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33%
|
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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|
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39%
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The Call (2013) |
"
There's little to differentiate this high-pitched screamer from a particularly feverish Law and Order rerun."
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Variety
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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14%
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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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Inequality For All () |
"
There are certainly lessons to be gleaned from Reich's journey through politics."
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Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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76%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
A visually impeccable, professionally crafted modern vessel that lacks any of the patched-together soul of its subject."
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Variety
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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76%
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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."
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Variety
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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38%
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The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
A timid, modestly pleasant time-passer distinguished mostly by its unexplored potential."
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Variety
Posted Dec 17, 2012
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49%
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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."
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Variety
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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|
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26%
|
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
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|
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76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
The lovably ridiculous bike-messenger thriller Premium Rush is a welcome throwback."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 23, 2012
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58%
|
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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42%
|
Step Up 4: Miami Heat (2012) |
"
Step Up Revolution, the fourth entry in the venerable dance franchise, is a narrative failure but a triumph of sheer spectacle."
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Variety
Posted Jul 25, 2012
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—
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17%
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Four () |
—
Variety
Posted Jun 20, 2012
|
|
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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
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|
|
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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|
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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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26%
|
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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|
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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
|
|
—
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94%
|
Passenger Side (2010) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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—
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——
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Unbeatable Harold (2007) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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Mavro livadi (Black Field) (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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—
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——
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Playing Columbine () |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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—
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——
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The Korean (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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—
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——
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Teenage Dirtbag (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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Skiing Everest (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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Branson (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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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
|
|
—
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——
|
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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——
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About the Pink Sky () |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 14, 2012
|
|
|
2%
|
One for the Money (2012) |
"
Tedious and tonally inept."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
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——
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A Cadeira do Pai (Father's Chair) () |
"
This low-key, quietly crowdpleasing odyssey about a yuppie father searching through rural Sao Paulo for his missing teenage son is highly engaging."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 25, 2012
|
|
—
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71%
|
Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain (2011) |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
|
26%
|
L!fe Happens (2012) |
"
Its smattering of femme-centric gross-out humor [melds] into its scenester single-mother storyline about as gracefully as the odd exclamation point does into its title."
—
Variety
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
—
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——
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Dirty Old Town () |
—
Variety
Posted Dec 21, 2011
|
|
|
7%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
Offering around a dozen barely there, aggressively agreeable mini-stories spliced together and spit out with lawnmower-style eloquence, the film is pushed to punishing lengths by the engorged cast list."
—
Variety
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
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3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
The pic's general stupidity, careless direction and reliance on a single-joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the most obvious of its problems."
—
Variety
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
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—
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——
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Coffin (2011) |
—
Variety
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
|
100%
|
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
Effortlessly entertaining."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 5, 2011
|
|
|
4%
|
Abduction (2011) |
"
A haggardly slapdash Bourne Identity knockoff, never rising above the level of basic competence."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
|
82%
|
Dolphin Tale (2011) |
"
Though garnished with some heavy dollops of cheese, Dolphin Tale is a surprisingly solid, earnest family pic."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 19, 2011
|
|
|
41%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
The protagonists have become more likable and empowered, motivations have become more cut and dried, and references to underlying political schisms are downplayed."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 13, 2011
|
|
|
0%
|
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011) |
"
Through all this, one feels nothing more strongly than an acute sympathy for all involved -- in particular Ricci, who gives her role more than it deserves, and Herrmann, a classy character actor who once won a Tony."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 12, 2011
|
|
|
91%
|
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) |
"
Like any mixtape, it offers some truly transcendent moments alongside a smattering of filler, and never quite assembles its pieces into a cohesive whole."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
|
|
14%
|
Seven Days In Utopia (2011) |
"
Little more than a pleasantly passable Christian sports parable delivered as a sort of Texan golfer's version of The Karate Kid."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 30, 2011
|
|
|
23%
|
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
"
A cheap-looking, vaguely depressing echo of Robert Rodriguez's well-loved kidpic trilogy, assembled with minimal imagination or effort."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
|
|
0%
|
The Lion of Judah (2011) |
"
The slapdash animation is matched in kind by the patched-together story."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 3, 2011
|
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