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.5/4
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9%
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Norbit (2007) |
"
This borderline-PG-13 comedy demands the sort of sociological scrutiny that often has the moviegoer looking for a fun night out rolling her eyes. And granting Norbit consideration feels like swinging a sledgehammer at a microbe."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 9, 2007
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1/4
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34%
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Hall Pass (2011) |
"
"Something about Mary" seems a lifetime ago."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 25, 2011
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1/4
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21%
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Next Day Air (2009) |
"
Stripped of f-bombs and b-words, Blair Cobb's screenplay could make a fortune- cookie threat. "You will see a bad movie today.""
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Denver Post
Posted May 8, 2009
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1/4
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51%
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Observe and Report (2009) |
"
Meet mall cop Paul Blart's evil, unfunny twin."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 10, 2009
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1/4
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25%
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Friday the 13th (2009) |
"
This film is so last-century."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 13, 2009
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1/4
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27%
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What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"
Who knew the title wasn't simply clever (inviting the rejoiner 'stays in Vegas') but a dire warning of a bad movie ahead?"
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Denver Post
Posted May 9, 2008
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1/4
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14%
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) |
"
In the spirit of uncivil unions, I now denounce you, Chuck & Larry."
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 20, 2007
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19%
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I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"
Directed and written by the talented comic, the movie suffers from the overblown notes of a punch-line-driven routine."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 16, 2007
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5%
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THR3E (2007) |
"
Directed by Robby Henson, this theologically driven thriller from 20th Century Fox's Fox Faith division, steps gingerly around sex and watches its tongue. But it's far too comfy with the lingua franca of American cinema: violence."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 5, 2007
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1/4
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27%
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Waist Deep (2006) |
"
By teasing us with potential meaning only to embrace wanton gunplay, Waist Deep betrays thinking members in the audience."
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Denver Post
Posted Jun 23, 2006
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1/4
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60%
|
Hostel (2006) |
"
[The film] willfully takes us someplace cruel -- and deeply unfunny. Just because that's Roth's intention doesn't mean his movie is any good."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 6, 2006
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34%
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Eros (2004) |
"
It is fairly melancholy news that the works of two of Antonioni's admirers outshine the master's segment."
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 8, 2005
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46%
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Dark Water (2005) |
"
The film's greatest mystery turns out to be: Why, with so much talent, does Dark Water never cross the tipping point?"
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 8, 2005
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24%
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The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"
Since Scream poured irony into the mix, it has become mighty hard to write a line of dialogue that doesn't elicit winks and nods. We all know where the mayhem's leading."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 15, 2005
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38%
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Birth (2004) |
"
A mess, elegant at times, but a mess nonetheless."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 29, 2004
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39%
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The Grudge (2004) |
"
We need to care about Karen. That we never quite do isn't scary. It's merely disappointing."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 22, 2004
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7%
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Kaena - The Prophecy (Kaena: La prophétie) (2004) |
"
It's a valiant effort, if not quite successful."
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 2, 2004
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|
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15%
|
White Chicks (2004) |
"
Had White Chicks been funnier, smarter, there might have been some subversive value in seeing what the Wayans made of the absurd social rituals of white elites."
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Denver Post
Posted Jun 23, 2004
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|
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62%
|
An Amazing Couple (Un couple épatant) (2004) |
"
This comedy built around marital misunderstanding is the weak link."
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Denver Post
Posted May 7, 2004
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11%
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New York Minute (2004) |
"
Put the blame on a script that maims the movie's middling intentions by playing New York City's ethnic vibrancy as either obvious joke or more obvious menace."
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Denver Post
Posted May 7, 2004
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23%
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Torque (2004) |
"
For all the fast cuts, the furious vibes, the faux sexiness, Torque is canned and mighty flat."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 16, 2004
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65%
|
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"
Nearly all of The Last Samurai's deficiencies spring from the screenplay... As respectful as it is about the similarities of different cultures, it also doesn't quite elude an aura of noble otherness."
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Denver Post
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
Alex Cross (2012) |
"
For a franchise with an off-the-charts nuanced thinker as its protagonist, Alex Cross isn't very smart."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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|
1.5/4
|
15%
|
Something Borrowed (2011) |
"
The movie strains far too hard to make what Rachel and Dex have done all right, as if their guilty anguish - and the movie's saccharine score - frees us to root for them."
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Denver Post
Posted May 6, 2011
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1.5/4
|
43%
|
The Green Hornet (2011) |
"
Despite its obvious angling to become a franchise, this Green Hornet offers little that's worth committing to even the "cult flick" chamber of your brain."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 21, 2011
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|
1.5/4
|
49%
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No Strings Attached (2011) |
"
It's not that the leads aren't affable. They are. It's not that they aren't nice to look at. They are. (Although the cinematography makes them look sort of blotchy.) It's just hard to care if they hook up after they, well, hook up."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 21, 2011
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1.5/4
|
43%
|
The Extra Man (2010) |
"
Dano and Kline are very fine performers. So why is this comedy such a chore? The answer appears to be whimsy overload."
