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a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and confidence . ,1
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away . ,0
"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . ",1
an imaginative comedy/thriller . ,1
"like schindler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . ",0
a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left . ,0
"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . ",0
"if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt . ",1
"the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as allegory . ",0
you can practically hear george orwell turning over . ,0
"tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span . ",0
bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . ,1
the story the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . ,0
"jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company . ",0
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight . ,1
easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year . ,1
wallace seems less like he's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together,0
lawrence preaches strictly to the converted . ,0
i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . ,0
"the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . ",1
"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recipe for terror . ",1
renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . ,1
"by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrenching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . ",1
there's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . ,1
"it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding mtier . ",0
"the ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . ",1
"warm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . ",1
"cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . ",0
" . . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assumption that "" crazy "" people are innocent , childlike and inherently funny . ",1
"birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . ",0
"it's better than the phantom menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . ",0
"though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . ",1
there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid,0
"while the mystery unravels , the characters respond by hitting on each other . ",0
"lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . ",0
"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . ",0
"though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . ",1
" . . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . ",1
not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . ,1
pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . ,0
"as janice , eileen walsh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . ",1
it's just not very smart . ,0
the movie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . ,0
" . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observacin de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . ",1
"as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . ",1
"the intent is almost exactly the same [as the full monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . ",0
"it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile . ",1
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . ,1
we do get the distinct impression that this franchise is drawing to a close . ,1
"director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . ",0
an intriguing near-miss . ,0
"it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the filmit was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second , did i miss something ? "" ending . ",0
"if kaufman kept cameron diaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , he'd have them mate . ",0
"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . ",1
"bright seems alternately amused and disgusted with this material , and he can't help throwing in a few of his own touches . ",1
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . ,1
"the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . ",0
"this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seen this summer . ",0
"the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . ",1
its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads . ,1
"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . ",1
"purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . ",0
the story bogs down in a mess of purposeless violence . ,0
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . ,0
brady achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichd white-trash situation imaginable . ,0
"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . ",1
"there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . ",0
"can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . ",0
"this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . ",0
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behold . ,1
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealment . ,1
"the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense . ",0
"there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . ",0
"unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . ",0
"koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . ",1
"these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . ",1
"it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . ",0
a lovely film for the holiday season . ,1
"a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity . ",1
"if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '",0
"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1
"not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs . ",0
"all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin . ",0
the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . ,0
there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . ,0
many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid could bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a date . ,1
"i'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed . ",0
"it should be doing a lot of things , but doesn't . ",0
this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . ,1
"the best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve . ",1
the film's center will not hold . ,0
"drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality . ",0
o ltimo suspeito ganha fora ao tambm funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . ,1
constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . ,0
worth watching for dong jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change . ,1
i'd be lying if i said my ribcage didn't ache by the end of kung pow . ,1
"the band performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's ice cold . ",0
"seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil . ",1
you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . ,0
"if you've ever wondered what an ending without the input of studio executives or test audiences would look like , here it is . ",1
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . ,0
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? ,0
"it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the worst of the entire franchise . ",0
an incoherent jumble of a film that's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . ,0
"this is not a retread of "" dead poets' society . "" ",1
"too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good . ",0
"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . ",1
the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . ,0
it's a lovely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . ,1
"it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . ",1
"if you want to see a train wreck that you can't look away from , then look no further , because here it is . ",1
it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1
most of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . ,1
"the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . ",0
"a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movie . ",1
"the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . ",0
watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode . ,1
nicole kidman makes it a party worth attending . ,1
the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution . ,1
"guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs . ",0
"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . . ",0
"whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment . ",1
"jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . ",0
a comic gem with some serious sparkles . ,1
strictly a 'guy's film' in the worst sense of the expression . ,0
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . ,0
there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's hard to resist . ,1
"in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . ",0
one of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . ,1
"a moody , multi-dimensional love story and sci-fi mystery , solaris is a thought-provoking , haunting film that allows the seeds of the imagination to germinate . ",1
"apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . ",0
"watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . ",0
"a bold and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass . ",1
one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . ,1
"though it was made with careful attention to detail and is well-acted by james spader and maggie gyllenhaal , i felt disrespected . ",0
the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . ',1
"on top of a foundering performance , [madonna's] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . ",0
"as the story moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . ",1
"loud , chaotic and largely unfunny . ",0
"a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . ",1
"silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . ",0
"there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to get there . ",0
[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . ,0
"helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . ",0
what begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes . ,0
"in a way , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in . ",1
the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . ,0
huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face . ,1
"films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . ",1
the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . ,0
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ,0
fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . ,1
"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" funny , "" dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . ",0
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . ,1
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . ,0
"a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . ",1
"despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . ",0
serious and thoughtful . ,1
 . . . really horrible drek . ,0
"like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . ",0
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog . ,0
press the delete key . ,0
even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . ,0
one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages espoused in the company's previous video work . ,1
it seems grant doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . ,1
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience . ,1
"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rarely sees . ",1
"any intellectual arguments being made about the nature of god are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger less sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very things that bean abhors . ",0
the holiday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . ,0
it's refreshing to see a romance this smart . ,1
every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else far more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . ,0
"despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
"denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . ",0
"it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . ",1
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . ,0
"insightfully written , delicately performed",1
"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . ",1
"gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . ",0
"this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . ",1
a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . ,0
"an incendiary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1
"what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen . ",1
"in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . ",0
"myers never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . ",0
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as mr . deeds was to that of frank capra . ,0
"you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . ",1
"adults will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? ",0
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye . ,1
"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . ",1
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowout . ,0
"despite all the talking , by the time the bloody climax arrives we still don't feel enough of an attachment to these guys to care one way or another . ",0
"throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . ",0
"hawke's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , doesn't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . ",0
"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one . ",1
"leigh's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other . ",1
"we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up together , and michele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . ",0
a wildly funny prison caper . ,1
i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . ,0
an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . ,0
"the film meant well in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . ",0
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . ,1
abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists . ,0
"while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . ",0
"the bodily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie . ",1
"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . ",0
"whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any time . ",1
"this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . ",1
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . ,0
"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own children . ",1
 . . . a magnificent drama well worth tracking down . ,1
adaptation is simply brilliant . ,1
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept  a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . ,0
it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film . ,0
"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . ",0
"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that's more interested in asking questions than in answering them . ",1
the film's implicit premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every way inferior to that of john . ,0
"has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical release . ",0
"a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . ",1
in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest . ,1
"now as a former gong show addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . ",1
there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . ,0
"an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than writer/director john mckay can swallow . ",0
"charming , if overly complicated . . . ",0
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level . ,1
this is just lazy writing . even kids deserve better . ,0
"a grittily beautiful film that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story . ",1
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . ,1
"a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of art . ",0
touch ! ,1
"a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony . ",1
"if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket . ",1
the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . ,1
"please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film . ",0
"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's best work in some time . ",1
"for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships . ",1
"like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . ",0
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . ,0
one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . ,1
"for movie lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . ",1
"so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . ",0
"if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it . ",0
demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . ,1
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance . ,0
"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . ",1
"the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" last dance "" ] . ",1
"ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel . ",1
"this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . ",1
confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . ,0
"a 'girls gone wild' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . ",0
spiderman rocks,1
as original and insightful as last week's episode of behind the music . ,0
cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff . ,1
return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market . ,0
a film of ideas and wry comic mayhem . ,1
"there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quite well , making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . ",1
 . . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations . ,1
just a bloody mess . ,0
the locale . . . remains far more interesting than the story at hand . ,0
has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his best . ,1
" "" birthday girl "" is an actor's movie first and foremost . ",1
