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60%
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Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"
Existing in the moment without inquiry or challenge, cinéma vérité fosters exactly the sort of refusal to think beyond the immediate that this film criticizes in right-wing dittoheads."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 21, 2006
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10%
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Elektra (2005) |
"
The sad thing about Elektra is that it reveals that for all the millions of dollars now spent on them, comic-book movies are being made with no more distinction than the cheapest old Saturday-afternoon serials."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 15, 2005
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53%
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Spanglish (2004) |
"
Offensive because it turns liberal self-abasement into self-congratulation."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 18, 2004
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92%
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Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
Solemn, inflated and dull."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 18, 2004
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27%
|
Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (2004) |
"
So clumsy and crass that it makes you doubt the pleasure of the first movie."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 12, 2004
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59%
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Enduring Love (2004) |
"
It's affirmative action for psychos."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 28, 2004
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76%
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Team America - World Police (2004) |
"
The first work from Parker and Stone that I'd describe as a failure of nerve."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 19, 2004
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46%
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Shall We Dance (2004) |
"
There are so many appealing performers in Shall We Dance? that it's a crime the director, Peter Chelsom, and the screenwriter, Audrey Wells, haven't given them more to do."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 19, 2004
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81%
|
Friday Night Lights (2004) |
"
Substitutes slick, cynical point-scoring for insight."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 19, 2004
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96%
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Sideways (2004) |
"
Makes you feel like you're trapped at dinner with a wiseass who's trying to convince you what a sensitive guy he is."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 19, 2004
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92%
|
Vera Drake (2004) |
"
Susan has served the point Leigh is making about how easy it is for affluent women to get safe abortions (no kidding) and is no longer of use or interest to him."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 7, 2004
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15%
|
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"
Makes you wish that Duigan had either worked to make the film believable as serious drama or gone unabashedly for tear-jerking."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 18, 2004
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50%
|
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"
Scene by scene and moment to moment, it's a woeful misreading of the book."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 4, 2004
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19%
|
She Hate Me (2004) |
"
Lee, who always has an agenda, is fundamentally unsuited to satire, which has no sides, no friends, no agenda."
—
Salon.com
Posted Aug 7, 2004
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87%
|
Intimate Strangers (Confidences trop intimes) (2003) |
"
To borrow a phrase from Pauline Kael, Intimate Strangers suggests bits of Alfred Hitchcock and bits of Woody Allen. But the wrong bits."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 30, 2004
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93%
|
Spider-Man 2 (2004) |
"
For a big-budget action movie Spider-Man 2 is modest and not assaultive -- it has a boring decency."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 3, 2004
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52%
|
The Notebook (2004) |
"
The movie not only approaches a level of shamelessness you have to see to disbelieve, it does it in a manner that's both inept and crass."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 3, 2004
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60%
|
The Terminal (2004) |
"
Probably the worst-directed film Spielberg has ever made."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jun 19, 2004
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23%
|
Raising Helen (2004) |
"
This ode to the most stifling aspects of family and motherhood make you feel like the hicks have all uprooted themselves and moved into the front office at Touchstone."
—
Salon.com
Posted May 29, 2004
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61%
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Valentin (2004) |
"
The characters in the Argentinean heart-warmer Valentin spend so much time squabbling and yelling that after a while I began to long for a nice movie about a family of mutes."
—
Salon.com
Posted May 7, 2004
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85%
|
Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) |
"
for all the craft that's gone into Kill Bill, Vol. 2, despite the chance Tarantino has taken in departing from the wham-bam movement of the first half, my final reaction to the movie is, so what?"
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Salon.com
Posted Apr 17, 2004
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55%
|
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"
The American male hypocrisy toward sexually active women in general -- and porn in particular -- is at the center of the new comedy The Girl Next Door. Unfortunately, instead of being the movie's target, it's the subtext."
—
Salon.com
Posted Apr 17, 2004
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70%
|
Dogville (2003) |
"
In every respect other than sheer length -- in scope, imagination, execution, depth and spirit -- Dogville is a piddling movie."
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 27, 2004
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55%
|
The Ladykillers (2004) |
"
Structured like a Mad magazine parody where there's a promised joke in each frame. It doesn't add up to a movie."
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 27, 2004
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22%
|
Taking Lives (2004) |
"
Jolie is far too good for this tripe but she does give the film its only believable moments, and for the first half, her concentration makes you watch her intently."
