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1,636 | a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beats . | 1 |
2,365 | provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialogue . | 1 |
463 | as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . | 1 |
3,325 | a wonderful character-based comedy . | 1 |
3,123 | the film often achieves a mesmerizing poetry . | 1 |
6,480 | for a film about explosions and death and spies , " ballistic : ecks vs . sever " seems as safe as a children's film . well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies . | 0 |
6,661 | it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0 |
1,044 | in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . | 1 |
4,094 | . . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . | 0 |
4,973 | the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0 |
3,976 | manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane . | 0 |
6,438 | a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 0 |
4,096 | a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity . | 0 |
3,331 | i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slackers' dumb , insulting , or childish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind . | 1 |
1,763 | it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the last several years . | 1 |
3,587 | [it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . | 0 |
6,046 | the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for personality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . | 0 |
4,009 | meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . | 0 |
6,187 | it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . | 0 |
4,245 | a singularly off-putting romantic comedy . | 0 |
340 | there are moments of hilarity to be had . | 1 |
2,800 | a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty . | 1 |
5,225 | a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . | 0 |
653 | the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations | 1 |
416 | as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . | 1 |
4,768 | resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year . | 0 |
4,848 | bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . | 0 |
2,114 | robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . | 1 |
6,966 | the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other . | 0 |
2,530 | haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . | 1 |
5,837 | plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . | 0 |
3,036 | if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here's one for you . | 1 |
6,879 | i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits | 0 |
4,846 | a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special . | 0 |
4,173 | claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . | 0 |
3,073 | bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake . | 1 |
4,850 | it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . | 0 |
5,356 | an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . | 0 |
4,658 | the master of disguise is funny--not " ha ha " funny , " dead circus performer " funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . | 0 |
5,902 | a great script brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . | 0 |
1,476 | between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . | 1 |
3,139 | throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment . | 1 |
4,350 | . . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to see it then . | 0 |
560 | the son of the bride's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherished . | 1 |
4,284 | an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . | 0 |
3,988 | brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . | 0 |
2,858 | by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so . | 1 |
3,296 | you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . | 1 |
6,430 | city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery . | 0 |
5,559 | trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . | 0 |
4,352 | definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . | 0 |
1,178 | easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . | 1 |
344 | an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick . | 1 |
6,868 | a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . | 0 |
2,401 | the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really well directed . | 1 |
784 | it's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas . | 1 |
3,118 | a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own race . | 1 |
3,283 | this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . | 1 |
2,051 | raimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . | 1 |
124 | more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . | 1 |
1,578 | rabbit-proof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker . | 1 |
7,092 | this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 0 |
5,122 | the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary . | 0 |
2,844 | see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . | 1 |
1,141 | touché ! | 1 |
799 | chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . | 1 |
167 | anchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides . | 1 |
870 | the cat's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich . . . | 1 |
507 | a perceptive , good-natured movie . | 1 |
4,221 | the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . | 0 |
3,572 | writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability . | 0 |
5,628 | call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid . | 0 |
4,035 | the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . | 0 |
6,700 | an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film . | 0 |
8 | kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . | 1 |
5,000 | `matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . | 0 |
1,900 | there is truth here | 1 |
1,448 | jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . | 1 |
3,953 | the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9/11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . | 0 |
5,060 | the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling . | 0 |
493 | the pain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze . | 1 |
6,487 | some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . | 0 |
1,353 | provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust . | 1 |
5,205 | benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . | 0 |
3,497 | despite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . | 1 |
1,826 | don't plan on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life . | 1 |
1,349 | a fast , funny , highly enjoyable movie . | 1 |
5,153 | as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . | 0 |
1,129 | whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they'd look like . | 1 |
6,307 | the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . | 0 |
4,811 | though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his career as to rate two hours of our attention . | 0 |
701 | although estela bravo's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to watch . | 1 |
1,242 | the cast is uniformly excellent and relaxed . | 1 |
3,150 | both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . | 1 |
6,266 | will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . | 0 |
978 | tender yet lacerating and darkly funny fable . | 1 |
3,656 | admirably ambitious but self-indulgent . | 0 |
4,457 | it's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . | 0 |
655 | this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is instructive . | 1 |
6,051 | not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . | 0 |
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