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67%
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We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
Crowe is back to what he's good at: small stories populated by everyday people."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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95%
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Moneyball (2011) |
"
It really happened, it's really corny, and it's really great."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 20, 2011
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71%
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Paul (2011) |
"
That's not to dismiss Paul's simple pleasures -- if nothing else, its fondness for sex and drugs and four-letter words rescues its references from the soft hands of wee ones into which they've fallen of late."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 15, 2011
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73%
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Megamind (2010) |
"
I found my son's Kryptonite: boring superhero rip-offs voiced by check-cashing actors. At least Steve Carell used an accent."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 2, 2010
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71%
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Red (2010) |
"
Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 12, 2010
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81%
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) |
"
Wright immerses his heroes in pop culture's detritus and diversions, but doesn't drown them in it. You don't have to be dazzled or tickled by the movie, or get every joke, to be touched by it, too."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 10, 2010
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40%
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Middle Men (2010) |
"
Even without much character development, the compelling story holds, mostly due to Wilson."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 3, 2010
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81%
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Despicable Me (2010) |
"
The result is pleasant and diverting, if ultimately forgettable, and it's one of the rare instances in the recent history of 3-D's resurrection as The Savior of Cinema in which the technology doesn't dim the screen or distract the focus."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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6%
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The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
This is one muddled attempt at franchise-making: confusing, drab, sluggish. (Ugly, too, if you're forced to see it in 3-D.)"
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 1, 2010
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73%
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Get Him to the Greek (2010) |
"
It's crude, loud, dumb fun. And, on top of that, it contains the greatest cameo ever by a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 1, 2010
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8%
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Furry Vengeance (2010) |
"
The animals here don't talk; that's the movie's one saving grace."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 27, 2010
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61%
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The Joneses (2010) |
"
For a while, at least, a pitch-black (and, therefore, pitch-perfect) tale of our times."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 14, 2010
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58%
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She's Out of My League (2010) |
"
[T.J.] Miller's the find. He's out of this movie's league."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 11, 2010
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42%
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010) |
"
Filled with every cop-movie convention since the invention of gunpowder and curse words, Brooklyn's Finest is three movies in one, all of which you've seen before."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 2, 2010
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68%
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Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
Nash and director Miguel Arteta try too hard; they want their movie branded a cult favorite before anyone's even seen it."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 5, 2010
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12%
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
"
It's a thoroughly delightful throwaway -- the kind of movie for which cable TV was made."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 17, 2009
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46%
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Everybody's Fine (2009) |
"
It's all so much raging bull."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2009
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39%
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2012 (2009) |
"
The two-hour-and-40-minute 2012 is overstuffed with special-effects, but the Curtis clan's mad dash out of town is the closest the movie gets to actually being fun."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 10, 2009
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60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
The sex is polite, and there's not a whiff of dope."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 10, 2009
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25%
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
Saw with a conscience is not what the world needs."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 14, 2009
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84%
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Whip It (2009) |
"
Highlights: Andrew Wilson as the roller girls' coach (ah, so there's the Wilson brother who can act) and the roller-derby vets (played especially well by Juliette Lewis and Kristen Wiig)."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 29, 2009
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78%
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The Informant! (2009) |
"
The filmmakers have painted a 1990s story with a 1970s palette, and the tone clashes with the setting, like plaid on paisley."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 15, 2009
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80%
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It Might Get Loud (2009) |
"
Marketed as a guitar summit between The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim's affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc is more electric triptych than meeting of the minds."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 11, 2009
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58%
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Paper Heart (2009) |
"
Cera begins ingratiating himself into Yi's quest, but that part of the story is doomed from jump: It's entertaining for a moment, but hardly as enlightening or endearing as the from-the-heart moments surrounding it."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 4, 2009
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75%
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Julie & Julia (2009) |
"
If Ephron is to be criticized for treating Powell like a soggy sitcom creation, she (along with Streep) should be celebrated for rendering Child flesh and blood -- all passion and pleasure, even during moments of self-doubt."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 4, 2009
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94%
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In the Loop (2009) |
"
This deliriously foul-mouthed political satire is set sometime between 2002 and the day after tomorrow; hard to say, given that the country with which U.S. and U.K. pols want to go to war is unnamed save for its location in, you know, the Middle East."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 23, 2009
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87%
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(500) Days of Summer (2009) |
"
What is unexpected is the sincerity beneath the modest conceit that, yup, love hurts."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 15, 2009
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20%
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as entertainment -- and be grateful."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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43%
|
The Proposal (2009) |
"
You know every tinny beat and false note by heart, from the implausible setup to the sprint-to-the-airport finish."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 16, 2009
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98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
Rest assured, it gets funny. And it's thrilling, too, as the third act takes place almost entirely in the sky."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 27, 2009
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66%
|
The Brothers Bloom (2009) |
"
Johnson has infused The Brothers Bloom with so much heart and beauty that one can and should easily overlook its discomfiting moments."
