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D
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15%
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Over Her Dead Body (2008) |
"
Parker, who must have phoned in her performance during a weekend break from Desperate Housewives, is simply awful."
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 1, 2008
|
|
D
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7%
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License to Wed (2007) |
"
...a film that's an early favorite for worst comedy of the year."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 3, 2007
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1/4
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35%
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The Edge of Love (2008) |
"
It's so hard, being a poet. ... Such is the wisdom of The Edge of Love, a movie unfortunately as banal as its tagline, 'The only thing more dangerous than war is love.'"
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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1/4
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13%
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The Informers (2009) |
"
An awful film about an awful time."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 24, 2009
|
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1/4
|
56%
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The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"
A film that seems less interested in telling a story than in moralizing to its young audience about the value of individuality, the danger of prejudging someone, the folly of jumping to conclusions, the joys of altruism, the sorrows of pettiness."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Dec 19, 2008
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D+
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13%
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September Dawn (2007) |
"
Such ham-fisted earnestness does no one any good, least of all those who believe there's a big difference between historical fact and emotional screed."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Aug 24, 2007
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|
D+
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14%
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) |
"
Films that preach tolerance and respect for diversity, which is what this one does ultimately, are fine and good, and here's hoping the message comes across. But here's betting the fat and the gay jokes hang around a lot longer."
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 20, 2007
|
|
C-
|
26%
|
Drillbit Taylor (2008) |
"
If only it had some funny lines, a focused plot and an idea that stretched beyond the initial setup."
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Mar 21, 2008
|
|
C-
|
35%
|
Vantage Point (2008) |
"
An overly gimmicky and fatally repetitive terrorist thriller that quickly wears out its welcome."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
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C-
|
46%
|
Cassandra's Dream (2007) |
"
Allen's latest, his 42nd effort as a director, is the work of an artist devoid of ideas and energy. Perfunctorily staged and lazily written, it comes to life in only the briefest of spurts, usually when the ever-reliable Tom Wilkinson is on-screen."
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 18, 2008
|
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C-
|
64%
|
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"
Dan in Real Life wants desperately to be loved. It includes a few laughs...but with all its cloying, tone-deaf attempts at genuine emotional warmth, all it really deserves is to be avoided."
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Oct 26, 2007
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1.5/4
|
13%
|
The Ugly Truth (2009) |
"
The Ugly Truth can't escape its own ugly truth, that the central characters are written to extremes both ludicrous and tiring."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 24, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
55%
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17 Again (2009) |
"
You've seen it done better."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 17, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
46%
|
Hotel for Dogs (2009) |
"
Look, I love dogs. But this film tried my patience almost beyond endurance."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 16, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
41%
|
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"
It's hard to go wrong with a movie full of talking dogs. But the makers of Beverly Hills Chihuahua sure try."
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Oct 3, 2008
|
|
C
|
19%
|
Fly Me to the Moon (2008) |
"
The film's respect for its source material goes only so far before reducing everything to the level of an old-style Saturday-morning cartoon, complete with stock characters finding themselves in stock situations."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Aug 15, 2008
|
|
C
|
56%
|
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"
Seeing itself as a Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the 21st century, Charlie Bartlett the film is instead a testimony to how low we as a culture can stoop."
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Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 22, 2008
|
|
C
|
16%
|
Jumper (2008) |
"
There's enough kinetic energy in Jumper to light a thousand houses. Unfortunately, there's no one home in any of them."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 14, 2008
|
|
C
|
22%
|
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins imagines slapstick farce as feel-good dramedy, which is to say, it's an unhappy (and largely unfunny) marriage of two movie types that don't really go together."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 8, 2008
|
|
C
|
16%
|
Untraceable (2008) |
"
Untraceable lambastes us for being amoral voyeurs as it panders to our baser instincts at the same time."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 25, 2008
|
|
C
|
13%
|
First Sunday (2008) |
"
First Sunday is a movie about forgiveness that asks its audience to forgive too much -- with regard to both its characters and its makers."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 11, 2008
|
|
C
|
41%
|
No Reservations (2007) |
"
A romantic comedy that does precious little with the considerable resources at its disposal."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
C
|
12%
|
The Salon (2007) |
"
The movie includes a few good one-liners, but that's really all it is -- a forum for putdowns and sassy dialogues."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
