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656 | the film delivers what it promises : a look at the " wild ride " that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans . | 1 |
6,549 | a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 0 |
1,850 | the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . | 1 |
3,907 | it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 0 |
4,990 | for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . ' | 0 |
6,280 | less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is . | 0 |
4,368 | this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . | 0 |
4,690 | lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . | 0 |
2,237 | it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . | 1 |
2,801 | confessions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . | 1 |
468 | maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements . | 1 |
1,624 | about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological . | 1 |
5,178 | writer/director john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but , when he veers into sodden melodrama , punctuated by violins , it's disastrous and kate's jealous female friends become downright despicable . | 0 |
1,967 | eric byler's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . . | 1 |
3,307 | it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee . | 1 |
6,127 | the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects . | 0 |
6,171 | like a grinning jack o' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . | 0 |
2,648 | a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man's dying fall . | 1 |
969 | a terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . | 1 |
1,206 | hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare . | 1 |
5,893 | this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now . | 0 |
745 | mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . | 1 |
6,358 | bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming true' bad . | 0 |
5,230 | i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents . . . | 0 |
2,816 | a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . | 1 |
3,371 | it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often enough . | 1 |
6,845 | a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . | 0 |
2,827 | k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . | 1 |
3,647 | a boring , formulaic mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . | 0 |
3,496 | looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . | 1 |
5,254 | with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . | 0 |
3,161 | the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there . | 1 |
5,412 | complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effort | 0 |
125 | pray's film works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . | 1 |
5,265 | despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . | 0 |
4,465 | limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . | 0 |
5,669 | a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter . | 0 |
3,264 | this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . | 1 |
4,913 | a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . | 0 |
1,422 | the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . | 1 |
3,418 | extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . | 1 |
2,917 | the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited . | 1 |
6,286 | a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . | 0 |
4,926 | worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . | 0 |
36 | absorbing character study by andré turpin . | 1 |
562 | a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama . | 1 |
4,212 | . . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . | 0 |
4,636 | it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . | 0 |
3,634 | . . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the best way to cut your teeth in the film industry . | 0 |
4,106 | the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . | 0 |
6,267 | the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . | 0 |
6,602 | too much of the humor falls flat . | 0 |
1,274 | culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . | 1 |
1,385 | a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life . | 1 |
5,302 | director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place . | 0 |
768 | the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . | 1 |
1,588 | it's not life-affirming — its vulgar and mean , but i liked it . | 1 |
16 | the all-french cast is marveilleux . | 1 |
5,392 | just like the deli sandwich : lots of ham , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half . | 0 |
6,472 | a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . | 0 |
6,535 | very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant achilles' heel in " stuart little 2 " : there's just no story , folks . | 0 |
5,029 | too bad kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up . | 0 |
5,976 | it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . | 0 |
3,742 | tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . | 0 |
128 | suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . | 1 |
334 | a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films | 1 |
3,126 | the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 1 |
628 | an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . | 1 |
2,902 | discursive but oddly riveting documentary . | 1 |
5,042 | if this movie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . | 0 |
4,896 | in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . | 0 |
164 | the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . | 1 |
4,734 | you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to . | 0 |
5,582 | bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . | 0 |
161 | its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . | 1 |
3,489 | children may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . | 1 |
2,901 | ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . | 1 |
381 | the gags are often a stitch . | 1 |
3,069 | despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacing . | 1 |
2,188 | one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . | 1 |
4,128 | ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . | 0 |
6,856 | i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . | 0 |
5,652 | it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer . | 0 |
3,304 | overall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very imaxy . | 1 |
3,813 | much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] mindset . | 0 |
4,053 | it should be doing a lot of things , but doesn't . | 0 |
1,342 | " home movie " is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . | 1 |
2,582 | 'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . ' | 1 |
6,324 | i'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed . | 0 |
3,712 | so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film . | 0 |
6,150 | it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . | 0 |
6,153 | the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either . | 0 |
2,295 | denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . | 1 |
297 | neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . | 1 |
3,769 | i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . | 0 |
4,548 | an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . | 0 |
2,377 | just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . | 1 |
6,641 | [serry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . | 0 |
5,216 | . . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity . | 0 |
6,947 | there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid | 0 |
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