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2.5/4 Star Trek: Nemesis
2/4 Two Weeks Notice
1.5/4 Torque
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0.5/4 Beer League
 
 
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1/4 Deck the Halls
1/4 Crossover
1/4 Doom
1/4 Aeon Flux
1/4 Saw II
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

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2/4
 
"All that's missing is the spirit and the anarchic humor of the sitcom created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. The result is an overdressed, carefully stitched scarecrow of a comedy." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%
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3/4
 
"Most fantasy-action films blow their budgets in the first half-hour, and limp home with their makeup smeared. Doomsday is unusually patient, smartly saving most of its fireworks for the later innings." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Mar 18, 2008
 
Doomsday (2008)48%
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1/4
 
"The whole project is a cloying, artificial mess. The slapstick comedy doesn't bite, and the formulaic sentimentality doesn't grip. This is strictly phi beta crappa." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
College Road Trip (2008)14%
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Click here to read article -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
Teen Titans: The Complete Seasons 1-4 ()n/a
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1.5/4
 
"There are better action scenes in marionette shows." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 4, 2007
 
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)4%
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2.5/4
 
"Déjà Vu is well worth seeing for its visual brio, particularly the boom-crash opera of the ferry explosion, and a chase scene in which Washington is dodging downtown traffic on two temporal planes simultaneously." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Nov 22, 2006
 
Deja Vu (2006)56%
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1/4
 
"... a mirthless comedy with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick as warring neighbors, can be described as whatever is the opposite of a Christmas classic." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Nov 21, 2006
 
Deck the Halls (2006)6%
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1.5/4
 
"This really isn't a comedy. It's more of a woolly spoof, stretched out to criminal lengths." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Nov 20, 2006
 
Let's Go to Prison (2006)8%
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1.5/4
 
"Employee of the Month is a comedy as vacuous and tacky as the discount big-lot stores it imagines it is spoofing." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 5, 2006
 
Employee of the Month (2006)21%
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2.5/4
 
"You have to marvel at the way these guys keep coming up with ingenious ways to hurt themselves." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Jackass: Number Two (2006)61%
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0.5/4
 
"Sitting through this film is like spending the night in that sleazy bar you swore you'd never go in, not even to use the bathroom." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 19, 2006
 
Beer League (2006)29%
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2.5/4
 
"The Covenant has excellent special effects (spiders and specters, oh my!), but it is strikingly lacking in suspense." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 10, 2006
 
The Covenant (2006)3%
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1/4
 
"A lot of Crossover's manifest failings could be forgiven if the on-court action was thrilling. But Space Jam had better basketball scenes. For that matter, so did Dr. J's The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 1, 2006
 
Crossover (2006)0%
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2/4
 
"At the end, the crowd applauded to signify their ironic appreciation for the imperishable pleasures of trash culture. Unfortunately, with Snakes on a Plane, there isn't much of a joke to be in on." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 18, 2006
 
Snakes on a Plane (2006)70%
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2/4
 
"A strident and shocking jumble." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 20, 2006
 
Shadowboxer (2006)20%
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2/4
 
"A very talky and curiously uninvolving film." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 13, 2006
 
A Scanner Darkly (2006)67%
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2.5/4
 
"At least in spurts, Little Man provides some big laughs." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 13, 2006
 
Little Man (2006)13%
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"OK, they squeezed one more lap out of this franchise. It's been a fun ride, but it's time to shut things down. If you get my drift." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jun 16, 2006
 
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)34%
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3/4
 
"No one enjoys the free festivities more than Chappelle, who wanders through the film like a kid on Christmas morning. A very funny kid." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Mar 3, 2006
 
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)92%
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2/4
 
"All we can say is: Death be not proud. If you have to work this hard to take down these dim-witted kids, you don't deserve to be a cosmic force." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Feb 9, 2006
 
Final Destination 3 (2006)45%
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2.5/4
 
"A monster chiller sequel that is visually spectacular but rather overburdened with story." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 26, 2006
 
Underworld: Evolution (2006)14%
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2.5/4
 
"BMH2 is a harmless, genial outing, a comedy that is amusing without ever rising to the level of funny." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 26, 2006
 
Big Momma's House 2 (2006)5%
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2/4
 
"Viewed as a re-creation of a watershed moment, Glory Road is sturdy, efficient, perhaps even worthy. Taken as cinema, however, it falls far short of inspiring." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 12, 2006
 
Glory Road (2006)56%
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2/4
 
"Remarkably redundant." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Dec 21, 2005
 
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)29%
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1/4
 
"[A] dark, violent, nerve-wracking, trigger-giddy waste of time." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Dec 6, 2005
 
