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168 | [scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll . | 1 |
1,714 | evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . | 1 |
2,313 | creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget . | 1 |
3,950 | a dull , dumb and derivative horror film . | 0 |
329 | in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . | 1 |
2,264 | at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . | 1 |
746 | kept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . | 1 |
256 | this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . | 1 |
6,542 | the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . | 0 |
5,756 | though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . | 0 |
4,451 | the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ? | 0 |
1,234 | a taut , sobering film . | 1 |
475 | it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . | 1 |
1,760 | this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air . | 1 |
3,450 | . . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . | 1 |
6,354 | the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . | 0 |
3,027 | the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art . | 1 |
6,909 | forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . | 0 |
3,188 | a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . | 1 |
2,839 | featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , " sade " covers the same period as kaufmann's " quills " with more unsettlingly realistic results . | 1 |
563 | it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists . | 1 |
2,298 | the rare imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . | 1 |
3,354 | it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . | 1 |
1,112 | despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . | 1 |
4,081 | my precious new star wars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . | 0 |
5,348 | like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . | 0 |
4,867 | the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . | 0 |
3,862 | i still can't relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough . | 0 |
3,669 | in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . | 0 |
1,233 | a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . | 1 |
5,006 | it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful . | 0 |
6,253 | perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothing to write home about . | 0 |
2,259 | borrows a bit from the classics " wait until dark " and " extremities " . . . but in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself . | 1 |
1,410 | seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anything but . | 1 |
4,112 | it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . | 0 |
2,981 | holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! | 1 |
3,177 | the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la | 1 |
1,446 | coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes . | 1 |
6,917 | the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . | 0 |
5,958 | at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . | 0 |
5,091 | borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . | 0 |
3,643 | things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content . | 0 |
6,098 | not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever . | 0 |
767 | nair's cast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion . | 1 |
1,247 | others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . | 1 |
777 | it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite . | 1 |
2,414 | try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . | 1 |
1,222 | functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . | 1 |
1,573 | windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live . | 1 |
6,656 | what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? | 0 |
4,239 | sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates . | 0 |
1,673 | the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks . | 1 |
3,911 | starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . | 0 |
3,569 | there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . | 0 |
540 | a beautiful paean to a time long past . | 1 |
5,399 | the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . | 0 |
2,633 | a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . | 1 |
4,238 | " feardotcom " has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker . | 0 |
5,011 | it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . | 0 |
1,583 | on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . | 1 |
4,062 | it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . | 0 |
5,672 | marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue . | 0 |
5,574 | you come away thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . | 0 |
3,654 | i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presentation . | 0 |
2,209 | a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not . | 1 |
2,528 | about as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly come . | 1 |
2,089 | there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . | 1 |
477 | a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it . | 1 |
1,994 | a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . | 1 |
5,113 | the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . | 0 |
6,742 | like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . | 0 |
3,704 | best described as i know what you did last winter . | 0 |
2,774 | this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . | 1 |
1,753 | light , cute and forgettable . | 1 |
6,453 | 'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0 |
2,360 | mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 1 |
5,314 | all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion . | 0 |
780 | the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . | 1 |
5,008 | a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor . | 0 |
2,194 | . . . quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks . | 1 |
2,782 | by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . | 1 |
2,847 | it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . | 1 |
1,425 | bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . | 1 |
3,345 | if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . | 1 |
3,477 | often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seen to be believed . | 1 |
6,797 | it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . | 0 |
1,803 | more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . | 1 |
137 | its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch . | 1 |
4,485 | nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break . | 0 |
2,277 | full of surprises . | 1 |
1,119 | for those who like quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a must ! | 1 |
913 | it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad . | 1 |
2,459 | . . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . | 1 |
1,598 | the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates . | 1 |
857 | one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken . | 1 |
1,063 | romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . | 1 |
301 | the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time . | 1 |
2,047 | sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned . | 1 |
759 | [barry] gives assassin a disquieting authority . | 1 |
28 | director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . | 1 |
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