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yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot 's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . | neutral |
`` not really as bad as you might think ! '' | neutral |
-lrb- it -rrb- has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . | neutral |
grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors . | neutral |
there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements do n't gel . | neutral |
wait for it to hit cable . | neutral |
it 's another retelling of alexandre dumas ' classic . | neutral |
... a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice 's second installment of her vampire chronicles . | neutral |
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 . | neutral |
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . | neutral |
you do n't need to know your ice-t 's from your cool-j 's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . | negative |
although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it 's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s\/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out . | negative |
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . | negative |
if you 're looking for a story , do n't bother . | negative |
cherish would 've worked a lot better had it been a short film . | negative |
weird . | negative |
bean drops the ball too many times ... hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . | negative |
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . | negative |
boyd 's screenplay -lrb- co-written with guardian hack nick davies -rrb- has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon . | negative |
essentially `` fatal attraction '' remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . | negative |
this 10th film in the series looks and feels tired . | negative |
payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran 's electoral process , but the result is a film that 's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . | negative |
her film is like a beautiful food entrée that is n't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . | negative |
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | negative |
even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . | negative |
though an important political documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a war criminal . | negative |
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . | negative |
violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . | negative |
a moving picture that does not move . | negative |
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating . | negative |
the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . | negative |
`` one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? '' | negative |
we get the comedy we settle for . | negative |
sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ai n't - she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | negative |
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 . | negative |
it never rises to its clever what-if concept . | negative |
although it tries to be much more , it 's really just another major league . | negative |
debut effort by `` project greenlight '' winner is sappy and amateurish . | negative |
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still . | negative |
painfully padded . | negative |
if damon and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . | negative |
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . | negative |
and in a sense , that 's a liability . | negative |
they cheapen the overall effect . | negative |
-lrb- janey -rrb- forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies . | negative |
to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin 's greatest hits . | negative |
as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr. murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | negative |
although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . | negative |
a high-minded snoozer . | negative |
it 's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . | negative |
a movie that 's held captive by mediocrity . | negative |
despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . | negative |
storytelling feels slight . | negative |
uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse ... | negative |
it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it 's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it . | negative |
its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . | negative |
there 's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms is n't it . | negative |
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . | negative |
green ruins every single scene he 's in , and the film , while it 's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that . | negative |
all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . | negative |
jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | negative |
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project . | negative |
rosenthal -lrb- halloween ii -rrb- seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . | negative |
yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . | negative |
to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed . | negative |
like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you 've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably wo n't see the next six . | negative |
i could n't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . | negative |
cuba gooding jr. valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . | negative |
return to never land is much more p.c. than the original version -lrb- no more racist portraits of indians , for instance -rrb- , but the excitement is missing . | negative |
the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . | negative |
eight legged freaks falls flat as a spoof . | negative |
the film , like jimmy 's routines , could use a few good laughs . | negative |
cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a ` back story . ' | negative |
how do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? | negative |
the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . | negative |
the premise of `` abandon '' holds promise , ... but its delivery is a complete mess . | negative |
its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . | negative |
is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? | negative |
hollywood ending just is n't very funny . | negative |
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . | negative |
anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . | very negative |
do n't even bother to rent this on video . | very negative |
pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess . | very negative |
highly uneven and inconsistent ... margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . | very negative |
`` analyze that '' is one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . | very negative |
a fifty car pileup of cliches . | very negative |
and it 's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting . | very negative |
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | very negative |
black-and-white and unrealistic . | very negative |
stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . | very negative |
does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- . | very negative |
godard 's ode to tackling life 's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess ... in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating . | very negative |
reign of fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap . | very negative |
an awful lot like one of -lrb- spears ' -rrb- music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . | very negative |
you 'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . | very negative |
but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro . | very negative |
makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases . | very negative |
what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . | very negative |
not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . | very negative |
perhaps the grossest movie ever made . | very negative |
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