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34%
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Hall Pass (2011)
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"Any time a movie needs to resort to two sequences involving unexpected bowel moments for laughs, you know you're in trouble."
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Christopher Kelly
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58%
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
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"From start to finish, It's Kind of a Funny Story walks an uncommonly deft line: Playful comedy gives way to moments of shockingly immediate and honest emotion."
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Christopher Kelly
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28%
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Life as We Know It (2010)
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"Life as We Know It turns into a reasonably honest consideration of what it might mean to have to honor the dead by raising their living, breathing, pooping, screaming progeny."
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Christopher Kelly
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6%
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The Last Airbender (2010)
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"Who would have thought Shyamalan would come up with a movie that makes his Lady in the Water look positively sensible?"
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Christopher Kelly
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52%
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
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"At its best, Goats maintains a giddy Dr. Strangelove-via-the-Coen-Brothers vibe."
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Scott Von Doviak
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86%
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The House of the Devil (2009)
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"More concerned with stretching nail-biting suspense to the breaking point than finding new ways of making heads explode."
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Scott Von Doviak
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48%
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Antichrist (2009)
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"On a narrative level, it's gobbledygook, as if von Trier has dredged up the details of a nightmare and filmed them in an attempt to get at some primal truths."
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Scott Von Doviak
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73%
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
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"Aimlessly trudging through woods or desert, sniping and clawing at each other, Carol and his fellow wild things come to resemble the H.R. Pufnstuf crew on downers."
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Scott Von Doviak
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12%
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Couples Retreat (2009)
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"The whole production just comes off as a paid vacation at Club Med for Vaughn and friends."
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Scott Von Doviak
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90%
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Zombieland (2009)
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"It's hard not to be entertained (assuming your definition of entertainment includes exploding skulls and spattered intestines)."
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Scott Von Doviak
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78%
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The Informant! (2009)
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"Closer to a Coen Brothers farce than A Civil Action or North Country."
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Scott Von Doviak
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57%
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9 (2009)
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"There's no denying that Acker has a knack for bleak landscapes and an inventive salvage-yard approach to character design, but his narrative skills are less developed."
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Scott Von Doviak
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63%
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Extract (2009)
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"A "sympathy for the boss" comedy could conceivably work, but Judge has neglected to supply the laughs this time around."
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Scott Von Doviak
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88%
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
|
"For anyone who has been hoping to see Tarantino back at the top of his game, the must-see movie of the summer has finally arrived."
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Scott Von Doviak
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60%
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A Perfect Getaway (2009)
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"Doesn't want to be anything more than a ninety-minute thrill ride, and unlike most of the bloated blockbusters of late, it succeeds on its own terms."
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Scott Von Doviak
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68%
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Funny People (2009)
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"Funny People isn't exactly a chore to sit through, but it's awfully slack and self-indulgent."
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Scott Von Doviak
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67%
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Brüno (Bruno) (2009)
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"a hit-and-miss brand of humor, as likely to leave you squirming from embarrassment as howling with laughter."
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Scott Von Doviak
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67%
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Public Enemies (2009)
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"Even the bank jobs and prison breaks feel perfunctory and enervated."
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Scott Von Doviak
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50%
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
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"I can think of worse ways to while away a hot, sticky summer afternoon than ducking into the air-conditioned comfort of the multiplex for a couple of hours worth of jacked-up, seat-rattling, subway-heisting action."
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Scott Von Doviak
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After Last Season ()
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""Intensely boring, thoroughly disorienting and so technically incompetent it achieves several deeply unnerving effects entirely by accident.""
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Scott Von Doviak
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27%
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Land of the Lost (2009)
|
"A soulless special effects flick crossed with a tired gross-out comedy."
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Scott Von Doviak
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92%
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Drag Me to Hell (2009)
|
"Entertaining enough in its squishy-squirmy way, and the payoff delivers a little jolt of that old time Raimi magic."
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Scott Von Doviak
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95%
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Star Trek (2009)
|
"As unlikely as it once seemed, it looks like the ol' Enterprise has a few more light-years left in it after all."
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Scott Von Doviak
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72%
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Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
|
"Monsters vs. Aliens tries very hard to entertain every demographic in the audience, although it's at its most enjoyable when it's not trying quite so hard."
