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Ann Hornaday

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: Baltimore Sun , Journal News (Westchester, NY) , Washington Post

Total Reviews:: 1023

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
0/4	74%	Splice (2010)	" A thoroughly repulsive science fiction-horror flick that slicks up its B-movie tawdriness with high-gloss production values and two otherwise classy stars." — Washington Post Posted Jun 4, 2010
0/5	6%	The New Guy (2002)	" A particularly loathsome piece of cultural detritus." — Washington Post Posted May 10, 2002
1/5	34%	World Traveler (2002)	" Anemic, pretentious." — Washington Post Posted May 10, 2002
1/4	60%	The Dictator (2012)	" Never achieves the stinging parodic heights of Cohen's Borat movie, but manages a better batting average than his most recent misfire, Bruno." — Washington Post Posted May 14, 2012
1/4	52%	John Carter (2012)	" Gets off to such an incoherent start that it takes almost the entire, interminable two-hour-plus running time to catch up." — Washington Post Posted Mar 9, 2012
1/4	47%	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)	" Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel." — Washington Post Posted Jan 20, 2012
1/4	7%	New Year's Eve (2011)	" Sags when it should shimmer, labors clunkily when it should glide and - most unforgivably - plops some otherwise attractive and even talented actors into roles that are completely outside their physical and psychic comfort zone." — Washington Post Posted Dec 9, 2011
1/4	91%	Into The Abyss (2011)	" What could have been a well-aimed examination of the most troubling contradictions of capital punishment instead becomes a maudlin, unrestrained wallow." — Washington Post Posted Nov 11, 2011
1/4	44%	30 Minutes or Less (2011)	" Beholding Eisenberg in Fleischer's relentlessly vulgar and un-funny "30 Minutes or Less" is akin to watching a ring-tested champion punch far below his weight. What a comedown." — Washington Post Posted Aug 12, 2011
1/4	35%	The Hangover Part II (2011)	" A veritable textbook case of what not to do when re-making a comedy that depended on sheer surprise for most of its appeal." — Washington Post Posted May 25, 2011
1/4	11%	Red Riding Hood (2011)	" A lurid, loopy, utterly ludicrous enterprise that seeks to twist the ultimate fable of feminine fear and victimhood into an allegory for finding your inner bad girl." — Washington Post Posted Mar 11, 2011
1/4	34%	Hall Pass (2011)	" Haphazardly conceived, phlegmatically paced, lazily filmed and punctuated with gratuitous moments of sexual and scatological slapstick.." — Washington Post Posted Feb 25, 2011
1/4	59%	Centurion (2010)	" Centurion wraps itself in talk of duty and honor, but really it's just another cinematic death-trip." — Washington Post Posted Sep 3, 2010
1/4	55%	The Killer Inside Me (2010)	" As for the misogynist brutality, it is indeed depraved, made more so by the fact that its female victims are depicted as loving their abuse right up until it turns murderous." — Washington Post Posted Jul 6, 2010
1/4	10%	Grown Ups (2010)	" From each obvious setup to its hoary payoff, Grown Ups hews faithfully to its formula..." — Washington Post Posted Jun 25, 2010
1/4	15%	Sex and the City 2 (2010)	" An enervated, crass and gruesomely caricatured trip to nowhere [that] seems conceived primarily to find new and more cynical ways to abuse the loyalty of its audience." — Washington Post Posted May 28, 2010
1/4	32%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" Tone is the first thing sacrificed in this shapeless, overlong, mawkishly muddled pop-up illustration of a movie." — Washington Post Posted Jan 15, 2010
1/4	37%	Nine (2009)	" It's a film within a film about a film within a film, and seems to lose layers of authenticity with each iteration, finally becoming a profoundly alienating experience." — Washington Post Posted Dec 25, 2009
	6%	All About Steve (2009)	" If Bullock in her comfort zone is a thing of real, if modest pleasure, watching as she contorts herself into a role that's all wrong for her is singularly excruciating." — Washington Post Posted Sep 3, 2009
	88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" For all its visual bravura and occasional bursts of antic inspiration, it feels trivial, the work of a kid who can't stop grabbing his favorite shiny plaything." — Washington Post Posted Aug 21, 2009
	26%	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)	" The audience will no doubt laugh on cue as The Goods hits its marks with dutiful predictability, but they shouldn't be surprised if they come to feel like they've been had." — Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2009
	58%	Paper Heart (2009)	" Unlike the sublime (500) Days of Summer, which also had to do with young romance, ambivalence and rethinking the notion of happy endings, Paper Heart never transcends its twee, hyper-self-aware niche." — Washington Post Posted Aug 7, 2009
	56%	Orphan (2009)	" Surely writers David Leslie Johnson and Alex Mace deserve their own circle of hell for thinking up the story, which moves with breathtaking cynicism from disturbing to grotesque to perverse to ludicrous." — Washington Post Posted Jul 23, 2009
	50%	Whatever Works (2009)	" This toxic, contemptuous, unforgivably unfunny bagatelle finds Allen at his most misanthropically one-note." — Washington Post Posted Jul 2, 2009
	43%	The Proposal (2009)	" Just looking at the poster for The Proposal, a by-the-numbers romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, tells you exactly how it's all gonna go down." — Washington Post Posted Jun 18, 2009
