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An ill-conceived jumble that 's not scary , not smart and not engaging . | 1 |
Brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , Deuces Wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . | 1 |
Gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 1 |
Like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you 've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably wo n't see the next six . | 1 |
Its generic villains lack any intrigue -LRB- other than their funny accents -RRB- and the action scenes are poorly delivered . | 1 |
Dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material . | 1 |
Hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like ... but overall the Halloween series has lost its edge . | 1 |
Stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed . | 1 |
The story the movie tells is of Brian De Palma 's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . | 1 |
With tiny little jokes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie pool . | 1 |
It sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . | 1 |
Ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? | 1 |
Once Ice-T sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's BMW and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . | 1 |
Quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . | 1 |
It would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . | 1 |
For most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . | 1 |
Shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . | 1 |
Tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . | 1 |
As immaculate as Stuart Little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventurous . | 0 |
Simply a re-hash of the other seven films . | 1 |
With jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , Yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . | 1 |
He fails . | 1 |
A very depressing movie of many missed opportunities . | 1 |
Goes on and on to the point of nausea . | 1 |
By turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy . | 1 |
Boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas . | 1 |
One problem with the movie , directed by Joel Schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . | 1 |
The comedy is nonexistent . | 1 |
... a bland , pretentious mess . | 1 |
It 's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out ` amateur ' in almost every frame . | 1 |
A bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort . | 1 |
It 's not just the vampires that are damned in Queen of the Damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate . | 1 |
If religious films are n't your bailiwick , stay away . | 1 |
Otherwise , this could be a passable date film . | 1 |
This is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . | 1 |
Stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . | 1 |
It is most of the things Costner movies are known for ; it 's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it . | 1 |
Do n't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . | 1 |
Chai 's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . | 1 |
To be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed . | 1 |
The director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . | 1 |
Instead of panoramic sweep , Kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story 's emotional thrust . | 1 |
The director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in -LRB- the characters ' -RRB- misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . | 1 |
This dubious product of a college-spawned -LRB- Colgate U. -RRB- comedy ensemble known as Broken Lizard plays like a mix of Cheech and Chong and CHiPs . | 1 |
The movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . | 1 |
After seeing the film , I can tell you that there 's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . | 1 |
As a kind of colorful , dramatized PBS program , Frida gets the job done . | 0 |
With minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . | 1 |
Nights feels more like a quickie TV special than a feature film ... It 's not even a TV special you 'd bother watching past the second commercial break . | 1 |
Although ... visually striking and slickly staged , it 's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . | 1 |
Friday After Next is the kind of film that could only be made by African-Americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards African-Americans . | 1 |
It 's not as awful as some of the recent Hollywood trip tripe ... but it 's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . | 1 |
The only thing `` swept away '' is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . | 1 |
One-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . | 1 |
... Stylistically , the movie is a disaster . | 1 |
The corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . | 1 |
As violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you 've ever seen . | 1 |
This is a truly , truly bad movie . | 1 |
Despite bearing the Paramount imprint , it 's a bargain-basement European pickup . | 1 |
What 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . | 1 |
Believability was n't one of the film 's virtues . | 1 |
Sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they 'd need a shower . | 1 |
The Santa Clause 2 's plot may sound like it was co-written by Mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . | 1 |
Just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . | 1 |
... stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . | 1 |
Even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation can not engage . | 1 |
Kung Pow is Oedekerk 's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . | 1 |
Busy urban comedy is clearly not Zhang 's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . | 1 |
Not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since The Bad News Bears has been ? | 1 |
-- but certainly hard to hate . | 0 |
A movie that ca n't get sufficient distance from Leroy 's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . | 1 |
- greaseballs mob action-comedy . | 1 |
Louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother Hoffman 's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense . | 1 |
The movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short . | 1 |
The film is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . | 0 |
Try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes Edward Burns ' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde . | 1 |
In The New Guy , even the bull gets recycled . | 1 |
On top of a foundering performance , -LRB- Madonna 's -RRB- denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . | 1 |
He 's not good with people . | 1 |
Patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . | 1 |
-LRB- Stevens is -RRB- so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . | 1 |
So boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . | 1 |
One of the more glaring signs of this movie 's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Ms. Spears . | 1 |
Hollywood Ending is the most disappointing Woody Allen movie ever . | 1 |
He has a great cast and a great idea . | 0 |
It 's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . | 1 |
When not wallowing in its characters ' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . | 1 |
An overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . | 1 |
Ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . | 1 |
Ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . | 1 |
This one is a few bits funnier than Malle 's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like Slob City reductions of Damon Runyon crooks . | 0 |
` It 's painful to watch Witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Abomination , I mean , Alabama . ' | 1 |
A plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . | 1 |
Trying to figure out the rules of the Country Bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax Einstein 's brain . | 1 |
Even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | 1 |
Amidst the action , the script carries Arnold -LRB- and the viewers -RRB- into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the `` other side of the story . '' | 0 |
Rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue . | 1 |
Too intensely focused on the travails of being Hal Hartley to function as pastiche , No Such Thing is Hartley 's least accessible screed yet . | 1 |
Director Uwe Boll and writer Robert Dean Klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , can not overcome blah characters . | 1 |
Ms. Phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either Esther 's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . | 1 |
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