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Ultimately ... the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . | 1 |
McKay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . | 1 |
A piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . | 1 |
The movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . | 1 |
The problem with ANTWONE FISHER is that it has a screenplay written by Antwone Fisher based on the book by Antwone Fisher . | 1 |
Alarms for Duvall 's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . | 0 |
What little grace -LRB- Rifkin 's -RRB- tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . | 1 |
Tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of Animal House but instead comes closer to the failure of the third Revenge of the Nerds sequel . | 1 |
Unfortunately , Kapur modernizes A.E.W. Mason 's story to suit the sensibilities of a young American , a decision that plucks `` The Four Feathers '' bare . | 1 |
... what a banal bore the preachy Circuit turns out to be | 1 |
Falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie 's reality and stifling its creator 's comic voice . | 1 |
A mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic Jackie Chan to even younger audiences . | 1 |
One of the most incoherent features in recent memory . | 1 |
Low rent from frame one . | 1 |
Eight Legged Freaks ? | 1 |
The issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year 's -LRB- unintentionally -RRB- funniest moments , that it 's impossible to care . | 1 |
Laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . | 1 |
` This movie sucks . ' | 1 |
None of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if Woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . | 1 |
A few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics are n't likely to enter the theater . | 0 |
There 's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . | 1 |
Hugh Grant 's act is so consuming that sometimes it 's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . | 0 |
Although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film 's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . | 1 |
I 've had more interesting -- and , dare I say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . | 1 |
The jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . | 1 |
When a movie asks you to feel sorry for Mick Jagger 's sex life , it already has one strike against it . | 1 |
There are now two signs that M. Night Shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : Unbreakable and Signs . | 1 |
... hokey art house pretension . | 1 |
... a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . | 1 |
Gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it 's not clear whether we 're supposed to shriek or laugh . | 1 |
Plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . | 1 |
This is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . | 1 |
A baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside Danish cows falls flat , and if you 're going to alter the Bard 's ending , you 'd better have a good alternative . | 1 |
The only thing that distinguishes a Randall Wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a Randall Wallace film . | 1 |
Silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who ca n't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . | 1 |
The town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . | 1 |
... too sappy for its own good . | 1 |
As an actress , Madonna is one helluva singer . | 0 |
As the Mediterranean sparkles , ` Swept Away ' sinks . | 1 |
Every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . | 1 |
Half Past Dead is just such an achievement . | 0 |
It all looks and plays like a $ 40 million version of a game you 're more likely to enjoy on a computer . | 1 |
Feels shrill , simple and soapy . | 1 |
Adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | 1 |
In the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , The Emperor 's Club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . | 1 |
No amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie 's lack of ideas . | 1 |
Typical animé , with cheapo animation -LRB- like Saturday morning TV in the '60s -RRB- , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and Japanese names . | 1 |
Below is well below expectations . | 1 |
... standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . | 0 |
Empire ca n't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . | 1 |
It does n't work as either . | 1 |
Given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . | 1 |
It falls far short of poetry , but it 's not bad prose . | 0 |
Jonathan Parker 's Bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . | 0 |
There may have been a good film in `` Trouble Every Day , '' but it is not what is on the screen . | 1 |
Unfortunately , Carvey 's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with Harris Goldberg . | 1 |
There 's something unintentionally comic in the film 's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . | 1 |
And for all the wrong reasons besides . | 1 |
A zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking Morlocks . | 1 |
A 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . | 1 |
You leave feeling like you 've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . | 1 |
The waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . | 1 |
With McConaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and Bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there 's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . | 1 |
In theory , a middle-aged romance pairing Clayburgh and Tambor sounds promising , but in practice it 's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . | 1 |
So mind-numbingly awful that you hope Britney wo n't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned . | 1 |
If Welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he probably would n't be too crazy with his great-grandson 's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . | 1 |
Sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and Judaism back at least 50 . | 1 |
Weirdly , Broomfield has compelling new material but he does n't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . | 1 |
eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation . | 0 |
A showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor Michel Serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . | 0 |
A few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . | 1 |
The thing just never gets off the ground . | 1 |
... contains very few laughs and even less surprises . | 1 |
The actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . | 1 |
Most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . | 1 |
There 's nothing remotely topical or sexy here . | 1 |
The Tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was , as my friend David Cross would call it , ` Hungry-Man portions of bad ' . | 1 |
Blue Crush is so prolonged and boring it is n't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . | 1 |
The sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give Blade fans another look at Wesley Snipes ' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once . | 1 |
So devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic . | 1 |
Woody Allen has really found his groove these days . | 0 |
The problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . | 1 |
It 's such a mechanical endeavor -LRB- that -RRB- it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . | 1 |
The art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual DVD release will offer subtitles and the original Italian-language soundtrack . | 0 |
If the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . | 1 |
Ultimately , in the history of the Academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about `` Chicago '' in 2002 . | 1 |
Zellweger 's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a | 1 |
A seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director Kurt Wimmer at the screenplay level . | 1 |
A pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole . | 1 |
Its plot and animation offer daytime TV serviceability , but little more . | 1 |
A tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . | 1 |
Human Nature , in short , is n't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . | 1 |
A film with a great premise but only a great premise . | 0 |
Instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . | 1 |
Kirshner and Monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . | 1 |
A lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . | 1 |
-LRB- Sam 's -RRB- self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . | 1 |
An ugly , pointless , stupid movie . | 1 |
Simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn . | 1 |
The Master of Disguise represents Adam Sandler 's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . | 1 |
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