Doom (2005)20%
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1/4
 
"We know it's the future because everyone has the most ridiculous hairdos." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Dec 5, 2005
 
Aeon Flux (2005)11%
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2.5/4
 
"Thanks to director Roger Kumble's breathless pacing, Just Friends manages to outrun most of its flaws." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Nov 23, 2005
 
Just Friends (2005)43%
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1/4
 
"This is entertainment?" -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 27, 2005
 
Saw II (2005)36%
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2/4
 
"One of the astronauts describes his excitement during the lunar mission as 'like a kid playing in a sandbox.' Unfortunately, that could also sum up the film's visual content." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 23, 2005
 
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005)88%
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1/4
 
"As unconvincing and unrealistic as one of those ridiculous made-for-cable 'horror' films on USA Network, the kind starring Tom Wopat or Timothy Busfield." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 15, 2005
 
Venom (2005)8%
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1.5/4
 
"If Stealth were a recruitment film for aircraft-carrier duty, one would be tempted to say, 'Mission accomplished.' As a feature film, it's a washout." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 28, 2005
 
Stealth (2005)13%
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2/4
 
"There is no anchor to this madness. The authorities are just as psychotic and sadistic as the villains. Everyone on TV is a polyester buffoon." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
The Devil's Rejects (2005)54%
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2/4
 
"Heights manages to make the lives of all these beautiful people seem quite tedious. Despite their accomplishments, the only thing they seem suited for is hailing cabs." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 7, 2005
 
Heights (2005)65%
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3/4
 
"After a 20-year hiatus, George A. Romero, who practically invented his own creepy cinematic genre with 1968's Dawn of the Living Dead and its sequels, returns with his most ingenious and ambitious zombie film yet." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jun 23, 2005
 
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005)75%
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2.5/4
 
"This remake is about half of a very likable film. But in movies (as in auto races) it isn't how you start, it's how you finish. And Herbie should have kept something in the tank for the late going." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jun 22, 2005
 
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)41%
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1/4
 
"Not only an insult to the original, it should be shown at film schools as proof of how pointless a movie can be." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jun 9, 2005
 
Honeymooners (2005)14%
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2/4
 
"Picture Of Mice and Men remade for the smash-mouth set and you have Unleashed." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted May 12, 2005
 
Unleashed (2005)66%
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2.5/4
 
"House of Wax is a sturdy and cohesive representative of what tends to be a flimsy and tawdry B-movie genre." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted May 5, 2005
 
House of Wax (2005)26%
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1.5/4
 
"There is a funny movie to be made from the outrageous egos and excesses of rap music. Death of a Dynasty is not that movie." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Apr 28, 2005
 
Death Of A Dynasty (2005)50%
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"The plot swings between pathetically implausible and aggressively stupid." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Apr 28, 2005
 
XXX: State of the Union (2005)17%
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2/4
 
"Despite Andrew Douglas' tightly focused direction, this is a cheap, calculated scare." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Apr 14, 2005
 
The Amityville Horror (2005)24%
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1/4
 
"Dash can't decide whether he's making New Jack City or Friday." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Apr 14, 2005
 
State Property 2 (2005)14%
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3/4
 
"The experience is so immediate and immersive that you actually feel as if you are swimming with the krill." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Apr 1, 2005
 
Aliens of the Deep (2005)81%
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1/4
 
"If ever a movie deserved to go directly to DVD, it's this dreary horror treatment." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Mar 24, 2005
 
Malevolence (2004)31%
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3/4
 
"The Ring Two is subtler and slower-moving than the brand of horror to which we are accustomed, but it is nightmarish, in the true sense of the word." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Mar 17, 2005
 
The Ring Two (2005)20%
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1.5/4
 
"A vaporous and vacuous horror film." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Feb 19, 2005
 
Boogeyman (2005)14%
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1/4
 
"Never trust a movie that opens with a written introduction scrolling by that's longer than the collected works of Tom Clancy." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 28, 2005
 
Alone in the Dark (2005)1%
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2/4
 
"The film is a squeamish exercise, like watching a cruel child pull the wings off flies." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 28, 2004
 
Saw (2004)46%
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1.5/4
 
"Anderson ... seems so pleased with the fact that he came up with a thinly plausible pretext for this clash of the popcorn titans that he didn't bother to develop the characters or fashion a plot with any suspense." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 16, 2004
 
Alien vs. Predator (2004)22%
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2/4
 
"Why an actor of Kingsley's stature would sign on for this hack work is a mystery." -- San Jose Mercury News
Posted Jul 29, 2004
 
Thunderbirds (2004)19%

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