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1 | This lowrent and even lowerwit ripoff of the Farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy and in a relatively short amount of time |
0 | It recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera |
2 | I 'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business but surely it does n't have to be as a collection of keening and selfmutilating sideshow geeks |
1 | May offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor |
2 | Many of Benjamins ' elements feel like they 've been patched in from an episode of Miami Vice |
0 | It aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one |
2 | Most folks with a real stake in the American sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant |
1 | If you 're not fans of the adventues of Steve and Terri you should avoid this like the dreaded King Brown snake |
0 | Personally I 'd rather watch them on the Animal Planet |
1 | Cherish is a dud a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny |
2 | Feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum |
0 | All of the filmmakers ' calculations ca n't rescue Brown Sugar from the curse of blandness |
2 | The movie 's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating though even if the movie itself does n't stand a ghost of a chance |
0 | postSeptember The Sum Of All Fears '' seems more tacky and reprehensible manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves |
0 | The exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess |
2 | No matter how you slice it Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton are not Hepburn and Grant two cinematic icons with chemistry galore |
0 | Godard 's ode to tackling life 's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess In Praise of Love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating |
0 | Humorless selfconscious art drivel made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention |
0 | The movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase fatal script error ' |
1 | Solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say but he is n't talking a talk that appeals to me |
1 | More tiring than anything |
1 | Nelson 's intentions are good but the end result does no justice to the story itself |
0 | It 's horribly depressing and not very well done |
1 | the efforts of its star Kline to lend some dignity to a dumb story are for naught |
1 | A goodnatured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast but never quite gets off the ground |
1 | Is n't it a bit early in his career for director Barry Sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself |
0 | And it 's a lousy one at that |
1 | Overly long and worshipful biodoc |
3 | I 'll go out on a limb |
0 | It is n't quite one of the worst movies of the year |
0 | It 's just merely very bad |
1 | Writerdirector Ritchie reduces Wertmuller 's social mores and politics to tiresome jargon |
2 | About Amy 's cuteness Amy 's career success LRB she 's a bestselling writer of selfhelp books who ca n't help herself RRB and Amy 's neuroses when it comes to men |
1 | Everything about Girls Ca n't Swim even its passages of sensitive observation feels secondhand familiar and not in a good way |
1 | Feels aimless for much of its running time until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives leaving questions in its wake |
0 | In my own very humble opinion In Praise of Love lacks even the most fragmented charms I have found in almost all of his previous works |
1 | The script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue |
0 | Muddled simplistic and more than a little pretentious |
2 | Meandering and glacially paced and often just plain dull |
1 | A disaster of a drama saved only by its winged assailants |
2 | A road trip that will get you thinking Are we there yet ' |
1 | Director Elie Chouraqui who cowrote the script catches the chaotic horror of war but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tearjerking demands of soap opera |
1 | Dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation |
0 | If there was any doubt that Peter O'Fallon did n't have an original bone in his body A Rumor of Angels should dispel it |
1 | An occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten |
1 | What could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in Steven Soderbergh 's Traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination |
1 | The movie is like Scorsese 's Mean Streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like Leather Warriors and Switchblade Sexpot |
0 | This pathetic junk is barely an hour long |
1 | Nevertheless it still seems endless |
0 | It is n't that Stealing Harvard is a horrible movie if only it were that grand a failure |
1 | It 's just that it 's so notatallgood |
2 | And I expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director Bruce McCulloch |
2 | Dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality the one bald and the other sloppy |
1 | Is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it |
1 | It 's supposed to be a romantic comedy it suffers from too much Norma Rae and not enough Pretty Woman |
0 | The leads are so unmemorable despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material |
0 | Staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce |
1 | Not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around minutes these days but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired |
2 | Brainy artistic and muted almost to the point of suffocation |
1 | Plays like the old diseaseoftheweek smallscreen melodramas |
0 | Like life on the island the movie grows boring despite the scenery |
1 | The truth about Charlie is that it 's a brazenly misguided project |
2 | displays the potential for a better movie than what Bailly manages to deliver |
1 | So exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming |
1 | An awkward hybrid of genres that just does n't work |
1 | The latest vapid actor 's exercise to appropriate the structure of Arthur Schnitzler 's Reigen |
1 | Snipes is both a snore and utter tripe |
1 | Ritchie 's film is easier to swallow than Wertmuller 's polemical allegory but it 's selfdefeatingly decorous |
0 | Chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly |
0 | It 's the kind of underinspired overblown enterprise that gives Hollywood sequels a bad name |
1 | Rosenthal LRB Halloween II RRB seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense |
1 | Even Murphy 's expert comic timing and famed charisma ca n't rescue this effort |
2 | Rodriguez was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight |
1 | A sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions |
1 | Some Body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling |
2 | This is n't a terrible film by any means but it 's also far from being a realized work |
0 | Apparently romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just does n't figure in the present Hollywood program |
0 | Depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived |
1 | Only masochistic moviegoers need apply |
1 | A movie that 's held captive by mediocrity |
2 | Not bad but not all that good |
2 | Bacon keeps things interesting but do n't go out of your way to pay full price |
3 | What 's next |
2 | Rob Schneider Dana Carvey and Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Philadelphia Story |
1 | David Spade as Citizen Kane |
2 | Ca n't seem to get anywhere near the story 's center |
1 | The problem amazingly enough is the screenplay |
1 | It 's a Frankensteinmonster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be |
1 | Upper West Sidey exercise in narcissism and selfcongratulation disguised as a tribute |
0 | On its icy face the new film is a subzero version of Monsters Inc without the latter 's imagination visual charm or texture |
1 | I ca n't say this enough This movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies |
1 | It 's a mindless action flick with a twist far better suited to videoviewing than the multiplex |
1 | After a while the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through The Country Bears is to ponder how a whole segment of popmusic history has been allowed to get wet fuzzy and sticky |
2 | We get light showers of emotion a couple of times but then strangely these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle |
2 | Summer 's far too fleeting to squander on offal like this |
1 | The film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message if indeed there is one |
1 | Often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging which gradually turns What Time Is It There |
1 | into How Long Is This Movie |
1 | Too bad Kramer could n't make a guest appearance to liven things up |
1 | Deuces Wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewelltoinnocence movies like The Wanderers and A Bronx Tale without cribbing any of their intelligence |