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83%
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There's Something About Mary (1998) |
"
This one is dumbest. And funniest, as if that matters even a little bit!"
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Washington Post
Posted Feb 3, 2009
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41%
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The Rocker (2008) |
"
If only the movie had some bite, some edge, some anger, some insight. Instead it's generic, staying far away from the darker temptations of the rock scene."
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Washington Post
Posted Aug 20, 2008
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49%
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Bottle Shock (2008) |
"
Whatta movie: booze, unhappy French people, Alan Rickman and really cool pickup trucks."
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Washington Post
Posted Aug 6, 2008
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55%
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Step Brothers (2008) |
"
Thank god that when he became a man, Will Ferrell never put away childish things. His Step Brothers is so childish it seems to arrive in diapers, and that's not bad; it's good."
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 24, 2008
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94%
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
"
[Ledger's] performance is also the most interesting thing in the film, and when the Joker is absent, The Dark Knight loses most of its energy and dynamism."
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 17, 2008
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—
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0%
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Remember the Daze (The Beautiful Ordinary) (2008) |
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 16, 2008
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—
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96%
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Nanking (2007) |
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 16, 2008
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78%
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) |
"
The tweener girls for whom it is aimed deserve better. A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 2, 2008
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40%
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Hancock (2008) |
"
The problem is that director Peter Berg, aided and abetted by Smith and Theron and third banana Jason Bateman, seem to have made it literally, not realizing its out-of-whack tonalities and grotesque plot twists were meant to be played for laughs."
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 2, 2008
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56%
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Kicking It (2008) |
"
Kicking It illustrates the transformative power of sports."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 26, 2008
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72%
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And When Did You Last See Your Father? (When Did You Last See Your Father?) (2008) |
"
The movie is slick and treacly and goes nowhere that hasn't been gone before."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 26, 2008
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86%
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Mongol (2008) |
"
The result is a wallow in old movie pleasures, full of battles, flying dust, thousands of men on horseback, beautiful women, treachery, slaughter, really cool hats and even more slaughter."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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51%
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Get Smart (2008) |
"
As I say: darned funny! Weightless as froth, forgettable as dew, but pretty darned funny."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 19, 2008
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37%
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Savage Grace (2007) |
"
The movie just sloshes along in a heavy, slightly overdone way."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2008
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18%
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The Happening (2008) |
"
The Happening stutter-steps its way in this direction and that to a disappointing ending."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2008
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96%
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Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008) |
"
The film isn't quite a memoir; it's also a platform to branch off into other areas, briskly and informatively and with a good deal of clearheadedness."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 5, 2008
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37%
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
In the end, the movie feels as if it exists only to display the Sandler's biceps."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 5, 2008
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45%
|
The Strangers (2008) |
"
I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish."
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Washington Post
Posted May 30, 2008
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77%
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"
It's romantic manliness at its purest, almost but not quite schmaltz, ideally calculated to please true believers and ironic snorters at once."
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Washington Post
Posted May 22, 2008
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86%
|
Beaufort (2008) |
"
The camera never leaves the beleaguered compound, and Beaufort itself becomes a character in the story, a surrealistic zone of tunnels, bunkers and sandbags, about as far from the possibility of heroism as possible."
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Washington Post
Posted May 16, 2008
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68%
|
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"
Everyone in the movie...is fabulous, and Podeswa has an ability to distill history into a few powerful images."
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Washington Post
Posted May 16, 2008
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68%
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Redbelt (2008) |
"
What is memorable is the film's portrait of a man of honor in a sleazy world, possibly a metaphor for the struggle of the artist to stay honorable in a world of backbiting, betrayal and hunger for easy money."
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Washington Post
Posted May 9, 2008
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27%
|
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"
Not that What Happens in Vegas is any kind of great movie, but it's an exceedingly bright comedy that never makes you feel stupid for enjoying its brisk pacing, smart lines, sound construction and superb comic acting."
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Washington Post
Posted May 8, 2008
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74%
|
Dark City (1998) |
"
If you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will."
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Washington Post
Posted Apr 28, 2008
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38%
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Zombie Strippers (2008) |
"
I stayed to the bitter end out of some romantic sense of professional obligation. Don't make that same mistake!"
