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Sometimes makes less sense than the Bruckheimeresque American action flicks it emulates . | 1 |
One of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . | 1 |
There 's only one way to kill Michael Myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . | 1 |
The movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive . | 1 |
In other words , about as bad a film you 're likely to see all year . | 1 |
Five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before . | 1 |
The whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of Bewitched that takes place during Spring Break . | 1 |
Well made but uninvolving , Bloodwork is n't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . | 1 |
So we got Ten Little Indians meets Friday the 13th by way of Clean and Sober , filmed on the set of Carpenter 's The Thing and loaded with actors you 're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of The Love Boat . | 1 |
The movie 's blatant derivativeness is one reason it 's so lackluster . | 1 |
Kids do n't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there 's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . | 1 |
It 's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who does n't think about percentages all day long . | 1 |
Ken Russell would love this . | 0 |
In one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of Quentin Tarantino 's climactic shootout -- and Meat Loaf explodes . | 1 |
This is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . | 1 |
The premise of `` Abandon '' holds promise , ... but its delivery is a complete mess . | 1 |
A little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , Monsoon Wedding serves mostly to whet one 's appetite for the Bollywood films . | 1 |
Unless Bob Crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film 's impressive performances and adept direction are n't likely to leave a lasting impression . | 1 |
The bottom line with Nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : Fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it . | 0 |
The lousy John Q all but spits out Denzel Washington 's fine performance in the title role . | 1 |
The whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . | 1 |
What a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! | 1 |
The film is so packed with subplots involving the various Silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a TV series than a feature film . | 1 |
Opera on film is never satisfactory . | 1 |
The art demands live viewing . | 0 |
The innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . | 1 |
Despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . | 1 |
It is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill | 1 |
The Sweetest Thing leaves an awful sour taste . | 1 |
It 's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . | 1 |
Terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing ... The movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . | 1 |
As dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost Shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy . | 0 |
Aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . | 1 |
A low-rent retread of the Alien pictures . | 1 |
Its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . | 1 |
A big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . | 1 |
The story has little wit and no surprises . | 1 |
The Merchant-Ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . | 1 |
What should have been a cutting Hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week 's issue of Variety . | 1 |
Hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children 's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? | 1 |
A little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . | 1 |
-LRB- T -RRB- his slop does n't even have potential as a cult film , as it 's too loud to shout insults at the screen . | 1 |
The movie 's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . | 1 |
... may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . | 1 |
as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . | 1 |
Plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . | 1 |
A puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 1 |
Just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making Ararat far more demanding than it needs to be . | 1 |
A little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . | 1 |
There 's a heavy stench of ` been there , done that ' hanging over the film . | 1 |
The biggest problem with Satin Rouge is Lilia herself . | 1 |
A quaint , romanticized rendering . | 0 |
A potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . | 1 |
Woody Allen used to ridicule movies like Hollywood Ending . | 1 |
Been there done that . | 1 |
There is only so much baked cardboard I need to chew . | 1 |
A movie like The Guys is why film criticism can be considered work . | 1 |
Even if it made its original release date last fall , it would 've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . | 1 |
A loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . | 1 |
A movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . | 1 |
We can tell what it is supposed to be , but ca n't really call it a work of art . | 1 |
Bravado Kathy ! | 0 |
... Liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character 's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . | 1 |
Too bad . | 1 |
Unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the Reginald Hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . | 1 |
This romantic\/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . | 1 |
Squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , Burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . | 1 |
It has no affect on the Kurds , but it wore me down . | 1 |
The actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen . | 1 |
Co-writer\/director Jonathan Parker 's attempts to fashion a Brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short . | 1 |
A superfluous sequel ... plagued by that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' : Everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find . | 1 |
If there 's a heaven for bad movies , Deuces Wild is on its way . | 1 |
Comes off like a bad imitation of the Bard . | 1 |
What 's missing in Murder by Numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens ' deviant behaviour . | 1 |
An uninspired preachy and clichéd war film . | 1 |
Horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it is n't incomprehensible . | 1 |
A movie that harps on media-constructed ` issues ' like whether compromise is the death of self ... this Orgasm -LRB- wo n't be an -RRB- exceedingly memorable one for most people . | 1 |
If Festival in Cannes nails hard - boiled Hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . | 1 |
The movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value . | 1 |
I have n't seen such self-amused trash since Freddy Got Fingered . | 1 |
Little more than a well-mounted history lesson . | 1 |
Rob Schneider 's infantile cross-dressing routines fill The Hot Chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . | 1 |
A horrible , 99-minute stink bomb . | 1 |
The film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil . | 1 |
The film is so bad it does n't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . | 1 |
Sheridan 's take on the author 's schoolboy memoir ... is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . | 1 |
It jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . | 1 |
When it comes to the battle of Hollywood vs. Woo , it looks like Woo 's a P.O.W. | 1 |
The Chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . | 1 |
It 's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . | 1 |
The mushy finale turns John Q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . | 0 |
Content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance . | 1 |
The movie turns out to be -LRB- Assayas ' -RRB- homage to the Gallic ` tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . | 1 |
Its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like Prophet Jack , might have made a point or two regarding life . | 1 |
-LRB- Seems -RRB- even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . | 1 |
It 's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired retread . | 1 |
Neither as scary-funny as Tremors nor demented-funny as Starship Troopers , the movie is n't tough to take as long as you 've paid a matinee price . | 1 |
If swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . | 1 |
The Master of Disguise may have made a great Saturday Night Live sketch , but a great movie it is not . | 1 |
It 's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the Cannes Film Festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . | 1 |
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