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5,807 | a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . | 0 |
5,245 | exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama . | 0 |
2,339 | a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . | 1 |
1,111 | it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film . | 1 |
756 | brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . | 1 |
2,107 | no wonder they're talking about " talk to her . " it's astonishing . | 1 |
1,787 | a witty , low-key romantic comedy . | 1 |
3,078 | a piquant meditation on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness . | 1 |
7,086 | lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . | 0 |
5,187 | the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0 |
4,817 | despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . | 0 |
2,490 | a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . | 1 |
4,232 | a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . | 0 |
530 | not only a reminder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made . | 1 |
5,719 | shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0 |
304 | it may not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . | 1 |
4,970 | a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . | 0 |
6,037 | well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . | 0 |
6,716 | this would-be 'james bond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . ' | 0 |
512 | nicely serves as an examination of a society in transition . | 1 |
5,890 | so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . | 0 |
1,950 | morvern rocks . | 1 |
4,283 | further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . | 0 |
3,111 | a heartening tale of small victories and enduring hope . | 1 |
5,004 | blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky " pretty woman " retread , with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . | 0 |
5,400 | comes . . . uncomfortably close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . | 0 |
5,443 | imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . | 0 |
4,517 | needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . | 0 |
4,033 | a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . | 0 |
5,517 | it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 0 |
5,993 | it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . | 0 |
182 | an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller . | 1 |
3,525 | faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , " a walk to remember " succeeds through sincerity . | 1 |
2,815 | i admired this work a lot . | 1 |
5,591 | the kids often appear to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any emotion . | 0 |
6,078 | this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through . | 0 |
3,028 | one fantastic ( and educational ) documentary . | 1 |
3,389 | whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen . | 1 |
4,326 | obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . | 0 |
6,759 | i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . | 0 |
4,479 | real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . | 0 |
3,338 | singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs — a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story — but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece . | 1 |
5,106 | this is as lax and limp a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . | 0 |
6,989 | the niftiest trick perpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that . | 0 |
40 | what enlivens this film , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . | 1 |
4,014 | it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . | 0 |
253 | this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . | 1 |
6,315 | reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish . | 0 |
1,697 | if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well . | 1 |
2,874 | i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . | 1 |
6,615 | devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . | 0 |
4,000 | . . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . | 0 |
2,520 | we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . | 1 |
1,620 | cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . | 1 |
6,085 | it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype . | 0 |
5,445 | the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | 0 |
505 | the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . | 1 |
7,019 | the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) . | 0 |
2,534 | stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis . | 1 |
2,632 | ' . . . a great , participatory spectator sport . ' | 1 |
6,039 | the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has going for it . | 0 |
5,743 | an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth solving . | 0 |
481 | watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power . | 1 |
2,776 | if this movie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative . | 1 |
6,219 | the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of " 7th heaven . " | 0 |
5,563 | although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . | 0 |
1,505 | it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence . | 1 |
4,994 | as it stands it's an opera movie for the buffs . | 0 |
5,047 | calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . | 0 |
3,480 | what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 1 |
394 | this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 |
1,786 | caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . | 1 |
431 | stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . | 1 |
6,423 | oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex comedies , it actually has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough | 0 |
5,135 | although it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league . | 0 |
1,069 | there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . | 1 |
6,991 | the film's center will not hold . | 0 |
3,093 | in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . | 1 |
5,084 | the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cynical and condescending , too . | 0 |
4,123 | a bland , obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary products . | 0 |
6,232 | american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . | 0 |
6,244 | like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . | 0 |
1,721 | the movie understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . | 1 |
3,705 | pompous and garbled . | 0 |
1,733 | you really have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch . | 1 |
4,584 | even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . | 0 |
6,887 | twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . | 0 |
2,865 | that dogged good will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . | 1 |
1,211 | [it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound . | 1 |
4,225 | too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . | 0 |
4,416 | i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . | 0 |
3,715 | in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . | 0 |
4,424 | it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs . | 0 |
5,054 | if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better film than half past dead . | 0 |
3,185 | morton is , as usual , brilliant . | 1 |
867 | a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . | 1 |
6,456 | [nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . | 0 |
3,213 | it's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful . | 1 |
6,790 | really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length . | 0 |
81 | makes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's greatness . | 1 |
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