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Village Voice
Posted May 13, 2009
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95%
|
Star Trek (2009) |
"
It's enough to move even a Star Wars fan to tears."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 5, 2009
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37%
|
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) |
"
Most of the action is a mere replay of a single sequence: Wolverine and Sabretooth galloping toward one another, two immortal bros locked in eternal combat. Certainly feels like it."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2009
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72%
|
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) |
"
The grandeur of the effects -- the honest-to-God spectacle of the thing -- elevates Monsters vs. Aliens to something approaching art. It's not a masterpiece, but it's most certainly a milestone."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 24, 2009
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83%
|
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"
Just as we thought the "bromantic comedy" had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its highest point with I Love You, Man."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 17, 2009
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72%
|
Sunshine Cleaning (2009) |
"
Yet another willful, comically tortured "indie" coated with Hollywood's happy-ending sheen."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 10, 2009
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59%
|
Phoebe in Wonderland (2009) |
"
The performances are transcendent -- especially Fanning's, as the little girl who wants to get better, who wants to be better, as she slowly disappears through the Looking Glass."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 3, 2009
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33%
|
Sherman's Way (2009) |
"
Director Craig Saavedra and writer Tom Nance's collaboration plays like something out of an indie-film paint-by-numbers."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 3, 2009
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31%
|
Fanboys (2008) |
"
You're better off watching The Star Wars Holiday Special on YouTube. At least Bea Arthur sings."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 3, 2009
|
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50%
|
Notorious (2009) |
"
Just buy the records; that's the point of this infomercial anyhow."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 14, 2009
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11%
|
Bride Wars (2009) |
"
[A] shiny sitcom pilot that looks like something yanked from NBC's shelves circa 1989."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Jan 8, 2009
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14%
|
The Spirit (2008) |
"
Miller, comics-writing icon turned director, has rendered comics-industry revolutionary Will Eisner's crime fighter Denny Colt a grim shade of dull -- all talk, no action"
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 23, 2008
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61%
|
Valkyrie (2008) |
"
Valkyrie feels like another installment in the never-ending franchise -- not just the action-movie one, but the Tom Cruise one. Like the operation itself, it's a good idea -- just not well-executed."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 23, 2008
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45%
|
Yes Man (2008) |
"
Nothing more than warmed-over holiday seconds, a repackaged best-of for those who already own the hits."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 16, 2008
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68%
|
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"
There doesn't seem to be a single fact contained within writer-director Darnell Martin's ham-fisted fiction, which renders pre-rock musical history as yet another downer soap opera."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 2, 2008
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25%
|
Four Christmases (2008) |
"
To brand, then dismiss, Four Christmases as a disappointment would be giving it too much credit -- never, for a second, did this New Line Cinema cast-off scream or even whisper decent in the run-up to its opening."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 26, 2008
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65%
|
Quantum of Solace (2008) |
"
If nothing else, there's no need to worry about where Quantum of Solace fits in the Bond pantheon -- it's easily one of the worst."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 12, 2008
|
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64%
|
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"
Funniest movie of '08? Close enough, for those who don't mind monkeying around."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 5, 2008
|
|
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77%
|
Role Models (2008) |
"
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints him."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 5, 2008
|
67%
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