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A generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it is n't merely offensive . | 1 |
Julie Davis is the Kathie Lee Gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent . | 1 |
An unholy mess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled ` hip ' , ` innovative ' and ` realistic ' . | 1 |
The story 's pathetic and the gags are puerile . . | 1 |
Curiously , Super Troopers suffers because it does n't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . | 1 |
So bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled Generic Jennifer Lopez Romantic Comedy . | 1 |
I still want my money back . | 1 |
It plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its `` dead wife communicating from beyond the grave '' framework is even remotely new or interesting . | 1 |
All too familiar ... basically the sort of cautionary tale that was old when ` Angels With Dirty Faces ' appeared in 1938 . | 1 |
Although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it 's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s\/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out . | 1 |
After the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés , depression and bad alternative music . | 1 |
No one can doubt the filmmakers ' motives , but The Guys still feels counterproductive . | 1 |
A very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel . | 1 |
With little visible talent and no energy , Colin Hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee . | 1 |
Seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product 's unshapely look , director Fisher Stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in Waking Life water colors . | 1 |
Formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . | 1 |
Everything that was right about Blade is wrong in its sequel . | 1 |
The film was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one -LRB- and no one -RRB- . | 1 |
Disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . | 1 |
Coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock . | 1 |
Anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . | 1 |
They presume their audience wo n't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes . | 1 |
Collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence . | 1 |
The following things are not at all entertaining : The bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching Seinfeld -LRB- who is also one of the film 's producers -RRB- do everything he can to look like a good guy . | 1 |
Attal 's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare I say , outdated , it 's a wonder that he could n't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . | 1 |
Obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesque . | 1 |
The most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . | 1 |
Michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 1 |
Enigma lacks it . | 1 |
Potty-mouthed enough for PG-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as South Park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . | 1 |
A distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour . | 1 |
Most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . | 1 |
In the end , Tuck Everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . | 1 |
Rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . | 1 |
McKay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative . | 1 |
Plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . | 1 |
Amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . | 1 |
Yes , Spirited Away is a triumph of imagination , but it 's also a failure of storytelling . | 1 |
A characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie . | 1 |
Whenever you think you 've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end . | 1 |
You begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . | 1 |
The screenplay , co-written by director Imogen Kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing . | 1 |
The milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . | 1 |
Unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . | 1 |
Each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the first two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running time . | 1 |
The laughs are as rare as snake foo yung . | 1 |
lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . | 1 |
Knockaround Guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be Quentin Tarantino when they grow up . | 1 |
But they lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail . | 1 |
Mattei so completely loses himself to the film 's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , Love in the Time of Money . | 1 |
Holland lets things peter out midway , but it 's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals . | 0 |
For every articulate player , such as skateboarder Tony Hawk or BMX rider Mat Hoffman , are about a half dozen young Turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence . | 1 |
There 's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . | 1 |
An impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . | 1 |
It 's unfortunate that Wallace , who wrote Gibson 's Braveheart as well as the recent Pearl Harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . | 1 |
I liked the movie , but I know I would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . | 0 |
I 'm left slightly disappointed that it did n't . | 1 |
Dreary tale of middle-class angst | 1 |
For a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . | 1 |
-LRB- Jackson and Bledel -RRB- seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd . | 1 |
Like Schindler 's List , The Grey Zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . | 1 |
An unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the DV revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film . | 1 |
It 's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey . | 1 |
Friday After Next is a lot more bluster than bite . | 1 |
There are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . | 1 |
Ice Cube is n't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but Friday After Next spreads them pretty thin . | 1 |
The characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . | 1 |
Just dreadful . | 1 |
I do n't blame Eddie Murphy but should n't Owen Wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ? | 1 |
Sweet Home Alabama certainly wo n't be remembered as one of -LRB- Witherspoon 's -RRB- better films . | 1 |
hard as this may be to believe , Here on Earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . | 1 |
This is just lazy writing . | 1 |
Even kids deserve better . | 1 |
The pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie . | 1 |
And Diesel is n't the actor to save it . | 1 |
Frank Capra played this story straight . | 0 |
But the 2002 film does n't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate ` comedy ' scenes . | 1 |
The problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . | 1 |
Handled correctly , Wilde 's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . | 0 |
Here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . | 1 |
`` Sorority Boys '' was funnier , and that movie was pretty bad . | 1 |
A bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids ' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder | 1 |
Paul Bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 . | 1 |
Often likable , but just as often it 's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . | 0 |
Certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , Eight Crazy Nights is a total misfire . | 1 |
Elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . | 0 |
Showtime is n't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again . | 1 |
All the characters are clinically depressed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . | 1 |
This Tuxedo ... should have been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations . | 1 |
But first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort | 1 |
Been there , done that ... a thousand times already , and better . | 1 |
What 's most offensive is n't the waste of a good cast , but the film 's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism . | 1 |
Sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . | 1 |
Fans of Plympton 's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers . | 1 |
None of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of Sorority Boys is as appalling as any ` comedy ' to ever spill from a projector 's lens . | 1 |
The kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . | 1 |
` Punch-Drunk Love is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you 'd want to smash its face in . ' | 1 |
At once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance . | 1 |
The trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of Showgirls . | 1 |
While the production details are lavish , film has little insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how Sand developed a notorious reputation . | 1 |
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