“The accidents, coincidences and melodramatic flourishes pile up like a February snowdrift.” Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

“The most disappointing aspect of Deadfall is its conventionality. For a thriller, it’s light on surprises.” James Berardinelli, ReelViews

“The perfect movie to watch when someone next to you on the couch is on the phone.” Jordan Hoffman, Badass Digest

“Watching this violent potboiler is like observing a thief knock off a convenience store, then seeing him lock his keys in the car.” Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

“The film does manage some unintentional humor through its assortment of oddball accents, quirky characters, romantic silliness and overwrought action sequences.” Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue.com

“The only thing Playing for Keeps teaches us is: Guys, forget the bars and nightclubs. Soccer moms are where the action is.” Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

“A father-son heart-tugger wrapped around a mushy reconciliation rom-com sprinkled with tinsel of shiny Hollywood supporting stars acting like they’re in another movie entirely.” Neil Pond, American Profile

“A sloppy, poorly focused comedy that wants to be about the relationship between a father and his 9-year old son but ends up being about nearly everything else.” James Berardinelli, ReelViews

“One of those movies that comes ‘straight from the heart’—the heart of the hack screenwriter’s manual that pushes formulaic structure to cover up a lack of compelling characters, genuine emotion or actual humor.” Kyle Smith, New York Post

“There’s a lot of poorly-conceived plot crammed into this film, and it never actually decides what it wants to be, emerging as a disjointed story suffering from severe ADHD.” Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

“This is modern movie stardom, and it’s depressing: the romantic lead who could also be selling us body spray.” Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

“A modestly affecting reconciliation drama wrapped in a so-so sports movie by way of a misogynistic romantic comedy, Playing for Keeps can’t stop tripping all over itself.” Justin Chang, Variety

“Is it a heartwarming romantic drama? Or a cynical sex and sports comedy? There is no wrong answer, dear ticket buyer.” Mark Jenkins, NPR

“Butler beware: In acting as in soccer, if you keep taking dives, sooner or later you pay the penalty.” Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

“The good news about this film is that it’s only 96 minutes long. The bad news is that it is 96 minutes long.” Tony Medley, Tolucan Times

“A disappointing comedy that falls down thanks to an uneven tone, some badly misjudged jokes, a failure to connect on an emotional level and a script that largely wastes the talents of its proven comic cast.” Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

“This is a dog’s breakfast of a film, lurching from simpering teen-romcom sentiment to off-colour paedophile gags to sub-Juno hipster cultural references to a lecture on the woes of single motherhood without breaking stride.” Tom Huddleston, Time Out

“As ever, ‘fun size’ translates to ‘no fun whatsoever.’” Mike MCahill, Guardian

“As the title implies, Josh Schwartz’s first directing job is designed purely for the short-term satisfaction of simple appetites.” Elliott Noble, Sky Movies

“There’s little fun to be had in this foolish Halloween comedy that generates many more eye rolls than laughs.” Caludia Puig, USA Today

“Put it this way, the movie’s funniest character is the only one who doesn’t talk.” Phil Villarreal, OK! Magazine

“Red Dawn is a ghoulish parody of reality, served up earnestly and obliviously, to an audience whose enjoyment will, perforce, be directly proportional to its ignorance.” Hugh Ryan, Salon.com

“Red Dawn is like the cinematic equivalent of burping and having some barf emerge at the back of your throat. You’ll want to strap yourself into one of the vehicles with a car bomb attached to it just to get out of finishing the stupid thing.” Chris Sawin, Examiner.com

“John Milius’s 1984 cult classic about American teens battling a Soviet invasion has been reinvented as a Tea Party wet dream that offers a scathing (if completely illogical) indictment of the federal government.” Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader

“Was anybody out there clamoring for a remake of Red Dawn? Show of hands? Anybody?” Soren Anderson, Seattle Times

“I think I’m beginning to understand why the Chinese were not reckoned to be a prime market for this film.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“Equally as stupid as the original, but it runs about 30 minutes shorter, which is nice.” Scott Weinberg, GeekNation

“I hope the ghost of Patrick Swayze forever haunts the producers for their creative cluelessness and unapologetic mangling of a once wildly entertaining war film premise.” Bruce Orndorf, Blu-Ray.com

“The point of Red Dawn seems to be to give teenagers who’ve mastered Call of Duty a chance to put their slaughtering skills to use in the real world.” Chris Hewett, St. Paul  Pioneer Press

“From the bottom of my heart thank you... to Bella, Edward and Jacob for letting us laugh, cry, debate, and pick sides while you three bastards stare at each other.” Mark Ellis, Schmoes Know

“With so many scenes of well-dressed vampires sitting or standing, stiffly, while Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson or Kristen Stewart passes another micro-slab of dialogue like a kidney stone, [Sheen’s] overacting’s greatly appreciated, thanks.” Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

“The final Twilight movie, bizarrely actionless for much of its length, may be the longest whimper in Rom-Goth history. Even the title weakens the will to live.” Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

“This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it’s unclear whether we’re watching a movie or an Apple product launch.” Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

“You’re going to hear a lot about Breaking Dawn Part 2 being the best of the Twilight movies. That’s like saying a simple head cold is preferable to swine flu.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“’Do not go to Silent Hill!’ That’s one of the first lines of dialogue, but by that point you’ve probably already realized the magnitude of your mistake.” David Ehrlich, Boxoffice Magazine

“Stick with the games. At least in the games you can press ‘skip’ when confronted with nine goofball dialogue scenes in a row.” Scott Weinberg, FEARnet

“Once the 3D special effects look dated, this head-scratcher of a movie could be ripe to become a camp classic. But for now, the humorless approach to this inane mess is embarrassing rather than hilarious.” Miriam Bale, New York Daily News

“Only true devotees of the game are likely to recognize many of the figures on the screen, or care about a byzantine story stitched together from innumerable horror and fantasy shows.” Peter Howell, Toronto Star

“The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video game-turned-horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings.” Andy Webster, New York Times

“Silent Hill is not a place you want to go, and that applies for moviegoers as well as this video game adaptation’s characters.” Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter