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Those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters ' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . | 0 |
Beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm . | 0 |
Foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . | 0 |
Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor . | 0 |
-LRB- Barry -RRB- gives Assassin a disquieting authority . | 0 |
It 's refreshing to see a romance this smart . | 0 |
As improbable as this premise may seem , Abbass 's understated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , Lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . | 0 |
Anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but ca n't afford the $ 20 million ticket to ride a Russian rocket should catch this IMAX offering . | 0 |
Transforms one of -LRB- Shakespeare 's -RRB- deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy . | 0 |
An intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . | 0 |
As Antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . | 0 |
every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that I usually dread encountering the most - The Fanboy | 0 |
On its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . | 0 |
It 's never dull and always looks good . | 0 |
As commander-in-chief of this film , Bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . | 0 |
All of it works smoothly under the direction of Spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely . | 0 |
The kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati . | 0 |
With ` Bowling for Columbine , ' Michael Moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . | 0 |
One of the year 's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . | 0 |
One of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever . | 0 |
A terrifically entertaining specimen of Spielbergian sci-fi . | 0 |
A rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . | 0 |
Solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . | 1 |
Whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini DV , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . | 0 |
It establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . | 0 |
Although What Time offers Tsai 's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films . | 0 |
A moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reach much further than we imagine . | 0 |
A thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching British comedy . | 0 |
A sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . | 0 |
... a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . | 0 |
It is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual | 0 |
captures that perverse element of the Kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . '' | 0 |
The actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the way . | 0 |
Imamura has said that Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . | 0 |
It may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . | 0 |
It 's a ripper of a yarn and I for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . | 0 |
Naomi Watts is terrific as Rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . | 0 |
A family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . | 0 |
With Dickens ' words and writer-director Douglas McGrath 's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . | 0 |
Exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . | 0 |
The film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . | 0 |
A smart , compelling drama . | 0 |
A must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . | 0 |
... Rogers 's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . | 0 |
Deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . | 0 |
Nicholson 's understated performance is wonderful . | 0 |
Despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , Empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . | 0 |
Another entertaining romp from Robert Rodriguez . | 0 |
I am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here . | 1 |
A sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception . | 0 |
Tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . | 0 |
If you can swallow its absurdities and crudities Lagaan really is enormously good fun . | 0 |
An unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever see . | 0 |
A pleasing , often-funny comedy . | 0 |
All three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly Balk , who 's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . | 0 |
An Asian neo-realist treasure . | 0 |
Plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as Nicholas ' wounded and wounding Uncle Ralph . | 0 |
It 's a great performance and a reminder of Dickens ' grandeur . | 0 |
... less a story than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population 's shrugging acceptance to each new horror . | 1 |
I am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray Richard Dawson . | 0 |
A compassionate , moving portrait of an American -LRB- and an America -RRB- always reaching for something just outside his grasp . | 0 |
And it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen . | 0 |
One of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . | 0 |
An instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trick . | 0 |
Rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid ... | 0 |
Amy and Matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . | 0 |
Garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work . | 0 |
It 's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . | 0 |
A fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man . | 0 |
It 's no accident that The Accidental Spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form . | 0 |
Leave it to the French to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . | 0 |
The director , Mark Pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head . | 0 |
Heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on Petter Næss ' delicate , clever direction ... and a wonderful , imaginative script by Axel Hellstenius . | 0 |
Makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an average student 's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledge imparted . | 0 |
Steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches . | 0 |
`` Home Movie '' is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . | 0 |
Highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . | 0 |
The movie 's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . | 0 |
Scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern Lothario . | 0 |
... Wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving War Department telegrams . | 0 |
Combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that 's not merely about kicking undead \*\*\* , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . | 0 |
While most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that 's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . | 0 |
Marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula . | 0 |
As lively an account as Seinfeld is deadpan . | 1 |
Though Lan Yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . | 0 |
You may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes wo n't still be tapping . | 0 |
Take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he 'll be your slave for a year . | 0 |
It 's not a motion picture ; it 's an utterly static picture . | 1 |
What makes it worth watching is Quaid 's performance . | 0 |
Soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . | 0 |
It 's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts Blue Crush into one of the summer 's most pleasurable movies . | 0 |
More of the same from Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang , which is good news to anyone who 's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director 's previous films . | 0 |
Hatfield and Hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie 's political ramifications . | 0 |
Best of all is Garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . | 0 |
The filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . | 0 |
A sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one 's mother . | 0 |
Humorous and heartfelt , Douglas McGrath 's version of ` Nicholas Nickleby ' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . | 0 |
Not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . | 0 |
A poignant lyricism runs through Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . | 0 |
If you love him , you 'll like it . | 0 |
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