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a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . | 0neg |
the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . | 0neg |
. . . instead go rent " shakes the clown " , a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . | 0neg |
lame , haphazard teen comedy . | 0neg |
it's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . art house screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with english subtitles and is magically 'significant' because of that . | 0neg |
this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . | 0neg |
expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . | 0neg |
nair stuffs the film with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera . | 0neg |
it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . | 0neg |
might have been better off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage . | 0neg |
every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . | 0neg |
arnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . | 0neg |
both awful and appealing . | 0neg |
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . | 0neg |
nothing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about . | 0neg |
we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . | 0neg |
helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and revenge . | 0neg |
it wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 . | 0neg |
i hated every minute of it . | 0neg |
[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . | 0neg |
obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . | 0neg |
there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . | 0neg |
a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . | 0neg |
roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . | 0neg |
there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal's character . . . performs is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double . | 0neg |
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . | 0neg |
ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . | 0neg |
if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films . | 0neg |
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student film . | 0neg |
not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . | 0neg |
it's not that waiting for happiness is a bad film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . | 0neg |
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . | 0neg |
a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man . | 0neg |
director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . | 0neg |
egoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . | 0neg |
it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation comedy . | 0neg |
despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . | 0neg |
shadyac shoots his film like an m . night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . | 0neg |
plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . | 0neg |
there are a few laughs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . | 0neg |
the story's so preposterous that i didn't believe it for a second , despite the best efforts of everyone involved . | 0neg |
i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they felt like the same movie to me . | 0neg |
despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . | 0neg |
an ultra-low-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent . | 0neg |
birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . | 0neg |
de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . | 0neg |
even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . | 0neg |
that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . | 0neg |
a compendium of solondz's own worst instincts in under 90 minutes . | 0neg |
if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be " how does steven seagal come across these days ? " or maybe " how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? | 0neg |
it is a comedy that's not very funny and an action movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . | 0neg |
the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . | 0neg |
you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus . | 0neg |
dissing a bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick . | 0neg |
ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . | 0neg |
flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams . | 0neg |
little more than a frothy vanity project . | 0neg |
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi character study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending . | 0neg |
verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for thrills . | 0neg |
for all its surface frenzy , high crimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on view , so little to offer . | 0neg |
the sum of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pop entertainment . | 0neg |
alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . | 0neg |
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller . | 0neg |
the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . | 0neg |
the story really has no place to go since simone is not realshe can't provide any conflict . | 0neg |
ihops don't pile on this much syrup . | 0neg |
for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies . | 0neg |
focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her " madness " so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . | 0neg |
this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . | 0neg |
a bit of an unwieldy mess . | 0neg |
with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the ineffectual broomfield is going to have the courage to knock on that door . | 0neg |
the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women . | 0neg |
the movie feels like it's going to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . | 0neg |
a gimmick in search of a movie : how to get carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned . | 0neg |
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . | 0neg |
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . | 0neg |
. . . lacks the punch and verve needed to make this genre soar . | 0neg |
it's often faintly amusing , but the problems of the characters never become important to us , and the story never takes hold . | 0neg |
it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . | 0neg |
largely a for-fans artifact . | 0neg |
there's no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . | 0neg |
characters wander into predictably treacherous situations even though they should know better . | 0neg |
there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . | 0neg |
[i]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life , chances are you've already seen this kind of thing . | 0neg |
first-time director joão pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . | 0neg |
no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . | 0neg |
a strong first quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average second half . | 0neg |
a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politically correct cartoon guaranteed to drive anyone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . | 0neg |
the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout . | 0neg |
when the first few villians are introduced as " spider " and " snake " you know you're in for a real winner , creativity at its peak . | 0neg |
an afterschool special without the courage of its convictions . | 0neg |
the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . | 0neg |
[director] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . | 0neg |
so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . | 0neg |
it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . | 0neg |
watching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . | 0neg |
it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet . | 0neg |
there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , dour documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least fascinating subject . | 0neg |
overwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper . | 0neg |
could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attraction look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence . | 0neg |
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