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The characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films . | 0 |
Crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . | 0 |
It 's fun , splashy and entertainingly nasty . | 0 |
A simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable charm . | 0 |
It might be ` easier ' to watch on video at home , but that should n't stop die-hard French film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . | 0 |
Witty , contemplative , and sublimely beautiful . | 0 |
A surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director Malcolm D. Lee and writer John Ridley . | 0 |
Woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from Lonely Boy to Do n't Look Back . | 0 |
This is pure , exciting moviemaking . | 0 |
Works because Reno does n't become smug or sanctimonious towards the audience . | 0 |
Nettelbeck ... has a pleasing way with a metaphor . | 0 |
The cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved story . | 0 |
Steven Soderbergh 's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life . | 0 |
The film 's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . | 0 |
It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . | 0 |
Sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first -LRB- as best I remember -RRB- , but still a very good time at the cinema . | 0 |
The film is bright and flashy in all the right ways . | 0 |
Elegant and eloquent -LRB- meditation -RRB- on death and that most elusive of passions , love . | 0 |
Cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . | 0 |
Filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . | 0 |
It excels because , unlike so many other Hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . | 0 |
Shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , Devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . | 0 |
Spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . | 0 |
A summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . | 0 |
Sparse but oddly compelling . | 0 |
A stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast and 1930s horror films | 0 |
A sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . | 0 |
Argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she 's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock . | 0 |
With so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine . | 0 |
Brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , Haneke 's portrait of an upper class Austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . | 0 |
Though Jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . | 0 |
That 's its first sign of trouble . | 1 |
A dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you 're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3D goggles the theater provides . | 0 |
Be patient with the lovely Hush ! | 0 |
and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . | 0 |
The large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible IMAX sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . | 0 |
Godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . | 0 |
The kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . | 0 |
Unlike most surf movies , Blue Crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . | 0 |
By the end you ca n't help but feel ` stoked . ' | 0 |
The off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . | 0 |
Mike Leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life | 0 |
Awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful | 0 |
Sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy ... Attal looks so much like a young Robert DeNiro that it seems the film should instead be called ` My Husband Is Travis Bickle ' . | 0 |
Even if you 're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of Jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced Monty Pythonesque flavor . | 0 |
The result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from Spielberg , who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable . | 0 |
But it 's also disappointing to a certain degree . | 1 |
The all-French cast is marveilleux . | 0 |
There 's a lot to recommend Read My Lips . | 0 |
A minor film with major pleasures from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliviera ... | 0 |
Brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as Bond in Die Another Day . | 0 |
Audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . | 0 |
The movie is ... very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . | 0 |
Nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . | 0 |
A refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . | 0 |
It finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . | 0 |
... an enjoyably frothy ` date movie ' ... | 0 |
The genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . | 0 |
Two Weeks Notice has appeal beyond being a Sandra Bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy . | 0 |
The movie 's seams may show ... but Pellington gives `` Mothman '' an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling . | 0 |
If Mostly Martha is mostly unsurprising , it 's still a sweet , even delectable diversion . | 0 |
A wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of Being John Malkovich . | 0 |
Schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film 's present with the playful paranoia of the film 's past . ' | 0 |
A fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . ' | 0 |
The sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . | 0 |
A good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . | 0 |
In XXX , Diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . | 0 |
An engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . | 0 |
It all plays out ... like a high-end John Hughes comedy , a kind of Elder Bueller 's Time Out . | 0 |
The film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by Christopher Plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil Uncle Ralph I 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work . | 0 |
This is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-Disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt . | 0 |
It is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters . | 0 |
A moving and important film . | 0 |
Deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . | 0 |
Famuyiwa 's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . | 0 |
Showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation . | 0 |
Sweet Home Alabama is n't going to win any Academy Awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . | 0 |
a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack | 0 |
A gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . | 0 |
Even though many of these guys are less than adorable -LRB- their lamentations are pretty much self-centered -RRB- , there 's something vital about the movie . | 0 |
A tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers . | 0 |
It is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . | 0 |
When twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we 'd live in if Argento 's Hollywood counterparts ... had this much imagination and nerve . | 0 |
Maryam is more timely now than ever . | 0 |
An eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . | 0 |
Piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . | 0 |
What a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . | 0 |
This is a more fascinating look at the future than `` Bladerunner '' and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen . | 0 |
The rare movie that 's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it 's based . | 0 |
A film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . | 0 |
Sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the group . | 0 |
`` Nicholas Nickleby '' is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there 's no new `` A Christmas Carol '' out in the theaters this year . | 0 |
Charlie Hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a Dickensian hero . | 0 |
Niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators ' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in Hollywood , only God speaks to the press | 0 |
Khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . | 0 |
Impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` Manhunter ' was . | 0 |
It 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but . | 0 |
Though a touch too Arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , Heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors . | 0 |
I simply ca n't recommend it enough . | 0 |
Muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleaser , and The Last Kiss ... provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . | 0 |
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