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1.5/5
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26%
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This Means War (2012) |
"
Rent-a-hack McG directs this brain-damaged screenplay with the skill of a particularly deficient farm animal, and humiliates three talented actors in the process."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 15, 2012
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1.5/5
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12%
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The Darkest Hour (2011) |
"
It is as though they got half way through making the film and had the budget catastrophically slashed."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 14, 2012
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1.5/5
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5%
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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011) |
"
It's frighteningly impressive that a one-note gag has spawned three dreadful films and hundreds of millions of dollars in box office receipts. Wherever will they go next? Big Mommas 3D?"
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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11%
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Red Riding Hood (2011) |
"
Catherine Hardwicke, what the Hell happened?"
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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4%
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A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) |
"
Kate Hudson's career suicide continues with the devastatingly unfunny, tonally jarring A Little Bit of Heaven."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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11%
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) |
"
This dubious distillation of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy is a glorified smack around the head with a sociology textbook."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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11%
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil (2011) |
"
Surely too much money has been spent on the cast and the 3D rather than on fashioning an intelligent, funny script."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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10%
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Honey 2 (2012) |
"
It's a sequel nobody asked for, and unsurprisingly, it sucks."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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6%
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Dream House (2011) |
"
It's little surprise that Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz disowned this turgid, woefully inept thriller which idiotically gave away its big reveal in the trailer."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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12%
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I Melt with You (2011) |
"
The best-looking bad film of 2011, I Melt with You squanders a fine acting quartet with self-indulgent existential angst among characters who are impossible to like."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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1.5/5
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7%
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New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
Despite having amassed a roster of roughly thirty bonafide film stars and respected character actors, New Year's Eve is nothing more than a glorified cameo carousel, and a laughably schmaltzy, punishingly dull one at that."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
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1.5/5
|
24%
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Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
The occasionally amusing Twilight Saga finds a new low with the dramatically inert, painfully dull Breaking Dawn Part 1."
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What Culture
Posted Nov 21, 2011
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|
1.5/5
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16%
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Shark Night 3D (2011) |
"
Little more than a brain damaged, irony-free, and curiously toothless attempt to retread the success of last year's surprising summer gorefest, Piranha 3D."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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1.5/5
|
——
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La posesión de Emma Evans (2011) |
"
What can be learned from Exorcismus? When left to their own devices, financial economists don't typically make very good screenwriters."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 14, 2011
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|
1.5/5
|
32%
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The Ward (2011) |
"
Essentially a stitched together patchwork of better films albeit without their sense of horror, intelligence or humour, this is bargain bin fodder that somehow crawled out of the primordial soup long enough to gain a theatrical run."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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1.5/5
|
10%
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Season of the Witch (2011) |
"
Avoid it -- wait for it -- like the Black Plague."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 10, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
30%
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The Warrior's Way (2010) |
"
There is a tragic craft to how one manages to make a film about 'the greatest swordsman who has ever lived' as boring as The Warrior's Way."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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C-
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38%
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Grigris () |
"
Ultimately too spare to completely satisfy, the pronounced feeling coming out of this film is that it needs more dancing."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
56%
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I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
It ultimately amounts to little more than a 90-minute-long gay joke that loses its charm after just a few."
