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Critics debate the merits of Australian director Gillian Armstrong ( My Brilliant Career , Little Women ): Is she "one of the best filmmakers of her time" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ) or a filmmaker with promise who consistently disappoints?
European art-house director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ( Delicatessen ) disappoints critics by not replicating the gothic ambience of his other films.
After the success of Murakami's epic The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , this novel of a middle-aged man's attempts to rekindle a romance with an elusive childhood friend disappoints critics.
Indifferent reviews for the second live-action version of a Jay Ward cartoon to star Brendan Fraser (the first being George of the Jungle ). It's a "genial" film with "lots of broad slapstick humor that kids like and adults wince at" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few critics are outright irritated--it "disappoints in every way possible," says Kenneth Turan (the Los Angeles Times )--but most are just mildly annoyed.
But it disappoints me nonetheless.