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MARK PALERMO
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Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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Total Reviews: 746
Total QuickRatings: 535

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Fresh  The Great Debaters
Fresh  Redacted
Fresh  Inland Empire
Fresh  Hairspray
Fresh  The Bourne Ultimatum
Fresh  Superbad
Fresh  Hot Rod
Fresh  Captivity
Fresh  Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard
Fresh  Transformers
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Rotten  Definitely, Maybe
Rotten  Jumper
Rotten  Charlie Bartlett
Rotten  Cloverfield
Rotten  Mad Money
Rotten  I'm Not There
Rotten  First Sunday
Rotten  In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Rotten  3:10 to Yuma
Rotten  Halloween
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

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" Yes, you can polish a turd."
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Definitely, Maybe (2008)71%
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" It's a concept without a story."
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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" Charlie Bartlett is a teen movie that only wants approval from adults."
Posted Feb 19, 2008
 
Charlie Bartlett (2007)55%
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" The Great Debaters handles conventions well, making an important piece of history affecting and resonant."
Posted Jan 21, 2008
 
The Great Debaters (2007)80%
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" Calling the movie anti-soldier misses the despair with which DePalma views the troops' situation."
Posted Jan 21, 2008
 
Redacted (2007)43%
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" Besides disinterest, the only emotion it incites is the emotion of wanting to throw up."
Posted Jan 21, 2008
 
Cloverfield (2008)77%
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" Though Mad Money isn't despicable like Because I Said So, it's not recognizably human either."
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
Mad Money (2008)21%
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" I'm Not There becomes another boomer ode to the cultural supremacy of the sixties."
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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" Combining the hijinks of the Friday series with the spiritual bent of Tyler Perry's work seems like an obvious move. For producer/star Ice Cube, it's also a dishonest one."
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)14%
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" Boll is in fact fascinating - largely because his movies assume their audiences exist in an alternate dimension of human experience."
Posted Jan 15, 2008
 
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)4%
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" Inland Empire is about the effects of movies themselves - the way they change us, inform our goals, and impact our self-image."
Posted Sep 4, 2007
 
Inland Empire (2006)69%
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" 3:10 to Yuma's sanitized view is flatly middlebrow - even the line readings are delivered to make convenient actor showcase clips on award shows."
Posted Sep 3, 2007
 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)89%
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" Once it steps into a remake of the Carpenter film in its second half, it loses its seriousness."
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
Halloween (2007)26%
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" Taking offense to a film about tolerance just because it's aimed squarely at Middle America is itself intolerant. Chuck and Larry's crime is it doesn't maintain its most audacious bits and it's never funny enough."
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007)13%
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" The young and old cast division creates a colourful world of people and ideals. It's an abstraction of an era made resonant, contemporary, and purely joyful."
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
Hairspray (2007)91%
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" Bratz (freaky looking teen dolls for girls whose parents won't let them play with real teenagers) is now a high school movie made for people in Grade 6."
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
Bratz: The Movie (2007)7%
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" It's the property's most relentless thriller, but director Paul Greengrass' visual style almost ruins it."
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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" Superbad has one detail I've never seen in a teen movie before: The sight of kids drinking alcohol and gagging after every swig."
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
Superbad (2007)87%
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" Through Hot Rod's manic weirdness, its take on young suburban males is completely authentic. It's the summer's happiest screen comedy."
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
Hot Rod (2007)39%
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" Balls of Fury is intended as a spoof of Enter the Dragon. That's important to know before walking into it, since it looks more like a spoof of the 80s martial arts spoof Big Trouble in Little China."
Posted Aug 28, 2007
 
Balls of Fury (2007)23%
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" The irony is that Captivity is ABOUT the things it's hated for - a culture that views women as objects, fascination with death and mutilation, turning to the misery of others for our entertainment."
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
Captivity (2007)7%
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" It's accomplished, but par for the course: A bloated, basically watchable light show."
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)77%
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" It finds the defining spirit of these films and maintains it about half the time."
Posted Jul 8, 2007
 
