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0 | It 's not just the vampires that are damned in Queen of the Damned the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate |
1 | If religious films are n't your bailiwick stay away |
1 | Otherwise this could be a passable date film |
0 | This is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience |
2 | The pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything |
1 | Stuffy full of itself morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about |
1 | It is most of the things Costner movies are known for it 's sanctimonious selfrighteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it |
1 | Do n't let the subtitles fool you the movie only proves that Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action |
1 | Chai 's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack |
1 | To be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed |
0 | The director with his fake backdrops and stately pacing never settles on a consistent tone |
2 | One just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters |
1 | Instead of panoramic sweep Kapur gives us episodic choppiness undermining the story 's emotional thrust |
1 | The director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in LRB the characters ' RRB misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it |
1 | This dubious product of a collegespawned LRB Colgate U RRB comedy ensemble known as Broken Lizard plays like a mix of Cheech and Chong and CHiPs |
1 | The movie does n't think much of its characters its protagonist or of us |
2 | Super Troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early Zucker Brothers\/Abrahams films and the decidedly foul stylings of their postmodern contemporaries The Farrelly Brothers |
2 | will always be remembered for the terrorist attacks |
0 | After seeing the film I can tell you that there 's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it |
2 | Made me feel uneasy even queasy because LRB Solondz 's RRB cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt |
3 | As a kind of colorful dramatized PBS program Frida gets the job done |
2 | But for that why not watch a documentary |
1 | With minimal imagination you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub |
1 | Nights feels more like a quickie TV special than a feature film It 's not even a TV special you 'd bother watching past the second commercial break |
1 | Although visually striking and slickly staged it 's also cold grey antiseptic and emotionally desiccated |
2 | You can see where Big Bad Love is trying to go but it never quite gets there |
1 | Friday After Next is the kind of film that could only be made by AfricanAmericans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards AfricanAmericans |
1 | It 's not as awful as some of the recent Hollywood trip tripe but it 's far from a groundbreaking endeavor |
0 | The only thing swept away '' is the one hour and thirtythree minutes spent watching this waste of time |
1 | Onesided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation |
0 | Stylistically the movie is a disaster |
1 | The corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption |
1 | As violent profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you 've ever seen |
2 | Egoyan 's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose |
2 | Life or Something Like It has its share of high points but it misses too many opportunities |
1 | This is a truly truly bad movie |
0 | Despite bearing the Paramount imprint it 's a bargainbasement European pickup |
0 | What 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up |
2 | Wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there |
1 | Believability was n't one of the film 's virtues |
0 | Sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they 'd need a shower |
1 | The Santa Clause 's plot may sound like it was cowritten by Mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry |
2 | His best film remains his shortest The Hole which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive |
0 | Just another disjointed fairly predictable psychological thriller |
1 | stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier |
0 | Even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation can not engage |
1 | Kung Pow is Oedekerk 's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martialarts flick and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that |
1 | Busy urban comedy is clearly not Zhang 's forte his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy |
1 | Not completely loveable but what underdog movie since The Bad News Bears has been |
3 | but certainly hard to hate |
1 | A movie that ca n't get sufficient distance from Leroy 's delusions to escape their maudlin influence |
2 | It 's Young Guns meets Goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseedsvs |
1 | greaseballs mob actioncomedy |
1 | Louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffectedindiefilm mode and brother Hoffman 's script stumbles over a lateinning twist that just does n't make sense |
1 | The movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary and on both sides it falls short |
3 | The film is oldfashioned occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface |
2 | Ca n't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers |
1 | Try this obscenely bad dark comedy so crass that it makes Edward Burns ' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde |
1 | In The New Guy even the bull gets recycled |
2 | Largely this is a movie that also does it by the numbers |
1 | On top of a foundering performance LRB Madonna 's RRB denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag |
2 | This is the first full scale WWII flick from Hong Kong 's John Woo |
1 | He 's not good with people |
1 | Patchy combination of soap opera lowtech magic realism and at times ploddingly sociological commentary |
1 | LRB Stevens is RRB so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits |
0 | So boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it |
0 | One of the more glaring signs of this movie 's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Ms Spears |
0 | Hollywood Ending is the most disappointing Woody Allen movie ever |
4 | He has a great cast and a great idea |
2 | But the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work |
2 | generically forgettably pleasant from start to finish |
1 | It 's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull |
1 | When not wallowing in its characters ' frustrations the movie is busy contriving false sitcomworthy solutions to their problems |
1 | An overstylized puréed mélange of sex psychology drugs and philosophy |
2 | Sometimes entertaining sometimes indulgent but never less than pure wankery |
2 | Lovely and Amazing ' unhappily is neither excessively strained and contrived |
0 | Ringu is a disaster of a story full of holes and completely lacking in chills |
1 | Ignore the reputation and ignore the film |
3 | This one is a few bits funnier than Malle 's dud if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like Slob City reductions of Damon Runyon crooks |
0 | It 's painful to watch Witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Abomination I mean Alabama ' |
0 | A plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists |
1 | Trying to figure out the rules of the Country Bear universe when are bears bears and when are they like humans only hairier would tax Einstein 's brain |
1 | Even in terms of the lowgrade cheese standards on which it operates it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash |
3 | Amidst the action the script carries Arnold LRB and the viewers RRB into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the other side of the story '' |
1 | Rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue |
2 | It 's a year old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by Elizabeth Hurley in a bathing suit |
2 | one big laugh three or four mild giggles and a whole lot of not much else |
1 | Too intensely focused on the travails of being Hal Hartley to function as pastiche No Such Thing is Hartley 's least accessible screed yet |
2 | Kenneth Branagh 's energetic sweetandsour performance as a curmudgeonly British playwright grounds this overstuffed erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and childrearing in Los Angeles |
1 | Director Uwe Boll and writer Robert Dean Klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out can not overcome blah characters |
0 | Ms Phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma and is unable to project either Esther 's initial anomie or her eventual awakening |
0 | The movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man |
0 | A clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hardpartying lives of gay men |
1 | The fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier |
1 | A little weak and it is n't that funny |
1 | While it is welcome to see a Chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion Lan Yu never catches dramatic fire |
1 | The script boasts some tart TVinsider humor but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy |
2 | Despite the pyrotechnics Narc is strictly by the book |
2 | In both the writing and cutting it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you |
2 | You end up simply admiring this bit or that this performance or that |