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5,755 | vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . | 0 |
2,622 | if you don't flee , you might be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee . | 1 |
3,170 | warm and exotic . | 1 |
4,196 | an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . | 0 |
6,003 | i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject . | 0 |
718 | absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way . | 1 |
4,557 | purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . | 0 |
2,436 | sitting in the third row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not | 1 |
2,142 | the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're paying attention , the " big twists " are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . | 1 |
907 | if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 . | 1 |
2,186 | tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . | 1 |
5,208 | while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's supposed to be a comedy . | 0 |
1,373 | béart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent . | 1 |
6,960 | stale and clichéd to a fault . | 0 |
6,055 | we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground . | 0 |
2,661 | i simply can't recommend it enough . | 1 |
1,653 | unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners . | 1 |
6,097 | with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . | 0 |
519 | jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . | 1 |
500 | what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? | 1 |
3,650 | a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . | 0 |
1,954 | it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . | 1 |
2,677 | an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy . | 1 |
103 | [gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral compass . | 1 |
2,952 | great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . | 1 |
2,350 | nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . | 1 |
6,146 | since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche . | 0 |
4,756 | dramatically lackluster . | 0 |
4,539 | the title's lameness should clue you in on how bad the movie is . | 0 |
4,494 | it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring . | 0 |
6,351 | told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . | 0 |
4,241 | in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . | 0 |
4,624 | the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . | 0 |
3,041 | blanchett's performance confirms her power once again . | 1 |
4,594 | with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . | 0 |
4,051 | the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordion/harmonica/banjo abomination , is a monument to bad in all its florid variety . | 0 |
886 | lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . | 1 |
4,578 | this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound away . | 0 |
246 | dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . | 1 |
3,574 | gets better after foster leaves that little room . | 0 |
6,471 | zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted . | 0 |
2,862 | one of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever . | 1 |
4,874 | far too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . | 0 |
677 | it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . | 1 |
6,563 | cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace . | 0 |
1,266 | pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance . | 1 |
6,781 | deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . | 0 |
955 | . . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . | 1 |
3,601 | the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take . | 0 |
303 | shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . | 1 |
6,620 | it's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . | 0 |
4,429 | so relentlessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something . | 0 |
1,351 | it's both a necessary political work and a fascinating documentary . . . | 1 |
5,207 | painfully padded . | 0 |
1,838 | an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement . | 1 |
6,173 | clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . | 0 |
1,320 | a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life . | 1 |
4,895 | cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . ' | 0 |
3,373 | [westbrook] makes a wonderful subject for the camera . | 1 |
6,734 | topkapi this is not . | 0 |
1,062 | while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work . | 1 |
3,226 | what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . | 1 |
2,945 | the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . | 1 |
3,893 | it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . | 0 |
5,439 | it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . | 0 |
4,964 | the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . | 0 |
5,273 | so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe . | 0 |
2,033 | possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . | 1 |
5,989 | while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out " when you're a jet , you're a jet all the way , " it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to " tonight . " | 0 |
6,785 | gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . | 0 |
4,272 | doesn't really add up to much . | 0 |
5,218 | it's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid . | 0 |
1,961 | the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . | 1 |
2,804 | a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . | 1 |
3,630 | a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . | 0 |
5,236 | if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . | 0 |
4,931 | family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition… ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . | 0 |
1,610 | fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point . | 1 |
6,491 | though the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . | 0 |
290 | combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? | 1 |
2,720 | 'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . | 1 |
1,948 | triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree . | 1 |
2,674 | gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife . | 1 |
6,647 | acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes " never again " worthwhile , but [writer/director] schaeffer should follow his titular advice | 0 |
5,238 | the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong . | 0 |
2,438 | the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective . | 1 |
5,868 | lacks depth . | 0 |
6,596 | predictably melodramatic . | 0 |
2,726 | with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved . | 1 |
7,046 | the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . | 0 |
6,838 | . . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any list of favorites . | 0 |
4,469 | the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox . | 0 |
4,533 | any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . | 0 |
3,504 | by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . | 1 |
305 | kinnear's performance is a career-defining revelation . | 1 |
669 | a classy , sprightly spin on film . | 1 |
2,450 | ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . | 1 |
6,682 | alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . | 0 |
6,062 | the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . | 0 |
5,598 | any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . | 0 |
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