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586,823 | 783,721 | 342,778 | 5 | Not all that | In " The Missing Gun " , a small town cop in China loses track of his sidearm when he gets drunk at a party . The first hour this film is dedicated to the cop running around town asking everyone if they have seen his gun to which all reply . . . . " Nope ! " . It's not until later in the film we begin to see a plot dev... |
585,999 | 783,721 | 117,821 | 5 | Nothing new | In the grand scheme of martial arts movies , " Tai Chi II " ( not a sequel ) is junk . However , for martial arts enthusiasts it might qualify as a B-flick . A sort of dramady about a young Chinese puritan student who wants to win the affections of a hottie while ridding his land of the evils of opium , this flick brea... |
586,373 | 783,721 | 117,965 | 5 | Okay if you're drunk | The Trigger Effect tells of a suburban couple who have to get along without electricity during a Los Angeles power outage . At issue : Can one couple make it through a few days without electrical power ? Duh . Such is the bleak premise of this meager dramatic offering with a linear make-it-up-as-you-go story which da... |
587,006 | 783,721 | 210,616 | 5 | A weak film lacking the passion of it's subject . | Center Stage , a film about young students of the ballet trying to succeed , is diluted by too many characters ( most of them sophomoric stereotypes ) and soapy subplots and plagued by bad acting , melodrama , juvenile music , and even mediocre choreography . The film lacks the verve and passion of the art it attempt... |
587,536 | 783,721 | 206,742 | 5 | Another grain of sand on that great beach called cinema | Fast Food , Fast Women has little to do with either . A somewhat inept , light-hearted slice-of-life indie , this flick revolves around a single 30-something woman , Bella ( Anna whatever-her-name-is ) , who waitresses in a NYC diner , and her assorted friends / acquaintenances with loneliness and the need for relati... |
586,530 | 783,721 | 252,299 | 5 | Boring , stupid , and not worth the time . | An ill-conceived mess of a movie , " Buffalo Soldiers " tells of a Sgt . Bilko type Supply NCO , cumshaw artist , and narcotics chemist who falls for his Top Sarge's daughter while the Top Sarge is gunning for him . . . etc . With no sense of genre , characters which aren't interesting or believable , and a lame plot /... |
587,578 | 783,721 | 265,029 | 5 | Another Hollywood ripoff . | America's Sweethearts drives home the point that star power alone does not make for good movies , just big audiences . Telling of a Hollywood celebrity couple ( Zeta Jones & Cusack ) whose marriage is on the rocks , this clumsy , over wrought Cinderella knock-off begins with some mildly amusing moments , lags in the ... |
587,032 | 783,721 | 276,501 | 5 | Dud | Bejing Bicycle tells of a Bejing messenger boy who has his bike stolen by another boy . A feud ensues with a more or less amiable compromise , etc . The flick is marginally entertaining , offers good art and technicals , and has minimal dialogue , long and redundant scenes , a simplistic plot , an anticlimactic concl... |
585,823 | 783,721 | 126,604 | 5 | LOL's and yawns | Pecker ( Furlong ) is a young urban Baltimore man who photographs his family and friends , consisting entirely of kookie stereotypes , only to become a photoart icon . The film manages to conjure up some funny moments though most of the comedy is trite and crass one-liners from the cast overlaying a shallow story . N... |
587,010 | 783,721 | 144,557 | 5 | College comedy romp slightly above average for a novice indie | Puddle Cruiser is slightly more clever than your average low budget novice indie . Amusing , somewhat wacky , situational college comedy which is more fun than funny , this little campus romp avoids the usual raunch as it tells it's lightly romantic story . An okay watch for bored students . |
586,365 | 783,721 | 342,577 | 5 | Well , the camera was in focus . | Iran , Veiled Appearances isn't much of a documentary . However , it does transport the viewer behind the Islamic curtain and offers a sense of what contemporary Iranian life is like . It begins with a dab of history including brief file footage of the Shah and the Ayatollah Khomeini before launching into an explorat... |
587,393 | 783,721 | 282,593 | 5 | I didn't think I could get too much of Potter until . . . | I'm With Lucy , with Potter ( Lucy ) in every scene as an available NYC single who's dating five guys , goes round and round showing Potter in select situations with each of her suitors until - drum roll , please - she finally picks one . . . taa-daa ! Rambling on and on sans story with a tad too much of the beautifu... |
