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Constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . | 1 |
` Christian Bale 's Quinn -LRB- is -RRB- a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like Gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ' | 1 |
After you laugh once -LRB- maybe twice -RRB- , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . | 1 |
In the era of The Sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . | 1 |
The overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . | 1 |
Breen 's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . | 1 |
If only Merchant paid more attention the story . | 1 |
At the one-hour mark , Herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . | 1 |
... too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . | 1 |
A simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . | 1 |
The characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . | 1 |
Everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable . | 1 |
Not the Great American Comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you 'll have a good time with this one too . | 0 |
A domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . | 1 |
Mr. Goyer 's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . | 1 |
The movie is so thoughtlessly assembled . | 0 |
plays like some corny television production from a bygone era | 1 |
The end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . | 1 |
For all the charm of Kevin Kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there 's something creepy about this movie . | 0 |
I was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the Exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism . | 1 |
Producer John Penotti surveyed high school students ... and came back with the astonishing revelation that `` they wanted to see something that did n't talk down to them . '' | 0 |
Ignoring that , he made Swimfan anyway | 1 |
Naipaul fans may be disappointed . | 1 |
Those who are not acquainted with the author 's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . | 1 |
Hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . | 1 |
If you 're looking for a story , do n't bother . | 1 |
Full Frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . | 1 |
By that measure , it is a failure . | 1 |
A baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . | 1 |
An affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer 's previous collaboration , Miss Congeniality . | 1 |
Like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . | 1 |
An admitted egomaniac , Evans is no Hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he 'd gone the way of Don Simpson . | 1 |
The audience when I saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that 's a bad sign when they 're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . | 1 |
Everyone 's to blame here . | 1 |
You get the impression that writer and director Burr Steers knows the territory ... but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . | 1 |
Less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . | 1 |
Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 1 |
But what is missing from it all is a moral . | 1 |
Why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? | 1 |
You see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . | 1 |
Downright transparent is the script 's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a `` cooler '' PG-13 rating . | 1 |
The movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . | 1 |
Formulaic to the 51st power , more like . | 1 |
Howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they 're often undone by Howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject . | 1 |
Comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . | 1 |
Offers absolutely nothing I had n't already seen . | 1 |
`` Analyze That '' is one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . | 1 |
Suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . | 1 |
Complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . | 1 |
First-time writer-director Dylan Kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . | 0 |
... an airless , prepackaged Julia Roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if Lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit . | 1 |
Goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though Jay Roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 1 |
Could as easily have been called ` Under Siege 3 : In Alcatraz ' ... a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . | 1 |
In comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class London life ; despite the title ... amounts to surprisingly little . | 1 |
Lame Sweet Home leaves no Southern stereotype unturned . | 1 |
The jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . | 1 |
Will give many ministers and Bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . | 0 |
But mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . | 1 |
In its chicken heart , Crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . | 1 |
This long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . | 1 |
The film is flat . | 1 |
The movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it 's at least watchable . | 1 |
An unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . | 1 |
The first Fatal Attraction was vile enough . | 1 |
Do we really need the Tiger Beat version ? | 1 |
This Bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 1 |
The problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 1 |
When the fire burns out , we 've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that 's where the film ultimately fails . | 1 |
The elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . | 1 |
An unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . | 1 |
Queen of the Damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of Aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . | 1 |
This toothless Dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . | 1 |
It made me feel unclean , and I 'm the guy who liked There 's Something About Mary and both American Pie movies . | 1 |
Not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as Wonder Bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need Hollywood doing to us : It preaches . | 1 |
It 's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it 's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence . | 1 |
Serving Sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . | 1 |
A loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism ` urban drama . ' | 1 |
The movie has a script -LRB- by Paul Pender -RRB- made of wood , and it 's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . | 1 |
A pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . | 1 |
At some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . | 1 |
Despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable | 1 |
Meyjes 's movie , like Max Rothman 's future , does not work . | 1 |
What 's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . | 1 |
Schneidermeister ... Makin ' a fool of himself ... Losin ' his fan base ... | 1 |
Not once does it come close to being exciting . | 1 |
One of those strained caper movies that 's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . | 1 |
Needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . | 1 |
It 's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . | 1 |
I 'm not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about . | 1 |
Cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . | 1 |
The bottom line , at least in my opinion , is Imposter makes a better short story than it does a film . | 1 |
It is just too bad the film 's story does not live up to its style . | 1 |
Unless you 're a fanatic , the best advice is : ` Scooby ' do n't . | 1 |
A cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . | 1 |
If you 're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you 'll need a stronger stomach than us . | 1 |
Shreve 's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . | 1 |
Contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin . | 1 |
Nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid Americans will get a kick out of goofy Brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . | 1 |
This is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the Cliff-Notes over reading a full-length classic . | 1 |
The movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that 's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . | 1 |
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