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0/4
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20%
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) |
"
Nominally a gross-out guy-bonding comedy, the film often feels like an attempt to establish an insanity motive for some future crime."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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0/4
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33%
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40 Is the New 20 (2009) |
"
Charmless, aimless and a waste of a cast that, in other contexts, has done good work, 40 Is the New 20 is the new zero."
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 28, 2009
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0/4
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11%
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) |
"
This film is an appallingly unscrupulous example of hack propaganda and it sucketh mightily. What's more, I didn't laugh once."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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0/4
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1%
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Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"
About as much fun as being given a wedgie and hung from the camp flagpole."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 8, 2007
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0/4
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17%
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Georgia Rule (2007) |
"
Not to excuse her apparent lack of professionalism, but can you blame Lohan for showing up to work in bad shape?"
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 11, 2007
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0/4
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——
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White Coats (2006) |
"
The hospital comedy Intern Academy isn't just a dud, it's a depressing one."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 12, 2004
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0/4
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0%
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National Lampoon's Going the Distance (2004) |
"
An inexplicably dated, sexist Porky's knock-off."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 20, 2004
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0/4
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10%
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) |
"
Feels like the longest movie ever made."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 13, 2003
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0/4
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8%
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Valentine (2001) |
"
In the new teen slasher flick Valentine, a public-school nerd, now grown up, seeks to systematically murder all the girls who wouldn't dance with him at the Grade 6 Valentine's dance. Or maybe that's not what happens. It ís hard to tell."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 25, 2003
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0/4
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15%
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Dead Man on Campus (1998) |
"
If you have a roommate you really want to see suffer, here's a suggestion: Buy him or her a ticket to Dead Man on Campus."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 12, 2002
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0/4
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3%
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McHale's Navy (1997) |
"
A useless movie. Not funny, suspenseful, moving or even offensive enough to want to torpedo. Just devoid of any conceivable value."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 12, 2002
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0/4
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14%
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Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew (1999) |
"
The wisdom of putting bad experiences behind us never rang more true than after viewing this movie. Avoiding it though, may be impossible, so be prepared."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 5, 2002
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0/4
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9%
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Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"
This review is written in a state of posttraumatic shock."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 22, 2002
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1/4
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31%
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Austenland (2013) |
"
The acting throughout falls into two registers; pantomime mugging for most of the cast, while the romantic leads, Russell and Feild, look so ill at ease that you pity them."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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1/4
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12%
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
Mortal Instruments manages to occupy 130 minutes of frantic, numbing, activity."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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1/4
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14%
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The Colony (2013) |
"
It's reminiscent of the more embarrassing excesses of the tax-shelter movies of 30 years ago."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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1/4
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9%
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The Host (2013) |
"
Ronan, youthfully elegant as always, tries hard, but the material defeats her."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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1/4
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59%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
A Blunder-full Blizzard of Blahs."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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1/4
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15%
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
The movie settles for showers of gore with intermittent moments of spoofiness."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 4, 2013
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1/4
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38%
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink () |
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 27, 2012
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1/4
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33%
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The Lady (2012) |
"
The Lady is a slog, a two-and-a-half hour, painted-on-wood exercise in political iconography."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 27, 2012
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1/4
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0%
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A Thousand Words (2012) |
"
The idea of taking one of Hollywood's best-known motor-mouths and reducing him to mugging and charades is definitely novel - and utterly misguided."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 9, 2012
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1/4
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2%
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One for the Money (2012) |
"
One for the Money is tepidly glib throughout. Even violent murders are followed by wisecracks or another prurient opportunity to ogle Heigl's behind and cleavage."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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1/4
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11%
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) |
"
Made on the cheap with no-name stars, this is no better than a stilted anachronistic curiosity, a low-rent version of the eighties' prime-time soap Dallas, with the industrial concerns and sexual mores of 1950s, all, somehow, set in 2016."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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1/4
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4%
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Abduction (2011) |
"
