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this silly little puddle of a movie
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a moldy-oldie , not-nearly - as-nasty - as-it - thinks-it-is joke
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dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace
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discord
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do anything
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those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein 's life would do better elsewhere .
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growing strain
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a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent
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a very charming and funny movie
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drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable
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a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices .
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high points to keep this from being a complete waste of time
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moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture
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yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ... and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable
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good time
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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
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the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper 's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we do n't feel much for damon/bourne or his predicament
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astonishingly skillful and moving ...
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headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film
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stale retread
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( shyamalan ) continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision .
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hoping for a stiff wind
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intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation
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a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import
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family fun
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a wonderful film to bring to imax
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that it is n't very good
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the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek )
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this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy .
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impressed
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just not a thrilling movie
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makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion
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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
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a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors
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using an endearing cast , writer/director dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred .
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a sobering meditation
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the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus
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it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson
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about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length
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an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton .
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good period reconstruction
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tries too hard to be funny in a way that 's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span
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complete shambles
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when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle 's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration
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puzzle whose pieces do not fit
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criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama .
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's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy
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need a stronger stomach than us
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as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism .
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of deep feeling
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its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences
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replete with stereotypical familial quandaries
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one-of-a-kind
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... an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller .
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enjoy yourselves without feeling conned
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is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity
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works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times
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overrun modern-day comedies
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the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard .
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a terrific job
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prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist 's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms
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offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film
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of softheaded metaphysical claptrap
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blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers )
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blame eddie murphy
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a cult favorite
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as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora 's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice .
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packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message
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self-important summer fluff
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that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality
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an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs
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not a strike against yang 's similarly themed yi yi , but i found what time ?
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a crisp psychological drama ( and ) a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old `` twilight zone '' episode
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keen insights
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the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables .
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there 's no rooting interest
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should see it as soon as possible . '
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poise
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impostor ca n't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies .
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most flamboyant female comics
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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
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the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a `` dungeons and dragons '' fantasy with modern military weaponry ...
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spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed .
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creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history
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tiresome cliché
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dismally dull sci-fi comedy
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poo-poo jokes
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of bland hollywood romance
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was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ?
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a plotline that 's as lumpy as two-day old porridge ... the filmmakers ' paws , sad to say , were all over this `` un-bear-able '' project
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noir veil
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, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism .
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sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue
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, the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama
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a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian
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surprises
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, the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing .
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black-and-white and unrealistic
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is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau .
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, wall-to-wall good time
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