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1/4
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4%
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The Apparition (2012) |
"
Between Lincoln's ineptitude and the vacant prettiness of Greene and Stan, "The Apparition" becomes just a pile of false starts and dead ends that never build to anything truly frightening. "
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 25, 2012
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1/4
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51%
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The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
I was hoping for one good joke, one gut-busting bit of slapstick - any sign that there's some small amount of brainpower backing up the silliness. But there was nothing."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted May 4, 2012
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1/4
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0%
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A Thousand Words (2012) |
"
The sort of awful formulaic crud that 30 Rock brilliantly mocked just before Leap Day."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Mar 28, 2012
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1/4
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0%
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The Undefeated (2011) |
"
After proclaiming that Palin is a woman of substance, in the end Bannon's movie is all about her style"
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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1/4
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36%
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |
"
An empty-headed special-effects monstrosity that's just as incoherent, offensive and stupid as Revenge of the Fallen."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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1/4
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9%
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Marmaduke (2010) |
"
The only revelation in this movie is that stilted dialogue doesn't sound any better coming out of a computer-animated dog's mouth than a human's."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 4, 2010
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1/4
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19%
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The Back-up Plan (2010) |
"
[Lopez] has no flair for physical comedy, no chemistry with O'Loughlin, and no clue that she needs to sacrifice her glamour for the sake of comedy."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Apr 23, 2010
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1/4
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19%
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Cop Out (2010) |
"
Maybe they were having fun, but it didn't transfer to anything an audience will enjoy."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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1/4
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45%
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Until the Light Takes Us (2009) |
"
This may be the first headbangers' movie that will put hard-rock fans to sleep."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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1/4
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28%
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Adventures of Power (2009) |
"
Gold attempts to show Power as a "Napoleon Dynamite"-like charmer, but Gold's spastic performance induces more cringes than smiles."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Oct 22, 2009
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1/4
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25%
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
It's a toss-up what's dumber: the forehead-slapping contrivances director F. Gary Gray sets up for each killing, or the Neanderthal political "message.""
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Oct 22, 2009
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1/4
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31%
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Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"
It's one thing that the script has a moronic premise. It's another that the writers don't have anything clever to add to that premise."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 9, 2009
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1/4
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18%
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Dance Flick (2009) |
"
Welcome to Wayans: The Second Generation %u2014 and the 'do you really think that's funny?' gene didn't skip them."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted May 22, 2009
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1/4
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64%
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Crank 2: High Voltage (2009) |
"
The only shocking thing about it is how dull and predictable the whole enterprise is."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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1/4
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13%
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The Informers (2009) |
"
Ellis doesn't create a single authentic moment or sympathetic character in this lurid pastiche of disconnected vignettes."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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1/4
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12%
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Delgo (2008) |
"
Just try figuring out the audience for the movie, because the violence is too much for kids under 8, while anyone over 8 will be turned off by the idiotic humor."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Dec 19, 2008
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1/4
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41%
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) |
"
The script's one original idea, a lost Aztec city populated solely by militant chihuahuas, comes too late to save this dog of a movie."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Oct 6, 2008
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1/4
|
14%
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All Roads Lead Home (2008) |
"
If this movie were a horse, somebody would have to put it down."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2008
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1/4
|
9%
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Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007) |
"
If you thought the ethnic stereotyping in My Big Fat Greek Wedding was bad, this charmless romantic comedy will drive you to despair."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2008
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1/4
|
41%
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The House Bunny (2008) |
"
The House Bunny manages the near impossible: to undercut the dignity of the Playboy brand."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2008
|
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1/4
|
19%
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Fly Me to the Moon (2008) |
"
The idiotic story and low-rent animation will bore children to tears."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2008
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1/4
|
53%
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The Foot Fist Way (2006) |
"
Apparently the writers thought Fred was so inherently funny they barely bothered to write jokes for him - and then thought those jokes were so funny they didn't need well-timed delivery."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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1/4
|
45%
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The Strangers (2008) |
"
This is straight-up nightmare fuel, unredeemed by compelling characters or interesting motives."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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1/4
