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50%
|
Suck (2010) |
"
An indie-rock-scene satire (plus vampires) whose songlist vastly outweighs its laugh (let alone scare) quotient."
—
Variety
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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|
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15%
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) |
"
While the 1984 film has aged, its now-familiar jolts still pack more punch than this pic's recycled ones, which sometimes register so tepidly as to cause snickers."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 29, 2010
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|
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22%
|
The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2010) |
"
Pacing remains flat, exacerbated by bad dialogue, some subpar f/x and variable perfs."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 9, 2010
|
|
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52%
|
Uzumaki (2002) |
"
Pic duly places less emphasis on narrative than on the sort of surreal set pieces that might have worked better in the graphic-novel form."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 11, 2010
|
|
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21%
|
Leap Year (2010) |
"
This is the kind of movie in which an uppity, upper-crust woman requires rough-hewn working-class masculinity to take her down a peg or three."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 7, 2010
|
|
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67%
|
Daybreakers (2010) |
"
The script doesn't wring many surprises or much character involvement from the premise, and the brothers' helming, while slick, is short on scares, action setpieces and humor."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 5, 2010
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|
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89%
|
Moon (2009) |
"
Moon actually gets a little dull in the later reels, just when it should be peaking in mystery and tension."
—
Variety
Posted Dec 16, 2009
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——
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Larger Than Life in 3D: Dave Matthews Band () |
"
This pedestrian concert docu -- toplining one of the music industry's least theatrically inclined, most prosaically life-sized success stories -- has no need for 3D, or vice versa."
—
Variety
Posted Dec 15, 2009
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0%
|
Transylmania (2009) |
"
Energetic but uninspired mix of teen comedy and supernatural silliness."
—
Variety
Posted Dec 7, 2009
|
|
|
5%
|
Old Dogs (2009) |
"
Too bad this shrilly tuned comedy doesn't demand more than clock-punching effort from everyone involved."
—
Variety
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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——
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Reach for Me (2008) |
"
Places a solid cast of smallscreen names in service of well-intentioned but formulaically second-rate material. Next stop, cable."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 21, 2009
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|
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17%
|
Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009) |
"
Somewhat departs from the series' gay spin on the raunchy teen sex comedy in favor of semi-sincere romantic comedy -- after a crass and abysmal first stretch, that is."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 14, 2009
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|
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83%
|
Solomon Kane (2009) |
"
This muscular yet monotonous Kane just isn't much fun."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 12, 2009
|
|
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12%
|
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"
Those involved got to spend weeks at a Bora Bora luxury resort; all we get is this not lousy but unmemorable tropical-vacation comedy."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 7, 2009
|
|
|
63%
|
Leaves of Grass (2010) |
"
One Edward Norton performance is often enough reason to see a movie, so it comes as no surprise that the prospect of two -- he plays twins -- is very much the main attraction, and reward, of Leaves of Grass."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 18, 2009
|
|
|
7%
|
All The Queen's Men (2001) |
"
Not bad enough to qualify as a memorable dud, multinational production nonetheless misses mark on every level."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2009
|
|
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27%
|
Play The Game (2009) |
"
The comedy's broad perfs, predictable story beats and pro but characterless packaging have a smallscreen feel."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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——
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Ferlinghetti: A City Light (2008) |
"
The pic's uninspired craftsmanship appreciates without quite capturing his anarchistic humanist spirit."
—
Variety
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
|
57%
|
Mission Impossible 2 (2000) |
"
Woo lays on his own particular high-octane stylishness so thick the results edge perilously toward self-parody."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 27, 2009
|
|
|
2%
|
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
"
Pretty much the Showgirls of sci-fi shoot-'em-ups."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 26, 2009
|
|
|
63%
|
Clay Pigeons (1998) |
"
Slanted as a black comedy, but fails to secure the sufficiently outre tone (let alone any real suspense) needed to make it more than a middling retread."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 26, 2009
|
|
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42%
|
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"
Unnecessary on every level save the paramount commercial one."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 11, 2009
|
|
|
31%
|
The Uninvited (2009) |
"
Weak even by the standard of uninspired recent Asian-horror remakes."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 29, 2009
|
|
|
5%
|
Swept Away (2002) |
"
The Vera Hruba Ralston of her time, Madonna has persisted in making movies despite all evidence that this is one medium in which no one wants to see or hear her."