Whether the fault was haste or cynicism, Abduction feels like a movie designed to ride on the back of Twilight's phenomenal success, with held noses and paycheques all around."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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1/4
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——
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The Unleashed (2012) |
"
Has an amateurish script, and is directed as a sequence of jump scares and hokey special effects, and features acting that, at best, is sincerely awkward."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 8, 2011
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1/4
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88%
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Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2011) |
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 8, 2011
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1/4
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——
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The Future Is Now! () |
"
The viewer's attention is torn between the breezy philosophical chat and a sense of awe at the filmmakers' travel budget."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 24, 2011
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1/4
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18%
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The Art of Getting By (2011) |
"
The vapidity of The Art of Getting By goes beyond the anthill-sized dramatic stakes. The dialogue, while occasionally epigrammatic, is tone-deaf to individual speech rhythms."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 17, 2011
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1/4
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0%
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Loose Cannons (1990) |
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 10, 2011
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1/4
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11%
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil (2011) |
"
Full of manic momentum and nattering, witless word play, the movie has all the charm of a mudslide."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 29, 2011
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1/4
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——
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Sweet Karma (2011) |
"
Sweet Karma suffers from its generic predictability."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 11, 2011
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1/4
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0%
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Nutcracker in 3D (2010) |
"
One of the most misguided children's films ever made."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 3, 2010
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1/4
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15%
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Skyline (2010) |
"
The only fascinating thing about Skyline is that that such a mad muddle of a movie can even exists in an era of corporate homogeneity and purported quality-controlled."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 12, 2010
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1/4
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32%
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For Colored Girls (2010) |
"
The film is a mawkish mess, only occasionally alleviated by the performances or Shange's poetry."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 5, 2010
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1/4
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53%
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I'm Still Here (2010) |
"
No doubt what we witness is a performance for the camera, but with what motivation? Or is the hoax a hoax?"
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 18, 2010
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1/4
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28%
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010) |
"
All this sets us up for a "twist" ending, but if you don't predict it a half-hour before its revelation, you surely must have nodded off during baseball practice."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 30, 2010
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51%
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Holy Rollers (2010) |
"
The scenes of family conflict are sketchily dramatized. We never get to the place where the two parts of Sam's personality meet -- the devoted son and sharp-dealing criminal."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 18, 2010
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1/4
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8%
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Furry Vengeance (2010) |
"
The paradox here is that the message of respect for animal life is outweighed by the lack of respect for human beings."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 30, 2010
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1/4
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19%
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The Back-up Plan (2010) |
"
The Back-up Plan feels like a movie aimed right at the funny bones of four-year-olds."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 23, 2010
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1/4
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22%
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Repo Men (2010) |
"
Alternately smirking and dully disgusting."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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1/4
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13%
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The Bounty Hunter (2010) |
"
The story of a bail enforcer who captures his newspaper-reporter ex-wife manages to be both formulaic and patchwork, with whatever twinkles that exist between the stars eclipsed by the overall crudeness."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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At Home By Myself...With You () |
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The script doesn't really get to its emotional core - the battle between security and growth - until the third act. All the interim juvenile nonsense about treasure hunts, stuffed animals and lobsters is a big cutesy-poo exercise in distraction."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 5, 2010
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1/4
|
23%
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Saint John of Las Vegas (2010) |
"
A funereally unfunny comedy by debut writer-director Hue Rhodes."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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1/4
|
37%
|
From Paris with Love (2010) |
"
Desperately unoriginal."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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Grown Up Movie Star (2009) |
"
Grown Up Movie Star is an awkward mixture of an emotionally intimate coming-of-age story and contrived serio-comic plotting."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 29, 2010
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1/4
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21%
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Leap Year (2010) |
"
The most charming of actors can be left flailing in the face of a feeble script and direction."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 8, 2010
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1/4
|
12%
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
"
If you are expecting a pleasant evening of escapism, you will be cruelly fooled. The editor responsible for the trailer is clearly a genius."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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1/4
|
5%
|
Old Dogs (2009) |
"
The timing of the comic set-ups is consistently amateurish, as if scenes were edited with hedge clippers, with the actors mugging frantically, waiting for the take to end."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 25, 2009
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1/4
|
19%
|
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"
There's a lesson behind Gentlemen Broncos, the new film from director Jared Hess: Don't try to mock above your talent level."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 6, 2009
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