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A heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers ' hearts . | 0 |
has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a `` 2 '' at the end of its title . | 0 |
A little better than Sorcerer 's Stone . | 0 |
A chilling movie without oppressive gore . | 0 |
A uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot . | 0 |
If you like peace , you 'll like Promises . | 0 |
Be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . | 0 |
The Ring never lets you off the hook . | 0 |
Thumbs up to Paxton for not falling into the Hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer . | 0 |
At once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious . | 0 |
If you like quirky , odd movies and\/or the ironic , here 's a fun one . | 0 |
Sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . | 0 |
It 's not the least of Afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . | 1 |
It 's a lovely , sad dance highlighted by Kwan 's unique directing style . | 0 |
The script by David Koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . | 0 |
This is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . | 0 |
Short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of Eudora Welty . | 0 |
It 's always fascinating to watch Marker the essayist at work . | 0 |
A quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . | 0 |
The tasteful little revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story 's morals . | 0 |
Kosminsky ... puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . | 0 |
One of the greatest films I 've ever seen . | 0 |
Its gentle , touching story creeps into your heart . | 0 |
About as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly come . | 0 |
Bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time . | 0 |
This film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost . | 0 |
A poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | 0 |
One of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but ... also one of the most curiously depressing . | 0 |
While somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you 've got to hand it to director George Clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out . | 0 |
Like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . | 0 |
A charmer from Belgium . | 0 |
A wild , endearing , masterful documentary . | 0 |
Jackie Chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he 's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . | 0 |
Brown Sugar signals director Rick Famuyiwa 's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in African-American cinema . | 0 |
With exquisite craftsmanship ... Olivier Assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois French society . | 0 |
It 's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as The Son 's Room . | 0 |
It has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at . | 0 |
-LRB- Leigh -RRB- has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors -LRB- improvised over many months -RRB- and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable . | 0 |
-LRB- D -RRB- espite its familiar subject matter , Ice Age is consistently amusing and engrossing ... | 0 |
The ingenious construction -LRB- adapted by David Hare from Michael Cunningham 's novel -RRB- constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism | 0 |
Assured , glossy and shot through with brittle desperation . | 0 |
The bottom line is the piece works brilliantly . | 0 |
It was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of Bullock Bubble and Hugh Goo . | 0 |
It is Scott 's convincing portrayal of Roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . | 0 |
While this movie , by necessity , lacks Fellowship 's heart , Two Towers outdoes its spectacle . | 0 |
Meyjes ... has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of Nazi politics and aesthetics . | 0 |
Aside from Rohmer 's bold choices regarding point of view , The Lady and the Duke represents the filmmaker 's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . | 0 |
... a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . | 0 |
You would n't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . | 0 |
Changing Lanes tries for more . | 0 |
It does n't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . | 0 |
When the movie mixes the cornpone and the Cosa Nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . | 0 |
The story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . | 0 |
Terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life . | 0 |
A hard look at one man 's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of Claude Chabrol . | 0 |
-LRB- Ramsay -RRB- visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . | 0 |
Frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances ... keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . | 0 |
At its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . | 0 |
The plot of the comeback curlers is n't very interesting actually , but what I like about Men With Brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what 's unique and quirky about Canadians . | 0 |
10 minutes into the film you 'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . | 0 |
It 's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it 's also pretty funny . | 0 |
Could this be the first major studio production shot on video tape instead of film ? | 1 |
Not since Ghostbusters has a film used Manhattan 's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . | 0 |
As tricky and satisfying as any of David Mamet 's airless cinematic shell games . | 0 |
The universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in ` Baran . ' | 0 |
As a director , Paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . | 0 |
The film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . | 0 |
Daughter From Danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story | 0 |
A coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . | 0 |
A distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . | 0 |
Barry convinces us he 's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . | 0 |
Takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracted rhythms . | 0 |
I do n't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it 's a dish that 's best served cold . | 0 |
It 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . | 0 |
Nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . | 0 |
Changing Lanes is an anomaly for a Hollywood movie ; it 's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . | 0 |
borrows a bit from the classics `` Wait Until Dark '' and `` Extremities '' ... But in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself . | 0 |
Puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman . | 0 |
If you grew up on Scooby -- you 'll love this movie . | 0 |
Matthew Lillard is born to play Shaggy ! | 0 |
Though filmed partly in Canada , Paid in Full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the Reagan years . | 0 |
`` Spider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer , and hopefully , sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . | 0 |
If you 're a comic fan , you ca n't miss it . | 0 |
If you 're not , you 'll still have a good time . '' | 0 |
The movie is a trove of delights . | 0 |
Excellent performances from Jacqueline Bisset and Martha Plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . | 0 |
In a summer of clones , Harvard Man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . | 0 |
While the humor is recognizably Plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . | 0 |
Who cares ? -RRB- . | 1 |
Most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; `` Frailty '' leaves us with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for us at home . | 0 |
Close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . | 0 |
Skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise . | 0 |
Damon brings the proper conviction to his role as -LRB- Jason Bourne -RRB- . | 0 |
For the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . | 0 |
As played by Ryan Gosling , Danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . | 0 |
Despite its flaws , Crazy as Hell marks an encouraging new direction for La Salle . | 0 |
You 'll end up moved . | 0 |
If you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this Oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . | 0 |
The Woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made Allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . | 0 |
I loved the look of this film . | 0 |
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