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F
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11%
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An American Carol (2008) |
"
What makes An American Carol overtly depressing rather than merely lame is its allegiance to a diseased political discourse built on crude dichotomies: Either you're a bellicose, God-fearing patriot or a troop-hating, traitorous hippie."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 6, 2008
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0/5
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5%
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The Hottie and the Nottie (2008) |
"
Hottie goes from insufferable to downright intolerable. While it pays lip service to inner beauty, the movie winds up as a feature-length advertisement for cosmetic surgery."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 8, 2008
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D-
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2%
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Disaster Movie (2008) |
"
It's too easy to say Disaster Movie deserves its title, but why put more effort into trashing it than the filmmakers did into writing it?"
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AV Club
Posted Aug 29, 2008
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0.5/5
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13%
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Saw V (2008) |
"
It's not a good sign when watching someone stick their hand into a table saw is easier than listening to them recite dialogue."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 24, 2008
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D
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——
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Buzzkill (2012) |
"
A slow-motion car crash of miscalculated charisma, BuzzKill lives and rapidly dies by Daniel Raymont's grating lead performance."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 16, 2012
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D
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44%
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La Soga (The Butcher's Son) (2010) |
"
Even a breaking glass is filmed in slow motion and accompanied by ominous soundtrack pounding -- unless that thud is the movie hammering the same point home again and again."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 12, 2010
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D
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21%
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Amelia (2009) |
"
[Swank is] so constrained by mannerisms that she never gets beyond the character's surface -- although to be fair, trying to import feeling into the movie's stilted dialogue is like trying to fly a plane blindfolded."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 22, 2009
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D
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44%
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Das Wilde Leben (Eight Miles High!) (2008) |
"
Notwithstanding the occasional unintended guffaw, Obermaier's fabulous life is resoundingly unexciting."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 10, 2008
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1/5
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48%
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Brake (2012) |
"
[Dorff] spends most of the movie confusing tough-guy stoicism with simple inertness, despite the occasional Jack Bauer-style yell."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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1/5
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8%
|
The Reunion (2011) |
"
The Reunion takes its time cutting to the chase. Once the inept action does start, however, it can't end fast enough."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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1/5
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0%
|
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2011) |
"
Scott Rosenbaum's pallid grunge-messiah music pic neither burns out nor fades away -- try sputtering like a cigarette butt in a bottle of warm Bud Light."
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Time Out New York
Posted Aug 3, 2011
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1/5
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11%
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The Ledge (2011) |
"
The dopey setup might fly in a film with more panache, but Chapman seems to think he's making a gritty indie with ideas on its mind."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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1/5
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60%
|
Vincent Wants to Sea! (2011) |
"
If Vincent Wants to Sea proves nothing else, it's that a moronically quirky take on mental illness is no more palatable when it's subtitled."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jun 22, 2011
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1/5
|
0%
|
Polanski (Polanski Unauthorized) (2009) |
"
It's clear from Polanski's cramped frames that [director] Chapa knows as little about filmmaking as he does his subject."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2009
|
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1/5
|
11%
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Lake City (2008) |
"
A convoluted, discombobulated take on a small-town drama, Lake City shifts gears so often it never gets out of the driveway."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 5, 2008
|
|
1/5
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16%
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Max Payne (2008) |
"
Miserable, in every sense of the word."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 17, 2008
|
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1/5
|
14%
|
Black Christmas (2006) |
"
Like an ugly tie or a pair of slipper socks, Black Christmas is destined to be forgotten the instant it's unwrapped, gathering dust until the season rolls around again."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 26, 2006
|
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1/5
|
38%
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Unknown (2006) |
"
The movie's disinterest in character might be forgivable were its plot not riddled with holes."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 9, 2006
|
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1/5
|
20%
|
Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss (2006) |
"
A comprehensive list of what's wrong with Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss would stretch farther than the unabridged works of William S."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 26, 2006
|
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1/5
|
15%
|
Iowa (2005) |
"
Farnsworth's frenetic, often hysterical first feature tries desperately to find a style, or styles, to call its own, but there's never a moment that doesn't feel as if it's been chewed up and spit out a dozen times before."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 13, 2006
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|
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37%
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The Killing of John Lennon (2006) |
"
Gets inside Chapman's head but never under his skin."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 15, 2008
|
|
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83%
|
Blind Chance (Przypadek) (1989) |
"
There's no room in Blind Chance's deterministic universe for character or personal choice, which may be why the film feels less fleshed-out, more schematic than some of Kieslowski's others."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Aug 30, 2006
|
|
|
16%
|
Left Behind - The Movie (2001) |
"
Turns Biblical scripture into boneheaded action-adventure with only the slightest lip service paid to serious issues of faith."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Feb 7, 2001
|
|
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21%
|
The Invisible Circus (2001) |
"
Never finds a rhythm it's comfortable with, nor much to say that's not been said before."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Feb 7, 2001
|
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D+
|
40%
|
96 Minutes (2012) |
"
Like 21 Grams minus the breadth, acting, or visual style, Aimee Lagos' first feature follows two pairs of friends on a collision course."
