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1 | The only question is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering |
1 | Average at best I 'm afraid |
1 | This movie is so bad that it 's almost worth seeing because it 's so bad |
2 | A crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing |
0 | This movie feel more like a nonstop cry for attention than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment |
2 | Overall it 's a pretty mediocre family film |
1 | Love may have been in the air onscreen but I certainly was n't feeling any of it |
0 | In addition to the overcooked hamfisted direction which has all the actors reaching for the back row the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry |
1 | The very definition of what critics have come to term an ambitious failure '' |
0 | It 's as if De Palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up Kraft Macaroni and Cheese |
1 | The movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter uhhh ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie |
1 | Worthy of the gong |
1 | While certainly more naturalistic than its Australian counterpart Amari 's film falls short in building the drama of Lilia 's journey |
1 | I found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays |
1 | The soulsearching deliberateness of the film although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit eventually becomes too heavy for the plot |
1 | The movie does n't add anything fresh to the myth |
1 | As inept as bigscreen remakes of The Avengers and The Wild Wild West |
0 | Comes across as a relic from a bygone era and its convolutions feel silly rather than plausible |
1 | Moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such messagemongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured |
3 | It 's a very sincere work but it would be better as a diary or documentary |
0 | Once one experiences Mr Haneke 's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience one is left with a sour taste in one 's mouth and little else |
2 | Oops she 's really done it this time |
0 | That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel |
0 | It 's a loathsome movie it really is and it makes absolutely no sense |
0 | A chiller resolutely without chills |
1 | For those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computergenerated effects the new Star Wars installment has n't escaped the rut dug by the last one |
1 | The director mostly plays it straight turning Leys ' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder |
0 | Bad '' is the operative word for Bad Company '' and I do n't mean that in a good way |
1 | Though Frida is easier to swallow than Julie Taymor 's preposterous Titus the eye candy here lacks considerable brio |
3 | Drumline is the mere suggestion albeit a visually compelling one of a fully realized story |
1 | The whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well |
2 | The film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry but Ram Dass Fierce Grace does n't organize it with any particular insight |
1 | Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse |
1 | It 's loud and boring watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert |
0 | Merely LRB and literally RRB tosses around sex toys and offers halfhearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes most at women 's expense |
1 | If you want a movie time trip the version is a far smoother ride |
2 | Traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate standupcomedy mill |
1 | The story is forgive me a little thin and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed |
0 | grows decidedly flimsier with its many outsized out of character and logically porous action set pieces |
2 | I wish Windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story |
1 | This would have been better than the fiction it has concocted and there still could have been room for the war scenes |
1 | Aggressive selfglorification and a manipulative whitewash |
4 | Stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by Dustin Hoffman that is revelatory |
1 | None of the characters or plotlines are fleshedout enough to build any interest |
2 | As social exposé Skins has its heart in the right place but that 's not much to hang a soap opera on |
0 | The whole film has this sneaky feel to it as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as Very Important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a Hollywood product |
2 | There 's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of Queen of the Damned as its origins in an Anne Rice novel dictate but generally it 's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance |
0 | The only way to tolerate this insipid brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers |
2 | This one is certainly wellmeaning but it 's also simpleminded and contrived |
3 | Coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else |
0 | Bad and baffling from the getgo |
1 | A series of immaculately composed shots of Patch Adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie |
1 | At a time when we 've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is Collateral Damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture |
2 | The impulses that produced this project are commendable but the results are uneven |
2 | A wellacted movie that simply does n't gel |
0 | Like a can of day old Coke |
1 | You can taste it but there 's no fizz |
1 | There 's no excuse for following up a delightful wellcrafted family film with a computergenerated cold fish |
2 | Both the crime story and the love story are unusual |
1 | But they do n't fit well together and neither is well told |
1 | It 's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant |
0 | Other than a mildly engaging central romance Hospital is sickly entertainment at best and minddestroying cinematic pollution at worst |
1 | Jaglom offers the nonetoooriginal premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar |
1 | Outside of Burger 's desire to make some kind of film it 's really unclear why this project was undertaken |
2 | Was I scared |
2 | Only at the prospect of Beck 's next project |
1 | Let 's see a haunted house a haunted ship what 's next Ghost Blimp |
1 | A fragile framework upon which to hang broad mildly fleshedout characters that seem to have been conjured up only minutes prior to filming |
0 | By the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around |
2 | Since Lee is a sentimentalist the film is more worshipful than your random E |
2 | True Hollywood Story |
1 | Wes Craven 's presence is felt not the Craven of ' A Nightmare on Elm Street ' or The Hills Have Eyes ' but the sad schlock merchant of Deadly Friend ' |
2 | Sunshine State surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology |
1 | But the cinematography is cloudy the picture making becalmed |
1 | It 's one long bore |
1 | It gets old quickly |
1 | Watch Barbershop again if you 're in need of a Cube fix this is n't worth sitting through |
1 | It 's leaden and predictable and laughs are lacking |
1 | a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it 's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone |
1 | Skip this dreck rent Animal House and go back to the source |
0 | The movie is a desperate miscalculation |
1 | It gives poor Dana Carvey nothing to do that is really funny and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time |
1 | We just do n't really care too much about this love story |
0 | In that setting their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting |
1 | The Transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull |
1 | Uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse |
2 | Men in Black II creates a new threat for the MIB but recycles the same premise |
3 | Large budget notwithstanding the movie is such a blip on the year 's radar screen that it 's tempting just to go with it for the ride |
1 | But this time the old MIB label stands for Milder Is n't Better |
1 | Feels familiar and tired |
1 | A retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by Martin Scorsese |
0 | Instead of making his own style director Marcus Adams just copies from various sources good sources bad mixture |
3 | Criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like an apartheid drama |
1 | A bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points |
0 | A story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material |
0 | It 's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as The Country Bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at Disneyland |
0 | Starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other Hollywoodaction cliches |
0 | Completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that I 'm not sure could be a single iota worse a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage |
1 | An uneven look into a grim future that does n't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on Philip K Dick stories |
0 | Horrible |