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An Inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . | 0 |
This is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek -LRB- as well as a serious debt to The Road Warrior -RRB- , but it feels like unrealized potential | 0 |
It 's a testament to De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones that by movie 's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . | 0 |
An enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we 've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . | 0 |
Lan Yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . | 0 |
Your children will be occupied for 72 minutes . | 0 |
Twohy 's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels . | 0 |
... a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life 's endgame . | 0 |
Passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly ... | 0 |
Road to Perdition does display greatness , and it 's worth seeing . | 0 |
But it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it 's won . | 1 |
A marvelous performance by Allison Lohman as an identity-seeking foster child . | 0 |
Arliss Howard 's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , Big Bad Love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . | 0 |
What a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie this is . | 0 |
The charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems . | 0 |
A vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . | 0 |
A tour de force of modern cinema . | 0 |
Peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the Dogtown experience . | 0 |
The lively appeal of The Last Kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . | 0 |
Without resorting to camp or parody , Haynes -LRB- like Sirk , but differently -RRB- has transformed the rhetoric of Hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange . | 0 |
The performances are an absolute joy . | 0 |
A quasi-documentary by French filmmaker Karim Dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of Cuban music . | 0 |
Grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect . | 0 |
A sensitive and astute first feature by Anne-Sophie Birot . | 0 |
Both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , What Time Is It There ? | 0 |
may prove to be -LRB- Tsai 's -RRB- masterpiece . | 0 |
Mazel tov to a film about a family 's joyous life acting on the Yiddish stage . | 0 |
Standing in the Shadows of Motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow . | 0 |
It 's nice to see Piscopo again after all these years , and Chaykin and Headly are priceless . | 0 |
Simplistic , silly and tedious . | 1 |
Exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . | 1 |
A visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . | 1 |
The story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than I 'd care to count . | 1 |
About the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience 's meat grinder one more time . | 1 |
Not so much farcical as sour . | 1 |
Unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . | 1 |
All the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . | 1 |
A sentimental mess that never rings true . | 1 |
While the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour TV documentary . | 1 |
On a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made No Such Thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . | 1 |
While the ensemble player who gained notice in Guy Ritchie 's Lock , Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch has the bod , he 's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . | 1 |
There is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that do n't care about being stupid | 1 |
Nothing here seems as funny as it did in Analyze This , not even Joe Viterelli as De Niro 's right-hand goombah . | 1 |
Such master screenwriting comes courtesy of John Pogue , the Yale grad who previously gave us `` The Skulls '' and last year 's `` Rollerball . '' | 0 |
Enough said , except : Film overboard ! | 1 |
Here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit Sascha . | 1 |
This 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . | 1 |
On its own , it 's not very interesting . | 1 |
As a remake , it 's a pale imitation . | 1 |
It shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there 's a little girl-on-girl action . | 1 |
As exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical Pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . | 1 |
The rest of the film ... is dudsville . | 1 |
Our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender -- and I know this because I 've seen ` jackass : the movie . ' | 1 |
The criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters ... | 1 |
The movie 's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . | 1 |
Killing time , that 's all that 's going on here . | 1 |
The action clichés just pile up . | 1 |
Payami tries to raise some serious issues about Iran 's electoral process , but the result is a film that 's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . | 1 |
The only surprise is that heavyweights Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis agreed to produce this ; I assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies ' underwear . | 1 |
Another useless recycling of a brutal mid - '70s American sports movie . | 1 |
Please , someone , stop Eric Schaeffer before he makes another film . | 1 |
Most of the problems with the film do n't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved | 1 |
The effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it 's hardly watchable . | 1 |
With flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , Undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout ... by which time it 's impossible to care who wins . | 1 |
Stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . | 1 |
To the civilized mind , a movie like Ballistic : Ecks Vs. Sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement . | 1 |
Equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old 's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and Farenheit 451 . | 1 |
The lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced ... It 's a pity that -LRB- Nelson 's -RRB- achievement does n't match his ambition . | 1 |
Imagine the CleanFlicks version of ` Love Story , ' with Ali MacGraw 's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . | 1 |
PC stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 1 |
Forget the misleading title , what 's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? | 1 |
An odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comedy . | 1 |
Though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . | 1 |
Pascale Bailly 's rom-com provides Amélie 's Audrey Tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i.e. , a banal spiritual quest . | 1 |
Watching the chemistry between Freeman and Judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . | 0 |
... a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman . | 1 |
Unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . | 1 |
The cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to Stonehenge . | 1 |
Before long , you 're desperate for the evening to end . | 1 |
The characters are never more than sketches ... which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . | 1 |
Mattei 's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from Stock Character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . | 1 |
Is n't as sharp as the original ... Despite some visual virtues , ` Blade II ' just does n't cut it . | 1 |
... plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer -LRB- and -RRB- the director ca n't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . | 1 |
In fact , it does n't even seem like she tried . | 1 |
Maybe LeBlanc thought , `` Hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . '' | 1 |
What you expect is just what you get ... assuming the bar of expectations has n't been raised above sixth-grade height . | 1 |
The biggest problem with Roger Avary 's uproar against the MPAA is that , even in all its director 's cut glory , he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . | 1 |
I approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise . | 1 |
Too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . | 1 |
There 's a reason the studio did n't offer an advance screening . | 1 |
`` The Adventures of Pluto Nash '' is a big time stinker . | 1 |
The things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just wo n't fly with most intelligent viewers . | 1 |
Even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity did n't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by Avary 's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest . | 1 |
is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House . | 1 |
Confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . | 1 |
Deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . | 1 |
One can only assume that the jury who bestowed star Hoffman 's brother Gordy with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at 2002 's Sundance Festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off | 1 |
A movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist 's waiting room , complete with soothing Muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms . | 1 |
Sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . | 1 |
But never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti | 0 |
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