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a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . | 0neg |
while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . | 0neg |
about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . positively dreadful . | 0neg |
a generic international version of a typical american horror film . | 0neg |
. . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention . | 0neg |
crikey indeed . | 0neg |
lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . | 0neg |
there's a lot of good material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . | 0neg |
absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . | 0neg |
if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick . | 0neg |
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . | 0neg |
strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild . | 0neg |
the next big thing's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . | 0neg |
yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally " superior " friends , family . . . | 0neg |
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . | 0neg |
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . | 0neg |
davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly . | 0neg |
surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . | 0neg |
none of this is very original , and it isn't particularly funny . | 0neg |
. . . a bland murder-on-campus yawner . | 0neg |
a humorless journey into a philosophical void . | 0neg |
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector . | 0neg |
responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . | 0neg |
just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation . | 0neg |
a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . | 0neg |
the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago , and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing . | 0neg |
shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . | 0neg |
in the book-on-tape market , the film of " the kid stays in the picture " would be an abridged edition | 0neg |
ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . | 0neg |
it's just a little too self-satisfied . | 0neg |
clever but not especially compelling . | 0neg |
mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . | 0neg |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . | 0neg |
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . | 0neg |
the movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . | 0neg |
brisk hack job . | 0neg |
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fisher . | 0neg |
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . | 0neg |
the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . | 0neg |
what little grace [rifkin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics . | 0neg |
tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . | 0neg |
unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks " the four feathers " bare . | 0neg |
. . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be | 0neg |
falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . | 0neg |
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . | 0neg |
one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . | 0neg |
low rent from frame one . | 0neg |
eight legged freaks ? no big hairy deal . | 0neg |
the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impossible to care . | 0neg |
laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . | 0neg |
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grant have worn threadbare . | 0neg |
'this movie sucks . ' | 0neg |
none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . | 0neg |
. . . bibbidy-bobbidi-bland . | 0neg |
a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater . | 0neg |
bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste . | 0neg |
there's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . | 0neg |
hugh grant's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . | 0neg |
although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . | 0neg |
i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . | 0neg |
what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal order of raccoons . | 0neg |
the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . | 0neg |
when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger's sex life , it already has one strike against it . | 0neg |
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . | 0neg |
. . . hokey art house pretension . | 0neg |
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . | 0neg |
gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh . | 0neg |
plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . | 0neg |
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . | 0neg |
a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you're going to alter the bard's ending , you'd better have a good alternative . | 0neg |
soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable . | 0neg |
the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . | 0neg |
silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . | 0neg |
there is so much plodding sensitivity . | 0neg |
the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . | 0neg |
. . . too sappy for its own good . | 0neg |
circuit queens won't learn a thing , they'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . | 0neg |
as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . | 0neg |
every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . | 0neg |
expanded to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . | 0neg |
it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer . | 0neg |
[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . | 0neg |
feels shrill , simple and soapy . | 0neg |
adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | 0neg |
brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichéd white-trash situation imaginable . | 0neg |
in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . | 0neg |
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . | 0neg |
a direct-to-void release , heading nowhere . | 0neg |
typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . | 0neg |
below is well below expectations . | 0neg |
at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . | 0neg |
. . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . | 0neg |
empire can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . | 0neg |
given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . | 0neg |
possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . | 0neg |
jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . | 0neg |
there may have been a good film in " trouble every day , " but it is not what is on the screen . | 0neg |
unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . | 0neg |
viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture . | 0neg |
there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . | 0neg |
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