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1.5/4 |
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21 (2000) |
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"You'd find more glamour and excitement at the local OTB." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1/4 |
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88 Minutes (2008) |
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"Pacino never looks very frazzled, even as his lethal deadline approaches. He only gets louder." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Baby Mama (2008) |
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"The picture is about a surrogate mother, and in a sense Fey is asked to be the movie's surrogate." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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The Bank Job (2008) |
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"No one is going mistake Jason Statham for Daniel Day-Lewis, but the action specialist still deserves better material than he's usually given." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Before the Rains (2008) |
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"There is something especially insulting about a very adult movie told in very childish terms." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Chaos Theory (2008) |
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"...has more ludicrous plot developments than an entire season of soap opera, which would be OK if this were a farce." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3.5/4 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
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"...ultimately about how the good handle their goodness, and how they sometimes fail." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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CJ7 (2008) |
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"...a less dreamlike and more manic take on E.T." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Deception (2008) |
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"There is a deception being perpetrated in movie theaters of late, and Deception is part of the ruse." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1/4 |
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Doomsday (2008) |
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"The survivors have made it a priority -- as they have in so many post-apocalyptic action flicks -- to store up provisions of mascara and hair dye." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) |
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""...raises some interesting questions about evolutionary theory, but does so in such a smug, disingenuous and self-serving manner it's hard to take the movie seriously." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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First Blood (1982) |
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"...does get loonier as it goes along, yet for a while it's actually a mournful and sobering action-movie treatment of postwar stress." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Flawless (2007) |
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"How can an actress with Moore's carnal screen presence be so underused by carnally minded Hollywood?" | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) |
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"A juvenile piece of cultural appropriation, The Forbidden Kingdom doesn't even have the good manners to focus on the two martial-arts masters." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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Funny Games (1998) |
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"Haneke has rational reasons for his movie's violence, but he still crosses lines more often than he justifies crossing them." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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Funny Games (2008) |
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"If the pot means to call the kettle black in order to make a larger point, that still doesn't change the pot's color." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
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"Laces its copious gross-out gags, pothead humor and female nudity with the smartest social satire this side of The Daily Show." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) |
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"...makes you wonder if Spielberg and series producer George Lucas might have been going through some sort of drug phase." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3.5/4 |
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Iron Man (2008) |
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"...should make anyone who went gaga over Transformers finally understand why those metal emperors wore no clothes." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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La Vida Conyugal (1974) |
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"This is a movie outclassed by its hats." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) |
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"Director Vadim Perelman fetishizes the threat of violence with his caressing camera." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Made of Honor (2008) |
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"Something didn't feel quite right, but it wasn't until the climax when it hit me..." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3.5/4 |
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) |
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"Amy Adams' Delysia is a whirling dervish of deceit. And yet, thanks to Adams' beaming smile, she's still sweet." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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Mommie Dearest (1981) |
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"Director Frank Perry simply sits back and lets Dunaway rip. He was either supremely untalented or he purposefully intended to sabotage her." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Never Back Down (2008) |
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"The 1980s are alive but not very well in Never Back Down..." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
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"Eric Bana is absolutely Fabio-lous ... ready to burst from the cover of a romance novel at any moment." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3.5/4 |
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Paranoid Park (2008) |
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"Van Sant's teens are angels slowly sullied by a demonic world." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Penelope (2008) |
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"There are some lovely touches, yet it's as if someone forgot to sprinkle fairy dust on it." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1/4 |
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Prom Night (2008) |
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"File Prom Night with those thrillers that make you root for the killer rather than the victims, so annoying and vacuous are the picture's stars" | |
Josh Larsen | |
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4/4 |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
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"...lets us indulge in childish thrills without feeling silly about it." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3.5/4 |
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Rashomon (1950) |
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"...reveals Kurosawa's own influence, especially on the filmmakers behind the recent rash of Japanese horror." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Reprise (2008) |
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"The picture has a real feel for its tortured characters. It starts out navel-gazing and ends up empathetic." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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The Ruins (2008) |
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"If you've read The Ruins, you can probably guess there will come a point at which the movie succumbs to silliness. And sure enough, that moment arrives..." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) |
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"Pegg's Dennis is lazy, insensitive and unhygienic. Yet his most defining quality is blandness. I could barely rouse myself to dislike him." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Semi-Pro (2008) |
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"Is there a point at which excessive public self-humiliation becomes its own form of warped narcissism?" | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Shutter (2008) |
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"It's fun to root for the one who says "Boo!" rather than the screaming ciphers for whom we are usually asked to cheer." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Smart People (2008) |
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"The more rumpled Dennis Quaid has become, the more interesting he's gotten as an actor..." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3.5/4 |
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Son of Rambow (2008) |
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"How many of us were first introduced to the giddy, gory glory of the movies at a friend's house?" | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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Speed Racer (2008) |
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"I propose a universal law concerning chimpanzees and the movies..." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Stop-Loss (2008) |
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"Strangely, it has come out at once too soon and - for those who have already been stop-lossed - too late." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1/4 |
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Superhero Movie! (2008) |
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"Pamela Anderson appears for 15 seconds as the Invisible Woman ... and if Anderson is invisible she's pretty much completely useless." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Teeth (2008) |
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"Dawn may be the heroine of Teeth, but in the end the movie is still a little afraid of her." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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4/4 |
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Touch of Evil (1958) |
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"When druggies stash Leigh in a hotel room and throw a party, the movie threatens to turn into Reefer Madness, albeit with the visual panache of Citizen Kane." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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3/4 |
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Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) |
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"Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns isn't exactly a good movie, but it is a good Tyler Perry movie." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Under the Same Moon (2008) |
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"Some situations may be too tied to contemporary reality to receive a fairy-tale touch. The illegal immigrant experience is one of them." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
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"While watching insipid romantic comedies, I often cling to the comic supporting characters as my life preserver." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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2/4 |
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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
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"...makes Spurlock look like the Junior Whopper of Michael Moore-style documentarians." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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1.5/4 |
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Zombie Strippers (2008) |
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"There is an awful lot of objectification going on for a movie that considers itself subversively feminist." | |
Josh Larsen | |
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