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6,724 | the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . | 0 |
2,204 | time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . | 1 |
3,466 | . . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy . | 1 |
1,790 | the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in " last dance " ] . | 1 |
5,019 | if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever . | 0 |
594 | tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . | 1 |
2,261 | the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's best work in some time . | 1 |
5,422 | murder by numbers just doesn't add up . | 0 |
277 | more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades . | 1 |
5,796 | this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . | 0 |
6,510 | undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . | 0 |
2,126 | almost peerlessly unsettling . | 1 |
2,292 | like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . | 1 |
2,178 | a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . | 1 |
3,210 | fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very true to life . | 1 |
1,515 | although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . | 1 |
7,002 | a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men . | 0 |
1,472 | antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . | 1 |
1,110 | remarkably accessible and affecting . | 1 |
212 | not so much a movie as a picture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , still i enjoyed it enough to recommend . | 1 |
3,422 | gives everyone something to shout about . | 1 |
1,690 | humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . | 1 |
38 | world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . | 1 |
6,366 | while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . | 0 |
2,484 | a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 1 |
3,755 | a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is true or not . | 0 |
5,861 | exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . | 0 |
298 | you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human . | 1 |
865 | writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . | 1 |
6,163 | the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . | 0 |
1,180 | " spider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer , and hopefully , sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan , you can't miss it . if you're not , you'll still have a good time . " | 1 |
1,368 | emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . | 1 |
2,174 | a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . | 1 |
974 | a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession . | 1 |
4,061 | while there's something intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer | 0 |
5,525 | what madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . | 0 |
6,728 | it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . | 0 |
3,795 | a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality . | 0 |
4,520 | characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . | 0 |
6,137 | while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . | 0 |
6,159 | simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 0 |
4,844 | even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . | 0 |
6,140 | a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . | 0 |
554 | a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale . | 1 |
4,767 | broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient . | 0 |
3,539 | demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . | 1 |
6,417 | lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . | 0 |
6,136 | this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater | 0 |
316 | it's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . | 1 |
515 | there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade . | 1 |
2,067 | despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . | 1 |
76 | succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen . | 1 |
2,315 | romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . | 1 |
5,058 | it's an awfully derivative story . | 0 |
326 | like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . | 1 |
4,114 | sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . | 0 |
472 | a must see for all sides of the political spectrum | 1 |
1,799 | the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . | 1 |
435 | though it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them . | 1 |
2,536 | lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . | 1 |
1,468 | a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters . | 1 |
5,279 | the main characters are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . | 0 |
5,822 | even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0 |
4,709 | this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh . | 0 |
4,043 | britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . | 0 |
2,857 | a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . | 1 |
349 | [city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . | 1 |
4,027 | stale , futile scenario . | 0 |
2,650 | one of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . | 1 |
629 | when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good . | 1 |
1,738 | the best part about " gangs " was daniel day-lewis . | 1 |
2,370 | one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . | 1 |
7,085 | the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . | 0 |
6,111 | a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes . | 0 |
5,160 | to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . | 0 |
4,433 | possibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . | 0 |
2,130 | just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one . | 1 |
5,064 | this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . | 0 |
3,889 | expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . | 0 |
773 | a rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest . | 1 |
769 | it's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this year . | 1 |
3,019 | de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . | 1 |
4,366 | tom green and an ivy league college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . | 0 |
6,811 | the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second . | 0 |
654 | the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing . | 1 |
4,925 | the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . | 0 |
6,331 | although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | 0 |
5,478 | winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults . | 0 |
347 | an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . | 1 |
5,394 | a benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion . | 0 |
4,828 | the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . | 0 |
2,737 | too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience . | 1 |
1,739 | phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . | 1 |
2,628 | for all its plot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented piece . | 1 |
4,757 | the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . | 0 |
5,963 | mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor . | 0 |
4,072 | plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story . | 0 |
4,489 | comedy troupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot . | 0 |
2,757 | collateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't . | 1 |
5,306 | a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as exciting as either . | 0 |
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