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In its own way , Joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a Luis Buñuel film without the latter 's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . | 1 |
an appalling ` Ace Ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together Kevin Pollak , former wrestler Chyna and Dolly Parton . | 1 |
If any of them list this ` credit ' on their resumes in the future , that 'll be much funnier than anything in the film ... | 1 |
The only entertainment you 'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles -- several of them . | 1 |
Puportedly `` Based on True Events , '' a convolution of language that suggests it 's impossible to claim that it is `` Based on a True Story '' with a straight face . | 1 |
... a plotline that 's as lumpy as two-day old porridge ... the filmmakers ' paws , sad to say , were all over this `` un-bear-able '' project ! | 1 |
Tambor and Clayburgh make an appealing couple -- he 's understated and sardonic , she 's appealingly manic and energetic . | 0 |
Both deserve better . | 1 |
-- that the ` true story ' by which All the Queen 's Men is allegedly `` inspired '' was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what 's been cobbled together onscreen . | 1 |
Is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? | 1 |
I do n't think so . | 1 |
Nothing wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugged me . | 1 |
Not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid . | 1 |
Another week , another gross-out college comedy -- ugh . | 1 |
A battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . | 1 |
The movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . | 1 |
What 's worse is that Pelosi knows it . | 1 |
... instead go rent `` Shakes The Clown '' , a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great Robin Williams performance . | 1 |
If the title is a Jeopardy question , then the answer might be `` How does Steven Seagal come across these days ? '' | 1 |
or maybe `` How will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of The Rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? '' | 1 |
The appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . | 1 |
The story really has no place to go since Simone is not real -- she ca n't provide any conflict . | 1 |
First-time director João Pedro Rodrigues ' unwillingness to define his hero 's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . | 1 |
`` Interview '' loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a TV episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . | 1 |
` Unfaithful ' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territory . | 1 |
Too bad . | 1 |
Thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad Scouse accents | 1 |
Plays like one of those conversations that Comic Book Guy on `` The Simpsons '' has . | 1 |
No thanks . | 1 |
Wewannour money back , actually . | 1 |
Should n't have been allowed to use the word `` new '' in its title , because there 's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . | 1 |
Often silly -- and gross -- but it 's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . | 1 |
The advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . | 1 |
Any rock pile will do for a set . | 1 |
Reign of Fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap . | 1 |
Lucy 's a dull girl , that 's all . | 1 |
I admire it and yet can not recommend it , because it overstays its natural running time . | 1 |
It 's a bad sign when you 're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects ' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it 's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . | 1 |
Stephen Earnhart 's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition -- wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text -- when it 's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type . | 1 |
A semi-autobiographical film that 's so sloppily written and cast that you can not believe anyone more central to the creation of Bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it . | 1 |
The movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . | 1 |
Build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own Mystery Science Theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . | 1 |
... has about 3\/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor -- but it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake - of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity . | 1 |
It 's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by Scott Kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 Brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo . | 1 |
Gooding and Coburn are both Oscar winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through Snow Dogs , seems inconceivable . | 1 |
At every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability ... all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while Banderas looks like he 's not trying to laugh at how bad it | 1 |
... pitiful , slapdash disaster . | 1 |
A DOA dud from frame one . | 1 |
Jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as John Ritter 's glory days on Three 's Company . | 1 |
There are plenty of scenes in Frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . | 0 |
Although God Is Great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | 1 |
First-timer John McKay is never able to pull it back on course . | 1 |
Distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . | 1 |
Godard uses his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . | 1 |
The movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . | 1 |
A predictable , manipulative stinker . | 1 |
The story passes time until it 's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . | 1 |
It 's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it 's only acting . | 0 |
The movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that 's shapeless and uninflected . | 1 |
It 's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where Human Nature should be ingratiating , it 's just grating . | 1 |
An ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . | 0 |
once she lets her love depraved leads meet , -LRB- Denis ' -RRB- story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle | 1 |
What 's really sad is to see two Academy Award winning actresses -LRB- and one Academy Award winning actor -RRB- succumb to appearing in this junk that 's TV sitcom material at best . | 1 |
No doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . | 0 |
Where their heads were is anyone 's guess . | 1 |
Call me a cynic , but there 's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . | 1 |
A gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . | 1 |
Got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 1\/2 - hour , dissipated length . | 0 |
A painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than Clyde Barrow 's car . | 1 |
Like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . | 1 |
I guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . | 1 |
Gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . | 1 |
Feels less like a change in -LRB- Herzog 's -RRB- personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . | 1 |
One of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced . | 1 |
Will anyone who is n't a Fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ? | 1 |
A selection of scenes in search of a movie . | 1 |
-LRB- Janey -RRB- forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . | 1 |
Will undoubtedly play well in European markets , where Mr. Besson is a brand name , and in Asia , where Ms. Shu is an institution , but American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . | 1 |
True to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ... ` The Country Bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation . | 1 |
-LRB- Evans is -RRB- a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . | 1 |
The script 's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . | 1 |
Evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention . | 1 |
A derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches . | 1 |
Loosely speaking , we 're in All of Me territory again , and , strictly speaking , Schneider is no Steve Martin . | 1 |
As aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel like four . | 1 |
Limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . | 1 |
Just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . | 1 |
The redeeming feature of Chan 's films has always been the action , but the stunts in The Tuxedo seem tired and , what 's worse , routine . | 1 |
While The Importance of Being Earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it does n't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond Wilde 's wit and the actors ' performances . | 1 |
Has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool . | 1 |
A rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 1 |
It 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there Tolstoy groupies out there ? | 1 |
This is a movie that starts out like Heathers , then becomes Bring it On , then becomes unwatchable . | 1 |
The screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines . | 1 |
I think it was Plato who said , ' I think , therefore I know better than to rush to the theatre for this one . ' | 1 |
If Damon and Affleck attempt another Project Greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . | 1 |
This is rote drivel aimed at Mom and Dad 's wallet . | 1 |
Contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | 1 |
I hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of High Art . | 1 |
The kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books . | 1 |
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