Author: Rob Vaux

While Babylon A.D. isn’t the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs.

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If you hear the phrase "Italian caveman epic" and your heart doesn't sing at least a little bit, then I pity your sad and joyless existence.

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You say ‘psychotic codependency’ like it’s a bad thing.

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Though a scant 100 minutes long, After Earth feels longer and slower than your average PBS pledge drive.

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By trying to convince us that we’re having a good time even as it pounds us senseless, Speed Racer moves beyond mediocrity and into the realm of active irritant.

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Julianne Moore] spends the entire film walking the razor’s edge: gauging the difference between brilliance and disaster before assertively losing her balance.

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Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

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Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?

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Real-life military trainers – regardless of gender – never make you say, ‘Wow you’re hot!’ They make you say, ‘I’ll do whatever you want, please don’t hurt me.’

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God help us, there’s going to be a director’s cut, isn’t there?

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It doesn’t suck. Please take a moment to pick your jaw up off the floor and we’ll continue.

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Dragging your boyfriend/husband to this movie will give him the leverage to demand multiple screenings of Jerry Bruckheimer films as penance. Ladies, you have been warned.

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It’s obvious that nobody believed in this project longer than it took for the check to clear.

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A living testament to how low a studio will stoop to generate a few bucks.

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At least it’s not in 3D.

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I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

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It's flawless in its flaws, without a single redeeming element to obscure its idealized awfulness.

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That isn’t brimstone we’re smelling on Ghost Rider. It’s something else.

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Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

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Rarely has the phrase "going through the motions" felt more fitting.

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This couple has endured for over 900 years; the least Tristan & Isolde can do is show us a reason why.

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