"the talents of the actors helps "" moonlight mile "" rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . ",1
"they're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood . ",1
"visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . ",1
one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . ,1
"a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . ",1
"the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but  in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonances , the film has  ironically - distanced us from the characters . ",1
"spielberg is the rare director who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his special effects . he just wants them to be part of the action , the wallpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . ",1
eric byler's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . ,1
"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the part . ",0
so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . ,0
"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . ",1
"here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit sascha . ",0
the perfect film for those who like sick comedies that can be snide . ,1
this is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . ,0
"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results . ",1
a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . ,1
"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in glow . ",1
"debut effort by "" project greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish . ",0
" "" the emperor's new clothes "" begins with a simple plan . . . . well , at least that's the plan . ",1
it's basically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . ,0
"a tightly directed , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . ",1
"another one of those estrogen overdose movies like "" divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , "" except that the writing , acting and character development are a lot better . ",1
"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . ",1
" . . . a fun little timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . ",1
"a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . ",0
director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . ,1
"it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . ",1
"if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . ",1
"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . ",0
just another fish-out-of-water story that barely stays afloat . ,1
just plain silly . ,0
"the charm of revolution os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers . ",1
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . ,1
"far from perfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . ",1
"sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation . ",0
behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . ,1
"the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorvino . ",1
"assured , glossy and shot through with brittle desperation . ",1
mais um momento inspirado de david fincher . ,1
the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish . ,0
"the charms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . ",0
"a witty , whimsical feature debut . ",1
cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . ,1
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . ,0
"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down . ",0
mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . ,0
don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk . ,0
there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time . ,0
he's the scariest guy you'll see all summer . ,1
"the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids . ",1
"an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . ",1
one funny popcorn flick . ,1
the film tries too hard to be funny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . ,0
what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . ,0
"the trick when watching godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . ",1
"yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies . ",0
 . . . they missed the boat . ,0
starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichs . ,0
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . ,0
"in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . ",1
"nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . ",1
"just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . ",0
imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi</b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene . merry friggin' christmas ! ,1
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistinct . ,0
the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . ,1
"the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable . ",0
you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . ,0
 . . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean new wave' . ,1
"it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to new sides of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the people who were able to make an impact in the theater world . ",1
"like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . ",1
the film's performances are thrilling . ,1
below is well below expectations . ,0
transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy . ,1
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environment . ,1
a delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them . ,1
there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious . ,0
"been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional . ",0
"did no one on the set have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? ",0
peppered with witty dialogue and inventive moments . ,1
"you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . ",0
"the film is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . ",1
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . ,1
initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . ,0
"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary . ",0
"instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get started . ",0
"sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching . ",1
"ice age won't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i'm giving it a strong thumbs up . ",1
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing . ,1
empire can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . ,0
"basically , it's pretty but dumb . ",0
well-made but mush-hearted . ,0
"a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . ",1
collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence . ,0
"the only thing to fear about "" fear dot com "" is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . ",0
"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is also one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy . ",0
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling . ,0
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . ,1
norton holds the film together . ,1
"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . ",1
slick piece of cross-promotion . ,0
"the film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . ",1
"the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of providing solace through deception is a little creepy . ",0
"tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . ",1
" . . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic . ",1
"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . ",0
has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . ,1
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster . ,1
"the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . ",1
upper west sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . ,0
"massoud's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . ",1
rates an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for boring . ,0
"a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . ",0
"a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . ",1
billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . ,0
the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard . ,1
worth the effort to watch . ,1
the quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . ,1
 . . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity . ,0
"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made . ",0
[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . ,1
a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as exciting as either . ,0
"with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . ",0
"it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material . ",0
"swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . ",0
"interesting , but not compelling . ",0
"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film . ",0
there's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . ,0
"without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . ",0
"'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1
feels untidily honest . ,1
a very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage . ,1
murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsily stuck together . ,0
"sly , sophisticated and surprising . ",1
[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have . ,1
snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . ,0
it all adds up to good fun . ,1
"often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie . ",1
"by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . ",1
"a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater . ",0
a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . ,1
"nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career . ",0
"john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . ",0
like being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? ,0
what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . ,1
" . . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . ",1
the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . ,1
"it will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary . but here's the real damn : it isn't funny , either . ",0
"after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history . ",1
"a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . ",1
"katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . ",1
"an ugly , revolting movie . ",0
"i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve . ",0
"it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . ",1
"affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority . ",0
 . . . plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . ,0
"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love . ",1
"there is very little dread or apprehension , and though i like the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . ",0
" . . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention . ",0
"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role . ",1
"there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . ",0
kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities . ,0
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting film . ,0
at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . ,1
low rent from frame one . ,0
" with one exception , every blighter in this particular south london housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness . ",1
the movie is one of the best examples of artful large format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon . ,1
"plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . ",0
the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . ,1
a sentimental mess that never rings true . ,0
"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . ",1
"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . ",0
 . . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . ,0
a painfully leaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots . ,0
"watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost . ",0
"it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . ",0
thoroughly engrossing and ultimately tragic . ,1
"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . ",0
"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . ",0
"lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unfree . ",1
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . ,1
"hart's war seems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't quite decide which character . ",0
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary . ,1
"a lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . ",1
"though only 60 minutes long , the film is packed with information and impressions . ",1
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . ,0
a mixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . ,0
"peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . ",1
"if you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices , you're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . ",0
"would've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film's predictable denouement . then nadia's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . ",0
"brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results . ",1
"one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . ",0
"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes . ",1
"a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . ",0
"allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duracin",1
"fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . ",1
"it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too many years to resolve to be a total winner . ",0
it's as close as we'll ever come to looking through a photographer's viewfinder as he works . ,1
"most new movies have a bright sheen . some , like ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . ",0
"if no one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch . ",1
"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived . ",0
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years . ,1
"at the end , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . ",1
"feardotcom's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . ",1
"although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . ",0
flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps . ,1
"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black man and give them guns , the movie will be funny "" syndrome . ",0
been there done that . ,0
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . ,1
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . ,0
[a] strong piece of work . ,1
"as a revenge thriller , the movie is serviceable , but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions . ",1
"when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . ",0
genuinely unnerving . ,1
"despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . ",0
it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . ,0
"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . ",0
"we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . ",1
"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . ",0
"it kinda works and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lame to work or be cool at others . ",0
"the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . ",1
don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids borrow some . ,1
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . ,1
"from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right . ",1
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . ,1
"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . ",1
"flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . ",0
an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . ,1
a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . ,0
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . ,1
"witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . ",1
"the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . ",0
director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage . ,1
"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . ",1
"vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . ",1
"unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . ",0
"entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! ",1
"one big blustery movie where nothing really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cure for insomnia . ",0
" . . . does such a fine job of engulfing you in its world and allying you with its characters' choices , good and ill , that its shortcomings are remembered only as an afterthought . ",1
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . ,0
it's a 100-year old mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . ,0
"terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man . ",1
a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . ,0
"a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . ",1
"by the end of the movie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . ",1
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel . ,0
"emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . ",1
"drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth . ",1
it grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration . ,1
"finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . ",0
"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . ",0
"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity . ",0
"colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . ",1
"once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . ",0
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . ,0
the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . ,1
"comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . ",1
"chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . ",1
"why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ? ",0
a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . ,0
"a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii action flick . ",0
"in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . ",1
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . ,0
"a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . ",1
you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . ,0
"entertaining enough , but nothing new",0