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 21, 2004
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47%
|
Hidalgo (2004) |
"
It's a manqué of a rousing adventure tale and not the real thing. You're constantly aware of the gulf between how the movie wants to excite you and the halfhearted execution."
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 16, 2004
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23%
|
Dirty Dancing - Havana Nights (2004) |
"
Next to Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, the first picture is like something out of the golden age of Hollywood."
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 1, 2004
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2%
|
Twisted (2004) |
"
Judd is let down by Twisted because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback."
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 1, 2004
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68%
|
Barbershop 2 - Back in Business (2004) |
"
Like going out for a bad meal with a group of people you love being with. You're happy to be in their company; you just wish you didn't leave feeling hungry."
—
Salon.com
Posted Feb 7, 2004
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16%
|
The Big Bounce (2004) |
"
Everything here is too mild, too sloppy."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 31, 2004
|
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33%
|
The Butterfly Effect (2004) |
"
It's one of the most unpleasant Hollywood films in some time."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 24, 2004
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18%
|
Chasing Liberty (2004) |
"
Forgettable fluff but it left me in an unaccountably bad mood, mainly because it's a step back for Mandy Moore."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 17, 2004
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|
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25%
|
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"
A movie where love means diarrhea."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 17, 2004
|
|
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71%
|
Something's Gotta Give (2003) |
"
Something's Gotta Give is exactly the kind of 'adult' dreck that you'd expect to see on Broadway."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 13, 2003
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72%
|
Girl With a Pearl Earring (2004) |
"
Vermeer's famous painting comes semi-alive in this stultifyingly tasteful adaptation of a ludicrous book. Go to the museum instead."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 13, 2003
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24%
|
The Statement (2003) |
"
Michael Caine is brilliant as a French Nazi collaborator hidden by the Catholic Church. Too bad Norman Jewison's film is a stiff, limping bore."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 13, 2003
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20%
|
Honey (2003) |
"
There's an entertainingly ludicrous movie lurking somewhere inside of the ludicrous, mediocre one this actually is."
—
Salon.com
Posted Dec 6, 2003
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|
58%
|
The Missing (2003) |
"
The Missing is holiday entertainment for anyone who likes either a dollop of feminist uplift or family values (or both!) with their bloodletting."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 29, 2003
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11%
|
Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
"
The best argument yet made for extending artists' rights beyond the grave."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 22, 2003
|
|
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56%
|
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) |
"
It's not a disgrace, but it is a missed opportunity."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 15, 2003
|
|
|
39%
|
The Singing Detective (2003) |
"
Fans of the classic Dennis Potter BBC miniseries: Stay far, far away from this pale, Americanized imitation."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 8, 2003
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|
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70%
|
Elephant (2003) |
"
It would be crediting Elephant with too much depth to call it Van Sant's examination of Columbine. It's more like his Columbine art project."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 26, 2003
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73%
|
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"
Fleder's direction confirms the impression left by his previous films, Don't Say a Word and Kiss the Girls among them, that he's a hack."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 22, 2003
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54%
|
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"
You don't need subtlety for a movie like this -- which is fortunate considering that Schumacher is the director -- but you need a kind of craft that Schumacher doesn't possess."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 22, 2003
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64%
|
My Life Without Me (2003) |
"
My Life Without Me is essentially the same old Hollywood eyewash about the noble mother suffering silently for the sake of her children, it's about as phony and manipulative as a movie could be."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 28, 2003
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28%
|
Party Monster (2003) |
"
If I hadn't had a professional obligation to stay until the end, I'd have disappeared faster than the coke that's snorted up Alig's nose."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 6, 2003
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18%
|
The Medallion (2003) |
"
If writers think that they have to give Jackie Chan superpowers and special effects in order for him to do amazing things, they clearly have no idea who they're writing for."
—
Salon.com
Posted Aug 23, 2003
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48%
|
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"
You can't get mad at it -- except for the two hours of your life it steals from you."
—
Salon.com
Posted Aug 9, 2003
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|
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7%
|
Gigli (2003) |
"
A character-driven piece, pitched awkwardly between comedy and drama."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 30, 2003
|
|
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77%
|
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"
Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit is for the ages. Ross' version is designed to last only until the next Oscar season rolls around."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jul 26, 2003
|
67%
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