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1 | A fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them |
0 | An empty purposeless exercise |
2 | Earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock |
0 | Haneke 's script LRB from Elfriede Jelinek 's novel RRB is contrived unmotivated and psychologically unpersuasive with an inconclusive ending |
1 | A sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama |
1 | Those andunders looking for their own Caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking |
1 | A distinctly mixed bag the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze |
1 | What begins brightly gets bogged down over minutes |
2 | Ultimately Jane learns her place as a girl softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with |
1 | Ahnuld 's action hero days might be over |
1 | It 's clear why Deuces Wild which was shot two years ago has been gathering dust on MGM 's shelf |
2 | Feels like nothing quite so much as a middleaged moviemaker 's attempt to surround himself with beautiful halfnaked women |
2 | When the precise nature of Matthew 's predicament finally comes into sharp focus the revelation fails to justify the buildup |
0 | This picture is murder by numbers and as easy to be bored by as your ABC 's despite a few whopping shootouts |
2 | Hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud |
3 | If you are into splatter movies then you will probably have a reasonably good time with The Salton Sea |
0 | A dull simpleminded and stereotypical tale of drugs death and mindnumbing indifference on the innercity streets |
1 | The featurelength stretch strains the show 's concept |
1 | This slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly minute running time |
2 | A film that will probably please people already fascinated by Behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration |
2 | Davis the performer is plenty fetching enough but she needs to shake up the mix and work in something that does n't feel like a halfbaked standup routine |
1 | The densest distillation of Roberts ' movies ever made |
1 | Ultimately the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly American abroad and the toofrosty exterior Ms Paltrow employs to authenticate her British persona is another liability |
1 | A handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on PBS than a night out at an AMC |
2 | Tom Green and an Ivy League college should never appear together on a marquee especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like Stealing Harvard which fails to keep minutes from seeming like |
2 | LRB It RRB highlights not so much the crime lord 's messianic bent but Spacey 's |
0 | Master of Disguise runs for only minutes and feels like three hours |
1 | A reworking of Die Hard and Cliffhanger but it 's nowhere near as exciting as either |
0 | Suffers from unlikable characters and a selfconscious sense of its own quirky hipness |
1 | A film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity |
3 | Fessenden continues to do interesting work and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget |
1 | But the problem with Wendigo for all its effective moments is n't really one of resources |
3 | Spirit is a visual treat and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards but it lacks a strong narrative |
1 | It stars schticky Chris Rock and stolid Anthony Hopkins who seem barely in the same movie |
1 | Their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic it 's just a weird fizzle |
3 | This is a children 's film in the truest sense |
4 | It 's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message so it 's great for the kids |
2 | Parents on the other hand will be ahead of the plot at all times and there is n't enough clever innuendo to fil |
2 | The niftiest trick perpetrated by The Importance of Being Earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of Wilde into Austen and a Hollywoodized Austen at that |
0 | Tykwer 's surface flash is n't just a poor fit with Kieslowski 's lyrical pessimism it completely contradicts everything Kieslowski 's work aspired to including the condition of art |
2 | Ice Age is the first computergenerated feature cartoon to feel like other movies and that makes for some glacial pacing early on |
1 | Too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility |
1 | Cherry Orchard is badly edited often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary precredit sequence designed to give some of the characters a back story ' |
0 | What ensues are much bloodsplattering mass druginduced bowel evacuations and nonetoofunny commentary on the cultural distinctions between Americans and Brits |
1 | A dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so |
1 | The movie is without intent |
2 | Visually exciting scifi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay |
1 | While Hollywood Ending has its share of belly laughs LRB including a knockout of a closing line RRB the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity |
1 | If The Full Monty was a freshman fluke Lucky Break is LRB Cattaneo RRB sophomore slump |
1 | Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant make a great team but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip |
1 | Allegiance to Chekhov which director Michael Cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is a particularly vexing handicap |
0 | You expect more from director Michael Apted LRB Enigma RRB and screenwriter Nicholas Kazan LRB Reversal of Fortune RRB than this cliche pileup |
1 | The first mistake I suspect is casting Shatner as a legendary professor and Kunis as a brilliant college student where 's Pauly Shore as the rocket scientist |
1 | The dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny and the action sequences clearly the main event are surprisingly uninvolving |
1 | Replacing John Carpenter 's stylish tracking shots is degraded handheld Blair Witch videocam footage |
0 | Of all the Halloween 's this is the most visually unappealing |
1 | It has the requisite fauxurban vibe and hottertwoyearsago rap and R&B names and references |
1 | Despite its dry wit and compassion the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing |
0 | feels as if LRB there 's RRB a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something |
0 | Attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama |
1 | He seems to want both but succeeds in making neither |
1 | I could have used my two hours better watching Being John Malkovich again |
2 | It 's not a bad plot but unfortunately the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from |
1 | Girlfriends are bad wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter Italian comedy |
1 | The only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants who might be distracted by the movie 's quick movements and sounds |
3 | The film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances but the result is disappointing |
1 | No Such Thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina |
2 | Unfortunately neither Sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate |
0 | A wishywashy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung but explains its characters ' decisions only unsatisfactorily |
2 | Bang |
3 | Zoom |
2 | It 's actually pretty funny but in all the wrong places |
1 | Lurid and less than lucid work |
1 | A wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prepschool kid with a Mrs Robinson complex founders on its own preciousness and squanders its beautiful women |
2 | At a brief minutes we need more X and less blab |
3 | If anything see it for Karen Black who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named Dirty Dick |
0 | This minute dud could pass for Mike Tyson 's E |
2 | True Hollywood Story |
0 | This is surely one of the most frantic virulent and foulnatured Christmas season pics ever delivered by a Hollywood studio |
0 | Once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand even the funniest idea is n't funny |
2 | A porn film without the sex scenes |
1 | The connected stories of Breitbart and Hanussen are actually fascinating but the filmmaking in Invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice |
0 | A depressingly retrograde postfeminist ' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women |
1 | Return to Never Land is much more PC than the original version LRB no more racist portraits of Indians for instance RRB but the excitement is missing |
2 | By the end you just do n't care whether that coldhearted snake Petrovich LRB that would be Reno RRB gets his comeuppance |
3 | Just bring on the Battle Bots please |
1 | While it 's all quite tasteful to look at the attention process tends to do a little fleeing of its own |
1 | Broder 's screenplay is shallow offensive and redundant with pitifully few real laughs |
2 | Yes they can swim the title is merely AnneSophie Birot 's offhanded way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through |
2 | Don Michael Paul uses quickcuts LRB very RRB large shadows and wideangle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double LRB for Seagal RRB |
2 | Slow silly and unintentionally hilarious |
0 | The Sweetest Thing leaves a bitter taste |
0 | In a big corner office in Hell Satan is throwing up his hands in surrender is firing his R&D people and has decided he will just screen The Master of Disguise \/ |
1 | For something as splendidlooking as this particular film the viewer expects something special but instead gets LRB scifi RRB rehash |
0 | A thriller without a lot of thrills |
0 | This stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror |
2 | Ah the travails of metropolitan life |
2 | Alas another breathless movie about same |
2 | In Moonlight Mile no one gets shut out of the hug cycle |
2 | Though uniformly well acted especially by young Ballesta and Galan LRB a firsttime actor RRB writer\/director Achero Manas 's film is schematic and obvious |