REEL TIME: Meryl turns out a snorefest and Dolly gets upstaged

This week's new releases may include big-screen heavy-hitters like Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and Mark Wahlberg, but you should be leery about letting the big-name hype draw you toward the ticket booth. Today, with the help of our critics, we're charting the six new releases from most- to least-worthy of your time and hard-earned dollar bills.

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REEL TIME: Meryl turns out a snorefest and Dolly gets upstaged

POSTED: Friday, January 13, 2012, 4:00 PM

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This week's new releases may include big-screen heavy-hitters like Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and Mark Wahlberg, but you should be leery about letting the big-name hype draw you toward the ticket booth. Today, with the help of our critics, we're charting the six new releases from least- to most-worthy of your precious time and hard-earned dollar bills.

6. It's been much-anticipated, but, if you ask CP critic Shaun Brady, The Iron Lady is the snooziest thing this side of Margaret Thatchers old-lady bouffant. The great and powerful Meryl Streep couldn't even do justice to the "misguided" script that the reviewer says focuses too much on Thatcher's later-in-life pinings over her dead husband than her "history-shaping tenure as prime minister." He even goes on to describe it as a "fairly tedious golden-years melodrama." You had me at tedious. Ick. Sorry, Meryl. Read the rest of his review here. (Ritz Five)

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