Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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For 1,280 reviews, this critic has graded:
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44% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1 point higher than other critics.
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Rick Groen's Scores
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| Average review score: | 60 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 748 out of 1280
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Mixed: 366 out of 1280
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Negative: 166 out of 1280
1,280
movie reviews
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Rick Groen 25
Here's the title: Couples Retreat. And here's the review: Couples, Retreat. Yep, just find the verb, treat it as a command, and vamoose, unless you harbour an abiding curiosity about how eternally long 100 minutes can feel. -
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Rick Groen 25
God forgive me, but I worship the Bad Dialogue Fairy -- he gets me through these endless nights. -
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Rick Groen 25
And De Bont's effects are wildly over the top, devoid of the stylish cuts and intriguing angles that enriched the original. In fact, there's so little panache in his destructive action that it begins to seem like a weird act of self-destruction. -
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Rick Groen 25
Never one to shrink from the challenge of parodying the already parodic, along comes Marlon Wayans to do in A Haunted House what he once did in "Scary Movie." And do it much, much worse.- Posted Jan 24, 2013
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Rick Groen 25
Frankly, about 20 minutes into this dud, I was rooting for the alien beasties -- their diagnosis seemed dead-on. -
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Rick Groen 25
Remember that the director, the renowned Mike Mitchell, is the genius who helmed "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," and be sufficiently generous to accept that such a high level of excellence is hard to sustain. -
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Rick Groen 25
No less laughable is the ending, where Ritchie neatly reflects today's prevailing attitude -- that audiences can't be trusted to handle a hint of ambiguity, but can live happily with flat-out stupidity. -
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Rick Groen 0
There's nothing even mildly intriguing, or remotely galvanizing, about Showgirls. -
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Rick Groen 25
Is this movie so god-awful bad that it's hilariously good? Can't be bothered deciding. Figure that's an answer in itself. -
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Rick Groen 38
What's up with director John McTiernan? The man has got to get a career of his own -- sponging off the pale leavings of Norman Jewison just won't do. -
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Rick Groen 0
Calls itself a movie. It has words and pictures like a movie, and will appear in theatres like a movie, and will damn sure charge admission like a movie. But, truth be told, that's pretty much where the resemblance stops. -
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Rick Groen 0
The incomprehensible leads to the inexplicable which ends in the indecipherable. -
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Rick Groen 25
Quite an artful dissembler. Despite all evidence to the contrary, this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie, the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on TV and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults. -
