work."
—
Oregonian
Posted Dec 15, 2006
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76%
|
Superman Returns (2006) |
"
A dull, muddled and uninspiring film that combines pedestrian acting, lackluster special effects and deadly pace with a pseudo-religious theme that makes The Da Vinci Code seem like it was written by the College of Cardinals."
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Oregonian
Posted Jun 28, 2006
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35%
|
Ask the Dust (2006) |
"
Miscast, constricted, loose in tone and meandering in intent, it has far fewer moments of inspiration than unintended laughter."
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Oregonian
Posted Mar 17, 2006
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51%
|
The Producers (2005) |
"
The material and the performers are strong enough to put it over. But there's no mistaking the final product for a good movie."
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Oregonian
Posted Dec 27, 2005
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|
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35%
|
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) |
"
[T]he film is altogether too much like Sayuri: trying to overwhelm with surface beauty and unspoken emotion, it never hits deeper than the skin."
—
Oregonian
Posted Dec 27, 2005
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84%
|
King Kong (2005) |
"
Kong is brilliant in many, many places. But it overwhelms its own best qualities with its sheer, punishing size. It is, literally, too much of a good thing."
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Oregonian
Posted Dec 14, 2005
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|
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61%
|
Shopgirl (2005) |
"
A deliberate excess of technique inflates what might have been a fascinating miniature into something slow and unwieldy."
—
Oregonian
Posted Nov 4, 2005
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67%
|
Everything is Illuminated (2005) |
"
More curious and interesting than polished, entertaining or profound."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 7, 2005
|
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33%
|
The Baxter (2005) |
"
The Baxter is so ineptly conceived, staged, written and played that you suspect it's part of a psychology experiment to see if people will laugh at anything."
—
Oregonian
Posted Sep 16, 2005
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13%
|
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) |
"
Witless film."
—
Oregonian
Posted Aug 5, 2005
|
|
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46%
|
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"
It's the screenwriting equivalent of those fat substitutes used by snack food manufacturers: the finished product looks all right but the taste is off, and the aftereffects are embarrassing and uncomfortable."
—
Oregonian
Posted Jul 22, 2005
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74%
|
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"
As powerful a filmmaker as he is, Spielberg, with approximately two dozen features under his belt, remains a work in progress as a storyteller."
—
Oregonian
Posted Jun 29, 2005
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26%
|
The Game of Their Lives (2005) |
"
A sentimental, creaky, underwritten, overloaded picture that fails as character study, period film, sports movie and heart-stirrer."
—
Oregonian
Posted Jun 3, 2005
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55%
|
Madagascar (2005) |
"
Occasionally it flashes to life with bursts of anarchic humor provided by fringe characters, but by and large it's formulaic and dull."
—
Oregonian
Posted May 27, 2005
|
|
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72%
|
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004) |
"
It lacks the heat and suppleness of the best Shakespeare on film."
—
Oregonian
Posted Feb 25, 2005
|
|
|
64%
|
Bride and Prejudice (2005) |
"
A painlessly light introduction to Bollywood moviemaking, but it far too often feels like run-of-the-mill Hollywood fare."
—
Oregonian
Posted Feb 25, 2005
|
|
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65%
|
Coach Carter (2005) |
"
You know how the last minute of a basketball game can take, like, 10 minutes to actually expire, what with time-outs and the commercials and all? Coach Carter is a lot like that."
—
Oregonian
Posted Jan 14, 2005
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|
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43%
|
Beyond the Sea (2004) |
"
Spacey's wretched, agonizing, tone-deaf version of the Darin story."
—
Oregonian
Posted Dec 31, 2004
|
|
|
78%
|
Overnight (2004) |
"
So it's a happy ending, then: The obnoxious creep gets smacked down in public. The trouble is, to get that warm feeling, you have to spend time with Duffy."
—
Oregonian
Posted Dec 10, 2004
|
|
|
83%
|
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"
Handsome, professional and dutiful, but it never feels inspired."
