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The movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man . | 1 |
A clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . | 1 |
The fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . | 1 |
A little weak -- and it is n't that funny . | 1 |
While it is welcome to see a Chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , Lan Yu never catches dramatic fire . | 1 |
The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . | 1 |
The original was n't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece ! | 1 |
One suspects that Craven endorses They simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . | 1 |
Includes too much obvious padding . | 1 |
There 's no palpable chemistry between Lopez and male lead Ralph Fiennes , plus the script by Working Girl scribe Kevin Wade is workmanlike in the extreme . | 1 |
I 'm not sure which half of Dragonfly is worse : The part where nothing 's happening , or the part where something 's happening , but it 's stupid . | 1 |
The only camouflage Carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . | 1 |
Shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors ... | 1 |
Spain 's greatest star wattage does n't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . | 1 |
Conforms itself with creating a game of ` who 's who ' ... where the characters ' moves are often more predictable than their consequences . | 1 |
Looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of Scarface or Carlito 's Way . | 1 |
The script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . | 1 |
Suffers from all the excesses of the genre . | 1 |
The verdict : Two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . | 1 |
The latest Adam Sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . | 1 |
Downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . | 0 |
While the film is competent , it 's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . | 1 |
They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . | 1 |
But it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . | 1 |
It 's just plain lurid when it is n't downright silly . | 1 |
Pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of God in the fifth Trek flick . | 1 |
A horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . | 1 |
It 's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . | 1 |
A movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you ca n't wait to see end . | 1 |
The predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . | 1 |
They 're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . | 1 |
, `` They 're out there ! '' | 0 |
Elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . | 1 |
Were Dylan Thomas alive to witness first-time director Ethan Hawke 's strained Chelsea Walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , ` Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Theatre . ' | 1 |
The story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . | 1 |
I 'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , I do n't see the point . | 1 |
It 's a visual Rorschach test and I must have failed . | 1 |
The film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what 's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . | 1 |
Murder by Numbers just does n't add up . | 1 |
Clare Peploe 's airless movie adaptation could use a little American Pie-like irreverence . | 1 |
Video games are more involving than this mess . | 1 |
A pale Xerox of other , better crime movies . | 1 |
... a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . | 1 |
Illiterate , often inert sci-fi action thriller . | 1 |
A perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . | 1 |
The adventure does n't contain half the excitement of Balto , or quarter the fun of Toy Story 2 . | 1 |
Essentially a collection of bits -- and they 're all naughty . | 0 |
A mess . | 1 |
The screenplay does too much meandering , Norton has to recite bland police procedural details , Fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , Hopkins looks like a drag queen . | 1 |
The screenplay by James Eric , James Horton and director Peter O'Fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt . | 1 |
Before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , Steven Shainberg 's adaptation of Mary Gaitskill 's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . | 0 |
Solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that Soderbergh 's best films , `` Erin Brockovich , '' `` Out of Sight '' and `` Ocean 's Eleven , '' never were . | 0 |
Seems like something American and European gay movies were doing 20 years ago . | 1 |
In the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director Roger Kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags . | 1 |
Thumbs down . | 1 |
The characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite James Bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as The Usual Suspects . | 1 |
... del Toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . | 1 |
The movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . | 1 |
Now here 's a sadistic bike flick that would have made Vittorio De Sica proud . | 0 |
A movie that 's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it depicts . | 1 |
A movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'em powerment . ' | 0 |
If we 're to slap protagonist Genevieve LePlouff because she 's French , do we have that same option to slap her creators because they 're clueless and inept ? | 1 |
Too predictably , in fact . | 1 |
Alternative medicine obviously has its merits ... but Ayurveda does the field no favors . | 1 |
This thing works on no level whatsoever for me . | 1 |
An incoherent jumble of a film that 's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . | 1 |
More dutiful than enchanting ... terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . | 1 |
Laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it 's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . | 1 |
The comedy Death to Smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . | 1 |
Barney 's ideas about creation and identity do n't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material . | 1 |
Cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing Avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . | 1 |
Nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . | 1 |
A living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . | 0 |
The fact that it is n't very good is almost beside the point . | 1 |
Feels less like a cousin to Blade Runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the Escape From New York series . | 1 |
What might have been acceptable on the printed page of Iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . | 1 |
If Oscar had a category called Best Bad Film You Thought Was Going To Be Really Awful But Was n't , Guys would probably be duking it out with The Queen of the Damned for the honor . | 1 |
A poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . | 1 |
Mediocre fable from Burkina Faso . | 1 |
Fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . | 0 |
Bottom-rung New Jack City wannabe . | 1 |
Fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . | 1 |
It 's mildly amusing , but I certainly ca n't recommend it . | 1 |
Nicholas Nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting Dickensian decency that it turned me -LRB- horrors ! -RRB- | 0 |
Fear Dot Com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . | 1 |
Full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references , Kung Pow ! | 1 |
is the kind of movie that 's critic-proof , simply because it aims so low . | 1 |
May cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . | 1 |
There are just too many characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations . | 1 |
Where 's the movie here ? | 1 |
Lacking substance and soul , Crossroads comes up shorter than Britney 's cutoffs . | 1 |
Cassavetes thinks he 's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . | 1 |
Buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled Mr. Chips off the Old Block . | 1 |
Although sensitive to a fault , it 's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . | 1 |
It 's so badly made on every level that I 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . | 1 |
In the real world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like `` Girl in Bar # 3 . '' | 1 |
... although this idea is `` new '' the results are tired . | 1 |
I 'm guessing the director is a magician . | 0 |
After all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . | 1 |
An unencouraging threefold expansion on the former MTV series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc. . | 1 |
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