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I.E. Weekly is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Amy Nicholson, Jay Antani.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B-
No Strings Attached (2011) Amy Nicholson The shaggy fringes of the flick get most of the laughs -- for one, it's absurdly obsessed with '90s hip-hop
Posted Jan 21, 2011  Edit critic review
C-
The Dilemma (2011) Amy Nicholson Ends with 20 minutes of apologies, a round robin of regret that downshifts the film's sputtering energy into park.
Posted Jan 16, 2011  Edit critic review
B
The Green Hornet (2011) Amy Nicholson Can a genius and an average Joe pair up and put egos aside to serve mindless adventure? Gondry and Rogen have.
Posted Jan 16, 2011  Edit critic review
c
Summer Wars (2009) Amy Nicholson The story's been done better (and balder) in Die Hard With A Vengeance
Posted Jan 16, 2011  Edit critic review
A-
Somewhere (2010) Amy Nicholson The nearly silent first half plays like Nanook of the North, only the ladies are wearing a lot less clothes.
Posted Dec 23, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Tron: Legacy (2010) Amy Nicholson Remember the last time you yelled at your computer? It does.
Posted Dec 16, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Tangled (2010) Amy Nicholson If anything, Tangled is hommepowerment -- one more step forward in Disney's slow march to treat male suitors like equals
Posted Dec 06, 2010  Edit critic review
B
Burlesque (2010) Amy Nicholson "Get your ass up, show me how you burlesque," growls one of this indulgent movie's indulgent musical numbers that swaggers with pearls, glitter and red lipstick - if not grammatical verb usage.
Posted Dec 06, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
The Next Three Days (2010) Amy Nicholson Haggis knows that the question isn't only can he do it, but should he?
Posted Nov 19, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Unstoppable (2010) Amy Nicholson A love of number-crunching makes the audience feel engaged in a deadly algebra problem. Four miles! 2000 feet! Population 780,000!
Posted Nov 12, 2010  Edit critic review
B
Freakonomics (2010) Amy Nicholson Sometimes, it has all the answers. More often, it just asks the right questions. And in today's 24-hour froth of insta-pundit analysis, we need curiosity more than certainty.
Posted Oct 02, 2010  Edit critic review
A
Let Me In (2010) Amy Nicholson The tragedy in Jenkins' pathetic protector focuses the film's themes of desperation and the myopia of puppy love when you're young enough (or undead enough) to feel immortal
Posted Oct 02, 2010  Edit critic review
A
Waiting for Superman (2010) Amy Nicholson Is our children learning? No -- and here's why, argues Davis Guggenheim's rousing documentary
Posted Sep 23, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) Amy Nicholson Gekko's still a wolf in wolf's clothing. The question is: How big is his hunger?
Posted Sep 23, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Lottery Ticket (2010) Amy Nicholson There are enough stereotypes in here to get Dr. Laura frothing at the mouth -- and enough menace to merit co-writing credit for the Hughes brothers.
Posted Aug 24, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
The Switch (2010) Amy Nicholson Sorry tabloid readers. At no time does Jennifer 'Womb Watch' Aniston growl, "Take that, Brad."
Posted Aug 24, 2010  Edit critic review
B+
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Amy Nicholson A 112-minute entertainment contraption -- celluloid that shapeshifts its frames into video games, comic books and sitcoms.
Posted Aug 16, 2010  Edit critic review
C
The Expendables (2010) Amy Nicholson Stallone's boasted that he's made the drunk uncle of all dumb action movies and in several ways he has
Posted Aug 16, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Step Up 3 (2010) Amy Nicholson Everyone in the cast can dance, even if only half can act. The revelation is 18-year-old Sevani -- he's got the ease of Gene Kelly and he can do the robot.
Posted Aug 06, 2010  Edit critic review
A-
Life During Wartime (2009) Amy Nicholson Solondz sees life as misery and actors as instruments. In his hands, they're pianissimo, vibrato, fortissimo -- and never in harmony.
Posted Jul 22, 2010  Edit critic review
C
Salt (2010) Amy Nicholson The kind of thriller that skitters after its star playing catch-up.
Posted Jul 22, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Inception (2010) Amy Nicholson Beautiful and bloodless. Like a dream, it doesn't implant ideas you'll carry with you outside of the multiplex
Posted Jul 15, 2010  Edit critic review
D
The Last Airbender (2010) Amy Nicholson Call M. Night Shyamalan a Wood Bender -- this kiddie cast is as flat and stiff as particle board
Posted Jul 02, 2010  Edit critic review
B
Knight and Day (2010) Amy Nicholson An action star who doesn't glower -- what a relief!
