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4%
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A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) |
"
A moment of silence, please, for Kate Hudson's career."
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Salon.com
Posted May 3, 2012
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93%
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50/50 (2011) |
"
What ensues is "Beaches" meets "Pineapple Express." Which, I've got to tell you, is pretty much what living with cancer is like."
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Salon.com
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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17%
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I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) |
"
What the hell happened to Sarah Jessica Parker?"
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Salon.com
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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90%
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Bridesmaids (2011) |
"
It's a movie that succeeds, often beautifully, not by forcing its characters to be as naughty and gross and pathetic as men are. It soars by letting them be as naughty and gross and pathetic as women are. Three cheers for equality."
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Salon.com
Posted May 10, 2011
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61%
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Water for Elephants (2011) |
"
The problem isn't just miscasting or the cheesiness of the material. It's Pattinson's increasingly predictable, dour persona."
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Salon.com
Posted Apr 21, 2011
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67%
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The Karate Kid (2010) |
"
It was resonant in the gung-ho '80s, and it's a notion every generation deserves to discover anew. Based on the young Smith's considerable wattage, this Kid may just surpass the original."
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Salon.com
Posted Jun 11, 2010
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58%
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Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010) |
"
Like last year's Up, this isn't merely a cute kid's movie with funny one-liners and adorable critters. It's a soulful meditation on the age-old question: Is that all there is?"
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Salon.com
Posted May 21, 2010
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41%
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Letters to Juliet (2010) |
"
Letters to Juliet is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy -- and I mean that in a good way."
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Salon.com
Posted May 13, 2010
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67%
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Date Night (2010) |
"
What comes as a welcome surprise is how Date Night manages to make sport of romantic movie conventions without being mean about them."
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Salon.com
Posted Apr 9, 2010
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49%
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) |
"
When the movie slows down to catch its breath, there's very little of the heart and soul -- and wry wit -- that make the Riordan books so beloved."
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Salon.com
Posted Feb 11, 2010
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12%
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
"
While it fails on nearly every conceivable level, as a textbook case in everything contemptible in the studio system, Did You Hear About the Morgans? is as good as it gets."
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Salon.com
Posted Dec 21, 2009
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84%
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The Princess and the Frog (2009) |
"
The sweetest, most sincere romantic comedy to come along in ages, and a luminous love letter to a great American city."
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Salon.com
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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53%
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Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"
Have we learned nothing from The Klumps?"
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Salon.com
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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35%
|
Pride and Glory (2008) |
"
What makes the characters in Pride and Glory real -- and raises the movie above the standard corrupt-cop fare -- is their capacity to live and die in shades of gray."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 24, 2008
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37%
|
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) |
"
Like the characters it portrays, How to Lose Friends eventually becomes the very thing it mocks, its delectable naughtiness sacrificed to sentiment and audience appeal."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 3, 2008
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19%
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Righteous Kill (2008) |
"
Director Jon Avnet generously puts the actors together as often as possible, and the sheer satisfaction of watching Michael Corleone and Travis Bickle spark off each other almost mitigates the utter hokum that permeates every other element of the film."
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Salon.com
Posted Sep 12, 2008
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13%
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The Women (2008) |
"
You go, girls. Preferably as far away as possible."
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Salon.com
Posted Sep 12, 2008
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18%
|
The Happening (2008) |
"
Shyamalan's such an eager recycler, grinding out the same ideas and images again and again. The man who showed such promise less than a decade ago has been leaving a diminishing creative footprint ever since."
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Salon.com
Posted Jun 13, 2008
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27%
|
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"
You'd think the combination of Diaz, Kutcher and Vegas would be good for at least a little sexy, silly fun. But don't bet on it."
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Salon.com
Posted May 9, 2008
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79%
|
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) |
"
doesn't have the brisk economy of the original book, but the animated Horton feels nevertheless close to the sweet, quirky heart of Dr. Seuss."
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Salon.com
Posted Mar 14, 2008
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71%
|
Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
"
Definitely, Maybe isn't a particularly good movie. It's hard to make either romance or comedy out of relationship wreckage, not to mention career ennui, and the pace is often meandering and sulky."
