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| | "despite the authenticity of the trappings , the film is overblown in its plotting , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . ",0 |
| | corpus collosum |
| | the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head . ,0 |
| | "you really have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . ",1 |
| | the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the first and simply the best family film of the year . ,1 |
| | "smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living spaces -- but his subjects are charmers . ",1 |
| | "with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . ",0 |
| | "sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before . ",1 |
| | the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada . ,0 |
| | the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark card . ,0 |
| | collapses under its own meager weight . ,0 |
| | 'what's the russian word for wow ! ? ',1 |
| | "yo , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . ",0 |
| | "worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . ",0 |
| | . . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . ,0 |
| | "sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . ",1 |
| | "the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . ",1 |
| | "what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . ",1 |
| | brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . ,1 |
| | "what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seeds of hope in the form of collective action . ",1 |
| | "leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . ",1 |
| | [a] poorly executed comedy . ,0 |
| | the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . ,0 |
| | "trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! "" ",0 |
| | "the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger . ",1 |
| | " . . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) ",1 |
| | overly long and worshipful bio-doc . ,0 |
| | a coarse and stupid gross-out . ,0 |
| | an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years . ,0 |
| | i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's iron man . ,1 |
| | i could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again . ,0 |
| | "the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . ",0 |
| | "by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , please ! ",0 |
| | "it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . ",0 |
| | "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 . ",0 |
| | serving sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . ,0 |
| | "plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . ",0 |
| | "holland lets things peter out midway , but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals . ",0 |
| | each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single threat of suspense . ,0 |
| | "movies like this are selling the old european candor , the old wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . ",0 |
| | it's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but . ,1 |
| | "a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . ",0 |
| | . . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . ,1 |
| | a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter . ,0 |
| | " . . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . ",0 |
| | "despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . ",0 |
| | "a direct-to-void release , heading nowhere . ",0 |
| | devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . ,1 |
| | "'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '",0 |
| | "ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . ",1 |
| | late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and love . ,1 |
| | "elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . ",0 |
| | "a timid , soggy near miss . ",0 |
| | this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing strange guy things . ,0 |
| | new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . ,0 |
| | don't waste your money . ,0 |
| | "perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . ",0 |
| | "humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . ",1 |
| | "ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . ",0 |
| | a refreshing korean film about five female high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . ,1 |
| | "a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . ",0 |
| | "it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind . ",0 |
| | might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . ,0 |
| | "an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller . ",1 |
| | a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship . ,0 |
| | "the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand . ",1 |
| | "[drumline] is entertaining for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . ",1 |
| | the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . ,0 |
| | "blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances . ",1 |
| | "sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . ",1 |
| | it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . ,0 |
| | a tv episode inflated past its natural length . ,0 |
| | "who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like "" they're back ! "" , "" they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! "" ",0 |
| | "a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera . ",1 |
| | deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . ,0 |
| | "daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . ",1 |
| | "it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . ",0 |
| | " "" catch me "" feels capable of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . ",1 |
| | maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . ,0 |
| | "a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats . ",1 |
| | i don't think this movie loves women at all . ,0 |
| | "pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . ",0 |
| | "disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , "" which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . ",1 |
| | "as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plot contrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . ",1 |
| | i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops . ,0 |
| | "it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . ",0 |
| | [a] rare movie that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . ,1 |
| | "off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . ",0 |
| | "exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . ",1 |
| | makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands . ,1 |
| | "borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . ",0 |
| | it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . ,0 |
| | a solidly seaworthy chiller . ,1 |
| | " . . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and egoyan tackles his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriousness and compassion . ",1 |
| | "wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . ",0 |
| | this is nothing but familiar territory . ,0 |
| | . . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . ,0 |
| | more of a career curio than a major work . ,0 |
| | this thing is just garbage . ,0 |
| | "frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . ",1 |
| | "it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame . ",1 |
| | both damning and damned compelling . ,1 |
| | a touching drama about old age and grief with a tour de force performance by michel piccoli . ,1 |
| | spare yet audacious . . . ,1 |
| | "a film that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms , waiting for happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact . ",0 |
| | "the audacity to view one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . ",1 |
| | "laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . ",0 |
| | "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 . ",1 |
| | a moving story of determination and the human spirit . ,1 |
| | "full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . ",0 |
| | the master of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . ,0 |
| | "while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thought possible . ",1 |
| | "johnson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not nearly up to . ",0 |
| | formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . ,0 |
| | "wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn . ",0 |
| | "if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall . ",1 |
| | "the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious . ",0 |
| | an infinitely wittier version of the home alone formula . ,1 |
| | "if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . ",1 |
| | "oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . ",1 |
| | "antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . ",1 |
| | "the leaping story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . ",1 |
| | a movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ,0 |
| | "children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . ",0 |
| | the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . ,0 |
| | "taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . ",0 |
| | "earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . ",1 |
| | "while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generation . ",1 |
| | "the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter . ",1 |
| | the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . ,0 |
| | "another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black bmw through . ",0 |
| | "the smug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsive . ",0 |
| | a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . ,0 |
| | take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . ,1 |
| | "a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '",0 |
