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Critics' Reviews

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Movie Title
Avg. Score
1.
Blind Side, The
2.
Twilight Saga: New Moon, The
6.
49
50
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
So unashamedly confusing, so intent on piling twist upon twist upon twist, it makes your head hurt just trying to figure out what's happened.Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Mike Clark
The tepid result is like "Courage Under Fire" without the compelling Meg Ryan angle, or Travolta's 1999 "The General's Daughter" without the sexual squalor. It all feels a little moldy.Read Full Review »
50
Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Basically, it's a muddle.Read Full Review »
50
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Entertainment more suitable for the living room than the movie theater.Read Full Review »
50
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Comes across as a cheesy, fundamentally unsatisfying experience.Read Full Review »
50
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Their (Travolta/Jackson) teamwork was classic. Basic breaks up the team. What's up with that?Read Full Review »
38
Boston Globe: Janice Page
Falls flat on two fronts: It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.Read Full Review »
30
Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
They made a movie without one basic ingredient: the story.Read Full Review »
25
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Another depressingly empty action thriller.Read Full Review »
25
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
With style and energy from the actors, with every sign of self-confidence from the director, with pictures that were in focus and dialogue that you could hear, the movie descended into a morass of narrative quicksand. By the end, I wanted to do cruel and vicious things to the screenplay.Read Full Review »
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