The Core is unabashed Hollywood spectacle, but with a cast of up-from-indie actors that makes the cataclysmic kitsch all the more fun to behold.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
The real core of The Core is the beautiful friendship between a highly emotive Eckhart and the sacrificial Karyo. Their bond is the best thing to happen to Franco-American relations since SpaghettiOs.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
So howlingly awful that it has unwittingly found a place in that elite group of films that can claim to be "so bad they're good."Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
In dashing Indiana Jones style, Eckhart gets to be a hero.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The Core -- with its by-the-numbers plot and performances -- isn't offensive, just unblushingly tacky and derivative.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
It's a schlockier ''Armageddon'' crossed with ''Fantastic Voyage,'' minus the fun.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
There's a refreshing surefootedness in the way Amiel, his screenwriters Cooper Layne and John Rogers, and most of his actors recognize how preposterous the idea of traveling to the center of the earth in a souped-up Rototiller really is.Read Full Review »