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possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio .
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the film's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling .
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. . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror .
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those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one .
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punitively affirmational parable .
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befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject
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from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student film .
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the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine .
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it's just not very smart .
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like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions .
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imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma .
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in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh .
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90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping .
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sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction .
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never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance .
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after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial .
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this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seen this summer .
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it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt !
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the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly subplots .
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this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same .
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a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing .
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forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore .
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a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter .
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new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is .
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lots of effort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings .
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when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game .
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i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .
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decent but dull .
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the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative .
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an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years .
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only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes .
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for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression .
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no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make .
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a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer .
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the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together .
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several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in " unfaithful . " why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me .
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thin period piece .
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hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script .
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howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective .
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the best thing that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments .
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it's not a bad premise , just a bad movie .
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an already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie .
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by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived .
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the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot .
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a peculiar misfire that even tunney can't save .
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watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in .
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i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops .
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too much of nemesis has a tired , talky feel .
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i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes .
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when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement .
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leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion .
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it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness .
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each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single threat of suspense .
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a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties .
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borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy .
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the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed .
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works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making
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crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls .
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4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly .
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feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work .
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trailer park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all .
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[a] stuporously solemn film .
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viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it .
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. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits .
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sayles . . . once again strands his superb performers in the same old story .
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the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .
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i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes .
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the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor .
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the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book .
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. . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . .
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several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante .
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clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up .
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although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action .
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'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel .
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supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over .
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white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else .
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when you resurrect a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ?
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cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different .
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the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe .
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this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ?
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the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad .
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mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor .
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how this one escaped the lifetime network i'll never know .
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couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ?
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one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations .
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for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion .
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i have to admit that i am baffled by jason x .
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a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia
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instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos .
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this is a film living far too much in its own head .
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the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle .
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national lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats .
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the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles .
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dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring .
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a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls .
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more of a career curio than a major work .
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it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain .
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cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy .
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to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw .
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taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot .
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