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a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about .

adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '

this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost .

the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .

de niro cries . you'll cry for your money back .

slap me , i saw this movie .

[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow .

behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprise !

scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle .

just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay .

oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material

the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way .

carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '

so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film .

in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate .

starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés .

sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates .

one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation .

there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies .

bland but harmless .

'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience .

the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive .

resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year .

five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before .

the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break .

well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery .

so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat .

the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster .

la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido .

kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both .

it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .

wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai

it's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long .

ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf explodes .

bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer .

the premise of " abandon " holds promise , . . . but its delivery is a complete mess .

what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess .

a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films .

unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression .

the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects .

the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it .

the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role .

the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas .

what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is !

the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film .

opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen .

despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless .

it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill

the sweetest thing leaves an awful sour taste .

it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay .

terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable .

as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy .

aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships .

a low-rent retread of the alien pictures .

serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst .

its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .

a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on .

the story has little wit and no surprises .

the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage .

what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety .

hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so .

a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .

dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted

[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen .

the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh .

. . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary .

plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp .

the central character isn't complex enough to hold our interest .

a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight .

a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks .

just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be .

a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium .

there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more .

the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life .

a quaint , romanticized rendering .

what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song .

the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness .

a potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted .

woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them .

she's not yet an actress , not quite a singer . . .

not a bad premise , but the execution is lackluster at best .

been there done that .

there is only so much baked cardboard i need to chew .

a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work .

schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying .

even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness .

only two-fifths of a satisfying movie experience .

a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .

[l]ame and unnecessary .

a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of art .

it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy !

. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad .

you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to .

unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs .

basically , it's pretty but dumb .

this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in .

squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare .

there's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings .

reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down .

the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen .