Peter Debruge, Miami Herald
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For 99 reviews, this critic has graded:
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47% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.7 points lower than other critics.
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Peter Debruge's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 99
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Mixed: 29 out of 99
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Negative: 32 out of 99
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Peter Debruge 63
This is neither the noir world of old '40s movies, of which he's clearly fond, nor something new and original enough to fit the concept. Instead, it feels like a blueprint for someone else to figure out. -
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Peter Debruge 63
An unknown commodity to anyone who doesn't follow telenovelas, Becker is sure to be a big star and has already signed on for two sequels. Apart from being scorching hot, he's enormously sympathetic in dramatic scenes. -
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Peter Debruge 63
Writer/director John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron) is a wizard at transforming the most mundane setting -- the front yard, for crying out loud -- into another world. -
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Peter Debruge 63
True to form, How to Eat Fried Worms forgoes flatulence jokes for positive examples. -
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Peter Debruge 63
What does set Shrek the Third apart is the quality of its animation, which reaches a level of expressiveness in the faces that would make even Hollywood's heavily Botoxed live-action stars envious. -
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Peter Debruge 63
The dynamic between mother and son is fascinating, with Blethyn creating a character who is more antagonist than villain. -
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Peter Debruge 63
Death Sentence would be right at home as one half of "Grindhouse"'s B-movie double bill. -
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Peter Debruge 63
Has all the makings of another "Ice Storm" -- family tension, teen experimentation, friendly neighborhood wife-swapping and a death in the family -- but falls short in its execution. -
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Peter Debruge 50
Almost certain to polarize audiences, this bit of emotional agitprop plays like a watered-down "Short Cuts" or "Magnolia" with a shrill, one-note message: We're all a little bit racist.- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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Peter Debruge 50
An exercise intended exclusively for fans of the genre, another crude, hard-R bloodbath from the studio that brought you "High Tension" and "Saw." -
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Peter Debruge 50
Basically the first movie all over again, with plenty more of the bridge-jumping, rocket-launching action that audiences loved about the original. -
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Peter Debruge 50
The result is like a low-rent "Wizard of Oz" or "Labyrinth," sticking close to the formula of a kid who falls asleep and wakes up in a fantastical wonderland where everything's just a little bit off. -
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Peter Debruge 50
One of the great pleasures of the original Love Bug comes in watching all the live-action stunts, and CG just isn't the same. -
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Peter Debruge 50
Like a cross between "Man on Fire" and "Bad Boys 2," this demolition derby delivers eye-popping action sequences that would make even the Roadrunner roll his eyes in disbelief. -
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Peter Debruge 50
As far as titles go, Cote d'Azur doesn't quite cut it for this topsy-turvy French comedy, in which an innocent seaside vacation gets really messy once a family full of busybodies starts poking around in one another's business. -
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Peter Debruge 50
Considering its superlative title (second only to George Stevens's New Testament epic, "The Greatest Story Ever Told"), I'm sorry to report that The Greatest Game Ever Played ranks somewhere in the murky middleground of sports movies. -
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Peter Debruge 50
It's all in the telling, and Loggerheads practically aches with its own heal-the-world earnestness. -
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Peter Debruge 50
It's frustrating to watch Levin try to reason with far-gone street-corner evangelicals (whose arguments are preposterous at best) when he might be building a stronger case by other means. -
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Peter Debruge 50
Unlike this summer's compulsively watchable "Hustle & Flow," Get Rich or Die Tryin' captures none of the thrill of finding your voice, recording a demo or landing a concert. -
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Peter Debruge 50
This is superficial entertainment to say the least. But if you're looking for laughs, then Just Friends is just fine. -
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Peter Debruge 50
The remake seems to have been written and directed by people whose only experience with children is the long-distant memory of having been kids themselves so many years ago. -
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Peter Debruge 50
As long as the movie's set in Mexico City, The Matador is a slick and entertaining black comedy, but the instant Danny heads back to Denver, it comes flying apart at the seams. -
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Peter Debruge 50
Like an early Woody Allen film or a classic Marx brothers feature, more of Hoodwinked's gags flop than hit, but they come at such a steady rate, you hardly notice. -
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Peter Debruge 50
This is precisely the type of moviegoing experience engineered for those who still get a laugh when the Baha Men hit "Who Let the Dogs Out?" accompanies a doggie mayhem montage. -
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Peter Debruge 50
It would seem Towne is too much in love with the book to recognize its fundamental limitations as a film. -
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Peter Debruge 50
The Sentinel isn't nearly as slick as it must have looked on the page. Those zingers are perfect fodder for a movie preview, but they just don't lead anywhere interesting on-screen. -
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Peter Debruge 50
The trouble with Kinky Boots is that director Julian Jarrold doesn't seem to know whether his movie would play better to young hipsters or the blue-haired old lady crowd. -
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Peter Debruge 50
A filmmaker like John Sayles ("Sunshine State") who shares Hiaasen's issue-conscious outlook might have framed the lesson a bit more eloquently. But Shriner blows it. -
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Peter Debruge 50
In a move reminiscent of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho," some shots are lifted directly from the original and much of the screenplay is identical. -
