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3,436 | a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . | 1 |
3,645 | as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . | 0 |
6,766 | audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school . | 0 |
3,476 | an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . | 1 |
294 | about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . | 1 |
1,412 | the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . | 1 |
6,547 | unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . | 0 |
6,719 | the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . | 0 |
2,495 | there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine . | 1 |
6,863 | high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . | 0 |
5,889 | trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive . | 0 |
3,018 | the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . | 1 |
4,829 | all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . | 0 |
170 | great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . | 1 |
1,868 | george clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . | 1 |
2,291 | beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . | 1 |
4,215 | ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . | 0 |
1,747 | the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . | 1 |
4,755 | for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . | 0 |
717 | everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . | 1 |
6,462 | for all the complications , it's all surprisingly predictable . | 0 |
2,123 | whenever you think you've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . | 1 |
3,689 | i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was making no sense at all . | 0 |
4,297 | this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . | 0 |
6,002 | a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . | 0 |
2,877 | it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . | 1 |
1,379 | a yarn that respects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it . | 1 |
1,522 | merci pour le movie . | 1 |
2,404 | it works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . | 1 |
4,434 | ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . | 0 |
3,035 | a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences . | 1 |
3,281 | jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . | 1 |
1,202 | gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff . | 1 |
3,580 | for single digits kidlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . | 0 |
3,449 | it's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . | 1 |
4,390 | at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . | 0 |
3,084 | celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm that's hard to beat . | 1 |
2,296 | those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . | 1 |
4,821 | what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . | 0 |
1,956 | the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen's messages are profound and thoughtfully delivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . | 1 |
2,100 | credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . | 1 |
3,443 | in capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . | 1 |
6,894 | one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . | 0 |
3,707 | labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . | 0 |
2,212 | the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace . | 1 |
822 | the passions aroused by the discord between old and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air . | 1 |
5,102 | . . . irritating soul-searching garbage . | 0 |
4,360 | it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . | 0 |
6,094 | cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . | 0 |
5,163 | there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age/coming-out tale . | 0 |
4,628 | what more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? | 0 |
1,458 | the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise . | 1 |
2,046 | [it's] a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . | 1 |
5,882 | nearly every attempt at humor here is doa . | 0 |
4,799 | many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . | 0 |
1,700 | all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely . | 1 |
5,754 | diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused . | 0 |
3,193 | what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't stand to hear ? | 1 |
1,667 | a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . | 1 |
3,388 | even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the target practice . | 1 |
5,534 | . . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit . | 0 |
6,410 | it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are long enough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream seem possible . | 0 |
2,238 | a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave . | 1 |
6,954 | if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . | 0 |
1,844 | [raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plain white toast comic book films you'll ever see . | 1 |
5,321 | even if britney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . | 0 |
3,351 | a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . | 1 |
5,707 | a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . | 0 |
308 | jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory . | 1 |
4,158 | unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . | 0 |
6,529 | while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration . | 0 |
4,640 | the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged . | 0 |
3,327 | what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie this is . | 1 |
2,789 | an asian neo-realist treasure . | 1 |
981 | you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's failings . | 1 |
1,532 | dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . | 1 |
11 | ranks among willams' best screen work . | 1 |
5,818 | . . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . | 0 |
2,064 | a densely constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest work . | 1 |
6,439 | a mild , reluctant , thumbs down . | 0 |
4,410 | no big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . | 0 |
53 | suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . | 1 |
2,929 | even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good . | 1 |
6,303 | the château would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens . | 0 |
5,875 | the beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice . | 0 |
4,794 | like showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . | 0 |
6,167 | it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . | 0 |
2,618 | i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed . | 1 |
6,305 | a didactic and dull documentary glorifying software anarchy . | 0 |
758 | a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . | 1 |
1,188 | unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotional recovery . | 1 |
5,197 | adam sandler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . | 0 |
1,775 | provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views . | 1 |
5,916 | the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head . | 0 |
5,034 | imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . | 0 |
2,583 | as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . | 1 |
3,322 | exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strength . | 1 |
1,516 | it's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects . | 1 |
6,436 | ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it . | 0 |
4,021 | the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive . | 0 |
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