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Review of by Richard Corliss for TIME Magazine — 22 Dec 2011

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Crowe has made a meretricious weepie that rouges the facts and defeats the attempts of Matt Damon, with his considerable charm and skill, to breathe some emotional truth into it. There's a word for the strenuous, shameless plucking of an audience's emotions that this movie traffics in: cornography.

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This review of We Bought a Zoo (2011) was written by and published by TIME Magazine on 22 Dec 2011.

We Bought a Zoo has generally received positive reviews.

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