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Tom Maurstad

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This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “A movie full of hilarious moments and classic lines.” – Dallas Morning News Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Mortal Kombat (1995) 44% 2/4 EDIT “The best thing Anderson does is steer the combat to a backdrop of driving techno drumbeats... But in an old complaint with the action genre, all the in-between storytelling takes its toll on the viewer's patience.” – Dallas Morning News Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 66% EDIT “Though the screenplay provides "Naked Gun 33 1/3" a steady procession of scenarios rich with parodic possibilities...the prime root of its success is relentless momentum and energy. ” – Dallas Morning News Jul 17, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 47% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's as stupid and clunky as its title. ” – Dallas Morning News Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Our Idiot Brother (2011) 70% B EDIT “Welcome to the world of Ned, an eternally sunny realm where everyone is greeted as an old friend and everything will always work out fine, even when it doesn't.” – Dallas Morning News Aug 25, 2011 Full Review Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 80% B- EDIT “Captain America: The First Avenger is pretty good, insofar as it's not nearly as terrible as it seemed destined to be.” – Dallas Morning News Jul 21, 2011 Full Review Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) 35% C EDIT “The biggest casualties in this third installment of the robot franchise from director Michael Bay are storytelling and character development.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 28, 2011 Full Review Green Lantern (2011) 25% C EDIT “Green Lantern opens with the words "Billions of years ago..." Take that as a sign of just how much time this ostensible action movie spends explaining itself.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 16, 2011 Full Review Super 8 (2011) 81% B- EDIT “For pretty much the first half of the new movie from writer-director J.J. Abrams, Super 8 isn't really even an alien thriller; it's a sad-sweet tale of loss and coming-of-age set in the golden-gone days of the late '70s.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 9, 2011 Full Review The Hangover Part II (2011) 35% B+ EDIT “It's a tribute to the filmmakers, particularly director and co-writer Todd Phillips, that the best way to approach The Hangover Part II is to talk about what it isn't. It isn't a typical sequel, either a watered-down encore or a muddled [extension].” – Dallas Morning News May 26, 2011 Full Review Arthur (2011) 27% D EDIT “There are so many reasons to dislike Arthur that it's hard to pick just one.” – Dallas Morning News Apr 7, 2011 Full Review Sucker Punch (2011) 22% D EDIT “Sucker Punch reviews itself with its title -- in fact, it does leave the viewer feeling sucker-punched.” – Dallas Morning News Mar 24, 2011 Full Review Rango (2011) 88% A- EDIT “Every other week, it seems there is some new creation full of fantastically realized creatures engaging in eye-tricking action. The ironic effect of this... is a so-what-else-you-got state of jaded exhaustion. And then along comes Rango.” – Dallas Morning News Mar 3, 2011 Full Review Drive Angry (2011) 46% D EDIT “Drive Angry 3-Dis a movie so wantonly ridiculous, so aggressively stupid, it demands you make fun of it.” – Dallas Morning News Feb 25, 2011 Full Review Country Strong (2010) 23% 2/5 EDIT “If the point of Country Strong was to prove that Gwyneth Paltrow can sing, then mission accomplished. You don't need to sit through this two-hour melodrama to confirm that.” – Dallas Morning News Jan 7, 2011 Full Review Tron: Legacy (2010) 51% 2.5/5 EDIT “This updated story sinks under the weight of its own mystical mumbo-jumbo and pseudoscience gobbledygook.” – Dallas Morning News Dec 16, 2010 Full Review The Next Three Days (2010) 50% 2/5 EDIT “The Next Three Days wants to be clever. It wants to be taut and suspenseful, tricky and exciting. To be fair, the movie manages to conjure small moments of all those things. But by the end, it's succeeded at none of them.” – Dallas Morning News Nov 18, 2010 Full Review The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) 53% 3.5/5 EDIT “Anyone who has read Larsson's novels will be sympathetic to filmmakers trying to pare down and distill these books.” – Dallas Morning News Oct 28, 2010 Full Review Stone (2010) 49% 3.5/5 EDIT “Stone is that rare film that refuses to be easy.” – Dallas Morning News Oct 22, 2010 Full Review You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) 46% 2.5/5 EDIT “Woody Allen may still be funny, but he's sure not much fun anymore.” – Dallas Morning News Oct 8, 2010 Full Review Easy A (2010) 85% 3/5 EDIT “It makes with the clever dialogue and it does present a world where a young woman takes charge and triumphs over peer pressure, but the filmmakers were either too lazy or inept to find a way to be hip and competent at the same time.” – Dallas Morning News Sep 17, 2010 Full Review The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009) 69% 3.5/5 EDIT “Rapace's Lisbeth Salander is worth the trouble; you haven't seen a cold stare like this since Clint was roaming the Italian hillsides. Then he was the man with no name, and now we have the woman with no fear.” – Dallas Morning News Jul 9, 2010 Full Review Cyrus (2010) 80% 4.5/5 EDIT “A movie that melds creepy and comic so seamlessly that almost every laugh is undercut by a cringe.” – Dallas Morning News Jul 2, 2010 Full Review Jonah Hex (2010) 11% 2/5 EDIT “Jonah Hex is cut-and-paste filmmaking at its crudest.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 18, 2010 Full Review The A-Team (2010) 48% 2/5 EDIT “This team may have given itself an A, but viewers likely won't be so generous.” – Dallas Morning News Jun 11, 2010 Full Review
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