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Demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . | 0 |
By its modest , straight-ahead standards , Undisputed scores a direct hit . | 0 |
Its story about a young Chinese woman , Ah Na , who has come to New York City to replace past tragedy with the American Dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . | 0 |
For those who like quirky , slightly strange French films , this is a must ! | 0 |
There are so few films about the plight of American Indians in modern America that Skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . | 0 |
-LRB- Shyamalan -RRB- continues to cut a swathe through mainstream Hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . | 0 |
A whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking Christian-themed fun . | 0 |
Much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . | 0 |
The story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution . | 0 |
A movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling . | 0 |
Represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging Indian American cinema . | 0 |
Does n't do more than expand a TV show to movie length . | 1 |
However , it 's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . | 0 |
If you 're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , ENOUGH is just the ticket you need . | 0 |
A pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . | 0 |
A comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . | 0 |
It 's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and I think that 's what I liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . | 0 |
Elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . | 0 |
Enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cast . | 0 |
Writer \/ director M. Night Shyamalan 's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . | 0 |
Not a strike against Yang 's similarly themed Yi Yi , but I found What Time ? | 1 |
A breathtaking adventure for all ages , Spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images . | 0 |
Never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches ... gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . | 0 |
`` ... something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . | 1 |
The Importance of Being Earnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . '' | 1 |
-LRB- Washington 's -RRB- strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . | 0 |
Shiner can certainly go the distance , but is n't world championship material | 0 |
The film 's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature\/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . | 1 |
... a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job ... | 0 |
Affable if not timeless , Like Mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 0 |
A film of delicate interpersonal dances . | 0 |
Caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . | 0 |
The increasingly diverse French director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . | 0 |
Peter Jackson has done the nearly impossible . | 0 |
He has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . | 0 |
What Jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery | 1 |
Like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you 're over 100 . | 1 |
Ice Age wo n't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and I 'm giving it a strong thumbs up . | 0 |
Like Kissing Jessica Stein , Amy 's Orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . | 0 |
One of the year 's best films , featuring an Oscar-worthy performance by Julianne Moore . | 0 |
A small gem from Belgium . | 0 |
Combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . | 0 |
A soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes ... almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of B-movie imagination . | 1 |
The most ingenious film comedy since Being John Malkovich . | 0 |
There 's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . | 0 |
A movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . | 1 |
Manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . | 0 |
To call this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . | 0 |
Jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you 're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . | 0 |
I have a new favorite musical -- and I 'm not even a fan of the genre | 0 |
It 's unlikely we 'll see a better thriller this year . | 0 |
There is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . | 0 |
Jason Patric and Ray Liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . | 0 |
Starts slowly , but Adrien Brody -- in the title role -- helps make the film 's conclusion powerful and satisfying . | 0 |
Very predictable but still entertaining | 0 |
Nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one . | 0 |
Pratfalls aside , Barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . | 0 |
This amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as Greenfingers ... | 0 |
This is one of Mr. Chabrol 's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . | 0 |
An engrossing Iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . | 0 |
Even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general 's fate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . | 0 |
As relationships shift , director Robert J. Siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . | 0 |
Twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record . | 0 |
While the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it 's awfully entertaining to watch . | 0 |
A smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . | 0 |
` If you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . ' | 0 |
In IMAX in short , it 's just as wonderful on the big screen . | 0 |
Does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character 's story . | 0 |
I 'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up . | 0 |
I liked it just enough . | 0 |
Well , this movie proves you wrong on both counts . | 1 |
A deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . | 0 |
The rare Imax movie that you 'll wish was longer than an hour . | 0 |
I 've yet to find an actual Vietnam War combat movie actually produced by either the North or South Vietnamese , but at least now we 've got something pretty damn close . | 0 |
A moving and not infrequently breathtaking film . | 0 |
It 's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects . | 0 |
It 's like Rocky and Bullwinkle on Speed , but that 's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie 's strangeness . | 1 |
As action-adventure , this space-based homage to Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island fires on all plasma conduits . | 0 |
While the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you wo n't care . | 0 |
Intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . | 0 |
Goofy , nutty , consistently funny . | 0 |
And educational ! | 0 |
It leaves little doubt that Kidman has become one of our best actors . | 0 |
The film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . | 0 |
Beautifully directed and convincingly acted . | 0 |
But Toback 's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . | 0 |
In the director 's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . | 0 |
Bring on the sequel . | 0 |
Graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in American teen comedies . | 0 |
If we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like Tim McCann 's Revolution No. 9 . | 0 |
The film occasionally tries the viewer 's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . | 0 |
A big-budget\/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as The Hours is a distinct rarity , and an event . | 0 |
... certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . | 0 |
A sense of real magic , perhaps . | 0 |
That Haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace . | 0 |
... one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ... | 0 |
Plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . | 0 |
If you answered yes , by all means enjoy The New Guy . | 0 |
The film is ... determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . | 0 |
An indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . | 0 |
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