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0 | A Rumor of Angels does n't just slip it avalanches into forced fuzziness |
0 | No big whoop nothing new to see zero thrills too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film |
1 | I do n't think this movie loves women at all |
0 | Shankman and screenwriter Karen Janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of Bible parables and not an actual story |
1 | A negligible British comedy |
1 | Fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers |
0 | Slack and uninspired and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you 're left with a sour taste in your mouth |
0 | Skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience |
2 | What can one say about a balding yearold actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log |
1 | Trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the Gadzooks '' |
1 | Her film is like a beautiful food entrée that is n't heated properly so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless |
1 | Like the world of his film Hartley created a monster but did n't know how to handle it |
1 | No new plot conceptions or environmental changes just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through |
1 | Needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating pointofview shots and fewer slowmotion grandeur ' shots and quickcut edits that often detract from the athleticism |
0 | In the end there is n't much to it |
1 | A waste of fearless purity in the acting craft |
1 | The film is ultimately about as inspiring as a Hallmark card |
1 | Anyone not into hightech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally and log on to something more userfriendly |
1 | Disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances |
0 | You could easily mistake it for a sketchy workinprogress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time |
2 | Directors Harry Gantz and Joe Gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter but the couples exposing themselves are n't all that interesting |
1 | Yet another entry in the sentimental ohthosewackyBrits genre that was ushered in by The Full Monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit |
0 | for those for whom the name Woody Allen was once a guarantee of something fresh sometimes funny and usually genuinely worthwhile Hollywood Ending is a depressing experience |
1 | Femme Fatale offers nothing more than a baitandswitch that is beyond playing fair with the audience |
1 | Are we dealing with dreams visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of Clue |
0 | It could have been something special but two things drag it down to mediocrity director Clare Peploe 's misunderstanding of Marivaux 's rhythms and Mira Sorvino 's limitations as a classical actress |
1 | Fluffy neonoir hiding behind cutesy film references |
1 | Imagine Susan Sontag falling in love with Howard Stern |
2 | Like being trapped inside a huge video game where exciting inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again |
1 | Should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor |
3 | The best thing about the movie is its personable amusing cast |
1 | These guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers |
0 | Everything was as superficial as the forced New Jersey lowbrow accent Uma had |
1 | Director David Fincher and writer David Koepp ca n't sustain it |
2 | Finally coming down off of Miramax 's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts Waking Up in Reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie |
2 | A movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teentargeted action TV series |
0 | One of the most highlypraised disappointments I 've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time |
2 | The animation and backdrops are lush and inventive yet Return to Neverland never manages to take us to that elusive lovely place where we suspend our disbelief |
1 | Director Shekhar Kapur and screenwriters Michael Schiffer and Hossein Amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things but the barriers finally prove to be too great |
0 | Strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose and in that ohsoimportant category The Four Feathers comes up short |
0 | The thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes LRB of which they 'll get plenty RRB fills me with revulsion |
1 | Devolves into the derivative leaning on badlyrendered CGI effects |
2 | Anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in The Ring ' |
0 | A grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone 's crazy French grandfather |
1 | The script is a disaster with cloying messages and irksome characters |
2 | both overstuffed and undernourished The film ca n't be called a solid success although there 's plenty of evidence here to indicate Clooney might have better luck next time |
2 | Plods along minus the twisted humor and eyepopping visuals that have made Miike a cult hero |
1 | Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock 's imaginative flight to Shyamalan 's selfimportant summer fluff |
1 | The film 's maudlin focus on the young woman 's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of Hollywood heartstring plucking |
3 | I firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon |
1 | I also believe that Resident Evil is not it |
1 | It has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark a popinfluenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition |
2 | The plot meanders from gripping to plodding and back |
1 | This is cruel misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy |
0 | No amount of nostalgia for Carvey 's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that Carvey 's considerable talents are wasted in it |
2 | Best described as I Know What You Did Last Winter |
2 | LRB Taylor RRB takes us on a ride that 's consistently surprising easy to watch but oh so dumb |
2 | It 's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in Invincible and overlook its drawbacks |
1 | Lazily directed by Charles Stone III from a leaden script by Matthew Cirulnick and novelist Thulani Davis |
1 | Though Jones and Snipes are enthralling the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché |
2 | The most remarkable LRB and frustrating RRB thing about World Traveler which opens today in Manhattan is that its protagonist after being an object of intense scrutiny for minutes remains a complete blank |
0 | An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art |
0 | The pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs |
2 | With lines that feel like long soliloquies even as they are being framed in conversation Max is static stilted |
1 | Barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest your imagination your empathy or anything really save your disgust and your indifference |
3 | Writer\/director Burr Steers emphasizes the Q in Quirky with mixed results |
1 | One senses in World Traveler and in his earlier film that Freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers and circles it obsessively without making contact |
3 | In between the icy stunts the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and just letting the mountain tell you what to do ' |
2 | The obligatory breakups and hookups do n't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters |
2 | Make no mistake ivans xtc |
0 | is a mess |
0 | Hypnotically dull relentlessly downbeat laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteenyearold 's suicidal poetry |
3 | The concept is a hoot |
4 | The trailer is a riot |
0 | The movie is a dud |
3 | It 's a boring movie about a boring man made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring |
0 | Because the intelligence level of the characters must be low very low very very low for the masquerade to work the movie contains no wit only labored gags |
0 | It 's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie |
2 | Some stunning visuals and some staggeringly boring cinema |
1 | These characters become wearisome |
1 | A hit andmiss affair consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as Cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped |
1 | This may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar |
1 | Kim KiDeok seems to have in mind an LRB emotionally at least RRB adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested |
2 | A sterling film a cross between Boys Do n't Cry Deliverance and Ode to Billy Joe lies somewhere in the story of Matthew Shepard but that film is yet to be made |
0 | After sitting through this sloppy madeformovie comedy special it makes me wonder if Lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work |
1 | Contrived pastiche of caper clichés |
2 | Many shallower movies these days seem too long but this one is egregiously short |
2 | Just a Kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people |
2 | But it is set in a world that is very very far from the one most of us inhabit |
2 | The most illconceived animated comedy since the dog Rover Dangerfield |
2 | Like shave ice without the topping this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless |
1 | Despite its sincere acting Signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill scifi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype |
2 | Yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war let alone conscious of each other 's existence |
0 | Loud chaotic and largely unfunny |
2 | I ca n't remember the last time I saw an audience laugh so much during a movie but there 's only one problem it 's supposed to be a drama |
1 | Qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating |
1 | Well Jason 's gone to Manhattan and Hell I guess a space station in the year can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels LRB hey do n't shoot the messenger RRB |
1 | Donovan squanders his main asset Jackie Chan and fumbles the vital action sequences |
0 | There is no psychology here and no real narrative logic just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities which become strangely impersonal and abstract |
0 | Bread My Sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for critics to shred it |