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DEREK ADAMS
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• Time Out New York

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1/6
 
" The result is a series of extraneous, deplorably unfunny scenes and sketches stitched together in completely haphazard fashion." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Disaster Movie (2008)2%
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1/6
 
" Even with a brief running time, ‘College Road Trip’ is an ordeal that even its target audience will find dispiritingly lame." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
College Road Trip (2008)12%
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3/6
 
" Tautly mounted, it all looks authentically old fashioned, and there are a few nuggets of amusing dialogue amid the occasional violence, sexual debauchery, political corruption and overall hedonistic atmosphere." -- Time Out
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)78%
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2/6
 
" Bono should refrain from ramming his preachy political meanderings down our throats and let the music do the talking. Even if some of that music becomes a little stultifying." -- Time Out
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
U2 3D (2008)92%
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2/6
 
" Let’s not be too Scrooge-like; there are pockets of charm, and some of the effects are quite good." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)36%
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2/6
 
" Chapman was on a simple, skewed quest for infamy. And he got it. One gathers he’d be chuffed to see this film. And that’s the biggest issue of all." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
The Killing of John Lennon (2008)35%
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1/6
 
" There’s a cool opening credits sequence, but beyond that ‘Hitman’ doesn’t make much sense, is encumbered by clunky dialogue, some amateurish performances and clichéd set-pieces we’ve seen umpteen times before." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
Hitman (2007)15%
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2/6
 
" This is seedy, morally defunct, low-IQ cinema for airheads: it’s toe-curlingly violent and mostly plain nasty, but quite fun in a debauched kind of way." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 14, 2007
 
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)67%
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" While Carpenter's film was all about economy and a skilful use of empty space, Miner's busy compositions have a cluttered feel that is echoed by superfluous orchestral music." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Halloween: H2O (1998)50%
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3/6
 
" A shame it lacks the smart sassiness of its predecessors. Time to call time, we think." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 29, 2007
 
Shrek the Third (2007)42%
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" Petrol-headed fifty-somethings into Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers will probably relate to some of the funnier scenes. The rest, including pre-teens, are advised to avoid it like el plago." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 12, 2007
 
Wild Hogs (2007)14%
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" The first 20 minutes of this competently animated kids’ adventure are entertaining enough. But thereafter, the plot fractures, the pace goes into overdrive and the jokes wear thin." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 31, 2007
 
Meet the Robinsons (2007)66%
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" An immensely interesting though finally unsuccessful film." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 24, 2007
 
Sign of the Pagan (1954)50%
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" Luc Besson’s half-baked live-action/animated fantasy looks like it was invented on the hoof: it’s erratically plotted, poorly animated, overly derivative and too insufferably cute to interest anyone above undemanding toddler age." -- Time Out
Posted Jan 25, 2007
 
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)20%
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" Irresponsible content notwithstanding, it’s the low standard of filmmaking that really defies belief." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Unaccompanied Minors (2006)27%
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" ... an aimless and riotous mess." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
 
Night at the Museum (2006)44%
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" You’ve got to hand it to director Michael Lembeck… he’s succeeded in persuading studio bosses to let him make not one but two sequels from premises that were dead in the water from the word go." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 23, 2006
 
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)13%
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" Loud, raucous and dispiritingly unfunny." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 19, 2006
 
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006)22%
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" Of the dressed-to-thrill cast, only [Alex] Pettyfer disappoints; he just looks and sounds too bland to be a teen hero. But I’ll leave that for the kids to decide." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 20, 2006
 
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)33%
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" Three major stars being involved, it all wraps up happily but implausibly." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Sphere (1998)13%
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" The supernatural elements carry an undeniable emotional charge, but the solution to the underlying murder mystery is disappointingly tidy and trite." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Green Mile (1999)78%
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" Eminently forgettable." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Saint (1997)30%
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" On the long list of comedy ideas screenwriters should never have had, this film must rank high." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
So Fine (1981)n/a
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" The star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Mr. Deeds (2002)21%
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" [An] aimless movie." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Howard the Duck (1986)19%
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" A hammed-up version of the old chestnut about the ventriloquist who is 'taken over' by his dummy, clumsily adapted by William Goldman from his own novel." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Magic (1978)82%
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" While the pre-pubescents continually scream, their doting parents prove equally odious in a finale of astounding sentimentality." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Goonies (1985)63%
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" This time it ends with the underdogs together. Oddly enough, it's this conclusion that feels phony, seeing as Stoltz has spent the last 80 minutes arranging his dream date with Lea." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)77%
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" This makes little concession to non-initiates." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)91%
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" If all this sounds convoluted, well, it's a toddlers' film and anything goes." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)19%
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" Dire." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
My Favorite Martian (1999)13%
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" The best special effects are in the first five minutes. Thereafter, it's all rather predictable." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Starman (1984)82%
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" Few people can be so big-hearted as to tolerate Ed's agonizing brand of pedantic humour." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Good Burger (1997)31%
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" True, it tries to be tongue-in-cheek, but really it’s just cheek." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)34%
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" Characterisation is regulation thin, plotting largely nonsensical, 'camerawork' and effects increasingly pyrotechnical until an amazing final light show inside the Ark." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Spriggan (2001)54%
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" The result is a variety concert of a film in which most of the acts/jokes fall flat." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Magic Christian (1969)53%
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" Sometimes, when you've just wasted a tenner and a perfectly good evening watching another dumb, gratuitously gun-filled, hackneyed, nonsensical action picture, don't you wish you were as thick, lazy and easily pleased as Hollywood wants you to be?" -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Half Past Dead (2002)2%
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" You have what Scrooge himself might call 'Ho-hum-bug.'" -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
A Christmas Carol (1951)84%
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" The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality" -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Grand Hotel (1932)84%
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" By the end, the accumulated weight and lethargy of the production fails to invest Sophie's fate with the significance Styron achieves." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Sophie's Choice (1982)84%
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" The design is often brilliant, although the film is nowhere near as tasteless or funny as it ought to be." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Monkeybone (2001)19%
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" One is left longing for Hitchcock's dark, daring wit and disturbingly amoral insights." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Stepfather (1987)87%
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" Monroe flaunts her attributes too blatantly, and seems less human because of it, while George Axelrod's play, fresh and risqué in the '50s, now appears a little obvious and over-plotted." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Seven Year Itch (1955)88%
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" Polanski's evident desire to elicit understated, naturalistic performances from his cast also underplays the poetry of the play..." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Macbeth (1971)86%
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" Nice as it would be to report that Ang and his co-writer/producer James Schamus had regenerated the summer blockbuster, we gotta poop the party." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Hulk (2003)61%
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" The storyline wanes towards the end and, from the kids’ point of view, the whole package lacks momentum." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)56%
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" Weird, then, how the cast play as if holding their breath for the pay cheque." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Stealing Harvard (2002)8%
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" The film looks good and has its funny moments, but too often one senses Anderson straining to impress..." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)79%
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" The net effect, between embarrassed guffaws, is incredulity: a movie at once post-TV and pre-DW Griffith." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)92%
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" William Goldman's leisurely script and Forbes' dull direction never quite capture the subtleties of Ira Levin's novel about an idyllic Connecticut commuter village where the housewives are a bunch of domesticated dummies." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
 
The Stepford Wives (1975)67%

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