586,217 | 783,721 | 144,580 | 5 | So-so | In " Rhapsody in Bloom " , a widower's ( Silver ) sister-in-law ( Miller ) tends to his children for years only to find the family ties interfering with establishing her own independent identity and life . A light hearted , easy going , romantic comedy which is a little ragged around the edges , " R in B " deals with m... |
586,003 | 783,721 | 317,248 | 5 | Disappointing | City of God is an old story . So old , in fact , it begins in the 60's as it tells of gangsters in a Rio de Janeiro slum who do what gangsters do and have done everywhere for all the same reasons . Poverty breeds ignorance which breeds hopelessness which breeds desperation which breeds crime . . . etc . This film sho... |
587,490 | 783,721 | 232,500 | 5 | Kid stuff for gearheads | The Fast and Furious , adapted from a magazine article , could have been adapted from a comic book . With a simple minded plot , some pretty awful acting by just about everyone ( Diesel excepted ) , and the usual Hollywood excesses pushing the PG-13 envelope , " The Fast . . . " gets off on high octane street racing ... |
586,822 | 783,721 | 113,416 | 5 | For lesbians only | The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love is far from incredible , could be true , and is about two girls in love . The film attempts to take the audience through the evolution of a teen lesbian romance involving a butch white student who works at a gas station and a more affluent black chick who who goes to t... |
585,806 | 783,721 | 167,427 | 5 | Campy , kookie , off-the-wall spoofiness . | Superstar is a love it or hate it camp comedy SNL movie which attempts to capitalize on Shannon's nerdy parochial schoolgirl character Mary Katherine Gallagher and , judging from the boxoffice stats , succeeds . Whether or not this critically panned flick is for you will depend on how much you personally enjoy ludicr... |
587,299 | 783,721 | 100,436 | 5 | Rebel without a clue | Pump Up the Volume is an ignoble and obvious fabrication which tells of a bookish new student ( Slater ) at an Arizona high school who is tongue-tied on campus by day but articulate by night while operating a pirate radio station from his basement under the pseudonym " Hard Harry " . His rabble rousing broadcasts of ... |
586,533 | 783,721 | 303,326 | 5 | Whaddaloadacrap ! | Derrida dogs philosopher Jaques Derrida from boudoir to lectern and shows him being filmed and people filming him and him refusing to say anything personal while making the usual vague and ambiguous excursions in philosophical thought which one tends to expect of thinkers ( or so they think ) while never delivering a... |
585,986 | 783,721 | 198,021 | 5 | A mediocre feel good " chick flick " . | About as realistic as Disneyland , " Where the Heart is " is one long string of fabricated Kodak moments designed for maximum " feel good " effect . Although not challenged , the almost all female core cast is effective in dishing up enough appeal to obscure most of the sham and naivete of the story . Those into maudli... |
587,312 | 783,721 | 104,779 | 5 | More evidence Polanski is overrated . | Bitter Moon is yet another example that Polanski has made more lemons than lemonade . Telling of a married couple on an ocean voyage who happen upon another couple which invigles them into ridiculous behavior by spinning an equally ridiculous yarn , this tiring soap opera quality flick will wear you out with its mono... |
586,400 | 783,721 | 113,451 | 5 | Who done it ? Who cares . | Jade is a typical Hollywood formula mystery which features a handful of notable actors , some stylish noirish cinematography , and a convoluted and unsatisfying plot . As a typical commercial product , " Jade " doesn't care if we give a damn about the characters as its dark and sinister plot passes before our eyes li... |
587,062 | 783,721 | 243,904 | 5 | For " wing nuts " only . | The only good thing one can say about this budget conscious , garish , cockamamie kludge is O'Toole . Telling of competing game show hosts , one old ( O'Toole ) and one young ( Gillen ) , who have more in common than meets the eye , this dark comedy has little to offer beyond the Shakespearean performance of O'Toole wh... |
586,542 | 783,721 | 265,349 | 5 | Only for the most gullible paranormal flick junkies | The Mothman Prophecies is based on true events like PeeWee Herman is based on Arnold Schwarzenegger . The film tells of a Washington Post reporter ( Gere ) who wanders into a W . VA . town where he is accommodated beyond all reason by a local sheriff ( Linney ) in an investigation into paranormal events having to do ... |
585,844 | 783,721 | 278,488 | 5 | Poor man's Cheech & Chong | How High tells of two ghetto blacks ( the African American equivalent of Cheech & Chong ) who smoke a friend ( literally ) which gets them into Harvard where they . . . um , do stuff . A classy presentation with considerable less classy humor , this flick has a much more clever premise than plot and plot than story .... |
