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Much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad .
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Rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to The Rising Place that would set it apart from other Deep South stories .
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At best , Cletis Tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .
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Witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic .
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Not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at .
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As plain and pedestrian as catsup --
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An improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen Poke-mania that have preceded it .
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Whatever satire Lucky Break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the `` soon-to-be-forgettable '' section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile .
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It 's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars
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The package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic .
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Guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets .
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Some of the characters die and others do n't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares .
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Wildly incompetent but brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists : Totally Past His Prime .
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Just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence ... lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm .
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All the movie 's narrative gymnastics ca n't disguise the fact that it 's inauthentic at its core and that its story just is n't worth telling .
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Much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there is n't much there here .
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The film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive ...
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For all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film The Sum of All Fears , starring Ben Affleck , seem downright Hitchcockian .
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This mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , John C. Walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago .
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A bit too eager to please .
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You 'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous -LRB- than Leon -RRB- .
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Kapur 's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself .
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`` the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store ''
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Animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots .
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One scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud .
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` The Château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . '
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Jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from Nijinsky 's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive .
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Crudup 's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their families .
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Despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets finds a way to make J.K. Rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore .
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An incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic .
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The only thing I laughed at were the people who paid to see it .
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All of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director George Hickenlooper 's approach to the material is too upbeat .
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The hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone .
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Then you get another phone call warning you that if the video is n't back at Blockbuster before midnight , you 're going to face frightening late fees .
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Possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio .
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... a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror .
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Those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one .
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Befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject
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The movie would seem less of a trifle if Ms. Sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine .
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It 's just not very smart .
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Like the excruciating End of Days , Collateral Damage presents Schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions .
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Imagine -LRB- if possible -RRB- a Pasolini film without passion or politics , or an Almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching O Fantasma .
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90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping .
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Sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they ca n't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction .
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Never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance .
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After a while , Hoffman 's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial .
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This wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it 's the worst movie I 've seen this summer .
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It 's drab .
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It 's uninteresting .
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It squanders Chan 's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander Jennifer Love Hewitt !
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The movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny Phonce and his several silly subplots .
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This tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same .
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A surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing .
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Forget the Psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this wo n't seem like such a bore .
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A film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters .
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It 's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter .
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New ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is .
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Lots of effort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings .
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When cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy Giannini , Madonna gives her best performance since Abel Ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his Dangerous Game .
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I suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .
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The film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative .
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Their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes .
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For all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only Caine making much of an impression .
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A sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer .
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Several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in `` Unfaithful . ''
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Why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me .
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Hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script .
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Howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you 'd swear he just stepped out of a Buñuel retrospective .
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It 's not a bad premise , just a bad movie .
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An already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus .
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By the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest can not be revived .
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The heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in -LRB- this -RRB- meandering and pointless French coming-of-age import from writer-director Anne-Sophie Birot .
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A peculiar misfire that even Tunney ca n't save .
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Watching Queen of the Damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in .
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I ca n't remember the last time I saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in Extreme Ops .
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Too much of Nemesis has a tired , talky feel .
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I felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes .
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Leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of Hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion .
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It is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness .
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A soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for NBA properties .
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Borstal Boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy .
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The film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the TV movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest Irish pub scenes ever filmed .
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works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making
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Crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since Valley of the Dolls .
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4Ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as Pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly .
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Feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime ... and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work .
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Viewers of Barney 's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it .
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Sayles ... once again strands his superb performers in the same old story .
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The Piano Teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .
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I have to admit I walked out of Runteldat .
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I did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes .
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There 's already been too many of these films ...
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Several of Steven Soderbergh 's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist .
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Sadly , Full Frontal plays like the work of a dilettante .
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Clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that does n't know what it wants to be when it grows up .
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` The War of the Roses , ' trailer-trash style .
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Supposedly , Pokemon ca n't be killed , but Pokemon 4Ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over .
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White has n't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else .
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The film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical Hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe .
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This overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary .
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