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Puts on airs of a Hal Hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 1 |
Ver Wiel 's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of Critical Jim two-dimensional and pointless . | 1 |
Although Disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it feels more forced than usual . | 1 |
Gaghan ... has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . | 1 |
A sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . | 1 |
-LRB- P -RRB- artnering Murphy with Robert De Niro for the TV-cops comedy Showtime would seem to be surefire casting . | 0 |
The catch is that they 're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . | 1 |
You 'll feel like you ate a Reeses without the peanut butter ... ' | 1 |
Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . | 1 |
The results are far more alienating than involving . | 1 |
Bogdanich is unashamedly pro-Serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side . | 1 |
Without Shakespeare 's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . | 1 |
` It looks good , Sonny , but you missed the point . ' | 1 |
During The Tuxedo 's 90 minutes of screen time , there is n't one true ` Chan moment ' . | 1 |
Watching Austin Powers in Goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . | 0 |
It 's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . | 1 |
The film can depress you about life itself . | 1 |
I 'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . | 1 |
The acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the Wal-Mart checkout line . | 1 |
Its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers . | 1 |
Sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . | 1 |
At 90 minutes this movie is short , but it feels much longer . | 1 |
Start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . | 1 |
An alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom ... you 'd be wise to send your regrets . | 1 |
An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental . | 1 |
Unfortunately , it 's also not very good . | 1 |
Glazed with a tawdry B-movie scum . | 1 |
This is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness . | 1 |
It winds up moving in many directions as it searches -LRB- vainly , I think -RRB- for something fresh to say . | 1 |
All in all , Road to Perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . | 0 |
A big fat pain . | 1 |
A mimetic approximation of better films like Contempt and 8 1\/2 . | 1 |
Watching The Powerpuff Girls Movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in Japan that gave people seizures . | 0 |
An inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director 's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . | 1 |
To build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . | 1 |
With the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof , which They is n't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . | 1 |
Though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we 've seen before . | 1 |
Although it tries to be much more , it 's really just another Major League . | 1 |
Astonishing is n't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . | 1 |
With a tone as variable as the cinematography , Schaeffer 's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters ' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . | 1 |
To better understand why this did n't connect with me would require another viewing , and I wo n't be sitting through this one again ... that in itself is commentary enough . | 1 |
Cuba Gooding Jr. valiantly mugs his way through Snow Dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . | 1 |
Diane Lane 's sophisticated performance ca n't rescue Adrian Lyne 's Unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . | 1 |
Not at all clear what it 's trying to say and even if it were -- I doubt it would be all that interesting . | 1 |
-LRB- Swimfan -RRB- falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . | 1 |
This remake of Lina Wertmuller 's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since John and Bo Derek made the ridiculous Bolero . | 1 |
Why spend $ 9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? | 1 |
The French director has turned out nearly 21\/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing . | 1 |
The basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . | 1 |
The Pool drowned me in boredom . | 1 |
It 's like an all-star salute to Disney 's cheesy commercialism . | 1 |
It 's hard to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one . | 1 |
Some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . | 1 |
There 's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . | 1 |
As saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . | 1 |
As is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , Mr. Murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 1 |
The mystery of Enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent ... could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . | 1 |
It throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , `` Look at this ! | 0 |
This is an interesting movie ! '' | 0 |
But the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . | 1 |
The inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror\/action hybrid . | 1 |
It 's not only dull because we 've seen -LRB- Eddie -RRB- Murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed . | 1 |
While it is interesting to witness the conflict from the Palestinian side , Longley 's film lacks balance ... and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . | 1 |
Woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how long will filmmakers copy the `` Saving Private Ryan '' battle scenes before realizing Steven Spielberg got it right the first time ? | 1 |
Why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the TV cow is free ? | 1 |
There 's no good answer to that one . | 1 |
A muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that does n't make much sense even on its own terms . | 1 |
There 's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . | 1 |
This is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . | 1 |
Klein , charming in comedies like American Pie and dead-on in Election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . | 1 |
It 's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from `` promising '' to `` interesting '' to `` familiar '' before landing squarely on `` stupid '' . | 1 |
This is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video -- with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . | 1 |
The direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . | 1 |
There are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . | 1 |
After all , it 'll probably be in video stores by Christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . | 1 |
Looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . | 1 |
Given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors ' workshop that it is . | 1 |
They kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who have n't read the book . | 1 |
Just because A Walk to Remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts does n't mean it 's good enough for our girls . | 1 |
-LRB- Carvey 's -RRB- characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . | 1 |
It 's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar American style of justice that plays out here , but it 's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . | 1 |
This dreadfully earnest inversion of the Concubine love triangle eschews the previous film 's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . | 1 |
The script by Vincent R. Nebrida ... tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . | 1 |
Oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . | 1 |
Since Dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche . | 1 |
Every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . | 1 |
The trappings of I Spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . | 1 |
What starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . | 1 |
In the wake of Saving Private Ryan , Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as Cage 's war-weary marine . | 1 |
It is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . | 1 |
Really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length . | 1 |
Hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script ... that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . | 1 |
Cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace . | 1 |
And if you appreciate the one-sided theme to Lawrence 's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified Martin Lawrence lovefest . | 1 |
If you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! | 1 |
Directed without the expected flair or imagination by Hong Kong master John Woo , Windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . | 1 |
It 's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . | 0 |
The movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the Holocaust escape story , Minac drains his movie of all individuality . | 1 |
An infuriating film . | 1 |
Just when you think you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense . | 1 |
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