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2,191 | one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made . | 1 |
5,274 | twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . | 0 |
2,087 | i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . | 1 |
2,109 | it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at . | 1 |
325 | the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity . | 1 |
6,170 | a very average science fiction film . | 0 |
3,623 | it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . | 0 |
2,716 | this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . | 1 |
6,497 | if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump . | 0 |
60 | for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed . | 1 |
1,199 | much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive . | 1 |
5,488 | return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market . | 0 |
2,515 | twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinematic touchstone . | 1 |
4,651 | abysmally pathetic | 0 |
2,231 | . . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind . | 1 |
5,680 | borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . | 0 |
2,999 | a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre fans . | 1 |
3,831 | some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent . | 0 |
6,972 | the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable . | 0 |
566 | schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . | 1 |
2,492 | shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high . | 1 |
4,140 | it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction . | 0 |
3,384 | abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences . | 1 |
6,504 | a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . | 0 |
4,250 | half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial . | 0 |
4,536 | it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman . | 0 |
7,078 | teen movies have really hit the skids . | 0 |
6,644 | a decidedly mixed bag . | 0 |
6,142 | not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school " cartoon " . | 0 |
6,192 | too much of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped . | 0 |
4,814 | kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) . | 0 |
244 | the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause . | 1 |
4,349 | unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . | 0 |
4,834 | the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . | 0 |
3,942 | while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attention process tends to do a little fleeing of its own . | 0 |
6,667 | seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . | 0 |
2,591 | the movie's seams may show . . . but pellington gives " mothman " an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling . | 1 |
5,639 | this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 0 |
3,276 | even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time . | 1 |
2,202 | a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . | 1 |
482 | a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . | 1 |
3,871 | borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . | 0 |
5,825 | . . . silly humbuggery . . . | 0 |
1,701 | triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . | 1 |
2,249 | an imaginative comedy/thriller . | 1 |
1,461 | my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here . | 1 |
925 | it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile . | 1 |
5,651 | as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on . | 0 |
10 | like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . | 1 |
3,463 | the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . | 1 |
1,039 | the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . | 1 |
6,589 | some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were made for the palm screen . | 0 |
4,125 | dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted | 0 |
998 | its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . | 1 |
722 | it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . | 1 |
6,690 | both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told . | 0 |
2,803 | the delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . | 1 |
2,265 | sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation . | 1 |
467 | it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . | 1 |
4,845 | kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that . | 0 |
2,656 | as a first-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul . | 1 |
4,891 | with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . | 0 |
4,358 | nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . | 0 |
233 | . . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . | 1 |
5,780 | if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . | 0 |
1,155 | a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . | 1 |
4,518 | though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . | 0 |
6,288 | gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh . | 0 |
5,941 | despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . | 0 |
3,320 | [anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense . | 1 |
887 | stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . | 1 |
6,888 | this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . | 0 |
374 | alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . | 1 |
698 | reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show . | 1 |
6,791 | slick piece of cross-promotion . | 0 |
379 | the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much . | 1 |
2,649 | confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk . | 1 |
3,625 | the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes . | 0 |
2,125 | it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . | 1 |
4,252 | perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . | 0 |
4,500 | gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . | 0 |
1,418 | amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 1 |
6,347 | the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky . | 0 |
230 | there are moments in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . | 1 |
5,155 | [tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . | 0 |
3,968 | preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure . | 0 |
6,809 | an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . . | 0 |
5,933 | [davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . | 0 |
1,609 | the crime matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . | 1 |
3,314 | director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . | 1 |
4,832 | men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . | 0 |
438 | somewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp . | 1 |
447 | . . . a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . | 1 |
3,432 | you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid . | 1 |
2,005 | you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponder after the credits roll . | 1 |
3,289 | . . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism . | 1 |
5,594 | just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be . | 0 |
6,590 | i'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . | 0 |
2,419 | salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . | 1 |
6,823 | the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny . | 0 |
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