The weekend in quotes will give you a general idea of the upcoming movies this weekend. As you might have expected, the reviews for ‘The Happening’ weren’t favorable. Currently, the M. Night Shyamalan movie has a Metacritic score of 4.6, based on just 4 reviews. The strange thing is, all the reviewers gave the movie a 5.0. Logic tells us the Metacritic score should be 5.0. But not according to Metacritic.com.
‘The Incredible Hulk’ is doing better, but not great. A Metacritic score of 6.8. Well below Iron Man’s 7.8, but beating Indy’s 6.5. Let’s take a look at the actual quotes.
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June 12th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Another upcoming movie weekend in review quotes. ‘Kung Fu Panda’ is definitely doing better with the critics. It beats most of the movies in the last weeks, with a Metacritic score of 7.4. Sony Pictures’ ‘You Don’t Mess with the Zohan’ is not so hot under the critics though, getting a Metacritic score of just 4.9. So let’s take a quick look at some of the reviews.
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June 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
As always, we have the upcoming movies in quotes for you. This week we can choose between the pink ‘Sex and the City: The Movie’ and the pitch black ‘The Strangers.’ Or we could just go with an oldie, like ‘Indiana Jones 4.’ The critics were quite mild this week. Although ‘Sex and the City’ didn’t pass the test, with a Metacritic score of 5.4. Even beaten by ‘The Strangers,’ which scored 0.1 higher, a 5.5. Hit the jump to see what those grumpy critics had to say.
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May 30th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Normally we’d do a ‘upcoming weekend in quotes,’ but this week is all about ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.’ So how did the critics judge? Well, a Metacritic score of 6.7 certainly isn’t bad, but it’s not anything to be happy about either. Not that Harrison Ford will care, but a little movie called ‘Iron Man’ scored a much better 7.8.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
