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"The filmmakers cannot resist embracing the conventions they were tweaking. Hancock turns from a moody, darkly funny character piece trimmed out with a bit of engaging action and veers into a poor impersonation of a standard superhero movie." -- Associated Press
Posted Jun 30, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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"Myers wants us all to love him, wants us all to be in on his jokes. But love and laughs are earned, not given just because you mug for the camera behind a wild wig and beard." -- Associated Press
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)15%
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"The shock value wears off quickly and writer-director Shyamalan strands us in a boring cautionary tale with an infantile eco-message about humanity needing to live in harmony with nature -- or else." -- Associated Press
Posted Jun 13, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)19%
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"They're such lovable goofs that you can't help wishing their quest for White Castle fast food and their flight from Gitmo could live up to the sort of sharp satire these two bright boys deserve." -- Associated Press
Posted Apr 23, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)54%
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"A stronger word than preposterous is needed to describe the, well, preposterous lengths director Jon Avnet and company go to engorge this movie with idiotic action, incomprehensible twists and loads of other nonsense." -- Associated Press
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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"The film leaves you longing for a few Hail Mary end-zone passes, while the filmmakers stick to a story that tries to pound it out with a safe, tedious ground game." -- Associated Press
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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"The film leaves you longing for a few Hail Mary end-zone passes, while the filmmakers stick to a story that tries to pound it out with a safe, tedious ground game." -- Associated Press
Posted Apr 2, 2008
 
Operation Inchon ()n/a
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"Lack of originality is where 21 really deals a losing hand." -- Associated Press
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
21 (2008)35%
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"Horton may hear a Who, but the rest of us may hear a lot of hoopla, and it's not all the charming sort you expect from a benign Seussian world." -- Associated Press
Posted Mar 12, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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"The assassination thriller Vantage Point might have been a triumph of form over content, technique over substance, if only there were anything worthy about its form or technique." -- Associated Press
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)35%
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"Truth be told, everyone and everything about Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is pretty unlikable." -- Associated Press
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)24%
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"Everything about the movie is as clunky and unimaginative as the title." -- Associated Press
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)14%
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"The movie might satisfy bloodthirsty action fans, but for most people, this is one Stallone do-over we could have done without." -- Associated Press
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Rambo (2008)35%
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" Nicholson and Freeman are so lovably companionable, they almost make you forget the glaring contrivances screenwriter Justin Zackham concocts." -- Associated Press
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
The Bucket List (2007)42%
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"As with the first movie, Book of Secrets leaps around like a choppy travel documentary." -- Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)31%
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"With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse." -- Associated Press
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)34%
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"Much of the movie plays like a civics lesson." -- Associated Press
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Lions for Lambs (2007)28%
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"Cusack and Coleman are on screen together most of the movie, and the fact that they don’t completely overstay their welcome amid the maudlin action says a lot for the restraint they bring to the characters." -- Associated Press
Posted Oct 31, 2007
 
Martian Child (2007)30%
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"A surprisingly plain, sappy, even insipid comedy, considering the filmmaker behind it." -- Associated Press
Posted Oct 26, 2007
 
Dan in Real Life (2007)65%
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"You can only see so many snarling hissy fits by vampires with perpetually bloody chins before they start looking less like monsters and more like ill-tempered circus clowns whose makeup is running." -- Associated Press
Posted Oct 17, 2007
 
30 Days of Night (2007)49%
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"Like The Yards, We Own the Night is broody to the point of anesthesia and operatic to the verge of bombast. And like its predecessor, the new film takes itself far too seriously." -- Associated Press
Posted Oct 9, 2007
 
We Own The Night (2007)54%
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"Peter and Bobby Farrelly's take on the 1972 Neil Simon-Elaine May original is not nearly as funny as you'd like for a movie that reunites them with There's Something About Mary star Ben Stiller in another gross-out romance." -- Associated Press
Posted Oct 4, 2007
 
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)29%
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"It's certainly a goodhearted story, and the movie does offer a little plot twist that deviates from the usual formula. After that, though, The Game Plan quickly reverts to the established playbook for safe, sappy family fare." -- Associated Press
Posted Sep 26, 2007
 
The Game Plan (2007)27%
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"While Mr. Bean's Holiday is hardly a memorable vacation, Atkinson proves an agreeably silly tour guide." -- Associated Press
Posted Aug 20, 2007
 
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)50%
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"The early intensity of Sunshine wanes in the third act. The film becomes a ferocious jumble, and rather than a supernova finish, it winks out amid stale New Age notions of the continuity of life and connectedness of all things." -- Associated Press
Posted Jul 17, 2007
 
Sunshine (2007)75%
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"Familiarity is not quite breeding contempt for Harry and his friends and enemies. But it's starting to breed indifference." -- Associated Press
Posted Jul 9, 2007
 
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)77%
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"Amid all the vapid dialogue and visual fireworks, the performances seem like afterthoughts, particularly those of Gruffudd and Alba." -- Associated Press
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)35%
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"Ocean's Thirteen still feels like one trip too many to the craps table, playing the same hunches, with the outcome unimaginatively clear from the start: Categorical victory for the rascally good guys, utter defeat and humiliation for the villain." -- Associated Press
Posted Jun 6, 2007
 
