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Robert Newton

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Earthwork (2009) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Ordal and company do a very good job in matter-of-factly demystifying Herd's own drive - and, by proxy, the creative process in general - transforming a grand old riddle into one tender vittle.” – North Shore Movies Dec 2, 2011 Full Review Super 8 (2011) 81% 4/5 EDIT “...a wickedly satisfying E-Ticket thrill ride in the old-school Spielbergian sense of the word.” – North Shore Movies Jun 9, 2011 Full Review The Beaver (2011) 62% 2.5/5 EDIT “While Gibson - in full-tilt Martin Riggs (from "Lethal Weapon") crazy-pants mode here - makes the part look easy (and ultimately treats mental illness with the seriousness it deserves), the film cannot quite contain him.” – North Shore Movies May 16, 2011 Full Review Thor (2011) 77% 2.5/5 EDIT “Kenneth Branagh's mother must have needed an operation. Why else would the esteemed actor-turned-director go mercenary for a by-the-numbers comic book adaptation like "Thor"?” – North Shore Movies May 6, 2011 Full Review Scream 4 (2011) 61% 2/5 EDIT “The standard, snarky, celebrity-studded opening is repetitive, and the whole movie is loaded with plenty of cheap boo! scares and red herring time-padding.” – North Shore Movies Apr 15, 2011 Full Review Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive! (2008) 3/5 EDIT “Anyone keen to dismiss Falco, who is sometimes referred to as 'the first white rapper,' as a clownish footnote should give this standard yet passionate docudrama a try.” – Worcester Movies Apr 8, 2011 Full Review Mars Needs Moms (2011) 34% 2/5 EDIT “Certainly, the very minor Mars Needs Moms is not a grotesque, high-profile creep-out akin to The Polar Express, but with its bowed legs, severe overbite and burlap swaddling clothes, it's not going to be the next Gerber baby, either.” – North Shore Movies Apr 8, 2011 Full Review Sidekick (2005) 100% EDIT “The performances are solid, with Mucci and Ingram forming a great didactic duo.” – EDGE Boston Jun 23, 2008 Full Review Kung Fu Panda (2008) 87% B- EDIT “Wisely, directors Mark Osborne, DreamWorks vet John Stephenson and their quartet of scribes avoid all the pop culture anachronisms that might quickly date the movie (and really, was a "Matrix" spoof ever really funny?).” – EDGE Boston Jun 5, 2008 Full Review Surfwise (2007) 98% B EDIT “HDNet's portrait of a boarding family catches that wave and rides it all the way to shore (and yes, we used a surfing metaphor in a shameless attempt to become more blurbworthy).” – EDGE Boston May 23, 2008 Full Review The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) 66% B EDIT “Here, though, all the silly talking creatures are endearing, and mee-sa no want-sa roast-an any of them on a spit like I did that asinine, decerebrated Stepin Fetchit, Jar-Jar Binks.” – EDGE Boston May 22, 2008 Full Review Why Did I Get Married? (2007) 48% C EDIT “Critic-proof, many-hatted Tyler Perry has done it again: delivered an overreaching and overexpositional melodrama that opened at No. 1.” – Christian Science Monitor Oct 18, 2007 Full Review The Final Season (2007) 26% C EDIT “Sports more baseball clichés than Scarface had swearwords.” – Christian Science Monitor Oct 11, 2007 Full Review The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) 13% C- EDIT “Walden Media's success at making the worlds of Narnia and Terabithia feel real on screen does not translate into the same magic in adapting Susan Cooper's series of young-adult fantasy novels.” – Christian Science Monitor Oct 4, 2007 Full Review The Rape of Europa (2006) 82% A- EDIT “Hitler's methodical plan to plunder and destroy Europe's great works of art gets lush treatment in this comprehensive documentary.” – Christian Science Monitor Oct 4, 2007 Full Review Good Luck Chuck (2007) 5% C EDIT “Tony-winner Dan Fogler, as Cook's childhood friend, is embarrassingly foul, and even criminally cute Jessica Alba is wasted, playing Cook's painfully clumsy gal pal/penguin nut in this alternately warm and ugly ball of whacks.” – Christian Science Monitor Sep 20, 2007 Full Review Dragon Wars: D-War (2007) 28% D+ EDIT “The concept here is fun -- good and evil dragons of ancient Korean legend do battle in modern-day Los Angeles -- but a lazy and amateurish script and embarrassingly hollow acting hobble it right out of the gate.” – Christian Science Monitor Sep 20, 2007 Full Review Mr. Woodcock (2007) 14% C EDIT “Maybe the writers dwelled on some trite self-help mantra to delude themselves into thinking that the giggles that the title inspires would carry for 90 minutes.” – Christian Science Monitor Sep 14, 2007 Full Review Shoot 'Em Up (2007) 67% C+ EDIT “There is not yet an expression to describe how over-the-top this hyperkinetic action comedy is, from its John Woo/Rube Goldberg inspired set pieces to its painful self-awareness of its own darned cleverness.” – Christian Science Monitor Sep 6, 2007 Full Review The Brothers Solomon (2007) 17% D EDIT “At best, it's a five-minute late-night sketch; at worst, a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.” – Christian Science Monitor Sep 6, 2007 Full Review Death Sentence (2007) 20% C- EDIT “With the subtlety of a bulldozer comes this dubiously pedigreed revenge thriller.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 30, 2007 Full Review The Last Legion (2007) 15% C+ EDIT “This take on the Arthurian legend is flawed but watchable.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 23, 2007 Full Review Night at the Museum (2006) 42% B EDIT “The script by "Reno 911!" creators Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon gives hyperkinetic life to both a fantastic set and comedy legends Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney.” – Christian Science Monitor Dec 21, 2006 Full Review Slither (2006) 87% B EDIT “Gunn, who started off with schlockmeisters Troma Films, calls on that no-budget sensibility and lets the writing do the talking, with us doing the shrieking and most memorably, the laughing.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 30, 2006 Full Review She's the Man (2006) 44% B- EDIT “It leaves viewers wanting more -- if not more Bard, then at least more of its hyperkinetic, unabashed young star.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 16, 2006 Full Review
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