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i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . | 0 |
. . . one big laugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . | 0 |
attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . | 0 |
the story really has no place to go since simone is not realshe can't provide any conflict . | 0 |
the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 0 |
knockaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . | 0 |
so-so entertainment . | 0 |
for a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . | 0 |
it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fire . | 0 |
the entire movie is in need of a scented bath . | 0 |
" the turntable is now outselling the electric guitar . . . " | 1 |
barney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . | 0 |
painfully padded . | 0 |
it's technically sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . | 1 |
the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet . | 1 |
bad and baffling from the get-go . | 0 |
morvern rocks . | 1 |
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's social mores and politics to tiresome jargon . | 0 |
a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . | 0 |
it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . | 0 |
carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . ' | 0 |
with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehow manage to get you under its spell . | 1 |
sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on guard delivers . | 1 |
good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shocked . | 1 |
" looking for leonard " just seems to kinda sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . | 0 |
a low-rent retread of the alien pictures . | 0 |
with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . | 1 |
there's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . | 0 |
energetic and boldly provocative . | 1 |
a plethora of engaging diatribes on the meaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand passion by the members of the various households . | 1 |
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . | 0 |
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 1 |
the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of de palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an american director in years . | 1 |
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . | 0 |
two hours of junk . | 0 |
remember when bond had more glamour than clamor ? no more . | 0 |
an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . | 1 |
tiresomely derivative and hammily acted . | 0 |
a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to laugh at it . | 0 |
a swashbuckling tale of love , betrayal , revenge and above all , faith . | 1 |
if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . | 1 |
really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length . | 0 |
anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ' | 0 |
that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . | 1 |
the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . | 0 |
we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . | 0 |
generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters . | 1 |
the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . | 1 |
don't expect any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . | 1 |
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to find an old flame . | 0 |
like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome . | 1 |
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . | 1 |
ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . | 0 |
an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . | 1 |
almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . | 0 |
whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . | 0 |
though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch . | 0 |
whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feel something . | 1 |
just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . | 0 |
parents beware ; this is downright movie penance . | 0 |
walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . | 0 |
audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones . | 0 |
brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . | 1 |
weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . | 0 |
with very little to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . | 0 |
any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . | 0 |
if this disposable tissue has one wild card , it's john turturro , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot fetish . | 0 |
appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 never quite ignites . | 0 |
the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete blank . | 0 |
gee , a second assassin shot kennedy ? moot point . | 0 |
nettelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor . | 1 |
with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . | 1 |
the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . | 0 |
tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . | 1 |
as steamy as last week's pork dumplings . | 0 |
there's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us . | 1 |
the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . | 0 |
the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . | 0 |
a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . | 0 |
a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others . | 1 |
a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . | 0 |
pretty much sucks , but has a funny moment or two . | 0 |
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attending services . | 1 |
this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a little weak . | 1 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . | 1 |
while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . | 0 |
flounders due to the general sense that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mind . | 0 |
rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0 |
a movie for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil' bow wow . | 1 |
originality is sorely lacking . | 0 |
one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compromise . | 1 |
there's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . | 0 |
jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . | 1 |
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here . | 1 |
those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . | 1 |
strange , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . | 1 |
none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . | 0 |
some writer dude , i think his name was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck . | 0 |
perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . | 1 |
includes too much obvious padding . | 0 |
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