586,204 | 783,721 | 187,489 | 5 | Marginal fodder for TV mystery junkies | Clive Owen brings his almost complete absence of charisma and scant repertoire of nuances to " Second Sight " as a detective who may or may not be losing his sight depending on who you believe ; host Diana Rigg or the doctor characters . A much too pat and uninspired Brit detective series about a workaholic divorced sl... |
585,947 | 783,721 | 280,674 | 5 | Nice try but no cigar . | The First $20 Million . . . is an easy-going comedy with a romantic bent which sticks Garcia out in front as a computer geek who aspires to be another Steve Jobs by working with some other geeks who are trying to build a $99 computer . . . . er , something like that . A happy-go-nowhere little flick which is too unco... |
586,459 | 783,721 | 94,673 | 5 | A poor , melodramatic historical drama . | April Morning tells of the skirmish between colonial militia and the English army at Lexington , MA which is regarded as the beginning of the American Revolutionary War . The film is a melodramatic made-for-tv drama which spends more time with fictional accounts of the April 19th battle than it does with matters of h... |
586,118 | 783,721 | 192,335 | 5 | Much ado about nothing | Mr . Death : The Rise and Fall of Fred A . Leuchter , Jr . is a 1 . 5 hour biopic which tells the story of Fred Leuchter who was a self made engineer and a nobody until he naively took on the task of trying to prove or disprove the existence of gas chambers at Auschwicz . Not qualified as a forensic scientist , Leuch... |
586,402 | 783,721 | 196,223 | 5 | Watchable but ordinary | A female P . I . , estimated to be " The Right Temptation " , is hired by a women to try to seduce her wealthy husband thereby testing his loyalty . . . blaa , blaa . So begins another plasticized , predictable , trite formula Hollywood clone noirish mystery with characters too shallow , patter too glib , and story too... |
587,430 | 783,721 | 117,608 | 5 | A wild and crazy guy in uniform . | In this knock-off of the old Phil Silvers ' tv series , Martin plays Sergeant Bilko , a scam-artist who doesn't let being the head of an Army Post motorpool keep him from enjoying the luxuries of civilian life . A simple minded flick which shows us nothing new , " Sgt . Bilko " has little to offer save acting as a dive... |
585,609 | 783,721 | 102,299 | 5 | Second rate nonsense | Lebestraum , a second rate noirish drama , tells of murder , infidelity , and other stuff . It includes a hair-raising ride in a police car and some prostitute diddling stuff and a big " N " falling off the top of a building almost on our hero's head and some nightmares with the old wake up screaming thing going on a... |
586,351 | 783,721 | 377,744 | 5 | Comedy culture commercial | One day a pink fog surrounds California and inexplicably all of the Hispanic people in the state have vanished . Although the premise sounds like a setup for some wacky fun , this comedy struggles with ordinariness , obvious budgetary constraints , a lack of creativity , and an obvious pro-Latino social agenda . A camp... |
587,485 | 783,721 | 324,127 | 5 | Marginal serial killer + paranormal stuff drama | ' Suspect Zero " tries to be a serial killer drama with a paranormal bent as it sticks us with a demoted FBI agent ( Eckhart ) who is hot on the trail of a suspected serial killer ( Kingsley ) . Moss is factored in presumably as eye candy as she serves no practical purpose while Eckhart and Kingsley are hell bent on a ... |
585,926 | 783,721 | 166,158 | 5 | Nothing special | Daddy and Me takes a look at a dysfunctional Arkansas family of ignorant hicks with Thornton and Dern out front as a couple with issues . A sort of slice - of - dysfunctional - family - life flick which pours over a good cast of oddball characters , this comedy doesn't manage to conjure up anything of significance ex... |
586,074 | 783,721 | 113,677 | 5 | Lukewarm indie | Living in Oblivion is a nominal indie comedy about a day on the set from hell of an indie film director ( Buscemi ) who struggles with technical problems , personality conflicts , etc . The film takes the audience through take after take and scene after scene , cluttering it with interjected dreams of the cast and cr... |
587,195 | 783,721 | 362,387 | 5 | Roomie doom | 2LDK is all about two young actresses competing for the same job who spend an evening together in an apartment and get on each other's nerves . One thing leads to another and mayhem ensues . Not much of a film , " 2LDK " is a mediocre little thriller with good camera art , decent work by the players , some pretty hok... |
586,128 | 783,721 | 218,922 | 5 | And the Razzie goes to . . . . | Original Sin tells of a 19th century coffee plantation owner ( Banderas ) who marries a mail order bride ( Jolie ) only to learn the hard way she is not who she was supposed to be . Uninspired drivel with poor chemistry between Banderas and Jolie , " OS " is artistically and technically good but so lacking in sinceri... |
