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apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . | 0neg |
too much of the humor falls flat . | 0neg |
detox is ultimately a pointless endeavor . | 0neg |
van wilder doesn't bring anything new to the proverbial table , but it does possess a coherence absent in recent crass-a-thons like tomcats , freddy got fingered , and slackers . | 0neg |
the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . | 0neg |
very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant achilles' heel in " stuart little 2 " : there's just no story , folks . | 0neg |
the plot combines the blues brothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . | 0neg |
no way i can believe this load of junk . | 0neg |
" roger michell ( " notting hill " ) directs a morality thriller . " | 0neg |
it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not scary . | 0neg |
there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . | 0neg |
the movie's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? | 0neg |
even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . | 0neg |
there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . | 0neg |
when the film ended , i felt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . | 0neg |
full of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny | 0neg |
the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . | 0neg |
the iditarod lasts for days - this just felt like it did . | 0neg |
it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . | 0neg |
this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . | 0neg |
should have been someone else- | 0neg |
the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner . | 0neg |
why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ? | 0neg |
the lower your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . | 0neg |
rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . | 0neg |
is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awful . | 0neg |
even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . | 0neg |
velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . | 0neg |
just one bad idea after another . | 0neg |
because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feeling . | 0neg |
though moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that's potentially moving , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . | 0neg |
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle . | 0neg |
i can't recommend it . but it's surprisingly harmless . | 0neg |
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . | 0neg |
the last 20 minutes are somewhat redeeming , but most of the movie is the same teenage american road-trip drek we've seen before - only this time you have to read the fart jokes | 0neg |
it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 0neg |
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise . | 0neg |
involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters . | 0neg |
overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . | 0neg |
it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . | 0neg |
it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen . | 0neg |
despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . | 0neg |
shrewd but pointless . | 0neg |
an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse . | 0neg |
sluggish , tonally uneven . | 0neg |
this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work . | 0neg |
hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . | 0neg |
this one is definitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . | 0neg |
excessive , profane , packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . | 0neg |
once the 50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . | 0neg |
a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered . | 0neg |
if the movie succeeds in instilling a wary sense of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . | 0neg |
there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . | 0neg |
it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | 0neg |
we haven't seen such hilarity since say it isn't so ! | 0neg |
expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . | 0neg |
the cold turkey would've been a far better title . | 0neg |
the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni playing the wooden boy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque . | 0neg |
the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . | 0neg |
zaidan's script has barely enough plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight . | 0neg |
try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie . | 0neg |
while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold . | 0neg |
it treats women like idiots . | 0neg |
though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . | 0neg |
just an average comedic dateflick but not a waste of time . | 0neg |
a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . | 0neg |
impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the story is just too slim . | 0neg |
so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . | 0neg |
the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . | 0neg |
the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star power . | 0neg |
it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . | 0neg |
almost gags on its own gore . | 0neg |
how do you spell cliché ? | 0neg |
it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show . | 0neg |
the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . | 0neg |
while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film . | 0neg |
in the real world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like " girl in bar #3 . " | 0neg |
too much of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped . | 0neg |
under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . | 0neg |
hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up small potatoes to 10 times their natural size , and it ain't pretty . | 0neg |
sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . | 0neg |
this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . | 0neg |
you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . | 0neg |
in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . | 0neg |
chokes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . | 0neg |
well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . | 0neg |
i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . | 0neg |
while much of the cast has charm -- especially allodi and nolden -- the performers are sunk by the film's primitive approach to the mechanics of comedy . | 0neg |
this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchinsky is all flash . | 0neg |
yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies . | 0neg |
the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0neg |
the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . | 0neg |
while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audiences . | 0neg |
not only unfunny , but downright repellent . | 0neg |
care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . | 0neg |
forced , familiar and thoroughly condescending . | 0neg |
does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . | 0neg |
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . | 0neg |
has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence | 0neg |
a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . | 0neg |
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