| | "that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . ",1 |
| | this is an elegantly balanced movie |
| | "it's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . ",0 |
| | "the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . ",0 |
| | "though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium . ",1 |
| | "truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . ",0 |
| | "morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . ",1 |
| | "as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos records . ",1 |
| | "just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . ",0 |
| | "the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . ",1 |
| | " . . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . ",1 |
| | "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 . ",1 |
| | an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakening . ,0 |
| | they should have called it gutterball . ,0 |
| | "there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . ",0 |
| | "one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again and/or sailor moon have been spliced in . ",0 |
| | sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a small family . ,1 |
| | "a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pat resolution . ",1 |
| | has the capability of effecting change and inspiring hope . ,1 |
| | "even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold . ",1 |
| | "evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . ",1 |
| | "thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . ",1 |
| | "reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that . ",0 |
| | os universos de chuck barris e charlie kaufman so complementares . e igualmente fascinantes . ,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 . ",0 |
| | a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . ,1 |
| | "somewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . ",1 |
| | can be viewed as pure composition and form |
| | under-rehearsed and lifeless,0 |
| | "unless you are in dire need of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . ",0 |
| | "impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . ",0 |
| | "there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . ",1 |
| | the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design . ,1 |
| | "impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the story is just too slim . ",0 |
| | "an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservative protagonist is always the last one living . ",0 |
| | "pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . ",0 |
| | "anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . ",1 |
| | "in his debut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . ",1 |
| | "to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . ",0 |
| | an intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives . ,1 |
| | "goofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! ",1 |
| | "watching trouble every day , at least if you don't know what's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pulp and living worms . ",0 |
| | everything that was right about blade is wrong in its sequel . ,0 |
| | the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . ,0 |
| | "though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . ",1 |
| | just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . ,0 |
| | "the movie isn't painfully bad , something to be 'fully experienced' ; it's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . ",0 |
| | a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . ,1 |
| | "moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too predictably , in fact . ",0 |
| | "it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . ",0 |
| | the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . ,1 |
| | "if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hour , i would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . ",0 |
| | "despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . ",0 |
| | this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmmmight i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? ,0 |
| | it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . ,0 |
| | pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific flick . ,0 |
| | "unpretentious , charming , quirky , original",1 |
| | one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . ,0 |
| | "renner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else . ",1 |
| | "nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . ",0 |
| | an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . ,1 |
| | "clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . ",0 |
| | "as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . ",1 |
| | "the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness . ",0 |
| | "scooby dooby doo / and shaggy too / you both look and sound great . / but daphne , you're too buff / fred thinks he's tough / and velma - wow , you've lost weight ! ",0 |
| | "russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ",0 |
| | a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1 |
| | the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did . ,1 |
| | "see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . ",0 |
| | so unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines . ,0 |
| | the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . ,0 |
| | "with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . ",1 |
| | the film grows on you . and how . ,1 |
| | there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . ,0 |
| | "the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . ",0 |
| | mordantly funny and intimately knowing . . . ,1 |
| | the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating . ,0 |
| | "it's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid . ",0 |
| | "the son of the bride's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherished . ",1 |
| | "the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious . ",0 |
| | feels familiar and tired . ,0 |
| | "the premise of "" abandon "" holds promise , . . . but its delivery is a complete mess . ",0 |
| | "miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . ",1 |
| | it appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept . ,0 |
| | "the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . ",0 |
| | "the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short . ",0 |
| | "sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . ",0 |
| | "she may not be real , but the laughs are . ",1 |
| | "there's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . ",1 |
| | one of those unassuming films that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatre . ,1 |
| | "i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending . ",1 |
| | there's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . ,0 |
| | "the plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about canadians . ",1 |
| | "shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes . ",1 |
| | "it's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . ",1 |
| | "blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it may sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger look like spencer tracy . ",0 |
| | proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie . ,0 |
| | a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . ,1 |
| | none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . ,0 |
| | stay away . far away . ,0 |
| | becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . ,0 |
| | "the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in order to avoid them in the future . ",0 |
| | a by-the-numbers patient/doctor pic that covers all the usual ground,0 |
| | "for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . ",0 |
| | "[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . ",1 |
| | familiar but utterly delightful . ,1 |
| | "goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . ",0 |
| | "both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others . ",1 |
| | as it stands it's an opera movie for the buffs . ,0 |
| | . . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . ,1 |
| | it's a bittersweet and lyrical mix of elements . ,1 |
| | "the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . ",0 |
| | "a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust . ",0 |
| | "bart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent . ",1 |
| | any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . ,0 |
| | "the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react . ",1 |
| | innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look good . ,0 |
| | "several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . ",0 |
| | "throughout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . ",1 |
| | "a slick , skillful little horror film . ",1 |
| | a tv style murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . ,0 |
| | "a completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the duration . ",1 |
| | [it's] a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . ,1 |
| | "the most wondrous love story in years , it is a great film . ",1 |
| | diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . ,1 |
| | captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . ,1 |
| | "for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . '",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 . ",1 |
| | "for most of its footage , the new thriller proves that director m . night shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that mel gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo . ",1 |
| | the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . ,1 |
| | "an artful , intelligent film that stays within the confines of a well-established genre . ",1 |
| | "the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . ",0 |
