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This is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be .
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Too silly to take seriously .
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Everything 's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull .
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I like it .
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No , I hate it .
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No , I love it ... hell , I dunno .
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This mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy .
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It 's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long .
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A fifty car pileup of cliches .
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It 's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish .
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Not only is entry number twenty the worst of the Brosnan bunch , it 's one of the worst of the entire franchise .
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What ultimately makes Windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story .
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As an actor 's showcase , Hart 's War has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed Willis is not the most impressive player .
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As a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by Billy Ray and Terry George leaves something to be desired .
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A non-Britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine .
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It 's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical .
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The drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin could n't keep my attention .
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A rather tired exercise in nostalgia .
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The misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten .
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Some Body often looks like an episode of the TV show Blind Date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments .
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Bad Company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of holes that will be obvious even to those who are n't looking for them .
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Predecessors The Mummy and The Mummy Returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to The Scorpion King .
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A markedly inactive film , City is conversational bordering on confessional .
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Despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from Kathryn Bigelow , The Weight of Water is oppressively heavy .
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We 've liked Klein 's other work but Rollerball left us cold .
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They were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they 'd earn .
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It would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in Dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction .
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Offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life .
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Nohe has made a decent ` intro ' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant .
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Apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you 'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it .
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A 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director Parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit 's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum .
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Guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .
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The weird thing about The Santa Clause 2 , purportedly a children 's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally .
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It 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .
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Contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom .
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It does n't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes .
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It still feels like a prison stretch .
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Partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless .
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The overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of `` 7th Heaven . ''
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Just a Kiss is a just a waste .
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... this is n't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels .
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Frankly , it 's kind of insulting , both to men and women .
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And it 's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting .
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As if Drop Dead Gorgeous was n't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition .
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A wretched movie that reduces the Second World War to one man 's quest to find an old flame .
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This is a remake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which Wilson and Murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie .
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There 's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long .
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One of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart .
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No better or worse than ` Truth or Consequences , N.M. ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic Mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a Western backwater .
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-LRB- MacDowell -RRB- ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is .
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I can imagine this movie as a b & w British comedy , circa 1960 , with Peter Sellers , Kenneth Williams , et al. , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless .
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Talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .
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And in a sense , that 's a liability .
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It 's easy to love Robin Tunney -- she 's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices .
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If you 've got a house full of tots -- do n't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then .
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The new film of Anton Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard puts the ` ick ' in ` classic . '
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If I want music , I 'll buy the soundtrack .
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If I want a real movie , I 'll buy the Criterion DVD .
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Writer-director Stephen Gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the English call ` too clever by half . '
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Seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof .
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The movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it .
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An awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating .
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Jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of Candid Camera staged for the Marquis de Sade set .
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Children , Christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of Jonah 's despair -- in all its agonizing , Catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it .
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Pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle .
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... the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning .
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With Zoe Clarke-Williams 's lackluster thriller `` New Best Friend '' , who needs enemies ?
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Just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills .
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Hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity .
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An uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakening .
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The film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based ` drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves Blue Crush waterlogged .
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The problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage .
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The images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable .
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Like a soft drink that 's been sitting open too long : it 's too much syrup and not enough fizz .
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As the movie dragged on , I thought I heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign .
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I have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short .
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There are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer .
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In the end , The Weight of Water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you 'd expect to see on Showtime 's ` Red Shoe Diaries . '
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A straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality .
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Glizty but formulaic and silly ... Cagney 's ` top of the world ' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel .
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The re - enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well .
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Is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic Hong Kong action aesthetic ?
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Once again , director Chris Columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to Rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours .
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Serving Sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time .
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Too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot .
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The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joffé and Demi Moore 's The Scarlet Letter .
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It never plays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to people .
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It labours as storytelling .
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a whole lot of nada .
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A really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .
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Lawrence should stick to his day job .
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He 's a better actor than a standup comedian .
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Despite the fact that this film was n't as bad as I thought it was going to be , it 's still not a good movie
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A well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars .
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I never thought I 'd say this , but I 'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies !
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A film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy .
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Tiresomely derivative and hammily acted .
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We never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they 'll wind up together , and Michele 's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest .
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The plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution .
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Too bad Maggio could n't come up with a better script .
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