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If the film 's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a new start . | 0 |
One of the best of a growing strain of daring films ... that argue that any sexual relationship that does n't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect . | 0 |
... an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . | 0 |
An engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . | 0 |
Mel Gibson fights the good fight in Vietnam in director Randall Wallace 's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . | 0 |
There 's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . | 0 |
A brutal and funny work . | 0 |
Nicole Holofcenter , the insightful writer\/director responsible for this illuminating comedy does n't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . | 0 |
One of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old Walt doodled Steamboat Willie . | 0 |
Move over Bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . | 0 |
It 's a testament to the film 's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . | 0 |
There 's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls ... | 0 |
The film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . | 0 |
If The Man from Elysian Fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevated by it -- the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you 're one of the lucky few who sought it out . | 0 |
What emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . | 0 |
Promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish . | 0 |
Meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealment . | 0 |
Hey , Happy ! | 0 |
is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it 's a love story as sanguine as its title . | 0 |
There is a general air of exuberance in All About The Benjamins that 's hard to resist . | 0 |
A lovably old-school Hollywood confection . | 0 |
By turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , Laissez-passer has all the earmarks of French cinema at its best . | 0 |
Wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . | 0 |
A quirky comedy set in Newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that 's so prevalent on The Rock . | 0 |
Peppered with witty dialogue and inventive moments . | 0 |
I 'd rather watch a rerun of The Powerpuff Girls | 1 |
With the prospect of films like Kangaroo Jack about to burst across America 's winter movie screens it 's a pleasure to have a film like The Hours as an alternative . | 0 |
Like its title character , this Nicholas Nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . | 0 |
As a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , Sex with Strangers is a success . | 0 |
unpretentious , charming , quirky , original | 0 |
Spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but `` Spider-Man '' certainly delivers the goods . | 0 |
Other than the slightly flawed -LRB- and fairly unbelievable -RRB- finale , everything else is top shelf . | 0 |
This fascinating look at Israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from Gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . | 0 |
Manages to delight without much of a story . | 0 |
There 's no denying that Burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . | 0 |
I have a confession to make : I did n't particularly like E.T. the first time I saw it as a young boy . | 1 |
- I also wanted a little alien as a friend ! | 0 |
Fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . | 0 |
A genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives . | 0 |
Though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . | 0 |
An energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it is n't . | 0 |
An animation landmark as monumental as Disney 's 1937 breakthrough Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . | 0 |
An entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . | 0 |
Sex With Strangers is fascinating ... | 0 |
A wry , affectionate delight . | 0 |
The acting in Pauline And Paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is Debrauwer 's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . | 0 |
One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . | 0 |
Kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . | 0 |
And adults will at least have a dream image of the West to savor whenever the film 's lamer instincts are in the saddle . | 1 |
Paid in Full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of Goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . | 0 |
waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . | 0 |
Each of these stories has the potential for Touched by an Angel simplicity and sappiness , but Thirteen Conversations About One Thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments . | 0 |
Often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part . | 1 |
Maggie Smith as the Ya-Ya member with the O2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . | 0 |
This is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . | 0 |
Although I did n't hate this one , it 's not very good either . | 1 |
It can be safely recommended as a video\/DVD babysitter . | 0 |
Another Best of the Year selection . | 0 |
The film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of De Palma , but what makes it transporting is that it 's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an American director in years . | 0 |
It 's a very valuable film ... | 0 |
Max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve ... as far as art is concerned , it 's mission accomplished . | 0 |
Literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds . | 0 |
The story itself it mostly told through on-camera interviews with several survivors , whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it 's as if it all happened only yesterday . | 0 |
A compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds . | 0 |
With `` Ichi the Killer '' , Takashi Miike , Japan 's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than Batman ... | 1 |
You never know where Changing Lanes is going to take you but it 's a heck of a ride . | 0 |
Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is . | 0 |
-LRB- Breheny 's -RRB- lensing of the New Zealand and Cook Island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . | 0 |
An almost unbearably morbid love story . | 1 |
The Wild Thornberrys Movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . | 0 |
A forceful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . | 0 |
Spielberg 's realization of a near-future America is masterful . | 0 |
This makes Minority Report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ever . | 0 |
The gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . | 0 |
The best film of the year 2002 . | 0 |
An enthralling , entertaining feature . | 0 |
Stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , LaBute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . | 1 |
A remarkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . | 0 |
All in all , Brown Sugar is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that 's both charming and well acted . | 0 |
It will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face . | 0 |
Smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise . | 0 |
Working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by Gianni Romoli ... Ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you 'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up . | 0 |
An older cad instructs a younger lad in Zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . | 0 |
`` Austin Powers in Goldmember '' has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . | 0 |
Schaeffer is n't in this film , which may be why it works as well as it does . | 0 |
A fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles . | 0 |
Although Estela Bravo 's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of Cuban leader Fidel Castro , it 's still a guilty pleasure to watch . | 0 |
Surprisingly , the film is a hilarious adventure and I shamelessly enjoyed it . | 0 |
The Way Home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and ... often misconstrued as weakness . | 0 |
Brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . | 0 |
If you can read the subtitles -LRB- the opera is sung in Italian -RRB- and you like ` Masterpiece Theatre ' type costumes , you 'll enjoy this movie . | 0 |
A pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of Crystal and De Niro . | 0 |
Gangster No. 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults . | 0 |
This Chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . | 0 |
Has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . | 1 |
You will likely prefer to keep on watching . | 0 |
Insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . | 1 |
But the performances of Pacino , Williams , and Swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . | 0 |
What might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point . | 1 |
At a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism American moviemaking ever had , Godfrey Reggio 's career shines like a lonely beacon . | 0 |
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