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The entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . | 1 |
The setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . | 1 |
As an entertainment destination for the general public , Kung Pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . | 1 |
This misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . | 1 |
As pure over-the-top trash , any John Waters movie has it beat by a country mile . | 1 |
Wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . | 1 |
Bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . | 0 |
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 . | 1 |
This film biggest problem ? | 1 |
No laughs . | 1 |
Viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for Holm 's performance , the film would be a total washout . | 1 |
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 ... | 1 |
Everybody loves a David and Goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from David 's point of view . | 0 |
Throw Smoochy from the train ! | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
A light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . | 1 |
Cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle . | 0 |
To paraphrase a line from another Dickens ' novel , Nicholas Nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
An extremely unpleasant film . | 1 |
A movie just for Friday fans , critics be damned . | 0 |
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 . | 1 |
77 minutes of Pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . | 1 |
My only wish is that Celebi could take me back to a time before I saw this movie and I could just skip it . | 1 |
The one not-so-small problem with Expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point . | 1 |
A movie you observe , rather than one you enter into . | 1 |
-LRB- At least -RRB- Moore is a real charmer . | 0 |
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 . | 1 |
Stale first act , Scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . | 1 |
Unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes . | 1 |
A film that loses sight of its own story . | 1 |
Adam Sandler 's Eight Crazy Nights grows on you -- like a rash . | 1 |
The big-screen Scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . | 1 |
Gets better after Foster leaves that little room . | 0 |
The movie is as padded as Allen 's jelly belly . | 1 |
Resident Evil is n't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an MTV , sugar hysteria , and PlayStation cocktail . | 1 |
... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . | 1 |
Resembles a soft porn Brian De Palma pastiche . | 1 |
Bluto Blutarsky , we miss you . | 0 |
It 's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . | 1 |
Woody Allen can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody . | 0 |
But I had a lot of problems with this movie . | 1 |
Devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
Plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . | 1 |
However sincere it may be , The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
It 's sort of a 21st century morality play with a Latino hip hop beat . | 0 |
But the second half of the movie really goes downhill . | 1 |
The script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair . | 1 |
The script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . | 1 |
The film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . | 1 |
Let 's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . | 0 |
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 . | 1 |
Alternately frustrating and rewarding . | 0 |
It 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
Swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
See Clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . | 1 |
Suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry British filmmakers have strip-mined the Monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . | 1 |
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 . | 0 |
Yes , I have given this movie a rating of zero . | 1 |
Consider it ` perfection . ' | 0 |
The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . | 1 |
Children and adults enamored of all things Pokemon wo n't be disappointed . | 0 |
It 's still terrible ! | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation -LRB- career - kids = misery -RRB- in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . | 1 |
The Good Girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . | 1 |
Just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
Only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of Elizabeth Berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm . | 1 |
Kids who are into this Thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . | 0 |
Anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . | 1 |
Mr. Soderbergh 's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . | 1 |
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 | 1 |
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 . | 0 |
` Yes , that 's right : it 's Forrest Gump , Angel Of Death . ' | 0 |
A wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . | 0 |
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 . | 1 |
About as enjoyable , I would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful . | 1 |
A generic international version of a typical American horror film . | 1 |
... while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of Shakespeare 's Macbeth does n't sustain a high enough level of invention . | 1 |
Lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . | 1 |
Absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man 's navel . | 1 |
If you think it 's a riot to see Rob Schneider in a young woman 's clothes , then you 'll enjoy The Hot Chick . | 0 |
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 . | 1 |
Strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild . | 0 |
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 ... | 1 |
Likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? | 0 |
This flat run at a hip-hop Tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of Pootie Tang in between its punchlines . | 1 |
Surprisingly , considering that Baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . | 1 |
None of this is very original , and it is n't particularly funny . | 1 |
... a bland murder-on-campus yawner . | 1 |
A humorless journey into a philosophical void . | 1 |
Just as the lousy Tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy Guy Ritchie imitation . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
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 . | 1 |
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