"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . ",1
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . ,0
"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . ",1
"too loud , too long and too frantic by half , die another day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through . ",0
"has a certain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fair amount of b-movie excitement . ",1
"while it's genuinely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alienate even the savviest audiences . ",0
"it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . ",1
"the result is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . ",0
"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . ",0
"what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? ",0
" "" austin powers in goldmember "" has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . ",1
"a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . ",0
the film favors the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . ,0
"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with strangers is a success . ",1
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . ,1
"uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the year . ",1
"run , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the big screen . ",1
"while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . ",0
schindler's list it ain't . ,0
"not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . ",0
"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going . ",1
"no movement , no yuks , not much of anything . ",0
worthy of the gong . ,0
an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle . ,0
"such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go . ",0
"despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . ",1
so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride . ,1
a charmer from belgium . ,1
"it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence . ",1
"ou've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . ",1
first-time director joo pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . ,0
"it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . ",0
"the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the way . ",1
"[lin chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . ",0
"a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old "" twilight zone "" episode . ",1
"suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . ",0
"though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . ",0
"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad . ",1
"if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth checking out for the performances alone . ",1
"potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . ",0
it's all surface psychodramatics . ,0
"how do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough . ",0
"the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real . ",1
"with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives . ",1
the pianist is the film roman polanski may have been born to make . ,1
"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters . ",0
"we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . ",1
"never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfectly chilled delivery . ",0
"not a cozy or ingratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . ",1
"none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him . ",0
it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . ,1
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formulaic chase in the dark . ,0
"the film's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . ",0
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food . ,1
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . ,0
family fare . ,1
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever . ,0
"in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . ",1
madonna still can't act a lick . ,0
"though a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture work . ",0
"this is a particularly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . ",0
a movie to forget,0
i hate this movie,0
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audience . ,1
"a sour , nasty offering . ",0
"for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . ",1
"why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rose red ? ",0
"enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage's best acting . ",0
"the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're paying attention , the "" big twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . ",1
"not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . ",1
"an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the theme of motherhood . ",1
the director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . ,0
"boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . ",0
fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . ,1
"only a few minutes elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry . ",0
"if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . ",0
with the prospect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hours as an alternative . ,1
"it turns out to be a cut above the norm , thanks to some clever writing and sprightly acting . ",1
"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . ",0
"a pleasant , if forgettable , romp of a film . ",1
"instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . ",0
"like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . ",0
"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck . ",1
this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to live . ,0
"though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance . ",1
a feel-good picture in the best sense of the term . ,1
this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . ,1
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . ,0
what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . ,0
"these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that . ",1
martyr gets royally screwed and comes back for more . ,1
"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . ",1
a clichd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . ,0
"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good . ",1
the hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty . ,1
"it's a good film -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . ",1
"[taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ",0
"it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . ",1
"a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . ",0
it's all pretty tame . the most offensive thing about the movie is that hollywood expects people to pay to see it . ,0
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . ,1
"beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key junctures . ",0
bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . ,0
rashomon-for-dipsticks tale . ,0
"a relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . ",0
almost gags on its own gore . ,0
"feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . ",1
so original in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up . ,1
strange and beautiful film . ,1
"the film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . ",0
beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . ,1
"a wry , affectionate delight . ",1
"dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled . ",0
the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . ,1
"the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay . ",0
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids . ,0
"i'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbelief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . ",0
"an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . ",0
"hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . ",1
"nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ",0
"the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio system . ",1
"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on life's urgent questions . ",1
"there's a reason the studio didn't offer an advance screening . "" the adventures of pluto nash "" is a big time stinker . ",0
a harmless and mildly amusing family comedy . ,0
"unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of animal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . ",0
a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classic french nuance . ,1
friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you need him ? ,0
the most consistently funny of the austin powers films . ,1
"the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . ",0
"twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record . ",1
"though it's become almost redundant to say so , major kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look working-class . ",1
a tremendous piece of work . ,1
the film is really not so much bad as bland . ,0
"despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions . ",1
fails to bring as much to the table . ,0
"isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . ",1
"though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we've seen before . ",0
"an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . ",1
disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . ,0
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense . ,1
less than fresh . ,0
"this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . ",0
"love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . ",0
a film that takes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . ,1
"a mix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . ",1
"[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now . ",0
" . . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . ",0
"a classy , sprightly spin on film . ",1
"however it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . ",0
"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us "" the skulls "" and last year's "" rollerball . "" enough said , except : film overboard ! ",0
i couldn't recommend this film more . ,1
the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . ,0
"it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists . ",1
"if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . ",0
"if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here's one for you . ",1
"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . ",1
too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility . ,0
"even if you don't know the band or the album's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . ",1
another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . ,1
" . . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . ",0
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . ,0
"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . ",0
"there are no special effects , and no hollywood endings . ",1
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension . ,0
"the story loses its bite in a last-minute happy ending that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingly novel ride . ",1
"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . ",1
"art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema . ",1
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins . ,0
"the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . ",1
"the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bored to even think of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutes . ",0
" . . . if you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you're in for a painful ride . ",0
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1
"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films",1
"this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
"[schweiger is] talented and terribly charismatic , qualities essential to both movie stars and social anarchists . ",1
"spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but "" spider-man "" certainly delivers the goods . ",1
a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . ,1
"kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story . parents may even find that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults . ",1
"the film would work much better as a video installation in a museum , where viewers would be free to leave . immediately . ",0
the mushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . ,0
its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . ,0
"this film looks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . ",0
cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the magic that made it all work . ,0
"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . ",0
this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story . ,0
[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen . ,1
all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . ,0
"as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . ",1
the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi character study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending . ,0
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . ,1
"proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . ",0
"though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and clich . ",0
"oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptation . ",1
a compelling motion picture that illustrates an american tragedy . ,1
"if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $99 bargain-basement special . ",0
"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . ",0
a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's plight . ,1
"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . ",0
"quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . ",0
"well , it does go on forever . ",0
"most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence . ",0
"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . ",1
"occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action flicks , a jaded critic smacks into something truly new . ",1
'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1
"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . ",1
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . ,0
"seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . ",0
"the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . ",1
"peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",1
"it's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ",0
"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . ",0
"thekids will probably stay amused at the kaleidoscope of big , colorful characters . mom and dad can catch some quality naptime along the way . ",0
"though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . ",0
"even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilities . ",0
"we started to wonder if  some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script machine . ",0
what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and farcical . ,0
"in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . ",0
"with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl friday , "" maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . ",1
the film's essentially over by the meet-cute . ,0
"a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . ",0
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking . ,1
"the film occasionally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving story . ",1
"there's no disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . ",0
"muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . ",0
"there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . ",1
mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . ,0
"the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . ",0
"as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them . ",0
"a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two",1
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . ,0
stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . ,1
"i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care . ",0
"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed . ",1
"despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . ",1
 . . . salaciously simplistic . ,0
a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . ,1
son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness . ,1
"a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . ",1
"with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . ",0
the son's room is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . ,1
"given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . ",0
"the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . ",0
" . . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it , but like the 1920's , the trip there is a great deal of fun . ",1
"the movie doesn't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . ",0
calculated swill . ,0
god help the poor woman if attal is this insecure in real life : his fictional yvan's neuroses are aggravating enough to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse . ,0
"'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successful ) rental . '",0
"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . ",1
"es una de esas pelculas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . ",1
the issue of faith is not explored very deeply,0
it's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . ,0
george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . ,1
"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . ",0
"a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . ",1
more maudlin than sharp . ,0
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . ,0
"enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . ",0
"the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture . ",1
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid . ,1
more intellectually scary than dramatically involving . ,0
the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . ,0
psychologically savvy . ,1
"a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder",0
this film puts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of film makers . ,1
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . ,0
