‘Norbit’ movie review: a career low for Eddie Murphy
Norbit is an unpleasant, offensive, and entirely unfunny ‘comedy´ starring Murphy in three roles
April 11, 2007
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Norbit is an unpleasant, offensive, and entirely unfunny ‘comedy´ starring Murphy in three roles
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Notes on a Scandal is a wildly overpraised Fatal Attraction derivation from director Richard Eyre
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This Black Christmas is a completely unpleasant remake and an insult to Bob Clark´s 1974 version
Sketches of Frank Gehry is an earnest but conventional documentary on the famed architect
300 is a near-masterpiece that ignores all reasonable aspects of storytelling, such as, say, plot or character development
Alleged comedy Employee of the Month is almost a complete disaster, saved only by occasionally flavorful supporting cast.
Feast, a glorious trash throwback to 80´s splatter flicks, aims low and wildly succeeds
You should know what you´re getting into from the cast and genre of Music and Lyrics, and film follows expectations to the hilt.
This cartoon version of Ghost Rider forgoes all respect for the source material and does succeed in a Schumacher-Batman kind of way
The Fountain is a a magical, mystical, spiritual, and intimate film that tackles subjects no less than life and death and the nature of our existence in this world
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Rocky Balboa is a rousing return to the once-dead Rocky franchise and a return to form for its director/writer/star
Despite a game cast, this alleged comedy based on the popular death-by-stupidity awards is dreadfully dull
This modestly-entertaining Hannibal prequel, minus Anthony Hopkins, isn’t as bad as it’s reputation suggests
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