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760 | it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . | 1 |
2,753 | what better message than 'love thyself' could young women of any size receive ? | 1 |
950 | collateral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . | 1 |
202 | angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | 1 |
5,616 | the movie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentially , of life itself . | 0 |
901 | there's much tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . | 1 |
3,467 | it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . | 1 |
2,065 | be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring never lets you off the hook . | 1 |
5,378 | the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . | 0 |
5,678 | like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . | 0 |
5,609 | the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster . | 0 |
4,711 | . . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school . | 0 |
4,654 | depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply . | 0 |
5,222 | let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . | 0 |
6,760 | home alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . | 0 |
645 | it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . | 1 |
98 | a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in recent memory . | 1 |
1,909 | though the film's scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare . | 1 |
1,752 | [f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels . | 1 |
5,790 | gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 0 |
5,359 | takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny . | 0 |
5,027 | a quaint , romanticized rendering . | 0 |
4,701 | dull and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit | 0 |
1,491 | the film's performances are thrilling . | 1 |
3,429 | insomnia is involving . still , i thought it could have been more . | 1 |
5,477 | every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . | 0 |
5,489 | yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . | 0 |
525 | the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality | 1 |
1,082 | 'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . ' | 1 |
4,065 | about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . | 0 |
3,584 | . . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . | 0 |
6,577 | boy oh boy , it's a howler . | 0 |
3,527 | a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . | 1 |
4,972 | like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter . | 0 |
3,395 | sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before . | 1 |
3,694 | a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the movies . | 0 |
3,840 | a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic . | 0 |
272 | overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . | 1 |
4,460 | an ill-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . | 0 |
6,643 | much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad . | 0 |
3,352 | if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . | 1 |
5,271 | a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop . | 0 |
2,556 | an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . | 1 |
2,973 | if you dig on david mamet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! | 1 |
6,309 | punitively affirmational parable . | 0 |
3,938 | fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot ! | 0 |
2,688 | the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . | 1 |
4,497 | instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone . | 0 |
4,623 | so clichéd that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cart . | 0 |
2,678 | this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . | 1 |
6,932 | the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . | 0 |
280 | leave it to rohmer , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago . | 1 |
3,879 | there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . | 0 |
6,805 | it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . | 0 |
3,944 | the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense . | 0 |
229 | in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . | 1 |
5,140 | [siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . | 0 |
664 | not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . | 1 |
5,814 | unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . | 0 |
2,287 | an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story . | 1 |
6,449 | better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery . | 0 |
1,652 | with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . | 1 |
3,941 | you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup . | 0 |
5,388 | if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . | 0 |
3,176 | the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . | 1 |
3,067 | you wouldn't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . | 1 |
4,329 | the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul . | 0 |
5,186 | there's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . | 0 |
4,664 | interesting , but not compelling . | 0 |
7,090 | the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . | 0 |
1,132 | all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel upon which it is based . | 1 |
6,182 | i can't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . | 0 |
977 | piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . | 1 |
4,720 | roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . | 0 |
4,019 | your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit . | 0 |
6,221 | first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? | 0 |
1,958 | sly , sophisticated and surprising . | 1 |
6,726 | what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent . | 0 |
6,027 | the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . | 0 |
1,694 | the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going . | 1 |
6,985 | all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure . | 0 |
6,392 | mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script . | 0 |
2,457 | as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! ' | 1 |
1,308 | challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . | 1 |
3,811 | to paraphrase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . | 0 |
5,622 | in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . | 0 |
6,460 | it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . | 0 |
2,293 | a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as rewarding . | 1 |
6,818 | has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence | 0 |
868 | a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . | 1 |
6,764 | it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . | 0 |
5,366 | as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all . | 0 |
3,703 | i wish i could say " thank god it's friday " , but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . | 0 |
6,255 | a long-winded , predictable scenario . | 0 |
5,718 | the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . | 0 |
2,790 | cold , nervy and memorable . | 1 |
921 | gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . | 1 |
1,126 | it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . | 1 |
5,567 | a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again . | 0 |
461 | while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire . | 1 |
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