"it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role . ",0
a movie of riveting power and sadness . ,1
"kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opera . ",0
"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever . ",0
the film is one of the year's best . ,1
"although very much like the first movie based on j . k . rowling's phenomenal fantasy best sellers , this second go-round possesses a quite pleasing , headlong thrust and a likably delinquent attitude . ",1
 . . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . ,0
girls gone wild and gone civil again,1
a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart . ,1
"it's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny . ",1
"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing . ",0
"i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . ",0
"frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . ",0
" . . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame . ",1
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork . ,0
"nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . ",0
"it's mildly amusing , but i certainly can't recommend it . ",0
"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . ",0
"a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . ",1
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . ,1
"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film . ",1
goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . ,1
wait for it to hit cable . ,0
secret ballot is too contemplative to be really funny . ,0
"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . ",1
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted,0
foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . ,1
there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade . ,1
do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? ,1
"the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . ",0
a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video . ,1
what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm . ,1
"for once , a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . ",1
the plan to make enough into an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a souffl gone wrong . ,0
an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . ,1
"while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out . ",1
"who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . '",0
" . . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoying . ",0
"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . ",0
"despite the predictable parent vs . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at "" the real americans "" make this a charmer . ",1
"halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . ",1
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . ,0
"impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition . ",1
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor comedic writing . . . and you've got a huge mess . ,0
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . ,0
"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . ",0
what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't stand to hear ? ,1
"the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . ",1
a movie with a real anarchic flair . ,1
"despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . ",1
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . ,0
"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart . ",1
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning . ,1
"this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . ",1
"has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . ",0
"creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget . ",1
it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . ,0
"the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . ",0
"when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0
this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a documentary ! ,1
the thrill is ( long ) gone . ,0
 . . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits . ,0
"a weird , arresting little ride . ",1
"an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzenberg's the prince of egypt from 1998 . ",0
to portray modern women the way director davis has done is just unthinkable . ,0
campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . ,1
"a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . ",1
this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers . ,1
"the fight scenes are fun , but it grows tedious . ",0
" "" nicholas nickleby "" is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . ",1
"manages to be original , even though it rips off many of its ideas . ",1
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . ,0
"wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a german factory during world war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . ",0
it's a movie -- and an album -- you won't want to miss . ,1
tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . ,1
"it's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . ",1
"the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . ",0
"the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint make the thing look really slick . the voices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script . ",0
"kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . ",0
"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . ",1
"passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . ",1
"this movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it . ",1
"a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . ",0
fun and nimble . ,1
" "" i blame all men for war , "" [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . ",0
the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams . ,1
"this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . ",0
"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love . ",1
"a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . ",1
otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's eye . ,1
"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . ",0
"an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video . ",0
"it's easy to be cynical about documentaries in which underdogs beat the odds and the human spirit triumphs , but westbrook's foundation and dalrymple's film earn their uplift . ",1
"pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly . ",1
"like mike is a harmlessly nave slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . ",1
"like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half hour . ",0
mediocre fable from burkina faso . ,0
 . . . comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental . ,0
"at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second . ",1
"any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years . ",0
"one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptily . ",0
"boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . ",0
"demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . ",1
'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . ,1
"great story , bad idea for a movie . ",0
"conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . ",1
"a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers . ",0
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . ,1
"[the film's] taste for "" shock humor "" will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . ",0
i'd watch these two together again in a new york minute . ,1
"these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . ",0
one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . ,0
more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an amusing little catch . ,1
"a nearly 21/2 hours , the film is way too indulgent . ",0
"[gai] comes closer to any actress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form . ",1
a quiet treasure -- a film to be savored . ,1
"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . ",0
"maneuvers skillfully through the plot's hot brine -- until it's undone by the sogginess of its contemporary characters , and actors . ",1
"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . ",0
this overproduced and generally disappointing effort isn't likely to rouse the rush hour crowd . ,0
moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . ,0
seems like someone going through the motions . ,0
"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . ",0
seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . ,0
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies . ,1
"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting . ",0
surprisingly powerful and universal . ,1
"thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermetic . ",1
"admirable , certainly , but not much fun to watch . for caine lovers only . ",0
"much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s , but words don't really do the era justice . you have to see it . ",1
"despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . ",0
sexy and romantic . ,1
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil . ,1
plays like some corny television production from a bygone era,0
"as a director , eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising . ",0
"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser . ",0
the film often achieves a mesmerizing poetry . ,1
absurdities and clichs accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel . ,0
disturbing and brilliant documentary . ,1
"as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink . ",0
"after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . ",0
happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match . ,1
brave and sweetly rendered love story . ,1
plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . ,0
a chilling movie without oppressive gore . ,1
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years . ,0
"manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . ",0
"a gripping movie , played with performances that are all understated and touching . ",1
rifkin's references are . . . impeccable throughout . ,1
"releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . ",0
a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it . ,0
gibney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up . ,0
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't much to laugh at . ,0
all analyze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . ,0
"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fun . ",1
"executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond . ",1
an awful snooze . ,0
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . ,0
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay . ,0
"rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . ",0
a deviant topical comedy which is funny from start to finish . ,1
"the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . ",1
"in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . ,0
"haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . ",0
"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . ",1
"initially gripping , eventually cloying pow drama . ",0
"as 'chick flicks' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . ",0
"the inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . ",0
"hard , endearing , caring , warm . bring tissues . ",1
"the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . ",1
everyone's to blame here . ,0
"a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . ",0
"in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian . ",0
"a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two misfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . ",1
"the whole mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen . ",1
" . . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with . ",1
dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee . ,1
"victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . ",1
the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed . ,1
wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! ,0
"scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf . ",1
"[serry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . ",0
"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray . ",1
"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . ",0
[fessenden] is much more into ambiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills,1
"its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . ",0
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . ,0
"audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wit . ",1
"it may not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . ",1
"on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . ",1
"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days . ",1
the only way this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . ,0
in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . ,0
steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume . ,1
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . ,0
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to say . ,1
"return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . ",0
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . ,1
too bad maggio couldn't come up with a better script . ,0
"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . ",1
"not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a nature film , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey . ",0
"unexpected , and often contradictory , truths emerge . ",1
"scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . ",0
"there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modern-day comedies . ",1
"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to go but down . ",0
"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . ",1
outrageousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that used to come along for an integral part of the ride . ,0
"[a] rare , beautiful film . ",1
the film is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold . ,0
"presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable . ",0
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . ,1
it's so full of wrong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next time . ,0
"the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . ",1
"in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . ",1
"writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability . ",0
it's a great american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . ,1
"shiner can certainly go the distance , but isn't world championship material",1
graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world . ,1
all the well-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . ,0
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . ,1
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . ,0
"the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag . ",0
"the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . ",1
" . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere . ",1
"a tender , heartfelt family drama . ",1
"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . ",1
"collateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't . ",1
 . . . [a] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense . ,0
an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating . ,0
"with "" ichi the killer "" , takashi miike , japan's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . ",1
"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago . ",0
"it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . ",0
"mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . ",1
the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true . ,1
"by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hit . ",1
"reassuring , retro uplifter . ",1
"hey , who else needs a shower ? ",1
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . ,0
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . ,0
"my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medium , they would have been doing something wrong . ",1
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . ,0
"while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for blade ii . ",1
 . . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to see it then . ,0
 . . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . ,0
"if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? ",0
 . . . a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . ,0
"this is a startling film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . ",1
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . ,0
"in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 24/7 . ",0
a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle . ,0
a cop story that understands the medium amazingly well . ,1
"jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used . ",1
"a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . ",0
made by jackasses for jackasses . ,0
"nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . ",0
"alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . ",1
"a brutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writer/director responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . ",1
"some movies blend together as they become distant memories . mention "" solaris "" five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . ",1
"unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . ",0
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes . ,1
makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases . ,0
"the only thing "" swept away "" is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . ",0
"collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-9/11 , an antique , in the end . as are its star , its attitude and its obliviousness . ",0
remarkable for its intelligence and intensity . ,1
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . ,0
"at a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . ",0
"when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger's sex life , it already has one strike against it . ",0
 . . . wise and elegiac . . . ,1
"the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . ",0
"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . ",0
