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0 | 0 | " 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 . |
1 | 0 | you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . |
2 | 0 | complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . |
3 | 0 | first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . |
4 | 0 | . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit . |
5 | 0 | goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . |
6 | 0 | could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . |
7 | 0 | in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . |
8 | 0 | lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . |
9 | 0 | slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . |
10 | 0 | the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . |
11 | 0 | will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . |
12 | 0 | in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . |
13 | 0 | this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . |
14 | 0 | the film is flat . |
15 | 0 | the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . |
16 | 0 | it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated . |
17 | 0 | an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . |
18 | 0 | the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? |
19 | 0 | this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . |
20 | 0 | the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . |
21 | 0 | when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . |
22 | 0 | it would work much better as a one-hour tv documentary . |
23 | 0 | the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . |
24 | 0 | anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . |
25 | 0 | simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . |
26 | 0 | an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . |
27 | 0 | queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . |
28 | 0 | this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . |
29 | 0 | it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . |
30 | 0 | not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . |
31 | 0 | it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence . |
32 | 0 | serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . |
33 | 0 | director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . |
34 | 0 | a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . ' |
35 | 0 | the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . |
36 | 0 | a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . |
37 | 0 | at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . |
38 | 0 | despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable |
39 | 0 | meyjes's movie , like max rothman's future , does not work . |
40 | 0 | what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . |
41 | 0 | schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . |
42 | 0 | an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . |
43 | 0 | not once does it come close to being exciting . |
44 | 0 | a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . |
45 | 0 | it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . |
46 | 0 | there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american . and that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by brendan fraser . |
47 | 0 | one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . |
48 | 0 | needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . |
49 | 0 | the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong . |
50 | 0 | it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . |
51 | 0 | i'm not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about . |
52 | 0 | cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . |
53 | 0 | so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe . |
54 | 0 | the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film . |
55 | 0 | some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent . |
56 | 0 | it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its style . |
57 | 0 | unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't . |
58 | 0 | a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . |
59 | 0 | for single digits kidlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . |
60 | 0 | shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . |
61 | 0 | contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin . |
62 | 0 | nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . |
63 | 0 | this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic . |
64 | 0 | the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . |
65 | 0 | a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . |
66 | 0 | a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . |
67 | 0 | personal velocity ought to be exploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . |
68 | 0 | we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground . |
69 | 0 | sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation . |
70 | 0 | two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . |
71 | 0 | a fascinating but choppy documentary . |
72 | 0 | scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . |
73 | 0 | the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . |
74 | 0 | too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good . |
75 | 0 | apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . |
76 | 0 | the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . |
77 | 0 | despite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . |
78 | 0 | director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . |
79 | 0 | . . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen . |
80 | 0 | never comes together as a coherent whole . |
81 | 0 | an unintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . |
82 | 0 | first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? |
83 | 0 | don't even bother to rent this on video . |
84 | 0 | there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . |
85 | 0 | this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . |
86 | 0 | not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . |
87 | 0 | plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully developed story . |
88 | 0 | the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . |
89 | 0 | a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . |
90 | 0 | an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . |
91 | 0 | bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . |
92 | 0 | gibney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up . |
93 | 0 | the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . |
94 | 0 | less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie . |
95 | 0 | a film that suffers because of its many excesses . |
96 | 0 | too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . |
97 | 0 | in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . |
98 | 0 | depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . |
99 | 0 | nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . |
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