	72%	Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)	" The super-duper-3-D-big-screen-Imax-deluxe extravaganza that is Monsters vs. Aliens has bells and whistles, superb technical sophistication and dazzling visual effects, sound, fury and Reese Witherspoon. What it doesn't have is heart." — Washington Post Posted Mar 26, 2009
	35%	The Edge of Love (2008)	" For all its vivid evocation of its characters' tomorrow-we-die bonhomie, the film finally never quite convinces viewers of its central subject: the sisterly, almost sapphic bond between Vera and Caitlin." — Washington Post Posted Mar 20, 2009
	16%	Crossing Over (2009)	" Maybe if he [director Wayne Kramer] had kept Crossing Over simpler, he would have made a less simplistic movie." — Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2009
	42%	He's Just Not That Into You (2009)	" The story about five women navigating male treachery is so busy getting all its talking points in that it leaves no room for recognizable life." — Washington Post Posted Feb 6, 2009
	11%	Bride Wars (2009)	" Predictable, lazy and as overprocessed as Kate Hudson's hair, this thoroughly joyless movie also possesses a deep nasty streak, making it loathsome when it might have been merely annoying." — Washington Post Posted Jan 8, 2009
	72%	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	" Benjamin Button is little more than Gump by way of Dorian Gray. It plays too safe when it should be letting its freak flag fly." — Washington Post Posted Dec 29, 2008
	65%	Quantum of Solace (2008)	" The Quantum of Solace filmmakers have produced a super-serious, often visually incoherent travelogue of revenge and trumped-up angst." — Washington Post Posted Nov 14, 2008
	65%	La Sconosciuta (The Unknown) (The Other Woman) (2008)	" The Unknown Woman falters when it falls into exploitation and fatal contrivance." — Washington Post Posted Oct 23, 2008
	35%	Pride and Glory (2008)	" Pride and Glory would be risible if it weren't so reprehensible." — Washington Post Posted Oct 23, 2008
	59%	W. (2008)	" W. is a scattershot attempt at stylized portraiture that plays like a half-baked editorial cartoon." — Washington Post Posted Oct 17, 2008
	34%	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	" Overwrought, overproduced, overbusy and overlong, Miracle at St. Anna finally suffers from the worst filmmaking sin of all: the failure of trust, in the story and the audience." — Washington Post Posted Sep 26, 2008
	54%	Mamma Mia! (2008)	" Mamma Mia! presents itself as a piece of clever counter-programming to this summer's surfeit of pounding, effects-driven comic-book movies. But filmgoers eager to sample its sunny, synth-pop pleasures are likely to feel just as bludgeoned." — Washington Post Posted Jul 17, 2008
	49%	La Terza Madre (Mother of Tears: The Third Mother) (2007)	" Italian director Dario Argento is revered by hard-core horror fans for his gothic, over-the-top thrillers, but even the patience of his most devoted followers will be sorely tested by Mother of Tears: The Third Mother." — Washington Post Posted Jun 5, 2008
	73%	Stuck (2008)	" The question is why the time, talent and treasure of such energetic and even gifted artists have been marshaled in such a disgusting and trivial genre exercise and what viewers are supposed to get out of it. Isn't life hard enough?" — Washington Post Posted Jun 5, 2008
	33%	The Babysitters (2008)	" It's bad enough that writer-director David Ross indulges in the very perverse kind of Lolita-tinged titillation the film pretends to lament, but then he ties everything up with an oh-well shrug." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008
	38%	Speed Racer (2008)	" A frenetic, densely layered, narratively scrambled blob of moviemaking that will leave viewers alternately baffled and sensorially stunned." — Washington Post Posted May 8, 2008
	94%	Iron Man (2008)	" Toggling between Stark's impish goatee and Iron Man's full-metal body condom, and amid so many generic fireballs, kill shots and earsplitting thumps, bumps and crunches, the film finally collapses under its own weight." — Washington Post Posted May 1, 2008
	50%	Smart People (2008)	" It's impossible to tell whether the film's ending is happy because it's happy or because it's ending." — Washington Post Posted Apr 10, 2008
	45%	American Military Intelligence and You! (2008)	" Although [director] Kutzera does a great job of cinematic excavation and editing, Military Intelligence and You! never manages to overcome its tone of glib condescension and soar to Strangelovian heights." — Washington Post Posted Mar 20, 2008
	26%	Drillbit Taylor (2008)	" Here, Apatow produces a script co-written by Seth Rogen that, although not particularly objectionable, seems a pale shadow of such hugely popular watersheds as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Superbad." — Washington Post Posted Mar 20, 2008
	17%	Sleepwalking (2008)	" An inert, sloppily written melodrama as grim and featureless as its frozen Midwestern setting." — Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2008
	8%	10,000 B.C. (2008)	" One part Joseph Campbell hero quest, one part multi-culti morality tale, one part live-action Flintstones cartoon, 10,000 B.C. is finally every part just plain nuts." — Washington Post Posted Mar 7, 2008
	67%	Honeydripper (2007)	" Trudging nobly under a mantle of impeccably earnest intentions and a fussy, too-quaint-by-half production design, Honeydripper lags and drags to its utterly predictable end. There's not a spark of spontaneity or soul about it." — Washington Post Posted Feb 21, 2008
	16%	Jumper (2008)	" It's that rare genre picture targeted to teens and young adults that suffers from underkill." — Washington Post Posted Feb 14, 2008
	80%	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	" For the uninitiated? Man, it's a bummer." — Washington Post Posted Feb 14, 2008

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