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3/10
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35%
|
Larry Crowne (2011) |
"
Could have been a solid, straightforward rom com coasting on likable leads; half-hearted additions trying to link the movie to economic crisis just detract."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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|
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77%
|
I'm Not There (2007) |
"
I'm Not There may inspire great movies, but doesn't have the discipline to be one itself."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 25, 2007
|
|
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45%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007) |
"
The wild, unstoppable commercial success of the Pirates franchise has freed Verbinski to spend a lot of time on flights of fancy and mythological asides."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 10, 2007
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|
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70%
|
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
"
A subpar A-Team episode with George Clooney as Face."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
|
90%
|
Knocked Up (2007) |
"
Goodhearted and refreshingly messy."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
|
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7%
|
License to Wed (2007) |
"
Forget blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, wasting our time with License to Wed is the one unpardonable sin."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 8, 2007
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——
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The Damned (These Are the Damned) (1963) |
"
Slow-building but creepy story of biker pug uglies, radiation poisoning, and prissy Brit schoolkids."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 8, 2007
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|
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23%
|
Evan Almighty (2007) |
"
Feebleminded slapdashery."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 23, 2007
|
|
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56%
|
Keeping Mum (2006) |
"
Maggie Smith is like Mary Poppins...with a meat ax. Serial Grandmom strikes again."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 7, 2006
|
|
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46%
|
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"
Bad News Bears is a late summer hoot, and hopefully what your kids are really seeing when they tell you they're going to Sky High."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 7, 2005
|
|
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——
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Leap Year () |
"
Slow-moving silent comedy which didn't get screened for sixty years because of Arbuckle's scandal; mainly of historical interest."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 7, 2005
|
|
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72%
|
Primer (2004) |
"
I didn't understand Primer; worse yet, I didn't care."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 1, 2005
|
|
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45%
|
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"
Preposterous, slow, and unimaginative."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 20, 2005
|
|
|
88%
|
College (1927) |
"
Madcap fun as the supremely athletic Keaton plays a bookworm who, for love of a jock-loving girl, tries but fails heroically at every possible sport in every possible way."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 19, 2005
|
|
|
88%
|
Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990) |
"
Superb thriller scored to Eurotrash synth pop, La Femme Nikita sets out a whole world of espionage and violence, and engages with a wild yet sympathetic lead."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 4, 2005
|
|
|
83%
|
Finding Neverland (2004) |
"
A celebration of artistry, not as mere ornament, but as the very stuff of life."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
92%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
Mystery of the Universe #237: the same Clint Eastwood who once co-starred with an orangutan is now America's finest director of tragedy."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
88%
|
Bad Education (La Mala educación) (2004) |
"
Sexy and complicated as between its adult leads, Bad Education also marks the most insightful critique yet of the pedophile scandals in the Catholic Church."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
81%
|
Ray (2004) |
"
Yet another ho-hum man of genius biopic, showcasing a scenery-chewing lead-behaving-badly, shoddy Freudian psychoanalysis, and cliche bottom-of-the-ninth redemption."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
96%
|
Sideways (2004) |
"
A funny, heartfelt coming-of-middle-age story by, for, and about snobs."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
69%
|
Carandiru (2004) |
"
Humanity struggles out from under a maximally oppressive system, commenting by haunting metaphor on life outside the prison walls."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
0%
|
Mars Needs Women (1966) |
"
If Plan 10 From Outer Space, a.k.a. Mars Needs Women, doesn't tickle your funnybone, you really don't have one."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
|
17%
|
Gacy (2003) |
"
Gacy channels its horror through bicentennial suburban kitsch, clowns-in-the-closet visuals, and a heaving, foul, maggot-carpeted crawlspace deep with death and lies."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Dec 31, 2004
|
|
|
21%
|
Caligula (1979) |
"
Caligula turns the Julian dynasty's most violent chapter into a sleazy snoozefest. Even the Penthouse Pets look pained to be decorating this historic bomb."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 25, 2004
