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847 | combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . | 1 |
4,940 | melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese back . | 0 |
6,402 | . . . contains very few laughs and even less surprises . | 0 |
4,214 | bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . | 0 |
2,098 | features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever . | 1 |
776 | a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sense . | 1 |
443 | as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel " the death of napoleon " and directed by alan taylor , napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn | 1 |
3,009 | the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release . | 1 |
5,087 | don't let your festive spirit go this far . | 0 |
4,936 | all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat . | 0 |
1,997 | how good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . | 1 |
5,239 | elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . | 0 |
6,276 | i can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to like it . | 0 |
3,121 | among the year's most intriguing explorations of alientation . | 1 |
1,153 | bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . | 1 |
6,860 | bullock's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film | 0 |
6,622 | it virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . | 0 |
70 | a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic . | 1 |
6,477 | taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promise . | 0 |
5,428 | meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant . | 0 |
492 | a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a moment of its two-hour running time . | 1 |
2,590 | it's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . | 1 |
3,586 | it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . | 0 |
6,566 | as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . | 0 |
6,558 | cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . | 0 |
4,952 | the densest distillation of roberts' movies ever made . | 0 |
6,912 | oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . | 0 |
4,047 | suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . | 0 |
3,479 | tense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . | 1 |
3,697 | there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted . | 0 |
4,985 | cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . | 0 |
245 | it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya . | 1 |
5,161 | the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | 0 |
6,325 | a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary . | 0 |
5,476 | trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliched where it should be sincere . | 0 |
1,085 | when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down easily . | 1 |
4,780 | a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here . | 0 |
3,761 | shame on writer/director vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens , obsessive relationships , and rampant adultery so dull . | 0 |
4,130 | director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters . | 0 |
1,272 | francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them . | 1 |
4,160 | writer/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results . | 0 |
1,881 | with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . | 1 |
1,521 | a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown . | 1 |
6,311 | the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . | 0 |
4,189 | abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists . | 0 |
1,224 | would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ' | 1 |
5,414 | terminally brain dead production . | 0 |
6,995 | chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie . | 0 |
6,739 | like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . | 0 |
630 | a tone poem of transgression . | 1 |
2,116 | takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heights . | 1 |
6,113 | if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . | 0 |
5,604 | i can't remember the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama . | 0 |
5,934 | chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awful student films strung together into one feature-length horror . | 0 |
1,438 | reggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . | 1 |
2,514 | bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really scores . | 1 |
4,613 | for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from coming together . | 0 |
4,962 | a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . | 0 |
504 | one of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . | 1 |
1,602 | it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this . | 1 |
448 | the thing about guys like evans is this : you're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to care . | 1 |
2,322 | not everything works , but the average is higher than in mary and most other recent comedies . | 1 |
424 | aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an independent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . | 1 |
524 | brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results . | 1 |
4,951 | how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts . | 0 |
147 | at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . | 1 |
2,511 | it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought . | 1 |
4,502 | could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . | 0 |
3,849 | feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum . | 0 |
3,238 | it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . | 1 |
1,962 | with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | 1 |
4,486 | we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting . | 0 |
4,566 | this is a film living far too much in its own head . | 0 |
5,499 | a standard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas . | 0 |
6,736 | hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff . | 0 |
1,607 | coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . | 1 |
2,646 | it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing | 1 |
135 | fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for . | 1 |
6,509 | . . . better described as a ghost story gone badly awry . | 0 |
5,325 | instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? | 0 |
1,201 | every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . | 1 |
6,720 | wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . | 0 |
3,725 | gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . | 0 |
1,812 | this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . | 1 |
6,420 | if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . | 0 |
1,686 | it's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . | 1 |
6,346 | this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work . | 0 |
5,305 | the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . | 0 |
3,973 | an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse . | 0 |
7,035 | although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful . | 0 |
1,886 | an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . | 1 |
4,296 | [n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . | 0 |
747 | evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's " house of games " and last fall's " heist " so much fun . | 1 |
88 | it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . | 1 |
7,028 | cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . | 0 |
3,785 | with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . | 0 |
570 | baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations . | 1 |
2,516 | directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . | 1 |
4,928 | its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ? | 0 |
2,429 | visually , 'santa clause 2' is wondrously creative . | 1 |
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