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Adam Markovitz

Adam Markovitz's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014) 17% C EDIT “The bricks are still yellow, but the road doesn't lead anywhere special.” – Entertainment Weekly May 9, 2014 Full Review The Double (2013) 83% B- EDIT “Director Richard Ayoade gets a huge impact from minimal expressionist sets.” – Entertainment Weekly May 8, 2014 Full Review Devil's Knot (2013) 26% B EDIT “The movie doesn't grab you emotionally, but director Atom Egoyan (Exotica) teases apart the case's details with grim fascination.” – Entertainment Weekly May 8, 2014 Full Review Brick Mansions (2014) 25% C- EDIT “You know those ridiculous action movies where a bad guy with, say, four large guns gets beaten up by a quick-witted good guy with absolutely zero guns? They've got nothing on Brick Mansions.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 24, 2014 Full Review Heaven Is for Real (2014) 52% C EDIT “There's no antagonist, no resolution, and no real climax - just a series of mildly charming scenes in which Colton shares heavenly knowledge while his family reacts with awestruck tears.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 20, 2014 Full Review Bears (2014) 88% B+ EDIT “If the sight of bear cubs prancing through wildflowers doesn't make you smile, then you probably won't like the new Disneynature documentary Bears. You also probably aren't human.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 17, 2014 Full Review That Awkward Moment (2014) 23% C+ EDIT “The movie's ideas about relationships would've felt middle-of-the-road in the '80s, and its big epiphany moments (Guys can fall in love, too!) are shallow enough to make you long for the comparatively profound rom-com oeuvre of Kate Hudson.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 1, 2014 Full Review Justin Bieber's Believe (2013) 53% C+ EDIT “When the movie occasionally does confront its hero's foibles, its answers are disappointingly pat.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 30, 2013 Full Review The Book Thief (2013) 50% B- EDIT “It would make for a pretty ghastly pageant if not for smart, understated turns by Watson and Geoffrey Rush.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 7, 2013 Full Review Let the Fire Burn (2012) 98% A- EDIT “[A] lean and deeply unsettling archival-footage documentary.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 4, 2013 Full Review Haute Cuisine (2012) 70% B EDIT “A pleasant dramedy inspired by a true story.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 27, 2013 Full Review Getaway (2013) 4% D- EDIT “Getaway has some of the crass trappings of a charmingly crass, go-for-broke action pic like the delightful Crank. But it's too dumb - and far too cynical about what audiences want - to even know how to have fun with them.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 30, 2013 Full Review Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) 23% C EDIT “Mostly, it plays like a overlong prologue for the already-in-the-works PA5. Here's hoping this is just the tension-racking lull before the next big scream.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 18, 2012 Full Review Bernie (2011) 88% C+ EDIT “All those twangy, homespun observations interrupt and annotate the narrative until Black and MacLaine's scenes start to feel as trivial as reenactments on a true-crime TV show.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 25, 2012 Full Review The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) 87% B+ EDIT “Even when the whimsy in The Pirates! Band of Misfits's history-be-damned story (which also ropes in Charles Darwin) feels a bit forced, the magic of the medium never does.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 25, 2012 Full Review Chimpanzee (2012) 74% B EDIT “Chimpanzee gives us a fully smoothed-out story -- about an orphan ape named Oscar -- populated with chimps so cute and Disney-fied that you half expect them to break out in an Alan Menken song.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 13, 2012 Full Review Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011) 18% D+ EDIT “Like the first Ghost Rider movie, this one burns plenty of rubber trying to swerve around plot holes and thinly written characters.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 17, 2012 Full Review Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) 10% C- EDIT “Good news: The shrill CG rodents, who last infested theaters in 2009's Squeakquel, are stranded on a jungle island with little hope of survival. Bad news: They've brought us along.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 15, 2011 Full Review Immortals (2011) 50% B EDIT “Without any narrative heft, these sights don't last in the mind much longer than they linger on screen. And yet they thrill in short-lived bursts that Singh doles out carefully, keeping pace with the audience's appetite.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Flipped (2010) 54% C- EDIT “” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Shark Night (2011) 19% D EDIT “A ho-hum series of kills and lulls so predictable that it doesn't even look like much fun for the sharks; when they open wide, they might as well be yawning.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 2, 2011 Full Review Jig (2011) 63% B EDIT “Uncovers the sweat and toil behind all the sparkly outfits and clickety-clack footwork.” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 22, 2011 Full Review Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011) 0% D EDIT “Though it doesn't work as entertainment, this numbingly chipper rom-com (directed by Dermot Mulroney) might be of historical value someday as an A-to-Z guide to the genre's most overworked clichs.” – Entertainment Weekly May 27, 2011 Full Review Priest (2011) 16% C- EDIT “Adapted from a graphic-novel series (and what isn't these days?), this unholy mess of horror and Western clichs is, at least, blessed with a wonderfully loony premise.” – Entertainment Weekly May 13, 2011 Full Review Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011) 5% C- EDIT “Never mind that Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is loosely based on an Italian comic series from the 1980s; this low-rent adaptation owes an embarrassingly big blood debt to HBO's True Blood.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 29, 2011 Full Review
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