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1.0/5
|
34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
I have one thing to say to the director, "Sleep tight, ya moron!""
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 22, 2013
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|
1.0/5
|
80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
Pretension. Pretension. Pretension."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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|
1.0/5
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
I went in search of Ocean City, and all I got was this stinking movie."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 25, 2013
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|
1.0/5
|
43%
|
The Green Hornet (2011) |
"
I thought only flies liked piles of dung, but hornets must, too. Maybe that's the reason for the evacuated pile titled The Green Hornet."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 15, 2011
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|
1.0/5
|
39%
|
2012 (2009) |
"
After seeing 2012 I had to take a shower I felt so unclean. If 2012 succeeds, we'll have the deluge of crap. It won't be the Rapture; it will be the Evacuation."
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Nov 11, 2009
|
|
1.0/5
|
28%
|
Sugar & Spice (2001) |
"
Director Francine McDougall thinks of her film Sugar and Spice as "a sophisticated black comedy." Yeah, right. Its as sophisticated as a Twinkie, and as black as a marshmallow."
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Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.0/5
|
33%
|
The Good German (2007) |
"
The Good German is the bad movie. Except for the ambience -- the look of the film -- it stumbles awkwardly on every level."
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.0/5
|
5%
|
Because I Said So (2007) |
"
There are chick flicks and upchuck flicks. The movie Because I Said So is an upchuck chick flick."
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.0/5
|
27%
|
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"
Lions for Lambs is movie mutton."
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.0/5
|
83%
|
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"
Tropic Thunder is one humongous vanity project for Ben Stiller. His initials aren't BS for nothing. If you can't get enough of bouncing Ben, Tropic Thunder is the movie for you. Ben Stiller acted in, co-wrote, produced, and directed Tropi"
—
Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 1, 2009
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|
|
76%
|
The Contender (2000) |
"
At their best, DVDs allow us to know films better and to consider provocative issues. At their worst, DVDs essentially are puffpieces. The Contender is one of the latter."
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Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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|
1.5/5
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
At one point in the movie, the Lone Ranger is dragged through manure, which begs for comment. But it's self-explanatory."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
Just like the seeds, At Any Price is genetically modified reality."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted May 23, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
55%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Robert Redford -- who once was an active liberal -- is now a tired capitalist. He's also a worn-out egotist."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 27, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
In Oblivion, Cruise has more chemistry with drones than with his two love interests."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 23, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Trance is an elaborate tease. Trance is more mindless than mind-bending."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
Those going to see the latest John McClane movie (the 5th), expecting another smart and sassy Die Hard, instead get Transformers, Part 12."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 13, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
Trouble with the Curve should be titled Trouble with the Cliche. It was not written by a hitter; it was written by a hacker. It's depressing to think that Clint Eastwood's final screen appearance may be in this junkball movie."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
Battleship is a loud lobotomy."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted May 21, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
64%
|
Unraveled (2012) |
"
Unraveled is a con job. It has the clammy hands of its crooked main figure all over it. Unraveled is a prime example of why one sometimes should be skeptical of a documentary."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 24, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
56%
|
Detachment (2012) |
"
Tony Kaye's Detachment is the latest installment of angst and chalk figures. Detachment basically is inauthentic and pretentious. Like most education, it blows its opportunity."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 1, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Director David Cronenberg is almost always compelling. Many of his movies have potent, startling shock. But A Dangerous Method doesn't shock; it nags."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
51%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
The Iron Lady is an example of an actress being so much better than the film she's in. Meryl Streep, as Margaret Thatcher, presides with grand humanity, over a film that is pretty much a shambles."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 3, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
47%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
Hollywood loves tragedy, especially if they can exploit it, by leaving out the humanity and substituting star power and shtik."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
79%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
Shame is a noxious porridge of porn and pointlessness. It's a penis in search of a plot. Its protagonist is a masturbating cipher."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 5, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
84%
|
Beginners (2011) |
"
In Beginners, the Jack Russell terrier named Arthur proves to be damned cute. Unfortunately, the movie around him is not cute, it's coy."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
36%
|
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |
"
