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although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . | 0neg |
you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there . | 0neg |
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards african-americans . | 0neg |
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . | 0neg |
the only thing " swept away " is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . | 0neg |
one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster . | 0neg |
the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . | 0neg |
as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've ever seen . | 0neg |
egoyan's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . | 0neg |
life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . | 0neg |
this is a truly , truly bad movie . | 0neg |
despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there | 0neg |
believability wasn't one of the film's virtues . | 0neg |
sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower . | 0neg |
the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . | 0neg |
his best film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive . | 0neg |
just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . | 0neg |
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . | 0neg |
even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage . | 0neg |
kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . | 0neg |
busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . | 0neg |
well-meaning but inert . | 0neg |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . | 0neg |
a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . | 0neg |
it's young guns meets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . | 0neg |
louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense . | 0neg |
the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short . | 0neg |
the film is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . | 0neg |
can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . | 0neg |
in the new guy , even the bull gets recycled . | 0neg |
. . . overly melodramatic . . . | 0neg |
largely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . | 0neg |
on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . | 0neg |
the result is an 'action film' mired in stasis . | 0neg |
this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with people . | 0neg |
patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . | 0neg |
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . | 0neg |
so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . | 0neg |
one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms . spears . | 0neg |
hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . | 0neg |
. . . generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish . | 0neg |
it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . | 0neg |
when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . | 0neg |
an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . | 0neg |
'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived . | 0neg |
ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . | 0neg |
this one is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slob city reductions of damon runyon crooks . | 0neg |
'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . ' | 0neg |
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . | 0neg |
trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein's brain . | 0neg |
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | 0neg |
amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the " other side of the story . " | 0neg |
rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue . | 0neg |
it's a 100-year old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . | 0neg |
. . . one big laugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . | 0neg |
too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessible screed yet . | 0neg |
kenneth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . | 0neg |
director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . | 0neg |
ms . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . | 0neg |
the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man . | 0neg |
extremely bad . | 0neg |
a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . | 0neg |
the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . | 0neg |
a little weak -- and it isn't that funny . | 0neg |
while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . | 0neg |
the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy . | 0neg |
despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . | 0neg |
in both the writing and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . | 0neg |
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . | 0neg |
worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . | 0neg |
the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece ! | 0neg |
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . | 0neg |
gere gives a good performance in a film that doesn't merit it . | 0neg |
your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make . | 0neg |
includes too much obvious padding . | 0neg |
there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . | 0neg |
i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . | 0neg |
don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . | 0neg |
the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers . | 0neg |
shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . . | 0neg |
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . | 0neg |
. . . a movie that , quite simply , shouldn't have been made . | 0neg |
conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are often more predictable than their consequences . | 0neg |
looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . | 0neg |
the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . | 0neg |
suffers from all the excesses of the genre . | 0neg |
the verdict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . | 0neg |
the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . | 0neg |
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . | 0neg |
while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . | 0neg |
they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . | 0neg |
it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . | 0neg |
it's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly . | 0neg |
comedy troupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . | 0neg |
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . | 0neg |
a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . | 0neg |
it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . | 0neg |
'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successful ) rental . ' | 0neg |
occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , often boring . | 0neg |
a movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end . | 0neg |
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