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0 | Done in mostly by a weak script that ca n't support the epic treatment |
1 | Despite its visual virtuosity Naqoyqatsi ' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it |
1 | Slap her she 's not funny |
0 | No French people were harmed during the making of this movie but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half |
3 | Though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should |
1 | One look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid '' |
1 | Um is n't that the basis for the entire plot |
2 | Not really as bad as you might think '' |
2 | Strident and inelegant in its messagemovie ' posturing |
4 | One regards Reign of Fire with awe |
2 | What a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea |
2 | It has the right approach and the right opening premise but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material |
1 | Its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie 's presentation which is way too stagy |
3 | Seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable the director 's experiment is a successful one |
2 | The plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish |
1 | I suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the DVD |
0 | An unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it |
2 | Ninety minutes of Viva Castro |
1 | can be as tiresome as seconds of Jesse Helms ' anti Castro rhetoric which are included |
0 | Comes off as a long laborious whine the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man |
1 | It just goes to show an intelligent person is n't necessarily an admirable storyteller |
2 | In a minute film Aaliyah gets at most minutes of screen time |
1 | most viewers will wish there had been more of the Queen '' and less of the Damned '' |
0 | Hopelessly inane humorless and underinspired |
1 | Kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for LRB or worth rooting against for that matter RRB |
1 | It reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachykeen and so tubthumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it |
2 | None of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of Bond but much of it is good for a laugh |
1 | The problem with XXX '' is that its own action is n't very effective |
1 | A great script brought down by lousy direction |
2 | Same guy with both hats |
1 | Big mistake |
1 | A mediocre exercise in target demographics unaware that it 's the butt of its own joke |
2 | Director Kevin Bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the Miami Vice '' checklist of power boats Latin music and dog tracks |
1 | He does n't however deliver nearly enough of the show 's trademark style and flash |
2 | In gleefully thumpingly hyperbolic terms it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz |
2 | The Spalding Gray equivalent of a teen grossout comedy |
1 | Perhaps even the SLC high command found writerdirector Mitch Davis 's wall of kitsch hard going |
3 | According to Wendigo nature ' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves |
3 | An encouraging effort from McCrudden |
1 | The romance between the leads is n't as compelling or as believable as it should be |
0 | If I could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was I would go back and choose to skip it |
2 | Fortunately you still have that option |
1 | Supposedly authentic account of a historical event that 's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment |
1 | Adroit but finally a trifle flat Mad Love does n't galvanize its outrage the way say Jane Campion might have done but at least it possesses some |
1 | To Blandly Go Where We Went Movies Ago |
1 | A slowmoving policeprocedural thriller that takes its title all too literally |
1 | This uboat does n't have a captain |
1 | With nary a glimmer of selfknowledge LRB Crane RRB becomes more specimen than character and Auto Focus remains a chilly clinical lab report |
0 | This one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit |
0 | Dull a roadtrip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song |
1 | I walked away not really know who they '' were what they '' looked like |
1 | Why they '' were here and what they '' wanted and quite honestly I did n't care |
0 | After several scenes of this tacky nonsense you 'll be wistful for the testosteronecharged wizardry of Jerry Bruckheimer productions especially because Half Past Dead is like The Rock on a WalMart budget |
2 | A relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd contrived overblown and entirely implausible finale |
0 | The Country Bears wastes an exceptionally good idea |
0 | But the movie that does n't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences |
2 | Adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like Pinocchio |
1 | As for children they wo n't enjoy the movie at all |
0 | you can be forgiven for realizing that you 've spent the past minutes looking at your watch and waiting for Frida to just die already |
1 | Too bad writerdirector Adam Rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the Golden Eagle 's carpets |
2 | It 's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another |
1 | The movie is genial but never inspired and little about it will stay with you |
2 | The movie obviously seeks to recreate the excitement of such 's flicks as Jules Verne 's ' Leagues Under the Sea ' and the George Pal version of HG Wells ' The Time Machine ' |
1 | But its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless |
1 | Despite the opulent lushness of every scene the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings |
1 | even after minutes of playing opposite each other Bullock and Grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene |
1 | What should have been a painless timekiller becomes instead a grating endurance test |
1 | A bland obnoxious minute infomercial for Universal Studios and its ancillary products |
1 | little action almost no suspense or believable tension onedimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as scifi generic |
2 | The movie strains to stay on the light comic side of the issue despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and potentially of life itself |
0 | The Master of Disguise is awful |
0 | It 's Pauly Shore awful |
1 | Do n't say you were n't warned |
1 | Disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies or any other John Woo flick for that matter |
2 | The entire movie is filled with deja vu moments |
1 | Opening up ' the play more has partly closed it down |
3 | What LRB Frei RRB gives us is a man who uses the damage of war far more often than the warfare itself to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows |
1 | An ugly revolting movie |
1 | The film is way too full of itself it 's stuffy and pretentious in a givemeanOscar kind of way |
0 | The movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn and the nicest thing I can say is that I ca n't remember a single name responsible for it |
1 | Watching Ending '' is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor 's garage sale |
0 | You ca n't believe anyone would really buy this stuff |
2 | Certainly beautiful to look at but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic |
0 | It desperately wants to be a wacky screwball comedy but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time |
1 | The skills of a calculus major at MIT are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the longwinded heist comedy Who Is Cletis Tout |
0 | From the choppy editing to the annoying score to special effects ' by way of replacing objects in a character 's hands below the camera line Besotted '' is misbegotten |
1 | My advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtrack |
2 | A film that presents an interesting even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations |
1 | Filled with lowbrow humor gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life |
2 | directed in a flashy empty submusic video style by a director so selfpossessed he actually adds a period to his first name |
2 | The yearold Godard has become to judge from In Praise of Love the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic worldatlarge without doing all that much to correct them |
1 | An unsophisticated scifi drama that takes itself all too seriously |
1 | Solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision but that vision is beginning to feel if not morally bankrupt at least terribly monotonous |
2 | Harvard Man is a semithrowback a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality |
2 | Supposedly based upon real or at least soberly reported incidents the film ends with a large human tragedy |
0 | Alas getting there is not even half the interest |
2 | While Hoffman 's performance is great the subject matter goes nowhere |
2 | The smash 'em up crash 'em up shoot 'em up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense |
1 | Deuces Wild treads heavily into Romeo and Juliet\/West Side Story territory where it plainly has no business going |
1 | Hart 's War seems to want to be a character study but apparently ca n't quite decide which character |