Posted Jun 25, 2010  Edit critic review
B
Cyrus (2010) Amy Nicholson Moment to moment it's miserably enjoyable and true, especially Reilly's turn as a regressed adult who slowly learns to be the man his woman deserves
Posted Jun 18, 2010  Edit critic review
A
Toy Story 3 (2010) Amy Nicholson Woody's insistence on rallying everyone back to their bedroom makes him the toy box Tina Turner, and the flick is smart enough to know it.
Posted Jun 18, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
The A-Team (2010) Amy Nicholson Heavy on biceps and aggression and -- crucially -- the zinging chemistry between its four leads
Posted Jun 11, 2010  Edit critic review
C-
Get Him to the Greek (2010) Amy Nicholson W.C. Fields warned, "Never work with children or animals." Russell Brand and Jonah Hill can add, "Never work with P. Diddy."
Posted Jun 11, 2010  Edit critic review
C-
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Amy Nicholson Bring a joystick to this big budget adventure. It'll give your hands something to do when you're restless.
Posted May 28, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Holy Rollers (2010) Amy Nicholson Eisenberg is such a solid, serious young actor that the film plays as social problem drama.
Posted May 21, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Shrek Forever After (2010) Amy Nicholson Side by side, the four Shrek films look like the stages of man. You have Shrek as ogre, Shrek as husband, Shrek as daddy, and now, Shrek as George Bailey.
Posted May 21, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Robin Hood (2010) Amy Nicholson If 200 arrows fly through the woods, do they make a sound?
Posted May 13, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Trash Humpers (2009) Amy Nicholson The spirit of celluloid is dragging 3D CGI to the toilet and giving it a swirly.
Posted May 13, 2010  Edit critic review
B+
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009) Amy Nicholson Director Michel Hazanavicius loves his sublimely naive bigot, and so do we
Posted May 10, 2010  Edit critic review
C
The Good Heart (2009) Amy Nicholson A hangover toast to an old New York with original wood paneling, cassette tapes and indoor smoking
Posted May 06, 2010  Edit critic review
A
Please Give (2010) Amy Nicholson In its casual, disarming way, it's as deep and as grand a film as you'll find
Posted May 06, 2010  Edit critic review
Iron Man 2 (2010) Amy Nicholson It's not a feast, it's a quick fix. You want bombs? You want quips? You want tech? You got 'em. Now go away . . . and come back next July.
Posted May 06, 2010  Edit critic review
The Accidental Husband (2008) Amy Nicholson There's little fun in being asked to identify with yet another female character who spends her running time being shamed like a dog who soiled the rug.
Posted May 05, 2010  Edit critic review
C
Paper Man (2009) Amy Nicholson Jeff Daniels' issues are self-indulgent. But to him, his writer's block and insubstantial life are epic, and the film sides with him more often than not.
Posted Apr 23, 2010  Edit critic review
A
Oceans (2009) Amy Nicholson This monumental documentary gets intimate enough to hear a crab sneeze.
Posted Apr 23, 2010  Edit critic review
C
The Joneses (2009) Amy Nicholson Good salesmen would show no pity. The Joneses weeps, and we're not buying it.
Posted Apr 15, 2010  Edit critic review
A
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) Amy Nicholson What's the difference between a 14-year-old tagger and a hype monster spray-painting Campbell's soup cans? Nothing. But the gulf between them and Banksy is as wide as the Pacific
Posted Apr 15, 2010  Edit critic review
B-
Kick-Ass (2010) Amy Nicholson It's a star-making role for Moretz, but everyone holds their own even in the face of their biggest enemy: lax pacing that makes this fun film drag and lurch.
Posted Apr 15, 2010  Edit critic review
A
The Square (2008) Amy Nicholson The moral can pivot on a dime: is this a karmic noir about consequences, or a nihilistic warning that even a simple scheme can't be controlled?
Posted Apr 08, 2010  Edit critic review
C
Date Night (2010) Amy Nicholson A skeleton praying its leads will bring it to life.
Posted Apr 08, 2010  Edit critic review
C
The Last Song (2010) Amy Nicholson This is Miley's vehicle, but the strongest scenes are between Kinnear and Coleman.
Posted Apr 01, 2010  Edit critic review
C+
Clash of the Titans (2010) Amy Nicholson French director Louis Leterrier loves this world. But Clash of the Titans feels like he fought -- and lost -- his own battle for control.
Posted Apr 01, 2010  Edit critic review
B
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) Amy Nicholson Here, Viking life is grim, hostile and heavy with social pressure -- kind of like Gossip Girl, only with dragon heads instead of handbags.
Posted Mar 25, 2010  Edit critic review
B
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) Amy Nicholson It's a bro-down, and every second has been calibrated for maximum bro-fficiency.
Posted Mar 25, 2010  Edit critic review
D
Greenberg (2010) Amy Nicholson True to this chauvinistic genre, Gerwig is a vacuum who lives to serve the house, the man and the mechanics of Baumbach's script.
Posted Mar 22, 2010  Edit critic review
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