586,514 | 783,721 | 308,878 | 5 | Too little , too late . | The Shape of Things , which probably falls somewhere in genre spectrum around black comedy , is a misanthro-pic with an ensemble of four capable players and good quality production which fizzles in story with precious little entertainment to be found between the credits . Telling of a woman's ( Weisz ) makeover of a ... |
586,360 | 783,721 | 273,982 | 5 | Groan ! | Poolhall Junkies is about a guy who leaves his pool hustler mentor with a grudge which gets settled with a showdown at the end of the film after a whole bunch of uninteresting , uneven , unsatisfying , and ungood story including a girl friend with a rich daddy thing , an I - want - to - be - more - than - a - hustler... |
587,451 | 783,721 | 102,178 | 5 | Good climbing action and little more | K2 , a rather ordinary adventure flick , tells of the assault on the mercurial Himalayan mountain by a pair of American climbers and their associates . An okay climbing flick with plenty of beautiful scenery and climbing action from rock to snow to ice , the film has a weak plot , technical oversights aplenty , and m... |
586,842 | 783,721 | 209,322 | 5 | Skip this ! | Skipped Parts takes on the difficult comedy / drama genre and flops . Telling of one boy's coming of sexual age , this film could have been a solid study of teenage sex issues and rites of passage . Instead , it plays as a convoluted , bland , and ill-focused mess of silliness , stiff acting , post card scenery , dre... |
586,180 | 783,721 | 170,107 | 5 | Comedy-drama-romance spy flick with unrealized potential | Spy Games sets out to be like the old " I Spy " tv series with West vs East spying going on in exotic locations and lots of clever patter mixed in with a semiserious and intricate dramatic spy plot , a token babe here and there , etc . However , this unfortunate flick doesn't make it as it becomes convoluted and bori... |
587,564 | 783,721 | 174,885 | 5 | A light hearted romantic near miss | Loving Jezebel tells of the romantic misadventures of a young black New York man , Theo ( Harper ) , who falls in love too easily and too often . With the look of a color blind , low budget indie full of fresh faces , " LJ " is a sweetly sentimental musing on love by the principal and narrator . An okay watch with a ... |
586,381 | 783,721 | 117,723 | 5 | A gag a second | From the same mold as the " Naked Gun " series , " Spy Hard " stars everyone's favorite bumbling hero Leslie Nielson as a not-so-secret agent , WD-40 , who stumbles his way through another slampooning chaotic comic story . Sniping at everything from " Speed " to " Home Alone " and built around the James Bond flicks , "... |
586,284 | 783,721 | 253,586 | 5 | A typically so-so indie treatment of a grave issue | McCann's " Revolution 9 " tells of a man's sanity slipping away as paranoia takes over his life . This inconsequential and somewhat heavy-handed indie takes on the serious matter of mental health earnestly but with only nominal dramatic success coming from players who seem obviously scripted , reacting to cues , and in... |
586,992 | 783,721 | 273,923 | 5 | Surf's up , thumb's down ! | Orange County is the usual stuff . Anyone over 30 has seen it all before . The film tells of a HS senior and surfer dude ( Hanks ) who wants desperately to go to Stanford to study writing . He , the hero , of course , plays it straight as does his girlfriend while everyone else in this formula flick is a caricature m... |
585,946 | 783,721 | 187,559 | 5 | TV sitcom quality chick flick | Claire ( Witt ) is having trouble getting her concert piano career on track thanks to a semi-functional family , romantic woes , and kookie friends . " Playing Mona Lisa " is a formula sitcom quality flick full of cliche characters with just enough of a creative edge to keep me from thumbing the fast-forward button . T... |
585,842 | 783,721 | 117,283 | 5 | Okay off-kilter slow mover . | The Pallbearer , a schizophrenic cross-genre muddling of comedy , drama , and romance with idiosyncratic characters and a thin , marginally interesting story . Schwimmer is at the center of this slow moving , somewhat quirky flick about a young man who lives with his mother ( Bosco anyone ? ) and courts a demure unas... |
586,932 | 783,721 | 106,455 | 5 | Boiling Point only simmers | In " Boiling Point " , a Treasury Agent ( Snipes ) has one week to find a killer while a scam artist ( Hopper ) has the same one week to pay off an underworld debt . The pair are on a collision course in this flick with a bunch of heavies , some T-men , and a beautiful prostitute ( Davidovich ) who knows both men bibli... |
