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the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks | 1 |
energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they | 1 |
mamet 's `` house of games '' and last fall 's `` heist '' so much fun | 1 |
reno ) lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w. bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . | 0 |
you laugh once ( maybe twice ) | 0 |
`` abandon '' | 0 |
nelson 's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself . | 0 |
a surprisingly anemic disappointment | 0 |
ignorant | 0 |
are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster | 1 |
it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens | 0 |
... a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . | 1 |
go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . | 1 |
to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes ' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once | 1 |
allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . | 1 |
perhaps it 's cliche to call the film ` refreshing , ' | 1 |
is a pleasant enough dish | 1 |
into the script , which has a handful of smart jokes | 1 |
its visual panache | 1 |
powerful and telling story | 1 |
a saga of the ups and downs of friendships | 1 |
odd and | 0 |
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 |
it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , | 0 |
horrible | 0 |
denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism | 0 |
the perfect material | 1 |
horrors ! | 0 |
could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking . | 1 |
is impressive . | 1 |
find a spark of its own | 1 |
will probably be a talky bore . | 0 |
for its originality | 1 |
mind crappy movies as much | 0 |
if festival in cannes nails hard - boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy | 1 |
a beautiful paean to a time long past . | 1 |
is in his hypermasculine element here , once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that , in many other hands would be completely forgettable | 1 |
that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front | 1 |
an old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . | 1 |
watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination | 0 |
that it avoids the obvious with humor and lightness | 1 |
patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary | 0 |
is way , way off | 0 |
is a feast for the eyes . | 1 |
soderbergh 's best films | 1 |
its excellent storytelling , | 1 |
it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . | 1 |
, heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear | 1 |
weighs down the tale with bogus profundities | 0 |
the story has its redundancies | 0 |
is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer | 1 |
about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 | 1 |
most repellent things | 0 |
palpable | 1 |
cinderella | 1 |
of sly humor | 1 |
simple title | 1 |
i 'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . | 0 |
is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell | 1 |
flaws | 0 |
is an uneven film for the most part | 0 |
undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unfold | 0 |
succeeded only in making me groggy . | 1 |
carefully choreographed | 1 |
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line | 0 |
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it 's insanely violent and very graphic . | 0 |
unpleasant excuse | 0 |
like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 0 |
of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding | 1 |
even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic | 0 |
inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage | 1 |
mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and | 1 |
awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters | 0 |
hackneyed | 0 |
strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances | 1 |
tavernier 's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of `` his girl friday , '' maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . | 1 |
tragic deaths | 0 |
in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast | 0 |
there 's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan 's prefeminist plight , so | 0 |
stitched together from stock situations and characters | 0 |
they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas | 0 |
outstanding thrillers | 1 |
it 's an ambitious film , and | 1 |
finding their way to joy | 1 |
give performances of exceptional honesty | 1 |
bill plympton , the animation master , | 1 |
, comedy and romance | 1 |
should be relegated to a dark video store corner | 0 |
wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago | 0 |
a valentine sealed with a kiss | 1 |
, mesmerizing | 1 |
, mr. murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 0 |
very strong | 1 |
visually bland | 0 |
the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , | 1 |
such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and | 1 |
lots of hollywood fluff | 0 |
honestly nice | 1 |
beneath it | 0 |
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times | 0 |
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