Author: Rob Vaux

Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? ‘I’ll take “Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces” for $500, Alex.’

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

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This film sucks on a level I can scarcely describe.

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I suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals.

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

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A tedious, astonishingly irritating march through scene after scene of quasi-Jungian horse flop.

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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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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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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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Fee. Fi. Fo. Meh.

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

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At least it’s not in 3D.

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You’ll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot. You’ll be more entertained getting hit by a bus.

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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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No, Cameron! Not another musical interlude! Please, I’ll be good!

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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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House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

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Only someone so smart could make a movie this stupid.

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