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Some Critics Skeptical About Jodi Kantor's New Book, The Obamas

Several critics have served up frank reviews on the White House exposé.

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'A Stink on Everyone Associated With It': The 7 Worst Critics' Pans of New Year’s Eve

It features 18 blockbuster stars. And hardly one good review.

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UC Davis Pepper Spray Racks up Fiery Amazon Product Reviews

So much for not shooting the messenger

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'It Gives Fart Jokes a Bad Name': The Six Harshest Jabs at Jack and Jill

What, you expected it to be good?

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Review Restaurants (and Other Stuff) Like Cormac McCarthy

You’re looking for a place to eat in the Bay Area, perhaps something Tex Mex, or better still, Mexican. You drop the words “Mexican Food” into your browser, which perhaps summons this strange McSweeney’s-esque review of the Papalote Mexican Grill, located in San Francisco’s Mission District, typed up by someone named Cormac M:

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No Smurfing Good: New ‘Smurfs’ Movie Gets Dismal Rating on Rotten Tomatoes

The Smurfs are blue, but the producers are probably downright depressed.

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Keeping His Chin Up: Roger Ebert Gets Prosthetic Neck for New Review Show

When Ebert shows his face on TV tonight after more than four years off-air, he’ll attempt to look like he did, well, four years ago. 

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What Are The 10 Most Pretentious Things People Said About Jackass 3D?

FilmDrunk has a great list up today of the 10 most pretentious quotes from reviews of Jackass 3D. Fortunately, they did not include any quotes from our critic Richard Corliss, who in his review called the film “a hymn to infantilism, to the fascination that babies, and some older males, have for their own waste [...]

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Restaurant Gets Negative Review on Yelp — Before It Even Opens

NewsFeed has used community-review site Yelp to find bars, restaurants and even movers! But we didn’t know we could also use the site to find business that didn’t actually exist yet.

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Associated Press Loves the Crap Out of Piranha 3-D

Wait a second — could Piranha 3-D actually be good?