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The film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo .

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A clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film ...

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The movie 's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clich d and too often strains credulity .

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What we have here is n't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down .

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The script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .

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A shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and Rocawear clothing .

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To the filmmakers , Ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there 's no indication that he 's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit .

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This is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least .

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It 's as if Allen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself .

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Scotland , PA is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept .

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A movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between Highlander and Lolita .

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Not only does LeBlanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes .

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There 's little to recommend Snow Dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity .

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The film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it 's insanely violent and very graphic .

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Sorority Boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it .

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Here the love scenes all end in someone screaming .

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Maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make Trouble Every Day any better .

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Sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate Jim Carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb .

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Presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable .

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The most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill .

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Was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ?

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It goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots .

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It 's absolutely amazing how first-time director Kevin Donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of Chan .

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Make Chan 's action sequences boring .

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You ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone .

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` In this poor remake of such a well loved classic , Parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '

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The film 's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that Tornatore was right to cut .

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The movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating .

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I found it slow , predictable and not very amusing .

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Director Yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we have n't seen 10,000 times .

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Viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess .

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Get out your pooper-scoopers .

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While the material is slight , the movie is better than you might think .

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It 's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and I think even fans of Sandler 's comic taste may find it uninteresting .

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Sheridan seems terrified of the book 's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its lan , humor , bile , and irony .

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More busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining .

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It 's makes a better travelogue than movie .

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It 's as if Solondz had two ideas for two movies , could n't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ` em together here .

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It 's a long way from Orwell 's dark , intelligent warning cry -LRB- 1984 -RRB- to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation .

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Its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty weary .

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The holiday message of the 37-minute Santa vs. the Snowman leaves a lot to be desired .

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more precious than perspicacious

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If you saw it on TV , you 'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie .

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-LRB- T -RRB- he script is n't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate Bela Lugosi 's now-cliched vampire accent .

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If this is cinema , I pledge allegiance to Cagney and Lacey .

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Enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise .

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Yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma .

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Starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera .

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While there 's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the Elizabethans -LRB- as well as rank frustration from those in the know about Rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics -RRB- , Much Ado About Something is an amicable endeavor .

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Perry 's good and his is an interesting character , but `` Serving Sara '' has n't much more to serve than silly fluff .

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Memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual .

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In the not-too-distant future , movies like Ghost Ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds .

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Right now , they 're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination .

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The movie 's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette Juliette Lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named Minnie and watching Slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable Halloween costume shop would ever try to sell .

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Like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior ... Circuit gets drawn into the party .

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It appears as if even the filmmakers did n't know what kind of movie they were making .

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Beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments .

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Piccoli 's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm 's - length in the film seem irritatingly transparent .

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Starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion .

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Nicolas Cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .

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It lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made -LRB- Eyre 's -RRB- first film something of a sleeper success .

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A sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer .

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Green ruins every single scene he 's in , and the film , while it 's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that .

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There 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy .

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The story is predictable , the jokes are typical Sandler fare , and the romance with Ryder is puzzling .

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Resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad Blair Witch Project .

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Poor Ben Bratt could n't find stardom if MapQuest emailed him point-to-point driving directions .

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Pretend like your SAT scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .

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Unlike Trey Parker , Sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself .

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A fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .

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An empty , purposeless exercise .

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Haneke 's script -LRB- from Elfriede Jelinek 's novel -RRB- is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending .

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A sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama .

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Those 24-and-unders looking for their own Caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking .

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A distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze .

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What begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes .

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Ah-nuld 's action hero days might be over .

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It 's clear why Deuces Wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on MGM 's shelf .

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This picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your ABC 's , despite a few whopping shootouts .

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If you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with The Salton Sea .

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A dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets .

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The feature-length stretch ... strains the show 's concept .

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This slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time .

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The densest distillation of Roberts ' movies ever made .

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Ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy clich of the ugly American abroad , and the too-frosty exterior Ms. Paltrow employs to authenticate her British persona is another liability .

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A handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on PBS than a night out at an AMC .

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Master of Disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours .

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A reworking of Die Hard and Cliffhanger but it 's nowhere near as exciting as either .

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Suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness .

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A film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity .

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Fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget .

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But the problem with Wendigo , for all its effective moments , is n't really one of resources .

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Spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative .

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It stars schticky Chris Rock and stolid Anthony Hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie .

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Their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it 's just a weird fizzle .

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This is a children 's film in the truest sense .

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It 's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it 's great for the kids .

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Tykwer 's surface flash is n't just a poor fit with Kieslowski 's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything Kieslowski 's work aspired to , including the condition of art .

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Too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility .

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Cherry Orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a ` back story . '

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