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Suffers from a flat script and a low budget . | 1 |
There are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church , synagogue or temple does n't mean you have to check your brain at the door . | 0 |
Seemingly a vehicle to showcase the Canadian 's inane ramblings , Stealing Harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former Mr. Drew Barrymore . | 1 |
This franchise has not spawned a single good film . | 1 |
The crap continues . | 1 |
Its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who has n't been living under a rock -LRB- since Sept. 11 -RRB- . | 1 |
High drama , Disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . | 0 |
Like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire Olympic swim team through , the characters in Swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . | 1 |
One big blustery movie where nothing really happens . | 1 |
When it comes out on video , then it 's the perfect cure for insomnia . | 1 |
Like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , Comedian runs out of steam after a half hour . | 1 |
The pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes Eddie Murphy and Robert DeNiro in Showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . | 1 |
I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment ` Tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away ' on this screenplay . | 1 |
A stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 1 |
The rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . | 1 |
Roman Polanski directs The Pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . | 1 |
This is an action movie with an action icon who 's been all but decommissioned . | 1 |
Even if it is generally amusing from time to time , I Spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . | 1 |
Much like Robin Williams , Death to Smoochy has already reached its expiration date . | 1 |
An annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . | 1 |
A tired , unnecessary retread ... a stale copy of a picture that was n't all that great to begin with . | 1 |
A worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school TV special . | 1 |
Ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action . | 1 |
The emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down . | 1 |
Schaefer 's ... determination to inject farcical raunch ... drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . | 1 |
Like Showgirls and Glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . | 1 |
While some of the camera work is interesting , the film 's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . | 1 |
It 's in the action scenes that things fall apart . | 1 |
Impostor is a step down for director Gary Fleder . | 1 |
Seagal , who looks more like Danny Aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie . | 1 |
The movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . | 1 |
Lacks dramatic punch and depth . | 1 |
I can analyze this movie in three words : Thumbs Friggin ' Down . | 1 |
Sadly , ` Garth ' has n't progressed as nicely as ` Wayne . ' | 1 |
Make like the title and dodge this one . | 1 |
This is not one of the movies you 'd want to watch if you only had a week to live . | 1 |
The first hour is tedious though Ford and Neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . | 1 |
Here 's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . | 1 |
-LRB- Green is -RRB- the comedy equivalent of Saddam Hussein , and I 'm just about ready to go to the U.N. and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 1 |
No amount of good acting is enough to save Oleander 's uninspired story . | 1 |
A vile , incoherent mess ... a scummy ripoff of David Cronenberg 's brilliant ` Videodrome . ' | 1 |
Murphy and Wilson actually make a pretty good team ... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . | 1 |
Think The Lion King redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams , the world 's most generic rock star . | 1 |
A small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , Tom Dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of Midnight Run and 48 Hours -LRB- and , for that matter , Shrek -RRB- . | 1 |
An amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video . | 1 |
The holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . | 1 |
Would Benigni 's Italian Pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? | 1 |
Officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . | 1 |
This is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie . | 1 |
Mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer 's bloated effects fest The Mummy Returns . | 0 |
Halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles . | 1 |
It 's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have -LRB- and probably should have -RRB- been a lighthearted comedy . | 1 |
Control-Alt-Delete Simone as quickly as possible | 1 |
Follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun . | 1 |
Has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies ... | 1 |
Vaguely interesting , but it 's just too too much . | 1 |
... no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch . | 1 |
A generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . | 1 |
Kung Pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after Oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party . | 1 |
Kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business . | 1 |
A manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . | 1 |
Everything in Maid in Manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . | 0 |
It goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . | 0 |
A profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . | 1 |
... pays tribute to heroes the way Julia Roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . | 1 |
Time stands still in more ways that one in Clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . | 1 |
As a director , Eastwood is off his game -- there 's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot ` surprises ' are really surprising . | 1 |
A puzzle whose pieces do not fit . | 1 |
Would that Greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . | 1 |
` Butterfingered ' is the word for the big-fisted direction of Jez Butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . | 1 |
Be forewarned , if you 're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . | 1 |
a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . | 1 |
In the wrong hands , i.e. Peploe 's , it 's simply unbearable | 1 |
An inexperienced director , Mehta has much to learn . | 1 |
A limp Eddie Murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of . | 1 |
So muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker 's characteristic style . | 1 |
A gushy episode of `` M \* A \* S \* H '' only this time from an Asian perspective . | 1 |
`` Looking For Leonard '' just seems to kinda sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . | 1 |
Nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . | 1 |
Definitely in the guilty pleasure B-movie category , Reign of Fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . | 0 |
Good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like Clueless Does South Fork . | 1 |
entertaining enough , but nothing new | 1 |
... one resurrection too many . | 1 |
This is a film about the irksome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . | 1 |
Even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . | 1 |
In spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . | 1 |
No one involved , save Dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to director Abdul Malik Abbott and Ernest ` Tron ' Anderson , seems entirely improvised . | 1 |
Initially gripping , eventually cloying POW drama . | 0 |
A timid , soggy near miss . | 1 |
Works better in the conception than it does in the execution ... winds up seeming just a little too clever . | 1 |
To the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . | 1 |
Shunji Iwai 's All About Lily Chou Chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in Japan . | 1 |
With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man 's monster movie . | 1 |
There 's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , Jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . | 1 |
Goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing ... but she and writing partner Laurence Coriat do n't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . | 0 |
Though Harris is affecting at times , he can not overcome the sense that Pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities . | 1 |
The documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc. -- to do the subject matter justice . | 1 |
The movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart . | 1 |
This is not a Jackie Chan movie . | 1 |
It 's just a movie that happens to have Jackie Chan in it . | 1 |
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