Director Michael Bay's latest foray into endless, vapid dissonance is Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This time out we sit through 2 1/2 hours of CGI -- complete godawful inanity. The last hour is not equal to what animator Chuck Jones did in a minute."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 3, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
39%
|
Cars 2 (2011) |
"
Cars 2 runs out of gas. It's on fumes -- and some of them pretty noxious. There may be enough color and motion to initially interest children, but the plot will lose them, and boredom may follow."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 29, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
The Tree of Life is a fractured film, so they needed five different editors to put it back together. I heard the original title was going to be The Humpty Dumpty of Life."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted May 17, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
71%
|
Somewhere (2010) |
"
In Somewhere Sofia Coppola meanders into the territory of Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director who made ennui into art. She makes ennui into ennui."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 5, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
91%
|
The Fighter (2010) |
"
The Fighter is something of a mess. It's a slaphappy, punch-drunk brawl of a movie."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 13, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
82%
|
Four Lions (2010) |
"
Relating Four Lions to the brilliant Dr. Strangelove (1964) -- as some have -- is like relating a firecracker to a nuclear weapon. And the firecracker sometimes doesn't even go off."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 6, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
79%
|
Nowhere Boy (2010) |
"
Nowhere Boy goes somewhere, but it's not into art. Yoko Ono has okayed the movie, but I think John Lennon would sneer at it."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 13, 2010
|
|
1.5/5.0
|
46%
|
Hereafter (2010) |
"
Probably Clint Eastwood should not make sentimentalized, epical films about wish fulfillment. But there's Hereafter. It's a film that might make Clint's mentor the late Don Siegel look away."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Oct 20, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
53%
|
I'm Still Here (2010) |
"
I'm Still Here is a home movie for relatives and masochists. It's the Apocalypse Now of crap."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 11, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
66%
|
The American (2010) |
"
"I know The American is not just a Clooney vanity project, but it sure has the trappings. There are seemingly endless shots of Clooney. And there are several shots of the back of George's head, which emotes as much as his face."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 1, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
81%
|
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) |
"
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a film full of sound and fury signifying WTF. It's slick shtik."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 20, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
15%
|
Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
"
Girls, let's have another Cosmpolitan and remember the past fondly. But make way for Chelsea [Handler]. She drinks vodka neat. She's a real woman."
—
Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Jun 9, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
67%
|
Date Night (2010) |
"
Date Night is a comedy in which writing and direction don't matter. That's not funny."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
51%
|
Chloe (2010) |
"
Chloe is an atrocious movie. It's about bratty, self-absorbed people. And it makes the 96 minutes seem like 96 hours. It's a guilty displeasure."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 23, 2010
|
|
1.5/5
|
66%
|
The Blind Side (2009) |
"
In the movie The Blind Side, truth is sacked and authenticity is fumbled -- all in the name of cheerleading. The Blind Side is not true -- it is a crowd-pleasing white wash."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 2, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
75%
|
The Road (2009) |
"
When a movie is bleak and depressing, it had better be damned good. The Road is damned bad."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 5, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
48%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
Taking Woodstock is homogenized mud. Director Ang Lee slides all over the place. He takes away all the sharp edges; what is left is pretty much a mess."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 29, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
71%
|
Loren Cass (2006) |
"
Loren Cass is neither a success nor a failure. It has a young director who is a work in progress."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Aug 12, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
93%
|
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"
Happy-Go-Lucky is flibbertigibbet cinema. Mike Leigh directed Sally Hawkins in this paean to a peahen. Mike Leigh, let me introduce you to Fran Drescher, Kathy Griffin, and Nancy Grace. They're your kind of women."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 16, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
20%
|
Monkeybone (2001) |
"
The film Monkeybone is a raucous mess. Director Henry Selick mixes animation and live action to the noisy, clumsy detriment of both."
—
Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
55%
|
Malena (2000) |
"
For those of us who love Cinema Paradiso, the news that its Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and his musical soulmate Ennio Morricone were getting back together to do another coming-of-age film, Malena, gave us tantalizing hope. Malena fa"
—
Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
——
|
Thanks to Gravity () |
"
Thanks to Gravity is as predictable as gravity. With a topic -- a young woman trying to find herself as a debater, a daughter and a woman -- bristling with potential for a fresh, keen eye, it's more a connect-the-dots script, touching fleetingly on"
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
27%
|
Beer League (2006) |
"
This is a foul ball of a comedy -- a raunchy, raucous frat party."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
|
|
1.5/5
|
40%
|
The Night Listener (2006) |
"
The Night Listener shamelessly jerks its audence this way and that, until it arrives at its lacklustre anti-climactic conclusion."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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