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)70%
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"When your best character is a serial killer‘s imaginary friend, you know your movie‘s in trouble." -- Associated Press
Posted May 30, 2007
 
Mr. Brooks (2007)56%
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"There are a couple of genuinely funny sight gags, but most of the roadside attractions of Wild Hogs are either boring or outright annoying." -- Los Angeles Daily News
Posted May 12, 2007
 
Wild Hogs (2007)15%
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"We've heard that before. And we've seen it all before, as this woeful sequel presents a strained story and a barrage of turgid action that looks like inferior outtakes from the first movie." -- Associated Press
Posted May 8, 2007
 
28 Weeks Later (2007)71%
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"Lucky You is a curiously ordinary and uninvolving tale from the filmmaker behind such insightful character pieces as Wonder Boys and L.A. Confidential." -- Associated Press
Posted May 4, 2007
 
Lucky You (2007)28%
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"The paranormal thriller Next shows how a solid crew of filmmakers and performers can apply a big-studio budget to a good story idea and still have absolutely everything come out wrong." -- Associated Press
Posted Apr 26, 2007
 
Next (2007)29%
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"Unfortunately, after setting up this fresh blue-collar scenario in the movie's first hour, Del Toro wallows in pyrotechnics." -- Associated Press
Posted Apr 18, 2007
 
Hellboy (2004)80%
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"Part of the filmmakers' point is that any old nutcase might be lurking behind the drawn curtains of the house next to you in just such an anonymous locale. Still makes for a mighty limiting, boring place to set a movie, though." -- Associated Press
Posted Apr 10, 2007
 
Disturbia (2007)67%
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"[There's] enough funny material for a great little Saturday Night Live sketch. The trouble is, there's an extra 80 minutes or so of down time in which Ferrell, Heder and their co-stars are pretty much repeating their characters' shallow schtick." -- Associated Press
Posted Mar 27, 2007
 
Blades of Glory (2007)69%
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"Someone connected with the psychological thriller Premonition should have been clairvoyant enough to realize that when you don't have a good finale, it doesn't pay to substitute two bad endings." -- Associated Press
Posted Mar 12, 2007
 
Premonition (2007)8%
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"Packing all the tired trappings of the raunchy road-trip genre, this loutish comedy plays out as a loosely threaded collection of shrill jokes and cliched sight gags." -- Associated Press
Posted Mar 6, 2007
 
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)6%
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"The movie is dead from the outset given the artificiality of the premise about a lonely rich guy who hires the folks living in his boyhood home to be his family for the holidays." -- Associated Press
Posted Mar 5, 2007
 
Surviving Christmas (2004)7%
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"The movie is sloppily edited, the gags limply staged, the dialogue and jokes stiff and stale. Even the action on the basketball court is unimaginative and boring." -- Associated Press
Posted Feb 27, 2007
 
Juwanna Mann (2002)9%
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"This is not horror. It's sadism." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Posted Feb 27, 2007
 
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)11%
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"Wild Hogs has little story and even less characterization to its stereotyped players." -- Associated Press
Posted Feb 27, 2007
 
Wild Hogs (2007)15%
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"One of the many mysteries about the number 23 is why Jim Carrey and director Joel Schumacher thought audiences would share their fascination over the mysteries about the number 23." -- Associated Press
Posted Feb 21, 2007
 
The Number 23 (2007)8%
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"Watching the earnest but under-qualified Ulliel perpetrate Hannibal‘s initial grisly slayings is like going back in time to hear the screeches of a violin virtuoso‘s incipient swipes on the strings the first time he picks up the instrument." -- Associated Press
Posted Feb 8, 2007
 
Hannibal Rising (2007)15%
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"A mishmash with a distinctive but disorderly animation palette whose top-notch voice cast -- including Robert De Niro, Madonna and David Bowie -- gets lost in the muck." -- Associated Press
Posted Jan 11, 2007
 
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)20%
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"The movie strives for a positive message about growing up and embracing the joys of fatherhood, but when the baby's this ugly, you're left wishing the filmmakers had practiced a little cinematic celibacy." -- Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 8, 2007
 
Son of the Mask (2005)5%
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"Half Past Dead may be the year's funniest unintentional comedy for its inane plot, repetitive, unimaginative stunts and dreadful dialogue." -- Associated Press
Posted Jan 6, 2007
 
Half Past Dead (2002)2%
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"Despite occasional moments of inspiration, Freedom Writers simplistically focuses on maudlin highlights and glosses over the obstacles to rallying a dangerously disparate group of youths more accustomed to loathe than trust one another." -- Associated Press
Posted Jan 4, 2007
 
Freedom Writers (2007)69%
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"If you've ever wanted to see a prehistoric man hurl fire-extinguisher foam in Stiller's face, this could be your only chance." -- Associated Press
Posted Dec 20, 2006
 
Night at the Museum (2006)44%

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