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34 |
it does n't believe in itself , it has no sense of humor ... it 's just plain bored .
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349 |
... turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock .
| 1 |
378 |
feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot .
| 1 |
704 |
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance ...
| 1 |
846 |
an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss .
| 1 |
727 |
velocity represents everything wrong with '' independent film '' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene .
| 1 |
221 |
my reaction in a word : disappointment .
| 1 |
56 |
... a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it .
| 1 |
247 |
stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros. -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green 's half-hearted movie career .
| 1 |
620 |
the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess 's home video of their baby 's birth .
| 1 |
587 |
director uwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback .
| 1 |
139 |
it 's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie .
| 1 |
379 |
tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar .
| 1 |
477 |
a tv style murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) .
| 1 |
580 |
it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as ` worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that .
| 1 |
745 |
made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss .
| 1 |
33 |
if the movie succeeds in instilling a wary sense of ` there but for the grace of god , ' it is far too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world .
| 1 |
107 |
what the director ca n't do is make either of val kilmer 's two personas interesting or worth caring about .
| 1 |
265 |
paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma 's scarface .
| 1 |
700 |
is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ?
| 1 |
619 |
an unclassifiably awful study in self - and audience-abuse .
| 1 |
703 |
samira makhmalbaf 's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it 's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal
| 1 |
111 |
there is n't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients .
| 1 |
165 |
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen .
| 1 |
115 |
sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out .
| 1 |
269 |
with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge .
| 1 |
380 |
at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects .
| 1 |
162 |
there seems to be no clear path as to where the story 's going , or how long it 's going to take to get there .
| 1 |
845 |
despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine .
| 1 |
789 |
it 's as if you 're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become even weaker .
| 1 |
627 |
nervous breakdowns are not entertaining .
| 1 |
864 |
dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled .
| 1 |
226 |
of course , by more objective measurements it 's still quite bad .
| 1 |
583 |
it 's just filler .
| 1 |
180 |
unfortunately , it 's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies .
| 1 |
356 |
jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot .
| 1 |
257 |
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes .
| 1 |
355 |
there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer .
| 1 |
595 |
all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal ca n't disguise the fact that , really , we 've been here , done that .
| 1 |
651 |
due to some script weaknesses and the casting of the director 's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality .
| 1 |
709 |
i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers .
| 1 |
25 |
nicks , seemingly uncertain what 's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy .
| 1 |
413 |
at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch .
| 1 |
790 |
that 's a cheat .
| 1 |
403 |
as vulgar as it is banal .
| 1 |
446 |
with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap .
| 1 |
434 |
almost gags on its own gore .
| 1 |
315 |
complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effort
| 1 |
550 |
... nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects .
| 1 |
37 |
( w ) hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall 's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands .
| 1 |
562 |
scorsese does n't give us a character worth giving a damn about .
| 1 |
70 |
for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam .
| 1 |
566 |
does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in - the-blanks with a tragic past .
| 1 |
797 |
it 's not original , and , robbed of the element of surprise , it does n't have any huge laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks .
| 1 |
462 |
yes , dull .
| 1 |
497 |
the overall effect is less like a children 's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts .
| 1 |
405 |
outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent .
| 1 |
832 |
manages to show life in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite .
| 1 |
597 |
visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it .
| 1 |
238 |
an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story .
| 1 |
610 |
like you could n't smell this turkey rotting from miles away .
| 1 |
26 |
the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide .
| 1 |
399 |
if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he does n't hold them in contempt .
| 1 |
64 |
the script kicks in , and mr. hartley 's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow .
| 1 |
724 |
it 's everything you do n't go to the movies for .
| 1 |
474 |
the problem with this film is that it lacks focus .
| 1 |
411 |
i do n't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but do n't treat me like a fool .
| 1 |
598 |
nonsensical , dull `` cyber-horror '' flick is a grim , hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting .
| 1 |
65 |
you wonder why enough was n't just a music video rather than a full-length movie .
| 1 |
471 |
adults will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized .
| 1 |
694 |
no aspirations to social import inform the movie version .
| 1 |
262 |
it 's like every bad idea that 's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs ' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) .
| 1 |
213 |
this time mr. burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again .
| 1 |
1 |
unflinchingly bleak and desperate
| 1 |
388 |
when leguizamo finally plugged an irritating character late in the movie .
| 1 |
829 |
teen movies have really hit the skids .
| 1 |
615 |
as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor .
| 1 |
757 |
there 's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino 's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television .
| 1 |
35 |
a sequence of ridiculous shoot - 'em - up scenes .
| 1 |
188 |
a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment .
| 1 |
494 |
it showcases carvey 's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one 's patience to get to the good stuff .
| 1 |
177 |
does n't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces ... that raise the bar on stylized screen violence .
| 1 |
863 |
while it 's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc. ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audiences .
| 1 |
342 |
in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wishy-washy .
| 1 |
330 |
and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea .
| 1 |
18 |
... the movie is just a plain old monster .
| 1 |
731 |
but what are adults doing in the theater at all ?
| 1 |
348 |
just one bad idea after another .
| 1 |
811 |
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demme 's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects .
| 1 |
801 |
this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities .
| 1 |
707 |
no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie .
| 1 |
629 |
excessive , profane , packed with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters .
| 1 |
134 |
it all drags on so interminably it 's like watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time .
| 1 |
145 |
the best that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie ... is that he obviously does n't have his heart in it .
| 1 |
203 |
bad .
| 1 |
646 |
the longer the movie goes , the worse it gets , but it 's actually pretty good in the first few minutes .
| 1 |
21 |
the iditarod lasts for days - this just felt like it did .
| 1 |
251 |
the film tries too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip .
| 1 |
870 |
... is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri .
| 1 |
543 |
for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout .
| 1 |
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