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6%
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The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
M. Night Shyamalan's big-screen live-action version of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series constitutes a form of Chinese water torture in which tin-ear line-readings take the place of drips."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 1, 2010
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52%
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Knight & Day (2010) |
"
Knight and Day woke me up to just how awful some summer entertainments have become. It isn't that the film is harmful, except to moviegoers' wallets and movie lovers' morale, but that it is truly phenomenal for the purity of its incoherence."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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70%
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Ondine (2010) |
"
Why is the dialogue so muffled and clipped that it's hard to understand? Why didn't Mr. Jordan spend more time grounding his self-enchanted script in some semblance of reality?"
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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15%
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Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
It's an almost avant-garde adventure in aimlessness."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 28, 2010
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35%
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) |
"
Prince of Persia, a movie born of a video game, is at war with itself, and the bad guys win."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 28, 2010
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51%
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Holy Rollers (2010) |
"
The film is said to have been inspired by a true story, but the inspiration was insufficient, even though Mr. Asch has a strong sense of place and displays a confident touch with some of the action sequences."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 20, 2010
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82%
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Solitary Man (2010) |
"
Solitary Man intends to be shocking, and has been rewarded with some respectful reviews. But ticket buyer beware -- the film's real shocker is its unpleasantness."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 20, 2010
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57%
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Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) |
"
A recycling machine that recalls the high points of previous installments without demonstrating the need for a new one."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 20, 2010
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43%
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Robin Hood (2010) |
"
It's an ersatz epic about men in fights -- grim fights, grinding battles, clanking combats that are repetitive and, in a movie that runs 140 minutes, all but endless."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 13, 2010
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79%
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Mother and Child (2010) |
"
It's a case of three exceptional actresses -- Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington -- constituting an ensemble of obviousness."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 6, 2010
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73%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010) |
"
This sequel, alas, settles for old elements in a new alloy -- less iron, lots more lead and tin."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 6, 2010
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26%
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After.Life (2010) |
"
The dialogue is clumsy, the tone swings between somber and silly and the whole bizarre venture eventually succumbs to rigor mortis."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 8, 2010
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28%
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Clash of the Titans (2010) |
"
Clash of the Titans, which was directed by Louis Letterier, is strictly no-D."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 2, 2010
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63%
|
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) |
"
How bad must a movie be to be good fun? How dumb to be smart? Whatever the case, Hot Tub Time Machine doesn't make the cut."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 26, 2010
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22%
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Repo Men (2010) |
"
Repo Men is basically a soulless slasher flick, and one that demeans its gifted performers."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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53%
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Green Zone (2010) |
"
Green Zone weakens its claim to authenticity with fictional fudgings. And the weakening works both ways."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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42%
|
Brooklyn's Finest (2010) |
"
Whatever one may think of the overall style -- I think it's ludicrous -- Mr. Fuqua clearly wanted his film to be operatic, and so it is, in a tone-deaf way."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 5, 2010
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51%
|
Alice in Wonderland (2010) |
"
A succession of chases and fanciful combats, more akin to Dungeons & Dragons than to Carroll, leads to a peculiarly truncated climax. The 3-D effects are enjoyable, but the added depth can't make up for deficits in the concept or the plot."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 5, 2010
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60%
|
Frozen (2010) |
"
Adam Green's Frozen explores a tiny idea exhaustively, and I mean exhaustively."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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37%
|
From Paris with Love (2010) |
"
Mr. Morel is no Kubrick, or Tarantino, just as Mr. Travolta's caricature of John Travolta is no Travolta."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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28%
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Dear John (2010) |
"
Though Ms. Seyfried is a lovely actress, her inexperience shows in her climactic scenes, which aren't written very well to begin with, while Mr. Tatum's stolid reserve decays into dull passivity."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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22%
|
Saint John of Las Vegas (2010) |
"
The writing is semicoherent at best, and the buddies of this meandering road trip are not only mismatched but dislikable."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 29, 2010
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58%
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Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
Mr. Gibson's performance is certainly intense, but the gleeful energy he once brought to such hits as Lethal Weapon -- or even to Conspiracy Theory, an excellent flop -- has turned toxic, and his somber scourge is no fun at all."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 29, 2010
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45%
|
Creation (2010) |
"
Mr. Bettany is a fine and resourceful actor, but Creation is a battle he was doomed to lose."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 22, 2010
