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1/5
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11%
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There Be Dragons (2011) |
"
From its baldly overwritten dialogue to its claustrophobically stingy use of locations, Dragons is underdone in every way."
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Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2011
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81%
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Countdown to Zero (2010) |
"
Never trust a movie that ends with a moveon.org link."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 20, 2010
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71%
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Valhalla Rising (2010) |
"
A movie as maddeningly ponderous and self-important as its black-metal title."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 13, 2010
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18%
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Princess Ka'iulani (2010) |
"
Hawaii's dismal onscreen track record continues; bring back James Michener."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted May 13, 2010
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87%
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Welcome (2010) |
"
Starting strong with its atmospheric immersion in the herd of immigrants killing time by the docks, Welcome quickly shrugs off credibility by equating Bilal's quest with Simon's angst over his recent divorce."
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Village Voice
Posted May 4, 2010
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7%
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In My Sleep (2010) |
"
The biggest problem with Allen Wolf's thriller is that there are so few characters, it's immediately clear what's going on; there's simply no one to suspect besides the obvious."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Apr 22, 2010
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57%
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Barefoot To Timbuktu (barfuss Nach Timbuktu) (2010) |
"
The result is oddly lackluster."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 9, 2010
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84%
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Eyes Wide Open (Einaym Pkuhot) (2010) |
"
Not groundbreaking, but definitely a cut above."
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Village Voice
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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22%
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Saint John of Las Vegas (2010) |
"
Mostly, Saint John traps good comic performers -- including Malco and Peter Dinklage as John's boss -- in airless editing and an unproductive, unresolved, sludgy tone."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 26, 2010
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14%
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Pop Star on Ice (2009) |
"
Pop Star on Ice doesn't so much follow figure skater Johnny Weir as offer him a platform on which to mouth off, punctuated with practice and competition footage."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 19, 2010
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——
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Year Ago In Winter (2010) |
"
We learn that decorum, nice bottles of wine, and home-cooked dinners can't hide the cracks beneath."
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 5, 2010
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46%
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Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon (2009) |
"
This may be an admirable competition, but that doesn't make this movie less self-serving."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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13%
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Labor Day (2009) |
"
I'd call Glenn Silber's Labor Day a well-intentioned but dull, video-ugly documentary if it weren't partly financed by its subject, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); that just makes it a crappy infomercial."
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Village Voice
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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29%
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Free Style (2009) |
"
Lower-class rage is addressed in a fashion that most movies -- let alone family ones -- shy away from. Which doesn't make this a good movie, but at least it has something on its mind."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 6, 2009
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62%
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The Blue Tooth Virgin (2009) |
"
This is self-vindicating L.A. narcissism that tries even less hard than usual."
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Village Voice
Posted Sep 23, 2009
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88%
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Big Fan (2009) |
"
Audiences are invited to congratulate themselves for not reviling Paul, as long as they keep him at arm's length."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 25, 2009
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7%
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Post Grad (2009) |
"
Post Grad tries to do three things at once -- and half-hits the mark on only one."
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Village Voice
Posted Aug 18, 2009
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76%
|
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) |
"
The three parts never coalesce, even if they each have potential."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 18, 2009
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26%
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) |
"
Making copy editors' lives everywhere easier: The Goods doesn't deliver."
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L.A. Weekly
Posted Aug 13, 2009
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7%
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Ghosted (2009) |
"
Flat visuals, flat script, flat performances: Ghosted is only mildly redeemed by the on-the-ground travelogue footage of Taipei and Hamburg, and I'm being generous."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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29%
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Shrink (2009) |
"
Hollywood movies don't get much more self-regarding than this."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 21, 2009
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88%
|
The English Surgeon (2009) |
"
I wish more attention had been focused on Marsh's Ukrainian friend Igor Kurilets's struggles with the country's proudly anachronistic medical establishment."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 21, 2009
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29%
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Deadgirl (2008) |
"
[It] has more fantastically blunt, clunky, and downright laughable teen-sex dialogue per minute than anything this side of Larry Clark."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 21, 2009
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75%
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Ischeznuvshaya Imperiya (Vanished Empire) (2008) |
"
The dead-end on-again, off-again courtship between Sergey and Lyuda bores, and their standard adolescent travails take up most of the screen time."
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Village Voice
Posted Jul 8, 2009
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55%
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The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) |
"
Right now, you're better off just watching the news."
