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D-
|
8%
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The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
It never feels real, and its only saving grace is that it clocks in at a mercifully short 90 minutes, which is just about the amount of time you need to realize you never want to see these characters ever again."
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Detroit News
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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A-
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98%
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Mud (2013) |
"
"Mud" unfolds at its own pace, revealing its story in slivers. The performances are outstanding, especially from Sheridan, who plays tough, sweet, vulnerable and confused with equal conviction."
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Detroit News
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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B-
|
62%
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Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Raimi set the bar high, and if Alvarez can't quite rise to his level, he overcompensates by drowning everything in blood. It's overkill, but in this case that's not such a bad thing."
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Detroit News
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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C
|
9%
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The Host (2013) |
"
A goofball teenage sci-fi romance, "The Host" is an End of Days parable that seems like it was written at a slumber party."
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Detroit News
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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B+
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
A half hour, four hours, two days after walking away from it you might still flashback to its seductive, neon-lit, dayglow world."
—
Detroit News
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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B
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
"Olympus Has Fallen" goes through plenty of familiar motions, but does them well enough that it gets away with it. There's a reason movies like this die hard."
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Detroit News
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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B
|
39%
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The Call (2013) |
"
Yes, it's cheese, but it's good cheese."
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Detroit News
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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C-
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
The best thing that can be said about "Safe Haven" is there is a cute romance in there somewhere."
—
Detroit News
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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D-
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
All sorts of blockheaded action thrillers rolled into one, with occasional mentions of "flash drives" so you know it's not actually a script from 1986."
—
Detroit News
Posted Feb 1, 2013
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D
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40%
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Parker (2013) |
"
"Parker" should have stayed parked."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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C+
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
Like the film's shady mayor, "Broken City" is a little too slick for its own good."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 18, 2013
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C
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
"Gangster Squad" talks tough and hits hard, but it is a victim of its own brute force."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 11, 2013
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F
|
36%
|
The Collection (2012) |
"
People in Hollywood need to work and surely "The Collection" created a lot of jobs, but there must be a better way."
—
Detroit News
Posted Nov 30, 2012
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D+
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
Good riddance "Twilight," may it be an eternity before you're relaunched or rebooted."
—
Detroit News
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
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B-
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
It's fun for awhile, but it's not a video game you'll come back to once you set down the controller."
—
Detroit News
Posted Nov 2, 2012
|
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C
|
26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
It feels like a project that was pitched for the CW but watered down for Nickelodeon audiences. In the end, everyone loses."
—
Detroit News
Posted Oct 26, 2012
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D
|
12%
|
Alex Cross (2012) |
"
There's still a marketplace for a smart, well-crafted cat-and-mouse thriller. But "Alex Cross" isn't it."
—
Detroit News
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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C
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
"Here Comes the Boom" is so full of clichés from other, better movies that it is almost plays like a parody of an underdog tale."
—
Detroit News
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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|
D
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
The one thing that comes across is Neeson's character really likes fighting Albanians."
—
Detroit News
Posted Oct 5, 2012
|
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B
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
"Pitch Perfect" doesn't take itself any more seriously than it has to, and has plenty of fun both sending up and celebrating its subject matter."
—
Detroit News
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
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D+
|
58%
|
Red Hook Summer (2012) |
"
When Spike Lee fails he fails big, and he goes down in flames with "Red Hook Summer.""
—
Detroit News
Posted Aug 31, 2012
|
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C
|
65%
|
The Campaign (2012) |
"
It's an average Will Ferrell comedy, nothing more."
—
Detroit News
Posted Aug 10, 2012
|
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A-
|
96%
|
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) |
"
Bendjelloul mixes modern footage of Detroit with archival and animated images, and the shots of Rodriguez marching through his home turf help viewers understand what makes him tick."
—
Detroit News
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
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C
|
77%
|
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) |
"
"Part of Me" is more electronic press kit than fly-on-the-wall documentary."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jul 6, 2012
|
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C
|
91%
|
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) |
"
"Safety" can't sustain its own offbeat energy. By the end, even Aubrey Plaza would roll her eyes at it."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jun 22, 2012
|
|
D
|
21%
|
That's My Boy (2012) |
"
Sandler's Berger is the most loutish, annoying character he's come up with since "Little Nicky." Nicky came from hell; viewers of "That's My Boy" will feel like they're in it."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jun 15, 2012
|
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B-
|
64%
|
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
"
"The Five-Year Engagement" doesn't always work - some of the supporting characters' storylines feel clipped, and the improvised bits could afford to be tightened - but the trip to the altar pays off."
