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7,069 | blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . | 0 |
743 | grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . | 1 |
3,913 | . . . has about 3/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake- of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity . | 0 |
5,821 | an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick stories . | 0 |
6,551 | the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish . | 0 |
2,386 | the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal . | 1 |
2,968 | the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge | 1 |
5,602 | return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . | 0 |
557 | while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . | 1 |
452 | a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easily forgettable film . | 1 |
5,297 | a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . | 0 |
1,415 | against all odds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fine . | 1 |
2,963 | viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . | 1 |
3,951 | the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada . | 0 |
6,676 | even die-hard fans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challenge . | 0 |
3,930 | a film that suffers because of its many excesses . | 0 |
501 | the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . | 1 |
2,057 | a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation . | 1 |
6,992 | by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quite bad . | 0 |
2,330 | a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story . | 1 |
140 | both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . | 1 |
4,320 | the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man . | 0 |
319 | even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . | 1 |
6,296 | too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessible screed yet . | 0 |
5,798 | donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . | 0 |
1,381 | in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . | 1 |
1,403 | " the ring " is pretty much an english-language copy of the film that inspired it , and it carries the same strengths and flaws . | 1 |
601 | uplifting , funny and wise . | 1 |
3,902 | the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . | 0 |
796 | newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg . | 1 |
2,044 | with the prospect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hours as an alternative . | 1 |
2,147 | shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . | 1 |
3,969 | the pool drowned me in boredom . | 0 |
6,904 | . . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend " never again . " | 0 |
6,770 | . . . although this idea is " new " the results are tired . | 0 |
2,222 | . . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . | 1 |
6,679 | the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . | 0 |
127 | a stirring road movie . | 1 |
2,972 | too often , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained " big moment " will occur and not " if . " | 1 |
3,235 | tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birmingham . | 1 |
231 | one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it's far tamer than advertised . | 1 |
2,760 | a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail . | 1 |
5,548 | like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends . | 0 |
5,860 | swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then . | 0 |
65 | i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending . | 1 |
1,717 | delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information . | 1 |
529 | the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as the strafings blend together . | 1 |
5,093 | ' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . ' | 0 |
3,383 | nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . | 1 |
3,107 | about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american dream . | 1 |
649 | the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . | 1 |
1,912 | what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point . | 1 |
5,066 | illiterate , often inert sci-fi action thriller . | 0 |
6,009 | it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation . | 0 |
740 | seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness . | 1 |
1,847 | an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . | 1 |
5,787 | the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . | 0 |
627 | expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . | 1 |
2,681 | it's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . | 1 |
3,927 | draggin' about dragons | 0 |
1,792 | jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . | 1 |
2,959 | though writer/director bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship , it has some special qualities and the soulful gravity of crudup's anchoring performance . | 1 |
7,089 | it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . | 0 |
4,013 | there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . | 0 |
521 | a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . | 1 |
3,789 | kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . | 0 |
6,901 | too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette . | 0 |
6,049 | no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . | 0 |
271 | a tremendous piece of work . | 1 |
2,379 | what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . | 1 |
663 | the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained . | 1 |
6,241 | i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking . | 0 |
2,014 | one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . | 1 |
1,074 | a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear . | 1 |
2,598 | an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence . | 1 |
4,949 | too slow , too long and too little happens . | 0 |
4,665 | no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . | 0 |
1,185 | . . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . | 1 |
234 | the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . | 1 |
862 | succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture . | 1 |
378 | reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . | 1 |
3,407 | you live the mood rather than savour the story . | 1 |
7,058 | there's nothing remotely topical or sexy here . | 0 |
4,311 | a somewhat disappointing and meandering saga . | 0 |
4,723 | . . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this " un-bear-able " project ! | 0 |
2,710 | the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . | 1 |
5,973 | if this is cinema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey . | 0 |
920 | allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duración | 1 |
1,923 | every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currency . | 1 |
5,077 | at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the video . and a very rainy day . | 0 |
1,546 | there's an energy to y tu mamá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors . | 1 |
3,162 | lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy . | 1 |
1,559 | a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than " memento " | 1 |
4,474 | there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination . | 0 |
6,847 | just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interesting to anyone else . | 0 |
1,895 | martyr gets royally screwed and comes back for more . | 1 |
1,696 | as a film director , labute continues to improve . | 1 |
4,900 | a complete waste of time . | 0 |
94 | graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies . | 1 |
696 | leigh's film is full of memorable performances from top to bottom . | 1 |
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