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F
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13%
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) |
"
We go home wondering exactly what lessons movies like these are supposed to be teaching our children. "
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Feb 25, 2004
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69%
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
It'd be a half-hour long if she'd just pick up the damn phone and answer a question or two."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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6%
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The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
I can't even tell you what this movie is about. How many more chances are we going to give this guy?"
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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49%
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) |
"
Continues the mopey saga of sparkly vampires, shirtless werewolves and a heroine so cloyingly vapid she makes Carrie Bradshaw seem generous and self-aware. "
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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55%
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The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
If you dig the mushy, muffled sound of a man's fist slamming into a woman's mottled face while her jawbone quietly shatters, this is the movie for you."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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37%
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The City of Your Final Destination (2010) |
"
The film is an endearing dinosaur, more suited for a museum than a multiplex..."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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45%
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Air Doll (Kûki ningyô) (2009) |
"
Here's where I'm contractually obligated to refer to her performance as 'brave,' as that's trusty film-critic shorthand for 'naked a lot.'"
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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74%
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Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) (2010) |
"
For anybody worried Amelie wasn't overstylized and cutesy-poo enough, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet finally disappears completely up his own twee-hole... "
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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73%
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Get Him to the Greek (2010) |
"
Let's face it, a little of this guy goes a long way."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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15%
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Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
Shoes, money, outfits, shoes, vagina, money, shoes, jewelry, outfits, money, shoes."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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29%
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Survival of the Dead (2010) |
"
Feels like one of those goofy old Star Trek episodes in which Kirk and Spock go back in time to make some sort of baldly allegorical point."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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58%
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Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) |
"
I've sat through four Shrek movies. Christ, the things I do for you people."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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79%
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Mother and Child (2010) |
"
You'll wonder if the message of the movie is that the process of adoption turns women into vicious hags. But that can't be right, can it?"
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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74%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010) |
"
You won't find a more overqualified cast this year. Then out come the CGI effects and everything becomes a yawn."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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69%
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Babies (2010) |
"
This isn't a movie. It's a screensaver."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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85%
|
The Square (2010) |
"
The Edgertons are in complete command of their craft, without bringing anything new to the party."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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52%
|
The Greatest (2010) |
"
The title is incorrect."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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41%
|
44 Inch Chest (2010) |
"
A smashingly acted but dramatically thin expose of men behaving badly that isn't nearly as revelatory as it seems to think it is."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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20%
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Legion (2010) |
"
Oh, what a wacky bunch of stereotypes in this diner! There's a rich guy, a black person and even Dennis Quaid!"
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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48%
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The Book of Eli (2010) |
"
It is nice to know that even after the apocalypse, people will still be listening to Al Green."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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32%
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The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
Peter Jackson is an infant sitting at the grown-ups table, and this proves once and for all he has no business making movies for adults."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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91%
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Crazy Heart (2009) |
"
Bridges raises the bar (har-har) for being shafaced onscreen, stumbling and vomiting his way to the stage in podunk clubs...""
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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68%
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Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
Michael Cera's act got old awful fast, didn't it?"
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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63%
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
Terry Gilliam can't catch a break."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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37%
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Nine (2009) |
"
Fellini is lucky that he didn't live long enough to see this."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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83%
|
Avatar (2009) |
"
The movie looks like the kind of gaudy, 1970s airbrush painting you'd see on a van owned by your stoner friend who goes to too many Rush concerts."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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85%
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Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"
The only problem is the me."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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75%
|
The Road (2009) |
"
It's just a slow wander through wreckage, waiting for bad stuff to get worse."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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66%
|
The Blind Side (2009) |
"
It pushed my outrage buttons like no movie since those Ghetto-bots in Transformers 2 admitted they didn't know how to read."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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39%
|
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) |
"
Everywhere this poor lady tries to go, there's always a guy or two loudly performing a David Foster Wallace monologue within earshot."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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45%
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The Box (2009) |
"
Kelly stretches a perfectly good 22-minute television episode out to two hours with an insane barrage of red herrings and metaphysical sci-fi mumbo-jumbo"
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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52%
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"
Strained and uncomfortably buffonish. Everybody (except Clooney) is mugging when they should've just tried acting. Real satire draws blood. This one nudges you in the ribs."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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81%
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Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
"
It's a goddamn American tragedy. Let the poor sick bastard rest in peace."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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48%
|
Antichrist (2009) |
"
Provocative, sloppy and intellectually retarded -- the entire picture feels like it's sprung forth from Von Trier's Id without a second thought as to the consequences."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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21%
|
Amelia (2009) |
"
Eventually I just wanted her to crash the damn plane so I could go home already."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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94%
|
An Education (2009) |
"
Tenderly looks back upon statutory rape as a rite of passage, and it's a testament to fine performances that the film only feels icky in retrospect."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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72%
|
The Boys Are Back (2009) |
"
Even a corrosive influence like yours truly finds something a bit hinky about the motto 'Just Say Yes.' At least when applied to raising children."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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57%
|
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"
All the dazzling, limitless comedic potential here, and we're stuck waiting for the hot younger girl to wise up and learn to love the homely guy who wrote the movie?"
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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75%
|
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"
Of course Moore's angry. I don't know anybody who isn't. But what about the movie?"
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Sep 29, 2009
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68%
|
Paris (2008) |
"
Were it possible for The City of Light to see Nashville or Manhattan, it would probably want to sue for defamation."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Sep 29, 2009
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87%
|
Amreeka (2009) |
"
As much as I enjoyed spending time with these characters, it's hard not to bristle at the overall After-School Special vibe."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Sep 29, 2009
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21%
|
H2: Halloween II (2009) |
"
Zombie's rowdy redneck phantasmagorias and weird swoons of empathy can't disguise that there's nowhere left for the story to go."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Sep 3, 2009
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74%
|
Cold Souls (2009) |
"
A dreary-looking, glacially paced collection of missed opportunities."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Aug 25, 2009
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88%
|
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"
As is often the case with Tarantino's post-1990's output, great scenes are adrift in an undisciplined sea of ugly-spirited, juvenile self-indulgence."
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Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Aug 18, 2009
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34%
|
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"
A slightly more pleasurable experience than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. But then again, so is a prolapsed colon."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Aug 11, 2009
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85%
|
Soul Power (2009) |
"
A footnote to a masterpiece."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 28, 2009
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87%
|
(500) Days of Summer (2009) |
"
The movie keeps leaning toward some awful truths, only to sheepishly retreat into the safe comedy of fakey shopworn devices."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2009
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30%
|
The Answer Man (Arlen Faber) (2009) |
"
For all intents and purposes an uncredited remake of As Good As It Gets, which was kind of a crap flick to begin with..."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2009
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84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
All setup and no payoff, it serves mainly as logistical scaffolding to reposition the characters and strum up some backstory, stalling for time before the final chapter."
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2009
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67%
|
Brüno (Bruno) (2009) |
"
I don't think Cohen's targets are even being particularly homophobic, they'd just prefer if this crazed, half-naked circus freak would just put his penis away and stop invading their personal space"
—
Philadelphia Weekly
Posted Jul 25, 2009
|
67%
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