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Forgettable , if good-hearted , movie . | negative | 0 |
The film 's most improbable feat ? | negative | 0 |
... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . | negative | 0 |
The Chateau ... is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . | negative | 0 |
Cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment ... simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience . | negative | 0 |
It 's not too fast and not too slow . | positive | 1 |
It 's not too much of anything . | negative | 0 |
The great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses -- and ours -- and retitle it The Adventures of Direct-to-Video Nash , and send it to its proper home . | negative | 0 |
An empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal . | negative | 0 |
Instead of using George and Lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , Lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on George 's haplessness and Lucy 's personality tics . | negative | 0 |
Becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that does n't and a thriller that wo n't . | negative | 0 |
Family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition ... whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . | negative | 0 |
Grant is n't Cary and Bullock is n't Katherine . | negative | 0 |
Like a fish that 's lived too long , Austin Powers in Goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . | negative | 0 |
Two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . | positive | 1 |
Shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom . | negative | 0 |
The entire movie is in need of a scented bath . | negative | 0 |
I 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - Arnold is not , nor will he be , back . | negative | 0 |
The story of Trouble Every Day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie 's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . | negative | 0 |
A Movie to Forget | negative | 0 |
For all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1\/2 - hour running time . | negative | 0 |
Enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . | negative | 0 |
The performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody . | negative | 0 |
It looks good , but it is essentially empty . | negative | 0 |
The film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . | negative | 0 |
The idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of Run Lola Run . | negative | 0 |
Van Wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . | negative | 0 |
It 's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby . | negative | 0 |
Do we really need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? | negative | 0 |
The major problem with Windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . | negative | 0 |
The entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense . | negative | 0 |
Stale and clich d to a fault . | negative | 0 |
This film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . | negative | 0 |
Watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fine music never heard . | negative | 0 |
Starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker Yvan Attal quickly writes himself into a corner . | negative | 0 |
Some Like It Hot on the Hardwood proves once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funny . | negative | 0 |
Witless and utterly pointless . | negative | 0 |
When ` science fiction ' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience has n't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . | negative | 0 |
As a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character . | negative | 0 |
A sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away . | negative | 0 |
With a `` Spy Kids '' sequel opening next week , why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` SNL '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling Roberto Benigni ? | negative | 0 |
It 's just rather leaden and dull . | negative | 0 |
Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . | negative | 0 |
Statham employs an accent that I think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass American but sometimes just lapses into unhidden British . | negative | 0 |
Instead of trying to bust some blondes , -LRB- Diggs -RRB- should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . | negative | 0 |
Dismally dull sci-fi comedy . | negative | 0 |
There 's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . | negative | 0 |
When one hears Harry Shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best | positive | 1 |
The leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting . | negative | 0 |
-LRB- Toback 's -RRB- fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to Wittgenstein and Kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material . | negative | 0 |
Adam Sandler 's 8 Crazy Nights is 75 wasted minutes of Sandler as the voice-over hero in Columbia Pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie . | negative | 0 |
essentially `` Fatal Attraction '' remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . | negative | 0 |
... this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along ... | negative | 0 |
Even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of Job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . | negative | 0 |
The film 's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . | negative | 0 |
A singularly off-putting romantic comedy . | negative | 0 |
This is an exercise not in biography but in hero worship . | negative | 0 |
It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow . | negative | 0 |
In the spirit of the season , I assign one bright shining star to Roberto Benigni 's Pinocchio -- but I guarantee that no wise men will be following after it . | negative | 0 |
Check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you do n't want to think too much about what 's going on . | negative | 0 |
A culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is . | negative | 0 |
The logic of it all will be Greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor . | negative | 0 |
Starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and Bruce Willis with a scar . | negative | 0 |
... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . | negative | 0 |
After that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course . | negative | 0 |
Director Jay Russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . | negative | 0 |
Its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . | negative | 0 |
At times , it actually hurts to watch . | negative | 0 |
Nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . | negative | 0 |
The jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . | negative | 0 |
-LRB- Tries -RRB- to parody a genre that 's already a joke in the United States . | negative | 0 |
The movie is the equivalent of French hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . | negative | 0 |
A beyond-lame satire , Teddy Bears ' Picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . | negative | 0 |
I 've never seen -LRB- a remake -RRB- do anything as stomach-turning as the way Adam Sandler 's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates Frank Capra 's classic ... | negative | 0 |
And people make fun of me for liking Showgirls . | negative | 0 |
Such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise , you ca n't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production . | negative | 0 |
A weird little movie that 's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern L.A. 's show-biz and media subcultures . | positive | 1 |
But it does n't leave you with much . | negative | 0 |
I 'm convinced I could keep a family of five blind , crippled , Amish people alive in this situation better than these British soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking . | negative | 0 |
Like Mike is a slight and uninventive movie : Like the exalted Michael Jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal . | negative | 0 |
There is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie . | negative | 0 |
Always destined to be measured against Anthony Asquith 's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . | positive | 1 |
This is standard crime drama fare ... instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . | negative | 0 |
There 's some outrageously creative action in The Transporter ... -LRB- b -RRB- ut by the time Frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it 's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . | negative | 0 |
From its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , Bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . | negative | 0 |
Yet another genre exercise , Gangster No. 1 is as generic as its title . | negative | 0 |
There 's an admirable rigor to Jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there 's no place for this story to go but down . | negative | 0 |
A lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles French , Japanese and Hollywood cultures . | negative | 0 |
Such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution . | negative | 0 |
-LRB- Allen 's -RRB- best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-America diversions could ever be . | positive | 1 |
This overlong infomercial , due out on video before month 's end , is tepid and tedious . | negative | 0 |
An ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting . | negative | 0 |
Rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . | negative | 0 |
A dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picture . | negative | 0 |
So much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . | negative | 0 |
A disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate IMAX trip . | negative | 0 |
This Sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . | negative | 0 |
He 's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . | negative | 0 |
The film 's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed Crudup out of pre-9 \/ 11 New York and onto a cross-country road trip of the Homeric kind . | negative | 0 |
It 's as if a bored Cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` Got AIDS yet ? '' | negative | 0 |
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