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Scott Von Doviak
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90%
|
Coraline (2009)
|
"For a movie that rarely leaves the house, Coraline takes a number of inspired detours."
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Scott Von Doviak
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45%
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Yes Man (2008)
|
"No comedy classic, but it packs enough laughs into 104 minutes to justify the price of admission (or at least a matinee ticket)"
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Scott Von Doviak
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78%
|
Doubt (2008)
|
"Award-worthy performances aren't enough to keep Doubt from falling flat in the end."
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Scott Von Doviak
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25%
|
Four Christmases (2008)
|
"To say that Vaughn is phoning it in these days would be an insult to telecommuters everywhere."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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83%
|
JCVD (Van Dammage) (2008)
|
"JCVD has points of interest, but it may leave you feeling like you've just slowed down to look at a car wreck."
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Scott Von Doviak
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35%
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Pride and Glory (2008)
|
"There's nothing wrong with a gritty cop drama, so long as it has something to offer besides grit."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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16%
|
Max Payne (2008)
|
"It boasts a stylish surface, but there's nothing new beneath it."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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59%
|
Flash of Genius (2008)
|
"...The movie seems to have been crafted on an assembly line that specializes in inspirational tales of ordinary Davids triumphing over merciless Goliaths."
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Christopher Kelly
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73%
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
|
"There's a sweet, funny movie lurking underneath the too-cool-for-you surface."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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77%
|
Appaloosa (2008)
|
"For its first hour or so, Appaloosa is a crisply paced pleasure, mostly thanks to the interplay between Harris and Mortensen."
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Scott Von Doviak
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85%
|
Ghost Town (2008)
|
"Gervais may be alone in remembering that this kind of movie is actually supposed to be funny."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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0%
|
Surfer, Dude (2008)
|
"There's something about the mystical-spiritual aura surrounding surfing that tends to turn most movies on the subject to hippie-dippie mush."
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Scott Von Doviak
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62%
|
Traitor (2008)
|
"There's a terrorist around every corner in Traitor, to the point where you start wondering if "Steve Martin" is a pen name for Dick Cheney."
|
Scott Von Doviak
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19%
|
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
|
"Really, isn't this where the Star Wars movies were headed all along - a feature-length toy advertisement?"
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Scott Von Doviak
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40%
|
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
|
"How seriously the filmmakers take the miracle of the stucco wall is up for debate, but the movie's ultimate revelations feel unearned."
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Scott Von Doviak
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15%
|
The Love Guru (2008)
|
"The Love Guru isn't really about spiritual well-being or hockey; it's about Myers' mistaken belief that the comedic possibilities of male genitalia are endless."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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36%
|
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
|
"Unless you find words like 'baba ghannouj' inherently hilarious, the nearly two-hour running time proves to be a punishing length."
|
Scott Von Doviak
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45%
|
The Strangers (2008)
|
"A must-see for horror fans, but the fewer questions you ask, the more effective it will be."
|
Scott Von Doviak
|
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50%
|
Smart People (2008)
|
"The performances go a long way toward making Smart People an enjoyable, if familiar, outing."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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58%
|
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)
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"Vince Vaughn is coming to town with the Four Indistinguishable Frat Dudes of Comedy."
|
Scott Von Doviak
|
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51%
|
Bee Movie (2007)
|
"Kids should get a kick out of it, but anyone craving Seinfeld's usual brand of funny business will have to stick to TV reruns."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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50%
|
30 Days of Night (2007)
|
"The humans are a bore, but the vampires light up this Night."
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Scott Von Doviak
|
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75%
|
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
|
"The story drifts aimlessly toward its foregone conclusion, hitting a few interesting notes along the way but never gelling into a coherent narrative."
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Scott Von Doviak
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29%
|
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
|
"Supplies the laughs, but the heart is missing."
|
Scott Von Doviak
|
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84%
|
Rocket Science (2007)
|
"The most complicated and original teenage characters we've seen in a movie in a very long time."
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23%
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Balls of Fury (2007)
|
"Just another one-joke sketch that goes on forever."
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Scott Von Doviak
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