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3,080 | though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth taking . | 1 |
5,877 | kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities . | 0 |
6,710 | if they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the last exit from brooklyn . | 0 |
1,824 | the best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( " laissez-passer " ) wears its heart on its sleeve . | 1 |
6,177 | [a] poorly executed comedy . | 0 |
6,056 | toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . | 0 |
6,737 | despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . | 0 |
1,480 | more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . | 1 |
786 | a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . | 1 |
3,046 | mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . | 1 |
5,300 | feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot . | 0 |
3,621 | a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring . | 0 |
5,831 | anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . | 0 |
41 | a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shame americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike . | 1 |
2,627 | a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . | 1 |
4,314 | imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . | 0 |
3,427 | what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant . | 1 |
819 | allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . | 1 |
2,156 | very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . | 1 |
3,205 | in death to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing . | 1 |
3,291 | once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . . | 1 |
5,627 | as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . | 0 |
5,145 | i'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here . | 0 |
1,709 | one can't deny its seriousness and quality . | 1 |
749 | it's an old story , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . | 1 |
509 | an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand scale . | 1 |
3,958 | in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . | 0 |
5,848 | i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . | 0 |
6,518 | the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . | 0 |
2,304 | deflated ending aside , there's much to recommend the film . | 1 |
2,948 | despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the talent of the creative forces behind it . | 1 |
2,407 | as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . | 1 |
3,135 | made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . | 1 |
4,825 | obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script . | 0 |
4,708 | not only does the movie fail to make us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . | 0 |
4,871 | it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious . | 0 |
624 | even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . | 1 |
688 | this is pretty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . | 1 |
270 | mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . | 1 |
2,856 | may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . | 1 |
4,153 | the drama discloses almost nothing . | 0 |
5,293 | not only unfunny , but downright repellent . | 0 |
5,116 | the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . | 0 |
2,458 | here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation . | 1 |
2,837 | a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office . | 1 |
1,018 | a small movie with a big impact . | 1 |
612 | writer/director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in america . it's a scathing portrayal . | 1 |
2,617 | there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . | 1 |
3,103 | it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . | 1 |
4,356 | it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens | 0 |
5,887 | the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . | 0 |
5,234 | long time dead ? not nearly long enough . | 0 |
5,330 | horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . | 0 |
4,303 | although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . | 0 |
1,870 | melodrama with a message . | 1 |
1,755 | the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date . | 1 |
1,526 | apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . | 1 |
3,481 | richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . | 1 |
6,394 | the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor comedic writing . . . and you've got a huge mess . | 0 |
5,852 | spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . | 0 |
2,161 | an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . | 1 |
6,470 | how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle's] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them . | 0 |
1,452 | a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it . | 1 |
4,748 | the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . | 0 |
6,817 | the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . | 0 |
5,107 | it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong . | 0 |
5,051 | comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . | 0 |
3,507 | full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000 | 1 |
842 | khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . | 1 |
5,431 | confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . | 0 |
3,063 | at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . | 1 |
1,388 | lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unfree . | 1 |
5,026 | ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . | 0 |
61 | by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . | 1 |
4,147 | a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them . | 0 |
3,510 | director rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one . | 1 |
4,445 | starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés . | 0 |
1,218 | the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities . | 1 |
4,258 | unless you are in dire need of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . | 0 |
5,633 | this thing is virtually unwatchable . | 0 |
5,797 | a feeble tootsie knockoff . | 0 |
1,241 | witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the show . | 1 |
6,368 | the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | 0 |
1,506 | she may not be real , but the laughs are . | 1 |
2,466 | what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . | 1 |
3,786 | resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project . | 0 |
2,181 | presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . | 1 |
3,855 | what could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . | 0 |
6,004 | this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . | 0 |
299 | you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . | 1 |
5,871 | eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants . | 0 |
1,929 | the story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me . | 1 |
5,268 | feels at times like a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . | 0 |
1,616 | it's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . | 1 |
6,271 | obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesque . | 0 |
5,468 | plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on " the simpsons " has . | 0 |
2,032 | though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . | 1 |
3,364 | the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plying into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a week ago that won't go away . | 1 |
6,614 | not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired . | 0 |
87 | a stylistic romp that's always fun to watch . | 1 |
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