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Nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil . | 0 |
Davis ' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . | 0 |
It 's more enjoyable than I expected , though , and that 's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . | 0 |
The cast is spot on and the mood is laid back . | 0 |
Those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give `` Scratch '' a second look . | 0 |
Baby-faced Renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . | 0 |
Romantic , riveting and handsomely animated . | 0 |
A competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . | 0 |
Shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . | 0 |
Where Janice Beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . | 0 |
Byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . | 0 |
McGrath has deftly trimmed Dickens ' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero 's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . | 0 |
A chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . | 0 |
Metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story . | 0 |
But Kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them . | 0 |
The best comedy concert movie I 've seen since Cho 's previous concert comedy film , I 'm the One That I Want , in 2000 . | 0 |
Broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . | 0 |
Offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . | 0 |
A perceptive , good-natured movie . | 0 |
An amused indictment of Jaglom 's own profession . | 0 |
A small movie with a big heart . | 0 |
Hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense . | 0 |
The formula is familiar but enjoyable . | 0 |
Tells a fascinating , compelling story . | 0 |
A triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . | 0 |
What begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . | 0 |
The Lady and the Duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the French Revolution from the aristocrats ' perspective . | 0 |
Most haunting about `` Fence '' is its conclusion , when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize , much to our dismay , that this really did happen . | 0 |
Noyce 's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , Hollywood moments to keep us | 1 |
World Traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it 's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . | 0 |
There 's much tongue in cheek in the film and there 's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . | 0 |
There 's absolutely no reason why Blue Crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is | 0 |
An action\/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of Day of the Jackal , The French Connection , and Heat . | 0 |
The best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 0 |
classic cinema served up with heart and humor | 0 |
-LRB- Stephen -RRB- Earnhart 's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . | 0 |
The events of the film are just so WEIRD that I honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . | 1 |
Nicole Holofcener 's Lovely and Amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women 's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . | 0 |
That Jack Nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . | 0 |
Has a solid emotional impact . | 0 |
Successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . | 0 |
Mark Pellington 's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . | 0 |
While maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among Wiseman 's warmest . | 0 |
Raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . | 0 |
An enjoyable above average summer diversion . | 0 |
There is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country . | 0 |
If you 've the patience , there are great rewards here . | 0 |
As a science fiction movie , `` Minority Report '' astounds . | 0 |
Visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure . | 0 |
Chris Columbus ' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . | 0 |
Watching this film , what we feel is n't mainly suspense or excitement . | 1 |
... a great , participatory spectator sport . ' | 0 |
A rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children 's entertainment , superhero comics , and Japanese animation . | 0 |
But arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us . | 0 |
In an ART FILM ! | 0 |
As averse as I usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream Hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . | 0 |
Stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . | 1 |
... a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations . | 0 |
The hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight . | 0 |
Over the years , Hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and Ice Age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . | 0 |
Like Smoke Signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama | 0 |
One of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society . | 0 |
One of the most original American productions this year , you 'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a Sunshine State . | 0 |
Melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . | 0 |
Gives everyone something to shout about . | 0 |
-LRB- A -RRB- thoughtful , visually graceful work . | 0 |
Admirers of director Abel Ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature , R Xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . | 0 |
The slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . | 0 |
A worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . | 0 |
Deliciously mean-spirited and wryly observant . | 0 |
The kind of primal storytelling that George Lucas can only dream of . | 0 |
Even if The Ring has a familiar ring , it 's still unusually crafty and intelligent for Hollywood horror . | 0 |
The sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . | 0 |
A solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration . | 0 |
The cast ... keeps this pretty watchable , and casting Mick Jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . | 0 |
An entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie . | 0 |
It has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . | 0 |
An enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... The Château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . | 0 |
Intriguing and downright intoxicating . | 0 |
An incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks . | 0 |
With an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , Hélène Angel is definitely a director to watch . | 0 |
... could easily be called the best Korean film of 2002 . | 0 |
Full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . | 0 |
The banter between Calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise McLaughlin Group ... and never fails to entertain . | 0 |
Thoroughly engrossing and ultimately tragic . | 1 |
Peter Jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime Tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . | 0 |
Bill Morrison 's Decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . | 0 |
Full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , Time Out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . | 1 |
Even with all its botches , Enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . | 0 |
His work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . | 0 |
If the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well . | 0 |
An ebullient Tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancing . | 0 |
About Schmidt belongs to Nicholson . | 0 |
The powder blues and sun-splashed whites of Tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs . | 0 |
It does n't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one 's imagination will lead when given the opportunity . | 1 |
If it 's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to watch . | 0 |
... by the time it 's done with us , Mira Nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . | 0 |
Best indie of the year , so far . | 0 |
-LRB- Ferrera -RRB- has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen . | 0 |
... the plot weaves us into a complex web . | 0 |
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