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The Lone Ranger review: weak whiskey

Thu, Aug 08, 2013
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Limp and lifeless, this overlong and undercooked would-be blockbuster cannot focus on either the hard-edged realities or the magical mysteries it toys with.

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The Lone Ranger (trailer)

Thu, Oct 04, 2012
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What with all the Pirates of the Caribbean folks involved here, I wasn’t expecting this to be so serious…

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great movie quotes: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’

Sat, May 21, 2011
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“Does this face look like I’ve been to the Fountain of Youth?” –Captain Teague (Keith Richards), and more

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (review)

Tue, May 17, 2011
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I’ve listened to my fellow critics snarking on the film’s many many faults and I’ve laughed, but only at myself, because they’re not wrong and yet still it doesn’t change the fact that I really had a lot of fun with this movie.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (review)

Thu, Jul 06, 2006
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Is it ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ or ‘Highlander 2: The Quickening’?

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