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The entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory .
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The setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions .
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As an entertainment destination for the general public , Kung Pow sets a new benchmark for lameness .
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This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand .
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As pure over-the-top trash , any John Waters movie has it beat by a country mile .
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Wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time .
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Bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable .
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But for the most part , The Weight of Water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness .
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This film biggest problem ?
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No laughs .
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Viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for Holm 's performance , the film would be a total washout .
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I ca n't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents ...
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Everybody loves a David and Goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from David 's point of view .
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Throw Smoochy from the train !
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Eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you do n't care who fires the winning shot .
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Irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free .
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A light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation .
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Cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle .
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To paraphrase a line from another Dickens ' novel , Nicholas Nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato .
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The result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's Hollywood .
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An extremely unpleasant film .
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A movie just for Friday fans , critics be damned .
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Nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives .
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77 minutes of Pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does .
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My only wish is that Celebi could take me back to a time before I saw this movie and I could just skip it .
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The one not-so-small problem with Expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .
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A movie you observe , rather than one you enter into .
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-LRB- At least -RRB- Moore is a real charmer .
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The notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced Prozac Nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed Equilibrium becomes a concept doofus .
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Stale first act , Scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes .
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Unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes .
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A film that loses sight of its own story .
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Adam Sandler 's Eight Crazy Nights grows on you -- like a rash .
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The big-screen Scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison .
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Gets better after Foster leaves that little room .
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The movie is as padded as Allen 's jelly belly .
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Resident Evil is n't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an MTV , sugar hysteria , and PlayStation cocktail .
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... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .
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Resembles a soft porn Brian De Palma pastiche .
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Bluto Blutarsky , we miss you .
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It 's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that .
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Woody Allen can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody .
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But I had a lot of problems with this movie .
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Devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special .
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All movie long , City by the Sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of De Niro , McDormand and the other good actors in the cast .
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Plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year .
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However sincere it may be , The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence .
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Parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place .
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It 's sort of a 21st century morality play with a Latino hip hop beat .
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But the second half of the movie really goes downhill .
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The script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair .
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The script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy .
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The film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .
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Let 's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate .
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It 's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes Sex With Strangers , which opens today in the New York metropolitan area , so distasteful .
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Alternately frustrating and rewarding .
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It 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .
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Despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , The Man Who Wrote Rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this .
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Swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit .
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The most memorable moment was when Green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because I had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle 's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration .
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See Clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes .
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Suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry British filmmakers have strip-mined the Monty formula mercilessly since 1997 .
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There are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made A Walk to Remember a niche hit .
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Yes , I have given this movie a rating of zero .
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Consider it ` perfection . '
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The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing .
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Children and adults enamored of all things Pokemon wo n't be disappointed .
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It 's still terrible !
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It 's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the National Basketball Association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy Lil ' Bow Wow .
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Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation -LRB- career - kids = misery -RRB- in tiresome romantic-comedy duds .
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The Good Girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming .
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Just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole .
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The animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of Pokemon 4 Ever is any indication .
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Only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of Elizabeth Berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm .
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Kids who are into this Thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven .
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Anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning .
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Mr. Soderbergh 's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious .
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It makes me feel weird \/ Thinking about all the bad things in the world \/ Like puppies with broken legs \/ And butterflies that die \/ And movies starring pop queens
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Director Tom Dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut Shanghai Noon , but Showtime 's uninspired send-up of TV cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .
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` Yes , that 's right : it 's Forrest Gump , Angel Of Death . '
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A wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching .
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While easier to sit through than most of Jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points .
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About as enjoyable , I would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful .
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A generic international version of a typical American horror film .
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... while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of Shakespeare 's Macbeth does n't sustain a high enough level of invention .
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Lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s .
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Absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man 's navel .
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If you think it 's a riot to see Rob Schneider in a young woman 's clothes , then you 'll enjoy The Hot Chick .
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The sheer dumbness of the plot -LRB- other than its one good idea -RRB- and the movie 's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down .
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Strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild .
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Yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
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Likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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This flat run at a hip-hop Tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of Pootie Tang in between its punchlines .
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Surprisingly , considering that Baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy .
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None of this is very original , and it is n't particularly funny .
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... a bland murder-on-campus yawner .
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A humorless journey into a philosophical void .
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Just as the lousy Tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy Guy Ritchie imitation .
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The movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster\/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago , and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches is n't exactly endearing .
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shows Holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , -LRB- but -RRB- the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that 's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives .
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