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1/5
|
13%
|
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) |
"
If only they were truly stranded on that desert island..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
"W.E.," Madonna's second go at directing a feature film, leaves one wishing she'd find other creative outlets for those times when she's bored with the pop-star life."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
Tanner Hall (2011) |
"
Allows room for a lot of thinking about other things - its cast most notably, since watching their struggle to move beyond the mundane is painful."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
The Smurfs (2011) |
"
Even Neil Patrick Harris, who has proved he can save just about any sinking ship (see prime-time awards shows such as the Emmys or Tonys), cannot make this boat float."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
Oh, what a headache-inducing, unapologetic money grab we have in "The Hangover Part II.""
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 26, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
10%
|
Little Fockers (2010) |
"
The sheer pleasure of the first film in 2000, already dimming by the time we got to "Meet the Fockers" four years later, has officially gone kaput."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 22, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
51%
|
The Next Three Days (2010) |
"
Haggis seems obsessed with making sure we "get it" in every scene. You can almost feel the hammer poised right above your head to pound the point home. Beyond that, the film is too long on exposition in some places, too short in others, never just right."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 18, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
27%
|
Takers (2010) |
"
Even with all of the action, and with a few plot twists that are kinda cool, there's really not enough to Takers to make it worth your time."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Our Family Wedding (2010) |
"
Instead of invitations, they should be sending out apologies for Our Family Wedding, a cake-and-kisses comedy that has disaster written all over it and not for the right reasons."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
Dear John (2010) |
"
There's no real depth or texture to the characters of any sort, sentimental or otherwise, and I say that as someone who can be brought to tears by a Hallmark commercial."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 4, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
"
Grant has never been less charming and Parker never less fashionable or more grating than they are as Paul and Meryl Morgan."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
45%
|
The Box (2009) |
"
Have you ever actually tried watching paint dry? A sloth walk? Grass grow? You can have all the thrills with none of the chills courtesy of The Box, the painfully sluggish new sci-fi morality play from Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 5, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
Pink Panther 2 (2009) |
"
There's a sort of desperation at work here."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 6, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
New In Town (2009) |
"
The timing couldn't have been better for a romantic comedy with a love-among-the-financial-ruins theme to come along. But if you're looking for a welcome mat for New in Town, you won't find it here."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 30, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
23%
|
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
Cute couple Kendrick and Crawford are completely lost at sea. But the guys in the Dudes Group have the worst of it - they are a whiny, unappealing bunch through and through."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
22%
|
Darling Companion (2012) |
"
Like Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, "Darling Companion"has lost its way."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
23%
|
The Sitter (2011) |
"
[A] terribly unfunny and overwhelmingly raunchy film that stars the normally likable, or at least comically forgivable, Jonah Hill. He is neither here."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
30%
|
Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011) |
"
The barbs feel stale at best, squandered at worst, and the ominous music that accompanies each sounds as if it has been lifted from the silent movie era."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
36%
|
One Day (2011) |
"
As so often happens with love, what you hope for is not even close to what you get, and in this case we are left with a heartbreaking disappointment of a film."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
27%
|
After.Life (2010) |
"
Neither horrific enough to scare, nor psychologically thrilling enough to even register a pulse. And whatever fun there is to be found, and there were hoots aplenty, it's of the "laughing at, not with" variety."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 8, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
37%
|
Nine (2009) |
"
Perhaps Zero would have been a better name."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 17, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
9%
|
Opa! (2009) |
"
Everything is flat except for the island's picturesque mountains, but you can look at those for only so long."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
The Perfect Family (2012) |
"
The film's single saving grace is Turner, who channels that legendary Catholic guilt like there is no tomorrow."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
It's neither grand nor grisly enough to seriously satisfy Poe-ish cravings for murder, mystery and literary allusions."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Lockout (2012) |
"
Mostly "Lockout" is lost in space."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
It starts with a great story - of love and politics, time travel and mystical pathways between planets - badly sucked dry."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
The Vow (2012) |
"
This is a movie that leaves you wanting more. To care more, to cry more, to love more."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
Nobbs is such a spectral presence that infusing any measure of life into this person is an insurmountable challenge."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
The Lady (2012) |
"
A fumbling and fawning - if sincere - tribute to the living legend and a director who has never seemed more out of his element."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
It breaks my heart to tell you that "Breaking Dawn" is broken."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Texas Killing Fields (2011) |
"
Like the Texas City killer's plans, something's gone terribly wrong."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Fireflies in the Garden (2011) |
"
"Fireflies" is probably too convoluted to pave the way for more roles of this sort, but watching Reynolds get inside Michael's pain, you hope it won't be long until something will."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
70%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
Lonergan has created a forceful yet extremely fitful film that teases with moments of brilliance only to frustrate in the end."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Final Destination 5 (2011) |
"
"FD 5" did not raise even a single goose bump - which for a movie that bills itself as horror is not a good thing."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
87%
|
X-Men: First Class (2011) |
"
Undone by a frustrating mire of multiple plots, overreaching special effects, leaden ancillary players and world-ending military standoffs that have all the tension of a water balloon fight."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
Something Borrowed (2011) |
"
Krasinski is, once again, the best thing about a romantic comedy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
The Beaver (2011) |
"
An emotional runaway of a film that carries neither the insight nor the uplift to make the weight of its dark journey worth it."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
Arthur (2011) |
"
Paper and possibilities do not a movie make. I'm guessing even Christopher Cross is cross."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 7, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
69%
|
Limitless (2011) |
"
The disappointment is that for all of the possibilities, "Limitless" never gets beyond "limited.""
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
Gorgeously shot, smartly conceived, cleverly cast, badly executed -- the lush medieval beauty here is at best only skin deep."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
Take Me Home Tonight (2011) |
"
Overall "Take Me Home Tonight" represents a lateral move at best for its 24-hour party people, a step back at worst, and not worth your time either way."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
No Strings Attached (2011) |
"
Sadly, an obsession with raunchy one-liners trips everything up, turning a clever conceit into something closer to a sleazy, cheesy affair."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 20, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Grown Ups (2010) |
"
The new Adam Sandler comedy has all the charm of a home movie that does not star your own family, which means it's overly sentimental, filled with you-had-to-be-there moments, bad jokes and even worse camera angles."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
Little more than torture porn tricked out in art-house finery."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
In the comic book tradition, the story weaves between the real and the mythical, but it's a very boozy trip. Brolin's intermittent voice-over narration proves to be the most powerful stuff, with the rest curiously sputtering."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 18, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
The Back-up Plan (2010) |
"
No matter how many times director Alan Poul tries lighting the fire, nothing ignites."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Chloe (2010) |
"
Envisioned as a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned, director Atom Egoyan's latest puzzle is just puzzling, little more than a messy affair with mood lighting, sexy lingerie, heavy breathing and swelling, um, music."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
28%
|
Extraordinary Measures (2010) |
"
The story is poignant and compelling, but ultimately the film doesn't have the heft it needs to fill out the big screen."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
2/5
|
61%
|
Brothers (2009) |
"
Sheridan seems as conflicted as the Cahills about their virtues and failings."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
53%
|
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"
By the time A Christmas Carol finishes piling its many shiny presents with their many bells and whistles under the tree, there's no room left for tears for Tiny Tim. Bah humbug indeed."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 5, 2009
|
67%
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