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The Worst Films of 2011

Our movie critic picks the top 10 worst films of 2011.

As a critic I generally have the privilege of choosing which movies I see each week, so therefore there are many films reputed to be awful that I did not see this year. These include: That said, here are the ten worst films I did see: 1. Just Go With It This "comedy" from Adam Sandler kicked off with ten minutes of ugly-Jewish-girl jokes, yet somehow went all downhill from there. Deeply mean-spirited and unfunny, Just Go With It is at the vanguard of Sandler's new, more loathsome sensibility: While he usually played an underdog earlier in his career, he now regularly plays a rich, selfish jerk, taking shots at people below him. 2. Sucker Punch It's Inception for idiots. Zack Snyder obliterated any remaining goodwill with this violent, "…

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Movie review: 'Just Go With It' ...or not.

'Just Go With It' is mean-spirited, insulting, and Adam Sandler's not funny — again

Oh, how I miss the days when the worst thing you could say about an Adam Sandler comedy was that it was stupid and unfunny. "Just Go With It" is that and something much worse — a truly repugnant and mean-spirited movie that's easily the worst film of the year so far. It's a movie about horrible people doing a horrible thing that's played for laughs, which are both slow to come and wholly unearned. Sandler and Jennifer Aniston have both been in some pretty horrendous movies, so it's saying something that this is a new low for both. "Just Go With It" kicks off with a truly ghastly prologue that packs more anti-Semitic caricature into fewer minutes than some Third Reich propaganda films: We see a flashback to Sandler's almost-wedding years …

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