__label__neg simplistic , silly and tedious . 
__label__neg it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . 
__label__neg exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . 
__label__neg [garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . 
__label__neg a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . 
__label__neg the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd care to count . 
__label__neg about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . 
__label__neg not so much farcical as sour . 
__label__neg unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . 
__label__neg all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . 
__label__neg a sentimental mess that never rings true . 
__label__neg while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . 
__label__neg interesting , but not compelling . 
__label__neg on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . 
__label__neg while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . 
__label__neg there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid
__label__neg nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . 
__label__neg such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us " the skulls " and last year's " rollerball . " enough said , except : film overboard ! 
__label__neg here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit sascha . 
__label__neg this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . 
__label__neg the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . 
__label__neg on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation . 
__label__neg it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl action . 
__label__neg a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . 
__label__neg as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . 
__label__neg the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . 
__label__neg our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . '
__label__neg the criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . 
__label__neg the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . 
__label__neg stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's " waking up in reno . " go back to sleep . 
__label__neg somewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . 
__label__neg the action clichés just pile up . 
__label__neg payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . 
__label__neg the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . 
__label__neg another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american sports movie . 
__label__neg i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i survived . 
__label__neg please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film . 
__label__neg most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved
__label__neg  . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . 
__label__neg curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary . 
__label__neg though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . 
__label__neg there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . 
__label__neg the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable . 
__label__neg analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's successes , with a few new swings thrown in . 
__label__neg with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossible to care who wins . 
__label__neg stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . 
__label__neg to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . 
__label__neg equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . 
__label__neg the lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't match his ambition . 
__label__neg everything is off . 
__label__neg when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '
__label__neg an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . 
__label__neg imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . 
__label__neg pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . 
__label__neg forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? 
__label__neg an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comedy . 
__label__neg though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . 
__label__neg pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . 
__label__neg a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . 
__label__neg watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost . 
__label__neg  . . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman . 
__label__neg the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . 
__label__neg the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end . 
__label__neg the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . 
__label__neg mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . 
__label__neg only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it's looking for . 
__label__neg isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . 
__label__neg  . . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . 
__label__neg maybe leblanc thought , " hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . " 
__label__neg what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . 
__label__neg barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time
__label__neg the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director's cut glory , he's made a film that's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . 
__label__neg so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . 
__label__neg i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise . 
__label__neg earnest but heavy-handed . 
__label__neg if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . 
__label__neg too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . 
__label__neg there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . " the adventures of pluto nash " is a big time stinker . 
__label__neg a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . 
__label__neg takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . 
__label__neg the things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . 
__label__neg even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . 
__label__neg sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . 
__label__neg confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . 
__label__neg deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . 
__label__neg with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . 
__label__neg one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off
__label__neg a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms . 
__label__neg sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti
__label__neg the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . 
__label__neg a portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . 
__label__neg the code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute . 
__label__neg skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . 
__label__neg feels like a cold old man going through the motions . 
__label__neg dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? 
__label__neg dull and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit
__label__neg there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist plight , so we're left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudity . 
__label__neg beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental . 
__label__neg has its moments -- and almost as many subplots . 
__label__neg the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag . 
__label__pos the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new " conan " and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger , jean-claud van damme or steven segal . 
__label__pos the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . 
__label__pos effective but too-tepid biopic
__label__pos if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start . 
__label__pos emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . 
__label__pos the film provides some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game . 
__label__pos offers that rare combination of entertainment and education . 
__label__pos perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . 
__label__pos steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . 
__label__pos take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . 
__label__pos this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all . 
__label__pos what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . 
__label__pos  ( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind . 
__label__pos one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure movies ever . 
__label__pos ultimately , it ponders the reasons we need stories so much . 
__label__pos an utterly compelling 'who wrote it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who ever lived comes into question . 
__label__pos illuminating if overly talky documentary . 
__label__pos a masterpiece four years in the making . 
__label__pos the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . 
__label__pos offers a breath of the fresh air of true sophistication . 
__label__pos a thoughtful , provocative , insistently humanizing film . 
__label__pos with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives . 
__label__pos a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by philip glass . 
__label__pos not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . 
__label__pos scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism . 
__label__pos occasionally melodramatic , it's also extremely effective . 
__label__pos spiderman rocks
__label__pos an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . 
__label__pos at about 95 minutes , treasure planet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the familiar story . however , it lacks grandeur and that epic quality often associated with stevenson's tale as well as with earlier disney efforts . 
__label__pos it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kid . 
__label__pos guaranteed to move anyone who ever shook , rattled , or rolled . 
__label__pos a masterful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . 
__label__pos light , cute and forgettable . 
__label__pos if there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . 
__label__pos while it would be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of hugh grant whimsy . 
__label__pos though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . 
__label__pos cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days
__label__pos ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky , calculating lolita turn . 
__label__pos though it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them . 
__label__pos like most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the series . 
__label__pos newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg . 
__label__pos the story loses its bite in a last-minute happy ending that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingly novel ride . 
__label__pos fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . 
__label__pos 'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '
__label__pos the film makes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . 
__label__pos karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . 
__label__pos gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film . 
__label__pos a real movie , about real people , that gives us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know . 
__label__pos tender yet lacerating and darkly funny fable . 
__label__pos may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people get a kick out of watching them today . 
__label__pos an engaging overview of johnson's eccentric career . 
__label__pos in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . 
__label__pos some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . 
__label__pos sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . 
__label__pos behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . 
__label__pos everytime you think undercover brother has run out of steam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . 
__label__pos manages to be original , even though it rips off many of its ideas . 
__label__pos singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs — a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story — but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece . 
__label__pos you'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . yet the act is still charming here . 
__label__pos whether or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on " the other " and " the self , " derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . 
__label__pos a pleasant enough movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . 
__label__pos this is the best american movie about troubled teens since 1998's whatever . 
__label__pos disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . 
__label__pos just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . 
__label__pos the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . 
__label__pos the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la
__label__pos morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . 
__label__pos part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . 
__label__pos son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness . 
__label__pos a simmering psychological drama in which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them . 
__label__pos a taut , intelligent psychological drama . 
__label__pos a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her . 
__label__pos a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort . 
__label__pos this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . 
__label__pos at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . 
__label__pos the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredible ! 
__label__pos a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than " memento " 
__label__pos if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . 
__label__pos haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . 
__label__pos absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . 
__label__pos it's the best film of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured . 
__label__pos painful to watch , but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances . 
__label__pos this is a startling film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . 
__label__pos an imaginative comedy/thriller . 
__label__pos a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these days . 
__label__pos while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . 
__label__pos together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's still a lot of life in hong kong cinema . 
__label__pos director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . 
__label__pos the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . 
__label__pos a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it . 
__label__pos doug liman , the director of bourne , directs the traffic well , gets a nice wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the movie's spycraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . 
__label__pos the tenderness of the piece is still intact . 
__label__pos katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself
__label__pos like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . 
__label__pos while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . 
__label__pos if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . 
__label__pos in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . 
__label__pos writer-director burger imaginatively fans the embers of a dormant national grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . 
__label__pos  . . . a roller-coaster ride of a movie
__label__pos i enjoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faded from my memory . 
