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gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .	0neg
it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress .	0neg
anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity .	0neg
a major waste . . . generic .	0neg
the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's far too sentimental .	0neg
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques .	0neg
falls short in explaining the music and its roots .	0neg
never inspires more than an interested detachment .	0neg
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature .	0neg
despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours .	0neg
pretty much sucks , but has a funny moment or two .	0neg
they do a good job of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film .	0neg
a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors .	0neg
two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity .	0neg
it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied .	0neg
these are textbook lives of quiet desperation .	0neg
swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub .	0neg
claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem .	0neg
purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons .	0neg
feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together .	0neg
almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences .	0neg
writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic .	0neg
it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes .	0neg
one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album .	0neg
phoned-in business as usual .	0neg
there's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself .	0neg
what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else .	0neg
director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale .	0neg
tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality .	0neg
the most horrific movie experience i've had since " can't stop the music . " it may as well be called " jar-jar binks : the movie . " it's that painful .	0neg
god is great , the movie's not .	0neg
like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable .	0neg
when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a doggie winks .	0neg
a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that .	0neg
as original and insightful as last week's episode of behind the music .	0neg
plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders .	0neg
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie .	0neg
it's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments .	0neg
despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything .	0neg
a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie .	0neg
[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing .	0neg
worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames .	0neg
the christ allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it	0neg
go for la salle's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script .	0neg
it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress .	0neg
tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span .	0neg
i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking .	0neg
the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .	0neg
after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . but no .	0neg
ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok .	0neg
releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them .	0neg
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination .	0neg
it was a dark and stormy night . . .	0neg
a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment .	0neg
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows .	0neg
bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie .	0neg
freundlich's made [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher .	0neg
a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre	0neg
though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful .	0neg
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters .	0neg
what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points .	0neg
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama .	0neg
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory .	0neg
even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown .	0neg
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .	0neg
whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche .	0neg
while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even .	0neg
. . . a confusing drudgery .	0neg
imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s .	0neg
most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears .	0neg
costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier .	0neg
it's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate .	0neg
directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut .	0neg
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters	0neg
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role .	0neg
high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd .	0neg
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new york .	0neg
the chocolate factory without charlie .	0neg
long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame .	0neg
hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture .	0neg
a well-crafted letdown .	0neg
a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise .	0neg
deserving of its critical backlash and more .	0neg
boring and meandering .	0neg
neither a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered .	0neg
the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) .	0neg
the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his .	0neg
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .	0neg
it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .	0neg
i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks .	0neg
may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor .	0neg
many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice .	0neg
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one .	0neg
most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant .	0neg
if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet .	0neg
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .	0neg
feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum .	0neg
all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness .	0neg
the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance .	0neg
. . . post-september 11 , " the sum of all fears " seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves .	0neg

gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés .

0neg

it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress .

0neg

anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity .

0neg

a major waste . . . generic .

0neg

the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's far too sentimental .

0neg

a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques .

0neg

falls short in explaining the music and its roots .

0neg

never inspires more than an interested detachment .

0neg

what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature .

0neg

despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours .

0neg

pretty much sucks , but has a funny moment or two .

0neg

they do a good job of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film .

0neg

a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors .

0neg

two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity .

0neg

it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied .

0neg

these are textbook lives of quiet desperation .

0neg

swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub .

0neg

claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem .

0neg

purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons .

0neg

feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together .

0neg

almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences .

0neg

writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic .

0neg

it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes .

0neg

one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album .

0neg

phoned-in business as usual .

0neg

there's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself .

0neg

what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else .

0neg

director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale .

0neg

tartakovsky's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality .

0neg

the most horrific movie experience i've had since " can't stop the music . " it may as well be called " jar-jar binks : the movie . " it's that painful .

0neg

god is great , the movie's not .

0neg

like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable .

0neg

when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a doggie winks .

0neg

a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that .

0neg

as original and insightful as last week's episode of behind the music .

0neg

plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders .

0neg

you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie .

0neg

it's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments .

0neg

despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything .

0neg

a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie .

0neg

[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing .

0neg

worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames .

0neg

the christ allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it

0neg

go for la salle's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script .

0neg

it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress .

0neg

tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span .

0neg

i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking .

0neg

the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .

0neg

after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . but no .

0neg

ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok .

0neg

releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them .

0neg

tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination .

0neg

it was a dark and stormy night . . .

0neg

a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment .

0neg

this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows .

0neg

bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie .

0neg

freundlich's made [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher .

0neg

a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre

0neg

though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful .

0neg

aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters .

0neg

what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points .

0neg

exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama .

0neg

seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory .

0neg

even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown .

0neg

the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .

0neg

whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche .

0neg

while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even .

0neg

. . . a confusing drudgery .

0neg

imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s .

0neg

most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears .

0neg

costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier .

0neg

it's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate .

0neg

directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut .

0neg

turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters

0neg

robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role .

0neg

high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd .

0neg

set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new york .

0neg

the chocolate factory without charlie .

0neg

long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame .

0neg

hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture .

0neg

a well-crafted letdown .

0neg

a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise .

0neg

deserving of its critical backlash and more .

0neg

boring and meandering .

0neg

neither a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered .

0neg

the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) .

0neg

the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his .

0neg

this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .

0neg

it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .

0neg

i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks .

0neg

may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor .

0neg

many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice .

0neg

it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one .

0neg

most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant .

0neg

if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet .

0neg

cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .

0neg

feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum .

0neg

all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness .

0neg

the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance .

0neg

. . . post-september 11 , " the sum of all fears " seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves .

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