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" Pain &amp;amp;amp; Gain &amp;quot;Are you ready for some dismemberment?&amp;quot; \u2014Soren Anderson, The Seattle Times &amp;quot;At least no one has been chopped into pieces with a chain saw... yet.&amp;quot; \u2014Michael O&amp;#039;Sullivan,  The Washington Post &amp;quot;This is Bay&amp;#039;s attempt to make Fargo.&amp;quot; \u2014Scott Tobias, NPR &amp;quot;Think explosions, barbecued body parts, and a stripper who believes she&amp;#039;s been invited to join the CIA.&amp;quot; \u2014Maggie Pehanick, BuzzSugar &amp;quot;The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They&amp;#039;re celluloid Bon Jovi.&amp;quot; \u2014Kyle Smith, New York Post &amp;quot;At least when Moe hit Curly in the head with a hammer it wasn&amp;#039;t the re-creation of a real crime.&amp;quot; \u2014Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s the film Wahlberg and John C. Reilly&amp;#039;s characters in Boogie Nights would have written as a vehicle for themselves in a coked-up, narcissistic delirium.&amp;quot; \u2014Nathan Rabin,  A.V. Club &amp;quot;Memo to director Michael Bay: Stick to movies with massive pyrotechnics and minimally developed characters.&amp;quot; \u2014Claudia Puig, USA Today &amp;quot;If Pain &amp;amp;amp; Gain were a late-night infomercial, it would scream GREAT RESULTS, OR YOUR MONEY BACK!&amp;quot; \u2014Joe Neumaier, The Daily News The Big Wedding  &amp;quot;By the authority vested in me, I now pronounce The Big Wedding a bomb.&amp;quot; \u2014Bill Wine, CBS Philly &amp;quot;Like many big weddings \u2014 a lot of things go wrong and not much goes right.&amp;quot; \u2014Betsey Sharkey, The Los Angeles Times &amp;quot;The movie is bland hackwork; its crime isn&amp;#039;t incompetence, but indifference.&amp;quot; \u2014Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, rogerebert.com &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t seen this much tail around here since the dog died.&amp;quot; \u2014Robert Levin, AM New York &amp;quot;Zackham has followed the rules of the form by multiplying the characters&amp;#039; sexual connections, past, present and future, to an almost ludicrous breaking point.&amp;quot; \u2014Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter &amp;quot;Rim shot, please.&amp;quot; \u2014Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer &amp;quot;At least, I think that&amp;#039;s why The Big Wedding begins with Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon and an oral sex scene.&amp;quot; \u2014Stephen Witty, The Newark Star-Ledger &amp;quot;Oh, and Katherine Heigl. It is a stupid romantic comedy, after all. Isn&amp;#039;t there some kind of rule that she has to be in it?&amp;quot; \u2014Bill Goodykoontz, Gannet News Service Mud &amp;quot;Ellis believes in love. He&amp;#039;s 14.&amp;quot; \u2014John Serba, Michigan Live  &amp;quot;The other &amp;#039;character&amp;#039; that makes Mud work is the Arkansas backdrop.&amp;quot; \u2014Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune &amp;quot;The grown-ups are mighty good, too.&amp;quot; \u2014A.O. Scott, The New York Times &amp;quot;In these parts, the truth is as slippery as the cottonmouths seen wriggling in a waterhole.&amp;quot; \u2014Ty Burr, The Boston Globe &amp;quot;At 130 minutes, Mudis probably 10 minutes too long, but I&amp;#039;ll happily give Nichols an extra 10 minutes every couple of years to pursue his vision.&amp;quot; \u2014Mike LaSalle, The San Francisco Chronicle &amp;quot;If he were alive today, Mark Twain would approve.&amp;quot; \u2014Chris Nashtaway, Entertainment Weekly Read More Context-Free Lines from Movie Reviews &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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