587,658 | 783,721 | 257,076 | 5 | Just more mindless Hollywood action | S . W . A . T . uses L . A . SWAT ops as an excuse for this messy conglomeration of action nonsense none of which is sufficiently original , creative , or unique to make the mind-numbing excesses worth wading through . You'll see lots of flying brass and lead , crashes , stunts , etc . but nothing you haven't seen be... |
586,412 | 783,721 | 114,095 | 5 | A pocket full of Posey | Party Girl is all about Posey , tossed like a salad with a load of inconsequential side characters , as she labors to breathe life into her character ; a shallow party animal who tries to get unshallow . This flick bears the scars of cost cutting , doesn't managed to conjure any reasonable semblance of a story , and ... |
586,298 | 783,721 | 117,296 | 5 | Perfect love , Imperfect movie | Perfect Love , an intentional misnomer , opens with a man showing police detectives how he murdered a woman . The film then flashes back to the beginning of his relationship with the victim , his lover , a beautiful ophthalmologist . The remainder and bulk of the film is dedicated to showing the rise and fall of the ... |
586,306 | 783,721 | 265,625 | 5 | A B-flick which is too nice not to like a little | Road to Riches is a lightly romantic dramedy about a down-on-his-luck middle aged professional game show contestant ( Forster ) who harbors affection for a beautiful stripper ( McGowan ) and befriends a fresh-faced naive young interloper from Texas ( Pardue ) - a sort of poor man's Joe Buck ( Midnight Cowboy ) - unti... |
587,476 | 783,721 | 244,196 | 5 | Slick neo-noir junk ( Spoilers ) | Second Skin bets everything on a hot babe , a scenic local , a handful of decent actors , a weak story and loses . Henstridge bumps her head , loses her memory , falls for some guy , gets her memory back and remember she's supposed to kill him . The story waxes somewhat more convoluted but lacks character depth and g... |
586,013 | 783,721 | 374,102 | 5 | Missed the boat | Open Water is all about a DINK couple who goes on a SCUBA diving trip only to find themselves stranded in the ocean swimming with the sharks . An obviously low budget indie , the bulk of this very even tempered and simplistic flick , about an hour , is dedicated to the pair of protags ( Ryan and Travis ) bobbing arou... |
586,511 | 783,721 | 265,651 | 5 | Ripley's believe it . . . . not ! | Ripley's Game tells a sloppy tale involving a bunch of people running around trying to kill each other . Beginning to end , this flick is a mess of plot holes , nonsequiturs , and goofs . EXAMPLE : The abysmal story has a fat guy trying to coerce an ordinary guy and family man into killing another guy by telling him ... |
585,982 | 783,721 | 179,116 | 5 | A mildly entertaining quirky , campy lite comedy | Cheerleader uses the sexual-orientation awakening of one young lesbian woman and her concurrent attempted reorientation in a silly center for gay rehab to make a satirical statement about mainstream misconceptions of homosexuality . The film offers an adequate cast of second tier actors , some funny moments , a Mary ... |
586,230 | 783,721 | 129,332 | 5 | Nice try but no cigar . Silly , numbing , boring . | It's not surprising that ( at this writing ) the IMDB stats show the high votes for this flick coming from the under 18 group . " Ravenous " builds it's premise around some silly ancient Native American legend which states that if one eats human flesh , the eater gets the spirit of the eatee . Having someone in the att... |
587,466 | 783,721 | 335,563 | 5 | Porn , murder , drugs , AIDs . . . what more could you want ? | Not unlike " The Doors " ( 1991 ) , " Wonderland " sticks Kilmer out front as a character of dubious notoriety - in this case 70's porn star John Holmes - and then proceeds to make up what it doesn't know while sensationalizing what it does know resulting in a typical over-hyped , over-wrought Hollywoodized no-brainer ... |
587,037 | 783,721 | 102,048 | 5 | Only on planet Mamet . | Homicide is a hard drama and foible fraught screen sham which turns the spotlight on a NYC Jewish homicide cop ( Mantega ) and his personal and career problems as he makes his way through the mean streets acting as uncharacteristically as everyone else in the film . . . like on another planet where people behave acco... |
587,663 | 783,721 | 320,241 | 5 | It is what it is and that ain't a ten | Particles of Truth is a one-woman , low budget indie which plays like one long string of trailer moments . Elsner sticks a couple of neurotic protags in front of us , asks us to care without good reason , and then proceeds to toss in anger , hate , self loathing , disgust , angst , woe , frustration , abuse , AIDS , ... |
586,368 | 783,721 | 117,324 | 5 | Black hats , white hats , and some gray hats | B-flick . A bunch of people after a bunch of money . Sound familiar ? " Persons Unknown " tells of an ex-cop with an unreconciled past who falls in with a couple of babes resulting in a tiny bit of sex , a little bit of action , and a big fat bit of drama . Though the film smacks of the usual Hollywood contrivances , s... |
