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6,289 | an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . | 0 |
4,868 | very stupid and annoying . | 0 |
1,330 | even when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking | 1 |
6,751 | blue crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . | 0 |
3,055 | in other words , it's just another sports drama/character study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus , like i already mentioned . . . it's robert duvall ! c'mon ! | 1 |
3,781 | an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . | 0 |
3,129 | old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . | 1 |
4,111 | behan's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . | 0 |
3,750 | william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright spot . . . | 0 |
4,661 | in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . ' | 0 |
2,605 | inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . affleck and jackson are good sparring partners . | 1 |
4,856 | merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense . | 0 |
4,543 | don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy . | 0 |
6,391 | a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in space , no one can hear you snore . ' | 0 |
3,945 | this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age . | 0 |
6,264 | there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he falls about ten feet onto his head . | 0 |
5,645 | in the era of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . | 0 |
3,657 | parents beware ; this is downright movie penance . | 0 |
105 | it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp ! | 1 |
3,138 | it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . | 1 |
1,167 | though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . | 1 |
5,744 | as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up . | 0 |
6,841 | director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . | 0 |
4,039 | despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development . | 0 |
6,691 | something must have been lost in the translation . | 0 |
5,985 | the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . | 0 |
5,132 | a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes . | 0 |
2,020 | who knows what exactly godard is on about in this film , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . | 1 |
5,610 | is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? | 0 |
5,030 | it's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrong , nothing will . | 0 |
3,209 | williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . | 1 |
6,613 | a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . | 0 |
5,686 | you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . | 0 |
1,613 | a well-executed spy-thriller . | 1 |
48 | a wonderful , ghastly film . | 1 |
5,727 | bravo reveals the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda . | 0 |
1,413 | ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . | 1 |
4,135 | this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . | 0 |
1,675 | the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if " gory mayhem " is your idea of a good time . | 1 |
4,561 | the verdict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them . | 0 |
5,585 | a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . | 0 |
3,149 | . it's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . | 1 |
2,262 | i can't say that i liked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . | 1 |
3,141 | it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . | 1 |
4,213 | shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . | 0 |
376 | like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . | 1 |
5,617 | starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . | 0 |
1,028 | the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission . | 1 |
6,375 | the film is surprisingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at least until the problematic third act . | 0 |
2,881 | [reaches] wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair . | 1 |
4,544 | a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . | 0 |
2,993 | this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn . | 1 |
3,833 | a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . | 0 |
5,694 | lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) . | 0 |
5,473 | almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability . | 0 |
6,206 | attal's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . | 0 |
915 | it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds . | 1 |
422 | really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . | 1 |
2,589 | a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedy . | 1 |
2,103 | enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cast . | 1 |
3,909 | without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . | 0 |
1,331 | ( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | 1 |
5,724 | i kept thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . | 0 |
2,274 | jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . | 1 |
6,388 | what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence . | 0 |
1,630 | daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story | 1 |
2,864 | a poignant comedy that offers food for thought . | 1 |
186 | an exquisitely crafted and acted tale . | 1 |
4,235 | the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . | 0 |
2,954 | just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . | 1 |
4,143 | there's not enough to sustain the comedy . | 0 |
1,088 | the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skate/surf culture , the l . a . beach scene and the imaginative ( and sometimes illegal ) ways kids can make a playground out of the refuse of adults . | 1 |
1,582 | that rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults . | 1 |
4,974 | a film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . | 0 |
5,487 | has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . | 0 |
4,646 | . . . a bland murder-on-campus yawner . | 0 |
6,068 | a well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . | 0 |
6,000 | so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland , basically . | 0 |
3,293 | an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . | 1 |
5,715 | a preposterous , prurient whodunit . | 0 |
3,203 | an entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . | 1 |
2,840 | so original in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up . | 1 |
4,463 | a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling . | 0 |
6,428 | succumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies . | 0 |
2,550 | the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . | 1 |
2,953 | effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience . | 1 |
2,146 | i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance alone . | 1 |
4,745 | the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . | 0 |
2,294 | meyjes' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . | 1 |
4,855 | the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil . | 0 |
4,260 | so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . | 0 |
825 | swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . | 1 |
5,806 | the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . | 0 |
4,830 | lurid and less than lucid work . | 0 |
5,675 | the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 0 |
6,498 | when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever . | 0 |
2,048 | ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . | 1 |
3,430 | the hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty . | 1 |
4,306 | a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . | 0 |
263 | the pianist is polanski's best film . | 1 |
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