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3,797 | [a] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment . | 0 |
3,456 | the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . | 1 |
2,570 | i liked this film a lot . . . | 1 |
2,521 | this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . | 1 |
2,166 | a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . | 1 |
2,060 | the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . | 1 |
734 | a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama . | 1 |
6,478 | bluto blutarsky , we miss you . | 0 |
5,127 | yes , 4ever is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? | 0 |
5,965 | choppy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . ' | 0 |
4,493 | the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . | 0 |
884 | as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell games . | 1 |
926 | hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being . | 1 |
6,519 | we haven't seen such hilarity since say it isn't so ! | 0 |
2,120 | were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year . | 1 |
3,894 | a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . | 0 |
6,398 | worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . | 0 |
3,899 | john leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . | 0 |
803 | takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . | 1 |
4,923 | an often unfunny romp . | 0 |
5,716 | goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . | 0 |
288 | as if to prove a female director can make a movie with no soft edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . | 1 |
377 | highly irritating at first , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results . | 1 |
2,508 | the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his family . | 1 |
4,186 | so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned . | 0 |
3,965 | jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . | 0 |
5,079 | stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's " waking up in reno . " go back to sleep . | 0 |
3,749 | does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon . | 0 |
6,642 | a humorless journey into a philosophical void . | 0 |
2,962 | this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country . | 1 |
5,912 | one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . | 0 |
763 | mordantly funny and intimately knowing . . . | 1 |
293 | film can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . | 1 |
1,470 | often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part . | 1 |
1,481 | . . . a solid , unassuming drama . | 1 |
6,452 | what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . | 0 |
2,820 | creeps you out in high style , even if nakata did it better . | 1 |
1,547 | . . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . | 1 |
42 | it's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you want to call domino's . | 1 |
4,336 | has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . | 0 |
6,389 | there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie . | 0 |
7,016 | like all abstract art , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . | 0 |
4,200 | odd and weird . | 0 |
4,751 | [green is] the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 0 |
2,983 | a very well-made , funny and entertaining picture . | 1 |
7,033 | what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting . | 0 |
3,187 | a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . | 1 |
1,953 | at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . | 1 |
4,635 | it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely . | 0 |
2,910 | a surprisingly funny movie . | 1 |
3,796 | when perry fists a bull at the moore farm , it's only a matter of time before he gets the upper hand in matters of the heart . | 0 |
3,435 | land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . | 1 |
1,706 | directing with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . | 1 |
6,855 | comes across as a fairly weak retooling . | 0 |
1,170 | even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie . | 1 |
5,516 | nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . | 0 |
6,880 | the chocolate factory without charlie . | 0 |
4,978 | not exactly the bees knees | 0 |
3,287 | a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . | 1 |
3,091 | . . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . | 1 |
4,369 | an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie . | 0 |
142 | a compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds . | 1 |
388 | it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . | 1 |
6,534 | a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . | 0 |
3,292 | a joyous occasion | 1 |
1,861 | damon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jason bourne] . | 1 |
4,837 | frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . | 0 |
4,956 | it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . | 0 |
1,857 | an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . | 1 |
1,482 | the bottom line is the piece works brilliantly . | 1 |
1,930 | this time out , [sade] is an unsettlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . | 1 |
3,772 | despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | 0 |
2,769 | despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . | 1 |
558 | an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . | 1 |
3,602 | sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it doesn't . | 0 |
6,994 | i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on video by then . | 0 |
508 | even if you can't pronounce " gyro " correctly , you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor , which transcends ethnic boundaries . | 1 |
4,531 | it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't win any honors . | 0 |
1,512 | i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not even a fan of the genre | 1 |
4,243 | it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress . | 0 |
4,941 | it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . | 0 |
6,979 | high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . | 0 |
1,534 | if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . | 1 |
621 | though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . | 1 |
1,976 | noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama . | 1 |
4,575 | the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . | 0 |
403 | pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . | 1 |
4,269 | there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . | 0 |
6,032 | aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me . | 0 |
3,674 | an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . | 0 |
4,580 | koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . | 0 |
3,143 | smarter than its commercials make it seem . | 1 |
6,925 | as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . | 0 |
3,609 | feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . | 0 |
4,335 | plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . | 0 |
2,523 | farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . | 1 |
4,823 | the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth . | 0 |
527 | a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills . | 1 |
4,833 | mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money . | 0 |
3,702 | glazed with a tawdry b-movie scum . | 0 |
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