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2 | Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dustcaked stagnation and labored gentility |
2 | Worth seeing once but its charm quickly fades |
0 | The original was n't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece |
1 | One suspects that Craven endorses They simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison |
2 | Gere gives a good performance in a film that does n't merit it |
2 | Your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make |
1 | Includes too much obvious padding |
0 | There 's no palpable chemistry between Lopez and male lead Ralph Fiennes plus the script by Working Girl scribe Kevin Wade is workmanlike in the extreme |
0 | I 'm not sure which half of Dragonfly is worse The part where nothing 's happening or the part where something 's happening but it 's stupid |
2 | Do n't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare grossout comedy cycle |
0 | The only camouflage Carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers |
0 | Shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy selfindulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors |
1 | Spain 's greatest star wattage does n't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy |
1 | Conforms itself with creating a game of who 's who ' where the characters ' moves are often more predictable than their consequences |
1 | Looks and feels like a lowbudget hybrid of Scarface or Carlito 's Way |
1 | The script is a tired one with few moments of joy rising above the stale material |
1 | Suffers from all the excesses of the genre |
1 | The verdict Two bodies and hardly a laugh between them |
0 | The latest Adam Sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year |
3 | Downbeat periodperfect biopic hammers home a heavyhanded moralistic message |
1 | While the film is competent it 's also uninspired lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires |
1 | They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering |
2 | It 's harmless diverting fluff |
0 | But it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre |
1 | It 's just plain lurid when it is n't downright silly |
2 | Comedy troupe Broken Lizard 's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot |
1 | Pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of God in the fifth Trek flick |
1 | A horror movie with seriously dumb characters which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepycrawly bug things that live only in the darkness |
1 | It 's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric but never clearly seen or felt |
2 | All in all Reign of Fire will be a good LRB successful RRB rental ' |
2 | Occasionally funny sometimes inspiring often boring |
0 | A movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you ca n't wait to see end |
0 | The predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch so stilted and unconvincing are the performances |
2 | Who are they ' |
2 | Well they 're they ' |
1 | They 're the unnamed easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid |
2 | They exist for hushed lines like They 're back '' |
3 | They 're out there '' |
2 | and They 're coming '' |
1 | Elegantly crafted but emotionally cold a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level |
1 | Were Dylan Thomas alive to witness firsttime director Ethan Hawke 's strained Chelsea Walls he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Theatre ' |
1 | The story has its redundancies and the young actors not very experienced are sometimes inexpressive |
1 | I 'm sure the filmmaker would disagree but honestly I do n't see the point |
0 | It 's a visual Rorschach test and I must have failed |
1 | The film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what 's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture |
1 | Murder by Numbers just does n't add up |
1 | Clare Peploe 's airless movie adaptation could use a little American Pielike irreverence |
1 | Video games are more involving than this mess |
2 | Clayburgh and Tambor are charming performers neither of them deserves Eric Schaeffer |
1 | A pale Xerox of other better crime movies |
0 | a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional |
1 | Illiterate often inert scifi action thriller |
1 | A perfect example of rancid wellintentioned but shamelessly manipulative movie making |
1 | The adventure does n't contain half the excitement of Balto or quarter the fun of Toy Story |
3 | Essentially a collection of bits and they 're all naughty |
1 | A mess |
1 | The screenplay does too much meandering Norton has to recite bland police procedural details Fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced Hopkins looks like a drag queen |
1 | The screenplay by James Eric James Horton and director Peter O'Fallon is so pat it makes your teeth hurt |
3 | Before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy Steven Shainberg 's adaptation of Mary Gaitskill 's harrowing short story is a brilliantly played deeply unsettling experience |
4 | Solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that Soderbergh 's best films Erin Brockovich '' Out of Sight '' and Ocean 's Eleven '' never were |
1 | Seems like something American and European gay movies were doing years ago |
1 | In the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious minutes director Roger Kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of outrageous gags |
2 | You can see the wouldbe surprises coming a mile away and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer |
0 | Thumbs down |
0 | The characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite James Bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as The Usual Suspects |
1 | del Toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy |
1 | The movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure |
2 | The real question this movie poses is not Who ' |
2 | but Why ' |
3 | Now here 's a sadistic bike flick that would have made Vittorio De Sica proud |
1 | A movie that 's about as overbearing and overthetop as the family it depicts |
3 | A movie in which laughter and selfexploitation merge into jolly softporn 'em powerment ' |
2 | Occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive a footnote to a still evolving story |
0 | If we 're to slap protagonist Genevieve LePlouff because she 's French do we have that same option to slap her creators because they 're clueless and inept |
2 | Moretti plays Giovanni a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy |
1 | Too predictably in fact |
1 | Alternative medicine obviously has its merits but Ayurveda does the field no favors |
0 | This thing works on no level whatsoever for me |
2 | It follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every Schwarzenegger film Someone crosses Arnie |
2 | Arnie blows things up |
2 | Ice Age posits a heretofore unfathomable question Is it possible for computergenerated characters to go through the motions |
0 | An incoherent jumble of a film that 's rarely as entertaining as it could have been |
2 | they missed the boat |
1 | More dutiful than enchanting terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat |
1 | Laconic and very stilted in its dialogue this indie flick never found its audience probably because it 's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters |
1 | The comedy Death to Smoochy is a rancorous curiosity a movie without an apparent audience |
1 | Barney 's ideas about creation and identity do n't really seem all that profound at least by way of what can be gleaned from this threehour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material |
2 | Affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into a role that Ford effortlessly filled with authority |
1 | Cinematic pyrotechnics aside the only thing Avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude |
2 | It makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls his film is a frat boy 's idea of a good time |
2 | The narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking Mystery Science Theater guys |
1 | Nothing more or less than an outright bodiceripper it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows |
3 | A living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange |
1 | The fact that it is n't very good is almost beside the point |
1 | Feels less like a cousin to Blade Runner than like a bottomfeeder sequel in the Escape From New York series |
0 | What might have been acceptable on the printed page of Iles ' book does not translate well to the screen |
1 | If Oscar had a category called Best Bad Film You Thought Was Going To Be Really Awful But Was n't Guys would probably be duking it out with The Queen of the Damned for the honor |
0 | A poky and pseudoserious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise |
1 | Mediocre fable from Burkina Faso |
3 | Fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative but he does display an original talent |