|
|
|
49%
|
Alfie (2004) |
"
What at first seems a glossy ad for the swinging single life gradually reveals itself as an stinging indictment of the emotional impotent."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 17, 2004
|
|
|
10%
|
Taxi (2004) |
"
License revoked."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Oct 16, 2004
|
|
|
69%
|
Porn Star - The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001) |
"
Porn Star runs out of insight and surprises long before the closing credits roll."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Oct 2, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
——
|
Reno 911! - The Complete First Season (2004) |
"
Brilliant. Reno 911! makes up for all those horribly unfunny Police Academy movies."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
96%
|
The Lion in Winter (1968) |
"
A must-see for perhaps the most scathing verbal pyrotechnics ever committed to film."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
Pink Flamingos (1972) |
"
The alpha and omega of shock filmmaking."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
89%
|
The Mouse That Roared (1959) |
"
A welcome return to a more innocent time in geopolitics. Also be sure to catch the mod! fab! DVD preview for Dr. Strangelove."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
40%
|
Bounce - Behind the Velvet Rope (2000) |
"
Self-important knuckleheads bloviate on club life. Though docs are reknown as tools to create empathy, Bounce merely confirms the worst prejudices of its audience."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
96%
|
Goldfinger (1964) |
"
Goldfinger remains the gold standard for the Bond movies. Recent entries can't compare to this lustrous thriller, a throwback to when the term "thriller" had meaning."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
57%
|
Kurt & Courtney (1998) |
"
Unenlightening."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) |
"
Arranged in short episodes, each composed entirely of awkward and embarassed conversation between midlevel celebs, Coffee and Cigarettes entertains fitfully."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
|
71%
|
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"
With wit as dry as the chapped lips of a constant mouth-breather, Napoleon Dynamite finds moments of painful reserve even in slapstick."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 4, 2004
|
|
|
95%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
Truly beautiful, but undeniably resigned to peace through tyranny."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 4, 2004
|
|
|
76%
|
L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment) (2003) |
"
European Union navel-gazing plus braying youth worship equals L' Auberge Espagnol."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 1, 2004
|
|
|
79%
|
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2002) |
"
Stoked gives a young woman's rape and murder almost no narrative weight -- it is merely the disappointing spoiler to a talented skateboarder's career."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Sep 1, 2004
|
|
|
——
|
Westray () |
"
Westray explains in painful detail how communities will themselves into fatal ignorance."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
|
81%
|
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) |
"
Bourne himself hovers above mere physical threats, draining this action movie of any urgency."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Thelma & Louise (1991) |
"
Super-charged, Amazonian feminism hijacks the caper, buddy, revenge, and road trip genres. One hell of a ride."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 8, 2004
|
|
|
72%
|
Bonhoeffer (2003) |
"
Bonhoeffer follows the life of one prominent churchman as he develops an ethics to nourish the anti-Nazi resistence."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 8, 2004
|
|
|
100%
|
A Nous la Liberté (Liberty for Us) (1931) |
"
The French have no equal when it comes to perfectly aligned bottom-kicking, showing revulsion at the ill-breeding of others, or performing semi-socialist slapstick."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Aug 7, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
74%
|
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) |
"
Once every summer season, the Holy Grail appears on screen. In 2004, it came as a steaming sack of tiny square burgers, the good end to a long, superb stoner road revue."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 5, 2004
|
|
|
71%
|
Cold Mountain (2003) |
"
Cold Mountain is one cold teat -- tough and lifeless, yielding nothing. When even a semi-nude Jude Law can't save a movie, it's time to go direct to video."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 31, 2004
|
|
|
43%
|
The Village (2004) |
"
Don't go to The Village to be surprised, shocked, waylaid or titillated. Go to think hard about the human project."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 30, 2004
|
|
|
2%
|
The Master of Disguise (2002) |
"
Master of Disguise may be a real hoot, if you're under 10 years old, or drunk, or both. Not a bad time-waster on a rainy Sunday, but a time-waster nonetheless."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 25, 2004
|
|
|
——
|
Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (1994) |
"
Easily the worst in a miserable franchise, Mission to Moscow makes Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol look like Battleship Potemkin."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 24, 2004
|
|
|
0%
|
Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege (1989) |
"
Par for the Academy course, the comedy is so-so but the 'action' sequences are dull beyond belief."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 24, 2004
|
79%
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