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1.5/10
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29%
|
Take Me Home Tonight (2011) |
"
Nothing that happens in Take Me Home Tonight is surprising or affecting, and none of it is funny, either."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 3, 2011
|
|
2/10
|
16%
|
Skyline (2010) |
"
Skyline is a piece of junk, even in a movie climate littered with expensive -- though sometimes fun -- junkiness."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 12, 2010
|
|
2.5/10
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68%
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Rubber (2011) |
"
Dupieux's idea, apparently, is that movie audiences are so stupid they'll consume anything, and the more tickets he sells for this arch little piece of junk, the more he'll be proved right. If I were you, I'd refuse to give him that satisfaction."
—
Movieline
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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|
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85%
|
Kisses (2010) |
"
There's nothing so frustrating as a small movie, made by a clearly gifted filmmaker, that flies close to magic only to be sternly jerked back to earth."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 16, 2010
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|
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86%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
If the career of Christopher Nolan is any indication, we've entered an era in which movies can no longer be great. They can only be awesome, which isn't nearly the same thing."
—
Movieline
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
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53%
|
Knight & Day (2010) |
"
Tom Cruise is no longer cool, a truth he just can't face -- if he could, he'd be cooler."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 22, 2010
|
|
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55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
Thompson's novel is elegant in its bluntness and cruelty, as efficient as a closed fist -- you can turn away from it, but you can't escape it. But there's no subtle way to put this: Winterbottom's version goes too far."
—
Movieline
Posted Jun 17, 2010
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|
2.5/10
|
15%
|
Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
Even in the context of that lumpy, overpriced Birkin bag of stuff we call Hollywood product, Sex and the City 2 hits a new low of idiocy and crassness."
—
Movieline
Posted May 27, 2010
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|
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19%
|
The Last Song (2010) |
"
The predictable plot mechanics aren't what make it insufferable. The big problem is Miley Cyrus."
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 31, 2010
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|
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34%
|
The Wolfman (2010) |
"
It doesn't know whether it wants to be dark and moodily glamorous or ridiculous and gory -- it's a creature feature suffering from extreme class consciousness."
—
Salon.com
Posted Feb 11, 2010
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|
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37%
|
From Paris with Love (2010) |
"
From Paris With Indifference is more like it."
—
Salon.com
Posted Feb 5, 2010
|
|
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58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
Gibson's character here is a man crazed with grief. But it looks as if Gibson is just using that as an excuse to act crazy, period."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 29, 2010
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|
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28%
|
Extraordinary Measures (2010) |
"
It's about as dramatically taut as your garden-variety board meeting. And it makes you realize that jerking a tear or two isn't necessarily a bad thing for a filmmaker to do, if it at least keeps your audience awake."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 25, 2010
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|
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46%
|
Creation (2010) |
"
Some questions just can't be answered by science, and the quandary of why Creation is so poundingly dull is one of them."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
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48%
|
The Book of Eli (2010) |
"
The Hughes Brothers may want us to think they're giving us a few deep, quasi-spiritual ideas, but what they're really serving up is earnestly shallow, machete-and-bow-and-arrow entertainment."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 14, 2010
|
|
|
13%
|
The Spy Next Door (2010) |
"
Chan's strong suit now is his skill as a comic actor, and Levant and his writers don't know how to tap it."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 14, 2010
|
|
|
67%
|
Daybreakers (2010) |
"
Hawke gives his all here -- or maybe just half his all -- and it isn't quite enough: He's trying to be soulful, but he really just looks a little tired. The real delight is Willem Dafoe."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 8, 2010
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|
|
21%
|
Leap Year (2010) |
"
If only Leap Year were an anomaly, the kind of picture that comes along only once every four years. Instead, it's yet more evidence that romantic comedies are only getting worse."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 7, 2010
|
|
|
63%
|
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
It meanders and jaywalks according to its own confused rhythms, and the suggestion is that if we don't get it -- or if we get bored -- we're just not clued in to Gilliam's genius."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 23, 2009
|
|
|
83%
|
Avatar (2009) |
"
It's a remote-control movie experience, a high-tech "wish you were here" scribbled on a very expensive postcard."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 18, 2009
|
|
|
32%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
With his garish, pointless and downright inept rendering of Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson has hit a new low in the annals of movie adaptations."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
|
85%
|
A Single Man (2009) |
"
A Single Man, un film de Tom Ford, is all art and no direction -- it's a picture made up of visual choices with almost no filmmaking sandwiched between."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 10, 2009
|
|
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
The picture is brushed with a fine glaze of slickness, a product sealed in a blister pack. It's like airplane air -- it has a packaged freshness that isn't really fresh at all."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 3, 2009
