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49%
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No Strings Attached (2011)
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"The shaggy fringes of the flick get most of the laughs -- for one, it's absurdly obsessed with '90s hip-hop"
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Amy Nicholson
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24%
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The Dilemma (2011)
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"Ends with 20 minutes of apologies, a round robin of regret that downshifts the film's sputtering energy into park."
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Amy Nicholson
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44%
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The Green Hornet (2011)
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"Can a genius and an average Joe pair up and put egos aside to serve mindless adventure? Gondry and Rogen have. "
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Amy Nicholson
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76%
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Summer Wars (Sama Wozu) (2010)
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"The story's been done better (and balder) in Die Hard With A Vengeance"
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Amy Nicholson
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71%
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Somewhere (2010)
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"The nearly silent first half plays like Nanook of the North, only the ladies are wearing a lot less clothes."
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Amy Nicholson
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51%
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Tron Legacy (2010)
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"Remember the last time you yelled at your computer? It does."
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Amy Nicholson
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90%
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Tangled (2010)
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"If anything, Tangled is hommepowerment -- one more step forward in Disney's slow march to treat male suitors like equals"
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Amy Nicholson
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36%
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Burlesque (2010)
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""Get your ass up, show me how you burlesque," growls one of this indulgent movie's indulgent musical numbers that swaggers with pearls, glitter and red lipstick - if not grammatical verb usage. "
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Amy Nicholson
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52%
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The Next Three Days (2010)
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"Haggis knows that the question isn't only can he do it, but should he?"
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Amy Nicholson
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86%
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Unstoppable (2010)
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"A love of number-crunching makes the audience feel engaged in a deadly algebra problem. Four miles! 2000 feet! Population 780,000!"
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Amy Nicholson
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65%
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Freakonomics (2010)
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"Sometimes, it has all the answers. More often, it just asks the right questions. And in today's 24-hour froth of insta-pundit analysis, we need curiosity more than certainty."
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Amy Nicholson
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89%
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Let Me In (2010)
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"The tragedy in Jenkins' pathetic protector focuses the film's themes of desperation and the myopia of puppy love when you're young enough (or undead enough) to feel immortal "
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Amy Nicholson
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89%
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Waiting for Superman (2010)
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"Is our children learning? No -- and here's why, argues Davis Guggenheim's rousing documentary"
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Amy Nicholson
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55%
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
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"Gekko's still a wolf in wolf's clothing. The question is: How big is his hunger? "
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Amy Nicholson
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35%
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Lottery Ticket (2010)
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"There are enough stereotypes in here to get Dr. Laura frothing at the mouth -- and enough menace to merit co-writing credit for the Hughes brothers."
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Amy Nicholson
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51%
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The Switch (2010)
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"Sorry tabloid readers. At no time does Jennifer 'Womb Watch' Aniston growl, "Take that, Brad.""
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Amy Nicholson
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81%
|
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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"A 112-minute entertainment contraption -- celluloid that shapeshifts its frames into video games, comic books and sitcoms. "
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Amy Nicholson
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41%
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The Expendables (2010)
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"Stallone's boasted that he's made the drunk uncle of all dumb action movies and in several ways he has"
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Amy Nicholson
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46%
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Step Up 3-D (2010)
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"Everyone in the cast can dance, even if only half can act. The revelation is 18-year-old Sevani -- he's got the ease of Gene Kelly and he can do the robot."
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Amy Nicholson
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69%
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Life During Wartime (2010)
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"Solondz sees life as misery and actors as instruments. In his hands, they're pianissimo, vibrato, fortissimo -- and never in harmony. "
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Amy Nicholson
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62%
|
Salt (2010)
|
"The kind of thriller that skitters after its star playing catch-up. "
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
86%
|
Inception (2010)
|
"Beautiful and bloodless. Like a dream, it doesn't implant ideas you'll carry with you outside of the multiplex"
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Amy Nicholson
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6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010)
|
"Call M. Night Shyamalan a Wood Bender -- this kiddie cast is as flat and stiff as particle board "
|
Amy Nicholson
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52%
|
Knight & Day (2010)
|
"An action star who doesn't glower -- what a relief!"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
80%
|
Cyrus (2010)
|
"Moment to moment it's miserably enjoyable and true, especially Reilly's turn as a regressed adult who slowly learns to be the man his woman deserves "
|
Amy Nicholson
|
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99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010)
|
"Woody's insistence on rallying everyone back to their bedroom makes him the toy box Tina Turner, and the flick is smart enough to know it."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
47%
|
The A-Team (2010)
|
"Heavy on biceps and aggression and -- crucially -- the zinging chemistry between its four leads"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
72%
|
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
|
"W.C. Fields warned, "Never work with children or animals." Russell Brand and Jonah Hill can add, "Never work with P. Diddy.""
