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4,476 | shallow , noisy and pretentious . | 0 |
4,468 | . . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . | 0 |
997 | the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema . | 1 |
1,216 | a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures . | 1 |
4,396 | …passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road . | 0 |
1,959 | pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from either in years . | 1 |
3,659 | some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . | 0 |
1,846 | the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . | 1 |
1,508 | exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . | 1 |
2,476 | the film's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . | 1 |
4,295 | . . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . | 0 |
5,081 | [a] stuporously solemn film . | 0 |
2,728 | the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional . | 1 |
6,421 | fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references . | 0 |
1,907 | an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . | 1 |
731 | worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal' | 1 |
309 | a creaky staircase gothic . | 1 |
5,287 | yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . ' | 0 |
121 | if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force . | 1 |
917 | features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . | 1 |
2,670 | in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . | 1 |
3,639 | a very familiar tale , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages . | 0 |
2,785 | until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . | 1 |
2,500 | all three women deliver remarkable performances . | 1 |
2,499 | heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart . | 1 |
1,731 | sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . | 1 |
3,068 | [breheny's] lensing of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . | 1 |
1,450 | brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradition . | 1 |
3,030 | moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . | 1 |
4,452 | dissing a bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick . | 0 |
6,290 | pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle . | 0 |
208 | an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . | 1 |
66 | the film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . | 1 |
4,038 | a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . | 0 |
3,603 | sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony . | 0 |
2,761 | a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . | 1 |
4,802 | good for a few unintentional laughs , " extreme ops " was obviously made for the " xxx " crowd , people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting , writing , and direction . | 0 |
7,022 | when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . | 0 |
445 | you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . | 1 |
809 | if anything , the film is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise go unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans . | 1 |
1,677 | it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over . | 1 |
3,140 | what sets ms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . | 1 |
6,301 | the plot's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . | 0 |
4,293 | the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . | 0 |
5,720 | vaguely interesting , but it's just too too much . | 0 |
3,843 | schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . | 0 |
5,401 | this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . | 0 |
1,017 | a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . | 1 |
4,276 | during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . | 0 |
4,733 | we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . | 0 |
4,724 | a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . | 0 |
2,362 | add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director . | 1 |
2,135 | it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . | 1 |
6,957 | there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . | 0 |
750 | with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it . | 1 |
2,143 | yakusho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . | 1 |
3,582 | the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . | 0 |
4,155 | even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . | 0 |
6,707 | go , girls , right down the reality drain . | 0 |
811 | too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . | 1 |
1,985 | the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution . | 1 |
5,069 | shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . | 0 |
6,902 | i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . | 0 |
2,058 | undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos . | 1 |
3,947 | if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . | 0 |
2,705 | none of his actors stand out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . | 1 |
5,696 | this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor . | 0 |
1,163 | the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d . | 1 |
7,001 | hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . | 0 |
6,628 | this is really just another genre picture . | 0 |
4,321 | big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . | 0 |
6,237 | . . . salaciously simplistic . | 0 |
2,885 | the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . | 1 |
5,843 | who needs love like this ? | 0 |
2,171 | rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . | 1 |
3,250 | shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . | 1 |
269 | passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . | 1 |
1,030 | spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . | 1 |
3,404 | an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . | 1 |
1,304 | you will likely prefer to keep on watching . | 1 |
2,319 | [broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . | 1 |
6,302 | it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness . | 0 |
7,010 | narratively , trouble every day is a plodding mess . | 0 |
4,726 | occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . | 0 |
4,375 | unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . | 0 |
4,826 | i hated every minute of it . | 0 |
209 | the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . | 1 |
4,059 | a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . | 0 |
4,222 | sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . | 0 |
1,059 | slight but enjoyable documentary . | 1 |
1,460 | it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . | 1 |
1,154 | an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true . | 1 |
2,599 | director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . | 1 |
203 | an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement . | 1 |
544 | if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film . | 1 |
2,939 | woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos . | 1 |
5,072 | what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . | 0 |
710 | while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . | 1 |
362 | in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . | 1 |
1,629 | i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . | 1 |
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