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there's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long . | 0neg |
the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser works . | 0neg |
as happily glib and vicious as its characters . | 0neg |
one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . | 0neg |
. . . a pretentious mess . . . | 0neg |
no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater . | 0neg |
a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . | 0neg |
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . | 0neg |
i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . | 0neg |
talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | 0neg |
kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . | 0neg |
almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . | 0neg |
it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices . | 0neg |
if you've got a house full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then . | 0neg |
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic . ' | 0neg |
has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . | 0neg |
an unremarkable , modern action/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . | 0neg |
has all the right elements but completely fails to gel together . | 0neg |
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ' | 0neg |
seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . | 0neg |
the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . | 0neg |
an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating . | 0neg |
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . | 0neg |
children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . | 0neg |
pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle . | 0neg |
. . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning . | 0neg |
with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller " new best friend " , who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . | 0neg |
hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . | 0neg |
an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakening . | 0neg |
aside from showing us in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian' | 0neg |
a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . | 0neg |
the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged . | 0neg |
the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . | 0neg |
like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . | 0neg |
as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . | 0neg |
there are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . | 0neg |
the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . | 0neg |
in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . ' | 0neg |
a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality . | 0neg |
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagney's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . | 0neg |
the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . | 0neg |
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . | 0neg |
is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? | 0neg |
once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . | 0neg |
serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time . | 0neg |
too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . | 0neg |
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog . | 0neg |
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter . | 0neg |
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . | 0neg |
as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . it never plays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . | 0neg |
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada . | 0neg |
a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . | 0neg |
lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . | 0neg |
despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good movie | 0neg |
a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . | 0neg |
i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! | 0neg |
a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . | 0neg |
tiresomely derivative and hammily acted . | 0neg |
we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . | 0neg |
the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . | 0neg |
too bad maggio couldn't come up with a better script . | 0neg |
much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad . | 0neg |
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories . | 0neg |
at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . | 0neg |
witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . | 0neg |
not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at . | 0neg |
as plain and pedestrian as catsup-- | 0neg |
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . | 0neg |
i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . | 0neg |
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . | 0neg |
a picture as erratic as its central character . | 0neg |
whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the " soon-to-be-forgettable " section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars | 0neg |
the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . | 0neg |
guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . | 0neg |
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . | 0neg |
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . | 0neg |
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling . | 0neg |
much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . | 0neg |
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . | 0neg |
for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . | 0neg |
this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago . | 0neg |
[a] rather thinly-conceived movie . | 0neg |
a bit too eager to please . | 0neg |
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] . | 0neg |
kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . | 0neg |
" the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store " | 0neg |
animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . | 0neg |
so-so entertainment . | 0neg |
one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . | 0neg |
'the château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ' | 0neg |
meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and monster-in-the- making . | 0neg |
jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive . | 0neg |
crudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the midst of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their families . | 0neg |
there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . | 0neg |
despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | 0neg |
an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . | 0neg |
the only thing i laughed at were the people who paid to see it . | 0neg |
all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat . | 0neg |
the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone . | 0neg |
the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got seven days left to live . then you get another phone call warning you that if the video isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to face frightening late fees . o . k . , not really . | 0neg |
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