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And that makes all the difference . | 0 |
Far too clever by half , Howard 's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . | 1 |
The problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . | 1 |
A Rumor of Angels does n't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness . | 1 |
No big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . | 1 |
I do n't think this movie loves women at all . | 1 |
Shankman ... and screenwriter Karen Janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of Bible parables and not an actual story . | 1 |
A negligible British comedy . | 1 |
Fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . | 1 |
Slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you 're left with a sour taste in your mouth . | 1 |
Skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience . | 1 |
Trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the `` Gadzooks ! '' | 1 |
Her film is like a beautiful food entrée that is n't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . | 1 |
Like the world of his film , Hartley created a monster but did n't know how to handle it . | 1 |
No new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . | 1 |
Needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion ` grandeur ' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . | 1 |
In the end , there is n't much to it . | 1 |
A waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . | 1 |
The film is ultimately about as inspiring as a Hallmark card . | 1 |
Anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . | 1 |
Disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . | 1 |
You could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . | 1 |
Yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-Brits genre that was ushered in by The Full Monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . | 1 |
for those for whom the name Woody Allen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , Hollywood Ending is a depressing experience | 1 |
Femme Fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . | 1 |
Are we dealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of Clue ? | 1 |
It could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director Clare Peploe 's misunderstanding of Marivaux 's rhythms , and Mira Sorvino 's limitations as a classical actress . | 1 |
Fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references . | 1 |
Imagine Susan Sontag falling in love with Howard Stern . | 1 |
Should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . | 1 |
The best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . | 0 |
These guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers . | 1 |
Everything was as superficial as the forced New Jersey lowbrow accent Uma had . | 1 |
Director David Fincher and writer David Koepp ca n't sustain it . | 1 |
One of the most highly-praised disappointments I 've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . | 1 |
Director Shekhar Kapur and screenwriters Michael Schiffer and Hossein Amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . | 1 |
Strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , The Four Feathers comes up short . | 1 |
The thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes -LRB- of which they 'll get plenty -RRB- fills me with revulsion . | 1 |
Devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered CGI effects . | 1 |
A grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone 's crazy French grandfather . | 1 |
The script is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . | 1 |
Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock 's imaginative flight to Shyamalan 's self-important summer fluff . | 1 |
The film 's maudlin focus on the young woman 's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of Hollywood heart-string plucking . | 1 |
I firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . | 0 |
I also believe that Resident Evil is not it . | 1 |
It has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 1 |
This is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . | 1 |
No amount of nostalgia for Carvey 's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that Carvey 's considerable talents are wasted in it . | 1 |
Lazily directed by Charles Stone III ... from a leaden script by Matthew Cirulnick and novelist Thulani Davis . | 1 |
Though Jones and Snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . | 1 |
An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . | 1 |
The pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . | 1 |
Barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . | 1 |
Writer\/director Burr Steers emphasizes the Q in Quirky , with mixed results . | 0 |
One senses in World Traveler and in his earlier film that Freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . | 1 |
In between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and ` just letting the mountain tell you what to do . ' | 0 |
is a mess . | 1 |
Hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry . | 1 |
The concept is a hoot . | 0 |
The trailer is a riot . | 0 |
The movie is a dud . | 1 |
It 's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . | 0 |
Because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . | 1 |
It 's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . | 1 |
These characters become wearisome . | 1 |
A hit - and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as Cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . | 1 |
This may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar . | 1 |
Kim Ki-Deok seems to have in mind an -LRB- emotionally at least -RRB- adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . | 1 |
After sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if Lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . | 1 |
Contrived pastiche of caper clichés . | 1 |
Despite its sincere acting , Signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . | 1 |
Loud , chaotic and largely unfunny . | 1 |
Qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating . | 1 |
Well , Jason 's gone to Manhattan and Hell , I guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels -LRB- hey , do n't shoot the messenger -RRB- . | 1 |
Donovan ... squanders his main asset , Jackie Chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . | 1 |
There is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract . | 1 |
Bread , My Sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for critics to shred it . | 1 |
Leaks treacle from every pore . | 1 |
The characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue CIA assassins working for Chris Cooper 's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we do n't feel much for Damon\/Bourne or his predicament . | 1 |
Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities . | 1 |
Blue Crush is as predictable as the tides . | 1 |
... The movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . | 1 |
If you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then Blood Work is for you . | 1 |
Trouble Every Day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead . | 1 |
A well-intentioned effort that 's still too burdened by the actor 's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . | 1 |
Any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . | 1 |
... while the humor aspects of ` Jason X ' were far more entertaining than I had expected , everything else about the film tanks . | 1 |
Like an Afterschool Special with costumes by Gianni Versace , Mad Love looks better than it feels . | 1 |
The script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that 's where this film should have remained . | 1 |
A thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . | 1 |
A collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films . | 1 |
The film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . | 1 |
An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . | 1 |
How many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? | 1 |
There are some laughs in this movie , but Williams ' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . | 1 |
As steamy as last week 's pork dumplings . | 1 |
The somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make Green Dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . | 1 |
The filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about . | 1 |
Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . | 1 |
This strenuously unfunny Showtime deserves the hook . | 1 |
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