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2 | The only upside to all of this unpleasantness is given its Labor Day weekend upload FearDotCom should log a minimal number of hits |
1 | Whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art it 's an unhappy situation all around |
1 | An uneasy mix of runofthemill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection |
3 | A formula family tearjerker told with a heavy Irish brogue accentuating rather than muting the plot 's saccharine thrust |
1 | This is Sandler running on empty repeating what he 's already done way too often |
1 | This is as lax and limp a comedy as I 've seen in a while a meander through wornout material |
0 | Time literally stops on a dime in the triessohardtobecool Clockstoppers '' but that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest minutes of your moviegoing life |
1 | The sort of picture in which whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do they go to a pictureperfect beach during sunset |
2 | Aptly named this shimmering beautifully costumed and filmed production does n't work for me |
2 | A preposterously melodramatic paean to gangmember teens in Brooklyn circa |
1 | Has none of the crackle of Fatal Attraction '' \/ Weeks '' or even Indecent Proposal '' and feels more like Lyne 's stolid remake of Lolita '' |
2 | Everything its title implies a standardissue crime drama spat out from the Tinseltown assembly line |
2 | An extraordinarily silly thriller |
1 | A rehash of every gangster movie from the past decade |
0 | Gaping plot holes sink this sub ' standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth |
1 | Talkiness is n't necessarily bad but the dialogue frequently misses the mark |
1 | The beautiful images and solemn words can not disguise the slack complacency of LRB Godard 's RRB vision any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny selfrighteousness of his voice |
3 | The stunt work is topnotch the dialogue and drama often foodspittingly funny |
1 | The movie is n't painfully bad something to be fully experienced ' it 's just tediously bad something to be fully forgotten |
1 | Charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past Love Story derisions |
0 | What a great shame that such a talented director as Chen Kaige has chosen to make his Englishlanguage debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted |
0 | No amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story |
3 | The film presents classic moralcondundrum drama What would you have done to survive |
1 | The problem with the film is whether these ambitions laudable in themselves justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of Auschwitz IIBirkenau |
1 | for all its social and political potential State Property does n't end up being very inspiring or insightful |
1 | A film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time and this is n't |
1 | Little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point is no doubt true but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable |
0 | The nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paperthin characterizations and facile situations |
1 | This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking joyless idiotic annoying heavyhanded visually atrocious and often downright creepy |
2 | This offputting French romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of Amélie |
1 | overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue |
2 | Ensemble movies like soap operas depend on empathy |
2 | If there ai n't none you have a problem |
1 | The Master of Disguise falls under the category of should have been a sketch on Saturday Night Live ' |
2 | Yet another selfconsciously overwritten story about a ragtag bunch of wouldbe characters that team up for a ca n't miss heist only to have it all go wrong |
0 | Koepp 's screenplay is n't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own |
1 | Is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets |
1 | More successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex dramatically satisfying heroine |
0 | Clumsy obvious preposterous the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades |
1 | It 's hard to pity the plain ' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lipgloss |
0 | Rather pity anyone who sees this mishmash |
0 | A banal virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy |
1 | The drama discloses almost nothing |
1 | A minorleague soccer remake of The Longest Yard |
1 | Belongs in the toohotforTV directtovideo\/DVD category and this is why I have given it a onestar rating |
1 | As earnest as a communitycollege advertisement American Chai is enough to make you put away the guitar sell the amp and apply to medical school |
0 | A dimwitted and lazy spinoff of the Animal Planet documentary series Crocodile Hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring |
2 | There is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down |
2 | And that should tell you everything you need to know about All the Queen 's Men |
1 | Even fans of Ismail Merchant 's work I suspect would have a hard time sitting through this one |
2 | It 's really just another silly Hollywood action film one among a multitude of simpleminded yahooing death shows |
2 | It 's not a particularly good film but neither is it a monsterous one |
4 | The world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like Martin Scorsese |
2 | But it does n't need Gangs of New York |
2 | Enchanted with lowlife tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts What is sorely missing however is the edge of wild lunatic invention that we associate with Cage 's best acting |
2 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is deja vu all over again and while that is a cliche nothing could be more appropriate |
2 | It 's likely that whatever you thought of the first production pro or con you 'll likely think of this one |
0 | Sade achieves the nearimpossible It turns the Marquis de Sade into a dullard |
1 | LRB Lin Chung 's RRB voice is rather unexceptional even irritating LRB at least to this Western ear RRB making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters |
1 | One of the most plain unimaginative romantic comedies I 've ever seen |
1 | Though there 's a clarity of purpose and evenhandedness to the film 's direction the drama feels rigged and sluggish |
0 | Unfortunately the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making |
1 | Unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction Impostor is opening today at a theater near you |
0 | It should be doing a lot of things but does n't |
1 | Chen films the resolutely downbeat Smokers Only with every indulgent indie trick in the book |
1 | a rather bland affair |
2 | Farfetched premise convoluted plot and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love |
2 | The movie tries to be ethereal but ends up seeming goofy |
2 | I was hoping that it would be sleazy and fun but it was neither |
2 | Harris is supposed to be the star of the story but comes across as pretty dull and wooden |
0 | Soulless and even more damning virtually joyless XXX achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence |
1 | A boring masquerade ball where normally good actors even Kingsley are made to look bad |
0 | All the Queen 's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels it should pay reparations to viewers |
1 | The filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart |
1 | Rather than real figures Elling and Kjell Bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf 's encounter with the world |
3 | Mariah Carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in Glitter here in Wisegirls |
1 | It 's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it 's all about the silences and if you 're into that have at it |
1 | I suspect that you 'll be as bored watching Morvern Callar as the characters are in it |
0 | If you go pack your knitting needles |
0 | The lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma |
1 | We do n't even like their characters |
0 | Some writer dude I think his name was uh Michael Zaidan was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something but dude the only thing that I ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck |
1 | The movie does n't generate a lot of energy |
0 | It is dark brooding and slow and takes its central idea way too seriously |
1 | This feature is about as necessary as a hole in the head |
1 | Spectators will indeed sit openmouthed before the screen not screaming but yawning |
1 | It feels like very light Errol Morris focusing on eccentricity but failing ultimately to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs |
0 | A period story about a Catholic boy who tries to help a Jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell |
0 | The premise itself is just SOOOOO tired |
0 | Pair that with really poor comedic writing and you 've got a huge mess |
1 | Proves a lovely trifle that unfortunately is a little too in love with its own cuteness |
1 | Did we really need a remake of Charade '' |
2 | Some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes a setup delivery and payoff |
1 | Stealing Harvard ca n't even do that much |
0 | Each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth |
1 | The only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game |
1 | You try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored |
1 | I spied with my little eye a mediocre collection of cookiecutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits |
1 | Entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics but through the perverse pleasure of watching Disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel |
1 | The satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying |