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
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
The problem is not the credulity-stretching script. Or even that much of the movie just isn't all that funny. The problem is that it thinks it's freakin' hilarious. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Did you hear about the Morgans? Trust me, you don't want to.- Posted Apr 18, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
But seriously, folks, if you're going to make a scary movie, shouldn't you be able to do it without resorting to both "Blair Witch"-style found footage and movie stars? (Will Patton and Elias Koteas also show up as, respectively, an angry sheriff and a psychologist friend of Abbey's.) -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
There are only two really good jokes -- or two really gross ones, depending on your sensibility -- in She's Out of My League. Both of them are stolen. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Save yourself 10 bucks, and an hour and 45 minutes of your precious time. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Playing a hero who's meant to be something akin to the young Dalai Lama, Ringer brings less than zero gravitas to the role. He makes the kid who plays Gibby on "iCarly" look like Sir Laurence Olivier. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Suffers from an increasingly common movie defect: appealing, sharply drawn supporting characters, and a cast of main characters that is as unlikely as it is unlikable. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Wild Grass might be the strangest film I've seen all year. Maybe all millennium. Is it any good? Quite frankly, I have no idea. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
The littlest children in your house may find something to titter at from time to time, but based on the reaction of a young screening audience, it won't be often. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
At nearly two hours, the movie feels bloated. It could easily lose 30 minutes, give or take, and live. It would still not, however, live up to its title.- Posted Oct 21, 2010
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
A comedy that looks like a documentary but plays like a horror film -- to parents of teenagers. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
That's the problem with the whole movie, which lies halfway between poker-face documentary and broad farce.- Posted Dec 22, 2010
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
It's hard to imagine that any self-respecting man would want to sit through two hours - let alone two minutes - of such caustic man-bashing.- Posted Nov 4, 2010
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Unnecessary and unfunny re-imagining of the classic satire by Jonathan Swift.- Posted Dec 25, 2010
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
This Arthur is an exercise in time-travel tedium, a trip to the Land That Funny Forgot.- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
The unapologetic laziness and ineptitude of Jack's impersonation, which is played for cheap laughs, is just as lazy as Sandler's performance as the real Jill. You don't buy it for a minute.- Posted Nov 10, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
What's Your Number? ups the vulgarity, ladling it on top of a rom-com base so insipid and predictable that the only thing to keep you awake is counting the number of times that the script drops the word "vagina."- Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Overlong, overcrowded, overstimulating and with an over-the-top performance by Charlize Theron as the evil queen Ravenna, the movie is a virtual orchard of toxic excess, starting with the unnecessarily sprawling cast of characters.- Posted May 31, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
A classic example of a film that doesn't trust the strength of its source material - or the intelligence of its audience.- Posted Aug 11, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
It gets the bullet points of Sam Childers's life, but misses the target.- Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
Mainly for those who are already infatuated with Cena's stoic, Mount Rushmore-esque countenance and who do not find the idea of the big lug leaping off the edge of a cliff onto an airborne helicopter's landing gear remotely absurd.- Posted Oct 21, 2011
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
With Casa de Mi Padre, it's often hard to tell the difference between when it's making fun of bad movies and when it's being one.- Posted Mar 15, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
The high-school sports drama Crooked Arrows has two -- but only two -- original selling points: Its protagonists are Native Americans and the sport in question is lacrosse. That's something you don't see every day. Other than that, however, the film's moves are taken straight out of "The Bad News Bears" playbook.- Posted May 29, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
"Bridesmaids" may have been crude, but it also said something about female friendships that felt true. Bachelorette feels like it's about four women who, not even all that deep down, can't stand one another.- Posted Sep 6, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
A workmanlike, if treacly and overblown, piece of propaganda. Its effectiveness depends entirely on the degree to which you already believe its talking points.- Posted Sep 14, 2012
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Michael O'Sullivan 25
The whole thing is played for laughs that almost never come. To be sure, the film has its moments, but they’re few and far between.- Posted Apr 25, 2013
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Michael O'Sullivan 20
It plays like a soft-core-porn potboiler left over from the 1970s about a hot vampire chick. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 20
Miyazaki, like an evil sorcerer, has plucked the heart out of Jones's story and left it there to die. -
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Michael O'Sullivan 20
Anyone with a modicum of good sense -- or a weak stomach -- will take it as a warning to stay the heck away from this literally and figuratively deadly "War Zone." -