"this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . ",1
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . ,1
"this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . ",0
"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . ",0
"writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic . ",0
"the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . ",1
the tone shifts abruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy . ,0
"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrn de orqudeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
" . . . with the gifted pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . ",1
"it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . ",0
a moody horror/thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . ,1
the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser works . ,0
"its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ? ",0
the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . ,1
 . . . another example of how sandler is losing his touch . ,0
"birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . ",1
director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading . ,1
"slap me , i saw this movie . ",0
"has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . ",0
a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun . ,1
"it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . ",1
"in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . ",1
"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! ",1
the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . ,0
"i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! ",0
"if anything , the film is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise go unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans . ",1
"it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . ",0
"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series . ",0
those with an interest in new or singular sorts of film experiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the time . ,1
"if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . ",1
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . ,1
close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . ,1
the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . ,0
"a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . ",1
"scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . ",0
" "" frailty "" has been written so well , that even a simple "" goddammit ! "" near the end takes on a whole other meaning . ",1
"this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions . ",0
"it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing . ",1
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . ,0
"the work of an exhausted , desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . ",0
the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . ,1
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy movies . ,1
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . ,0
"the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . ",0
a thought-provoking picture . ,1
"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . ",1
"almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent . ",1
"the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life . ",0
"loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . ",0
"although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . ",1
"hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so . ",0
" . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . ",1
"touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal members of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . ",1
"ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . ",0
throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment . ,1
"this concoction , so bizarre to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned . ",1
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . ,1
"exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue , this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . ",1
"not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes . ",0
"surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy . ",0
moretti's compelling anatomy of grief and the difficult process of adapting to loss . ,1
there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . ,1
"harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . ",0
not once does it come close to being exciting . ,0
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . ,1
the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . ,0
"unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ",0
"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout . ",1
the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife . ,1
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . ,0
"my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . in the end , though , it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more . ",1
"brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . ",1
"parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . ",0
"what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale  as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . ",1
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . ,0
"despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good movie",0
"this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? ",1
"the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . ",1
"too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimmicks . ",0
"[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they love and make us love it , too . ",1
"a small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad . ",1
"there's too much falseness to the second half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . ",0
"k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . ",0
"open-minded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comforted by the way it deals with big issues like death and destiny . ",1
"there are some laughs in this movie , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . ",0
"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . take your pick . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . ",0
"a low-budget affair , tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . ",0
i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . ,1
"impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably strong cast . ",0
kaufman's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . ,0
"while the material is slight , the movie is better than you might think . ",0
"lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . ",1
"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ",1
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories . ,0
"a fun family movie that's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . '",1
"the makers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second prize , of course , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their movie . ",0
boomers and their kids will have a barrie good time . ,1
"same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . ",1
generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . ,1
borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . ,0
"at times funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do . ",1
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido . ,1
as unseemly as its title suggests . ,1
"no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . ",0
"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . ",0
"for the most part , the film does hold up pretty well . ",1
"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian history . ",1
"adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . ",1
a bit too eager to please . ,0
amazingly lame . ,0
a marvel of production design . ,1
full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000,1
one of those so-so films that could have been much better . ,0
"its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . ",1
the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . ,0
"a real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . ",1
"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . ",1
"reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no affect on the kurds , but it wore me down . ",0
"the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . ",0
"focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her "" madness "" so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . ",0
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . ,1
"when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down easily . ",1
"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elsewhere . ",0
just how these families interact may surprise you . ,1
"an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . . ",0
atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues,1
"kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action . ",0
too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . ,0
"handled correctly , wilde's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked souffl . ",0
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . ,1
here's a self-congratulatory 3d imax rah-rah . ,0
"highlighted by a gritty style and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expect when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . ",1
"the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . ",0
"beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes . ",1
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . ,0
"screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . ",0
"it takes this never-ending confusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding . ",1
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . ,1
"affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . ",1
death might be a release . ,0
"it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , "" look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! "" but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . ",0
a strangely compelling and brilliantly acted psychological drama . ,1
"i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the movie for you . ",1
"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ? ",0
one of the worst movies of the year . ,0
"[hayek] throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . ",1
"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his next project . ",1
a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . ,1
exactly what you'd expect from a guy named kaos . ,0
has all the depth of a wading pool . ,0
"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . ",0
it shows us a slice of life that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . ,1
more of an intriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller . ,0
suffers from a flat script and a low budget . ,0
"a teasing drama whose relentless good-deed/bad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting , less symmetrical , less obviously cross-shaped creation . ",1
it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . ,0
"despite a performance of sustained intelligence from stanford and another of subtle humour from bebe neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich new york intelligentsia - and its off",0
"granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . ",0
"both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . ",1
"a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . ",0
"suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . ",0
odd and weird . ,0
"byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama . ",1
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . ,0
"the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . ",0
"flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enough to bother despising . ",0
"what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits . ",0
skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ,0
there's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . ,0
a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's . ,1
"though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . ",1
me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . ,1
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . ,0
"it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . ",1
"[cuarn has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . ",1
"a real movie , about real people , that gives us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us don't know . ",1
instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . ,0
"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . ",0
"a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking . ",1
it's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . ,0
[t]he film is never sure to make a clear point  even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation . ,0
"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . ",0
"even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . ",1
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . ,1
[l]ame and unnecessary . ,0
"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . ",0
maguire is a surprisingly effective peter/spider-man . ,1
"what begins as a seemingly brainless , bubbly romantic comedy becomes a cliche-drenched melodrama by mid-film and , by film's end , a feminist action fantasy . ",0
the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . ,0
warmed-over hash . ,0
"outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken",0
"too slow , too long and too little happens . ",0
" "" . . . something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play . "" ",1
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . ,1
"a lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable . ",0
"a solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . ",1
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . ,0
"even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . ",1
begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt . ,0
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast . ,1
"the messages of compassion and mercy are clearly , squarely and specifically expounded via computer animated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . ",0
this is really just another genre picture . ,0
"miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid , that the only possible complaint you could have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout . ",1
a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her . ,1
"none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . the problem with "" xxx "" is that its own action isn't very effective . ",0
an instant candidate for worst movie of the year . ,0
"the weight of water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire , but this leaky script barely stays afloat . ",0
"the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain . ",1
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . ,0
"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probably like it . ",1
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . ,1
a rather tired exercise in nostalgia . ,0
"subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . ",1
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . ,0
a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ',0
"a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . ",1
a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to many clichs and showcases a group of dedicated artists . ,1
"no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ",0
"disney's live-action division has a history of releasing cinematic flotsam , but this is one occasion when they have unearthed a rare gem . ",1
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . ,0
"the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . ",1
"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . ",1
a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipness . ,0
an enjoyable above average summer diversion . ,1
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! ,0
"here's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck . ",1
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . ,1
"claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . ",0
"an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . ",0
"it's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . ",1
"a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trying to find her way through life . ",1
"not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . ",1
"goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cast . ",1
some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations . ,0
"thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . ",1
"deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going . ",0
shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . . ,0
"very well made , but doesn't generate a lot of tension . ",0
 . . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . ,1
a period story about a catholic boy who tries to help a jewish friend get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . ,0
"leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . ",1
"while obviously an extremely personal work , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . ",0
"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . ",0
"weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . ",0
"jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying . ",1
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . ,1
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . ,0
"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklessness . ",1
"let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . ",0
"sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end . ",0
"stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . ",1
"this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's told by the people who were there . ",1
"a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . ",1
the visuals alone make metropolis worth seeing . ,1
the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off . ,0
"distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . ",0
"edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery . ",1
"clint eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises  but still quite tasty and inviting all the same . ",1
"i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . ",1
the best that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . ,0
a work that lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse . ,0
"rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go . ",1
 . . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . ,0
"credit must be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves",0
the director's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound design ) . ,0
the hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . ,0
beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . ,1
"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . ",0
"this cuddly sequel to the 1999 hit is a little more visually polished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap . ",1
duvall is strong as always . ,1
a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is true or not . ,0
"without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . ",0
"kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) ",0
"perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forced , false and fabricated . ",0
"van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . ",0
"[i]t's certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . ",0
largely a for-fans artifact . ,0
it's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . ,1
"while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . ",1
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . ,1
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . ,0
"jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot . ",0
"a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . ",1
"skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . ",0
the cold turkey would've been a far better title . ,0
"beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . ",1
"[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen . ",0
"works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interesting to say about them . ",0
"piccoli's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . ",0
"i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowhere . ",0
an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work . ,0
"simplistic , silly and tedious . ",0
"the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . ",0
"while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . ",1
the pool drowned me in boredom . ,0
"this heist flick about young brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of vin diesel , seth green and barry pepper . it should have stayed there . ",0
"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . ",0
"if they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the last exit from brooklyn . ",0
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck . ,0
"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . ",1
"the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people . ",0
"forgettable , if good-hearted , movie . ",0
a less-than-thrilling thriller . ,0
count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater . ,1
those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking . ,0
a film with a great premise but only a great premise . ,0
"never having seen the first two films in the series , i can't compare friday after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . ",0
"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center . ",1
"despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . ",0
"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . ",0
the things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . ,0
"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . ",1
"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . ",1
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . ,1
it never fails to engage us . ,1
"if you are an actor who can relate to the search for inner peace by dramatically depicting the lives of others onstage , then esther's story is a compelling quest for truth . ",1
"while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . ",1
the weakest of the four harry potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . ,1
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final reel . ,0
"real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . ",1
"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . ",0
cinematic poo . ,0
the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . ,0
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen . ,1
"it's obviously struck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should work its magic in other parts of the world . ",1
meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of nazi politics and aesthetics . ,1
what's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children . ,1
a terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . ,1
"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism . ",0
"a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . ",0
"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . ",1
"the story may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . ",1
a sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception . ,1
"fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . ",1
the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror/action hybrid . ,0
"often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . ",1
"if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . ",1
"the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and still love the old stuff . ",1
"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life . ",1
what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involved . ,1
"got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 1/2-hour , dissipated length . ",0
"inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . ",1
"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america . ",1
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . ,0
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater,0
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . ,1
"the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . ",1
"death to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . ",0
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . ,0
"it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . ",0
"thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . ",1
"quitting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public bath house . ",1
it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more . ,1
merchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . ,0
"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . ",1
succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture . ,1
"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . ",1
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . ,0
"a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . ",0
 . . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels . ,0
an impeccable study in perversity . ,1
"even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . ",0
"more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . ",1
"in both the writing and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . ",0
"an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese point of view . ",1
"it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . ",0
"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . ",0
"in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . ",1
"though there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . ",0
"so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality . ",1
more tiring than anything . ,0
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . ,1
"it's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . ",0
"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . ",1
"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . ",0
"twist open the ouzo ! it's time to let your hair down  greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . ",1
"drops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . ",1
"a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . ",1
engagingly captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . ,1
"brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the point of suffocation . ",0
much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . ,1
"saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . ",1
schaefer's . . . determination to inject farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . ,0
"you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . ",0
this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchinsky is all flash . ,0
probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewis . ,1
i walked away from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . ,1
offers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . ,1
the stories here suffer from the chosen format . ,0
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness . ,1
"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all . ",1
sushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . ,0
"the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . ",1
"rabbit-proof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker . ",1
"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack . ",1
"it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . ",1
"a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . ",1
the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . ,1
"those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look . ",1
"if you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comedy . ",1
"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one . ",0
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . ,1
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . ,0
"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . ",0
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica proud . ,0
a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violence . ,0
"when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a doggie winks . ",0
"the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him . ",0
"lisa rinzler's cinematography may be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . ",0
cool ? this movie is a snow emergency . ,1
"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love . ",1
"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed . ",1
"a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . ",1
"it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . ",0
grant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine . ,0
"contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin . ",0
a fun ride . ,1
the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has going for it . ,0
"first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? ",0
" "" the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store "" ",0
"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along . . . ",0
" . . . a solid , unassuming drama . ",1
boring and meandering . ,0
"i just saw this movie . . . well , it's probably not accurate to call it a movie . ",1
episode ii-- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . ,0
directed in a paint-by-numbers manner . ,0
"in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . ",0
presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . ,0
"a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . ",1
even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . ,1
"daring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget . ",1
very well-written and very well-acted . ,1
"made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age . . . and then only as a very mild rental . ",1
"foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . ",1
"with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . ",0
"sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . ",0
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . ,1
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . ,1
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . ,0
"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specials . ",1
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . ,0
"die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . ",0
"for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . ",0
"it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . ",0
"every joke is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? ",0
a modestly surprising movie . ,1
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . ,1
"life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . ",0
a worthwhile way to spend two hours . ,1
"those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . ",0
vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . ,0
"both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . ",0
"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . ",0
eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . ,0
"with an expressive face reminiscent of gong li and a vivid personality like zhang ziyi's , dong stakes out the emotional heart of happy . ",1
"there's no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . ",0
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . ,0
"it gets onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right . ",1
less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . ,1
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . ,1
"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . ",0
"charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time . ",1
"for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . ",1
"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . ",1
"for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . ",0
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . ,0
"ponderous , plodding soap opera disguised as a feature film . ",0
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . ,0
"cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . ",1
"characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . ",0
"an action/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat . ",1
"good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . ",1
"it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1
bland but harmless . ,0
the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . ,0
"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . ",0
"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . ",1
"an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . ",1
the movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts . ,0
the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . ,0
it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over . ,1
"as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without leaving a sting . ",1
"the film is quiet , threatening and unforgettable . ",1
"long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might mean . ",1
"this slow-moving swedish film offers not even a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . ",0
"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . ",0
sex with strangers is fascinating . . . ,1
"no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . ",1
"fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . ",1
"you wouldn't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . ",1
ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture ! ,0
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . ,0
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . ,1
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . ,1
"more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . ",1
"having never been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's version . ",1
"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . ",0
"without shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . ",0
"egoyan's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . ",0
"although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginners worth the journey",1
" . . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinations . ",1
"the 3d images only enhance the film's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . ",1
"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring . ",0
"an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn . ",0
"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . ",1
by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy . ,0
"rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle",1
"a slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . ",1
"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . ",0
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side . ,0
"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've ever seen . ",0
"when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . ",0
"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ",1
"it doesn't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will lead when given the opportunity . ",1
"according to the script , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances . ",0
"while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . ",0
"if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . ",1
"[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . ",1
"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . ",0
"a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . ",1
"at just over an hour , home movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . ",1
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima donna shtick . ,0
it's a charming and often affecting journey . ,1
sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower . ,0
"this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . ",1
"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . ",0
one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea . ,0
"hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . ",0
"for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get inside of them . ",0
" "" freaky friday , "" it's not . ",0
"rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day . ",1
the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . ,1
