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15/100
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35%
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Larry Crowne (2011) |
"
It's a movie about starting over when you're past your prime, a message that must also be an analogy for its aging stars. But it only proves that some stars should just bow out when they have nothing else going for them."
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AskMen.com
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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1/5
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8%
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The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
When Robert DeNiro says things like "poon job," it hurts our ears and probably leaves a bad taste in his mouth."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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1/5
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4%
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Movie 43 (2013) |
"
From the outtakes in the credits, it's obvious the stars are enjoying themselves. Too bad those laughs aren't contagious."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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1/5
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18%
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Parental Guidance (2012) |
"
Parental Guidance feels like it's been thoughtlessly written in a boardroom strictly as a vehicle for Crystal to perform the same past-due routines he does at the Oscars, musical numbers and all."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Dec 25, 2012
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1/5
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39%
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Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
About as funny as being tickled by Chuck Liddell, which would really just hurt. Unfortunately for this reviewer, there was no tapping out."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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1/5
|
21%
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That's My Boy (2012) |
"
The movie hits you with so many stupid, juvenile gags that you eventually descend to its level."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 20, 2012
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1/5
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25%
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Jesus Henry Christ (2012) |
—
NOW Toronto
Posted May 25, 2012
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|
1/5
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——
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Planet Yoga (Planete Yoga) () |
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 4, 2012
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1/5
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——
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Oddsac (2010) |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Mar 2, 2012
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1/5
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40%
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French Immersion () |
"
The clash between anglophones and francophones is territory ripe for comedy, but this laboured attempt at humour doesn't bear fruit."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Oct 7, 2011
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1/5
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——
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The Corner Shop () |
"
The local amateur production deals in cheap jokes and dull stereotypes, with a little Bollywood flavour on the side."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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1/5
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38%
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Monte Carlo (2011) |
"
The luxurious Côte d'Azur town has never seemed so dull."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jul 1, 2011
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1/5
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20%
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Beastly (2011) |
"
Meant to cash in on the craze for fantasy films about hormonal teens started by a certain chick-lit vampire series, Beastly merely shows how Twilight got it right."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Mar 4, 2011
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1/5
|
3%
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Passion Play (2011) |
"
It's embarrassing for the stars because they try to take such putrid material seriously."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 13, 2010
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3/10
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37%
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Nine (2009) |
"
Lost are Fellini's autobiographical nuances, the deep philosophical and psychoanalytical ramblings, the artistic construction of identity, and the very film specific deconstruction at play. They even scrap the circus! It just makes you wonder what the poi"
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AskMen.com
Posted Dec 17, 2009
|
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32/100
|
33%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) |
"
We can't put much blame on director Rob Marshall, who was handed a series that made a splash from the get-go but sank long before arriving on Stranger Tides."
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AskMen.com
Posted May 20, 2011
|
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37/100
|
35%
|
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
"
Reimagining Abraham Lincoln as a forefather to Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a rather nifty idea. Unfortunately, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, doesn't fully sink its teeth into its fun premise."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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2/5
|
57%
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Blackbird (2013) |
"
Though I appreciate Buxton's rookie attempt to present an alternative look at teen rage, I can't help seeing that this overreaching film goes nowhere with only clichés to guide it."
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 9, 2013
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2/5
|
92%
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Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
The 3D conversion ruins everything, like the comet that killed the dinosaurs, making Jurassic Park the rare amusement I'd prefer to revisit at home."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
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2/5
|
13%
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Safe Haven (2013) |
"
The theatre will be so fertile with romance that it could pollinate a bouquet of roses."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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2/5
|
20%
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Identity Thief (2013) |
"
If Identity Thief suffers from comedic recession, Melissa McCarthy is too small a stimulus package."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Feb 9, 2013
|
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40/100
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
The redundant violence, no matter how loud and brutal it can be, lacks both tension and imagination. We get plenty of bangs without any of the requisite foreplay."
—
AskMen.com
Posted Jan 11, 2013
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2/5
|
13%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
A mediocre substitute to playing Call Of Duty."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Nov 22, 2012
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2/5
|
74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
Wraps so much kids' mythology into one holiday package that it can't avoid tangling the ribbons."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Nov 22, 2012
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2/5
|
22%
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012) |
"
For all the wisdom it may have to offer, What To Expect would rather resort to immature humour for kicks."
