Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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For 866 reviews, this critic has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.1 points lower than other critics.
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Michael O'Sullivan's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 405 out of 866
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Mixed: 216 out of 866
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Negative: 245 out of 866
866
movie reviews
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
As Primer progresses, it just gets murkier and the experience of it more drudgelike. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
One singularly unbecoming character, who should, by rights, forever remain a "singleton." -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
Rated PG, which must stand for "particularly gullible," it's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for people who slept through American history class. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
It would be one thing if Christmas With the Kranks were a satire on the assaultive, bullying nature of contemporary Christmas celebration in this country, but it's not. It's an ugly glorification of it. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
The film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of Hollywood heart-string plucking. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
It has as much of an ax to grind as the humorless and misguided bureaucrats it mocks. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
Unfortunately, the more traditionally drawn 2-D human characters are as flat, in every sense of the word, as can be. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
What it suffers from most is the sense of offhand storytelling that lies halfway between creative laziness and cost-cutting sloppiness. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
I started out this journey actually liking children. By the end of the movie, I wasn't so sure. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
A syrupy Italian power ballad along the lines of the ones on the movie's soundtrack. Its tune is mawkish, bombastic but, in the end, not especially resonant. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
Feels like something I know is supposed to be good for me, but that I just couldn't stomach. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
The underwhelming, only fitfully amusing movie left me hungry for more. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
The girls in 'Traveling Pants' are only mannequins wearing someone else's clothes. They don't get inside your head, let alone your heart. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
A series of cutesy but flat-footed jokes leading up to a foregone romantic conclusion. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
For anyone old enough to cross the street without holding hands ... the movie's a reconditioned lemon trying hard to hide its flaws. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
It's not Deuce's satisfied clientele, but the audience, that gets the shaft. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
It's just so darn annoying to watch this attractive, seemingly smart woman throw her life away for some (admittedly rather hot) sex in the greenhouse. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
Tailored for the readership of Teen People magazine and about as thought-provoking as the average 500-word celebrity profile. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
The movie based on Young's 2002 memoir is a good bit blunter. One early laugh comes at the expense of a pig urinating on a woman's feet at the BAFTA awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars. And it doesn't get much better, or much smarter, than that. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 30
Seriously, though, watching New in Town left me feeling as pained as Zellweger, playing Lucy Hill, looks. -
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