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The film is way too full of itself ; it 's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-Oscar kind of way .

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The movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing I can say is that I ca n't remember a single name responsible for it .

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Watching `` Ending '' is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor 's garage sale .

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You ca n't believe anyone would really buy this stuff .

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It desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time .

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The skills of a calculus major at M.I.T. are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy Who Is Cletis Tout ?

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From the choppy editing to the annoying score to ` special effects ' by way of replacing objects in a character 's hands below the camera line , `` Besotted '' is misbegotten

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My advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtrack .

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Filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life .

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An unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously .

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Solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous .

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Alas , getting there is not even half the interest .

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Deuces Wild treads heavily into Romeo and Juliet\/West Side Story territory , where it plainly has no business going .

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Hart 's War seems to want to be a character study , but apparently ca n't quite decide which character .

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Theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues .

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This latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made B movie is long gone .

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Novak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama .

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Been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called The Professional .

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The film is all over the place , really .

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It dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum .

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The action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory .

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Forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining .

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When -LRB- Reno -RRB- lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at George W. Bush , Henry Kissinger , Larry King , et al. , Reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture .

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Such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but Kaufman and Gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go .

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Burns ' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off .

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While this one gets off with a good natured warning , future Lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter

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Another boorish movie from the I-heard-a-joke - at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting .

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Too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story would n't work without all those gimmicks .

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It 's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie .

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And it 's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it .

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The ethos of the Chelsea Hotel may shape Hawke 's artistic aspirations , but he has n't yet coordinated his own DV poetry with the Beat he hears in his soul .

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Why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ?

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The obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old Hanna-Barbera charm .

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The movie 's downfall is to substitute plot for personality .

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It does n't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events .

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All mood and no movie .

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Press the delete key .

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Simone is not a bad film .

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It just does n't have anything really interesting to say .

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Once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional .

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Wait to see it then .

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There 's no disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer .

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Lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck .

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This hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on Hopkins ' inclination to play Hannibal Lecter again , even though Harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book .

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Death to Smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly - as-nasty - as-it - thinks-it-is joke .

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Over and over again .

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The threat implied in the title Pok mon 4ever is terrifying -- like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming .

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The film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class .

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To call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it .

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The film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original New Testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries .

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By the end of it all I sort of loved the people onscreen , even though I could not stand them .

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It 's not an easy one to review .

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At best this is a film for the under-7 crowd .

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But it would be better to wait for the video .

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The whole talking-animal thing is grisly .

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Never Again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction .

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But here 's a movie about it anyway .

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The punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one .

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Those who trek to the ` plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves .

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But ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as Mr. De Niro .

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A determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird .

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Too daft by half ... but supremely good natured .

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Fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation ... Well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care .

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It 's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes ... finally seem so impersonal or even shallow .

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Woody , what happened ?

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Juliette Binoche 's Sand is vivacious , but it 's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile .

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It 's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah .

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You can tell almost immediately that Welcome to Collinwood is n't going to jell .

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Throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mind : So why is this so boring ?

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Cattaneo reworks the formula that made The Full Monty a smashing success ... but neglects to add the magic that made it all work .

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A rip-off twice removed , modeled after -LRB- Seagal 's -RRB- earlier copycat Under Siege , sometimes referred to as Die Hard on a boat .

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Totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are The Greatest Musicians of All Time .

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You can practically hear George Orwell turning over .

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Behan 's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best Irish sense -- but Sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance .

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Lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling .

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If it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in Dolby Digital stereo .

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If nothing else , `` Rollerball '' 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by LL Cool J.

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How do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ?

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On the evidence before us , the answer is clear : Not easily and , in the end , not well enough .

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The film 's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what I was expecting .

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More trifle than triumph .

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The movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction .

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Festers in just such a dungpile that you 'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you .

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Lyne 's latest , the erotic thriller Unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded .

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It sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and that 's more or less how it plays out .

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Rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic .

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Report card : Does n't live up to the exalted tagline - there 's definite room for improvement .

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Does n't deserve a passing grade -LRB- even on a curve -RRB- .

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The pacing is deadly , the narration helps little and Naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated .

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Maybe he was reading the minds of the audience .

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... if it had been only half-an-hour long or a TV special , the humor would have been fast and furious -- at ninety minutes , it drags .

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Bean drops the ball too many times ... hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay .

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Blood Work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from Eastwood 's Dirty Harry period .

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The movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications .

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-LRB- Lee -RRB- treats his audience the same way that Jim Brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects .

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And Lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception .

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There 's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue .

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No amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script .

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It 's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise .

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Nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mishandled here .

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