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" "" analyze that "" is one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original ." | 0 |
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled ." | 0 |
"complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold ." | 0 |
"first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people ." | 0 |
" . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit ." | 0 |
"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab ." | 0 |
could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . | 0 |
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . | 0 |
lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . | 0 |
"slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot ." | 0 |
"the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious ." | 0 |
"will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted ." | 0 |
"in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises ." | 0 |
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . | 0 |
the film is flat . | 0 |
the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . | 0 |
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated . | 0 |
"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity ." | 0 |
the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? | 0 |
"this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better ." | 0 |
the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0 |
"when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails ." | 0 |
it would work much better as a one-hour tv documentary . | 0 |
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . | 0 |
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . | 0 |
simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . | 0 |
an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . | 0 |
"queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame ." | 0 |
"this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen ." | 0 |
"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call ." | 0 |
"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches ." | 0 |
"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence ." | 0 |
serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . | 0 |
director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . | 0 |
"a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '" | 0 |
"the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions ." | 0 |
"a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort ." | 0 |
"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill ." | 0 |
"despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable" | 0 |
"meyjes's movie , like max rothman's future , does not work ." | 0 |
what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . | 0 |
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . | 0 |
"an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance ." | 0 |
not once does it come close to being exciting . | 0 |
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well ." | 0 |
"it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness ." | 0 |
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by brendan fraser . | 0 |
one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . | 0 |
needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . | 0 |
"the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong ." | 0 |
it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . | 0 |
i'm not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about . | 0 |
cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . | 0 |
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe . | 0 |
"the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film ." | 0 |
"some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent ." | 0 |
it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its style . | 0 |
"unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't ." | 0 |
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . | 0 |
"for single digits kidlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us ." | 0 |
"shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera ." | 0 |
"contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin ." | 0 |
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . | 0 |
this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic . | 0 |
the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . | 0 |
"a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages ." | 0 |
a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . | 0 |
"personal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces ." | 0 |
"we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground ." | 0 |
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation ." | 0 |
"two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all ." | 0 |
a fascinating but choppy documentary . | 0 |
scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . | 0 |
"the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is ." | 0 |
"too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good ." | 0 |
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . | 0 |
the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . | 0 |
"despite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug ." | 0 |
director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . | 0 |
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen . | 0 |
never comes together as a coherent whole . | 0 |
an unintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . | 0 |
"first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ?" | 0 |
don't even bother to rent this on video . | 0 |
"there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see ." | 0 |
this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . | 0 |
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes ." | 0 |
"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully developed story ." | 0 |
"the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences ." | 0 |
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . | 0 |
an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . | 0 |
"bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made ." | 0 |
gibney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up . | 0 |
"the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults ." | 0 |
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie . | 0 |
a film that suffers because of its many excesses . | 0 |
too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . | 0 |
"in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes ." | 0 |
"depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being ." | 0 |
"nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too ." | 0 |
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