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Salon.com
Posted Feb 14, 2008
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41%
|
27 Dresses (2008) |
"
The biggest disappointment of 27 Dresses is that it inhabits a Harlequin romance New York City, one remarkably short on homosexuals and divorce."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 18, 2008
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20%
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The Invasion (2007) |
"
Gratuitously violent [and] soullessly brain dead."
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Salon.com
Posted Aug 16, 2007
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7%
|
License to Wed (2007) |
"
Despite its fuzzy, getting-to-know-you message, the movie itself offers zero motivation for any of its protagonists."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 6, 2007
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71%
|
Baby Boy (2001) |
"
[Jody's] lessons on growing up and moving on never ring more than halfhearted and false."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 6, 2001
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62%
|
Music of the Heart (1999) |
"
Another utterly bland lump of Hollywood crapola."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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97%
|
The Iron Giant (1999) |
"
The metal-machine sci-fi cartoon delivers robot action, retro nostalgia and stony metaphysics."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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75%
|
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999) |
"
We've heard it all before, and usually with a slightly more comprehensible accent."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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14%
|
Dudley Do-Right (1999) |
"
In the end, it's neither Dudley Do-Right nor Do-Wrong, but merely Dudley Do-Just-So-So."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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48%
|
The Way of the Gun (2000) |
"
McQuarrie has inserted some of the most groan-worthy dialogue outside of the porn world."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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45%
|
Holy Smoke! (2000) |
"
Campion, who co-wrote the script with her sister Anna, appears to have spent so much time and energy creating Ruth that she didn't have anything left over for rest of the characters."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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92%
|
Election (1999) |
"
A tart study in teacher-student relations, adolescent pecking orders and the nasty vicissitudes of living in a world of haves and have-nots."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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—
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50%
|
Any Given Sunday (1999) |
"
It's super revved up, high-intensity tedium all right, but tedium nonetheless."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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7%
|
Woo (1998) |
"
Woo may be as skimpy as a sequined halter top, but it's undeniably appealing nonetheless."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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80%
|
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) |
"
Dark, bitingly funny!"
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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45%
|
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) |
"
Uninspired, recycled!"
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
—
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16%
|
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) |
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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9%
|
The Bachelor (1999) |
"
The Bachelor doesn't generate enough laughs or sighs to hold together."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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50%
|
Original Gangstas (1996) |
"
Where Original Gangstas works is in its understanding that the stars are playing the characters they created 25 years ago as their older selves."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4%
|
The Mod Squad (1999) |
"
Is it possible to try too hard without making any effort whatsoever? Because that seems to be the one slim accomplishment of The Mod Squad."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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74%
|
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) |
"
The illusion that it's just a bunch of wiseguys making fun of a movie is what prevails. It's a pretty impressive special effect."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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73%
|
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) |
"
By sticking faithfully to the broader themes of Hugo's story -- those of desolation and desire, of trust and betrayals thereof -- the creators have fashioned the most poignant and deeply moral story to roll off the Disney storyboards in decades."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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61%
|
American Pie (1999) |
"
Some of it does manage to be quite funny; some of it just lies there, all by itself, without even trying to wrap itself around a joke."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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64%
|
Anywhere But Here (2000) |
"
Sarandon is good, but Portman is astonishing."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
85%
|
Billy Elliot (2000) |
"
A surprisingly wise and funny meditation on the nature of what it truly means to be a man."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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9%
|
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) |
"
It's predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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32%
|
Superstar (1999) |
"
Superstar may not be the most unnecessary movie of the year, but it's got to rank right up there."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
36%
|
Psycho (1998) |
"
Van Sant clearly knows that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and his own smooth touch is neatly sympathetic with his predecessor's."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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61%
|
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) |
"
Debut film director Gil Junger may be a TV veteran making a movie for the Clearasil crowd, but he doesn't sacrifice the story to gimmicky camerawork or overzealous pacing."
—
Salon.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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79%
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