—
AV Club
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
D+
|
47%
|
Anonymous (2011) |
"
Emmerich can keep track of hurtling cars and crumbling buildings, but distinguishing between one scruffy Elizabethan and another is apparently beyond him."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Nov 1, 2011
|
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D+
|
58%
|
Kaboom (2011) |
"
The fact that the characters spout snappy, profane dialogue while all this is, or isn't, going on around them is more "fun" than fun; Araki's like the too-drunk guy who won't go home when the party's over."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2011
|
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D+
|
58%
|
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) |
"
Respected indie filmmakers with a niche in social-realist drama try their hand at winsome comedy, fall flat on their critically acclaimed faces. "
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Oct 8, 2010
|
|
D+
|
24%
|
Serious Moonlight (2009) |
"
Serious Moonlight is meant to be both funny and painful, but manages only the latter."
—
AV Club
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
21%
|
Next Day Air (2009) |
"
An ungainly hybrid of stoner comedy and gangsta drama."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
18%
|
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) |
"
A long slog with little payoff."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 5, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
3%
|
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) |
"
It would take hallucinations of a powerful kind indeed to find anything worthwhile in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, a dead-on-arrival thriller that resolutely fails to come to life."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 3, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
4%
|
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2006) |
"
Uwe Boll isn't the worst director in the world, but In the Name of the King might be more enjoyable if he were."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 14, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
12%
|
War (Rogue Assassin) (2007) |
"
Building to a climactic twist as arbitrary as it is unsatisfying, WarK ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 27, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
15%
|
Wild Hogs (2007) |
"
The landscape of Wild Hogs is cluttered with the comic equivalent of suburban sprawl, an endless cyclorama of rehashed jokes and whiny complaint."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 1, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
15%
|
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"
Lacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol equivalent of a shaggy-dog story."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 9, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
9%
|
Norbit (2007) |
"
Surely some humanitarian organization will recognize the selflessness with which Murphy has taken three of the movie's major roles, thus saving two other actors from a nasty black mark on their résumés."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 8, 2007
|
|
C-
|
23%
|
The Samaritan (2012) |
"
Jackson seems only interested in cashing his paycheck, even if it's not an especially large one."
—
AV Club
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
C-
|
37%
|
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2012) |
"
At least Smith has proof that he spent ample time with the beautiful people."
—
AV Club
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
C-
|
55%
|
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) |
"
Is it a bad sign when you want a movie to end almost as much as the war it's about?"
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
C-
|
21%
|
Salvation Boulevard (2011) |
"
Unless you've got a thing for watching Oscar winners shriek themselves silly, you'd be better off praying at a another altar."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
C-
|
80%
|
The Last Mountain (2011) |
"
Is there anything more disheartening than a lousy documentary pushing a good cause?"
—
AV Club
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
|
C-
|
57%
|
How to Live Forever (2011) |
"
Wexler breaks the cardinal rule of first-person documentaries: Don't make yourself the subject unless you're worth paying attention to."
—
AV Club
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
C-
|
——
|
In Her Skin (2011) |
"
The first red flag is the opening title card, which reads "This is a true story." The use of "is" rather than "based on" or "inspired by" is a harbinger of the lack of perspective and humility that enables the film's most egregious excesses."
—
AV Club
Posted Feb 10, 2011
|
|
C-
|
69%
|
Babies (2010) |
"
For all the care put into its images, Babies is startling unreflective, a series of elegantly shot drive-bys devoid of insight or empathy. "
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 11, 2010
|
|
C-
|
26%
|
Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) |
"
Perry's films are shapeless, but they're crammed to bursting with melodramatic twists, the kind that make the audience gasp as they chuckle. The movie's like an old sofa, overstuffed and misshapen, but so familiar that it gives comfort all the same."
—
AV Club
Posted Apr 2, 2010
|
|
C-
|
60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
Do you like montages, but grow bored with the tedious plot bits in between? Then Pirate Radio is the movie for you."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
|
C-
|
37%
|
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"
Inconsistency is the curse of the anthology film, but the entries in the omnibus New York, I Love You are united by their near-total lack of interest."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 15, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
The Perfect Family (2012) |
"
Turner seems stifled by the joyless role of a woman whose only purpose is to be taught the error of her sanctimonious ways."
—
Time Out New York
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
To the Arctic (2012) |
"
For all the hardware involved, To the Arctic's ultra-high-def images have an oddly plastic sheen."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
67%
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98%