| | "you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down . ",0 |
| | "lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . ",1 |
| | looks and feels like a project better suited for the small screen . ,0 |
| | ferrara's best film in years . ,1 |
| | "constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . ",1 |
| | "amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . ",0 |
| | a no-holds-barred cinematic treat . ,1 |
| | cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a short film . ,0 |
| | why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? ,0 |
| | "what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking . ",1 |
| | cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle . ,0 |
| | your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . ,0 |
| | . . . would be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ,0 |
| | "shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . ",0 |
| | the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art . ,1 |
| | hugely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . ,1 |
| | " . . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams . ",1 |
| | "this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . ",1 |
| | "claude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay . ",1 |
| | "effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . ",1 |
| | "it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . ",1 |
| | "if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposter . ",0 |
| | "whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately . ",1 |
| | the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally . ,1 |
| | "an awfully good , achingly human picture . ",1 |
| | "like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . ",1 |
| | as saccharine as it is disposable . ,0 |
| | the pianist is polanski's best film . ,1 |
| | "as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor raymond j . barry is perfectly creepy and believable . ",1 |
| | "deflated ending aside , there's much to recommend the film . ",1 |
| | "most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave . ",0 |
| | "a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last . ",1 |
| | it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . ,1 |
| | "even if the ring has a familiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . ",1 |
| | "cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . ",1 |
| | "dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . ",1 |
| | "highly irritating at first , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . ",1 |
| | a predictable and stereotypical little b-movie . ,0 |
| | "told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . ",0 |
| | "the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . ",0 |
| | amazingly dopey . ,0 |
| | "it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving . ",0 |
| | ihops don't pile on this much syrup . ,0 |
| | "the redeeming feature of chan's films has always been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem tired and , what's worse , routine . ",0 |
| | "it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical debut , mad cows . ",0 |
| | "the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . ",1 |
| | "it's nice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . ",1 |
| | somehow both wildly implausible and strangely conventional . ,0 |
| | "expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . ",1 |
| | "[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material . ",0 |
| | "though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . ",0 |
| | "with the dog days of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity . ",0 |
| | "for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually assured . ",1 |
| | "like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . ",1 |
| | "has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the end of its title . ",1 |
| | "bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming true' bad . ",0 |
| | hits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department . ,1 |
| | "a preposterous , prurient whodunit . ",0 |
| | "a better title , for all concerned , might be swept under the rug . ",0 |
| | goes on and on to the point of nausea . ,0 |
| | director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . ,0 |
| | ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies . ,0 |
| | . . . an interesting slice of history . ,1 |
| | " "" roger michell ( "" notting hill "" ) directs a morality thriller . "" ",0 |
| | eight legged freaks ? no big hairy deal . ,0 |
| | "a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . ",0 |
| | director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . ,0 |
| | "even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn'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 . ",0 |
| | a meatballs for the bare-midriff generation . ,0 |
| | "i've never seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . ",1 |
| | "its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . ",1 |
| | the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . ,1 |
| | reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . ,1 |
| | "[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . ",0 |
| | "brilliantly written and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . ",1 |
| | "to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichs , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking . ",1 |
| | "even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . ",0 |
| | credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . ,1 |
| | "pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from either in years . ",1 |
| | the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . ,1 |
| | a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . ,1 |
| | a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting . ,1 |
| | "shouldn't have been allowed to use the word "" new "" in its title , because there's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . ",0 |
| | "ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . ",0 |
| | a devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism . ,1 |
| | "i like this movie a lot . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . ",1 |
| | "it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . ",0 |
| | but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . ,1 |
| | "roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . ",0 |
| | "graas s interaes entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se no apenas uma histria divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguio , mas tambm um belo estudo de personagens . ",1 |
| | "one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind . ",1 |
| | "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 . ",1 |
| | "evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention . ",0 |
| | "an erotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . ",0 |
| | the smartest bonehead comedy of the summer . ,1 |
| | more likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat . ,0 |
| | "bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . ",1 |
| | "the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . ",1 |
| | "13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of ideas . ",1 |
| | "famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the clich-riddled genre can offer . ",1 |
| | "left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . ",1 |
| | "if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . ",0 |
| | "britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . ",0 |
| | "call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . ",0 |
| | an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . ,0 |
| | a plodding look at the french revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . ,0 |
| | "a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out",1 |
| | "jir hubac's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of strength , warmth and vitality . . ",1 |
| | hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . ,1 |
| | "the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . ",1 |
| | "forced , familiar and thoroughly condescending . ",0 |
| | "for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution . ",0 |
| | this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . ,0 |
| | this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . ,0 |
| | "i've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . ",1 |
| | "the film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome . and it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen . ",1 |
| | there is nothing redeeming about this movie . ,0 |
| | if only the story about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . ,0 |
| | "its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time . ",1 |
| | that it'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture,1 |
| | has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies . . . ,0 |
| | "bennett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . ",1 |
| | " . 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 . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . ",1 |
| | "the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . ",0 |
| | "the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lord of the rings "" trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . ",1 |
| | a surprisingly funny movie . ,1 |
| | this low-rent |
| | aggravating and tedious . ,0 |
| | too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style . ,0 |
| | there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . ,0 |
| | the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky . ,0 |
| | "the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drains his movie of all individuality . ",0 |
| | it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films |
| | forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . ,0 |
