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6,571 | director clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been . | 0 |
3,520 | kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle . | 1 |
1,250 | the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism | 1 |
5,286 | meandering and confusing . | 0 |
1,072 | for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience . | 1 |
185 | intimate and panoramic . | 1 |
6,386 | unwieldy contraption . | 0 |
6,258 | creepy but ultimately unsatisfying thriller . | 0 |
5,203 | the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand material . | 0 |
2,025 | a smart , compelling drama . | 1 |
2,297 | it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . | 1 |
2,935 | on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . | 1 |
6,807 | it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . | 0 |
4,093 | there is nothing redeeming about this movie . | 0 |
63 | the cast is phenomenal , especially the women . | 1 |
1,295 | hey , who else needs a shower ? | 1 |
4,730 | an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views . | 0 |
6,701 | every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . | 0 |
411 | a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle . | 1 |
5,121 | jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . | 0 |
4,770 | short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . | 0 |
3,112 | it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama . | 1 |
5,041 | despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . | 0 |
1,513 | 'frailty " starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . | 1 |
1,945 | the pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single man's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . | 1 |
2,441 | beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . | 1 |
6,554 | a noble failure . | 0 |
1,174 | the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . | 1 |
3,146 | it's a rare window on an artistic collaboration . | 1 |
2,758 | though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . | 1 |
615 | a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz . | 1 |
4,983 | a compendium of solondz's own worst instincts in under 90 minutes . | 0 |
2,551 | kaufman creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very night matthew was killed . | 1 |
4,968 | deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . | 0 |
658 | mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . | 1 |
1,276 | the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . | 1 |
4,713 | it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill | 0 |
2,634 | as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . | 1 |
6,573 | a great ensemble cast can't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . | 0 |
4,063 | trailer park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . | 0 |
3,233 | a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations . | 1 |
6,385 | the first hour is tedious though ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . | 0 |
5,352 | the result is a gaudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died . | 0 |
1,540 | the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . | 1 |
5,340 | a film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . | 0 |
3,782 | sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 |
1,519 | the tug of war that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash course in movie mythology . | 1 |
4,766 | a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . | 0 |
2,509 | an epic of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . | 1 |
1,514 | nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . | 1 |
6,664 | an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . | 0 |
2,453 | defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveted to our seats . | 1 |
2,768 | so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . | 1 |
6,138 | not even the hanson brothers can save it | 0 |
2,213 | the film is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . | 1 |
6,408 | the whole thing's fairly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels . | 0 |
1,980 | far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . | 1 |
1,407 | the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people . | 1 |
5,289 | with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . | 0 |
2,378 | lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth . | 1 |
5,768 | the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to video . | 0 |
205 | while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . | 1 |
4,675 | ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . | 0 |
6,774 | the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point . | 0 |
4,573 | . . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . | 0 |
3,128 | returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age . | 1 |
4,421 | the holiday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . | 0 |
6,850 | godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . | 0 |
5,089 | would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? | 0 |
2,408 | this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year ! | 1 |
6,323 | never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . | 0 |
7,099 | finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . | 0 |
1,766 | there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . | 1 |
5,261 | this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . | 0 |
4,782 | a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . | 0 |
5,892 | even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . | 0 |
5,859 | there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more . | 0 |
742 | a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian history . | 1 |
996 | both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . | 1 |
5,767 | what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? | 0 |
1,408 | it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . | 1 |
2,812 | polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style . | 1 |
5,523 | this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friends you betray . | 0 |
1,414 | it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . | 1 |
5,524 | the script's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . | 0 |
878 | it's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . | 1 |
1,121 | not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . | 1 |
1,019 | the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . | 1 |
2,544 | it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death . | 1 |
4,151 | ultimately , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about " chicago " in 2002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a | 0 |
1,593 | the tenderness of the piece is still intact . | 1 |
4,288 | while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances . | 0 |
1,297 | real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . | 1 |
6,021 | cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle . | 0 |
455 | zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast . | 1 |
835 | the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit . | 1 |
327 | this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old friends . | 1 |
5,403 | one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . | 0 |
2,585 | this is the kind of movie that used to be right at home at the saturday matinee , and it still is . | 1 |
6,238 | the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . | 0 |
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