C
|
60%
|
Gracie (2007) |
"
Gracie is painfully earnest, which might be OK were it not also painfully trite, painfully cliched and painfully formulaic."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jun 2, 2007
|
|
C
|
49%
|
The Flying Scotsman (2006) |
"
Graeme Obree was a champion bicycler who, by all accounts, rarely took the easy way out. Too bad this movie version of his life doesn't follow suit."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 5, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Push (2009) |
"
Push has plenty of attitude to go with an overabundance of style, in service to the sort of labyrinthine plot, where nothing is as it seems. That seems impressive as long as you don't think about it too hard."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 31, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
44%
|
Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) |
"
Asked to anchor a full-length movie, she simply doesn't have the chops to pull it off."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 10, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) |
"
You might chuckle occasionally as the film drones on to a close, but mostly you'll be wondering when it will all end."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 16, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
The Reader (2008) |
"
Finely nuanced and calibrated performances from Winslet (with a convincing German accent) and Kross notwithstanding, this is one film audiences won't embrace nearly as emphatically as it embraces itself."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Dec 30, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
52%
|
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008) |
"
Director Alfredo De Villa clumsily weaves his way in and out of the various plot threads, pausing at each one just long enough to let the audience wonder if this movie will ever get past its cliches. It rarely does."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Dec 12, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
62%
|
Changeling (2008) |
"
Even with a running time of nearly 2 1/2 hours (which, to Eastwood's credit, moves along at a brisk pace), it's hard to avoid the feeling there should be more to this story than what made it on screen."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Oct 31, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
Blindness (2008) |
"
[A] belabored allegory that fails to even set up any rules, much less abide by them."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Oct 3, 2008
|
|
C+
|
41%
|
The Rocker (2008) |
"
It's a film that sometimes wants to be School of Rock, sometimes wants to be This Is Spinal Tap, but ends up more like an uninspired episode of The Partridge Family."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Aug 20, 2008
|
|
C+
|
62%
|
Diary of the Dead (2007) |
"
Even as a zombie film, it comes across not as something new, but as something warmed-over."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 15, 2008
|
|
c+
|
28%
|
Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) |
"
Undeniably energetic and viscerally satisfying, but emotionally hollow."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 14, 2008
|
|
C+
|
23%
|
Mad Money (2008) |
"
The pleasures of this slight caper film are strictly small-screen, as three talented actresses walk through quaint roles before they hurry on to the next project."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 18, 2008
|
|
C+
|
40%
|
The Bucket List (2007) |
"
The Bucket List is 98 minutes of mawkish sentiment, a stream of greeting-card moments."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 11, 2008
|
|
C+
|
71%
|
28 Weeks Later... (2007) |
"
28 Weeks Later doesn't match the impact of its predecessor."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
C+
|
70%
|
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
"
Whereas previous Ocean's films have delighted in crossing their audiences, Thirteen barely tries. And when the clever turns predictable ... well, it's no longer clever."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jun 9, 2007
|
|
C+
|
44%
|
Night at the Museum (2006) |
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
B-
|
61%
|
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) |
"
Simplistic as can be with its cliched squabbling-family dynamics offering little more than a hook for the 3-D technicians to hang their hats on. But for most audiences, this one included, that was plenty."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 11, 2008
|
|
B-
|
11%
|
Fool's Gold (2008) |
"
Screen couplings that work are things to be treasured. In that sense, Fool's Gold is as close to the real thing as we've come in a while."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 8, 2008
|
|
B-
|
67%
|
How She Move (2008) |
"
How She Move sure has got the moves. And even if we've seen so many of them before, its young cast delivers the goods with such gusto and drive that the familiarity breeds more enjoyment than contempt."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 25, 2008
|
|
B-
|
77%
|
Cloverfield (2008) |
"
The film's overriding sense of the unknown ratchets up the suspense, if not the terror."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jan 18, 2008
|
|
B-
|
36%
|
Sydney White (2007) |
"
A charmer that boldly marches where lesser movies -- at least since the heyday of John Hughes -- fear to tread."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
B-
|
52%
|
Introducing the Dwights (2007) |
"
At times, it's a mawkish drama about a mother-son relationship that's uncomfortable to watch and too melodramatic to be believed. Then, it's a sprightly comedy about an innocent boy who hits the adolescent jackpot."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Aug 10, 2007
|
|
b-
|
27%
|
Evening (2007) |
"
The acting, by any measure, is superb."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Soul Power (2009) |
"
For a documentary about a music festival, Soul Power doesn't include nearly enough music."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Sep 4, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
42%
|
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"
It's a film that lets you embrace the lightheartedness of it all, even while chuckling knowingly at the absurdity."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Feb 6, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
14%
|
The Spirit (2008) |
"
Macht's weary, fatalistic take on his heroic duties is right out of the Batman mold, while Jackson's Octopus seems little more than The Joker without all the face makeup."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Dec 29, 2008
|
82%
33%
54%
52%