| | those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . ,0 |
| | no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . ,0 |
| | "the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . ",0 |
| | "just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be . ",0 |
| | "for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's response to stroke , ram dass : fierce grace is worth seeking out . ",1 |
| | denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . ,1 |
| | funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness . ,1 |
| | "for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be applauded . ",1 |
| | a solid examination of the male midlife crisis . ,1 |
| | "it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . ",0 |
| | "how good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . ",1 |
| | "byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . ",1 |
| | "ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan's wacky decision to stand by her man , no matter how many times he demonstrates that he's a disloyal satyr . ",0 |
| | "maybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is truly going to inspire me , i want a little more than this . ",0 |
| | "in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . ",0 |
| | "doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . ",0 |
| | "falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice . ",0 |
| | enjoy it for what it is ; you can hate yourself later . ,1 |
| | "hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions . ",1 |
| | "an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . ",1 |
| | absorbing character study by andr turpin . ,1 |
| | consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept . ,0 |
| | who needs love like this ? ,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 . ",1 |
| | "without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . ",1 |
| | "both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . ",1 |
| | "the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through . ",0 |
| | manages to please its intended audience |
| | "features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . ",0 |
| | "a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . ",1 |
| | "may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . ",1 |
| | "after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . ",1 |
| | "the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . ",0 |
| | "an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brings a group of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient",1 |
| | "it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surface . ",0 |
| | "fubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . ",1 |
| | the combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictably formulaic . ,1 |
| | a small movie with a big heart . ,1 |
| | "grant gets to display his cadness to perfection , but also to show acting range that may surprise some who thought light-hearted comedy was his forte . ",1 |
| | it's an awfully derivative story . ,0 |
| | "this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . '",0 |
| | "a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . ",1 |
| | "' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little ones get a fuzzy treat . '",1 |
| | diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everything else is wan . ,0 |
| | "this is as powerful a set of evidence as you'll ever find of why art matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most painfully marginal lives . ",1 |
| | doesn't really add up to much . ,0 |
| | "tim allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . ",1 |
| | "[reynolds] takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . ",1 |
| | "most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . ",0 |
| | "it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . ",1 |
| | an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wilco . . . ,1 |
| | "the santa clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids , but i've got to give it thumbs down . ",0 |
| | the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . ,1 |
| | "an intelligent , moving and invigorating film . ",1 |
| | 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 |
| | barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time,0 |
| | scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . ,1 |
| | "this orange has some juice , but it's far from fresh-squeezed . ",1 |
| | "asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth . ",1 |
| | like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter . ,0 |
| | "has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home video , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . ",0 |
| | "a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . ",1 |
| | never [sinks] into exploitation . ,1 |
| | "the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . ",0 |
| | it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing |
| | as plain and pedestrian as catsup |
| | "if a big musical number like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . ",1 |
| | time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation . ,0 |
| | "no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . ",0 |
| | "sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . ",0 |
| | a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . ,0 |
| | the film doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . ,0 |
| | "though an important political documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a war criminal . ",1 |
| | no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie . ,0 |
| | "the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . ",0 |
| | "a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . ",0 |
| | "when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . ",0 |
| | a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . ,1 |
| | it's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process . ,1 |
| | "a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . ",0 |
| | "bittersweet comedy/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys . ",1 |
| | "patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . ",0 |
| | "as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace . ",1 |
| | "as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile . ",1 |
| | "as it turns out , you can go home again . ",1 |
| | . . . could easily be called the best korean film of 2002 . ,1 |
| | arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year,1 |
| | "it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . ",1 |
| | "[e]ventually , every idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . ",0 |
| | "talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . ",0 |
| | the primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . ,1 |
| | toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . ,1 |
| | it's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters . ,1 |
| | an alternately fascinating and frustrating documentary . ,1 |
| | make like the title and dodge this one . ,0 |
| | nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break . ,0 |
| | "chicago is , in many ways , an admirable achievement . ",1 |
| | "the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain days . ",1 |
| | about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . ,0 |
| | "good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . ",1 |
| | "whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . ",1 |
| | this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirder . ,1 |
| | no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . ,0 |
| | "the story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . ",1 |
| | "zhuangzhuang creates delicate balance of style , text , and subtext that's so simple and precise that anything discordant would topple the balance , but against all odds , nothing does . ",1 |
| | "like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . ",0 |
| | while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . ,1 |
| | often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1 |
| | "there's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . ",0 |
| | "call me a wimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . ",1 |
| | "displaying about equal amounts of naivet , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . ",1 |
| | "critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps . ",1 |
| | audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . ,1 |
| | the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture,0 |
| | "ultimately , it ponders the reasons we need stories so much . ",1 |
| | a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0 |
| | "obligada para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor . ",1 |
| | the movie bounces all over the map . ,0 |
| | "the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other . ",1 |
| | "the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . ",1 |
| | an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . ,1 |
| | the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality,1 |
| | 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 . ,1 |
| | "you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet . ",1 |
| | "the film has a kind of hard , cold effect . ",1 |
| | "in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . ",0 |
| | disappointing in comparison to other recent war moviesor any other john woo flick for that matter . ,0 |
| | "passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone . ",1 |
| | "laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale . ",1 |
| | "with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . ",1 |
| | low comedy doesn't come much lower . ,0 |
| | "so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . ",1 |
| | spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . ,0 |
| | "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 . ",1 |
