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Little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point ... is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable .

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The nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations .

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This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy .

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overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue

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The Master of Disguise falls under the category of ` should have been a sketch on Saturday Night Live . '

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Koepp 's screenplay is n't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own .

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Is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ?

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More successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine

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Clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades .

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It 's hard to pity the ` plain ' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss .

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Rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash .

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A banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy .

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The drama discloses almost nothing .

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A minor-league soccer remake of The Longest Yard .

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Belongs in the too-hot-for-TV direct-to-video\/DVD category , and this is why I have given it a one-star rating .

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As earnest as a community-college advertisement , American Chai is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school .

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A dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the Animal Planet documentary series , Crocodile Hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring .

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Even fans of Ismail Merchant 's work , I suspect , would have a hard time sitting through this one .

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The world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like Martin Scorsese .

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Sade achieves the near-impossible : It turns the Marquis de Sade into a dullard .

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-LRB- Lin Chung 's -RRB- voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating -LRB- at least to this Western ear -RRB- , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters .

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One of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies I 've ever seen .

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Though there 's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film 's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish .

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Unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making .

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Unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , Impostor is opening today at a theater near you .

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It should be doing a lot of things , but does n't .

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Chen films the resolutely downbeat Smokers Only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book .

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... a rather bland affair .

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Soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , XXX achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence .

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A boring masquerade ball where normally good actors , even Kingsley , are made to look bad .

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All the Queen 's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers .

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The filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart .

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Rather than real figures , Elling and Kjell Bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the na f 's encounter with the world .

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Mariah Carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in Glitter here in Wisegirls .

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It 's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it 's all about the silences and if you 're into that , have at it .

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I suspect that you 'll be as bored watching Morvern Callar as the characters are in it .

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If you go , pack your knitting needles .

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The lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma .

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We do n't even like their characters .

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Some writer dude , I think his name was , uh , Michael Zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that I ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck .

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The movie does n't generate a lot of energy .

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It is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously .

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This feature is about as necessary as a hole in the head

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Spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning .

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It feels like very light Errol Morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs .

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A period story about a Catholic boy who tries to help a Jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell .

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The premise itself is just SOOOOO tired .

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Pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess .

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Proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness .

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Did we really need a remake of `` Charade ? ''

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Stealing Harvard ca n't even do that much .

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Each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth .

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The only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game .

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You try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored .

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I spied with my little eye ... a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits

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Entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching Disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel .

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The satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying .

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Less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is .

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- style cross-country adventure ... it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack .

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A feeble Tootsie knockoff .

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An awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers .

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... the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid .

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The very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary .

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An allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals African American professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message .

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One key problem with these ardently Christian storylines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out .

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A relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty World War II action flick .

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-LRB- Hell is -RRB- looking down at your watch and realizing Serving Sara is n't even halfway through .

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Too long , and larded with exposition , this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community .

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Leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances .

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Swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress Andie MacDowell .

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The histrionic muse still eludes Madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch .

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You have no affinity for most of the characters .

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Nothing about them is attractive .

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What they see in each other also is difficult to fathom .

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Diaz , Applegate , Blair and Posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused .

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An inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more .

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It 's a mystery how the movie could be released in this condition .

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Eight Legged Freaks falls flat as a spoof .

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No matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a Michael Jackson sort of way .

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You 'll just have your head in your hands wondering why Lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery .

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` Dragonfly ' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue .

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Movies like High Crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation .

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How about surprising us by trying something new ?

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Final verdict : You 've seen it all before .

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Throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , Windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old World War II movie for overly familiar material .

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Further sad evidence that Tom Tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning Run Lola Run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap .

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You 'll trudge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the Zipper after eating a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy .

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A full-frontal attack on audience patience .

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It 's a big idea , but the film itself is small and shriveled .

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Debut effort by `` Project Greenlight '' winner is sappy and amateurish .

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Too bad none of it is funny .

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The film , like Jimmy 's routines , could use a few good laughs .

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Purports to be a Hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging .

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Oh , and more entertaining , too .

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... in the pile of useless actioners from MTV schmucks who do n't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes .

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Humor in I Spy is so anemic .

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The film is strictly routine .

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In addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , Ballistic : Ecks Vs. Sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase .

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You can not guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed .

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Barney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull .

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