—
Variety
Posted Nov 4, 2008
|
|
|
67%
|
How About You (2008) |
"
Comedic and sentimental beats are as predictable as the storytelling is sloppy."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 21, 2008
|
|
|
84%
|
Kabluey (2007) |
"
Short on substance, despite a watchable supporting cast and an amiable overall tenor."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
|
79%
|
How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2008) |
"
While there are rewards to sticking with this tempest-in-teapot saga of sexual awakening across three family generations of Mexican-American women, its pacing is leisurely to the brink of stasis."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
|
63%
|
Wherever You Are (Lifelines) (2008) |
"
Stumbles in a familiar way: It crams in so many family dysfunctions and plot crises in search of cathartic impact that credibility is stretched to the breaking point."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 16, 2008
|
|
|
54%
|
Choke (2008) |
"
Choke doesn't suffer so much from downscaled production values as from direction and packaging that just don't match Palahniuk's imaginative brio in cinematic terms."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 25, 2008
|
|
|
56%
|
Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert (2008) |
"
While the concept is stimulating, there's actually too little political comedy here, as most yucks center on traditional men-vs.-women, my-funny-family material of middling inspiration."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 24, 2008
|
|
|
0%
|
Surfer, Dude (2008) |
"
[A] hapless, laughless movie."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 15, 2008
|
|
|
57%
|
One Week (2009) |
"
Kinda aimless, pleasant and bland."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 15, 2008
|
|
|
85%
|
Dean Spanley (My Talks with Dean Spanley) (2008) |
"
It's a talky, narrowly focused piece that feels like an after-dinner anecdote presented with the full ceremony of a formal meal."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 10, 2008
|
|
|
34%
|
Good (2008) |
"
The often impressive Mortensen can't make Halder much more than a stereotypical academic milquetoast. Other perfs come off just adequate, though not for lack of effort."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 8, 2008
|
|
|
22%
|
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! (2008) |
"
This strenuously unfunny follow-up to the uneven but often uproarious Another Gay Movie duly maintains the original's levels of raunch and gross-out gags, but it all feels perfunctory, with comic inspiration distinctly lacking."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 12, 2008
|
|
|
63%
|
Koroshiya 1 (Ichi the Killer) (2001) |
"
Even hardy gonzo-cinema auds will likely find the hectic pace overstimulating to the point of numbed-out tedium."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 8, 2008
|
|
|
10%
|
Hell Ride (2008) |
"
Thesps (even toplining helmer, who's a strapping 60 years old) have nothing to work with, though one hopes they had fun riding about the desert."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 6, 2008
|
|
|
17%
|
Six Sex Scenes and a Murder (2008) |
"
While fulfilling titular obligations, Six Sex Scenes and a Murder provides tepid titillation as various suspects produce carnal alibis around the slaying of a handsome ne'er-do-well."
—
Variety
Posted Jul 31, 2008
|
|
|
13%
|
Holding Trevor (2007) |
"
Trying to plumb beneath the usual emotional shallows of twentysomething L.A. gay life, Holding Trevor sometimes succeeds, but mostly comes off as a vanity project for writer-star Brent Gorski."
—
Variety
Posted Jul 8, 2008
|
|
|
36%
|
Scary Movie 3 (2003) |
"
Just middling funny, with no truly memorable high points and a sum impact that goes poof! before you've left the parking garage."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 23, 2008
|
|
|
5%
|
New Best Friend (2002) |
"
A campus drama-cum-whodunit that's obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 23, 2008
|
|
|
21%
|
The Doorman (2008) |
"
It's not enough to have an English-language-mangling actor bumble improvisationally among real people: You need structure, and situations crafted enough to escalate mild amusement toward hilarity."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 3, 2008
|
|
|
20%
|
Dalai Lama Renaissance (2007) |
"
The celebratory tenor heralded by the title of Khashyar Darvich's "Dalai Lama Renaissance" belies what's onscreen."
—
Variety
Posted May 23, 2008
|
|
|
92%
|
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) |
"
Those expecting a rockin' good time are likely to be left cold by this screen translation, which despite some imaginative packaging too often proves a drag in more than the sartorial sense."
—
Variety
Posted May 20, 2008
|
|
|
11%
|
A Night at the Roxbury (1998) |
"
An amiable, if flyweight, diversion."
—
Variety
Posted May 18, 2008
|
|
|
61%
|
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) |
"
At times the pic doesn't even seem certain which decade it's set in; the squeaky-clean high school environs often feel more '80s than '90s."
—
Variety
Posted May 16, 2008
|
|
|
38%
|
Zombie Strippers (2008) |
"
A one-joke pic that duly delivers on its titular promise to rapidly depleting returns."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 22, 2008
|
|
|
64%
|
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) |
"
While top-billed duo do indeed occupy plenty of screen time, this is basically the latest version of that post-Star Wars fantasy concept in which only a middle-class white teenage boy can save the universe from, y'know, Evil."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 10, 2008
|
|
|
48%
|
The Ruins (2008) |
"
Squabbling among the skin-deep characters doesn't induce much sympathy, though thesps do their best."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 4, 2008
|
|
|
16%
|
Superhero Movie (2008) |
"
70 minutes of good if unmemorable fun sure beats 80 or 90 minutes of excruciating parodies for dummies, a la Date Movie and Epic Movie."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 29, 2008
|
67%
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98%
