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3,127 | a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board . | 1 |
343 | a thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion . | 1 |
1,970 | . . . an inviting piece of film . | 1 |
6,740 | our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ' | 0 |
352 | a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . | 1 |
1,248 | you won't look at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . | 1 |
885 | this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . | 1 |
6,527 | de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . | 0 |
779 | . . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . | 1 |
7,027 | murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous . | 0 |
889 | a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . | 1 |
6,149 | in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian . | 0 |
4,750 | what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! | 0 |
7,081 | supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . | 0 |
807 | thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . | 1 |
5,851 | a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . | 0 |
4,264 | just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destination . | 0 |
2,331 | morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . | 1 |
4,645 | essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty . | 0 |
866 | often hilarious . | 1 |
1,442 | vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . | 1 |
421 | reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . | 1 |
5,192 | if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . | 0 |
542 | liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . | 1 |
2,321 | on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . | 1 |
5,726 | while this film has an 'a' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love . | 0 |
6,916 | though a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture work . | 0 |
2,558 | what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . | 1 |
5,692 | rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . | 0 |
1,492 | one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . | 1 |
4,273 | an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . | 0 |
1,293 | it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking . | 1 |
1,337 | ' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . ' | 1 |
1,642 | once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either . | 1 |
4,492 | the three leads produce adequate performances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . | 0 |
1,483 | reign of fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way . | 1 |
5,878 | it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned . | 0 |
2,887 | a sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception . | 1 |
6,250 | ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . | 0 |
5,648 | turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters | 0 |
4,070 | i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops . | 0 |
1,734 | if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days . | 1 |
1,510 | the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . | 1 |
3,784 | you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . | 0 |
4,137 | like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . | 0 |
1,375 | if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you -– decasia | 1 |
2,703 | there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note . | 1 |
7,023 | if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . ' | 0 |
2,576 | for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . | 1 |
5,303 | throw smoochy from the train ! | 0 |
5,670 | lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . | 0 |
5,698 | i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fool . | 0 |
3,154 | like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . | 1 |
6,464 | i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . | 0 |
3,204 | ian holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon | 1 |
4,991 | the whole thing plays like a tired tyco ad . | 0 |
4,611 | i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd . | 0 |
4,509 | . . . overly melodramatic . . . | 0 |
3,670 | it kinda works and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lame to work or be cool at others . | 0 |
1,905 | i don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . but i do . | 1 |
4,172 | though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . | 0 |
4,859 | nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . | 0 |
4,207 | the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . | 0 |
4,304 | . . . plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . | 0 |
15 | this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? | 1 |
4,728 | cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . | 0 |
6,865 | this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . | 0 |
712 | but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . | 1 |
451 | if " lilo & stitch " isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen , then this first film to use a watercolor background since " dumbo " certainly ranks as the most original in years . | 1 |
1,433 | the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc . | 1 |
3,970 | somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . | 0 |
3,239 | if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . | 1 |
1,160 | you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . | 1 |
1,406 | beautifully produced . | 1 |
6,300 | the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum . | 0 |
1,713 | lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . | 1 |
966 | the movie is one of the best examples of artful large format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon . | 1 |
6,473 | no way i can believe this load of junk . | 0 |
2,924 | formuliac , but fun . | 1 |
1,453 | the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before . | 1 |
1,603 | if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances . | 1 |
39 | a pleasing , often-funny comedy . | 1 |
4,487 | the fourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished . | 0 |
874 | best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . | 1 |
940 | a solidly seaworthy chiller . | 1 |
6,678 | it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tune . | 0 |
2,818 | parker holds true to wilde's own vision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . | 1 |
5,248 | this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . | 0 |
2,177 | invincible is a wonderful movie . | 1 |
2,263 | it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . | 1 |
2,199 | a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . | 1 |
3,904 | if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . | 0 |
6,999 | halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . | 0 |
1,083 | the people in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next . | 1 |
3,876 | plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully developed story . | 0 |
5,774 | stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd . | 0 |
4,551 | 'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . | 0 |
1,053 | the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . | 1 |
3,455 | kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story . parents may even find that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults . | 1 |
5,244 | audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones . | 0 |
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