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2 | It may even fall into the category of Films You Love to Hate |
2 | I admit it I hate to like it |
2 | Frida is certainly no disaster but neither is it the Kahlo movie Frida fans have been looking for |
1 | Leaks treacle from every pore |
0 | The characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue CIA assassins working for Chris Cooper 's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac we do n't feel much for Damon\/Bourne or his predicament |
1 | Kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities |
2 | While we want MacDowell 's character to retrieve her husband we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many lives around her |
1 | Blue Crush is as predictable as the tides |
1 | The movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies |
0 | If you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright then Blood Work is for you |
1 | Trouble Every Day is a success in some sense but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead |
2 | The film 's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film 's production design |
1 | A wellintentioned effort that 's still too burdened by the actor 's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility |
2 | A familyfriendly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise |
2 | A plodding look at the French Revolution through the eyes of aristocrats |
2 | Tom Shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing Adams but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it |
2 | Unspools like a highbrow lowkey minute infomercial blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers |
2 | A fastpaced glitzy but extremely silly piece |
0 | Any reasonably creative eighthgrader could have written a more credible script though with the same number of continuity errors |
1 | while the humor aspects of Jason X ' were far more entertaining than I had expected everything else about the film tanks |
2 | Your taste for Jonah A Veggie Tales Movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the Holy Spirit |
1 | Like an Afterschool Special with costumes by Gianni Versace Mad Love looks better than it feels |
2 | While certain cues like the happy music suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts JeongHyang Lee 's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness |
0 | The script the gags the characters are all directtovideo stuff and that 's where this film should have remained |
1 | A thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions |
1 | A collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films |
1 | The film is hampered by its predictable plot and paperthin supporting characters |
2 | Jonah is only soso the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you or it will lessen it |
1 | An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay |
1 | How many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring selfimportant stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other |
1 | There are some laughs in this movie but Williams ' anarchy gets tiresome the satire is weak |
0 | As steamy as last week 's pork dumplings |
0 | The somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make Green Dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment |
1 | The filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about |
0 | Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing moldering pile of well extreme stunt pictures |
0 | This strenuously unfunny Showtime deserves the hook |
1 | The whole thing 's fairly lame making it par for the course for Disney sequels |
1 | its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself |
1 | the good and different idea LRB of middleaged romance RRB is not handled well and except for the fine star performances there is little else to recommend Never Again '' |
1 | If Disney 's Cinderella proved that ' a dream is a wish your heart makes ' then Cinderella II proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio 's wallet makes |
0 | Features nonsensical and laughable plotting wooden performances ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory |
2 | With Rare Birds as with The Shipping News before it an attempt is made to transplant a Hollywood star into Newfoundland 's wild soil and The Rock once again resists the intrusion |
0 | Nothing about this movie works |
2 | If the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you the simplistic Heaven will quite likely be more like hell |
1 | A spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged |
1 | None of Birthday Girl 's calculated events take us by surprise |
2 | Are monsters born or made |
1 | Lisa Rinzler 's cinematography may be lovely but Love Liza 's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension |
1 | The narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures Esther but she 's never seen speaking on stage one feels cheated and Esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard |
1 | It 's exactly the kind of movie Toback 's detractors always accuse him of making |
1 | With the dog days of August upon us think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity |
2 | Less about Shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw Quentin Tarantino 's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudowitty copycat interpretations |
0 | The film is like sitting in a downtown café overhearing a bunch of typical latetwentysomethings natter on about nothing and desperately wishing you could change tables |
1 | This rather unfocused alloverthemap movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens or if it were subtler or if it had a sense of humor |
1 | Takes a clunky TVmovie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated Irish playwright poet and drinker |
0 | Not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middleoftheroad mainstream it also represents glossy Hollywood at its laziest |
0 | A shame that Stealing Harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating boring and forgettable |
0 | Nearly every attempt at humor here is DOA |
1 | Collapses under its own meager weight |
2 | This is mildmannered beenthere material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a touch of the flamboyant the outrageous |
2 | If you adored The Full Monty so resoundingly that you 're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting then this should keep you reasonably entertained |
1 | Technically and artistically inept |
1 | Those who are only mildly curious I fear will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals |
1 | Though Tom Shadyac 's film kicks off spookily enough around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance |
0 | A long dull procession of despair set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral |
0 | Call me a coldhearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie but I believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid |
1 | Death might be a release |
1 | LRB Hopkins RRB does n't so much phone in his performance as fax it |
1 | No even that 's too committed |
2 | He gets his secretary to fax it '' |
1 | Sodden and glum even in those moments where it 's supposed to feel funny and light |
0 | Priggish lethargically paced parable of renewal |
1 | A beautifully shot but dull and ankledeep epic ' |
1 | Even with its $ million US budget Pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture |
1 | This is a thirdperson story now told by Hollywood and much more ordinary for it |
3 | The filmmakers know how to please the eye but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story |
1 | Written flatly by David Kendall and directed barely by There 's Something About Mary cowriter Ed Decter |
2 | The characters are interesting and the relationship between Yosuke and Saeko is worth watching as it develops but there 's not enough to the story to fill two hours |
2 | Very well made but does n't generate a lot of tension |
2 | Like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone |
1 | You leave the same way you came a few tasty morsels under your belt but no new friends |
1 | It 's depressing to see how far Herzog has fallen |
2 | The question hanging over The Time Machine is not as the main character suggests what if ' |
0 | but rather How can you charge money for this ' |
1 | Millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry |
1 | Freaky Friday '' it 's not |
1 | Perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that is n't this painfully forced false and fabricated |
1 | Although no pastry is violated this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunchfests farts boobs unmentionables without much success |
2 | In this film Aussie David Caesar channels the notquitedead career of Guy Ritchie |
0 | Maybe you 'll be lucky and there 'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back |
1 | The characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity with the ironic exception of Scooter |
2 | This film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers |
0 | For the rest of us sitting through Dahmer 's two hours amounts to little more than punishment |
2 | Narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself |
1 | Somewhere inside the mess that is World Traveler there is a mediocre movie trying to get out |
2 | A tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship |
2 | Its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a standoff with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary midsection of the film |
1 | An artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike |
0 | The movie 's ultimate point that everyone should be themselves is trite but the screenwriter and director Michel Gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness |
2 | A glossy knockoff of a Bmovie revenge flick |