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whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting . | 0neg |
uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . | 0neg |
the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad . | 0neg |
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chain . | 0neg |
confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . | 0neg |
made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . | 0neg |
it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . | 0neg |
holden caulfield did it better . | 0neg |
a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . | 0neg |
oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . | 0neg |
if it's seldom boring , well , it's also rarely coherent . | 0neg |
simplistic fluff-ball of whimsy . | 0neg |
not exactly the bees knees | 0neg |
it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k modem . | 0neg |
the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . | 0neg |
makes for some truly odd , at times confusing , kids entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered storytelling to go along with all the weird stuff . | 0neg |
the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . | 0neg |
jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . | 0neg |
chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . | 0neg |
it's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become even weaker . | 0neg |
this is nothing but familiar territory . | 0neg |
in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , killers from space . | 0neg |
one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . | 0neg |
a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own right . | 0neg |
too slow , too long and too little happens . | 0neg |
the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . | 0neg |
sacrifices the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . | 0neg |
utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . | 0neg |
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixon line . | 0neg |
scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . | 0neg |
they takes a long time to get to its gasp-inducing ending . | 0neg |
barely gets off the ground . | 0neg |
even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . | 0neg |
pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , tony r . abrams , in their feature debut . | 0neg |
at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . | 0neg |
from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0neg |
it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . | 0neg |
on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . | 0neg |
despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . | 0neg |
a tv style murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . | 0neg |
by getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the characters , i found myself confused when it came time to get to the heart of the movie . | 0neg |
too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . | 0neg |
what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? | 0neg |
dilbert without the right-on satiric humor . | 0neg |
manages to show life in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . | 0neg |
do not see this film . | 0neg |
minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a report . | 0neg |
delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . | 0neg |
if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a week from friday . | 0neg |
to call the other side of heaven " appalling " would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be . | 0neg |
in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey . | 0neg |
if only the story about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . | 0neg |
i'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here . | 0neg |
without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . | 0neg |
it's like every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . | 0neg |
while the resident evil games may have set new standards for thrills , suspense , and gore for video games , the movie really only succeeds in the third of these . | 0neg |
for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . | 0neg |
to my taste , the film's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generation . | 0neg |
what the director can’ ; t do is make either of val kilmer’ ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about . | 0neg |
in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wishy-washy . | 0neg |
it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role . | 0neg |
harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . | 0neg |
. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects . | 0neg |
it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation . | 0neg |
a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . | 0neg |
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . | 0neg |
a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left . | 0neg |
once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . | 0neg |
the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . | 0neg |
what's next : " my mother the car ? " | 0neg |
all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . | 0neg |
a sequel that's much too big for its britches . | 0neg |
so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . | 0neg |
what was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . | 0neg |
a perplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . | 0neg |
for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution . | 0neg |
a coarse and stupid gross-out . | 0neg |
a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes . | 0neg |
doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence . | 0neg |
there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . | 0neg |
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessions . | 0neg |
the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious . | 0neg |
but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majority of the film that shows a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , rather than contributing to a film's narrative . | 0neg |
rarely has so much money delivered so little entertainment . | 0neg |
tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar . | 0neg |
paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma's scarface . that's a cheat . | 0neg |
harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . | 0neg |
this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . | 0neg |
a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity . | 0neg |
the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . | 0neg |
basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . | 0neg |
too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization . | 0neg |
an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than writer/director john mckay can swallow . | 0neg |
it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are long enough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream seem possible . | 0neg |
" the time machine " is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself , it has no sense of humor
it's just plain bored . | 0neg |
. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . | 0neg |
a morose little soap opera about three vapid , insensitive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those " can this marriage be saved ? " columns from ladies home journal . . . | 0neg |
the film's essentially over by the meet-cute . | 0neg |
i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . | 0neg |
it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . | 0neg |
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