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Steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic . | 0 |
The engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that 's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . | 0 |
Evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking . | 0 |
Ya-Yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film . | 0 |
The artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from Japan , the characters move with grace and panache . | 0 |
The picture 's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . | 0 |
The modern remake of Dumas 's story is long on narrative and -LRB- too -RRB- short on action . | 1 |
Fred Schepisi 's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen . | 1 |
With a cast of A-list Brit actors , it is worth searching out . | 0 |
Suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . | 1 |
Nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , Warm Water may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy . | 0 |
It 's a great American adventure and a wonderful film to bring to IMAX . | 0 |
Satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time . | 0 |
Oh , James ! | 0 |
Your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , Madonna 's cameo does n't suck ! | 0 |
This deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . | 0 |
There is something that is so meditative and lyrical about Babak Payami 's boldly quirky Iranian drama Secret Ballot ... a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of Middle Eastern world politics | 0 |
A huge box-office hit in Korea , Shiri is a must for genre fans . | 0 |
I 'm not a fan of the phrase ` life affirming ' because it usually means ` schmaltzy , ' but Real Women Have Curves truly is life affirming . | 0 |
I wanted more . | 1 |
If it 's unnerving suspense you 're after -- you 'll find it with Ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . | 0 |
The art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and Kurys ' direction is clever and insightful . | 0 |
Proves a servicable World War II drama that ca n't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem Hollywood too long has ignored . | 0 |
Leigh is n't breaking new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love . | 0 |
While Broomfield 's film does n't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . | 0 |
... strips Bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults . | 0 |
Laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl 's dilemma . | 0 |
Tends to pile too many `` serious issues '' on its plate at times , yet remains fairly light , always entertaining , and smartly written . | 0 |
A solidly entertaining little film . | 0 |
It 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . | 0 |
Sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . | 0 |
Despite an overwrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . | 0 |
A passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . | 0 |
Though Nijinsky 's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . | 0 |
A muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any Scorsese has ever given us . | 0 |
From both a great and a terrible story , Mr. Nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . | 0 |
Spider-Man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units . | 1 |
The first shocking thing about Sorority Boys is that it 's actually watchable . | 0 |
Highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it 's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring Ice-T in a major role . | 0 |
Neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest Attal and Gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . | 0 |
First and foremost ... the reason to go see `` Blue Crush '' is the phenomenal , water-born cinematography by David Hennings . | 0 |
A visionary marvel , but it 's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime like this . | 1 |
The problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart . | 0 |
In his latest effort , Storytelling , Solondz has finally made a movie that is n't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . | 0 |
I just saw this movie ... well , it 's probably not accurate to call it a movie . | 1 |
What 's most memorable about Circuit is that it 's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables Shafer to navigate spaces both large ... and small ... with considerable aplomb . | 0 |
Scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . | 0 |
Yes , soar . | 0 |
A delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them . | 0 |
is a question for philosophers , not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . | 1 |
Soderbergh , like Kubrick before him , may not touch the planet 's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . | 0 |
Much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of Don King , Sonny Miller , and Michael Stewart . | 0 |
Their work is fantastic . | 0 |
Crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . | 0 |
Franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance SONNY needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic . | 1 |
Tsai Ming-liang 's witty , wistful new film , What Time Is It There ? | 0 |
, is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly . | 0 |
But Mr. Polanski creates images even more haunting than those in Mr. Spielberg 's 1993 classic . | 0 |
Steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture . | 0 |
A brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . | 0 |
As warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . | 0 |
Old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . | 0 |
An energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -LRB- or turntablism -RRB- in particular . | 0 |
A fun family movie that 's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , ` It 's never too late to believe in your dreams . ' | 0 |
If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio 's theory of this imagery as the movie 's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . | 0 |
I had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was Earnest . | 0 |
Even though the film does n't manage to hit all of its marks , it 's still entertaining to watch the target practice . | 0 |
Where This was lazy but enjoyable , a formula comedy redeemed by its stars , That is even lazier and far less enjoyable . | 1 |
The 3-D vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . | 0 |
The attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . | 0 |
Fans of the modern day Hong Kong action film finally have the worthy successor to A Better Tomorrow and The Killer which they have been patiently waiting for . | 0 |
Even when he 's not at his most critically insightful , Godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work . | 0 |
What sets this romantic comedy apart from most Hollywood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . | 0 |
Has enough wit , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they 're not interested . | 0 |
This seductive tease of a thriller gets the job done . | 0 |
It 's a scorcher . | 0 |
Bittersweet comedy\/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable Italian guys . | 0 |
Works as pretty contagious fun . | 0 |
The best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and Bertrand Tavernier 's oft-brilliant Safe Conduct -LRB- `` Laissez-passer '' -RRB- wears its heart on its sleeve . | 0 |
A realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales . | 0 |
A charming , banter-filled comedy ... one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . | 0 |
A film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers . | 0 |
Serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that The Road to Perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | 0 |
Heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart . | 0 |
Caruso sometimes descends into sub-Tarantino cuteness ... but for the most part he makes sure The Salton Sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . | 0 |
Oddly , the film is n't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that 's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . | 0 |
Chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of ` ethnic cleansing . ' | 0 |
The best thing I can say about this film is that I ca n't wait to see what the director does next . | 0 |
Smarter than its commercials make it seem . | 0 |
One of the funnier movies in town . | 0 |
Campanella 's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over Rafael 's evolution . | 0 |
By turns very dark and very funny . | 0 |
Steven Soderbergh does n't remake Andrei Tarkovsky 's Solaris so much as distill it . | 1 |
For more than two decades Mr. Nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity . | 0 |
Though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film does n't ignore the more problematic aspects of Brown 's life . | 0 |
Not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet . | 0 |
Director Lee has a true cinematic knack , but it 's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . | 0 |
Jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . | 0 |
A vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish . | 0 |
If S&M seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it 's to this film 's -LRB- and its makers ' -RRB- credit that we believe that that 's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . | 0 |
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