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2 | Apparently writerdirector Attal thought he need only cast himself and his moviestar wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film |
2 | After the setup the air leaks out of the movie flattening its momentum with about an hour to go |
1 | This is a poster movie a mediocre tribute to films like Them |
1 | At three hours and with very little story or character development there is plenty of room for editing and a much shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue |
2 | A bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be |
2 | A crude teenoriented variation on a theme that the playwright Craig Lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his Prelude to a Kiss |
2 | The film 's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings especially in the last few cloying moments |
1 | If you recognize Zeus LRB the dog from Snatch RRB it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one |
0 | This is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself Ah yes here we have a bad bad bad movie ' |
2 | Shanghai Ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story but you might want to think twice before booking passage |
2 | Plays like a checklist of everything Rob Reiner and his cast were sending up |
0 | There 's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie about a young man 's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present |
3 | It 's at once laughable and compulsively watchable in its committed dumbness |
1 | All the sensuality all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been pardon the pun sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness |
1 | A cross between Blow and Boyz N The Hood this movie strives to be more but does n't quite get there |
3 | Good performances keep it from being a total rehash |
1 | The screenplay is hugely overwritten with tons and tons of dialogue most of it given to children |
2 | Troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal |
4 | At times the movie looks genuinely pretty |
2 | Your nightmares on the other hand will be anything but |
0 | Not even Felinni would know what to make of this Italian freakshow |
2 | Elmo touts his drug as being times stronger than coke |
2 | If you 're looking for a tale of Brits behaving badly watch Snatch again |
2 | It 's times better than this |
0 | It 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in Slackers or their antics amusing let alone funny |
1 | Despite its promising cast of characters Big Trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that zany ' does n't necessarily mean funny ' |
0 | Both shrill and soporific and because everything is repeated five or six times it can seem tiresomely simpleminded |
1 | Does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny |
0 | Neither revelatory nor truly edgy merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored |
1 | Just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting |
2 | There are a few modest laughs but certainly no thrills |
1 | Fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur |
1 | There 's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film 's simple title |
2 | While Howard 's appreciation of Brown and his writing is clearly wellmeaning and sincere the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast |
0 | A preposterous prurient whodunit |
1 | Go girls right down the reality drain |
1 | Boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory Impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie |
1 | Can be classified as one of those alternate reality ' movies except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality |
3 | Predictable and cloying though Brown Sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle |
0 | unlikable uninteresting unfunny and completely utterly inept |
0 | The film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart mind or humor of its own |
1 | An imponderably stilted and selfconsciously arty movie |
0 | Muddled melodramatic paranormal romance is an alltime low for Kevin Costner |
1 | Too clumsy in key moments to make a big splash |
0 | Just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that 's neither original nor terribly funny |
1 | Matrix ' style massacres erupt throughout but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with Kafkainspired philosophy |
4 | At least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director Charles Stone III |
0 | It all unfolds predictably and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time providing no real sense of suspense |
2 | Wanker Goths are on the loose |
0 | Run for your lives |
1 | Why would anyone cast the magnificent Jackie Chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects |
1 | A grating emaciated flick |
1 | Unambitious writing emerges in the movie using a plot that could have come from an animatedmovie screenwriting textbook |
2 | Presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency |
1 | We have poignancy jostling against farce thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by oneliners and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except maybe that it looks neat |
3 | According to the script Grant and Bullock 's characters are made for each other |
2 | But you 'd never guess that from the performances |
2 | The animation merely serves up a predictable maudlin story that swipes heavily from Bambi and The Lion King yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies |
1 | Ararat feels like a book report |
1 | Steve Oedekerk is alas no Woody Allen |
1 | A lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen loud violent and mindless |
2 | An amalgam of The Fugitive Blade Runner and Total Recall only without much energy or tension |
0 | The acting is amateurish the cinematography is atrocious the direction is clumsy the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing |
1 | Shows that Jackie Chan is getting older and that 's something I would rather live in denial about |
2 | With miscast leads banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax Killing Me Softly belongs firmly in the sobadit 's good camp |
2 | Alas the blackandwhite archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick |
0 | The slapstick is labored and the bigger setpieces flat |
1 | This is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks |
1 | The problem with the mayhem in Formula is not that it 's offensive but that it 's boring |
1 | Much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged as if filmed directly from a television monitor while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché |
1 | the film never rises above a conventional two dimension tale |
2 | Mark Wahlberg may look classy in a 's homage pokepie hat but as a character he 's dry dry dry |
1 | Told in scattered fashion the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject |
3 | The irony is that this film 's cast is uniformly superb their performances could have should have been allowed to stand on their own |
2 | Now I can see why people thought I was too hard on The Mothman Prophecies '' |
4 | If ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter this is it |
0 | If ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution this is it |
3 | With an unusual protagonist LRB a kiltwearing Jackson RRB and subject matter the improbable Formula '' is somewhat entertaining but it could have been much stronger |
2 | Sandra Bullock 's best dramatic performance to date LRB is RRB almost enough to lift LRB this RRB thrillkill catandmouser above its paintbynumbers plot |
1 | A feelgood movie that does n't give you enough to feel good about |
3 | Adolescents will be adequately served by the movie 's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick although the more lasciviousminded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a topless tutorial service ' |
1 | This mistakenidentity picture is so filmculture referential that the final product is a ghost |
0 | The picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment |
2 | De Niro cries |
0 | You 'll cry for your money back |
0 | Slap me I saw this movie |
1 | LRB The kid 's RRB just too bratty for sympathy and as the film grows to its finale his little changes ring hollow |
0 | Behind the glitz Hollywood is sordid and disgusting |
2 | Quelle surprise |
1 | Scherfig who has had a successful career in TV tackles more than she can handle |
1 | Just consider what New Best Friend does not have beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay |
1 | Oscar caliber cast does n't live up to material |
2 | The problems of the people in Love in the Time of Money are hardly specific to their era |
1 | They just have problems which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way |
1 | Carrying this waferthin movie on his nimble shoulders Chan wades through putrid writing direction and timing with a smile that says If I stay positive maybe I can channel one of my greatest pictures Drunken Master ' |
0 | So putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film |
0 | In the end the movie bogs down in insignificance saying nothing about Kennedy 's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate |
1 | Starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés |
1 | Sometimes makes less sense than the Bruckheimeresque American action flicks it emulates |
1 | One of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation |