Author: Rob Vaux Page 2

Whew! That was close: something almost happened there for a minute.

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Stop for a moment and ponder just how stupid it is to blow the ending of your movie in the title.

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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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Sun Tzu believed that becoming predictable would lead to disaster. Apparently, the creators of The Art of War couldn’t be bothered to take him to heart.

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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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You could do worse… by which I mean you couldn't possibly do worse.

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Memoirs of a Geisha builds a beautiful garden, then runs an interstate through it to let more people in.

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

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Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

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

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Progressing from nowhere to nothing and leaving only a greasy taste in the mouth as a reward.

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As a routine thriller Firewall is barely functional, but as a waste of talent, it’s positively amazing.

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Is this what we’ve been reduced to? A film whose noise and explosions are separated from the season’s other noise and explosions solely by the fact that they’re painted blue?

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

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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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I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man.

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It's a car movie made by people who couldn't find reverse in a Volkswagen; a puzzle box thriller assembled by the functionally insane.

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

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