587,011 | 783,721 | 236,493 | 5 | Another typical Hollywood ripoff | Take a couple of huge names and a huge studio and add a huge amount of hype and you'll get a huge return on your Hollywood producers ' investment . Even with the internet , people still rely on advertising to tell them what movies to see . So , here we go again . . . another piece of crap flick with Pitt playing a card... |
586,474 | 783,721 | 165,929 | 5 | Kung Fooey ! | Romeo Must Die is a step backward in the succession of Jet Li flicks . Although it provides nominal entertainment and probably deserves a for technical and artistic production value , this film wanders from drama to comedy to action and back , spreading itself so thin as to have no real focus . The story is weak and ... |
587,552 | 783,721 | 144,117 | 5 | Coming to a trailer park near you . | The Boondock Saints tells of twin brother Irish-Catholics in Boston who turn vigilante and begin offing bad guys all over town while FBI agent Dafoe follows in their wake . A B-flick with good production value , a mediocre cast , a stupid story , and awful comedy , this flick has one man indie written all over it . A... |
586,931 | 783,721 | 269,341 | 5 | No pain , no gain . | In " Two Can Play That Game " , an upwardly mobile Afro-Am professional woman , Shante ( Fox ) , lays out the " rules " for playing the mating game as she takes the audience step by step , talking to the camera , through her own foible fraught relationship one rule at a time . Meanwhile her befuddled boyfriend ( Chestn... |
586,352 | 783,721 | 362,227 | 5 | Ka-thunk ! ! | The Terminal tells of an Eastern European man on a personal mission ( Hanks ) who becomes stuck in a NYC airport terminal because he doesn't have the proper papers to enter the US and cannot return to his home as his country suffered a coup while he was en route . Given it's pedigree , this film is a dud . Too long a... |
587,083 | 783,721 | 300,532 | 5 | Hokey flick for curl girl wannabes . | Blue Crush doesn't have the best surfing footage available but it has a lot . It also has a thin , ordinary story ; the glue which holds the film together between wet scenes . There's precious little reason to spend time with " Blue Crush " unless you're a you're a surfing enthusiast . ( C ) |
586,364 | 783,721 | 109,655 | 5 | Oh Sandra | Sandra Oh is at the center of " Double Happiness " , a dramady about a Chinese twenty-something immigrant living with her family in Canada , struggling to find work as an actress , while being torn between the ways of the West and the traditional values of her dogmatic parents . An award winning film with nominally sat... |
586,170 | 783,721 | 114,008 | 5 | Ten Benny = 2 stars | Ten Benny is a slice of life flick about some young working class Italian-American men in New Jersey who are desperately trying to merge life styles with dreams . Brody , who went on to better forums for his talent , is at the center of this less than engaging and somewhat clumsy melding of melodrama and reality from... |
587,142 | 783,721 | 113,986 | 5 | I think nine months is the run time . | Nine Months is a chick flick romcom about a happily unmarried couple ( Moore & Grant ) who gets preggo and , well , has a baby . A big step down for kid flick director Chris Columbus , this tumble from messy to sappy to corny to slapsticky wouldn't be worth the time if it weren't for the comic contributions of Arnold... |
587,629 | 783,721 | 218,624 | 5 | A lukewarm two-part comedy about golf and football fans | The Sports Pages consists of two completely separate mini-movies in tandem . The first is a droll tale with Newhart on a courtroom witness stand explaining to a jury how he justifies killing an old friend and golfing companion ( Grammer ) by whacking him over the head with a club . Part two is a raucous tale about th... |
586,846 | 783,721 | 114,307 | 5 | Too little , too late | Run of the Country tells of the coming of age of a young Irish man , recently bereaved of his mother , living with his martinet father , and falling in love with a girl from the other Ireland . A solid production on most counts , the film delivers too little too late in story making for a meandering watch lacking coh... |
586,543 | 783,721 | 285,533 | 5 | An intelligence-insulting cornball | Straight from chick flick hell into your homes courtesy of Showtime comes this sappy story about a small town ( Due East ) girl who gets pregnant and then has to deal with . . . um , well , getting expelled from school and lots of people who want to help her beyond all reason , throwing money at her problem , etc . The... |