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Washington Post
Posted Apr 24, 2008
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5%
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88 Minutes (2008) |
"
Not merely Pacino's over-mannered, near-histrionic performance, but the movie itself could be characterized as busy, busy, busy. It's so full of plot twists and revelations and exploding sports cars that its very perkiness comes to seem comic."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 18, 2008
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88%
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Young@Heart (2007) |
"
Documentarian Stephen Walker's brisk, ironic style of narration and frank inclusion of himself in the observations contribute mightily to the enterprise, which is also aided by his honesty."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
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38%
|
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
"
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? is so infantile you expect the answer to be, 'Not at my house!'"
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
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70%
|
The First Saturday in May (2008) |
"
It's pretty much for people who know the game well and want their perceptions massaged, not challenged."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
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69%
|
The Duchess of Langeais (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)(Don't Touch the Axe) (2007) |
"
It is the ultimate in movie as pane of glass, completely un-self-conscious of its own movieness but simply an intensely focused examination of human behavior on a narrative armature."
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Washington Post
Posted Apr 10, 2008
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71%
|
Cop Land (1997) |
"
At its heart, the movie has a good story to tell: the lumbering oaf who's not nearly as stupid and not nearly as gutless as all the hot dogs from the big city think."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 9, 2008
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79%
|
The Prince of Egypt (1998) |
"
The movie's proudest accomplishment is that it revises our version of Moses toward something more immediate and believable, more humanly knowable."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 19, 2008
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85%
|
Chuck & Buck (2000) |
"
Do you like the clammy as opposed to the scary? Do you like dread rather than drama, anguish and emotional coagulation rather than screamfests?"
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Washington Post
Posted Feb 12, 2008
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64%
|
Wild Things (1998) |
"
The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability."
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Washington Post
Posted Feb 11, 2008
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48%
|
Cruel Intentions (1999) |
"
What's both depressing and impressive about Cruel Intentions is the profound misanthropy of its meaning."
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 8, 2008
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88%
|
Titanic (in 3D) (2012) |
"
This is Cameron at his best."
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Washington Post
Posted Jan 29, 2008
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97%
|
Persepolis (2007) |
"
Marjane Satrapi, with co-director Vincent Paronnaud, has taken her work and turned it into a vigorous, revealing and tragic film."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 24, 2008
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79%
|
The Great Debaters (2007) |
"
A rouser, a stunner, almost a jubilee of emotion and suspense by the old standards of Hollywood melodrama, circa the time the actual events themselves took place."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 26, 2007
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81%
|
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"
Gosh, does this movie have it all or what? Smart dialogue, Julia Roberts in a bikini and looking grrrrrr-eattttt, and Russian helicopters going boom! It's also short! What's not to love?"
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 20, 2007
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86%
|
Starting Out in the Evening (2007) |
"
Among the CGI monsterfests of the holiday film season, this quiet, humorous drama of oppositional wills from different generations coming to terms with each other is one of the miracles of the season."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 14, 2007
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26%
|
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"
This film features what look like living plush toys."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 14, 2007
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42%
|
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"
The movie simply delivers too many colorfuls for its own good, none of whom establish a true emotional identity, and thus it isn't moving, it's busy."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 6, 2007
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24%
|
Awake (2007) |
"
Awake is a pleasing if negligible diversion."
—
Washington Post
Posted Dec 3, 2007
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55%
|
This Christmas (2007) |
"
The movie doesn't idealize, which makes it ideal."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 21, 2007
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74%
|
The Mist (2007) |
"
There's a glib twist at the end, which seems out of character, and the movie could easily lose 20 minutes, maybe 40."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 21, 2007
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37%
|
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
"
The movie means to approach the creepy wonder of Roald Dahl but gets only the creepy part right."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 15, 2007
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71%
|
Beowulf (2007) |
"
I say the story works, but I wish they'd teach these avatars to act."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 15, 2007
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53%
|
Romance and Cigarettes (2007) |
"
The movie comes on as a novelty item, meaning it's so full of disparate parts and so unable to approach coherence, it just sits there and burns out."
—
Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
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95%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
I just don't like it very much."
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Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
|
62%
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