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writer/director john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but , when he veers into sodden melodrama , punctuated by violins , it's disastrous and kate's jealous female friends become downright despicable . | 0neg
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[newton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . | 0neg
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unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . | 0neg
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a lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable . | 0neg
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the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . | 0neg
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when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . | 0neg
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cliches are as thick as the cigarette smoke . | 0neg
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a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . | 0neg
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'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . | 0neg
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what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . | 0neg
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a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . | 0neg
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birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . | 0neg
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watching the film is like reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . | 0neg
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enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . | 0neg
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succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . | 0neg
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christians sensitive to a reductionist view of their lord as a luv-spreading dr . feelgood or omnipotent slacker will feel vastly more affronted than secularists , who might even praise god for delivering such an instant camp classic . | 0neg
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if this dud had been made in the '70s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . | 0neg
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a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience . | 0neg
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like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . | 0neg
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" an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . " | 0neg
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pryor lite , with half the demons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . | 0neg
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what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . | 0neg
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the stories here suffer from the chosen format . | 0neg
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while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat's malediction remains intriguing enough to sustain mild interest , the picture refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterization , humor or plain old popcorn fun . | 0neg
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just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . | 0neg
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the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . | 0neg
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john leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . | 0neg
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the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense . | 0neg
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hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world . | 0neg
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build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . | 0neg
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rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down . | 0neg
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. . . has about 3/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor but it's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake- of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity . | 0neg
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a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista só é superada por sua péssima direção . | 0neg
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the master of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . | 0neg
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this isn't a movie ; it's a symptom . | 0neg
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the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly
alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . | 0neg
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the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's first quarter . | 0neg
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it's so underwritten that you can't figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's future . | 0neg
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a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is true or not . | 0neg
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none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor . | 0neg
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bad company leaves a bad taste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . | 0neg
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even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat . | 0neg
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fails to bring as much to the table . | 0neg
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a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . | 0neg
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disturbingly superficial in its approach to the material . | 0neg
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if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick slog . | 0neg
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i hate this movie | 0neg
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it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo . | 0neg
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gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . | 0neg
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at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it | 0neg
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. . . pitiful , slapdash disaster . a doa dud from frame one . | 0neg
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jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company . | 0neg
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there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . | 0neg
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although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | 0neg
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the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . | 0neg
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distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . | 0neg
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godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . | 0neg
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the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . | 0neg
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a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . | 0neg
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eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . | 0neg
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the movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . | 0neg
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it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it's just grating . | 0neg
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an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . | 0neg
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once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle | 0neg
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the dose is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . | 0neg
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the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . | 0neg
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what's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best . | 0neg
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no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their heads were is anyone's guess . | 0neg
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call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . | 0neg
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a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . | 0neg
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got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 1/2-hour , dissipated length . | 0neg
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a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . | 0neg
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like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . | 0neg
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i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . | 0neg
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gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . | 0neg
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feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . | 0neg
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one of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced . | 0neg
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will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? | 0neg
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a selection of scenes in search of a movie . | 0neg
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[janey] 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 . | 0neg
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will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . | 0neg
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true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . | 0neg
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[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . | 0neg
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the script's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . | 0neg
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you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story . | 0neg
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evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . | 0neg
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a derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches . | 0neg
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loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . | 0neg
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as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel like four . | 0neg
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limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . | 0neg
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just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . | 0neg
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the redeeming feature of chan's films has always been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem tired and , what's worse , routine . | 0neg
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while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances . | 0neg
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has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool . | 0neg
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a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 0neg
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a lifetime movie about men . | 0neg
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the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman . | 0neg
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it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death | 0neg
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this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . | 0neg
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the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines . | 0neg
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