|
37%
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
The script has a couple of actually funny gags, but hack director Dennis Dugan messes up the delivery in service to Sandler's titanic ego."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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1/4
|
14%
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The Love Guru (2008) |
"
Nobody, apparently, told Myers he was doing a one-note character with a funny voice that wouldn't make a good 'Saturday Night Live' sketch, let alone an 88-minute movie."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 20, 2008
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1/4
|
27%
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What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"
Like many Vegas weddings, this mean-spirited "romantic comedy" only makes sense if you're drunk."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted May 16, 2008
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1/4
|
36%
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Street Kings (2008) |
"
Ayer continues to milk his street cred for writing Training Day, this time adapting a James Ellroy story into a grimy copy of Ellroy's L.A. Confidential."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Apr 11, 2008
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1/4
|
35%
|
Finishing the Game (2007) |
"
The pace is flat, the celebrity cameos go nowhere, and the smugness of Lin's observations of Asian-Americans and Hollywood smothers the comedy."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Nov 9, 2007
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1/4
|
13%
|
Mr. Woodcock (2007) |
"
A test of the audience's patience and of Sarandon's ability to maintain her dignity."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 14, 2007
|
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1/4
|
18%
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Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
"
Ratner tries to lampoon the violence in his movies, as if it gets him off the hook for serving up so much mindless - but blood-free PG-13 - carnage. It doesn't."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 10, 2007
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1/4
|
16%
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Underdog (2007) |
"
Seeing realistic animals in feats of derring-do - or kicking each other around, action-movie style - is more disturbing than cute."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 5, 2007
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|
1/4
|
56%
|
Vacancy (2007) |
"
Antal is a little too gleeful in showing the dank motel and the seedy snuff films, suggesting the movie's biggest vacancy is in its makers' souls."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Apr 20, 2007
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1/4
|
8%
|
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"
Let me, a UW alumnus, assure you that no one would have Husky purple and Cougar crimson in the same closet. The fact that Nick wears both shows how top-to-bottom brainless this movie is."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Apr 4, 2007
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1/4
|
14%
|
Wild Hogs (2007) |
"
[The filmmakers] overload on shaky slapstick and unvarnished homophobia, and they stage the phoniest romantic subplot ever."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Mar 2, 2007
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1/4
|
27%
|
America: Freedom To Fascism (2006) |
"
Russo comes off as a paranoid ranter, the movie equivalent of the street-corner pamphleteer with tinfoil in his hat to keep out the gamma rays."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Oct 6, 2006
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|
1/4
|
3%
|
Crossover (2006) |
"
The talky script, by the movie's director Preston A. Whitmore II, is delivered with all the flair of bad community theater."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 1, 2006
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1/4
|
39%
|
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) |
"
Has director Ivan Reitman always been this unfunny, and we didn't notice because he had Bill Murray covering for him?"
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 21, 2006
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1/4
|
12%
|
Little Man (2006) |
"
The only funny part of Little Man is the shoddy computer effects that freakishly and unconvincingly put Marlon Wayans' head on a tiny body."
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Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jul 14, 2006
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|
1/4
|
37%
|
Keeping Up With The Steins (2006) |
"
Oy vey! How many Jewish sitcom clichés can you fit into one movie?"
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Jun 9, 2006
|
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1/4
|
11%
|
The Benchwarmers (2006) |
"
By human standards, [it] is bad. ... By Rob Schneider standards (and how often are those words used together?), it's bad, but not in the same league as Deuce Bigalow."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Apr 8, 2006
|
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1/4
|
33%
|
The Libertine (2006) |
"
First-time director Laurence Dunsmore ... enjoys his wallow in London murk and mud, but nobody else will."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Mar 10, 2006
|
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1/4
|
50%
|
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) |
"
It suits Aja's nihilism to have the most annoying family members survive longer than the nice ones, or maybe he's encouraging us to root for the ax-wielding killers."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Mar 10, 2006
|
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1/4
|
51%
|
Manderlay (2006) |
"
The [plot] degenerates as quickly as von Trier's crude allegory of U.S. foreign policy ... and the pretentiously vacuous Our Town-like staging."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Mar 3, 2006
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1/4
|
——
|
Suits on the Loose (2006) |
"
It's Happy, Texas without the gay humor -- or, for that matter, humor of any stripe, just a lot of lame slapstick and mugging that seems to go on for hours."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Feb 3, 2006
|
|
1/4
|
6%
|
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) |
"
The humor in Sam Harper's script is as malnourished as Hilary Duff appears to be."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Dec 24, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
In the Mix (2005) |
"
Not a word of it comes off as authentic, original or even particularly interesting as it trots out every African-American and Italian-American stereotype you can think of."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Nov 25, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
36%
|
Saw II (2005) |
"
Director Darren Lynn Bousman... creates wincing images of bloodshed, cut rapidly to the point of nausea, to cover how idiotic this luridly thrill-free thriller really is."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Oct 28, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
30%
|
Waiting (2005) |
"
McKittrick's parade of genitalia humor and poor filmmaking skills make for a movie that's crude in more ways than one."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Oct 7, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
6%
|
Underclassman (2005) |
"
It's not the frequency of action-buddy-cop movie clichés that kills Underclassman. It's the [filmmakers'] laziness ... and contempt."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Sep 2, 2005
|
|
1/4
|
6%
|
Supercross (2005) |
"
The "stars" with wheels get treated better than the ones with faces - more screen time, better lighting and makeup, a bigger entourage ... [even] better dialogue."
—
Salt Lake Tribune
Posted Aug 17, 2005
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