"not a strike against yang's similarly themed yi yi , but i found what time ? to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . ",1
one lousy movie . ,0
one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quite some time . ,1
"there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . ",0
resourceful and ingenious entertainment . ,1
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . ,1
"the draw [for "" big bad love "" ] is a solid performance by arliss howard . ",1
the rare imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . ,1
"lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . ",0
a heartening tale of small victories and enduring hope . ,1
"her fans walked out muttering words like "" horrible "" and "" terrible , "" but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . ",0
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share airtime alongside the farm report . ,1
"young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work . ",1
"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . ",0
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . ,1
an overstuffed compendium of teen-catholic-movie dogma . ,0
"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . ",0
"there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . ",1
"director todd solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . ",1
"the tasteful little revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . ",1
"it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . ",1
the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . ,0
"when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble . ",0
every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . ,0
"even if you can't pronounce "" gyro "" correctly , you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor , which transcends ethnic boundaries . ",1
you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's failings . ,1
"meyjes's movie , like max rothman's future , does not work . ",0
"though it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal woody at best . ",0
"a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . ",1
"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . ",1
"not once in the rush to save the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . '",0
a good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a case in point : doug pray's scratch . ,1
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . ,0
"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . ",0
"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative . ",1
an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it isn't . ,1
looks like a high school film project completed the day before it was due . ,0
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards african-americans . ,0
nervous breakdowns are not entertaining . ,0
"haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . ",0
"all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat . ",0
ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . ,1
skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . ,0
the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . ,1
one of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the year . ,1
it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . ,0
"it's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence . ",1
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . ,1
it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its style . ,0
tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . ,0
"wobbly senegalese updating of "" carmen "" which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai",0
"you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . ",0
really quite funny . ,1
" . . . an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . ",0
"it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or soon . ",1
"with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ",0
darkly funny and frequently insightful . ,1
"herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate performance . ",0
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . ,0
"it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not scary . ",0
drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band . ,1
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . ,0
"though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth taking . ",1
"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . ",1
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . ,1
bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond description . ,0
"the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner . ",0
"if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . ",0
mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . ,0
"i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . ",0
"while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . ",1
"vera's three actors -- moll , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . ",1
"flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams . ",0
"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . ",1
"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . ",1
the cast is uniformly excellent and relaxed . ,1
"the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . ",0
"the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tale",0
"beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images . ",1
"there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . ",0
blue crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . ,0
"compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things get . ",1
arguably the best script that besson has written in years . ,1
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie . ,0
"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . ",1
there's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . ,0
"it's a long way from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . ",0
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . ,1
"it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . ",0
"the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . ",0
"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . ",0
the ending feels at odds with the rest of the film . ,1
"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . ",0
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been watching for decades,0
"the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . ",1
sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? ,0
the scorpion king is more fun than conan the barbarian . ,1
"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . ",1
"a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . ",1
"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1
"all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . ",0
"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . ",0
"both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . ",1
the kind of trifle that date nights were invented for . ,1
"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . ",0
"the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . ",0
 . . . hypnotically dull . ,0
a moving and important film . ,1
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what makes dover kosashvili's outstanding feature debut so potent . ,1
"everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . ",0
"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . ",1
"the movie's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ",0
the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ,0
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becomes a part of its fun . ,1
"the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . ",0
arguably the year's silliest and most incoherent movie . ,0
"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . ",1
an empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal . ,0
eric schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . ,1
"a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . ",1
"like mike doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . ",1
majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confident . ,1
"while some of the camera work is interesting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . ",0
" . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school . ",0
"martin scorsese cria um espetculo visual que no possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . ",0
"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless . ",0
"as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . ",1
"her film is like a beautiful food entre that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . ",0
"barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wonderful . ",1
"with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . ",1
"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . ",1
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . ,1
could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes . ,0
"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . ",0
"a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason . ",0
"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time . ",0
a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . ,0
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . ,1
"i'm not a fan of the phrase 'life affirming' because it usually means 'schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming . ",1
"this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . ",0
this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . ,0
poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . ,0
"chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . ",1
"it's so underwritten that you can't figure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's future . ",0
feels like six different movies fighting each other for attention . ,0
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form . ,1
the truth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome . ,0
"having had the good sense to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going public , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . ",1
"its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . ",0
"flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than ever , choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . ",1
at once half-baked and overheated . ,0
"if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece . ",1
"a sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . ",1
marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . ,1
obvious,0
"straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . ",1
children and adults enamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . ,0
"the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . ",0
"in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . ",0
i'll go out on a limb . it isn't quite one of the worst movies of the year . it's just merely very bad . ,0
"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . ",0
" "" its successes are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . "" ",1
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1
"with its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , all about the benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . ",0
don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . ,0
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . ,0
"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramticos para arrancar lgrimas do espectador , o pianista  um filme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante . ",1
"despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . ",0
"even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat . ",0
offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film . ,1
"adam sandler's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt",0
"strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . ",0
"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to watch . ",1
"call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . ",1
"the inspirational screenplay by mike rich covers a lot of ground , perhaps too much , but ties things together , neatly , by the end . ",1
a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . ,1
"what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . ",0
"why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one . ",0
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . ,0
"a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor . ",0
claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications . ,1
"frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting . ",0
"very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . ",0
"others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . ",1
"make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess . ",0
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . ,0
i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . ,0
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . ,1
"this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and confirming . ",1
long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame . ,0
it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . ,1
"like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . ",0
"as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . ",0
maryam is more timely now than ever . ,1
"a perfectly acceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . ",0
a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present . ,1
it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic heart . ,1
"for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . ",1
the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to video . ,0
"no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . ",1
"outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . ",0
"you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . ",0
"a gorgeous , witty , seductive movie . ",1
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . ,0
sweet and memorable film . ,1
"too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette . ",0
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . ,1
"this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . ",0
the best thing i can say about this film is that i can't wait to see what the director does next . ,1
"just like every other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . ",0
the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . ,0
"this is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . ",1
the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show's concept . ,0
the gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . ,1
 . . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . ,1
competently directed but terminally cute drama . ,0
"director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of "" iris "" or "" american beauty , "" but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . ",1
"cuts right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another . ",1
" . . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gifts . ",0
"by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . ",1
"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . ",0
"charming and witty , it's also somewhat clumsy . ",1
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates . ,0
a potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . ,0
"a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . ",0
[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing . ,0
"a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures . ",1
a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . ,0
"beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . ",1
the plot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained . ,0
"a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . ",1
"most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . ",1
my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here . ,1
"too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . ",0
"here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . ",1
very stupid and annoying . ,0
"a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . ",0
"ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness . ",1
it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this . ,1
"what i saw , i enjoyed . ",1
makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun . ,1
"extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . ",1
"even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . ",0
"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . ",1
"this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . ",0
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits,0
"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . ",0
"a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground . ",0
somehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . ,1
"unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . ",0
"hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love story . ",1
"could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . ",1
"too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . ",0
a must see for all sides of the political spectrum,1
"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . ",1
"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . ",0
"we can see the wheels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good cheer . ",1
"sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s , and starred chevy chase and goldie hawn . ",0
"it's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this movie . ",1
anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . ,1
"it's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . ",1
the film truly does rescue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . ,1
"passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . ",1
"mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . ",1
this is one of the year's best films . ,1
"all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . ",1
"apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax theater into a 9 "" black and white portable tv . ",0
"though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . ",1
polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style . ,1
kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . ,0
exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan's platinum-blonde hair . ,0
"in a summer overrun with movies dominated by cgi aliens and super heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway . ",1
" . . . although this idea is "" new "" the results are tired . ",0
"like shrek , spirit's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world . ",1
"solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" erin brockovich , "" "" out of sight "" and "" ocean's eleven , "" never were . ",0
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . ,0
really dumb but occasionally really funny . ,0
one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . ,0
hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . ,0
a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . ,1
features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . ,1
entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were . ,0
"deliriously funny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surprises",1
this is a very fine movie -- go see it . ,1
"dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . ",1
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos . ,1
mnch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable . ,1
"for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam . ",0
"wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . ",0
those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . ,1
" ( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . ",1
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . ,0
"winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . ",1
"secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . ",1
[newton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . ,0
"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . ",1
don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . ,0
to call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . ,0
 . . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . ,0
"shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's razzie . ,0
"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . ",1
"the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon . . . is so pat it makes your teeth hurt . ",0
"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . ",0
"superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclear line . ",1
"'charly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . ",1
"my goodness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . ",1
the rules of attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . ,0
10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . ,1
"a moving , if uneven , success . ",1
"the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni playing the wooden boy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque . ",0
the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trauma . ,1
"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . ",1
little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games . ,0
big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . ,0
"with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintar's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . ",1
the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . ,0
one of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever . ,1
the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . ,0
"[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy . ",0
there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . ,0
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie . ,0
"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . ",0
"the film aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impressive . ",1
"much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . ",0
"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . ",1
what better message than 'love thyself' could young women of any size receive ? ,1
"fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . ",1
"nonsensical , dull "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grim , hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting . ",0
mckay deflates his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness,0
"if ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . ",1
"weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . ",0
"once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . ",0
"gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable . ",0
a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . ,1
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . ,1
"even if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . ",0
its sheer dynamism is infectious . ,1
a selection of scenes in search of a movie . ,0
steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it . ,1
"even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie . ",1
"it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . ",0
a beautiful paean to a time long past . ,1
it's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this year . ,1
"although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . ",0
"the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . ",1
an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . ,1
ice age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? ,0
"de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . ",1
"culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . ",1
"what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form . ",0
"full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . ",1
"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . ",1
putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . ,0
"this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . ",1
schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . ,0
"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . ",0
"the photographer's show-don't-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . ",0
" "" one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? "" um . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? ",0
"it's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids . ",1
"most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are weak , as are most of the subplots . this one's weaker than most . ",0
"first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . ",0
feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum . ,0
the project's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . ,0
"i suspect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . ",0
"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . ",0
this is a film living far too much in its own head . ,0
"it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . ",1
"with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . ",0
"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . ",1
"as an actor , the rock is aptly named . ",0
"neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price . ",0
it sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . ,1
" . . . generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish . ",0
"some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . ",0
candid camera on methamphetamines . ,1
"the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . ",1
"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold . ",0
many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . ,0
this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hook . ,0
"the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . ",0
"whereas last year's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . ",0
 . . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . ,0
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . ,0
there is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country . ,1
"like the best of godard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . ",1
befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject,0
"another week , another gross-out college comedy--ugh . ",0
"contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memria . ",1
will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . ,1
"the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . ",1
"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition  wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text  when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type . ",0
"all in all , it's a pretty good execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own . ",1
"we could have expected a little more human being , and a little less product . ",0
"in the new guy , even the bull gets recycled . ",0
"contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . ",0
"blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky "" pretty woman "" retread , with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . ",0
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney spears' first movie . ,0
"the film is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . ",0
" "" antwone fisher "" is an earnest , by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . ",1
"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . ",0
there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisfying than almost any horror film in recent memory . ,1
"high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . ",0
"windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live . ",1
"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . ",1
bearable . barely . ,0
"you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . ",0
it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . ,0
audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school . ,0
little more than a well-mounted history lesson . ,0
every so often a movie comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we know it . the new guy is one of them . ,0
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . ,0
"little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable . ",0
"it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . ",1
the gags are often a stitch . ,1
"may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done . ",1
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters,0
"labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . ",0
"like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . ",1
compellingly watchable . ,1
woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . ,0
star/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . ,1
thin period piece . ,0
george clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . ,1
"it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . ",1
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student film . ,0
"as a belated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . ",1
"the april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . ",0
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement . ,1
there is truth here,1
"this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . ",0
"when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . ",1
"safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . ",0
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships . ,0
"unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opening today at a theater near you . ",0
"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are working on hard decisions . ",1
"you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . ",1
"there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them personally . ",0
i have two words to say about reign of fire . great dragons ! ,1
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . ,1
"it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective . ",1
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain . ,1
"in its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's land . ",1
couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? ,0
"no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . ",0
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached . ,1
"the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent . ",1
"light the candles , bring out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . ",1
can't seem to get anywhere near the story's center . ,0
"in capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . ",1
"it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chase in a black and red van . ",0
"for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . ",0
"in the end , ted bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no larger point , and little social context . ",0
"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul . ",0
jackson is always watchable . ,1
two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . ,0
 . . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race . ,1
"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't . ",0
suffers from all the excesses of the genre . ,0
a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . ,1
the verdict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . ,0
a little too pat for its own good . ,0
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters . ,1
the overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . ,0
what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . ,1
"trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . ",0
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . ,0
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ',1
" . . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes "" what time is it there ? "" something the true film buff will enjoy . ",1
superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . ,1
"stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . ",0
"unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . ",1
"there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . ",1
"jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . ",1
a creaky staircase gothic . ,1
"on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . ",1
 . . . a fairly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . ,1
"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . ",1
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . ,0
"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . ",1
a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire . ,1
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . ,0
"a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . ",0
"the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work . ",0
"everything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wants to be a kid again , or show it to their own kids . ",1
"fierce , glaring and unforgettable . ",1
"combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time , beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest system of a down video . ",0
"a hugely rewarding experience that's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . ",1
"[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . ",0
"those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved . ",1
imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . ,0
"boy oh boy , it's a howler . ",0
"even when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1
"it's all entertaining enough , but don't look for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper . ",1
queen of the damned is too long with too little going on . ,0
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . ,1
"put it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . ",0
melodrama with a message . ,1
 . . . the picture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . ,0
"this overlong infomercial , due out on video before month's end , is tepid and tedious . ",0
"with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . ",1
"it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction . ",1
the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . ,0
"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . ",0
"expanded to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . ",0
every note rings false . ,0
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . ,0
"flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose's performance . ",1
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . ,0
"[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . ",0
"unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . ",1
this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . ,1
"transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . ",1
"they crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment . ",1
"hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . ",0
"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . ",1
"at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . ",0
"the movie has lots of dancing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interesting . ",1
"if you're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you're in luck . ",1
"like a veteran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . ",1
"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . ",1
"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picture . ",0
"gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitude , knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . ",1
"going to this movie is a little like chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through . ",1
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . ,0
"i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . ",0
"instead of trying to bust some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . ",0
"a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . ",0
surprisingly insightful,1
"definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . ",0
a dreary movie . ,0
"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1
a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . ,0
nice piece of work . ,1
"para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatao da realidade histrica . ",1
may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . ,0
"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . ",0
"lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects",1
"like rudy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . ",1
shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . ,0