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Amy Nicholson
|
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35%
|
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
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"Bring a joystick to this big budget adventure. It'll give your hands something to do when you're restless."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
51%
|
Holy Rollers (2010)
|
"Eisenberg is such a solid, serious young actor that the film plays as social problem drama."
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Amy Nicholson
|
|
57%
|
Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010)
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"Side by side, the four Shrek films look like the stages of man. You have Shrek as ogre, Shrek as husband, Shrek as daddy, and now, Shrek as George Bailey. "
|
Amy Nicholson
|
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43%
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Robin Hood (2010)
|
"If 200 arrows fly through the woods, do they make a sound?"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
56%
|
Trash Humpers (2010)
|
"The spirit of celluloid is dragging 3D CGI to the toilet and giving it a swirly. "
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
78%
|
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Lost in Rio) (2010)
|
"Director Michel Hazanavicius loves his sublimely naive bigot, and so do we"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
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29%
|
The Good Heart (2010)
|
"A hangover toast to an old New York with original wood paneling, cassette tapes and indoor smoking"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
87%
|
Please Give (2010)
|
"In its casual, disarming way, it's as deep and as grand a film as you'll find"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
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73%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010)
|
"It's not a feast, it's a quick fix. You want bombs? You want quips? You want tech? You got 'em. Now go away . . . and come back next July."
|
Amy Nicholson
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|
6%
|
The Accidental Husband (2009)
|
"There's little fun in being asked to identify with yet another female character who spends her running time being shamed like a dog who soiled the rug."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
29%
|
Paper Man (2010)
|
"Jeff Daniels' issues are self-indulgent. But to him, his writer's block and insubstantial life are epic, and the film sides with him more often than not. "
|
Amy Nicholson
|
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81%
|
Oceans (Disneynature's Oceans) (2010)
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"This monumental documentary gets intimate enough to hear a crab sneeze."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
61%
|
The Joneses (2010)
|
"Good salesmen would show no pity. The Joneses weeps, and we're not buying it."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010)
|
"What's the difference between a 14-year-old tagger and a hype monster spray-painting Campbell's soup cans? Nothing. But the gulf between them and Banksy is as wide as the Pacific"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010)
|
"It's a star-making role for Moretz, but everyone holds their own even in the face of their biggest enemy: lax pacing that makes this fun film drag and lurch."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
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86%
|
The Square (2010)
|
"The moral can pivot on a dime: is this a karmic noir about consequences, or a nihilistic warning that even a simple scheme can't be controlled?"
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Amy Nicholson
|
|
67%
|
Date Night (2010)
|
"A skeleton praying its leads will bring it to life."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
20%
|
The Last Song (2010)
|
"This is Miley's vehicle, but the strongest scenes are between Kinnear and Coleman."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
28%
|
Clash of the Titans (2010)
|
"French director Louis Leterrier loves this world. But Clash of the Titans feels like he fought -- and lost -- his own battle for control."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
98%
|
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
|
"Here, Viking life is grim, hostile and heavy with social pressure -- kind of like Gossip Girl, only with dragon heads instead of handbags"
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
63%
|
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
|
"It's a bro-down, and every second has been calibrated for maximum bro-fficiency."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
|
74%
|
Greenberg (2010)
|
"True to this chauvinistic genre, Gerwig is a vacuum who lives to serve the house, the man and the mechanics of Baumbach's script."
|
Amy Nicholson
|
73%
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