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0/4
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22%
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AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) |
"
Expensive claptrap."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2004
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1/6
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19%
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Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
"
The cinematic equivalent of a third-generation photocopy of a doodle barely worth a glance in the first place."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 14, 2007
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1/5
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7%
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Bratz: The Movie (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
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24%
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Halloween (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
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67%
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The 11th Hour (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
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20%
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The Invasion (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
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68%
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Flying: Confessions of A Free Woman (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
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33%
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Walking to Werner (2006) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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36%
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Hollywood Dreams (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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88%
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Waitress (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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69%
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Black Sheep (2006) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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44%
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In the Land of Women (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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65%
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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8%
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Furry Vengeance (2010) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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1/5
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7%
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License to Wed (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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64%
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Predators (2010) |
"
The dialogue is dumber than dirt, and the plot crumbles at the halfway mark, but the movie does what a loud summer blockbuster should, which is loudly bust blocks."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 9, 2010
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6%
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The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
The current national priorities should be as follows: reduce carbon emissions and stop funding the films of M. Night Shyamalan."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 1, 2010
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13%
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Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
Begins affably enough as a random slew of Leone-style squint-a-thons and shoot-outs but then loses it way in a dopey, anachronism-happy sci-fi plot."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 18, 2010
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47%
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The A-Team (2010) |
"
"Sex and the City 2 for dudes"? "A Bourne film with frontal-lobe damage"? Pithy descriptions don't come easy after a brain-fragmenting experience like this movie version of the unaccountably popular '70s TV show."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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56%
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Trash Humpers (2010) |
"
This interminable piece of crap copped a big prize at the 2009 Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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49%
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Holy Rollers (2010) |
"
This lackluster indie proves that the flattening power of cliche can trump even the most exotic social setting."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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29%
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Paper Man (2010) |
"
A big Twinkie stuffed with indie-film cliches and glazed with chiming emo guitars. "
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Chicago Reader
Posted May 28, 2010
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15%
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Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
Thanks to writer-director Michael Patrick King, I now have a fair idea how it might feel to be stoned to death with scented candles. "
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Chicago Reader
Posted May 27, 2010
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28%
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Clash of the Titans (2010) |
"
This remake is interesting mainly for the chance to see top-flight acting talent labor over dialogue so leaden you could cast bullets from it."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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58%
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She's Out of My League (2010) |
"
Director Jim Field Smith lifts his best beats from Judd Apatow, and his worst from American Pie."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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42%
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010) |
"
Director Antoine Fuqua has come a long way down since Training Day."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 4, 2010
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18%
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Valentine's Day (2010) |
"
Valueless as entertainment, it's still useful as a disambiguation tool for those who confuse Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel, or Taylor Dayne and Taylor Swift."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 11, 2010
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Pembalasan ratu pantai selatan (Lady Terminator) (Nasty Hunter) (Shooting Star) (2003) |
"
It's the kind of movie best randomly discovered on cable at 4 AM, but if you dig guys with mullets, director H. Tjut Djalil has some serious treats in store for you."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 8, 2010
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60%
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Frozen (2010) |
"
A stuck chairlift just doesn't exert the same primal terror as a roiling sea, and to make up the difference, Green would need a better cast and sharper dialogue than he has here."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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0%
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Breaking Point (2009) |
"
Overwrought indie crime drama."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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——
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The Boy With the Sun in His Eyes (2009) |
"
The vibe is weak and the acting uniformly terrible."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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50%
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Assassination of a High School President (2008) |
"
The noir pastiche is sitcom-ish, the characters vestigial, and the satire of high school so compromised I wondered if cowriters Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski weren't home-schooled"
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Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 2, 2010
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58%
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Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
A conspiracy that extends to the highest levels of tedium and confusion."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 29, 2010
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20%
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Legion (2010) |
"
This feature debut by writer-director Scott Stewart may sound like an enjoyably goofy theo-horror romp, but it's a serious penance."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 27, 2010
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42%
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Armored (2009) |
"
This unambitious caper flick takes a while to get moving but gradually develops a modest meat-and-potatoes appeal, compromised in the third act by a whopping and perfectly avoidable plot hole."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Dec 7, 2009
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22%
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Planet 51 (2009) |
"
The script lacks wit, and the in-joke references to cinematic sci-fi classics will soar over little kids' heads without pleasing many adults."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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39%
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2012 (2009) |
"
As you might expect with director Roland Emmerich, the movie isn't a patch on the trailer."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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18%
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The Fourth Kind (2009) |
"
Olatunde Osunsanmi's big formal innovation tunrs out to be the split-screen pairing of patently bogus "archival" black-and-white video that shows alleged abductees undergoing hypnosis and color "reenactments" of same."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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12%
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The Stepfather (2009) |
"
This perfunctory retread had a tame, made-for-TV feel, and not just because the humdrum cast is composed of network and cable B-listers."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 18, 2009
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27%
|
Pandorum (2009) |
"
The sort of thing that makes you wish you were playing a video game instead."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 27, 2009
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86%
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"
Determined to have their cake and eat it too, writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller first invite us to revel in ice cream mountains and nacho cheese fountains, then clobber us with ham-handed nutritional moralism."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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7%
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Whiteout (2009) |
"
The film's slick and expensive looking but dumber than a dead penguin."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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6%
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All About Steve (2009) |
"
Packaged as a romantic comedy but devoid of comedy or romance, this baffling train wreck stars Sandra Bullock as a tediously kooky constructor of crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 21, 2009
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30%
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Gamer (2009) |
"
Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor were responsible for the delirious Crank and Crank 2 but left the magic behind."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 8, 2009
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30%
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The Final Destination (2009) |
"
Death, Be Not Boring would have been a better title for this fourth installment in the teen splatter franchise."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 1, 2009
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21%
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H2: Halloween II (2009) |
"
This umpteenth feature about the unstoppable masked killer Michael Myers could be the work of any journeyman, give or take a few hundred gratuitous pop-culture references."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 1, 2009
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29%
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Shrink (2009) |
"
Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward, and when those sparks emanate from a doobie clutched by Kevin Spacey, a smug critique of the American dream is sure to follow."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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92%
|
Pressure Cooker (2009) |
"
Wilma Stephenson...definitely deserves a subtler cinematic testament than this lazily inspirational documentary."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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60%
|
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"
Writer-director David Twohy (Pitch Black) serves up mechanical thrills culminating in a bogus twist ending"
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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56%
|
Orphan (2009) |
"
Director Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax) endows this ugly mess with a slew of unintentional laughs, but not enough to repay the 123-minute time suck."
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Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 20, 2009
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