Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) dir. Billy Wilder

"Kiss Me, Stupid is not likely to corrupt any sensible audience. But there is a cheapness and more than a fair share of crudeness about the humor of a contrived double adultery situation that a husband-wife combo stumble into." (Variety)

But is it boring? No.

Paper Moon (1973) dir. Peter Bogdanovich

"By now everybody knows that Ryan O'Neal and his real-life daughter, Tatum, play the man and the girl. But I wonder how many moviegoers will be prepared for the astonishing confidence and depth that Tatum brings to what's really the starring role. I'd heard about how good she was supposed to be, but I nevertheless expected a kind of clever cuteness, like we got from Shirley Temple or young Elizabeth Taylor. Not at all. Tatum O'Neal creates a character out of thin air, makes us watch her every moment and literally makes the movie work (in the sense that this key role had to be well played)." (Roger Ebert)

But is it boring? No.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) dir. Shane Black

"'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang' is made for a fairly specific audience; it helps if you are familiar with the private eye genre in general and the works of Raymond Chandler in particular (the movie has five chapter headings, all taken from Chandler's titles). But do the titles come from Harry Lockhart, or do they exist outside his mind and suggest that Shane Black's screenplay has another level of comment on top? That would be roughly like the subtitles in 'Domino,' which have a different point of view than the narration." (Roger Ebert)

But is it boring? No.

Ceremony (2010) dir. Max Winkler

"In its mixture of the quirky and the downbeat, 'Ceremony' aspires to be a hybrid of Noah Baumbach’s 'Margot at the Wedding' and Wes Anderson’s 'Rushmore' but falls far short. For one thing, the Zoe-Sam connection is preposterous on any level. The movie hints that Zoe has an impulsive wild streak, but because it devotes more time to her insufferable stalker, her character remains only a sketch." (NY Times)

But is it boring? No.

The Triplets of Belleville (2003) dir. Sylvain Chomet

"To call it weird would be a cowardly evasion. It is creepy, eccentric, eerie, flaky, freaky, funky, grotesque, inscrutable, kinky, kooky, magical, oddball, spooky, uncanny, uncouth and unearthly. Especially uncouth. What I did was, I typed the word "weird" and when that wholly failed to evoke the feelings the film stirred in me, I turned to the thesaurus and it suggested the above substitutes -- and none of them do the trick, either." (Roger Ebert)

But is it boring? Yes.

Fallen Angels (1995) dir. Wong Kar-wai

"'Fallen Angels' certainly abounds in visual pizazz, clever in jokes and trendy pop references, but such things can carry a movie only so far." (NY Times)

But is it boring? No.

Chungking Express (1994) Wong Kar-wai

"Beyond the Mamas and the Papas, 'Chungking Express' is filled with global-village references to fast food, video, convenience stores, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. While Mr. Wong's visual energy harks back to early New Wave experimentation, it also has a substantial rock-video component, which suggests that the detritus of mass culture has a way of coming home to roost." (NY Times)

But is it boring? No.

Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino

"Tarantino is too gifted a filmmaker to make a boring (!!!!!) movie, but he could possibly make a bad one: Like Edward D. Wood Jr., proclaimed the Worst Director of All Time, he's in love with every shot - intoxicated with the very act of making a movie. It's that very lack of caution and introspection that makes 'Pulp Fiction' crackle like an ozone generator: Here's a director who's been let loose inside the toy store, and wants to play all night." (Roger Ebert)

But is it boring? Hell no.

Withnail & I (1987) dir. Bruce Robinson

"On telling the powers that be on the film desk that Withnail and I was my favourite movie, I was informed this was a 'typical choice for muso types'. I was outraged. Were they suggesting 'muso types' were the kind of drug-hungry, unemployable reprobates portrayed in the film? The sort of people who live on little more than raw potato, red wine and lighter fuel? Oh …" (The Guardian)

But is it boring? No.

Harvey (1950) dir. Henry Koster

"Of course, it depends a great deal upon what you have in mind in the way of entertainment by which you would be amused. But if you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of "Harvey" is definitely for you." (NY Times)

But is it boring? No.

Another Year (2010) dir. Mike Leigh

"Mike Leigh offers us yet another intimate ensemble drama about ordinary people – with richly rewarding results." (The Guardian)

But is it boring? No.