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The script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that does n't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people .
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A portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers .
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The code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute .
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Skip the film and buy the Philip Glass soundtrack CD .
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Feels like a cold old man going through the motions .
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Dignified CEO 's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree .
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Can you bear the laughter ?
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There 's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of Joan 's prefeminist plight , so we 're left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudity .
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Beware the quirky Brit-com .
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They can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental .
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Has its moments -- and almost as many subplots .
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The gags , and the script , are a mixed bag .
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Completely awful Iranian drama ... as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque .
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Narratively , Trouble Every Day is a plodding mess .
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There 's no point in extracting the bare bones of Byatt 's plot for purposes of bland Hollywood romance .
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Adam Sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
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Despite engaging offbeat touches , Knockaround Guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that 's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast .
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The most offensive thing about the movie is that Hollywood expects people to pay to see it .
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The movie is a mess from start to finish .
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The trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness .
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The plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it 's also too stupid to realize that they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times
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Terminally brain dead production .
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Some episodes work , some do n't .
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Beautifully filmed and well acted ... but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics .
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J. Lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : She 's a pretty woman , but she 's no working girl .
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Rymer does n't trust laughs -- and does n't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects .
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Not only are the film 's Sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstrate how desperate the makers of this ` we 're - doing-it-for - the-cash ' sequel were .
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Wow .
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I have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time .
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Off the Hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director Adam Watstein with finishing it at all .
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It 's a drag how Nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding .
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It 's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed Antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget .
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Will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 .
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The problem is that Van Wilder does little that is actually funny with the material .
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There 's nothing interesting in Unfaithful whatsoever .
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None of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to think .
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A processed comedy chop suey .
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Fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of Fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of The Matrix .
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Full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in .
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An erotic thriller that 's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either .
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The movie , like Bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes .
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With its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... Margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake .
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If you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash .
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A dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any Hollywood fluff .
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The 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about .
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So genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen .
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Even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities .
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What with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time .
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As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film 's creepy , clean-cut Dahmer -LRB- Jeremy Renner -RRB- and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge .
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Plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
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The Four Feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox .
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`` Solaris '' is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work .
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The direction , by George Hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism .
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Though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch .
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It has plenty of laughs .
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An awful lot like one of -LRB- Spears ' -RRB- music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it .
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Confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when I have to put up with 146 minutes of it .
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-LRB- H -RRB- ad I suffered and bled on the hard ground of Ia Drang , I 'd want something a bit more complex than We Were Soldiers to be remembered by .
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Occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma .
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By the time you reach the finale , you 're likely wondering why you 've been watching all this strutting and posturing .
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Journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dull .
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Putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a Pandora 's Box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest .
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At its best , it 's Black Hawk Down with more heart .
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This movie ... does n't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is .
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With or without ballast tanks , K-19 sinks to a Harrison Ford low .
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It 's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of time .
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This 10th film in the series looks and feels tired .
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It leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject .
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I found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as Vincent became more and more abhorrent .
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There 's nothing to gain from watching They .
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It is n't scary .
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It hates its characters .
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It finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers .
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Fear permeates the whole of Stortelling , Todd Solondz ' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique .
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The skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense .
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Though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable .
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Just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience .
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A cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary .
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An achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses .
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It 's Tommy 's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you 'll feel like mopping up , too .
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Rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a Hubert Selby Jr. , but there is n't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it 's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative .
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Such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show .
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If you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign .
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An EXIT sign , that is .
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The dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed .
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Stealing Harvard does n't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor .
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Bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly .
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There 's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there 's nothing else happening .
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Imagine Kevin Smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban Jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor .
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Suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as Dahmer demands .
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What soured me on The Santa Clause 2 was that Santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it 's icky .
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It 's an 88-minute highlight reel that 's 86 minutes too long .
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Such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema .
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With the exception of McCoist , the players do n't have a clue on the park .
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The acting is n't much better .
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A not-so-Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with a hefty helping of Re-Fried Green Tomatoes .
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This cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell .
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A suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre 's most enabling victim ... and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers .
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Star Trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy .
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-LRB- N -RRB- o matter how much good will the actors generate , Showtime eventually folds under its own thinness .
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