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2%
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One for the Money (2012) |
"
Tedious and tonally inept."
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Variety
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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A Cadeira do Pai (Father's Chair) () |
"
This low-key, quietly crowdpleasing odyssey about a yuppie father searching through rural Sao Paulo for his missing teenage son is highly engaging."
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Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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71%
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Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain (2011) |
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Variety
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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L!fe Happens (2012) |
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Variety
Posted Dec 29, 2011
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Dirty Old Town () |
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Variety
Posted Dec 21, 2011
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
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Variety
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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8%
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New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
Offering around a dozen barely there, aggressively agreeable mini-stories spliced together and spit out with lawnmower-style eloquence, the film is pushed to punishing lengths by the engorged cast list."
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Variety
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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3%
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Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
The pic's general stupidity, careless direction and reliance on a single-joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the most obvious of its problems."
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Variety
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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Coffin (2011) |
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Variety
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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100%
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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
Effortlessly entertaining."
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Variety
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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4%
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Abduction (2011) |
"
A haggardly slapdash Bourne Identity knockoff, never rising above the level of basic competence."
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Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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83%
|
Dolphin Tale (2011) |
"
Though garnished with some heavy dollops of cheese, Dolphin Tale is a surprisingly solid, earnest family pic."
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Variety
Posted Sep 19, 2011
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42%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
The protagonists have become more likable and empowered, motivations have become more cut and dried, and references to underlying political schisms are downplayed."
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Variety
Posted Sep 13, 2011
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0%
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011) |
"
Through all this, one feels nothing more strongly than an acute sympathy for all involved -- in particular Ricci, who gives her role more than it deserves, and Herrmann, a classy character actor who once won a Tony."
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Variety
Posted Sep 12, 2011
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91%
|
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) |
"
Like any mixtape, it offers some truly transcendent moments alongside a smattering of filler, and never quite assembles its pieces into a cohesive whole."
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Variety
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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12%
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Seven Days In Utopia (2011) |
"
Little more than a pleasantly passable Christian sports parable delivered as a sort of Texan golfer's version of The Karate Kid."
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Variety
Posted Aug 30, 2011
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23%
|
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
"
A cheap-looking, vaguely depressing echo of Robert Rodriguez's well-loved kidpic trilogy, assembled with minimal imagination or effort."
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Variety
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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0%
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The Lion of Judah (2011) |
"
The slapdash animation is matched in kind by the patched-together story."
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Variety
Posted Jun 3, 2011
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35%
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The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
The stock dismissal "more of the same" has rarely been more accurately applied to a sequel than to The Hangover Part II, which ranks as little more than a faded copy of its predecessor superimposed on a more brightly colored background."
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Variety
Posted May 23, 2011
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34%
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) |
"
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides serves as a welcome corrective, reviving the fun, feather-light frivolity that any film based on a Disneyland ride ought to exhibit."
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Variety
Posted May 12, 2011
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13%
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The Big Bang (2011) |
"
The Big Bang is a borderline unintelligible, scattershot attempt at Lynchian neo-noir that takes intellectual and aesthetic risks it has no reasonable hope of pulling off."
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Variety
Posted May 11, 2011
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—
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77%
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Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) |
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Variety
Posted May 11, 2011
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The Ultimate Wave Tahiti (2010) |
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Variety
Posted Apr 23, 2011
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70%
|
African Cats (2011) |
"
Astounding wildlife footage is given a kid-friendly narrative hook, but never overly cuddlified, in Keith Scholey's African Cats."
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Variety
Posted Apr 18, 2011
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26%
|
The Best and the Brightest (2011) |
"
Offering a fitfully funny sitcom plot clumsily stretched to 90 minutes, then goosed with increasingly tiresome doses of smuttiness and political incorrectness, The Best and the Brightest is neither."
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Variety
Posted Apr 14, 2011
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A Nightmare In Las Cruces (2011) |
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Variety
Posted Apr 12, 2011
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—
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Foo Fighters: Back and Forth (2011) |
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Variety
Posted Apr 12, 2011
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—
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——
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Chut doi seung giu (Nobody's Perfect ) (2008) |
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Variety
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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—
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Something's Gonna Live (2010) |
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Variety
Posted Apr 4, 2011
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—
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Detention (2012) |
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Variety
Posted Apr 1, 2011
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—
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Charlie Casanova () |
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Variety
Posted Mar 18, 2011
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61%
|
The Beaver (2011) |
"
[Gibson] delivers a performance very few could pull off as a depressed father who begins communicating through a hand puppet, but Foster doesn't know how to manage it or navigate the script's seismic tonal shifts/"
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Variety
Posted Mar 17, 2011
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91%
|
Source Code (2011) |
"
Solid execution and some provocative ideas can't save Source Code from a fatal hubris, as it thinks itself far more clever than it actually is and assumes it's earned emotions at which it's only hinted."
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Variety
Posted Mar 12, 2011
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84%
|
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) |
"
The Lincoln Lawyer is a quintessential airport-novel kind of movie, possessing no great qualities or ambitions."
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Variety
Posted Mar 9, 2011
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80%
|
I Will Follow (2011) |
"
The soulful, messy process of grief gets a soulful, messy treatment in Ava DuVernay's I Will Follow."
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Variety
Posted Mar 3, 2011
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34%
|
Hall Pass (2011) |
"
Those 1990s gross-out kings, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, are finally growing up, even if that maturation is visible only in highly relative terms."
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Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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19%
|
Just Go with It (2011) |
"
A puerile kiddie-comedy without the anarchic energy, and a schmaltzy romantic comedy without the sweetness."
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Variety
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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64%
|
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) |
"
Though anyone who needs convincing won't touch this one with a 10-foot pole, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never makes a persuasive case for its titular star as a far more talented-than-usual teen idol."
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Variety
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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Becoming Chaz (2011) |
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Variety
Posted Feb 9, 2011
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91%
|
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (2011) |
"
[The film] gives the seminal early '90s hip-hop group as stylish and intimate a treatment as fans could hope for, paying as much attention to the music in question as it does to the characters who made it."
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Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2011
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21%
|
Salvation Boulevard (2011) |
"
Careless and bedraggled in its storytelling and never aiming its sights beyond the most obvious targets."
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Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2011
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67%
|
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) |
"
Picked up by Magnet, "Shotgun" should satisfy midnight movie gore-hounds."
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Variety
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
Like Crazy is an exquisite, beautifully acted gem of a film, one that should serve as a prelude to bigger things for stars Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin, as well as director Drake Doremus."
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Variety
Posted Jan 23, 2011
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96%
|
Pariah (2011) |
"
Vivid photography, true-to-life moments and a wonderful lead performance compensate for some first-timer missteps in debutante writer-director Dee Rees' Pariah."
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Variety
Posted Jan 21, 2011
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10%
|
Season of the Witch (2011) |
"
Season of the Witch is a fine example of a film that would've been great fun if only its creators had a sense of humor about the wild brew of absurdity they had percolating."
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Variety
Posted Jan 6, 2011
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29%
|
Queen of the Lot (2010) |
"
This meandering, talky film-industry satire never manages to rouse itself from a near-comatose level of self-satisfaction."
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Variety
Posted Nov 22, 2010
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—
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100%
|
Separado! () |
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Variety
Posted Nov 4, 2010
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54%
|
Morning Glory (2010) |
"
A genially midrange if overlong romantic comedy."
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Variety
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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Player (2010) |
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Variety
Posted Oct 18, 2010
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