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 18, 2012
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2/5
|
13%
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The Bounty Hunter (2010) |
—
NOW Toronto
Posted Apr 13, 2012
|
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2/5
|
94%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
We expect more from the studio that brought us Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Feb 17, 2012
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2/5
|
67%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
There's an audience for such lazy sentimentality, which means Crowe's half-hearted attempt to revive his career might actually succeed."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Dec 16, 2011
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2/5
|
40%
|
Granito (2011) |
—
NOW Toronto
Posted Dec 2, 2011
|
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2/5
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
While My Week With Marilyn acknowledges the void between her public persona and private life, it does very little to fill it."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Nov 25, 2011
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2/5
|
25%
|
Killer Elite (2011) |
"
Though the film tries to achieve Bourne-style grit and depth, it lacks the intelligence and flair that made the Matt Damon franchise so compelling."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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2/5
|
65%
|
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) |
"
Who's the street artist behind these tiles? More importantly, who cares?"
—
NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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2/5
|
65%
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Starbuck (2013) |
"
A movie that incidentally has nothing to do with coffee except for how over-caffeinated it sometimes feels."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
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40/100
|
36%
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |
"
Spatial cohesion seems to be lost on director Michael Bay, since no one can make heads or tails of his climactic smackdowns."
—
AskMen.com
Posted Jun 28, 2011
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2/5
|
19%
|
Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (2011) |
"
Judy Moody And The NOT Bummer Summer is as manic as kids on a sugar rush and just as exhausting for the adults they're with."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 10, 2011
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2/5
|
79%
|
Small Town Murder Songs (2011) |
"
While it's easy to admire the unique stylistic accents director Ed Gass-Donnelly fearlessly applies to his northern Ontario murder mystery, it's not so easy to enjoy them."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Feb 18, 2011
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2/5
|
20%
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Peep World (2011) |
"
The fine cast tries in vain to elicit empathy for characters that are defined by their individual failures and nothing more."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 16, 2010
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2/5
|
17%
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Miral (2011) |
"
The unshapely story is pulled apart by its eagerness to focus on three different women, none of whom is given adequate depth."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 13, 2010
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2/5
|
72%
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Monsters (2010) |
"
Its critique of border controls recycles ideas from movies like Children Of Men and District 9, and its romance has as much spark as a dead battery."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 13, 2010
|
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41/100
|
26%
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This Means War (2012) |
"
This is escapist entertainment at its cheapest, with d--- jokes and all. What sells it are the performances from a cast who are far more talented than the movie and its director deserve."
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AskMen.com
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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41/100
|
44%
|
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"
[The shots in The Limits of Control are] beautiful to look at, but it all goes nowhere in a movie that's all simulacra -- all form and theory with no substance, like a shiny disco ball that reflects everything but is still empty inside."
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AskMen.com
Posted May 21, 2009
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43/100
|
23%
|
Sucker Punch (2011) |
"
The movie adopts an imaginary-world-inside-an-imaginary-world framework that will have audiences instantly recollecting Inception's dream-within-a-dream. Now all we need is for Leonardo DiCaprio to infiltrate Snyder's dream world and plant a better movie."
—
AskMen.com
Posted Mar 25, 2011
|
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44/100
|
54%
|
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010) |
"
It's predominantly a court procedural and a very redundant one, since all we're doing is re-capping what happened in the first two films and waiting two and a half hours for the verdict."
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AskMen.com
Posted Oct 29, 2010
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47/100
|
48%
|
Love and Other Drugs (2010) |
"
Anne Hathaway is easily this generation's Meryl Streep, effortlessly elevating a movie that falls flat every time it strays from her orbit."
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AskMen.com
Posted Nov 24, 2010
|
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48/100
|
35%
|
Battle: Los Angeles (2011) |
"
Neither as serious as Black Hawk Down nor as lightheartedly fun as Independence Day. "
—
AskMen.com
Posted Mar 11, 2011
|
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2/4
|
37%
|
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"
At its best, Angels & Demons is backpacker porn, taking in a whole lot of Ron Howard's digitally rendered Rome--the streets, basilicas and museums--without the long line-ups tourists usually face and having the benefit of a pulse-racing conspiracy."
—
Fresh and Frowsy
Posted May 14, 2009
|
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51/100
|
29%
|
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) |
"
What makes this icon so significant is how wholly he was embraced by the Reagan era. After all, it only seems natural to respond to B-movie action stars when your president was one as well."
—
AskMen.com
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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52/100
|
36%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
The rather clever concept is squandered in a low-rent action movie that really ends up being a waste of our time."
—
AskMen.com
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
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52/100
|
52%
|
The Next Three Days (2010) |
"
It makes you wonder why the Crash director bothers with shades of gray when his simple-minded movies can really only see in black and white."
—
AskMen.com
Posted Nov 19, 2010
|
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52/100
|
39%
|
Surrogates (2009) |
"
Imagine that your Facebook page, complete with that airbrushed profile photo, can go out into "real" society and leave you at home twiddling your fingers, living vicariously through it. That's the general concept of Surrogates, where humans stay sh"
—
AskMen.com
Posted Sep 25, 2009
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87%
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