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25%
|
Machete Kills (2013) |
"
A surprisingly long-lived gag finally runs out of gas in Robert Rodriguez's noticeably duller, less outrageous sequel to 'Machete.'"
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Variety
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
Despite [its] stacked deck of a cast, "Runner Runner" adds up to little more than a charmless, paint-by-numbers thriller ..."
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Variety
Posted Sep 25, 2013
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5%
|
Battle of the Year (2013) |
"
Fatally frontloaded with endless training montages, awfully written, indifferently acted drama, sports-film platitudes and jaw-dropping product placements that only the hardiest of viewers will make it through to the payoff."
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Variety
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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33%
|
The Family (2013) |
"
Curiously airless, weightless and tonally uncertain, Luc Besson's mafia comedy falls flat."
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Variety
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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——
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McCanick () |
"
A fine performance by Cory Monteith isn't enough to salvage this drably derivative, infuriatingly improbable police drama."
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Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
It ends up feeling like a long-winded carnival-barker pitch, even though a goodly number of genuine gems are buried within its noisy confines."
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Variety
Posted Sep 3, 2013
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64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
The film's central fivesome prove charming pallbearers throughout the film, which alternates between inspired and insipid as it hits its hagiographic marks."
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Variety
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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69%
|
The Happy Sad (2013) |
"
Strong acting and occasional dives into deeper territory redeem this somewhat contrived chamber piece."
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Variety
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
Director Robert Luketic's thriller Paranoia has a host of problems, but the biggest seems to be that no one in it is nearly paranoid enough."
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Variety
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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|
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100%
|
La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013) |
"
The film wrings an almost bizarre amount of political, humanistic and spiritual substance out of this limited frame."
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Variety
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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53%
|
Wasteland (2013) |
"
An overlong Northern British heist caper with a wildly uneven tone and a needlessly scrambled narrative, but it suggests a higher intelligence beneath, waiting to flower down the road."
—
Variety
Posted Jul 22, 2013
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8%
|
Grown Ups 2 (2013) |
"
Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, "Grown Ups 2" is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making "Ow! My Balls!" seem like a plausible future project."
—
Variety
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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64%
|
Tiger Eyes (2013) |
"
In the end, it represents a solid blueprint for a later, better Blume adaptation, but that's hardly anything to scoff at."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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64%
|
Epic (2013) |
"
If this is all familiar territory even to film-literate young children, it's nonetheless executed with professionalism and a few dashes of panache."
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Variety
Posted May 22, 2013
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19%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
Ditching the hangovers, the backward structure, the fleshed-out characters and any sense of debauchery or fun, this installment instead just thrusts its long-suffering protagonists into a rote chase narrative ..."
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Variety
Posted May 21, 2013
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——
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The Second Meeting (2013) |
"
It's lovely to see the two former adversaries greet one another as friends, but neither they, nor the film itself, seem to have any idea what to do afterward."
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Variety
Posted May 15, 2013
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8%
|
Java Heat (2013) |
"
The potential fun is all thoroughly undone, however, by an eye-roller of a script and a leaden lead performance from Twilight heartthrob Kellan Lutz."
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Variety
Posted May 15, 2013
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35%
|
Peeples (2013) |
"
"Peeples" may appropriate its entire premise and plot structure from "Meet the Parents," but its heart is suffused with French cinema."
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Variety
Posted May 5, 2013
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44%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
There's little to differentiate this high-pitched screamer from a particularly feverish Law and Order rerun."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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15%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
While the film rarely provokes any strenuous eye-rolling, it also can't drum up even the slightest interest in the fate of its characters, let alone suspense."
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Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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|
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90%
|
Inequality For All (2013) |
"
There are certainly lessons to be gleaned from Reich's journey through politics."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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84%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
A visually impeccable, professionally crafted modern vessel that lacks any of the patched-together soul of its subject."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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76%
|
Kill List (2012) |
"
Displaying both a nasty edge and a playful sense of humor -- but thankfully, never at the same time -- Brit import Kill List is several cuts above its fellow midbudget horror brethren."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
A timid, modestly pleasant time-passer distinguished mostly by its unexplored potential."
—
Variety
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
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49%
|
The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) |
"
As endearing as it is exhausting, The Man With the Iron Fists bears strong resemblance to a hyperactive puppy: sloppy, scatterbrained, manic and migraine-inducing, but possessing an earnest sense of excitement."
—
Variety
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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|
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25%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
A hydra-headed attempt to dirty up the Nickelodeon brand while simultaneously scrubbing raunchy high-school hookup tropes into family-friendly shape."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
|
76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
The lovably ridiculous bike-messenger thriller Premium Rush is a welcome throwback."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
|
57%
|
Sparkle (2012) |
"
Sparkle deals in such well-worn rise-and-fall music-bio tropes that it's hard to blame it for simply coasting on narrative shorthand at times. But the lackadaisical storytelling can inch toward outright laziness."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 16, 2012
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|
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42%
|
Step Up Revolution (2012) |
"
Step Up Revolution, the fourth entry in the venerable dance franchise, is a narrative failure but a triumph of sheer spectacle."
—
Variety
Posted Jul 25, 2012
|
|
—
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17%
|
Four () |
—
Variety
Posted Jun 20, 2012
|
|
|
70%
|
Men in Black III (2012) |
"
In this age of blockbuster bloat, Sonnenfeld's willingness to wrap things up well before the two-hour mark, as well as his eschewal of sledgehammer product placement, count as gestures of considerable mercy."
—
Variety
Posted May 22, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
The New Year (2010) |
"
[The New Year is] richly endowed with true-to-life moments, a generosity of spirit and an unsentimental perspective on the quarter-life crisis."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 30, 2012
|
|
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74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
As expected, the primate behavior on display is fascinating, as deftly framed by the filmmakers; one could watch this band of apes make tools and crack nuts for hours."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 16, 2012
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|
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25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
It's a mess too, but it's far more defensible as a lazy Sunday lark for those who have just recently outgrown action figures."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 28, 2012
|
|
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33%
|
Musical Chairs (2012) |
"
[The film] has its heart in the right place, but with default-setting characters, loudly telegraphed emotional beats and lack of any real sizzle to enliven its maudlin moralizing, it all feels like a cursory run through a well-trodden routine."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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|
—
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——
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All Tomorrow's Parties (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
94%
|
Passenger Side (2010) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
|
Unbeatable Harold (2007) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Mavro livadi (Black Field) (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Playing Columbine () |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
The Korean (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Teenage Dirtbag (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Skiing Everest (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Branson (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Del amor y otros demonios (Of Love and Other Demons) (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
77%
|
The Other F Word (2011) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Sawdust City () |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
|
17%
|
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) |
"
Spirit of Vengeance is weighted down for long stretches in the middle, as it starts to treat its own religious hokum plotline with undue seriousness."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 18, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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About the Pink Sky () |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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