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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Dave Chappelle's Block Party
5/5 So Much So Fast
3.5/4 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
4/5 Since Otar Left
3/4 Bad Guy
3.5/5 The Last Shot
2.5/4 Accepted
3/5 Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
2.5/5 Boutique
2/4 Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief)
2/5 Love Object
1.5/5 Coach Carter
1/5 Christmas with the Kranks
 
 
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4/4 Unconscious
5/5 So Much So Fast
4/4 Dave Chappelle's Block Party
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WORST REVIEWED
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0.5/5 Scary Movie 3
1/5 Redline
1/5 Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
1/5 The Omen
1/5 The Long Weekend
1/5 Fascination
1/5 Christmas with the Kranks
1/5 Controlled Chaos
1/5 Biker Boyz
1/5 Jackass: The Movie
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2.5/5
 
"Fans of the genre, Ms. Spelling (who are likely the same people) and perhaps TV’s Will & Grace (who are likely the same people) will be inclined to walk this bride down the aisle."
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Kiss the Bride (2008)n/a
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3/5
 
"It’s always a treat when a movie seems to be exactly the movie that the filmmakers intended to make, and their audience wants to see. It’s also a treat when it’s a good movie, too."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
A Four Letter Word (2008)63%
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4/5
 
"Actor/director Tom McCarthy’s follow up to his award-winning debut, The Station Agent, avoids any notion of a sophomore curse by being an even more polished effort than his debut."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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2.5/5
 
"Street Kings is buoyed by the spirit of Keanu Reeves, who never fails to astound, at least this critic, by being consistently better than he’s given credit for and nearly always better than most of the films in which he appears."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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4/5
 
"The film manages to walk a line that is not antiwar in the main, but is distinctly pro-soldier, and thus takes pains to speak to the plight of the American serviceperson."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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"Pretty much all of Never Back Down is shot like an episode of Punk’d, with a soundtrack from an MTV2 playlist. Which is all perfectly appropriate and kinda fun."
Posted Mar 17, 2008
 
Never Back Down (2008)25%
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"captures a good deal more than the sometimes discordant music produced by these young, would-be chick-monsters of rock."
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Girls Rock! (2008)73%
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"It’s all too ridiculous for even the make-believe world of movies."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)37%
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"Ignore all of that foolishness and watch the collision of emotions The Air I Breathe provides -- it is enough all by itself to leave you breathless."
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
The Air I Breathe (2007)14%
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"Mostly the movie floats on the sincerity of Alonso as Carlitos, who is incapable of doing or saying anything that one does not believe, and del Castillo as his young, hardworking mother."
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
Under the Same Moon (2008)74%
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"There is simply nothing revelatory about any of it, however salacious. This is all old news and consequently not particularly interesting."
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Running with Arnold (2008)0%
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"Wacky characters doing silly things for nonsensical reasons seem to have become the standard paradigm for youth-oriented comedies of late."
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
The Sasquatch Gang (2007)46%
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"What's interesting about the movie are its interests, which are the funny, insightful, curious preoccupations of the young, which is to say they're about sex and sexuality."
Posted Nov 30, 2007
 
Sex and Breakfast (2007)13%
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"What is most intriguing in the film are the words, indeed the presence, of Barnes himself."
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Mr. Untouchable (2007)74%
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3.5/5
 
"It's amazing what a limited runtime can do to focus a storyline."
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Antonia (2007)93%
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2/4
 
"Painfully didactic storytelling."
Posted Sep 8, 2007
 
Ladron que Roba a Ladron (To Rob a Thief) (2007)62%
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3/5
 
"The 'characters' in Manda Bala are lucid and deliberate as they tell their stories and relate their points-of-view, but it is the construction of the film that sets it apart and multiplies its impact."
Posted Sep 8, 2007
 
Manda Bala (2007)80%
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2/5
 
"Rather than a real drama about these things, David & Layla plays like ’70s-era sitcom."
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
David & Layla (2007)50%
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Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Beyond Hatred (2005)89%
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2/5
 
"An ordinary boy-gets-girl movie, and not a particularly interesting one."
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Dedication (2007)41%
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1.5/5
 
"Closing Escrow is one of those self-aware mockumentaries of the sort Christopher Guest likes to make -- only it's not that funny."
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Closing Escrow (2007)54%
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2.5/5
 
"The point is that while Superbad is just as dumb as it looks in every way, there's also something fairly sophisticated going on, which is always a pleasant, and genuine, surprise."
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Superbad (2007)87%
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3/5
 
"Director Michael Bay and his ILM team have, in fact, achieved something pretty impressive in the world of CGI and modeling."
Posted Jul 11, 2007
 
Transformers (2007)57%
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2/5
 
"The funniest thing about Kickin' It Old Skool, yet another in a long line of not particularly funny Kennedy movies, is how little we actually have advanced since the '80s."
Posted May 9, 2007
 
Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)3%
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3/5
 
"A charming film that is neither saccharin nor sanctimonious as it treads the well-worn romantic comedy genre, not so much dismantling it as rearranging it just enough to make it interesting -- and perhaps just a little scary."
Posted Apr 21, 2007
 