—
Detroit News
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
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A-
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
Chronicle puts a fresh, invigorating spin on the superhero origin story, a tale Hollywood spins again and again (and again)."
—
Detroit News
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
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C-
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
The Woman in Black is your standard-issue ghost story, gussied up in period garb to make it look like a prestige picture."
—
Detroit News
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
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B
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
"Haywire" isn't a by-the-numbers action vehicle, it's a crafty thriller that works to undo beat-em-up clichés. In short, it's a livewire."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
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C-
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
It wants to be a charming, down-home good time, but it struggles to hit the right notes."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
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B-
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
Downey's career is something of a game of shadows, but it's one still worth playing, for now."
—
Detroit News
Posted Dec 16, 2011
|
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C
|
45%
|
Happy Feet Two (2011) |
"
The disjointed, undercooked sequel to the Oscar-winning 2006 hit aims to tell life lessons and celebrate pop music, but this would-be toe-tapper is curiously out of step."
—
Detroit News
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
B
|
68%
|
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
"
Joost and Schulman sustain a consistent sense of dread, playing with our own fears of things that go bump in the night."
—
Detroit News
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
B+
|
83%
|
Warrior (2011) |
"
It's also a fight movie that knows all the fight movie cliches and doesn't shy away from embracing them wholeheartedly. But it hits its marks and hits them well, and feels fresh even as it traffics so deeply in the familiar."
—
Detroit News
Posted Sep 9, 2011
|
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B
|
72%
|
Fright Night (2011) |
"
Farrell is all darting eyes, facial ticks and macho confidence. He never goes over the top, he's not a showy actor, but he's clearly relishing his role and eating it up with abandon. He makes this a Night to remember."
—
Detroit News
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
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C
|
60%
|
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011) |
"
The 3D Concert Movie is by and large for Gleeks only."
—
Detroit News
Posted Aug 12, 2011
|
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B
|
91%
|
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (2011) |
"
The movie gets the beats and rhymes down pat, but the life part is a little messy. Oh well, two out of three ain't bad."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jul 29, 2011
|
|
B
|
70%
|
Horrible Bosses (2011) |
"
Horrible Bosses takes a dark premise -- three buddies band together to off their bosses -- and rings it for a solid, steady stream of laughs."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
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C-
|
38%
|
Monte Carlo (2011) |
"
Director Thomas Bezucha lingers too long on side plots and doesn't give the film emotional resonance."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jul 1, 2011
|
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C-
|
44%
|
Bad Teacher (2011) |
"
Everyone loves an anti-hero, but usually there's something redeeming about the character that makes you want to root for them in the end. Not so much in Bad Teacher."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jun 24, 2011
|
|
C
|
55%
|
Jumping the Broom (2011) |
"
It's fun at times, if a bit over-dramatic and a lot over-the-top. But by the end, you're ready for it to be over."
—
Detroit News
Posted May 6, 2011
|
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C-
|
15%
|
Something Borrowed (2011) |
"
In Something Borrowed, Kate Hudson looks exhausted, as if she is as tired of wading through another one of her feckless duds as we are of watching them."
—
Detroit News
Posted May 6, 2011
|
|
B-
|
64%
|
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) |
"
What the movie lacks in genuine insight it makes up for in what fans really want: gazing shots at the Biebz whipping his hair back and forth."
—
Detroit News
Posted Feb 11, 2011
|
|
B-
|
24%
|
The Dilemma (2011) |
"
Let's have a toast for Vince Vaughn, shall we?"
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 14, 2011
|
|
D
|
44%
|
The Green Hornet (2011) |
"
A big, sloppy, loud, grating mess of a movie."
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 14, 2011
|
|
C+
|
22%
|
Country Strong (2011) |
"
[A] mixed bag of a country music comeback fable. "
—
Detroit News
Posted Jan 7, 2011
|
|
C-
|
36%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
Every Thanksgiving needs a turkey, and this year's comes wrapped in a lacy bustier."
—
Detroit News
Posted Nov 24, 2010
|
|
D-
|
10%
|
Saw 3D (2010) |
"
Saw 3D is the dumbest and most illogical entry in the Saw series -- quite an accomplishment, given that the Saw movies are the dumbest, most illogical series of horror films of the millennium."
—
Detroit News
Posted Oct 29, 2010
|
44%
46%
95%
99%
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