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2/4 |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"So preachy in its anti-drug stance that it might as well have had the financial support of D.A.R.E. during its production." | |
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4/4 |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"Filled with endless imagination and wonder...sure to go down, in time, as one of the brilliant achievements in modern moviemaking." | |
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1/4 |
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Abandon (2002) |
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"The premise of "Abandon" holds promise,... but its delivery is a complete mess." | |
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3/4 |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"A comical, heartfelt gem that sidesteps an easy maudlin tone for something more grounded in reality." | |
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3.5/4 |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"That a film such as About Schmidt can be so dark and yet so funny, so poignant and yet so uplifting, is something of a miracle." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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Accepted (2006) |
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"A vanilla version of a raunchy romp just a few 's'-words away from Disneyfication." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"An ambitious failure, but a failure nonetheless. For a film celebrating life and love, Across the Universe ironically and unforgivably leaves the viewer feeling cold." | |
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2/4 |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"When all is said and done, [it] could have afforded another rewrite and a willingness to avoid pandering to the MPAA ratings board." | |
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4/4 |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"Endlessly enlightening, always fascinating, and nothing short of miraculous, to see Adaptation is to live, see, breathe, and feel in an entirely different way than any other motion picture released this year has offered." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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0/4 |
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
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"If there really was a merciful God, the film negatives would have been burnt to a crisp in a freak accident. No such luck." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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"Has a rushed, thrown-together feel to it made all the more glaring by cheesy 3-D that is ugly and doesn't work in any way, shape or form." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"The waste of talent and money thrown into this cheesy, haphazard production should be a criminal offense the world over." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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4/4 |
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Affliction (1997) |
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"Such an angry and bitter motion picture that you can almost physically feel the emotional coldness that is brewing under the surface." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"A long slog through a pretty sea of thankless twaddle." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"A soft, undernourished biography that plays things too safe." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"A wasteful, if painless, diversion." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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.5/4 |
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
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"A junky, creatively bankrupt rush job of a sequel that has no connection to the original outside of the title character." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2.5/4 |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"A winning and suitably uplifting way to spend a couple hours." | |
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2/4 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"Truth be told, for most of its running time The Alamo plays like a vague, badly written history lesson aimed at grade schoolers." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"The scenes between Alex and Emma offer a handful of nice laughs and winning moments, but because the majority of them are set within a dank-looking Boston loft, they feel more suited for an off-Broadway stage." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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0/4 |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
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"Boring, empty, anticlimactic, uninspired and bankrupt of humanity." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1/4 |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"An enormous cinematic mess. Alexander is not so much mind-numbingly boring as it is intriguingly nonsensical." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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3/4 |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"A gratifying early surprise of the autumn movie season, an intelligent and wise film that finds vast entertainment value in one man's own existential crises." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Ali (2001) |
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"An intriguing failure that ultimately leaves you disappointed, rather than inspired or invigorated." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
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"Has been rendered impotent by the insane demands of a studio obsessed with the PG-13 rating. An attractive but empty horror-lite version." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
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"Scares are few and far between. Suspense is in short supply. As for the battle sequences pitting the slimy aliens against the metal-geared predator, they are plentiful but forgettable, nondescript freneticism shot in murky lighting." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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All About the Benjamins (2002) |
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"Tedious and hackneyed, you would have thought that New Line Cinema could have invested a few more benjamins into getting a workable script before filming commenced." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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0/4 |
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All The King's Men (2006) |
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"The disastrously hollow All the King's Men forgoes entertainment in favor of trying to cause death by way of crushing boredom." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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3.5/4 |
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Almost Famous (2000) |
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"Perfectly cast from top to bottom, with many fine performances shining through." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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.5/4 |
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Alone in the Dark (2005) |
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"This is jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, 'I-can't- believe-someone- made-this-crap' badness we're dealing with." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2.5/4 |
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Along Came a Spider (2001) |
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"Not completely agreeable, but nonetheless, it manages to somehow remain a strong entertainment." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Along Came Polly (2004) |
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"A purely formulaic romantic comedy not fresh or memorable enough to garner an identity of its own." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Alpha Dog (2007) |
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"Alpha Dog isn't a total wash, but it is unfocused, overstuffed and routine." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
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"Children may laugh at the broad humor, but what's lurking underneath the comedy is dark and disheartening." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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America's Sweethearts (2001) |
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"If it wants to be a romance between [Cusack and Roberts], I've seen more sparks fly between ostriches." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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4/4 |
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American Beauty (1999) |
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"American Beauty is a devastating motion picture of unconceivable power." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1/4 |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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"A toxic love letter to hate." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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American Gangster (2007) |
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"Strictly paint-by-numbers filmmaking any way you slice it, and not even the individually riveting performances from Washington and Crowe can save it." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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0.5/4 |
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An American Haunting (2006) |
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"Boggles the mind with how many things it gets wrong." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1/4 |
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American Outlaws (2001) |
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"Lazy storytelling at its worst, so disposable it is likely to be forgotten before it even reaches the end." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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3/4 |
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American Pie (1999) |
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"The biggest laugh I've had at the movies all year." | |
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3/4 |
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American Pie 2 (2001) |
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"When it comes to sheer, unadulterated laughs, one couldn't hope for much better...Alyson Hannigan is absolutely charming." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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American Psycho (2000) |
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"Are you, more or less, setting yourself up for disappointment if you go to see a film adaptation of one of the most powerfully written novels you can recall reading?" | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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American Wedding (2003) |
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"It doesn't take a rocket scientist (or a pie fornicator) to tell that American Wedding is easily the weakest in a once-promising series." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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The Amityville Horror (2005) |
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"Why bother ratcheting up suspense with unseen forces and horrors of the psyche when you can just show actors in makeup instructed to look spooooooky?" | |
Dustin Putman | |
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.5/4 |
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
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"Doesn't even fall into the 'so bad it's entertaining' category. As unscary, threadbare, and downright dull as these kinds of movies come." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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Analyze That (2002) |
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"Analyze That is more of the same--a near-carbon copy of its predecessor--meaning that it has a handful of funny moments surrounded by a boatload of unfunny ones." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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1.5/4 |
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Analyze This (1998) |
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"Talent can certainly help any film out, but when the written material isn't up to their level, what we are virtually left with is a vacuum of thin air." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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2/4 |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
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"A marginal entertainment with some greatly funny scenes definitely worth seeing, but is the rest of the movie worth wading through to get to them? Probably not." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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3.5/4 |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
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"One of the most entertaining motion pictures of the year, The Phantom of the Opera is a cinematic gift for the ages that finds profundity in its thematic innocence." | |
Dustin Putman | |
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