586,097 | 783,721 | 253,028 | 5 | Dumb little movie | Deadly Little Secrets is another B-flick with a B-list cast , good technicals , and okay art . However it can't conceal its low budgetness nor its inability to bring coherence to its silly and convoluted pseudo-suspense / thriller / drama story . The flick has made-in-Canada written all over it , a soap opera quality... |
587,453 | 783,721 | 270,259 | 5 | A downhill ride from start to finish | The Business of Strangers is a claustrophobic psychodrama which is all about Channing and Stiles as a pair of females at different ends of the corporate ladder spending a night in a hotel while on business travel exchanging thoughts , perspectives , opinions , etc . and slowly discovering the unpleasant truth of each... |
586,683 | 783,721 | 288,808 | 5 | Two and a half stars and a yawn | Say Nothing tells of a wealthy character disorder ( Baldwin ) who stalks a woman from the inside attempting to systematically dismantle her life after having a brief affair with her . An okay shoot with decent acting , " Say Nothing " runs lukewarm as its implausible psychodrama unfolds and then turns cold for a thro... |
587,468 | 783,721 | 156,904 | 5 | Nice try but no cigar . | The Pornographer tells of a socially immature and sexually naive a young male paralegal who , frustrated with his misfires with women , dabbles in pornography and goes nowhere . This film had potential . It could have crawled into the mind of a pornographer and dealt more realistically with the sleaze industry . Inst... |
586,663 | 783,721 | 161,216 | 5 | A mediocre film about a marginally interesting character . | Steal . . . is a journeyman production which tells a skewed version of the Abbie Hoffman story and revisits the domestic turmoil of the Vietnam era . Though in and of itself not a great film , " Steal This Movie " may conjure some nostalgia for those who remember the Yippie days and wet the interest of those who don'... |
587,226 | 783,721 | 117,061 | 5 | Subpar boring drama made for cable . | Mistrial tells of a highly improbably story of a cop caught in the jaws of an imperfect system who goes over the edge and holds a courtroom hostage . Good work by Pullman can't save a mediocre screenplay and ludicrous lagging story with some good acting talent in scripted mannequin roles . Very ordinary low budget ma... |
586,977 | 783,721 | 235,737 | 5 | This is your nose on drugs ! Any questions ? | The Salton Sea is a confused genrehybrid schizophrenic dark comedy / drama which attempts to tell a compelling tale of a man ( Kilmer ) who lost his identity through cataclysmic personal crisis and sunk in a morass of drug culture crank freaks morphing into a narc snitch and an underground deep cover IA mole so deep ... |
587,323 | 783,721 | 120,907 | 5 | When is a game not a game ? When it's reality . | When is reality not reality ? When it's a game . " eXistenZ " is a terrestrial science fantasy flick which can be described as a 2-D Mobius strip with one side being reality and the other virtual reality . This dark and plodding film gets off to a slow start , grows interesting in the middle ( for those who are interes... |
586,789 | 783,721 | 110,557 | 5 | Flawed , corny , predictable family fun flick | Monkey Trouble tells of an organ grinder's ( Keitel ) pickpocket monkey who abandons his boss and adopts a young girl ( Birch ) leading to much monkey business . All of the human actors in this corny flick are upstaged by the monkey star whose antics make this predictable family comedy worth watching . Nuff said . |
585,929 | 783,721 | 285,485 | 5 | A very ordinary movie about a very extraordinary man | Conviction tells the success story of the late Carl Upchurch ; a black man who was born to the ghetto , became a criminal , and then bootstrapped his way to prominence as a speaker , organizer , author , and activist for black causes . This Showtime production is a journeyman effort which dwells too much on Upchurch'... |
587,113 | 783,721 | 170,691 | 5 | Okay but ill focused with no real story | A kind of slice-of-Army-grunt-life film , " Tigerland " tells of recruits in boot training in preparation for duty in Vietnam . An earnest endeavor , this film offers some good performances and maintains a flawed but generally realistic representation of basic training with the focus on one platoon and one man in parti... |
587,454 | 783,721 | 105,631 | 5 | Like Jim Belushi ? ? | If so , you'll like " Traces of Red " , a murder mystery in which Belushi plays a cop hot on the trail of a serial killer in Palm Beach , FL . Though the flick misses the sweaty Florida noir atmospherics of " Palmetto " and " Gold Coast " and dishes up a convoluted , not-to-be-taken-seriously plot , it does feature the... |
587,461 | 783,721 | 339,579 | 5 | Ordinary and unoriginal | Returner tells of an assassin who encounters a teen female during a firefight and learns she has traveled back through time to prevent a sci-fi war between good and evil and save humanity from oblivion . A kind of second rate knock-off of everything from John Woo stylistics to Mad Max contraptions , this Japanese B-f... |