—
What Culture
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
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2/5
|
33%
|
Running From Crazy () |
"
Though undeniably well-intentioned, Barbara Kopple's documentary doesn't seem particularly concerned with asking - or trying to answer - the big questions surrounding familial suicide trends."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
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2/5
|
55%
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Oblivion (2013) |
"
Oblivion is one of the best-looking bad films ever made."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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2/5
|
——
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The Package (2013) |
"
Austin and Lundgren fare surprisingly well in the talkier scenes, though the lack of action will test even the most enthusiastic audiences."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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2/5
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14%
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
Wirkola aims for camp but overshoots, causing things to feel less like Sam Raimi and more like Uwe Boll. "
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What Culture
Posted Feb 12, 2013
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2/5
|
23%
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The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013) |
"
Credibly acted and hardly much worse than the original, but just as bereft of atmosphere and by-the-numbers."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
De jueves a domingo (Thursday Till Sunday) () |
"
The painstakingly over-methodical approach gives this the feel of a first-time director trying a little too hard, or perhaps not hard enough."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
35%
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Everybody Has a Plan (2013) |
"
A low-energy Argentinian thriller that hasn't got a clue what it should do with Viggo Mortensen's reliably committed performance."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
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2/5
|
61%
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The Wall (2013) |
"
Introspective but rarely cerebral, The Wall is too frustratingly obtuse despite boasting a solid central performance and lush visuals."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 24, 2012
|
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2/5
|
85%
|
Fill the Void (2013) |
"
A dreary, tiresome dirge about passion and dis-passion, if memorably performed by impressive lead Hadas Yaron."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 22, 2012
|
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2/5
|
40%
|
Spike Island () |
"
Unfortunately, great music can only distract us so much in this disappointing feature from the talented Mat Whitecross."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 14, 2012
|
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2/5
|
52%
|
Grassroots (2012) |
"
For what it's worth, Grassroots features Cedric the Entertainer's best performance to date."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
57%
|
Here and There (2013) |
"
An excessively formalistic approach does Antonio Méndez Esparza little favours in his bloated, flavourless feature debut."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
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2/5
|
——
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Underground () |
"
Director Robert Connolly offers up a tinge of The Social Network's sexed-up style, but he's not fortunate enough to have been blessed with a Sorkin-grade screenplay."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Blood (2013) |
"
A portentous, sub-BBC production in which no corrupt cop trope is left unturned."
—
What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Save Your Legs () |
"
Save Your Legs does little favours for either the sport of cricket or the country of Australia."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
Laurence Anyways (2013) |
"
Ultimately, viewers will be forced to consider whether the film's sparse narrative rewards are worth the 168-minute investment. For most, I imagine the answer is no."
—
What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
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2/5
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
An abject failure as both a slick actioner and a familial drama, Taken 2 signs its series' own death warrant."
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What Culture
Posted Sep 18, 2012
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2/5
|
——
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After (2012) |
"
The actors try hard, but the mercilessly derivative, emotionally pat script stifles their efforts at every corner."
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What Culture
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
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2/5
|
——
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Tulpa () |
"
If Tommy Wiseau were to ever have a go at making a Giallo film, it would probably end up something like this."
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What Culture
Posted Aug 26, 2012
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2/5
|
——
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Outpost: Black Sun (2012) |
"
It plays out like a dull mission from a particularly naff first-person-shooter video game."
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What Culture
Posted Aug 26, 2012
|
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2/5
|
38%
|
[REC] 3 Genesis (2012) |
"
As well as ditching the handheld gimmick and serious tone, Genesis has also jettisoned the spirit that made the first two films so riotously entertaining."
—
What Culture
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
The Victim (2012) |
"
A disappointingly self-indulgent offering from veteran character actor-turned-writer-director Michael Biehn."
—
What Culture
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
7 Days in Havana () |
"
Even with six world-class directors, it all amounts to a pretty uninteresting collage of Cuban life."
—
What Culture
Posted Jul 4, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Storage 24 (2013) |
"
The film is, as Clarke's hooded Kidulthood character might say, 'well gash, innit'."
—
What Culture
Posted Jul 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
Overlong and mind-numbingly generic, Joyful Noise promises home-cooked charm but leaves a taste worse than day-old grits."
—
What Culture
Posted Jun 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Victim () |
"
A few solid observations aside, this is the urban thriller running on low-fi autopilot."
—
What Culture
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
"
The appallingly self-serious Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is stylised to death and lacks the subversion needed to support its inspired premise."
—
What Culture
Posted Jun 20, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Chernobyl Diaries (2012) |
"
Beyond their admittedly inspired setting, the filmmakers lack even an iota of invention."
—
What Culture
Posted Jun 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Kosmos (2010) |
"
So portentous and superficially philosophical, it plays like art-house self-parody, betraying Erdem's visual grandeur in the process."
—
What Culture
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
Casa de mi padre (2012) |
"
Like a supermarket enchilada, it initially seems appealing but you quickly realise it lacks flavour."
—
What Culture
Posted Jun 7, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Arirang () |
"
There are intelligent and provocative ideas within Kim Ki-duk's unbearably self-serving docudrama, but the auteur should stick to what he knows best."
—
What Culture
Posted Jun 7, 2012
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