| | "give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . ",0 |
| | "rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . ",1 |
| | "grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . ",1 |
| | "for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . ",1 |
| | hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project . ,1 |
| | always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . ,0 |
| | "berling and bart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters . ",1 |
| | "lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it's compelling . ",0 |
| | "remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endings were actually surprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroes were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time ago . ",0 |
| | "not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . ",1 |
| | "the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . ",0 |
| | a lot smarter than your average bond . ,1 |
| | any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things . ,0 |
| | nicely serves as an examination of a society in transition . ,1 |
| | "an entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . ",1 |
| | " . . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . ",0 |
| | "director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . ",1 |
| | the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . ,0 |
| | the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . ,1 |
| | "it plays like a big-budget , after-school special with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . ",0 |
| | "filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't always jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . ",1 |
| | "like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends . ",0 |
| | no amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story . ,0 |
| | too lazy to take advantage of its semi-humorous premise . ,0 |
| | "the people in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in real life , we're never sure how things will work out . ",1 |
| | i loved the look of this film . ,1 |
| | extremely bad . ,0 |
| | "has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . ",0 |
| | a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichs and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type |
| | the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . ,0 |
| | "alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tank girl . ",0 |
| | a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . ,1 |
| | "as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , frida gets the job done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? ",0 |
| | russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . ,1 |
| | "in the telling of a story largely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . ",0 |
| | "it's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . ",0 |
| | it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . ,1 |
| | "the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really well directed . ",1 |
| | "ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com saudades de um tempo em que , para mim , a existncia de papai noel era um fato inquestionvel . ",1 |
| | if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . ,0 |
| | a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . ,0 |
| | the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . ,0 |
| | "moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforced style that makes its characters seem entirely convincing even when its script is not . ",1 |
| | vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role . ,1 |
| | that the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor . ,1 |
| | "the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star power . ",0 |
| | a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . ,1 |
| | "it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their ages . ",1 |
| | "though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities . ",0 |
| | may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . ,1 |
| | the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive . ,0 |
| | director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . ,0 |
| | "every bit as bogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no real point . ",0 |
| | "not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most magical and most fun family fare of this or any recent holiday season . ",1 |
| | "the film delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans . ",1 |
| | "the reason to see "" sade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . ",1 |
| | "the problem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie",0 |
| | "unless you're a fanatic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't . ",0 |
| | has little on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags . ,0 |
| | the movie gets muted and routine . ,0 |
| | "i'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . ",0 |
| | . . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . ,0 |
| | "a work of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy . ",1 |
| | overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . ,0 |
| | "harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . ",1 |
| | the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor . ,0 |
| | "there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry , and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch . ",1 |
| | pumpkin wants to have it both ways . ,0 |
| | "it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . ",0 |
| | "an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . ",0 |
| | ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frame one ? ,0 |
| | overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue,0 |
| | an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . ,1 |
| | this is art paying homage to art . ,1 |
| | " "" bad "" is the operative word for "" bad company , "" and i don't mean that in a good way . ",0 |
| | you're better off staying home and watching the x-files . ,0 |
| | "there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . ",0 |
| | "an enthralling , entertaining feature . ",1 |
| | "angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . ",1 |
| | "how many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? ",0 |
| | new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . ,0 |
| | "the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . ",0 |
| | all i can say is fuhgeddaboutit . ,0 |
| | daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story,1 |
| | true tale of courage |
| | "the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . ",1 |
| | "a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fans . ",1 |
| | "a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the fact that the characters barely move . ",0 |
| | "almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences . ",0 |
| | "i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . ",0 |
| | "while not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging . ",1 |
| | " . . . familiar and predictable , and 4/5ths of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . ",0 |
| | the film oozes craft . ,1 |
| | the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fisher . ,0 |
| | "the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . ",1 |
| | a piquant meditation on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness . ,1 |
| | an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . ,0 |
| | ecks this one off your must-see list . ,0 |
| | "the problem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . ",0 |
| | "the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle . ",0 |
| | imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story without the songs . ,0 |
| | "one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happened this way . ",0 |
| | "the whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing around obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by . ",1 |
| | "with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the longest yard . ",0 |
| | " . . . if you're in a mind set for goofy comedy , the troopers will entertain with their gross outs , bawdy comedy and head games . ",1 |
| | bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent . ,1 |
| | "entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . ",0 |
| | "mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotion . ",1 |
| | "while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out "" when you're a jet , you're a jet all the way , "" it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . "" ",0 |
| | "what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . ",1 |
| | "any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it . ",0 |
| | "more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . ",1 |
| | "so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . ",0 |
| | "the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . ",0 |
| | the ending is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . ,0 |
| | "it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forward to the russos' next offering . ",0 |
| | it's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . ,1 |
| | this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . ,0 |
| | "writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . ",0 |
| | what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . ,0 |
| | this is the first film i've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved . ,0 |
| | "a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . ",0 |
| | rather less than the sum of its underventilated pre-fils confrontations . ,0 |
| | "sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . ",0 |
| | " . . . a story we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know . ",1 |
