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1,528 | the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers . | 1 |
4,725 | this time mr . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . | 0 |
882 | very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary . | 1 |
2,976 | almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ' | 1 |
6,686 | are monsters born , or made ? | 0 |
945 | allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . | 1 |
1,818 | though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . | 1 |
1,321 | the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . | 1 |
5,606 | in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . | 0 |
7,091 | viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet . | 0 |
4,981 | i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . | 0 |
2,773 | illuminating if overly talky documentary . | 1 |
568 | the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun . | 1 |
5,510 | a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan . | 0 |
1,262 | the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side . | 1 |
7,074 | basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . | 0 |
639 | [cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . | 1 |
576 | a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers . | 1 |
5,706 | utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . | 0 |
3,771 | it doesn't quite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinating acts than " confessions of a dangerous mind . " | 0 |
5,999 | shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about | 0 |
6,479 | these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . | 0 |
1,064 | griffin & co . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . | 1 |
6,574 | eight legged freaks falls flat as a spoof . | 0 |
7 | superb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot . | 1 |
414 | an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . | 1 |
1,719 | zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones . | 1 |
5,688 | goes on and on to the point of nausea . | 0 |
95 | what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the concentration . | 1 |
6,437 | the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . | 0 |
4,641 | it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . | 0 |
6,396 | does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . | 0 |
3,892 | it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices . | 0 |
3,585 | louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense . | 0 |
358 | as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming . | 1 |
3,616 | [garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 0 |
4,778 | what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . | 0 |
4,372 | not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . | 0 |
3,905 | there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . | 0 |
1,484 | in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film . | 1 |
3,780 | comes off like a bad imitation of the bard . | 0 |
4,667 | whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . | 0 |
96 | anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . | 1 |
6,245 | i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the story . | 0 |
459 | twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels . | 1 |
6,372 | queen of the damned is too long with too little going on . | 0 |
6,275 | amazingly lame . | 0 |
6,934 | no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it . | 0 |
6,337 | a rehash of every gangster movie from the past decade . | 0 |
4,193 | reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film . | 0 |
3,499 | i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . | 1 |
3,341 | with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine . | 1 |
6,327 | extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . | 0 |
187 | still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommend to anyone looking for something different . | 1 |
5,264 | an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating . | 0 |
2,695 | you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet . | 1 |
3,058 | trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son . | 1 |
1,889 | " punch-drunk love " is a little like a chocolate milk moustache . . . | 1 |
5,169 | . . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . | 0 |
5,436 | a great ending doesn't make up for a weak movie , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . | 0 |
4,705 | skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . | 0 |
6,559 | it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . | 0 |
6,815 | nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . | 0 |
5,907 | better at putting you to sleep than a sound machine . | 0 |
429 | the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . | 1 |
3,070 | i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . | 1 |
5,668 | simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . | 0 |
711 | a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures . | 1 |
6,457 | somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . | 0 |
510 | neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . | 1 |
1,831 | the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . | 1 |
3,366 | nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one . | 1 |
7,015 | it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . | 0 |
526 | superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . | 1 |
4,694 | its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . | 0 |
2,694 | the film may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine | 1 |
2,662 | a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . | 1 |
2,389 | a beautiful , entertaining two hours . you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . | 1 |
153 | a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobility . | 1 |
6,608 | has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . | 0 |
4,088 | the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . | 0 |
6,277 | a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . | 0 |
2,469 | the komediant is a tale worth catching . | 1 |
1,333 | the pinochet case is a searing album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . | 1 |
5,212 | everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify . | 0 |
2,405 | writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . | 1 |
1,024 | the story line may be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . | 1 |
5,189 | there are many definitions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them . | 0 |
947 | if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . | 1 |
946 | while not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging . | 1 |
6,714 | your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . | 0 |
400 | charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie . | 1 |
6,133 | to call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . | 0 |
1,127 | despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . | 1 |
3,385 | gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth . | 1 |
1,919 | visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . | 1 |
6,459 | shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . | 0 |
3,421 | maud and roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy . | 1 |
2,870 | despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity . | 1 |
752 | first and foremost . . . the reason to go see " blue crush " is the phenomenal , water-born cinematography by david hennings . | 1 |
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