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Boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . | 1 |
It 's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . | 1 |
Unfortunately , that 's precisely what Arthur Dong 's Family Fundamentals does . | 1 |
Like a medium-grade network sitcom -- mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . | 1 |
Something must have been lost in the translation . | 1 |
Becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any Plympton film : boring . | 1 |
In the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we 're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . | 1 |
Chan 's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there 's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy . | 1 |
Rock 's stand-up magic wanes . | 1 |
Hopkins , squarely fills the screen . | 0 |
Action - mechanical . | 1 |
Alas , it 's the man that makes the clothes . | 0 |
For casual moviegoers who stumble into Rules expecting a slice of American Pie hijinks starring the kid from Dawson 's Creek , they 'll probably run out screaming . | 1 |
The biggest problem I have -LRB- other than the very sluggish pace -RRB- is we never really see her Esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . | 1 |
Plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing The Scorpion King . | 1 |
City by the Sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . | 0 |
But how it washed out despite all of that is the project 's prime mystery . | 1 |
Whatever the movie 's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet T-shirt and shower scenes . | 1 |
I enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . | 0 |
What a pity ... that the material is so second-rate . | 1 |
Does n't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past Seagal films . | 1 |
The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . | 1 |
Nicks refuses to let Slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . | 0 |
Nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of Elizabeth Hurley 's breasts -- is authentic . | 1 |
Mostly , Shafer and co-writer Gregory Hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . | 1 |
No cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces Wild . | 1 |
Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson have a cute partnership in I Spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good . | 1 |
Strictly a ` guy 's film ' in the worst sense of the expression . | 1 |
There 's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes . | 1 |
It 's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as Phoenix 's . | 1 |
There 's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids ' movie ... that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where Santa gives gifts to grownups . | 1 |
We 're left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments . | 1 |
Like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . | 1 |
There is nothing redeeming about this movie . | 1 |
The film has -LRB- its -RRB- moments , but they are few and far between . | 1 |
I was trying to decide what annoyed me most about God is Great ... I 'm Not , and then I realized that I just did n't care . | 1 |
Derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . | 1 |
... comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental . | 1 |
Brosnan 's finest non-Bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . | 1 |
A film that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , Waiting for Happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact . | 0 |
To me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . | 1 |
Flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they ca n't distract from the flawed support structure holding Equilibrium up . | 1 |
ZigZag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted . | 1 |
How can such a cold movie claim to express warmth and longing ? | 1 |
In truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick -LRB- but none of the sheer lust -RRB- . | 1 |
Nicks and Steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try . | 1 |
Episode II -- Attack of the Clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . | 1 |
The problem with all of this : It 's not really funny . | 1 |
-LRB- Denis ' -RRB- bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . | 1 |
Wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from Lynch , Jeunet , and von Trier while failing to find a spark of its own . | 1 |
Overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of taste . | 1 |
The mantra behind the project seems to have been ` it 's just a kids ' flick . ' | 1 |
Translation : ` We do n't need to try very hard . ' | 1 |
In all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 1 |
It takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what TUCK EVERLASTING is about . | 1 |
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades | 1 |
The author 's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling . | 1 |
Writer-director Walter Hill and co-writer David Giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . | 1 |
There 's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : Mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . | 1 |
A cockeyed shot all the way . | 1 |
Lush and beautifully photographed -LRB- somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book -RRB- , but ultimately you 'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . | 1 |
Unfortunately , One Hour Photo lives down to its title . | 1 |
Thanks largely to Williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film . | 1 |
Cold , Sterile And Lacking Any Color Or Warmth . | 1 |
The film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . | 1 |
Seems like someone going through the motions . | 1 |
For a film about explosions and death and spies , `` Ballistic : Ecks vs. Sever '' seems as safe as a children 's film . | 1 |
Well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies . | 1 |
Choppy , overlong documentary about ` The Lifestyle . ' | 1 |
One sloughs one 's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot . | 1 |
A film which presses familiar Herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . | 1 |
brought to life on the big screen . | 0 |
The story itself is actually quite vapid . | 1 |
It 's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it does n't offer any insights that have n't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the Dahmer heyday of the mid - '90s . | 1 |
A few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and Jordan Brady 's direction is prosaic . | 1 |
Each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on top . | 1 |
Would 've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film 's predictable denouement . | 1 |
Nair just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . | 1 |
Enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , Walt Becker 's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . | 0 |
It 's the funniest American comedy since Graffiti Bridge . | 0 |
That neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . | 1 |
What starts off as a possible Argentine American Beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers . | 1 |
The project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger Fatal Attraction into a high school setting . | 1 |
In old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , Ms. Shreve 's novel proved too difficult a text to ` lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . | 1 |
Solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke | 1 |
Stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little \*\*\*\* . | 1 |
No cute factor here ... Not that I mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . | 1 |
Deep down , I realized the harsh reality of my situation : I would leave the theater with a lower I.Q. than when I had entered . | 1 |
Aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom.com or the improperly hammy performance from poor Stephen Rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . | 1 |
It is bad , but certainly not without merit as entertainment . | 1 |
For its 100 minutes running time , you 'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . | 1 |
A work that lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse . | 1 |
A faster paced family flick . | 0 |
Upper Teens may get cynical . | 1 |
Smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . | 0 |
While this film has an ` A ' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , Vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love . | 1 |
It 's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns . | 1 |
Most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . | 1 |
The movie is about as deep as that sentiment . | 1 |
I 've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but Lil Bow Wow takes the cake . | 1 |
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