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3,414 | the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . | 1 |
567 | the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . | 1 |
3,596 | takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . | 0 |
1,455 | it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life . | 1 |
2,252 | like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable . | 1 |
4,379 | fails to bring as much to the table . | 0 |
114 | it's the best film of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured . | 1 |
967 | whether or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on " the other " and " the self , " derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow . | 1 |
2,561 | an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . | 1 |
276 | most of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . | 1 |
6,405 | unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor . | 0 |
3,550 | there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and gentle ) way . | 1 |
6,052 | the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . | 0 |
932 | sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching . | 1 |
104 | an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . | 1 |
3,614 | hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script . | 0 |
1,577 | it's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . | 1 |
5,259 | it's everything you don't go to the movies for . | 0 |
3,280 | visually captivating . | 1 |
3,757 | die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . | 0 |
90 | a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . | 1 |
439 | those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved . | 1 |
5,013 | the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film noir veil . | 0 |
2,285 | the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashion a story around him . | 1 |
2,717 | there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . | 1 |
3,981 | [seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . | 0 |
2,505 | would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new guy . | 1 |
5,434 | 'the château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ' | 0 |
5,808 | a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée . | 0 |
4,404 | has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . | 0 |
6,681 | none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens . | 0 |
5,095 | a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . | 0 |
4,378 | snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this . | 0 |
1,213 | it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . | 1 |
1,183 | [russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . | 1 |
6,057 | i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . | 0 |
3,010 | while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at . | 1 |
5,147 | when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . woo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . | 0 |
4,590 | the sweetest thing leaves a bitter taste . | 0 |
6,499 | nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . | 0 |
6,128 | verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . | 0 |
6,200 | possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . | 0 |
3,641 | what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits . | 0 |
6,197 | the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particularly unconnected . | 0 |
2,701 | dense , exhilarating documentary . | 1 |
6,953 | neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . | 0 |
4,383 | it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress . | 0 |
2,224 | what makes it worth watching is quaid's performance . | 1 |
3,433 | the performances are an absolute joy . | 1 |
5,162 | if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . | 0 |
5,541 | unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart . | 0 |
4,367 | a prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell . | 0 |
5,088 | this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . | 0 |
2,519 | unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . | 1 |
4,342 | a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . | 0 |
83 | the amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . | 1 |
3,090 | a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . | 1 |
1,002 | director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished production ever could . | 1 |
4,357 | . . . for all its social and political potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . | 0 |
4,781 | opens as promising as any war/adventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama , better suited for a movie titled " glory : a soldier's story . " | 0 |
4,442 | rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next . | 0 |
1,979 | an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . | 1 |
2,825 | with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . | 1 |
5,444 | it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . | 0 |
31 | expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . | 1 |
4,361 | a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one's interest . | 0 |
149 | haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . | 1 |
6,531 | " the kid stays in the picture " is a great story , terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
2,947 | it all adds up to good fun . | 1 |
2,427 | anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . | 1 |
1,891 | like mike doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . | 1 |
513 | soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing . | 1 |
5,681 | if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . | 0 |
4,540 | whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . | 0 |
6,011 | whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wife/colleague , terri -- is a movie children should enjoy . | 0 |
3,731 | fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . | 0 |
3,241 | not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . | 1 |
4,810 | more trifle than triumph . | 0 |
1,927 | although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . | 1 |
4,079 | stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type . | 0 |
4,617 | the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . | 0 |
4,251 | its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists . | 0 |
4,842 | it's so badly made on every level that i'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . | 0 |
3,207 | a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . | 1 |
6,962 | below is well below expectations . | 0 |
5,046 | a full-frontal attack on audience patience . | 0 |
6,207 | amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . | 0 |
6,005 | rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . | 0 |
6,804 | the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . | 0 |
1,892 | arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . | 1 |
5,266 | every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . | 0 |
1,037 | it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wit . | 1 |
2,059 | a slick , engrossing melodrama . | 1 |
4,001 | more of a career curio than a major work . | 0 |
5,024 | it uses the pain and violence of war as background material for color . | 0 |
914 | the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film's problems . | 1 |
484 | spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai . | 1 |
3,011 | one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theaters this year . | 1 |
1,866 | the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . | 1 |
2,183 | a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production design allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . | 1 |
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