| | "fast and funny , an action cartoon that's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . ",1 |
| | "this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit . ",1 |
| | "highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy follow-up . ",1 |
| | . . . silly humbuggery . . . ,0 |
| | "the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . ",1 |
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| | "at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . ",0 |
| | "the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work . ",1 |
| | "what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . ",0 |
| | "if you love reading and/or poetry , then by all means check it out . you'll probably love it . ",1 |
| | the result is an 'action film' mired in stasis . ,0 |
| | "enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comic embarrassment . ",0 |
| | salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . ,1 |
| | "this is a great subject for a movie , but hollywood has squandered the opportunity , using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director john woo has built his career on . ",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 . ",1 |
| | "when the first few villians are introduced as "" spider "" and "" snake "" you know you're in for a real winner , creativity at its peak . ",0 |
| | a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers . ,1 |
| | there's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . ,0 |
| | "plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . ",0 |
| | superb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot . ,1 |
| | "will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi siblings . ",0 |
| | "earnest but earthbound . . . a slow , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodrama/character study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast . ",0 |
| | "tom green and an ivy league college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . ",0 |
| | a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . ,1 |
| | richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . ,1 |
| | "if you're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet . ",0 |
| | "at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . ",0 |
| | this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . ,0 |
| | a great idea becomes a not-great movie . ,0 |
| | "if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . ",1 |
| | for dance completists only . ,0 |
| | an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . ,1 |
| | gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . ,0 |
| | the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' moments . ,0 |
| | like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . ,0 |
| | so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . ,0 |
| | "a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . ",1 |
| | abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences . ,1 |
| | "a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . ",0 |
| | "with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . ",0 |
| | "y tu mam tambin is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . ",1 |
| | murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . ,0 |
| | [howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . ,1 |
| | "throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mind : so why is this so boring ? ",0 |
| | "when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the mark . ",1 |
| | the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . ,1 |
| | this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . ,1 |
| | the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . ,0 |
| | "a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . ",1 |
| | ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action . ,0 |
| | "gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman . ",1 |
| | "unfortunately , one hour photo lives down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film . ",0 |
| | like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges . ,1 |
| | a chaotic panorama that's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . ,0 |
| | "though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . ",0 |
| | just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . ,1 |
| | "green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project . ",0 |
| | if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun . ,1 |
| | ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . ,0 |
| | "pryor lite , with half the demons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . ",0 |
| | "it's like every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . ",0 |
| | laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . ,0 |
| | you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . ,1 |
| | "director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? ",0 |
| | " "" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . ",1 |
| | " . . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . ",0 |
| | " . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . ",1 |
| | "a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . ",1 |
| | done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatment . ,0 |
| | you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie . ,0 |
| | i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . ,0 |
| | "the last scenes of the film are anguished , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . ",1 |
| | "the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . ",0 |
| | "did we really need a remake of "" charade ? "" ",0 |
| | "grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . ",1 |
| | "after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father clich has been unturned . but no . ",0 |
| | the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable . ,1 |
| | comedy troupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . ,0 |
| | "it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . ",1 |
| | there is no denying the power of polanski's film . . . ,1 |
| | "theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , full of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . ",1 |
| | "quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers . ",1 |
| | broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the case . ,1 |
| | "men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . ",0 |
| | just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . ,0 |
| | "one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory . ",1 |
| | "despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . ",0 |
| | lightweight but appealing . ,1 |
| | "if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . ",0 |
| | "romantic , riveting and handsomely animated . ",1 |
| | one can't deny its seriousness and quality . ,1 |
| | gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife . ,1 |
| | "howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject . ",0 |
| | "much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . ",1 |
| | "this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh . ",0 |
| | gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . ,1 |
| | "it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! ",0 |
| | "greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1 |
| | "from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . ",0 |
| | "a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . ",1 |
| | "the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . ",0 |
| | "i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . ",1 |
| | "claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements . ",1 |
| | there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . ,1 |
| | "if the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more like hell . ",0 |
| | dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . ,1 |
| | "aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom . com or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . ",0 |
| | a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . ,0 |
| | "you won't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we go to the movies . ",1 |
| | "it is nature against progress . in fessenden's horror trilogy , this theme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . ",1 |
| | for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . ,1 |
| | suffers from a decided lack of creative storytelling . ,0 |
| | "it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . ",1 |
| | woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . ,0 |
| | "enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . ",0 |
| | animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . ,0 |
| | "secretary "" is owned by its costars , spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . ",1 |
| | "despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . ",1 |
| | hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff . ,0 |
| | a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . ,0 |
| | it's almost impossible not to be moved by the movie's depiction of sacrifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . ,1 |
| | like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz . ,0 |
| | "fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . ",0 |
| | "the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never change . ",0 |
| | "the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1 |
| | "in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . ",0 |
| | "ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . ",1 |
| | "as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . ",1 |
| | a cockeyed shot all the way . ,0 |
| | "with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism . ",1 |
| | you're too conscious of the effort it takes to be this spontaneous . ,0 |
| | "the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher . ",1 |
| | there's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . ,1 |
