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6,858 | wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . | 0 |
923 | the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . | 1 |
3,256 | another best of the year selection . | 1 |
2,390 | where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . | 1 |
2,748 | will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . | 1 |
4,869 | a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . | 0 |
6,808 | one of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . | 0 |
3,592 | every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . | 0 |
226 | manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer . | 1 |
7,029 | the entire movie is filled with deja vu moments . | 0 |
6,699 | due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . | 0 |
4,663 | the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . | 0 |
6,383 | sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . | 0 |
2,110 | there has to be a few advantages to never growing old . like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you're over 100 . | 1 |
395 | this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equally well on both the standard and giant screens . | 1 |
5,018 | all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . | 0 |
1,437 | a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's plight . | 1 |
5,761 | this is amusing for about three minutes . | 0 |
3,962 | eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . | 0 |
3,546 | this movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it . | 1 |
6,166 | like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions . | 0 |
3,932 | hopelessly inane , humorless and under-inspired . | 0 |
3,966 | " an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . " | 0 |
2,286 | greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill | 1 |
4,622 | madonna still can't act a lick . | 0 |
2,152 | this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated . | 1 |
5,453 | the film makes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolution , communism , etc . | 0 |
6,191 | all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . | 0 |
331 | irwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . | 1 |
247 | between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results . | 1 |
5,540 | lame , haphazard teen comedy . | 0 |
3,922 | an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound . | 0 |
2,995 | sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the group . | 1 |
815 | earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . | 1 |
4,659 | chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not learnt that storytelling is what the movies are about . | 0 |
3,788 | like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escape its past , and it doesn't want to . | 0 |
360 | trades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . | 1 |
2,613 | what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level . | 1 |
1,203 | it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression . | 1 |
1,281 | throughout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick . | 1 |
2,524 | if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theatre' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . | 1 |
936 | the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . | 1 |
4,316 | suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . | 0 |
5,433 | check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how well you like chris rock . | 0 |
6,605 | kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . | 0 |
391 | thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agenda . | 1 |
3,919 | take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . | 0 |
6,878 | the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . | 0 |
348 | sensitively examines general issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . | 1 |
2,580 | daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . | 1 |
6,257 | a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silly piece . | 0 |
2,382 | efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . | 1 |
3,470 | the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . | 1 |
2,614 | an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnson . | 1 |
4,545 | the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . | 0 |
5,332 | rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . | 0 |
1,910 | there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those movies . | 1 |
74 | cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . | 1 |
2,512 | 'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . | 1 |
1,194 | sum " is jack ryan's " do-over . " give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck . | 1 |
2,645 | while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . | 1 |
1,357 | while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly current . | 1 |
2,940 | jacquot's tosca is a treat . | 1 |
1,099 | it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . | 1 |
972 | the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . | 1 |
6,632 | grant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine . | 0 |
1,000 | the kind of trifle that date nights were invented for . | 1 |
1,681 | jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . | 1 |
239 | skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . | 1 |
1,089 | very predictable but still entertaining | 1 |
6,746 | the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes . | 0 |
361 | a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution . | 1 |
5,833 | although trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a good joke . | 0 |
2,271 | underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . | 1 |
6,674 | the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . | 0 |
1,380 | 10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . | 1 |
2,196 | . . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . | 1 |
5,351 | a lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable . | 0 |
2,480 | even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . | 1 |
4,042 | there's something fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to care about . | 0 |
6,395 | sluggish , tonally uneven . | 0 |
5,869 | the problem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie | 0 |
3,542 | family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking . | 1 |
5,982 | the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role . | 0 |
6,015 | . . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen . | 0 |
3,792 | i suspect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . | 0 |
1,674 | top-notch action powers this romantic drama . | 1 |
5,679 | could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attraction look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence . | 0 |
3,952 | a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . | 0 |
193 | entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! | 1 |
3,964 | how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ? | 0 |
2,775 | this charming , thought-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . | 1 |
3,671 | credibility levels are low and character development a non-starter . | 0 |
1,092 | this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding ! | 1 |
4,582 | give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . | 0 |
1,788 | although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching . | 1 |
879 | vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop . | 1 |
774 | a modestly made but profoundly moving documentary . | 1 |
6,357 | often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ? | 0 |
2,326 | a " black austin powers ? " i prefer to think of it as " pootie tang with a budget . " sa da tay ! | 1 |
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