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the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater . | 0neg |
there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . | 0neg |
it can't decide if it wants to be a mystery/thriller , a romance or a comedy . | 0neg |
denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . | 0neg |
the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him . | 0neg |
one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . | 0neg |
serving sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . | 0neg |
the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take . | 0neg |
with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . | 0neg |
stale , futile scenario . | 0neg |
deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . | 0neg |
a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . | 0neg |
like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . | 0neg |
it's basically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . | 0neg |
the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . | 0neg |
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . | 0neg |
shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0neg |
i can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to like it . | 0neg |
complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effort | 0neg |
though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining . | 0neg |
something akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously . | 0neg |
it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived . | 0neg |
on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . | 0neg |
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships . | 0neg |
offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . | 0neg |
makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . | 0neg |
the movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts . | 0neg |
although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . | 0neg |
it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . | 0neg |
bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . | 0neg |
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen . | 0neg |
if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . | 0neg |
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . | 0neg |
the result is a gaudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . | 0neg |
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the character is . | 0neg |
the man from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . | 0neg |
the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarely and specifically expounded via computer animated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . | 0neg |
historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well worn conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . | 0neg |
long time dead ? not nearly long enough . | 0neg |
nothing more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle . | 0neg |
a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring . | 0neg |
there's not enough here to justify the almost two hours . | 0neg |
the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . | 0neg |
perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . | 0neg |
verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . | 0neg |
mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . | 0neg |
an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . | 0neg |
skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . | 0neg |
who needs love like this ? | 0neg |
hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story . | 0neg |
returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy . | 0neg |
exists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercise . | 0neg |
trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . | 0neg |
mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . | 0neg |
it's not original , and , robbed of the element of surprise , it doesn't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks . | 0neg |
whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wife/colleague , terri -- is a movie children should enjoy . | 0neg |
it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . | 0neg |
a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . | 0neg |
nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay . | 0neg |
i'm just too bored to care . | 0neg |
irwin is a man with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . | 0neg |
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid . | 0neg |
as befits its title , this pg-13-rated piffle is ultimately as threatening as the snuggle fabric softener bear . | 0neg |
attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . | 0neg |
it all feels like a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . | 0neg |
nervous breakdowns are not entertaining . | 0neg |
scorsese doesn't give us a character worth giving a damn about . | 0neg |
a beautifully made piece of unwatchable drivel . | 0neg |
like being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? | 0neg |
this is so bad . | 0neg |
even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping . | 0neg |
i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . | 0neg |
prurient playthings aside , there's little to love about this english trifle . | 0neg |
this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . | 0neg |
the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle . | 0neg |
it's played in the most straight-faced fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . | 0neg |
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . | 0neg |
a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers . | 0neg |
the film tries too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . | 0neg |
every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else far more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . | 0neg |
scooby dooby doo / and shaggy too / you both look and sound great . / but daphne , you're too buff / fred thinks he's tough / and velma - wow , you've lost weight ! | 0neg |
is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? | 0neg |
there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television . | 0neg |
however it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . | 0neg |
the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . | 0neg |
some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the end , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funny . | 0neg |
even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . | 0neg |
comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , " crossroads " instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . | 0neg |
it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping people off without ever letting them consciously know you have done so | 0neg |
it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surface . | 0neg |
the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as well . | 0neg |
sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and starred chevy chase and goldie hawn . | 0neg |
schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . | 0neg |
demands too much of most viewers . | 0neg |
the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you can't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on . | 0neg |
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectively creepy and moodily lit . so i just did . | 0neg |
shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . | 0neg |
aggravating and tedious . | 0neg |
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear . | 0neg |
the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . | 0neg |
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