—
Oregonian
Posted Nov 29, 2004
|
|
|
59%
|
Enduring Love (2004) |
"
This is a grim, often lifeless tale played with such humorless intensity that watching it is far more like an endurance contest than a love affair."
—
Oregonian
Posted Nov 12, 2004
|
|
|
49%
|
Alfie (2004) |
"
When Alfie finally asks 'What's it all about?' the first thing that pops into mind is 'not much.'"
—
Oregonian
Posted Nov 5, 2004
|
|
|
39%
|
Birth (2004) |
"
The pedigree is impressive, but no technical skills could redeem this nitwit story."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 29, 2004
|
|
|
76%
|
Team America - World Police (2004) |
"
There is something in Team America: World Police to offend anyone, which is a good thing, but there's not quite enough to please everyone, which has to be reckoned a letdown."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 15, 2004
|
|
|
62%
|
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"
Rich in quirky performances, amusing in its restless energy, it nevertheless frustrates with self-import and fishy enlightenment."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 8, 2004
|
|
|
74%
|
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"
A classic example of a feature-length film that has just enough material in it for an appealing trailer."
—
Oregonian
Posted Jan 2, 2004
|
|
|
75%
|
House of Sand and Fog (2003) |
"
An overripe melodrama that becomes laughable as it sweatily strives toward tragedy."
—
Oregonian
Posted Dec 26, 2003
|
|
|
71%
|
Cold Mountain (2003) |
"
Cold Mountain is a handsome work of impressive sweep dotted with fine performances. It offers a few fine moments of wit, fear and emotional intimacy. But it rarely pulses with vital life."
—
Oregonian
Posted Dec 26, 2003
|
|
|
55%
|
Km. 0 (Kilometer Zero) (2001) |
"
The stories don't resonate, the film has a drab look and feel, and it lacks the passionate zing with which the least of Almodovar's works teems."
—
Oregonian
Posted Nov 7, 2003
|
|
|
33%
|
In the Cut (2003) |
"
Despite their sexual acrobatics and the omnipresence of mortal danger, the characters are dreary ciphers that none of the cast can bring to life."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 31, 2003
|
|
|
43%
|
The Human Stain (2003) |
"
It all feels dutiful, like an unexceptional British television adaptation of a classic novel."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 31, 2003
|
|
|
37%
|
Sylvia (2003) |
"
Fails as both biographical chronicle and filmed narrative."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 24, 2003
|
|
|
14%
|
Beyond Borders (2003) |
"
The screenplay is a spatterfest of self-satisfaction, preaching and sanctimonious weeping, merrily deaf to the tasteless posturing of its characters, who bemoan their love lives amid the appalling horrors of disease-racked refugee camps."
—
Oregonian
Posted Oct 24, 2003
|
|
|
51%
|
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) |
"
Limp melodrama."
—
Oregonian
Posted Sep 26, 2003
|
|
|
78%
|
Bubba Ho-Tep (2003) |
"
It's the sort of sophomoric exercise that will be appreciated chiefly by viewers already convinced they love it even before they've bought their tickets."
—
Oregonian
Posted Sep 20, 2003
|
|
|
25%
|
Masked And Anonymous (2003) |
"
A more maddening, incoherent, frustrating film you're not likely to see."
—
Oregonian
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
|
63%
|
Cabin Fever (2002) |
"
It's so by-the-numbers and clumsy that it will only appeal to that little sect that's managed to wear out their Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street DVDs."
—
Oregonian
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
|
82%
|
Matchstick Men (2003) |
"
Despite a cast of solid actors and a director with one of the most exquisite visual sensibilities in the business, the film is too often flat when we want it to dazzle us."
—
Oregonian
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
|
72%
|
Buffalo Soldiers (2001) |
"
You're left mainly puzzled and looking for a way to wash a bitter aftertaste out of your mouth."
—
Oregonian
Posted Aug 8, 2003
|
|
|
44%
|
Garage Days (2003) |
"
It's a handsome film, and made with verve, but too often the tone wobbles and far, far too many of its jokes hit with a splat."
—
Oregonian
Posted Jul 18, 2003
|
62%
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