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1 | Theological matters aside the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues |
1 | This latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent wellmade B movie is long gone |
1 | Novak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama |
1 | Been there done that liked it much better the first time around when it was called The Professional |
0 | The film is all over the place really |
1 | It dabbles all around never gaining much momentum |
2 | The beautiful unusual music is this film 's chief draw but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep |
1 | The action quickly sinks into bythenumbers territory |
0 | Forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining |
1 | When LRB Reno RRB lets her radical flag fly taking angry potshots at George W Bush Henry Kissinger Larry King et al Reno devolves into a laughfree lecture |
1 | Such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy but Kaufman and Gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go |
0 | Burns ' fifth beersoaked film feels in almost every possible way from the writing and direction to the soggy performances tossed off |
1 | While this one gets off with a good natured warning future Lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter |
0 | Another boorish movie from the Iheardajoke atafratparty school of screenwriting |
1 | Too much of the movie feels contrived as if the filmmakers were worried the story would n't work without all those gimmicks |
0 | It 's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie |
0 | And it 's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it |
1 | The ethos of the Chelsea Hotel may shape Hawke 's artistic aspirations but he has n't yet coordinated his own DV poetry with the Beat he hears in his soul |
2 | The sight of the name Bruce Willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture but the film has a lot more on its mind maybe too much |
0 | Why sit through a crummy wannabehip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies when you could just rent those movies instead let alone seek out a respectable new one |
0 | The obnoxious special effects the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant sofiveminutesago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy dopey old HannaBarbera charm |
2 | Exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as Kerrigan 's platinumblonde hair |
1 | The movie 's downfall is to substitute plot for personality |
1 | It does n't really know or care about the characters and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events |
1 | All mood and no movie |
0 | Press the delete key |
3 | Simone is not a bad film |
1 | It just does n't have anything really interesting to say |
1 | Once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy the film becomes predictably conventional |
2 | hopefully it 'll be at the dollar theatres by the time Christmas rolls around |
1 | Wait to see it then |
0 | There 's no disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer |
2 | Or for the year for that matter |
0 | Lacks the spirit of the previous two and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck |
0 | This hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on Hopkins ' inclination to play Hannibal Lecter again even though Harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book |
1 | Death to Smoochy tells a moldyoldie notnearly asnasty asit thinksitis joke |
1 | Over and over again |
0 | The threat implied in the title Pokémon ever is terrifying like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming |
1 | The film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements in terms of love age gender race and class |
0 | To call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it |
2 | Entertainment more disposable than HannaBarbera 's halfhour cartoons ever were |
1 | The film falls short on tension eloquence spiritual challenge things that have made the original New Testament stories so compelling for centuries |
3 | By the end of it all I sort of loved the people onscreen even though I could not stand them |
2 | Perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter |
1 | It 's not an easy one to review |
1 | At best this is a film for the under crowd |
1 | But it would be better to wait for the video |
2 | And a very rainy day |
1 | The whole talkinganimal thing is grisly |
3 | Never Again while nothing special is pleasant diverting and modest definitely a step in the right direction |
2 | Would n't it be funny if a bunch of Allied soldiers went undercover as women in a German factory during World War II |
2 | Um no |
1 | But here 's a movie about it anyway |
2 | Has not so much been written as assembled Frankensteinlike out of other marginally better shootemups |
1 | The punch lines that miss unfortunately outnumber the hits by threetoone |
2 | But Death to Smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end |
2 | Mushes the collegefriends genre LRB The Big Chill RRB together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas |
2 | Showtime 's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment |
3 | Those who trek to the plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves |
0 | But ticketbuyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as Mr De Niro |
1 | A determined ennuihobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird |
3 | Too daft by half but supremely good natured |
0 | Fails in making this character understandable in getting under her skin in exploring motivation Well before the end the film grows as dull as its characters about whose fate it is hard to care |
0 | It 's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes finally seem so impersonal or even shallow |
1 | Woody what happened |
3 | Juliette Binoche 's Sand is vivacious but it 's hard to sense that powerhouse of thcentury prose behind her childlike smile |
0 | It 's supposed to be postfeminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah |
1 | You can tell almost immediately that Welcome to Collinwood is n't going to jell |
1 | Throughout all the tumult a question comes to mind So why is this so boring |
1 | Cattaneo reworks the formula that made The Full Monty a smashing success but neglects to add the magic that made it all work |
2 | Routine and rather silly |
0 | A ripoff twice removed modeled after LRB Seagal 's RRB earlier copycat Under Siege sometimes referred to as Die Hard on a boat |
0 | Totally overwrought deeply biased and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are The Greatest Musicians of All Time |
0 | You can practically hear George Orwell turning over |
1 | Behan 's memoir is great material for a film rowdy brawny and lyrical in the best Irish sense but Sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance |
2 | While Holm is terrific as both men and Hjejle quite appealing the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise |
0 | Lazy filmmaking with the director taking a handsoff approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling |
0 | If it were any more of a turkey it would gobble in Dolby Digital stereo |
1 | If nothing else Rollerball '' may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by LL Cool J |
2 | A movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire |
1 | How do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any |
1 | On the evidence before us the answer is clear Not easily and in the end not well enough |
0 | The film 's trailer also looked like crap so crap is what I was expecting |
1 | More trifle than triumph |
0 | The movie is almost completely lacking in suspense surprise and consistent emotional conviction |
0 | Festers in just such a dungpile that you 'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you |
1 | Lyne 's latest the erotic thriller Unfaithful further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded |
1 | It sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss and that 's more or less how it plays out |
1 | Rumor a muddled drama about coming to terms with death feels impersonal almost generic |
1 | Report card Does n't live up to the exalted tagline there 's definite room for improvement |
0 | Does n't deserve a passing grade LRB even on a curve RRB |
0 | The pacing is deadly the narration helps little and Naipaul a juicy writer is negated |
2 | As his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in Long Time Dead says I 'm telling you this is f \*\*\* ed ' |
3 | Maybe he was reading the minds of the audience |
1 | if it had been only halfanhour long or a TV special the humor would have been fast and furious at ninety minutes it drags |
1 | Bean drops the ball too many times hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay |
2 | A wellacted but onenote film |
1 | Blood Work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from Eastwood 's Dirty Harry period |
1 | The movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications |
0 | LRB Lee RRB treats his audience the same way that Jim Brown treats his women as dumb credulous unassuming subordinate subjects |