Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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For 982 reviews, this critic has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.1 points higher than other critics.
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Ann Hornaday's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 581 out of 982
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Mixed: 220 out of 982
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Negative: 181 out of 982
982
movie reviews
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Ann Hornaday 30
The loudest, trashiest, stupidest, cheesiest celebration of ritualized male aggression of 2004. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Never gels into the smart, tightly orchestrated cat-and-mouse game that it promises to be. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
At once listless and overheated, giddy and utterly zipless, the current incarnation lacks not just the savoir-faire of its stylish predecessor but also the sex appeal. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
It's a remarkable, if appalling, spectacle of self-abasement. But of course, that's Sandler's specialty. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
An extraordinary collective act of moral and physical courage is relegated to a backdrop for a mushy, synthetic family melodrama. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
An endless, virtually laugh-free pastiche of Aaron Sorkin by way of Aaron Spelling, Chasing Liberty features Mandy Moore trying so strenuously to be the next America's Sweetheart that she almost pops a vein. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Sadly, the filmmakers haven't given viewers enough context or information about their protagonist to know whether he's utterly free or utterly unmoored -– or to care very much either way. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
A boilerplate melodrama whose good guys and bad guys are so baldly drawn they could have been conceived by Friz Freleng. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
One part historical drama and one part futuristic adventure, Timeline resembles a "Star Trek" episode by way of "Scooby-Doo." -
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Ann Hornaday 30
As little as there is to recommend in Scooby-Doo 2, it must be noted that the human cast has done an uncanny job of inhabiting their two-dimensional characters. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Viewers anticipating side-splitting guffaws will be disappointed: Stuck on You is a strangely lackluster, flaccid string of fitfully humorous episodes. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Two-hour exercise in chaotic action and coarse, annoyingly coy sexuality. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Watching Thurman's character "triumph" in a context as joyless and self-referential as Tarantino's is a soul-deadening experience, one that over two hours takes on the same dreary monotone as the cheapest pornography. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
It winds up being tuneless, unfunny and, despite its strenuous efforts, not terribly sexy. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
It wants us to believe that being popular and getting the cutest guy in school really is the key to happiness. Like, how totally last century is that? -
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Ann Hornaday 30
An unsurprising, undistinguished piece of post-summer, pre-holiday detritus. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Maybe the easiest thing would be to skip the movie altogether. Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Plays less like a novel re-imagining of a classic if campy narrative than a drearily self-conscious exercise in Know Your Film References. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Never manages to achieve the balance between authenticity and eccentricity. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Unrelentingly grim, unremittingly gross and unforgivably unattractive, 28 Days Later is an orgy of troubling images and bestial sound effects. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
Traffics in nearly every trite cliche of the "colorful" South one can think of, from its pseudo-Gothic aesthetic to its overripe dialogue. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
The effect isn't just frenetic, unfunny and dull. It's kind of creepy. -
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Ann Hornaday 30
A movie marred by a flaccid script, listless pacing, a plethora of cutesy-poo gags and Ray Romano. -
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