| | how do you spell clich ? ,0 |
| | [a] real pleasure in its laid-back way . ,1 |
| | "its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . ",0 |
| | "like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . ",1 |
| | "as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . ",1 |
| | "the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . ",0 |
| | "with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better . ",0 |
| | "stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert . ",1 |
| | what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal order of raccoons . ,0 |
| | "dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . ",0 |
| | the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . ,0 |
| | "this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . ",0 |
| | the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . ,0 |
| | "the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . ",0 |
| | the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . . ,1 |
| | "this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . ",1 |
| | "jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . ",1 |
| | "strange it is , but delightfully so . ",1 |
| | it's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . ,0 |
| | "a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . ",0 |
| | "tense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . ",1 |
| | " "" the time machine "" is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself , it has no sense of humorit's just plain bored . ",0 |
| | "moore's complex and important film is also , believe it or not , immensely entertaining , a david and goliath story that's still very much playing itself out . ",1 |
| | "it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . ",0 |
| | an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . ,0 |
| | deliciously mean-spirited and wryly observant . ,1 |
| | predictably melodramatic . ,0 |
| | "i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . ",0 |
| | the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters . ,0 |
| | here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation . ,1 |
| | deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . ,1 |
| | "an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller . ",1 |
| | "a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . ",0 |
| | "for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . ",1 |
| | "there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . ",1 |
| | "engrossing and affecting , if ultimately not quite satisfying . ",1 |
| | "amid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . ",1 |
| | "it's the sweet cinderella story that "" pretty woman "" wanted to be . ",1 |
| | "the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . ",0 |
| | "slap her - she's not funny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half . ",0 |
| | "fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . ",0 |
| | a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1/2 . ,0 |
| | "just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . ",0 |
| | it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping people off without ever letting them consciously know you have done so,0 |
| | "before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . ",0 |
| | this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . ,1 |
| | "once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle . ",0 |
| | the komediant is a tale worth catching . ,1 |
| | a very average science fiction film . ,0 |
| | "what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . ",1 |
| | "it's a demented kitsch mess ( although the smeary digital video does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this year . ",1 |
| | "scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . ",0 |
| | worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . ,1 |
| | "schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . ",0 |
| | "this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's great for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil",0 |
| | "all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost . ",1 |
| | "if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time . ",1 |
| | "not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . ",1 |
| | "an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . ",1 |
| | "while [roman coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in terms of story . ",1 |
| | at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . ,1 |
| | "sometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . ",0 |
| | brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradition . ,1 |
| | "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 . ",1 |
| | "two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . ",0 |
| | maudlin and melodramatic we expected . boring we didn't . ,0 |
| | a compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds . ,1 |
| | "occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodvar style . ",1 |
| | a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich . ,1 |
| | "while the production details are lavish , film has little insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation . ",0 |
| | a savvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in america's culture of fear . ,1 |
| | it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . ,0 |
| | "contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ",0 |
| | like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love |
| | "it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . ",1 |
| | a full-frontal attack on audience patience . ,0 |
| | "a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . ",0 |
| | hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story . ,0 |
| | "lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) . ",0 |
| | "the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . ",1 |
| | a processed comedy chop suey . ,0 |
| | arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation . ,1 |
| | "there are a couple of things that elevate "" glory "" above most of its ilk , most notably the mere presence of duvall . ",1 |
| | for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche . ,1 |
| | "rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . ",0 |
| | perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime . ,0 |
| | "visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . ",1 |
| | "there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's ok . ",1 |
| | vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . ,1 |
| | "it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought . ",1 |
| | often silly and gross but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . ,0 |
| | not completely loveable |
| | "though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . ",1 |
| | the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys |
| | the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ',0 |
| | "britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . ",1 |
| | "the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going . ",1 |
| | "the film doesn't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . ",0 |
| | "i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . ",1 |
| | "an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence . ",1 |
| | "i liked the movie , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'm left slightly disappointed that it didn't . ",0 |
| | "despite the long running time , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! "" ",1 |
| | a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixon line . ,0 |
| | "if you're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . ",0 |
| | "a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . ",1 |
| | "for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . ",1 |
| | "the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . ",0 |
| | "trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . ",0 |
| | a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . ,1 |
| | "a witty , low-key romantic comedy . ",1 |
| | a ragbag of cliches . ,0 |
| | "about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . ",1 |
| | execrable . ,0 |
| | "you watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises . ",1 |
| | it is not the first time that director sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . ,0 |
| | "swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . ",0 |
| | "it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals like hatfield and hicks . ",1 |
| | "it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . ",1 |
| | "there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . ",0 |
| | "expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . ",1 |
| | "it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . ",0 |
| | " at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . ",0 |
| | "audrey tatou has a knack for picking roles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amlie . ",1 |
| | "a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . ",1 |
| | "at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . ",1 |
| | " . . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . ",1 |
| | "even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . ",1 |
| | "if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delivers . ",1 |
| | feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television network . ,0 |
| | a sequel that's much too big for its britches . ,0 |
| | it will delight newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days . ,1 |
| | the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course . ,0 |
| | "a blessed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very happy . ",1 |
| | "the french are rather good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them . ",1 |
| | the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . ,1 |
| | "far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . ",1 |
