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The Core

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action When unexplained catastrophes strike around the globe, geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and French atomic weapons expert Dr. Sergei Leveque (Tchéky Karyo) are summoned to Washington, D.C., to determine if covert enemy action is to blame. Working with his team at the University of Illinois, Keyes discovers the mystery behind the tragedies is more frightening than any act of war-the earth’s inner core has stopped rotating. As a ... [+]
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post
"A two-hour pleasure cruise" POS
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer
"'The Core' is unabashed Hollywood spectacle, but with a cast of up-from-indie actors that makes the cataclysmic kitsch all the more fun to behold." POS
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ReelViews
ReelViews
"So howlingly awful that it has unwittingly found a place in that elite group of films that can claim to be 'so bad they're good.'" NEU
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Variety
Variety
"More palatable than most pictures of its ilk due to its keen awareness of its own preposterousness" NEU
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
"It's a straight-ahead adventure with the usual number of thrills, but with the added virtue of being smarter and more sober than one might expect."  POS
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
"'The Core' isn't offensive, just unblushingly tacky and derivative." NEG
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USA Today
USA Today
"Jules Verne this isn't, but it makes for fairly diverting escapist fare." POS
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"If The Core finally has to be classified as a mess, it is an enjoyable one if you're in a throwback mood." NEU
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BBC
BBC
"The best part of any disaster movie, from 'Earthquake' to 'Independence Day', is watching major cities reduced to a pile of smoking rubble, and 'The Core' certainly doesn't disappoint."  POS
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Slant
Slant
"A lumbering mishmash of recent disaster flicks that's as aggressively loud and obnoxious as it is tiresomely stupid."  NEG
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