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finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even original . | 1positive |
a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most important stories to be told in australia's film history . | 1positive |
this is art paying homage to art . | 1positive |
. . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . | 1positive |
invincible is a wonderful movie . | 1positive |
. . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . | 1positive |
dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deliver . | 1positive |
occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . | 1positive |
japan's premier stylist of sex and blood hits audiences with what may be his most demented film to date . | 1positive |
culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . | 1positive |
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 . | 1positive |
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit . | 1positive |
. . . 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 . | 1positive |
marvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy film . | 1positive |
from spiritual rebirth to bruising defeat , vincent's odyssey resonates in a profound way , comparable to the classic films of jean renoir . | 1positive |
novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty , no-budget approach . | 1positive |
insomnia is involving . still , i thought it could have been more . | 1positive |
there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief . | 1positive |
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 . | 1positive |
a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience . | 1positive |
the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . | 1positive |
a modest masterpiece . | 1positive |
a worthwhile way to spend two hours . | 1positive |
francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them . | 1positive |
sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . | 1positive |
a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beats . | 1positive |
throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hedonist in us all , nair has constructed this motion picture in such a way that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one time or another . | 1positive |
makes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's greatness . | 1positive |
an endlessly fascinating , landmark movie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years . | 1positive |
. . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinations . | 1positive |
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 . | 1positive |
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . | 1positive |
frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . | 1positive |
mixes likeable personalities , inventive photography and cutting , and wall-to-wall toe-tapping music to paint a picture of a subculture that is at once exhilarating , silly , perverse , hopeful and always fun . | 1positive |
the long-range appeal of " minority report " should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages . | 1positive |
[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene's 1955 novel . | 1positive |
much monkeyfun for all . | 1positive |
an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . | 1positive |
[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . | 1positive |
the heightened symmetry of this new/old cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience , like an old friend haunted by the exigencies of time . | 1positive |
the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold . | 1positive |
while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . | 1positive |
it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle . | 1positive |
a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperfect world . | 1positive |
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking . | 1positive |
nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . | 1positive |
a perverse little truffle , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . | 1positive |
this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family | 1positive |
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . | 1positive |
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 . | 1positive |
reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . | 1positive |
there are times when a rumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i liked its heart and its spirit . | 1positive |
two hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . | 1positive |
this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old friends . | 1positive |
thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . | 1positive |
a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . | 1positive |
an epic of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . | 1positive |
genuinely touching because it's realistic about all kinds of love . | 1positive |
lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . | 1positive |
there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . | 1positive |
an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . | 1positive |
" the mothman prophecies " is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when night falls . | 1positive |
the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the first and simply the best family film of the year . | 1positive |
more honest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than iris . | 1positive |
the acting alone is worth the price of admission . | 1positive |
an excellent romp that boasts both a heart and a mind . | 1positive |
interacting eyeball-to-eyeball and toe-to-toe , hopkins and norton are a winning combination -- but fiennes steals 'red dragon' right from under their noses . | 1positive |
this is a terrific character study , a probe into the life of a complex man . | 1positive |
impresses you with its open-endedness and surprises . | 1positive |
this isn't a narrative film -- i don't know if it's possible to make a narrative film about september 11th , though i'm sure some will try -- but it's as close as anyone has dared to come . | 1positive |
my oh my , is this an invigorating , electric movie . | 1positive |
the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . | 1positive |
cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . | 1positive |
never once predictable . | 1positive |
biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shame . | 1positive |
so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality . | 1positive |
the cast is uniformly excellent and relaxed . | 1positive |
after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . | 1positive |
the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . | 1positive |
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 . | 1positive |
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 . | 1positive |
fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply . | 1positive |
without resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . | 1positive |
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . | 1positive |
unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . | 1positive |
a potent allegorical love story . | 1positive |
even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . | 1positive |
this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . | 1positive |
the movie is full of fine performances , led by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his wife . | 1positive |
a captivating cross-cultural comedy of manners . | 1positive |
andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performance . | 1positive |
the movie isn't always easy to look at . but if it is indeed a duty of art to reflect life , than leigh has created a masterful piece of artistry right here . | 1positive |
it's [ricci's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will . | 1positive |
highlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . | 1positive |
[howard] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . | 1positive |
an uplifting , near-masterpiece . | 1positive |
superior genre storytelling , which gets under our skin simply by crossing the nuclear line . | 1positive |
by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . | 1positive |
it's a bittersweet and lyrical mix of elements . | 1positive |
subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . | 1positive |
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