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Suffers from a flat script and a low budget .
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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 .
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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 .
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This franchise has not spawned a single good film .
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The crap continues .
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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- .
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High drama , Disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky .
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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 .
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One big blustery movie where nothing really happens .
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When it comes out on video , then it 's the perfect cure for insomnia .
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Like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , Comedian runs out of steam after a half hour .
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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 .
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I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment ` Tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away ' on this screenplay .
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A stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .
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The rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey .
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Roman Polanski directs The Pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion .
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This is an action movie with an action icon who 's been all but decommissioned .
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Even if it is generally amusing from time to time , I Spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have .
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Much like Robin Williams , Death to Smoochy has already reached its expiration date .
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An annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere .
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A tired , unnecessary retread ... a stale copy of a picture that was n't all that great to begin with .
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A worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school TV special .
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Ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action .
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The emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down .
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Schaefer 's ... determination to inject farcical raunch ... drowns out the promise of the romantic angle .
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Like Showgirls and Glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional .
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While some of the camera work is interesting , the film 's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work .
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It 's in the action scenes that things fall apart .
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Impostor is a step down for director Gary Fleder .
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Seagal , who looks more like Danny Aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie .
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The movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents .
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Lacks dramatic punch and depth .
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I can analyze this movie in three words : Thumbs Friggin ' Down .
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Sadly , ` Garth ' has n't progressed as nicely as ` Wayne . '
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Make like the title and dodge this one .
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This is not one of the movies you 'd want to watch if you only had a week to live .
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The first hour is tedious though Ford and Neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie .
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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 .
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-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 .
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No amount of good acting is enough to save Oleander 's uninspired story .
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A vile , incoherent mess ... a scummy ripoff of David Cronenberg 's brilliant ` Videodrome . '
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Murphy and Wilson actually make a pretty good team ... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote .
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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 .
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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- .
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An amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video .
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The holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot .
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Would Benigni 's Italian Pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ?
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Officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny .
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This is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie .
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Mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer 's bloated effects fest The Mummy Returns .
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Halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles .
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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 .
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Control-Alt-Delete Simone as quickly as possible
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Follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun .
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Has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies ...
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Vaguely interesting , but it 's just too too much .
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... no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch .
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A generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set .
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Kung Pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after Oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party .
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Kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business .
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A manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse .
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Everything in Maid in Manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend .
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It goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste .
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A profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility .
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... pays tribute to heroes the way Julia Roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism .
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Time stands still in more ways that one in Clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable .
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As a director , Eastwood is off his game -- there 's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot ` surprises ' are really surprising .
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A puzzle whose pieces do not fit .
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Would that Greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility .
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` 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 .
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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 .
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a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome .
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In the wrong hands , i.e. Peploe 's , it 's simply unbearable
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An inexperienced director , Mehta has much to learn .
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A limp Eddie Murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of .
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So muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker 's characteristic style .
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A gushy episode of `` M \* A \* S \* H '' only this time from an Asian perspective .
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`` Looking For Leonard '' just seems to kinda sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something .
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Nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy .
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Definitely in the guilty pleasure B-movie category , Reign of Fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable .
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Good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like Clueless Does South Fork .
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entertaining enough , but nothing new
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... one resurrection too many .
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This is a film about the irksome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout .
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Even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached .
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In spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice .
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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 .
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Initially gripping , eventually cloying POW drama .
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A timid , soggy near miss .
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Works better in the conception than it does in the execution ... winds up seeming just a little too clever .
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To the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore .
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Shunji Iwai 's All About Lily Chou Chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in Japan .
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With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man 's monster movie .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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The documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc. -- to do the subject matter justice .
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The movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart .
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This is not a Jackie Chan movie .
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It 's just a movie that happens to have Jackie Chan in it .
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