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  1. Critics Are Really Mixed on ‘A.C.O.D.’Adam Scott’s new movie, A.C.O.D., short for Adult Children of Divorce, opens nationwide today, and the critics can’t seem to agree on the […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  2. TV Critics Really, Really, Really Hate ‘Dads’Fox’s new sitcom Dads has come under a lot of fire for its crude racial stereotypes, but a lot of critics are more upset by just how unfunny […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  3. Critics Aren’t Too Wild About ‘Hell Baby’Tom Lennon and Ben Garant’s latest comedy, Hell Baby, has been available on VOD since July, but it hits select theaters today, and the reviews […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
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    Kick-Ass 2 Review Roundup: Rape and Mean GirlsThe movie channels Mean Girls, says every single critic.
    By Margaret Lyons
  5. Unsurprisingly, Critics Prefer Indies ‘In a World…’ and ‘Prince […]As summer weekends go, this is a pretty decent one for comedy films. And it’s particularly good one for Nick Offerman fans, as he appears in […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  6. Kristen Wiig’s New Movie ‘Girl Most Likely’ Is Out Today, and Critics […]Kristen Wiig’s latest movie, Girl Most Likely, hits theaters today. Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendor), […]
    By Bradford Evans
  7. Almost No One Recommends Seeing ‘Grown Ups 2’In some of the least shocking movie news of 2013, critics absolutely hate Adam Sandler’s latest comedy, Grown Ups 2. The 2010 original wasn’t […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  8. Critics Love Melissa McCarthy, But Are Otherwise Split on ‘The Heat’Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock’s buddy comedy The Heat opens in theaters today, and the reviews are somewhat mixed. Most critics agree […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  9. What Critics Are Saying About Henry Cavill’s Superman in Man of Steel“So ripped that he’s nearly shredded.”
    By Lauren Duca
  10. Review Roundup: ‘This Is the End’ Is the Best-Reviewed Comedy of the YearIt’s been a lackluster year for mainstream comedies, but it looks like Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut, This Is The End, is […]
    By Bradford Evans
  11. Review Roundup: Critics Don’t Like ‘The Internship’ as Much as ‘The […]Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson’s second buddy comedy together, The Internship, hits theaters today, and it doesn’t look like audiences are gonna […]
    By Bradford Evans
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    What 15 Critics Said About Will Smith’s Silly After Earth Character Name“Cypher Raige, which suggests that he’s descended from a long line of American Gladiators.’” 
    By Jesse David Fox
  13. Review Roundup: Critics Like ‘Hangover III’ Less than the First TwoThe third and – as the posters promise – final installment in the The Hangover franchise was released to theaters today, and the reviews have […]
    By Bradford Evans
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    How Critics Handled Star Trek Into Darkness’s Bad-Guy SecretSPOILER ALERT. Unless you’ve already read some of these reviews.
    By Jesse David Fox
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    What the Critics Say About Gatsby’s Party Scenes“Luhrmann doesn’t just gild the lily, he spray-paints it with glow-in-the-dark sparkles.”
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. ‘Admission’ Review Roundup: Critics Like Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, Not Much […] Admission, starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, is this week’s big new comedy – unless a movie Rob Schneider and the ShamWow guy made together […]
    By Bradford Evans
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    Sex and Squalor: The Critics on Spring Breakers“You can practically smell the police investigation.”
    By Jesse David Fox
  18. Critics Don’t Like ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ as Much as They Like […] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, and Steve Buscemi as goofy magicians, hits theaters today, […]
    By Bradford Evans
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    What Are Critics Saying About James Franco in Oz the Great and Powerful?Flat, awkward, feckless, callow, odd, lumpy, and other fun adjectives.
    By Jesse David Fox
  20. Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy’s ‘Identity Thief’ Disappoints Critics The first big comedy of the year, Identity Thief, starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy and directed by Horrible Bosses helmer Seth […]
    By Bradford Evans
  21. Review Roundup: ‘This Is 40’ Is Judd Apatow’s Least Popular Film with […]This Is 40, Judd Apatow’s fourth film as a director, hits theaters today, and it’s receiving mixed reaction from critics and proving less […]
    By Bradford Evans
  22. Review Roundup: ‘Bachelorette’ Is Definitely Darker than ‘Bridesmaids’, […]Regardless of the fact that Bachelorette was an off-Broadway play and a hot script well before Bridesmaids came out, the comparison is […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  23. Review Roundup: ‘Ted’ Is Either Too Crass or Not Crass Enough/Too […]Ted is not The King’s Speech, it was never going to get across the board glowing reviews. If it wasn’t polarizing, I imagine Seth MacFarlane […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  24. Review Roundup: ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’ Is Too Much […]The ads for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World promised two things: 1) A cameo-filled darkly comedic look at the apocalypse and 2) A […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  25. Review Roundup: ‘The Dictator’ Has Some Moments But It’s Not EnoughThere were a lot of publicity stunts used to promote The Dictator, which made it apparent very early that people just didn’t care that much […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  26. Review Roundup: The Five-Year Engagement Engages But for Too LongIt was hard to get a sense in the trailer if Five-Year Engagement, the new film from Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, is going to be good. The […]
    By Jesse David Fox
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    How Bad Are the Songs in The Lorax?Pretty bad.
    By Margaret Lyons
  28. Review Roundup: Wanderlust is ‘A Shambling Mix’ of Hits and MissesThe reviews for the David Wain-directed, Paul Rudd-starring Wanderlust are here, and they’re…disappointing. The story of two type-A New […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  29. The Best, Most Brutal Quotes From Reviews of Work ItABC premieres Work It tonight, a show about two dudes dressing up as women in order to get jobs during a “mancession,” and it’s gotten some of […]
    By Adam Frucci
  30. The Muppets Review Roundup: ‘Like Getting a Big, Warm Hug’After an ad campaign that entertained us for months, the reviews for The Muppets are finally in, and they’re pretty uniformly positive. The […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  31. Review Roundup: Jack and Jill Will Make You ‘Dead Inside’It’s been out for one day, and Jack and Jill has already earned the rare distinction of a 0% rating from “top critics” on Rotten Tomatoes. […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  32. A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy Review Roundup: A Bit of an Awkward Mess, Just […]A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy opens tonight, featuring all sorts of funny people trying to organize some late-summer group sex. Much like real […]
    By Adam Frucci
  33. Our Idiot Brother Review Round-Up: Paul Rudd, Idiot SavantSnuggle into this here hurricane-proof lean-to, ya’ll, because we’ve got to batten down the hatches for another Review Round-up! Everyone seems […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  34. 30 Minutes Or Less Review Round-Up: This Is A Stick-Up! Give Me All Your […] Join me around the campfire and enjoy this mess of beans I cooked up, because you’ll need your strength of another Review Roundup! The 30 […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. The Change-Up Review Round-Up: Like Big, But With More Mouth PoopGiddy up, little doggies, and don’t you be magically switching bodies on me now! We all have fond memories of body-swap movies like Big or […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  36. Bad Teacher Review Round-Up: Significantly More Laughs Than Stand And […]The Bad Teacher reviews are in, and they are mixed like the shots and weed Diaz’s character sucks down as her students watch Dead Poets […]
    By Halle Kiefer