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a poignant comedy
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move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film
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without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange .
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sometimes a chuckle
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wow factors
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in this flat effort
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divine
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mr. scorsese 's
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but it 's just too too much
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shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams
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great american comedy
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all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment
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it 's funny .
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drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés
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superstar
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nearly every cliché
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in denial about
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it 's fun ,
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spectacle and pacing
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it 's very much like life itself .
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director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film 's music than to the story line ; what 's best about drumline is its energy .
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wants
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professional
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the film is so bleak that it 's hardly watchable
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, despite many talky , slow scenes
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ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans
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jaw-droppingly beautiful work
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( grant ) goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it .
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the comic effects
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wan na watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children 's party clown gets violently gang-raped ?
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the multi-layers of its characters
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intelligent and
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fun-loving
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escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions
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pertinent and enduring
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is too crazy to be interesting
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lazily
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, you 're a jet all the way
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has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best
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retread , with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought
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go around , with music and laughter
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sappy situations and dialogue
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a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies .
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hunky has-been
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offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology
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too much time
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to the point of distraction
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goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes
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have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again
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old garbage
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the formula feel fresh
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the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic .
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eye-popping
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colorful , semimusical
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will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice
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a woefully dull
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than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s
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unwavering and arresting
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a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese .
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the love
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a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare
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this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship 's heart
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is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films
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a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare 's plays .
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a celebrated wonder in the spotlight
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it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you ...
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that assumes you are n't very bright
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kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper .
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you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards .
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feel the screenwriter at every moment ` tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away ' on this screenplay
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a new treasure of the hermitage
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a flourish
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something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life
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technically superb
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none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting is n't , either , and you would n't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ?
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makes a meal of it
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is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise
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its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and
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that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
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sitcomishly predictable and cloying
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immensely
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the hell cares
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is not even half the interest .
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a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely
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paid enough to sit through crap like this
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pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance .
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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 .
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it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies
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things will turn out
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like a wet burlap sack of gloom
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flick worthy
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forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable
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rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen 's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut .
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the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense .
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it well worth watching
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proves himself a deft pace master and stylist .
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unappealing
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sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking
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in all its director 's cut glory ,
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( dong ) makes a valiant effort to understand everyone 's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up
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