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1 | Grant is n't Cary and Bullock is n't Katherine |
1 | Like a fish that 's lived too long Austin Powers in Goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places |
3 | Two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending |
1 | Shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom |
0 | The entire movie is in need of a scented bath |
1 | I 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal Arnold is not nor will he be back |
0 | The story of Trouble Every Day is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a sciencefiction horror film and the movie 's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult |
1 | A Movie to Forget |
0 | For all of its insights into the dream world of teen life and its electronic expression through cyber culture the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its \/ hour running time |
1 | Enough is not a bad movie just mediocre |
0 | The performances are so overstated the effect comes off as selfparody |
1 | It looks good but it is essentially empty |
1 | The film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long |
1 | The idea is more interesting than the screenplay which lags badly in the middle and lurches between notveryfunny comedy unconvincing dramatics and some lastminute action strongly reminiscent of Run Lola Run |
1 | Van Wilder has a builtin audience but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest |
1 | It 's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby |
1 | Do we really need another film that praises female selfsacrifice |
1 | The major problem with Windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character |
2 | Tennessee Williams by way of Oprah 's Book Club |
2 | So verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard madeforTV movie |
1 | The entire point of a shaggy dog story of course is that it goes nowhere and this is classic nowheresville in every sense |
0 | Stale and clichéd to a fault |
1 | This film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own |
1 | Watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt as if you were paying dues for good books unread fine music never heard |
2 | The script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of hypertime ' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for Spy Kids |
1 | Starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it but filmmaker Yvan Attal quickly writes himself into a corner |
1 | Some Like It Hot on the Hardwood proves once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funny |
2 | Unfortunately contrived plotting stereotyped characters and Woo 's overthetop instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie 's heart |
1 | Witless and utterly pointless |
1 | When science fiction ' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience has n't yet had much science it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre |
2 | Show me the mugging |
2 | Represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller\/horror genre |
2 | Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying |
1 | As a featurelength film it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character |
2 | A guilty pleasure at best and not worth seeing unless you want to laugh at it |
1 | A sleepinducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away |
1 | With a Spy Kids '' sequel opening next week why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a SNL '' hasbeen acting like an yearold channeling Roberto Benigni |
0 | It 's just rather leaden and dull |
1 | Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hiphop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired years ago |
1 | Statham employs an accent that I think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass American but sometimes just lapses into unhidden British |
1 | Instead of trying to bust some blondes LRB Diggs RRB should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad |
2 | Initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience |
2 | De Ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is overall far too staid for its subject matter |
0 | Dismally dull scifi comedy |
0 | There 's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits |
3 | When one hears Harry Shearer is going to make his debut as a film director one would hope for the best |
1 | The leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting |
1 | LRB Toback 's RRB fondness for fancy splitscreen stuttering editing and pompous references to Wittgenstein and Kirkegaard blends uneasily with the titillating material |
1 | Adam Sandler 's Crazy Nights is wasted minutes of Sandler as the voiceover hero in Columbia Pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie |
1 | essentially Fatal Attraction '' remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in |
1 | this story gets sillier not scarier as it goes along |
0 | Even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of Job to get through this interminable shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture |
1 | The film 's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence |
1 | A singularly offputting romantic comedy |
1 | This is an exercise not in biography but in hero worship |
1 | It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow |
2 | I ca n't |
1 | In the spirit of the season I assign one bright shining star to Roberto Benigni 's Pinocchio but I guarantee that no wise men will be following after it |
1 | Check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you do n't want to think too much about what 's going on |
2 | The movie does has some entertainment value how much depends on how well you like Chris Rock |
2 | A movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting than by its own story |
1 | A culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is |
0 | The logic of it all will be Greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor |
2 | As selfaware movies go Who is Cletis Tout |
2 | is clever enough though thin writing proves its undoing |
0 | Starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages overblown drama and Bruce Willis with a scar |
1 | a fascinating curiosity piece fascinating that is for about ten minutes |
0 | After that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course |
0 | Director Jay Russell weighs down his capricious fairytale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning |
2 | There are many things that solid acting can do for a movie but crafting something promising from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them |
1 | Its screenplay serves as autocritique and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure |
0 | At times it actually hurts to watch |
1 | Nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme |
1 | The jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail |
1 | LRB Tries RRB to parody a genre that 's already a joke in the United States |
0 | The movie is the equivalent of French hiphop which also seems to play on a year delay |
1 | A beyondlame satire Teddy Bears ' Picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writeractor |
0 | I 've never seen LRB a remake RRB do anything as stomachturning as the way Adam Sandler 's new movie rapes pillages and incinerates Frank Capra 's classic |
2 | Hollywood 's answer to an air ball |
1 | And people make fun of me for liking Showgirls |
1 | Such a wildly uneven hitandmiss enterprise you ca n't help suspecting that it was improvised on a daytoday basis during production |
3 | A weird little movie that 's amusing enough while you watch it offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern LA 's showbiz and media subcultures |
1 | But it does n't leave you with much |
1 | I 'm convinced I could keep a family of five blind crippled Amish people alive in this situation better than these British soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking |
1 | Like Mike is a slight and uninventive movie Like the exalted Michael Jordan referred to in the title many can aspire but none can equal |
0 | There is nothing funny in this everyjokehas beentolda thousandtimes before movie |
3 | Always destined to be measured against Anthony Asquith 's acclaimed screen adaptation |
0 | This is standard crime drama fare instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull |
1 | There 's some outrageously creative action in The Transporter LRB b RRB ut by the time Frank parachutes down onto a moving truck it 's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman |
2 | One of those basedontruth stories that persuades you with every scene that it could never really have happened this way |
1 | From its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast Bartleby squanders as much as it gives out |
1 | Yet another genre exercise Gangster No is as generic as its title |
2 | Despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair |
1 | There 's an admirable rigor to Jimmy 's relentless anger and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending but as those monologues stretch on and on you realize there 's no place for this story to go but down |
2 | Once again the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated and a meaty plot and welldeveloped characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle |
1 | A lightweight uneven action comedy that freely mingles French Japanese and Hollywood cultures |
1 | Such a fine idea for a film and such a stultifying lifeless execution |
3 | LRB Allen 's RRB best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middleAmerica diversions could ever be |
1 | This overlong infomercial due out on video before month 's end is tepid and tedious |
1 | An ambitious guiltsuffused melodrama crippled by poor casting |