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0 | It 's a barely tolerable slog over welltrod ground |
0 | Epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made Tucker a star |
2 | It 's sweet but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiar at the end |
0 | A dull dumb and derivative horror film |
1 | An awkwardly contrived exercise in magic realism |
1 | Demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his Charade remake but he ca n't disguise that he 's spiffing up leftovers that are n't so substantial or fresh |
1 | This is a heartfelt story it just is n't a very involving one |
1 | These selfstyled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for selfpreservation |
1 | The fact that the best part ' of the movie comes from a second homage to one of Demme 's good films does n't bode well for the rest of it |
1 | Richard Pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material but Lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold |
2 | The band performances featured in Drumline are red hot LRB but RRB from a mere story point of view the film 's ice cold |
1 | built on the premise that middleclass Arkansas consists of monster truckloving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from TV reruns and supermarket tabloids |
0 | A laughable or rather unlaughable excuse for a film |
2 | The sequel is everything the original was not contrived overblown and tiein ready |
1 | Like a grinning Jack O ' Lantern its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded |
3 | A sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spice of specificity |
1 | familiar and predictable and \/ths of it might as well have come from a Xerox machine rather than LRB writerdirector RRB Franc |
2 | Reyes ' word processor |
1 | Give Shapiro Goldman and Bolado credit for good intentions but there 's nothing here that they could n't have done in half an hour |
0 | It 's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even Jason X look positively Shakesperean by comparison |
2 | A little objectivity could have gone a long way |
0 | One of the worst films of |
2 | I believe Silberling had the best intentions here but he just does n't have the restraint to fully realize them |
1 | plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure Hollywood |
1 | McTiernan 's remake may be lighter on its feet the soberminded original was as graceful as a tapdancing rhino but it is just as boring and as obvious |
1 | High Crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government \/ Marine\/legal mystery and that 's because the movie serves up all of that stuff nearly subliminally as the oldhat province of male intrigue |
0 | This movie is about the worst thing Chan has done in the United States |
1 | The explosion essentially ruined or rather overpowered the fiction of the movie for me |
0 | This ludicrous film is predictable at every turn |
0 | An incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy |
0 | The film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility |
0 | Instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the X Games we get a cinematic postcard that 's superficial and unrealized |
1 | The crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise |
1 | I wish it would have just gone more overthetop instead of trying to have it both ways |
1 | The superior plotline is n't quite enough to drag along the dead LRB water RRB weight of the other |
1 | The film does n't really care about the thousands of Americans who die hideously it cares about how Ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the CIA |
1 | Adrift Bentley and Hudson stare and sniffle respectively as Ledger attempts in vain to prove that moviestar intensity can overcome bad hair design |
1 | After an hour and a half of wondering sometimes amusedly sometimes impatiently just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be |
1 | Linklater fans or pretentious types who want to appear avantgarde will suck up to this project ' |
0 | A woefully dull redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation despite Iwai 's vaunted empathy |
2 | Screenwriter Chris ver Weil 's directing debut is goodnatured and never dull but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability |
0 | If you really want to understand what this story is really all about you 're far better served by the source material |
1 | It 's mildly sentimental unabashedly consumerist studiously inoffensive and completely disposable |
1 | Like its title character Esther Kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating |
1 | The star who helped give a spark to Chasing Amy '' and Changing Lanes '' falls flat as thinking man CIA agent Jack Ryan in this summer 's new action film The Sum of All Fears '' |
0 | A summary of the plot does n't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie for that comes through all too painfully in the execution |
0 | Every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here |
1 | Snoots will no doubt rally to its cause trotting out threadbare standbys like masterpiece ' and triumph ' and all that malarkey but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this |
1 | LRB The film 's RRB taste for shock humor '' will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of Tom Green and the Farrelly Brothers |
3 | Any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things |
2 | If legendary shlockmeister Ed Wood had ever made a movie about a vampire it probably would look a lot like this alarming production adapted from Anne Rice 's novel The Vampire Chronicles |
2 | Hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman 's breakdown the film nevertheless works up a few scares |
0 | Interminably bleak to say nothing of boring |
1 | Things really get weird though not particularly scary the movie is all portent and no content |
2 | It 's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely minutes of postadolescent Electra rebellion |
2 | Bogs down badly as we absorb Jia 's moody badboy behavior which he portrays himself in a onenote performance |
2 | The camera whirls |
2 | The camera twirls |
3 | Oh look at that clever angle |
2 | Wow a jump cut |
1 | Demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from Oscarwinning master to lowly studio hack |
0 | The action scenes have all the suspense of a car pileup while the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through if Kaos had n't blown them all up |
1 | It almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us |
3 | It puts Washington as honest working man John Q Archibald on a pedestal then keeps lifting the pedestal higher |
1 | Ultimately the film amounts to being lectured to by techgeeks if you 're up for that sort of thing |
4 | Far more enjoyable than its predecessor |
3 | LRB Gayton 's script RRB telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience |
1 | Full Frontal which opens today nationwide could almost be classified as a movieindustry satire but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive if disingenuous feature |
0 | A ragbag of cliches |
2 | This rough trade PunchandJudy act did n't play well then and it plays worse now |
0 | The three leads produce adequate performances but what 's missing from this material is any depth of feeling |
0 | It 's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel but the result is more puzzling than unsettling |
0 | This painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications that have no bearing on the story |
3 | Short and sweet but also more than anything else slight Tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations |
2 | Has its moments but it 's pretty far from a treasure |
0 | What more can be expected from a college comedy that 's target audience has n't graduated from junior high school |
2 | Collateral Damage offers formula payback and the Big Payoff but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks pyrocorrectly |
0 | The plan to make Enough into an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heartpounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller ' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong |
0 | Instead of letting the laughs come as they may Lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny er comedy like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank take your pick |
2 | You know that ten bucks you 'd spend on a ticket |
1 | Just send it to Cranky |
0 | We do n't get paid enough to sit through crap like this |
1 | An even more predictable clicheridden endeavor than its predecessor |
1 | The whole thing plays like a tired Tyco ad |
1 | The film does n't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the nonfan to figure out what makes Wilco a big deal |
2 | The soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun too |
1 | No I do n't know why Steven Seagal is considered a star nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money |
0 | Even by the intentionally low standards of fratboy humor Sorority Boys is a bowser |
1 | One welltimed explosion in a movie can be a knockout but a hundred of them can be numbing |
2 | Proof of this is Ballistic Ecks vs Sever |
1 | Halfway through however having sucked dry the undead action flick formula Blade II mutates into a grossout monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary |
0 | Weighted down with slow uninvolving storytelling and flat acting |
0 | We ca n't accuse Kung Pow for misfiring since it is exactly what it wants to be an atrociously mindnumbingly indescribably bad movie |
1 | Unfortunately we 'd prefer a simple misfire |
0 | There is n't one moment in the film that surprises or delights |
2 | Would n't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it 's like on the other side of the bra ' |
2 | The movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors ' moments |
1 | Most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and no matter how Broomfield dresses it up it tends to speculation conspiracy theories or at best circumstantial evidence |
0 | This movie a certain scene in particular brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch |
0 | The secrets of time travel will have been discovered indulged in and rejected as boring before I see this piece of crap again |