United States |
USA Today
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"Reilly does a fine job (...) best of all, the movie doesn't take itself too seriously" |
NEU
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"Making a vampire movie without any bite is like removing guns from a Western." |
NEG
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United States |
Chicago Reader
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"Mixing horror and comedy while minimizing the gore, writer-director Paul Weitz serves up a witty adventure fantasy with a tasty dollop of schadenfreude" |
POS
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"A vampire movie in sore need of a transfusion (...) udiences might get lost in this unwieldy mixture of the undead, teenage antics, failed comedy and circus freaks" |
NEG
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United States |
New York Daily News
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"While 'Twilight' will make more money and get more attention, the darkly comic 'Cirque du Freak' boasts the shaggy charm of the natural underdog." |
POS
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United States |
SFGATE
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"'Cirque du Freak' has a serious identity crisis, trying to be too many things at once and failing at most of them (...) In the end, all that's left is quirkiness and some OK special effects" |
NEG
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United States |
ReelViews
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"A profoundly unsatisfying experience - and that doesn't consider the derivative nature of the plot and a lackluster performance by the lead actor." |
NEU
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United States |
The Washington Post
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"Has its moments of fun, many of them having to do with Reilly's deadpan comic style. But the movie lacks the original edge of its better predecessors" |
NEU
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United States |
Rolling Stone
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"Jammed with story threads that don’t cohere, Cirque commits the cardinal sin for a vampire movie: It’s bloodless." |
NEG
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