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3,993 | about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . | 0 |
1,869 | whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one . | 1 |
1,047 | nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . | 1 |
4,086 | a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man . | 0 |
1,641 | ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . | 1 |
1,311 | both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics . | 1 |
3,564 | if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . | 0 |
3,184 | awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over . | 1 |
4,217 | the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . | 0 |
3,991 | show me the mugging . | 0 |
4,948 | whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the " soon-to-be-forgettable " section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars | 0 |
1,239 | os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . | 1 |
3,774 | even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential . | 0 |
6,093 | hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading . | 0 |
6,268 | no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . | 0 |
6,120 | though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . | 0 |
2,880 | renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . | 1 |
3 | the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor treat . | 1 |
4,174 | . . . a bland , pretentious mess . | 0 |
19 | the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space | 1 |
4,857 | the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater . | 0 |
428 | . . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . | 1 |
1,860 | para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatação da realidade histórica . | 1 |
2,373 | first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . | 1 |
1,867 | funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness . | 1 |
6,384 | secret ballot is too contemplative to be really funny . | 0 |
2,746 | the result puts a human face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . | 1 |
2,006 | crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . | 1 |
5,964 | for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . | 0 |
132 | the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . | 1 |
5,939 | too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a big splash . | 0 |
4,459 | unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . | 0 |
5,157 | [soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . | 0 |
1,391 | not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has clearly been made with affection and care . | 1 |
1,058 | garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictable , you'll want things to work out . | 1 |
547 | the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold . | 1 |
6,784 | this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . | 0 |
4,683 | rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . | 0 |
4,692 | by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . | 0 |
3,508 | 'easily my choice for one of the year's best films . ' | 1 |
6,648 | this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . | 0 |
2,424 | a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . | 1 |
3,092 | while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . | 1 |
5,578 | despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . | 0 |
1,319 | compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . | 1 |
2,767 | the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . | 1 |
3,648 | you can practically hear george orwell turning over . | 0 |
5,734 | the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? | 0 |
3,288 | even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold . | 1 |
2,119 | while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out . | 1 |
4,809 | plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . | 0 |
573 | vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . | 1 |
5,310 | the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung . | 0 |
4,966 | no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . | 0 |
2,176 | one of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society . | 1 |
5,377 | an instant candidate for worst movie of the year . | 0 |
4,987 | 'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . | 0 |
3,985 | after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . | 0 |
5,918 | directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . | 0 |
5,324 | plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . | 0 |
4,872 | what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form . | 0 |
4,935 | there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . | 0 |
1,551 | the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride . | 1 |
5,592 | children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . | 0 |
2,090 | left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation . | 1 |
4,753 | the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . | 0 |
6,061 | just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . | 0 |
6,319 | it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense . | 0 |
7,024 | faultlessly professional but finally slight . | 0 |
1,531 | as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos records . | 1 |
4,920 | the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness . | 0 |
668 | . . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . | 1 |
4,142 | . . . unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . | 0 |
5,870 | take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . | 0 |
6,336 | there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television . | 0 |
1,772 | not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . | 1 |
261 | the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt . | 1 |
4,542 | the action clichés just pile up . | 0 |
6,342 | this thing is just garbage . | 0 |
5,435 | this extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long . | 0 |
5,762 | forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . | 0 |
937 | a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out | 1 |
3,607 | bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . | 0 |
2,735 | robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . | 1 |
1,347 | …an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle . | 1 |
1,118 | this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . | 1 |
1,911 | a gentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing . | 1 |
6,495 | i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . | 0 |
3,029 | a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . | 1 |
1,135 | though the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . | 1 |
407 | this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . | 1 |
4,411 | unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party . | 0 |
761 | alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life . | 1 |
3,686 | kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . | 0 |
1,875 | as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not . | 1 |
2,243 | bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . | 1 |
5,577 | like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten . | 0 |
1,939 | by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent love story . | 1 |
2,251 | it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . | 1 |
5,250 | there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exactly flattering . | 0 |
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