Year of the Dog (2007)69%
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2/5
 
"Though some, including the filmmakers, might find this sort of material smart and real, others might consider it middlebrow and not particularly representative of the complex and interesting people they know, some of whom are even men."
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Knocked Up (2007)90%
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1/5
 
"Redline mostly feels like one long stunt intercut with the boring parts of a porn movie."
Posted Apr 16, 2007
 
Redline (2007)0%
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1.5/5
 
"Devolve into a film that only feigns the pretensions of popular entertainment but instead wants to delve into all sorts of family issues."
Posted Mar 31, 2007
 
Premonition (2007)8%
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3.5/5
 
"The path that Jensen plots is one full of the improbable and unlikely, but never the impossible."
Posted Mar 17, 2007
 
Adam's Apples (2007)70%
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3/5
 
"A challenging but worth-it experience for more reasons than one can actually speak (or write) in words. It's a documentary to be watched over time, with a Carthusian level of contemplation."
Posted Mar 9, 2007
 
Into Great Silence (2007)89%
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2/5
 
"The cast of Wild Hogs could only have been interesting in a movie about over-the-hill movie stars making a movie about over-the-hill regular guys slipping into the mind-numbing pointlessness of middle age -- but that would have been an ironic."
Posted Mar 2, 2007
 
Wild Hogs (2007)15%
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2/5
 
"The movie reaches the heights of melodrama with narrative cliches that border on the surreal."
Posted Feb 18, 2007
 
Daddy's Little Girls (2007)25%
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3/5
 
"A striking treatise on life in post-war Bosina every bit as stark and weighty as the Italian master's [Vittorio De Sica] meditations on life in the heart and the aftermath of the madness of war."
Posted Feb 16, 2007
 
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007)98%
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3/5
 
"This is all pretty ordinary Murphy movie stuff, which is to say it's kinda funny most of the time and very funny some of the time."
Posted Feb 9, 2007
 
Norbit (2007)9%
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2/5
 
"The plethora of horror movie cliches -- even those still residually effective -- weigh so heavily in The Messengers that whatever moments of terror that might have been had are left positively weightless."
Posted Feb 5, 2007
 
The Messengers (2007)11%
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2/5
 
"The gravitas that director Philip Haas and writer Wendell Steavenson would like to bring to bear in this smallish war thriller is simply not an achievable goal."
Posted Feb 2, 2007
 
The Situation (2007)37%
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2/5
 
"Loosely edited scenes juxtaposed in the most vexing ways and completely disparate motifs blurs Constellation into an image that the Hubble Space Telescope could not sharpen."
Posted Feb 2, 2007
 
Constellation (2007)0%
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1.5/5
 
"The line between hysterical and hysterics is a thin one, and, although it has its funny moments, for the most part the tone and timbre of Because I Said So falls soundly on the wrong side."
Posted Feb 2, 2007
 
Because I Said So (2007)5%
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3/4
 
"Let’s just say the story of Sacco and Vanzetti is a timely reminder of how things can go when politics obscure reasonable minds, and vigilance gives way vigilantism."
Posted Jan 22, 2007
 
Sacco & Vanzetti (2007)88%
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2.5/4
 
"[Director Dave Meyers] leans a bit more on character and narrative than one might expect, particularly in these get-em’-naked-and-kill-em’ days of gratuitously violent horror movies. Not that this isn’t plenty violent and gratuitous its own way."
Posted Jan 22, 2007
 
The Hitcher (2007)20%
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1.5/5
 
"When played with stale jokey-jokes and lame one-liners, as it is here, it’s not funny at all."
Posted Jan 13, 2007
 
Happily N'Ever After (2007)4%
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1.5/5
 
"Even as a comedy all of this begs credulity."
Posted Jan 13, 2007
 
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)4%
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Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Excellent Cadavers (1999)63%
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2.5/5
 
"If one happens to be a boy between the ages of 10 and 15 or so, all of this will be quite exciting and engaging. If one is much older -- say, 16 -- and has seen any epic adventure produced in the last two decades, Eragon will be trying."
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Eragon (2006)16%
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Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Cruel World (2006)n/a
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Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Princesas (2006)74%
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3.5/4
 
"It must also be noted that each of the Batchuluun children are extraordinary and that Nansal Batchuluun (both her real and her character's name) is among the most captivating creatures captured on film -- ever."
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006)88%
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2/5
 
"... an over-produced, overly frenetic, obviously derivative family adventure ..."
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Night at the Museum (2006)44%
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"If you were thinking of seeing the remake over your holiday break, consider the original Black Christmas, directed by Clark, instead. It was recently released on DVD and is considerably less irritating."
Posted Dec 29, 2006
 
Black Christmas (2006)17%
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4/5
 
"It's a sophisticated notion handled fairly deftly in what might be the first film of the 21st century to ponder the end of humanity as it is most likely to occur: slowly with lots of time to think about it."
Posted Dec 26, 2006
 
Children of Men (2006)92%

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