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Contains all the substance of a Twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . | 1 |
Return to Neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill Disney sequel intended for the home video market . | 1 |
Rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along . | 1 |
It 's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . | 1 |
The colorful Masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of Ganesh 's rise up the social ladder . | 1 |
... an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . | 1 |
Wimps out by going for that PG-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . | 1 |
Trapped presents a frightening and compelling ` What if ? ' | 0 |
Madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like Michael Jackson 's nose . | 1 |
Never having seen the first two films in the series , I ca n't compare Friday After Next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . | 1 |
The story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . | 1 |
A depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . | 1 |
It 's a bad action movie because there 's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . | 1 |
-LRB- Soderbergh -RRB- tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience 's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . | 1 |
So aggressively cheery that Pollyana would reach for a barf bag . | 1 |
Scooby-Doo does n't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , Nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . | 1 |
Russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of Sommers 's title-bout features . | 1 |
Highly uneven and inconsistent ... Margarita Happy Hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . | 1 |
Very stupid and annoying . | 1 |
The Sum of All Fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it 's really nothing more than warmed-over Cold War paranoia . | 1 |
A listless and desultory affair . | 1 |
Represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . | 1 |
How inept is Serving Sara ? | 1 |
It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly . | 1 |
Helmer Hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . | 1 |
Lazy , miserable and smug . | 1 |
This is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . | 1 |
Every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . | 1 |
There 's no energy . | 1 |
This is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films like Them ! | 1 |
At three hours and with very little story or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . | 1 |
If you recognize Zeus -LRB- the dog from Snatch -RRB- it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . | 1 |
This is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ` Ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . ' | 1 |
There 's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man 's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . | 1 |
It 's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness . | 0 |
All the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . | 1 |
A cross between Blow and Boyz N The Hood , this movie strives to be more , but does n't quite get there . | 1 |
Good performances keep it from being a total rehash . | 0 |
The screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . | 1 |
At times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . | 0 |
Not even Felinni would know what to make of this Italian freakshow . | 1 |
It 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in Slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny . | 1 |
Despite its promising cast of characters , Big Trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that ` zany ' does n't necessarily mean ` funny . ' | 1 |
Both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . | 1 |
Does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . | 1 |
Neither revelatory nor truly edgy -- merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . | 1 |
Just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . | 1 |
Fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . | 1 |
There 's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film 's simple title . | 1 |
A preposterous , prurient whodunit . | 1 |
Go , girls , right down the reality drain . | 1 |
Boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , Impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . | 1 |
Can be classified as one of those ` alternate reality ' movies ... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . | 1 |
Predictable and cloying , though Brown Sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . | 0 |
... unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . | 1 |
The film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . | 1 |
An imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie . | 1 |
Muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for Kevin Costner . | 1 |
Too clumsy in key moments ... to make a big splash . | 1 |
Just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that 's neither original nor terribly funny . | 1 |
` Matrix ' - style massacres erupt throughout ... but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with Kafka-inspired philosophy . | 1 |
At least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , Charles Stone III . | 0 |
It all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . | 1 |
Run for your lives ! | 1 |
Why would anyone cast the magnificent Jackie Chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? | 1 |
A grating , emaciated flick . | 1 |
Unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . | 1 |
We have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . | 1 |
According to the script , Grant and Bullock 's characters are made for each other . | 0 |
Ararat feels like a book report | 1 |
Steve Oedekerk is , alas , no Woody Allen . | 1 |
A lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . | 1 |
The acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | 1 |
Shows that Jackie Chan is getting older , and that 's something I would rather live in denial about | 1 |
The slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . | 1 |
This is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . | 1 |
The problem with the mayhem in Formula 51 is not that it 's offensive , but that it 's boring . | 1 |
Much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché . | 1 |
the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tale | 1 |
Told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . | 1 |
The irony is that this film 's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . | 0 |
If ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . | 0 |
If ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it . | 1 |
With an unusual protagonist -LRB- a kilt-wearing Jackson -RRB- and subject matter , the improbable `` Formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger . | 0 |
A feel-good movie that does n't give you enough to feel good about . | 1 |
Adolescents will be adequately served by the movie 's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a ` topless tutorial service . ' | 0 |
This mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . | 1 |
The picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . | 1 |
You 'll cry for your money back . | 1 |
Slap me , I saw this movie . | 1 |
-LRB- The kid 's -RRB- just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow . | 1 |
Behind the glitz , Hollywood is sordid and disgusting . | 1 |
Scherfig , who has had a successful career in TV , tackles more than she can handle . | 1 |
Just consider what New Best Friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . | 1 |
Oscar caliber cast does n't live up to material | 1 |
They just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . | 1 |
Carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , Chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , ` If I stay positive , maybe I can channel one of my greatest pictures , Drunken Master . ' | 1 |
So putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film . | 1 |
In the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about Kennedy 's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate . | 1 |
Starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés . | 1 |
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