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Village Voice
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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——
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Autumn Ball (Sügisball) (2009) |
"
The film itself is sporadically amusing and largely uneventful."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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16%
|
What Goes Up (2009) |
"
I've seen a lot of terrible movies in the line of duty, but What Goes Up might be the only genuinely unreleasable one."
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Village Voice
Posted May 27, 2009
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17%
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Ghosts of the Heartland (2007) |
"
Blumberg's point is that racism was/is bad -- hard to argue with that. It's equally hard to argue that the classic noirs would've been better off had they taken frequent time-outs for lectures on racial justice."
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Village Voice
Posted May 19, 2009
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25%
|
Powder Blue (2009) |
"
A movie full of egregiously overdramatic stupidities."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 5, 2009
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65%
|
Brothers at War (2009) |
"
Just because Rademacher believes his film to be "non-partisan" does not make it so."
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Village Voice
Posted May 5, 2009
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48%
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Terra (Battle For Terra) (2009) |
"
Watching it will be no fun for either kids or adults."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2009
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88%
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Ice People (2008) |
"
Small moments of beauty -- a helicopter landing in a self-created snowstorm -- don't compensate for the overall dullness."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 28, 2009
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46%
|
The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) |
"
If it's a failure, at least it's a laudable one instead of cynically by-the-numbers."
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Village Voice
Posted Mar 24, 2009
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56%
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Skills Like This (2007) |
"
Skills thinks it's far more magically whimsical than it really is."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 17, 2009
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16%
|
An American Affair (2009) |
"
Only Noah Wyle, as Adam's unreadable dad, rises above the muck; he deserves his Tarantino-aided resurrection sooner rather than later."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 24, 2009
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28%
|
Das Haus der Schlafenden Schönen (House of the Sleeping Beauties) (2008) |
"
One of the year's worst releases."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 12, 2008
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|
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80%
|
Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey (2008) |
"
For all of Sumar's hard work and interesting footage, Dinner With the President is a mess, alternating interviews and Sumar's token progressive sentiments before carelessly using the assassination of Benazir Bhutto for a queasy, drawn-out climax."
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Village Voice
Posted Nov 12, 2008
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21%
|
Johnny Got His Gun (2008) |
"
Little more than a good performance of dated material...Trumbo's pacifist rant now seems pleasantly corny in its memories of small-town America and absolutely irrelevant to the very real issues of present-day warfare."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 22, 2008
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17%
|
The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (2007) |
"
There's no joking here, only a sincere belief that anyone who isn't a sophisticated urban queer is a mouth-breathing Reagan fanatic panting to give a homosexual beatdown."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 22, 2008
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91%
|
Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008) |
"
Stranded is the rare movie less complex and interesting than its press kit."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 22, 2008
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|
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36%
|
The Lucky Ones (2008) |
"
It's finally all too familiar."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 24, 2008
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7%
|
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"
Without whatever strident critique Kassovitz intends, it's a typical B action movie -- the inevitable pseudo-warm bonding scenes deadly, the fights largely incoherent -- with the occasional pleasing set-piece."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 2, 2008
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58%
|
Year of the Fish (2007) |
"
Year of the Fish is the kind of really bad movie it takes a lot of misplaced conviction to make."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 27, 2008
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40%
|
The Longshots (2008) |
"
Director Durst and DP Conrad W. Hall bathe everything in a sickly beige, neutering all but Cube's natural charisma."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 19, 2008
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13%
|
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"
Strange how dreary it all is, and how tired Fraser seems."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Jul 31, 2008
|
|
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56%
|
Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008) |
"
The case it lays out is factually sketchy, but as a movie, it's unforgivable."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 29, 2008
|
|
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81%
|
Giorni e Nuvole (Days and Clouds) (2007) |
"
Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) have a problem: They're a married couple in a middlebrow arthouse movie."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2008
|
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80%
|
The Memory Thief (2007) |
"
The film is (perhaps deliberately) as unbalanced as its protagonist, one whose fury ultimately seems directed either nowhere in particular or in too many directions at once -- until things eventually devolve into a Taxi Driver riff."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2008
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39%
|
The Favor (2008) |
"
As an unconscious parody of everything that's wrong with Indiewood, Eva Aridjis's The Favor is brilliant. Otherwise, it's an unwatchable nightmare that brought back bad memories of NYU screenwriting classes."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2008
|
|
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53%
|
Viva (2007) |
"
For fans of the work of Charles Busch and other like-minded spoofs only."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2008
|
66%
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