|
|
|
28%
|
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"
New Moon offers few of the juicy, go-for-broke romantic pleasures of its predecessor, and the movie is so badly shaped that it's hard not to blame Weitz as a director."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 19, 2009
|
|
|
60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
Despite Curtis' bumbling, Pirate Radio manages to stay afloat bravely enough -- at least until the climax, which comes off as a confused marriage between Top of the Pops and Titanic."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
|
|
39%
|
2012 (2009) |
"
The effects are expensive-looking and impressive enough while you're watching them, although whatever awe they inspire doesn't last long: When you've seen one Washington Monument fall to bits, you've seen them all."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
|
|
52%
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"
There's no doubt we need more movies for grown-ups, with jokes that don't hit us over the head, but The Men Who Stare at Goats doesn't fit the bill. At best, it might hypnotize you into a stupor."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 5, 2009
|
|
|
45%
|
The Box (2009) |
"
Kelly tries to gather so many ideas under this movie's umbrella: He has strong ideas about the necessity of compassion in everyday life. He wonders what awaits us after death. But he can't flesh out all of these ideas properly, or even haphazardly."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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|
|
38%
|
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"
Cirque du Freak is disjointed and disorganized, and it meanders when it needs to gallop."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 23, 2009
|
|
|
73%
|
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"
Jonze's ideas, visual and otherwise, spill out in a faux-philosophical ramble that isn't nearly as deep as he thinks it is; at best, it's a scrambled tone poem. Even the look of the picture becomes tiresome after a while."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 15, 2009
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|
|
12%
|
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"
Couples Retreat is neither funny nor honest. The exact opposite of a retreat, it's merely exhausting."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 9, 2009
|
|
|
75%
|
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"
This is a love story, all right, but it has less to do with the flaws of capitalism than it does with Moore's unwavering fondness for the sound of his own voice, and for what he perceives as his own vast cleverness."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 23, 2009
|
|
|
43%
|
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"
The movie substitutes calculation for brains, and the filmmakers seem to think we'll all be too stupid to notice."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
|
17%
|
Love Happens (2009) |
"
A limp romantic drama that occasionally lifts its drowsy head to attempt a wan smile, a picture that starts out being harmlessly dull and ends, somehow, in a place that feels insultingly manipulative."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
|
7%
|
Whiteout (2009) |
"
What's missing from Whiteout is the pervasive sense of paranoia that you'd expect, or hope for, from a thriller set on the coldest and most isolated land mass on the planet."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
|
6%
|
All About Steve (2009) |
"
A romantic comedy so lunkheaded and ill-conceived that it makes your average, idiotic Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey outing look like the reincarnation of Hepburn and Grant."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 4, 2009
|
|
|
49%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
It's harmless enough as a snapshot of a young man's awakening to the grand possibilities of adult life, but not particularly effective at capturing the spirit, the thrill or even the mud of this culturally monumental event."
—
Salon.com
Posted Aug 28, 2009
|
|
|
37%
|
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"
There's not much [McAdams] or Bana can do to rescue this dreary piece of romantic hooey."
—
Salon.com
Posted Aug 14, 2009
|
|
|
68%
|
Funny People (2009) |
"
Funny People is an ambitious, misshapen picture that feels like two, maybe even three, separate movies uncomfortably jammed into one."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
|
13%
|
The Ugly Truth (2009) |
"
Until that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
|
14%
|
I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) |
"
I Love You, Beth Cooper moves along, taking two steps backward into crassness for every clever or just plain sweet moment it offers."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
|
68%
|
Public Enemies (2009) |
"
Ultimately an odd blend of frustrating and satisfying."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 1, 2009
|
|
|
19%
|
I Hate Valentine's Day (2009) |
"
I Hate Valentine's Day is a horror show masquerading as a romantic comedy. Maybe Vardalos is just in the wrong line of work."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 30, 2009
|
|
|
51%
|
Chéri (2009) |
"
Chéri is a perfect example of a movie that gets many of the details right and the vibe all wrong."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 26, 2009
|
|
|
20%
|
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
Bay seems to think that just showing us a bunch of brightly clashing metallic limbs (accompanied by lots of noise) is enough to make us faint in our seats with excitement."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 24, 2009
|
|
|
50%
|
Whatever Works (2009) |
"
A belabored trifle that's occasionally amusing but often just bewildering, beginning with the movie's intentionally outlandish setup."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 19, 2009
|
|
|
15%
|
Year One (2009) |
"
It ambles along uncertainly, hobbled by the lack of chemistry between its two lead actors, and by gags that either try too hard or suffer from being barely there."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 19, 2009
|
|
|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009) |
"
The main sin of Away We Go is simple dullness."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
|
27%
|
Land of the Lost (2009) |
"
Land of the Lost is harmless enough. It just isn't, with the exception of a few odd air pockets, particularly funny."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 5, 2009
|
|
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
Its charms appear to have been applied with surgical precision; by the end, I felt expertly sutured, but not much else."
—
Salon.com
Posted May 29, 2009
|
67%
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98%
