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It may be a no-brainer , but at least it 's a funny no-brainer . | 0 |
A lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe . | 0 |
Jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness . | 0 |
The most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from Portugal . | 0 |
The creative animation work may not look as fully ` rendered ' as Pixar 's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree . | 0 |
Art-house to the core , Read My Lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old French cinema . | 0 |
Grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length | 1 |
Conceptually brilliant ... Plays like a living-room War Of The Worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . | 0 |
... manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun . | 0 |
Drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . | 0 |
The strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . | 0 |
The performances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times . | 0 |
A damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . | 0 |
Still rapturous after all these years , Cinema Paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love . | 0 |
Reggio and Glass put on an intoxicating show . | 0 |
MacDowell ... gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she 's ever done . | 0 |
The thing about guys like Evans is this : You 're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . | 1 |
But as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care . | 0 |
I liked a lot of the smaller scenes . | 0 |
An eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , ` Spy Kids 2 ' is a visual treat for all audiences . | 0 |
Straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , Possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . | 0 |
It may ... work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised Scooby-Doo shows or reruns . | 0 |
One of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then . | 0 |
Far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year 's Kubrick-meets-Spielberg exercise . | 0 |
Elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comedy . | 0 |
A fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . | 0 |
Here is a VH1 Behind the Music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that did n't sell many records but helped change a nation . | 0 |
Take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . | 0 |
Carrying off a spot-on Scottish burr , Duvall -LRB- also a producer -RRB- peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper . | 0 |
The acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they 're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans . | 0 |
Some Body will take you places you have n't been , and also places you have . | 0 |
Vereté has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs . | 0 |
Parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for Ram Dass 's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . | 1 |
But mostly it 's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . | 0 |
Graphic sex may be what 's attracting audiences to Unfaithful , but gripping performances by Lane and Gere are what will keep them awake . | 0 |
When compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , Davis ' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic . | 0 |
Both damning and damned compelling . | 0 |
Much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s , but words do n't really do the era justice . | 0 |
You have to see it . | 0 |
Even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . | 0 |
What lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map . | 0 |
Both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . | 0 |
The unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing Kaufman has carved from Orleans ' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . | 0 |
Lovingly photographed in the manner of a Golden Book sprung to life , Stuart Little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 0 |
Consistently clever and suspenseful . | 0 |
The story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director Shekhar Kapur supplies with tremendous skill . | 0 |
Fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . | 0 |
Throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . | 0 |
Weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title . | 0 |
A real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who 's ever waited in a doctor 's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office . | 0 |
Generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters . | 0 |
Mostly , -LRB- Goldbacher -RRB- just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 0 |
... quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks . | 0 |
Scherfig 's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . | 0 |
A journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes Holly and Marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . | 0 |
The wonderfully lush Morvern Callar is pure punk existentialism , and Ms. Ramsay and her co-writer , Liana Dognini , have dramatized the Alan Warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to Irvine Welsh 's book Trainspotting . | 0 |
As it turns out , you can go home again . | 0 |
You 've already seen City by the Sea under a variety of titles , but it 's worth yet another visit . | 0 |
This kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes Shanghai Ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . | 0 |
Making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though Chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love 's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . | 0 |
The little girls understand , and McCracken knows that 's all that matters . | 0 |
A powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man 's dying fall . | 0 |
This is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain . | 0 |
A dreadful day in Irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . | 0 |
... a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . | 0 |
... is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness -LRB- the way Chekhov is funny -RRB- , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . | 0 |
Devotees of Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best Next Generation episodes is lacking . | 1 |
A soul-stirring documentary about the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . | 0 |
What 's so striking about Jolie 's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . | 0 |
The main story ... is compelling enough , but it 's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . | 1 |
The performances are immaculate , with Roussillon providing comic relief . | 0 |
Kinnear ... gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life 's ultimate losers . | 0 |
Hugh Grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in About a Boy . | 0 |
There 's a lot of tooth in Roger Dodger . | 0 |
But what 's nice is that there 's a casual intelligence that permeates the script . | 0 |
Reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock 's thrillers , most of the scary parts in ` Signs ' occur while waiting for things to happen . | 0 |
One of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while ... | 0 |
Its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people 's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . | 0 |
It deserves to be seen everywhere . | 0 |
You need n't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of Haynes ' work . | 0 |
Waiting for Godard can be fruitful : ` In Praise of Love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself . | 0 |
A gangster movie with the capacity to surprise . | 0 |
The film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission ... if `` gory mayhem '' is your idea of a good time . | 0 |
If not a home run , then at least a solid base hit . | 0 |
It may not be particularly innovative , but the film 's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . | 0 |
Drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , Byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth . | 0 |
-LRB- Scherfig -RRB- has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters ' lives after the clever credits roll . | 0 |
A heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime Manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he 'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . | 0 |
Skin Of Man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . | 0 |
The Piano Teacher is not an easy film . | 1 |
It forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling . | 1 |
As refreshing as a drink from a woodland stream . | 0 |
Williams absolutely nails Sy 's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . | 0 |
Can I admit XXX is as deep as a Petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? | 1 |
While it 's nothing we have n't seen before from Murphy , I Spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it 's more than a worthwhile effort . | 0 |
An intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives . | 0 |
Rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in Trouble Every Day . | 0 |
This is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . | 0 |
Poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . | 0 |
A metaphor for a modern-day urban China searching for its identity . | 0 |
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