585,987 | 783,721 | 195,714 | 5 | An above average thriller / horror flick . | Although it falls well short of anything by Poe or Hitchcock , " Final Destination " is somewhat more intelligent than most films of this genre . Apparently targeting the usual teen market , this commercial thriller gets off to a good start , then lags a bit as it wallows in the usual blood and guts , and finishes some... |
586,954 | 783,721 | 161,081 | 5 | If you like this flick , get out your Ouija board . | What Lies Beneath offers a thin story , a weak plot , two of Hollywood's most over-rated stars , and little else . Things go bump in Pfeiffer's head as the camera lingers ad nauseum in one fabricated suspenseful moment after another and the perfectly perfect couple's encounter with the paranormal unfolds . The film i... |
587,177 | 783,721 | 125,879 | 5 | A fable , a fraud , a huge disappointment . | Lulu on the Bridge is pointless nonsense featuring some fine acting talent which is stifled by the absence of a worthy story . Anybody could have written this piece of amateurish drivel which is no more than a contemporary fairy tale . Granted there are good and bad fairy tales . This is a bad one which is why anyone... |
587,243 | 783,721 | 240,402 | 5 | A good movie for suckers | Center of the World , which refers to the birth canal , tells of a young millionaire nice-guy who pays a stripper to do three days in Vegas with him . She imposes restrictions like no kissing on the lips , no talk of feelings , no fornication , etc . At issue is , will they get past the sex stuff and fall in love ? W... |
586,624 | 783,721 | 117,193 | 5 | No Way ! | No Way Back sticks FBI agent Crowe in the middle of a crude conglomeration of assorted Mafia weirdos , FBI agents , cops , Yakuza , and an airline flight attendant in its attempt to mix action with attitude and tongue-in-cheek humor . The result is a messy plot which accomplishes little save lurching from one mediocr... |
586,089 | 783,721 | 277,744 | 5 | A directorial disaster . | Dead Heat wander schizophrenically between comedy and drama with no clear sense of purpose as it wends its way through a story which starts out okay and becomes increasingly lacking in purpose and vision and looking more and more like a cheap made for tv flick as it winds down . The film is not without its moments , ... |
585,699 | 783,721 | 129,884 | 5 | Kids in the Dog Park Canadian comedy | Dog Park is a lukewarm , enjoyable , and critically condemned contemporary romantic comedy which is low on romance , has a quirky " Kids in the Hall " sense of humor ( for obvious reasons ) , and spends most of its time looking at the foibles of relationships . An so-so watch for channel surfers in the mood some ligh... |
586,492 | 783,721 | 335,008 | 5 | Jeez ! | Coast to Coast sticks Dreyfuss and Davis front and center as a middle-aged couple on the verge of divorce who take a road trip from East to West coasts to attend their son's marriage while waxing nostalgic , visiting quirky friends , and sorting through old regrets along the way . Supposedly a poignant dramedy about ... |
586,619 | 783,721 | 227,005 | 5 | Favreau flops . | Made tells of a pair of L . A . guys ( Favreau & Vaughn ) , best friends in spite of constant bickering , who go New York on an errand for a small time crook . What happens as the story unfolds isn't much . . . bickering and more bickering with encounters with a variety of hoodlums . " Made " lacks the appeal of Favr... |
587,689 | 783,721 | 157,182 | 5 | A mediocre drama with little to offer and no payoff . | Went . . . , a downer drama with a spritz of humor , tells the tale of two of a trio of young men who grew up together in school days off to Coney Island in search of their wayward , homeless comrad . The story proceeds in preset day using interleaved flashbacks in a clumsy attempt to develop characters and story and... |
586,783 | 783,721 | 101,510 | 5 | Bright Angel has a gaping hole where a story should be | Bright Angel tells of a young Montana man ( Mulroney ) and a young Canadian woman ( Taylor ) who end up on a road trip together . A plodding , tedious film , " Bright Angel " is full of characters who range from a little weird to very weird and who seem to be necessary to maintain audience interest in the absence of ... |
587,596 | 783,721 | 157,183 | 5 | A slice of Beirut life with no clear purpose or direction . | West Beirut is a plotless , non-story , non-documentary , meandering slice-of-life flick about a teenage boy's life in the early days of the Lebanese civil war when Beirut became divided into East and West . Although the film examines Beirut civilian life under the pall of war , it doesn't deal with any specific issu... |
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