Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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For 1,669 reviews, this critic has graded:
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57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point lower than other critics.
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Joe Morgenstern's Scores
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Positive: 808 out of 1669
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Mixed: 506 out of 1669
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Negative: 355 out of 1669
1,669
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Consider this more a consumer warning than a movie review: The Life Before Her Eyes will draw you in, then intrigue you, then bore you, then bewilder you, then make you crazy with its incessant flashbacks and flash forwards, and finally leave you feeling like the victim of a fraud. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
The best news about this clangorous clunker is that it may well have vanquished the Mummy franchise. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Motion is in copious supply -- a frenzied shootout at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum grows interminable -- but the workings of the abstract plot are unfathomable, the characters are unpleasant and a couple of assassinations leave us as cold as the corpses. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
The movie drills itself into our skulls, which are all too vulnerable to such an assault, though I must say my brain glazed over and my heart turned adamantine while the stupidities of this action thriller played themselves out.- Posted Apr 30, 2013
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Joe Morgenstern 20
A bizarre conflation of chick flick and "A Christmas Carol." -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
This sad excuse for family entertainment tries to enshrine a classic while defacing it. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
What's wrong with this sad fiasco goes far beyond its visual deficits. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
In a truly terrible action adventure called The Tuxedo, a high-tech monkey suit turns Jackie Chan into an all-powerful cyborg, and will turn you into a boredborg. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Rarely has a major motion picture -- and this one is major by virtue of its misplaced ambition as well as its budget -- been afflicted by such flagrant dissonance between subject and style. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Mr. Rock's opening scene is very funny. After that it's a steep downhill slide. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
After missing the film on the small screen the first time around, I recently watched it on video, and can only conclude that my screen wasn't small enough. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
The script is woefully inept, with plot twists that wouldn't pass muster in a high-school drama class. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Only Le Carre fans with tin ears and clouded eyes will fail to note the film's sour tone, crude performances and drab look. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Manages to make its live actors sound -- and even sometimes look -- computer generated. This wan, sluggish comedy wouldn't pass muster as a premium-cable original, but here it is on the big screen. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
The last thing we need is entertainment that evokes the horror and then trivializes it with cheesy heroics. Never has a movie taken on a subject of greater immediacy, or handled it more ineptly. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Everything that was modest, soundly grounded and therefore horrifying about the 1971 rodentarama that starred Bruce Davison is now insistent, Grand-Guignol-intense and therefore shrug-offable when it isn't downright awful. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
It may be lulling to know, almost from the outset, where the plot is going, but thrilling -- or even psychological -- it is not. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
The Navajos must have sent much more crucial messages at much higher levels during the war, but you'd never know it from this movie. Windtalkers is practically all action and no talk. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Young audiences may welcome this movie, but girls, and boys, should want more. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
A gothic thriller called Cold Creek Manor extrudes an 80-minute idea -- I may be overgenerous here -- into 118 minutes that feel like an eternity. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
The best thing about a movie as silly as this is that it makes such modest demands on your attention. As the story unfolded with all the energy of California in a Stage 3 alert, I staved off brain death by trying to imagine an alternate version. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
I wish I'd brought a pair of peas to the screening. Then I could have taken in the glorious scenery without the dumb dialogue, which is delivered in a jangle of accents that makes a mockery of ethnicity. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates isn't just slovenly and smarmy but creepy. -
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Joe Morgenstern 20
This ripoff, directed by Jerry Zucker, has a few funny moments, but it's a sad sad sad sad example of what Hollywood is currently serving up -- and what audiences are swallowing -- as summer entertainment. -
