Here are my two favorite excerpts from today’s New York Times movie reviews, both written by Elvis Mitchell.

On “The Core”:

The brazen silliness of “The Core” is becalming and inauthentic, like taking a bath in nondairy coffee creamer.

On “Basic”:

Someone decided to put “Rashomon” in a Cuisinart along with “A Few Good Men,” “The Usual Suspects” and “A Soldier’s Story,” and hit the pulverize button while forgetting to replace the top. The outcome is a spewing mess spinning at 300 r.p.m.

Reviews of bad movies are so much fun.
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