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4 | A man leaving the screening said the film was better than Saving Private Ryan |
2 | He may have meant the Internet short Saving Ryan 's Privates |
1 | But Windtalkers does n't beat that one either |
1 | May puzzle his most ardent fans |
1 | Starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill |
1 | We never feel anything for these characters and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity |
2 | Those unfamiliar with Mormon traditions may find The Singles Ward occasionally bewildering |
2 | Ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head but he knows how to pose Madonna |
2 | The story touching though it is does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature and even at minutes it feels a bit long |
1 | Feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired of fighting the same fights of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders of playing with narrative form |
1 | While you have to admit it 's semiamusing to watch Robert DeNiro belt out When you 're a Jet you 're a Jet all the way '' it 's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to Tonight '' |
0 | The whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it 's trying to set the women 's liberation movement back years ' |
1 | the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well but quite frankly Scoob and Shag do n't eat enough during the film ' |
0 | More of the same old garbage Hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now |
1 | TV skitcom material fervently deposited on the big screen |
1 | LRB Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai are RRB sure to find an enthusiastic audience among American actionadventure buffs but the film 's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers |
1 | If there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout this is the one |
0 | It 's as sorry a mess as its director 's diabolical debut Mad Cows |
1 | Any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director Jon Purdy 's sledgehammer sap |
1 | Its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity Steven Soderbergh 's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience |
1 | Despite some strong performances never rises above the level of a telanovela |
2 | This is a picture that Maik the firebrand turned savvy ad man would be envious of it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool |
2 | Feels slight as if it were an extended short albeit one made by the smartest kids in class |
0 | Unspeakable of course barely begins to describe the plot and its complications |
0 | Vulgar is too optimistic a title |
2 | The actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene but to diminishing effect |
1 | The characters never change |
1 | If The Last Man were the last movie left on earth there would be a tossup between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows |
3 | Welles groupie\/scholar Peter Bogdanovich took a long time to do it but he 's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant William Randolph Hearst |
1 | Makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes becoming so slick and watereddown it almost loses what made you love it in the first place |
0 | Even as I valiantly struggled to remain interested or at least conscious I could feel my eyelids getting very heavy |
0 | A bad movie that happened to good actors |
1 | Boasts eyecatching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome |
3 | Screenwriter Dan Schneider and director Shawn Levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite |
0 | Oversexed at times overwrought comedy\/drama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty female and single |
0 | That such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies |
1 | It all starts to smack of a Hallmark Hall of Fame with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television |
0 | Rarely has a film 's title served such dire warning |
1 | If you saw Benigni 's Pinocchio at a public park you 'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police |
2 | The animation is competent and some of the gags are quite funny but Jonah never shakes the oppressive morally superior goodforyou quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment |
2 | The pace of the film is very slow LRB for obvious reasons RRB and that too becomes offputting |
1 | Mr Wollter and Ms Seldhal give strong and convincing performances but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion grief and fear |
1 | Shafer 's feature does n't offer much in terms of plot or acting |
1 | In his role of observer of the scene Lawrence sounds whiny and defensive as if his lifealtering experiences made him bitter and less mature |
1 | LRB T RRB he ideas of Revolution # are more compelling than the execution |
1 | The film did n't convince me that Calvin Jr 's Barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of Chicago 's South Side |
1 | What happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares |
1 | Despite some comic sparks Welcome to Collinwood never catches fire |
1 | Director George Hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place |
1 | Shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling |
1 | Even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency |
3 | Some Body is a shaky uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves |
1 | All the small moments and flashbacks do n't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition |
1 | LRB A RRB stale retread of the ' original |
1 | One thing 's for sure if George Romero had directed this movie it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head |
0 | For dance completists only |
0 | Spreads itself too thin leaving these actors as well as the members of the commune short of profound characterizations |
1 | It would n't matter so much that this arrogant Richard Pryor wannabe 's routine is offensive puerile and unimaginatively foulmouthed if it was at least funny |
1 | The locale remains far more interesting than the story at hand |
2 | Yo it 's The Days Of Our Lives meets Electric Boogaloo |
0 | I liked the original short story but this movie even at an hour and twentysome minutes it 's too long and it goes nowhere |
0 | This little film is so slovenly done so primitive in technique that it ca n't really be called animation |
0 | Makes minutes feel like three hours |
1 | Hawke 's film a boring pretentious waste of nearly two hours does n't tell you anything except that the Chelsea Hotel today is populated by whiny pathetic starving and untalented artistes |
1 | Aspires to the cracked lunacy of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like The Adventures of Ford Fairlane |
1 | Reallife strongman Ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders |
0 | The title alone should scare any sane person away |
1 | Low comedy does n't come much lower |
1 | Appropriately cynical social commentary aside # never quite ignites |
0 | It 's crap on a leash far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of Joe Dante 's similarly styled Gremlins |
1 | One of the most depressing moviegoing experiences I can think of is to sit through about minutes of a socalled comedy ' and not laugh once |
1 | This is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream |
2 | Let 's face it there are n't many reasons anyone would want to see Crossroads if they 're not big fans of teen pop kitten Britney Spears |
0 | A loud brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy |
1 | An exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work every bit as imperious as Katzenberg 's The Prince of Egypt from |
0 | The movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue just because it seems obligatory |
1 | The movie 's vision of a white American zealously spreading a Puritanical brand of Christianity to South Seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish |
0 | Maid in Manhattan proves that it 's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies |
1 | A fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless featurelength afterschool special |
2 | I ca n't remember the last time I saw a movie where I wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail |
1 | the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy |
1 | Like most of Jaglom 's films some of it is honestly affecting but more of it seems contrived and secondhand |
1 | One long numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff Yuen has given us before |
1 | Forgettable if goodhearted movie |
1 | The film 's most improbable feat |
2 | It did n't go straight to video |
0 | about as exciting to watch as two lastplace basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season |
1 | The Chateau is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters |
0 | Cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment simultaneously degrades its characters its stars and its audience |
3 | It 's not too fast and not too slow |
2 | It 's not too racy and it 's not too offensive |
1 | It 's not too much of anything |
1 | The great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses and ours and retitle it The Adventures of DirecttoVideo Nash and send it to its proper home |
2 | About as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life |
1 | An empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal |
2 | We could have expected a little more human being and a little less product |
1 | Instead of using George and Lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks Lawrence desperately looks elsewhere seizing on George 's haplessness and Lucy 's personality tics |
2 | Whether Quitting will prove absorbing to American audiences is debatable |
0 | Becomes a bit of a mishmash a tearjerker that does n't and a thriller that wo n't |
1 | Family togetherness takes a back seat to interfamily rivalry and workplace ambition whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance |