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3,916 | the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . | 0 |
4,037 | director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama . | 0 |
697 | devotees of star trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking . | 1 |
2,149 | a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . | 1 |
3,265 | with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . | 1 |
2,246 | a compelling portrait of moral emptiness | 1 |
3,734 | most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . | 0 |
4,121 | curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary . | 0 |
2,112 | a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted . | 1 |
385 | combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . | 1 |
1,397 | from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . | 1 |
2,451 | for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magic he's spun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie . | 1 |
4,183 | several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . | 0 |
4,593 | another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . | 0 |
2,232 | a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present . | 1 |
4,950 | uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . | 0 |
5,518 | a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . | 0 |
2,341 | depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . | 1 |
5,073 | cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i'm not one of them . | 0 |
6,646 | an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . | 0 |
3,165 | it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come . | 1 |
3,109 | the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . | 1 |
4,308 | as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . | 0 |
3,169 | a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . | 1 |
3,259 | what makes this film special is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context . | 1 |
3,532 | the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . | 1 |
5,612 | a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . | 0 |
3,914 | despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good movie | 0 |
1,880 | not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books . | 1 |
4,657 | despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . | 0 |
3,677 | this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too often . | 0 |
3,554 | the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social ladder . | 0 |
2,957 | an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . | 1 |
1,322 | rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust . | 1 |
2,736 | " 13 conversations " holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point . | 1 |
1,569 | brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . | 1 |
4,026 | the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . | 0 |
2,470 | sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . | 1 |
3,858 | troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal . | 0 |
7,021 | does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . | 0 |
2,821 | proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored . | 1 |
2,842 | it's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters . | 1 |
4,843 | those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering . | 0 |
5,010 | shallow . | 0 |
3,753 | sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . | 0 |
5,333 | flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams . | 0 |
3,133 | conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . | 1 |
2,810 | the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of " intacto's " dangerous and seductively stylish game . | 1 |
3,328 | it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . | 1 |
4,122 | mildly entertaining . | 0 |
3,171 | manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . | 1 |
2,140 | sweetly sexy , funny and touching . | 1 |
6,246 | the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . | 0 |
2,980 | smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architectural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are due . | 1 |
785 | cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in . | 1 |
812 | most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . | 1 |
948 | like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . | 1 |
671 | the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | 1 |
2,671 | if a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . | 1 |
4,710 | this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . | 0 |
415 | this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years . | 1 |
2,327 | michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . | 1 |
143 | invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . | 1 |
5,897 | the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . | 0 |
1,329 | there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief . | 1 |
7,034 | serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movie off track in its final half hour . | 0 |
6,552 | its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing . | 0 |
4,435 | impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably strong cast . | 0 |
7,062 | proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . | 0 |
6,076 | a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . | 0 |
4,792 | it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh track . | 0 |
1,712 | fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox's work . | 1 |
191 | stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid . | 1 |
3,740 | . . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention . | 0 |
78 | these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that . | 1 |
49 | stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . | 1 |
6,926 | for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . | 0 |
1,033 | although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . | 1 |
2,742 | the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael . | 1 |
6,353 | an " o bruin , where art thou ? " -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . | 0 |
4,107 | deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going . | 0 |
5,103 | really dumb but occasionally really funny . | 0 |
4,148 | goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 0 |
2,708 | katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it . | 1 |
5,082 | the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . | 0 |
3,597 | if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . | 0 |
6,134 | the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way . | 0 |
5,752 | it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . | 0 |
5,922 | the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . | 0 |
1,162 | a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away . | 1 |
4,740 | adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . | 0 |
6,067 | miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . | 0 |
800 | captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted " other . " | 1 |
4,392 | a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise . | 0 |
1,034 | there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . | 1 |
7,060 | 'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . | 0 |
6,139 | tiresomely derivative and hammily acted . | 0 |
4,715 | well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . | 0 |
2,376 | isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries . | 1 |
6,507 | as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . | 0 |
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