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1,728 | a true-blue delight . | 1 |
4,563 | it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . | 0 |
4,626 | another rent installment for the ian fleming estate . | 0 |
3,379 | 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 . | 1 |
2,876 | " home movie " is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . | 1 |
225 | a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people . | 1 |
6,744 | imagine the james woods character from videodrome making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . | 0 |
5,928 | god is great , the movie's not . | 0 |
1,344 | tends to pile too many " serious issues " on its plate at times , yet remains fairly light , always entertaining , and smartly written . | 1 |
4,505 | even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor . | 0 |
4,527 | drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . | 0 |
5,067 | this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . | 0 |
3,923 | the film's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go . | 0 |
3,285 | fantastic ! | 1 |
4,889 | the ending is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . | 0 |
5,881 | stay away . far away . | 0 |
4,450 | whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . | 0 |
4,790 | a prolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp . | 0 |
3,763 | . . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . | 0 |
1,219 | one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us involved . | 1 |
2,421 | a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort . | 1 |
5,341 | this is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie . | 0 |
4,771 | the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . | 0 |
975 | smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise . | 1 |
5,742 | call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . | 0 |
5,240 | lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . | 0 |
5,753 | looks and feels like a project better suited for the small screen . | 0 |
4,117 | falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clown in situations that aren't funny . | 0 |
6,445 | this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows . | 0 |
553 | isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . | 1 |
6,125 | needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . | 0 |
5,480 | a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . | 0 |
585 | dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement . | 1 |
162 | the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is better . | 1 |
4,431 | lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . | 0 |
4,775 | such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go . | 0 |
6,270 | an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . | 0 |
3,306 | as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . | 1 |
7,008 | quick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ? | 0 |
4,819 | i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary . | 0 |
5,996 | hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world . | 0 |
813 | do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? | 1 |
2,257 | me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . | 1 |
600 | hardly a film that comes along every day . | 1 |
4,524 | despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . | 0 |
5,349 | the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . | 0 |
605 | but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very human one . | 1 |
4,742 | an already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . | 0 |
4,313 | portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . | 0 |
1,098 | atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues | 1 |
4,195 | far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love . | 0 |
2,000 | tim allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . | 1 |
6,942 | like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . | 0 |
2,978 | workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that made the other three great , scary times at the movies . | 1 |
1,010 | . . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations . | 1 |
4,423 | a 93-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . | 0 |
464 | plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . | 1 |
1,157 | [a] rare , beautiful film . | 1 |
5,709 | doesn't add up to much . | 0 |
2,052 | enticing and often funny documentary . | 1 |
2,234 | i don't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold . | 1 |
4,655 | violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . | 0 |
1,779 | . . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . | 1 |
1,601 | who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . | 1 |
6,100 | what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down . | 0 |
211 | fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten | 1 |
6,190 | you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . | 0 |
6,569 | who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like " they're back ! " , " they're out there ! " and " they're coming ! " | 0 |
5,144 | the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking dullness . | 0 |
2,043 | steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume . | 1 |
5,759 | watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen . | 0 |
2,254 | an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order | 1 |
118 | there's no reason to miss interview with the assassin | 1 |
4,274 | it's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . | 0 |
5,586 | the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . | 0 |
3,513 | a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll . | 1 |
3,577 | it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation comedy . | 0 |
2,852 | gently humorous and touching . | 1 |
6,849 | this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring | 0 |
4,933 | a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . | 0 |
3,183 | as relationships shift , director robert j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . | 1 |
2,071 | the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . | 1 |
6,561 | though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we've seen before . | 0 |
4,393 | the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions . | 0 |
881 | it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . | 1 |
6,538 | a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . | 0 |
6,043 | . . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be | 0 |
3,658 | to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . | 0 |
3,440 | it's a talking head documentary , but a great one . | 1 |
1,865 | [shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . | 1 |
2,851 | the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . | 1 |
2,793 | katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself | 1 |
5,587 | j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl . | 0 |
5,967 | schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . | 0 |
911 | reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . | 1 |
2,205 | the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . | 1 |
2,711 | a highly watchable , giggly little story with a sweet edge to it . | 1 |
4,490 | sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end . | 0 |
6,407 | wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn . | 0 |
4,175 | blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it may sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger look like spencer tracy . | 0 |
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