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2,133 | ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness . | 1 |
5,104 | tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . | 0 |
6,582 | a half-assed film . | 0 |
4,714 | the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book . | 0 |
3,298 | [villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . | 1 |
625 | i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . | 1 |
6,653 | the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class . | 0 |
7,063 | unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . | 0 |
6,606 | at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . | 0 |
564 | one of the greatest films i've ever seen . | 1 |
5,015 | it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting . | 0 |
1,214 | without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . | 1 |
2,269 | after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . | 1 |
1,549 | the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . | 1 |
1,737 | yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , even better . | 1 |
6,941 | love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . | 0 |
523 | for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . | 1 |
7,038 | kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world . | 0 |
2,180 | you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . | 1 |
6,775 | it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . | 0 |
989 | it may be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer . | 1 |
3,478 | saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion . | 1 |
1,366 | sleek and arty . | 1 |
4,280 | apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . | 0 |
3,309 | a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . | 1 |
3,485 | byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . | 1 |
1,802 | a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . | 1 |
4,188 | i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . | 0 |
2,347 | those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up . | 1 |
2,223 | shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . | 1 |
6,308 | it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . | 0 |
6,256 | feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together . | 0 |
267 | . . . a lesson in prehistoric hilarity . | 1 |
2,031 | both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . | 1 |
7,061 | bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 |
1,830 | it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide . | 1 |
1,252 | it's a masterpiece . | 1 |
490 | you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary . | 1 |
3,006 | rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . | 1 |
7,013 | the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . | 0 |
5,815 | for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype . | 0 |
5,867 | yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally " superior " friends , family . . . | 0 |
2,579 | nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . | 1 |
6,950 | a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek . | 0 |
1,189 | one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . | 1 |
4,637 | in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of song . | 0 |
3,517 | stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . | 1 |
2,833 | leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . | 1 |
5,364 | the problem with all of this : it's not really funny . | 0 |
5,447 | solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . | 0 |
3,578 | cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . | 0 |
5,343 | this version of h . g . wells' time machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . | 0 |
2,958 | it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . | 1 |
2,210 | holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . | 1 |
546 | hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . | 1 |
3,804 | the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . | 0 |
1,043 | if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . | 1 |
1,922 | the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales . | 1 |
5,805 | too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization . | 0 |
1,290 | a tender , heartfelt family drama . | 1 |
2,016 | laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale . | 1 |
1,773 | this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all . | 1 |
6,126 | the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value . | 0 |
5,981 | a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . | 0 |
2,739 | a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . | 1 |
5,702 | nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . | 0 |
1,500 | one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory . | 1 |
2,387 | a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life . | 1 |
2,920 | the best comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . | 1 |
3,937 | woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . | 0 |
7,054 | serving sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . | 0 |
151 | what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk . | 1 |
5,872 | when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested . | 0 |
3,900 | like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . | 0 |
4,882 | the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . | 0 |
6,867 | the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ' | 0 |
6,556 | to enjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending . | 0 |
3,693 | the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . | 0 |
235 | you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . | 1 |
5,747 | co-writer/director jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short . | 0 |
1,662 | the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . | 1 |
4,040 | human nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . | 0 |
3,079 | not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . | 1 |
7,047 | a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . | 0 |
1,669 | another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . | 1 |
1,791 | you don't know whether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace . or both . | 1 |
1,730 | it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . | 1 |
370 | films are made of little moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . | 1 |
6,591 | the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . | 0 |
1,965 | fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . | 1 |
4,427 | first-time director joão pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . | 0 |
2,037 | you'll end up moved . | 1 |
6,792 | to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . | 0 |
5,863 | despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one . | 0 |
4,559 | watching " ending " is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . | 0 |
927 | poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . | 1 |
3,847 | the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . | 0 |
3,660 | enduring love but exhausting cinema . | 0 |
4,089 | mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . | 0 |
6,106 | much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . | 0 |
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