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with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake . | 0neg |
if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . | 0neg |
the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing . | 0neg |
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify . | 0neg |
a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . | 0neg |
the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruins everything . | 0neg |
it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chase in a black and red van . | 0neg |
the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about . | 0neg |
so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . | 0neg |
even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities . | 0neg |
what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time . | 0neg |
one lousy movie . | 0neg |
as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . | 0neg |
plodding , peevish and gimmicky . | 0neg |
the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox . | 0neg |
oozes condescension from every pore . | 0neg |
solaris " is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . | 0neg |
the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . | 0neg |
. . . hypnotically dull . | 0neg |
though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch . | 0neg |
it has plenty of laughs . it just doesn't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . | 0neg |
an awful lot like one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . | 0neg |
confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . | 0neg |
[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , i'd want something a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . | 0neg |
occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . | 0neg |
it may play well as a double feature with mainstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding | 0neg |
by the time you reach the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . | 0neg |
journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dull . | 0neg |
putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . | 0neg |
at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . | 0neg |
exactly what you'd expect from a guy named kaos . | 0neg |
calculated swill . | 0neg |
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is . | 0neg |
with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . | 0neg |
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . | 0neg |
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld's real life is boring . | 0neg |
it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of time . | 0neg |
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . | 0neg |
this 10th film in the series looks and feels tired . | 0neg |
it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject . | 0neg |
i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . | 0neg |
one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history . | 0neg |
there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . | 0neg |
fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . | 0neg |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0neg |
thoroughly awful . | 0neg |
. . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . | 0neg |
though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . | 0neg |
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience . | 0neg |
the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . | 0neg |
truly terrible . | 0neg |
a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary . | 0neg |
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . | 0neg |
an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . | 0neg |
it's tommy's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel like mopping up , too . | 0neg |
rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . | 0neg |
fluffy and disposible . | 0neg |
such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show . | 0neg |
if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . | 0neg |
holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . | 0neg |
the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . | 0neg |
a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip version of mama's family . | 0neg |
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . | 0neg |
stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . | 0neg |
bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . | 0neg |
there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . | 0neg |
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the result might look like vulgar . | 0neg |
suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . | 0neg |
what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it's icky . | 0neg |
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 minutes too long . | 0neg |
the film favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . | 0neg |
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . | 0neg |
with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better . | 0neg |
the whole affair is as predictable as can be . | 0neg |
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes . | 0neg |
this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell . | 0neg |
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . | 0neg |
star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . | 0neg |
[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . | 0neg |
every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . | 0neg |
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 0neg |
ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . | 0neg |
despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off | 0neg |
although disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it feels more forced than usual . | 0neg |
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . | 0neg |
a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . | 0neg |
[p]artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . | 0neg |
'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you ate a reeses without the peanut butter . . . ' | 0neg |
gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . | 0neg |
parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . | 0neg |
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than involving . | 0neg |
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side . | 0neg |
a lack of thesis makes maryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special . | 0neg |
the worst film of the year . | 0neg |
by-the-numbers yarn . | 0neg |
without shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . | 0neg |
if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . ' | 0neg |
during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . | 0neg |
bisset delivers a game performance , but she is unable to save the movie . | 0neg |
watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . | 0neg |
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