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27%
|
Extraordinary Measures (2010) |
"
Extraordinary Measures requires extraordinary tolerance for bathos, bombast and plain old unpleasantness."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 22, 2010
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48%
|
The Book of Eli (2010) |
"
While the religious content makes itself felt, sometimes strongly, the heavy action quotient -- the story of Eli the slasher -- tears feelings to tatters."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 14, 2010
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67%
|
Daybreakers (2010) |
"
Daybreakers finally comes up with some comments on the predatory practices of Big Pharma, but that's an awful comedown from the blood-rushing brilliance of the early scenes."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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56%
|
It's Complicated (2009) |
"
I found myself wishing for more shallows and fewer depths."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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32%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
The result is dumbfounding and ludicrous in equal measure, a too-muchness that makes the excesses of What Dreams May Come seem downright spartan."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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85%
|
Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"
Efron's fix on the period suggests a GPS struggling in a low-signal area, and the movie becomes an affectionate, name-dropping exercise in historical mutilation."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 29, 2009
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39%
|
2012 (2009) |
"
This oafish epic about the End of Days -- as predicted by the Mayan calendar -- operates in a dead zone roughly equidistant between parody and idiocy."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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19%
|
The Fourth Kind (2009) |
"
Mr. Osunsanmi's chutzpah exceeds his skill."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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52%
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"
You may wonder if this screen version of the book of the same name is as unfunny and strangely mushy as it seems, but trust your instincts."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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54%
|
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"
To put it bluntly, if Scroogely, Disney's 3-D animated version of A Christmas Carol is a calamity."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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48%
|
Ong Bak 2 (2009) |
"
Unfortunately, the movie could use a bit of pachyderm memory, given its habit of flashing back to Tien's childhood with exactly the same footage used in previous flashbacks. Instead of the narrative being deepened, it keeps getting shallowed."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 22, 2009
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21%
|
Amelia (2009) |
"
Amelia leaves you wondering how its abundantly gifted director, Mira Nair, and its Oscar-winning star, Hilary Swank, could have been complicit in such clumsiness."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 22, 2009
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36%
|
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"
What's remarkable here is the consistency of the mediocrity, the uniform fraudulence of the minipremises, the reliable awkwardness of such almost-English lines as "Your eyes would suffice to give tired men hope.""
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 15, 2009
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58%
|
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"
Mr. Gervais's long-established gift for small-screen comedy goes terribly slack, leaving him likable, as always, but, on the big screen, looking lost."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 2, 2009
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89%
|
A Serious Man (2009) |
"
What do the Coen brothers want of us? More specifically, what do they want us to think of the repellent people in this pitilessly bleak movie?"
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 2, 2009
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78%
|
The Informant! (2009) |
"
Mr. Damon plays it admirably straight, for the most part, thereby serving as a counterweight to the clamorous self-delight that surrounds him. Unfortunately, that's not enough to save the production..."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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74%
|
Cold Souls (2009) |
"
The more elaborate the plot becomes, the sillier it gets."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 6, 2009
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75%
|
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"
The joys of the Julia parts are cumulative, and addictive. The Julie parts keep forcing us to go cold turkey."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 6, 2009
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94%
|
The Cove (2009) |
"
The film makes its case graphically, to say the least, yet muddies its bloody waters with an excess of artifice and a dearth of facts."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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68%
|
Funny People (2009) |
"
The denizens of Judd Apatow's Funny People have been pulled every which way to fit a misshapen concept, yet they remain painfully unfunny, and consistently off-putting."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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87%
|
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"
For all its ambitiousness, (500) Days of Summer feels synthetic and derivative, a movie that's popping with perceptions while searching for a style."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 16, 2009
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84%
|
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"
Potions play a pivotal part in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and I wish I'd been able to find one for patience."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 16, 2009
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67%
|
Brüno (2009) |
"
It's an exercise in offensiveness, an exploration of over-the-topness and a gleeful working of both sides of the street. What brings Brüno down, though, is sinful behavior. Mr. Baron Cohen commits the cardinal sin of unfunniness."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 9, 2009
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48%
|
La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) (2009) |
"
The film, having paraded itself fairly clumsily as a romantic comedy with psychological twists, turns absurdly serious on the treacherous roads that hug Monaco's cliffs."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 2, 2009
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45%
|
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Ice Age 3) (2009) |
"
There's a sense of ineptness in a script that constantly reaches, with only modest success, for amusing things that the mammoths and their friends can do."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 2, 2009
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|
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68%
|
Public Enemies (2009) |
"
Our connections with Public Enemies remain abstract. The darkness and the distance kill the fun."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 2, 2009
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