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)81%
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" No other major filmmaker patronizes his audience this much."
Posted Jul 8, 2007
 
Sicko (2007)93%
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" Sadie (Mandy Moore) and Ben (John Krasinski) are getting married (because they met at the start of the movie.)"
Posted Jul 8, 2007
 
License To Wed (2007)8%
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" Indulging in the playground of technology at his disposal, Bay makes Transformers' hugeness personal."
Posted Jul 8, 2007
 
Transformers (2007)57%
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" Evening's take on defining life choices reveals its manic depressive nature."
Posted Jun 25, 2007
 
Evening (2007)27%
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" The movie treats Gracie as a cause rather than an impassioned athlete."
Posted Jun 25, 2007
 
Gracie (2007)59%
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" It's a variation of Cyrano De Bergerac with its own comic sensibility."
Posted Jun 25, 2007
 
Ratatouille (2007)95%
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" It's when the momentum remains inescapable that it's really on."
Posted Jun 25, 2007
 
1408 (2007)78%
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" It's the best looking of the bunch. For a movie that's all posteur, that counts for a lot."
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)70%
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" Even the downbeat segments are optimistic, and that's what unifies them."
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
Paris, Je T'aime (2007)85%
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" Roth is covering his tracks from the typical accusations of slasher film misogyny, but his feminist angle just serves as jokey sexual fear."
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
Hostel: Part II (2007)45%
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" Relocating with her single father to the land of Hollywood wealth, Nancy Drew just plays as a developmentally stunted version of Veronica Mars."
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
Nancy Drew (2007)49%
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" It takes no risks, so it leads nowhere."
Posted Jun 22, 2007
 
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)35%
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" Rise is middling, but not by doing things the wrong way. It's not wild enough."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Rise (2006)n/a
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" Its best and worst attribute is how nice it is."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Knocked Up (2007)91%
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" The sequel hasn't been imagined as the next level with which to bring Shrek. It's just more of the same, served a little colder."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Shrek the Third (2007)42%
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" Earl Brooks is presented as an admirable killer, because he's an upperclass, educated white man."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Mr. Brooks (2007)56%
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" The sadistic silliness is given a heavy-hand."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Severance (2007)65%
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" It falls prey to the usual pessimism-as-realism crutch (most notable in its silly final 10 second coda), but director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo works in some real ideas along the way."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
28 Weeks Later (2007)71%
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" Friedkin gets political in exposing the value of dependence for people who believe they can depend on very little."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Bug (2007)59%
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" It features good story and visual concepts in its first 75 minutes, before opting for the usual bloated indulgence."
Posted Jun 4, 2007
 
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)45%
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" It's a small film, but a rewarding one."
Posted May 7, 2007
 
Lucky You (2007)28%
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" It would be more suited as a Fantastic Four sequel."
Posted May 7, 2007
 
Spider-Man 3 (2007)61%
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" The comedy is disposable because Ferrell and Heder don't bother being recognizably human."
Posted Apr 25, 2007
 
Blades of Glory (2007)69%
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" Von Donnersmarck moves certain sequences too slowly, but matches his tightest suspense with human intrigue."
Posted Apr 25, 2007
 
The Lives of Others (2006)93%
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" This shrine to Disney is really the world's most overstuffed Hanna-Barbera cartoon, right down to its Gargamel-patterned villain."
Posted Apr 25, 2007
 
Meet the Robinsons (2007)66%
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" Between effects-shots is a whole movie of people discussing how fascinating things are."
Posted Apr 25, 2007
 
The Reaping (2007)8%
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" The slapstick isn't sadistic. But that doesn't make this sequel's propensity of scenes where animals attack Nick, and moments where he learns the difference between a house and a home, more than inoffensive."
Posted Apr 25, 2007
 
Are We Done Yet? (2007)8%

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