| | "mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . ",0 |
| | "[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . ",0 |
| | "ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . ",0 |
| | even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential . ,0 |
| | a dazzling thing to behold |
| | "holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! ",1 |
| | spare but quietly effective retelling . ,1 |
| | the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers . ,1 |
| | "for a guy who has waited three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . ",0 |
| | "a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . ",0 |
| | an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnson . ,1 |
| | "though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb . ",0 |
| | i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . ,0 |
| | 'opening up' the play more has partly closed it down . ,0 |
| | secretary is just too original to be ignored . ,1 |
| | "a taut , intelligent psychological drama . ",1 |
| | much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . ,1 |
| | "think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . ",1 |
| | "the results , if not memorable , are at least interesting . ",1 |
| | "given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' workshop that it is . ",0 |
| | "from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student film . ",0 |
| | the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life . ,1 |
| | "an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character . ",0 |
| | the film makes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . ,1 |
| | "it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . ",1 |
| | "the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful . ",0 |
| | "to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying much . ",1 |
| | "spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . ",0 |
| | a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers' hearts . ,1 |
| | a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . ,1 |
| | " . . . a bland , pretentious mess . ",0 |
| | "[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . ",0 |
| | douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically . ,1 |
| | a true-blue delight . ,1 |
| | "well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . ",1 |
| | "amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the "" other side of the story . "" ",0 |
| | "though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the film is typical miike : fast , furious and full of off-the-cuff imaginative flourishes . ",1 |
| | why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? ,0 |
| | barely gets off the ground . ,0 |
| | hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . ,1 |
| | "nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . ",0 |
| | intimate and panoramic . ,1 |
| | "there's no emotional pulse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . ",0 |
| | plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . ,0 |
| | until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis |
| | "pure of intention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . ",0 |
| | "at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . ",1 |
| | "the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . ",1 |
| | it's a rare window on an artistic collaboration . ,1 |
| | fantastic ! ,1 |
| | "cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . ",0 |
| | "much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . ",0 |
| | draggin' about dragons,0 |
| | "if oscar had a category called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , guys would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . ",0 |
| | i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . ,1 |
| | "tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . ",0 |
| | psychologically revealing . ,1 |
| | "this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work . ",0 |
| | "cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . ",0 |
| | "it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied . ",1 |
| | "reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script",0 |
| | 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 . ',0 |
| | "never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . ",1 |
| | works as pretty contagious fun . ,1 |
| | "ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . ",0 |
| | it treats women like idiots . ,0 |
| | the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . ,1 |
| | many insightful moments . ,1 |
| | "a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . ",0 |
| | "not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . ",0 |
| | "flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scottish accent . ",0 |
| | "leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for even one minute . ",1 |
| | an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously . ,0 |
| | a live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amaze . ,1 |
| | a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by al pacino . ,1 |
| | "a tender , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . ",1 |
| | "this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . ",1 |
| | "over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that's got oodles of style and substance . ",1 |
| | "an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . ",1 |
| | "fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . ",0 |
| | "wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . ",0 |
| | "300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . ",1 |
| | "it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . ",0 |
| | it certainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . ,1 |
| | trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain |
| | "a supernatural mystery that doesn't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . ",0 |
| | "nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . ",0 |
| | high crimes miscasts nearly every leading character . ,0 |
| | about as cutting-edge as pet rock : the movie . ,0 |
| | traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichs that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . ,0 |
| | "bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste . ",0 |
| | "the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public",1 |
| | "it's a cool event for the whole family . maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . ",1 |
| | "despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break . ",0 |
| | time changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets,1 |
| | a collage of clichs and a dim echo of allusions to other films . ,0 |
| | mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . ,0 |
| | "an admirable , sometimes exceptional film",1 |
| | "when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . ",0 |
| | imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . it may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . ,1 |
| | "squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . ",0 |
| | "leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here . ",1 |
| | "if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg . ",0 |
| | "a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crme brle . ",0 |
| | manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . ,1 |
| | impostor is a step down for director gary fleder . ,0 |
| | "in the real world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a rsum loaded with credits like "" girl in bar #3 . "" ",0 |
| | "good , solid storytelling . ",1 |
| | "somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . ",1 |
| | "it's a big idea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . ",0 |
| | "we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . ",1 |
| | "a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . ",0 |
| | inconsequential road-and-buddy pic . ,0 |
| | "sweet home alabama "" is what it is a nice , harmless date film . . . ",1 |
| | a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . ,1 |
| | tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point . ,1 |
| | "more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . ",1 |
| | "i believe silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully realize them . ",0 |
| | at once a testament to the divine calling of education and a demonstration of the painstaking process of imparting knowledge . ,1 |
| | "with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . ",0 |
| | "oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . ",0 |
| | "an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . ",0 |
| | a forceful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . ,1 |
| | "performances all around are tops , with the two leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . ",1 |
| | "there's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director runs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache . ",1 |
| | "that the chuck norris "" grenade gag "" occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . ",0 |
| | "this is a good movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times . ",0 |
| | "a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . ",1 |
| | a smart little indie . ,1 |
| | "using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . ",1 |
| | "looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . ",1 |
| | i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . ,0 |
| | "there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . ",1 |
| | feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . ,1 |
| | "paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 . ",0 |
| | "for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time . ",0 |
| | "what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song . ",0 |
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