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cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace .
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and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy !
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directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length .
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it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere .
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the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drains his movie of all individuality .
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an infuriating film . just when you think you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense .
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the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory .
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the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions .
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as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness .
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this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand .
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as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile .
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wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time .
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bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness .
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this film biggest problem ? no laughs .
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less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater clan .
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that the chuck norris " grenade gag " occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is .
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viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout .
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it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rental .
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i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents . . .
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everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view .
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throw smoochy from the train !
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eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fires the winning shot .
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irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free .
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a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation .
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cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle .
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to paraphrase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato .
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the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types .
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the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's hollywood .
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an extremely unpleasant film .
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a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again .
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a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale .
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wait for it to hit cable .
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ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies .
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a high-minded snoozer .
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nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives .
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77 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it .
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the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .
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a movie you observe , rather than one you enter into .
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[at least] moore is a real charmer .
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john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling .
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labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film .
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the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus .
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stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes .
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unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes .
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a film that loses sight of its own story .
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adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash .
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the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison .
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few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry's terrific performance .
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gets better after foster leaves that little room .
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the movie is as padded as allen's jelly belly .
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resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail .
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a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epps .
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. . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .
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resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastiche .
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bluto blutarsky , we miss you .
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innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look good .
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it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that .
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woody allen can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie .
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execrable .
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devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special .
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all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast .
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plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year .
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however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence .
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parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place .
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it's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill .
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paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the genre .
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the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair .
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the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy .
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the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .
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let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate .
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it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful .
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alternately frustrating and rewarding .
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it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .
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despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this .
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swinging , the film makes it seem , is not a hobby that attracts the young and fit . or intelligent .
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the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration .
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see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died .
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suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 .
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there are enough throwaway references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hit .
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yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '
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the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing .
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children and adults enamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed .
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i don't even care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible !
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children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers .
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it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow .
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peralta's mythmaking could have used some informed , adult hindsight .
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amazingly dopey .
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a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few decades too late .
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cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds .
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the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming .
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just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole .
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the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication .
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only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm .
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kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning .
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mr . soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious .
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do you say " hi " to your lover when you wake up in the morning ?
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it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens
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director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .
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banal and predictable .
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'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . '
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