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Denver Post
Posted Aug 20, 2010
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1.5/4
|
61%
|
Frozen (2010) |
"
Tthe script is clunky, the acting strained. Too bad. Underlying the life-and-death thriller are notions about the ways coupledom changes and challenges friendships."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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1.5/4
|
18%
|
The Tooth Fairy (2010) |
"
The marvelously handsome wrestler-turned-actor -- proving once again better than the material he takes -- dons tights and a baby-blue satin tunic in the slight family comedy Tooth Fairy."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 22, 2010
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1.5/4
|
12%
|
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
"
Yes, comedies thrive on broad strokes. But selling Americans lame images of one another as if we haven't traversed the country (if not in actuality, via television and film) is dispiriting."
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Denver Post
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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1.5/4
|
14%
|
I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) |
"
Like the high school's bison mascot, this romp is lean on fresh laughs."
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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1.5/4
|
67%
|
Brüno (2009) |
"
For all his idiocy, Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev was a more likable jester than Brüno, who is the sum of his nether parts. One is a naif in a strange land. One is a jerk no matter where he travels."
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Denver Post
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
The Informers (2009) |
"
Ellis's big notions are less insightful than they pretend to be."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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1.5/4
|
55%
|
17 Again (2009) |
"
If you're looking for the performance that might one day be characterized as Efron's embarrassing breakout role, this is a good bet."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 17, 2009
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1.5/4
|
58%
|
Taken (2009) |
"
Taken is an exploitation thriller, the sort of studio pic that seizes the worst the world has to offer (the sex-slave outrages that The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof exposed so brilliantly) to bolster its rote rhythms."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 30, 2009
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|
1.5/4
|
43%
|
Chandni Chowk To China (2009) |
"
Chandni has martial- arts montages and Bollywood song-and-dance numbers. As tacky as the latter are, they're the sweet -- and only? -- draw of the movie. They also give this slight comedy-adventure its epic and unearned length."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 16, 2009
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|
1.5/4
|
10%
|
Bride Wars (2009) |
"
The film wanly tries to build a case for their two very different, yet complementary, personalities but falls back on slapstick. The filmmakers make thankfully swift work of the tale in just under 90 minutes."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 9, 2009
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|
1.5/4
|
59%
|
W. (2008) |
"
Despite a talented cast that includes James Cromwell as George H.W. Bush, a.k.a. 'Poppy', and Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell, W. achieves the depth of a TV miniseries."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 17, 2008
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|
1.5/4
|
36%
|
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) |
"
Even the ginger-haired Brit can't rescue this moviefrom being both manic and flat. Nor can the deployment of Kirsten Dunst to play Sidney's nemesis and possible love interest."
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Denver Post
Posted Oct 3, 2008
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|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
The Women (2008) |
"
In spite of the casting and honorable revamps, it feels more dated than the 1939 original did for its time period."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 12, 2008
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|
1.5/4
|
14%
|
The Love Guru (2008) |
"
When Pitka ends his bite-size lessons with 'TM,' we should understand it's not meditation but branding he's after."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jun 20, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
37%
|
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
Evidently there's something even harder to pull off than Middle Eastern peace: a steady run of jokes that deserve our laughter -- if You Don't Mess With the Zohan is an indicator."
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Denver Post
Posted Jun 6, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"
Technically, it's not a foul to shoot a stupid sports comedy. In fact, it's becoming something of a routine maneuver for Will Ferrell."
—
Denver Post
Posted Feb 29, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
11%
|
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"
Perfect Stranger, the new thriller starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, is far from perfect and, lame as it is, not quite lousy enough to pan with joy."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 13, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
19%
|
Factory Girl (2007) |
"
Thanks to the flashy work of the film's two editors and cinematographer, style trumps substance. Or perhaps it merely masks the lack of it."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 16, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
19%
|
The Last Sin Eater (2007) |
"
The film's rhythm drags. And [director] Landon uses the 'when in doubt, pump up the score' method for signaling Cadi's emotions."
—
Denver Post
Posted Feb 9, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
37%
|
Death of a President (2006) |
"
There's a cowardice at work here. Playing with the powerful tools of documentary, it poses as artistically courageous when it's often little more than a muddied if familiar meditation on the sorry state of affairs the U.S. finds itself in in Iraq."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 27, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
74%
|
Monster House (2006) |
"
Monster House never pulls off this transit of kiddie fright to delight and back. Yet there is plenty here to dread. The movie is a creepfest. And I don't mean that kindly."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jul 21, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
7%
|
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"
Basic Instinct 2 seems aimed at two audiences: men in raincoats in dark theaters and graduate students in film studies."
—
Denver Post
Posted Mar 31, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
16%
|
xXx: State of the Union (2005) |
"
A humorless foray of noise and fast-cuts signifying nothing much."
—
Denver Post
Posted Apr 29, 2005
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