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And that makes all the difference .
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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 .
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The problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum .
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A Rumor of Angels does n't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness .
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No big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film .
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I do n't think this movie loves women at all .
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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 .
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A negligible British comedy .
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Fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers .
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Slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you 're left with a sour taste in your mouth .
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Skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience .
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Trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the `` Gadzooks ! ''
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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 .
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Like the world of his film , Hartley created a monster but did n't know how to handle it .
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No new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through .
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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 .
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In the end , there is n't much to it .
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A waste of fearless purity in the acting craft .
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The film is ultimately about as inspiring as a Hallmark card .
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Anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly .
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Disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances .
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You could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time .
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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 .
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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
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Femme Fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience .
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Are we dealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of Clue ?
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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 .
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Fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references .
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Imagine Susan Sontag falling in love with Howard Stern .
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Should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor .
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The best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast .
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These guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers .
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Everything was as superficial as the forced New Jersey lowbrow accent Uma had .
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Director David Fincher and writer David Koepp ca n't sustain it .
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One of the most highly-praised disappointments I 've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time .
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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 .
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Strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , The Four Feathers comes up short .
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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 .
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Devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered CGI effects .
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A grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone 's crazy French grandfather .
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The script is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters .
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Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock 's imaginative flight to Shyamalan 's self-important summer fluff .
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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 .
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I firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon .
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I also believe that Resident Evil is not it .
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It has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition .
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This is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy .
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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 .
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Lazily directed by Charles Stone III ... from a leaden script by Matthew Cirulnick and novelist Thulani Davis .
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Though Jones and Snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché .
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An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art .
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The pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs .
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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 .
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Writer\/director Burr Steers emphasizes the Q in Quirky , with mixed results .
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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 .
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In between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and ` just letting the mountain tell you what to do . '
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is a mess .
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Hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry .
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The concept is a hoot .
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The trailer is a riot .
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The movie is a dud .
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It 's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring .
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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 .
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It 's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie .
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These characters become wearisome .
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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 .
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This may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar .
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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 .
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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 .
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Contrived pastiche of caper clichés .
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Despite its sincere acting , Signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype .
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Loud , chaotic and largely unfunny .
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Qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating .
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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- .
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Donovan ... squanders his main asset , Jackie Chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences .
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There is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract .
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Bread , My Sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for critics to shred it .
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Leaks treacle from every pore .
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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 .
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Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities .
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Blue Crush is as predictable as the tides .
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... The movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies .
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If you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then Blood Work is for you .
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Trouble Every Day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead .
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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 .
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Any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors .
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... while the humor aspects of ` Jason X ' were far more entertaining than I had expected , everything else about the film tanks .
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Like an Afterschool Special with costumes by Gianni Versace , Mad Love looks better than it feels .
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The script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that 's where this film should have remained .
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A thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions .
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A collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films .
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The film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters .
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An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay .
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How many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ?
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There are some laughs in this movie , but Williams ' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak .
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As steamy as last week 's pork dumplings .
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The somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make Green Dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment .
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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 .
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Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures .
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This strenuously unfunny Showtime deserves the hook .
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