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2,190 | with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . | 1 |
1,778 | though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves . | 1 |
2,329 | . . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . | 1 |
4,519 | a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . | 0 |
1,813 | murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . | 1 |
706 | a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . | 1 |
6,881 | it's depressing to see how far herzog has fallen . | 0 |
7,087 | if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampire chronicles . | 0 |
6,798 | for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . | 0 |
3,756 | just a kiss is a just a waste . | 0 |
4,348 | made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . | 0 |
4,650 | kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both . | 0 |
5,834 | this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . | 0 |
1,209 | mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life | 1 |
3,390 | in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . | 1 |
516 | the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded . | 1 |
3,949 | the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture | 0 |
3,017 | its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . | 1 |
3,221 | auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one man's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . | 1 |
3,838 | it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . | 0 |
1,698 | a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . | 1 |
3,491 | a haunting tale of murder and mayhem . | 1 |
4,430 | boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . | 0 |
5,347 | a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . | 0 |
2,727 | wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror . | 1 |
198 | watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . | 1 |
5,440 | chai's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . | 0 |
4,743 | what you would end up with if you took orwell , bradbury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . | 0 |
4,012 | denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . | 0 |
6,654 | a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie . | 0 |
1,299 | for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale . | 1 |
5,437 | attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . | 0 |
4,448 | unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . | 0 |
4,695 | the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . | 0 |
1,983 | amazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! | 1 |
4,116 | it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . | 0 |
646 | allen's funniest and most likeable movie in years . | 1 |
5,057 | mctiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . | 0 |
4,312 | disjointed parody . | 0 |
4,521 | in moonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . | 0 |
1,182 | a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence . | 1 |
3,462 | ou've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . | 1 |
2,955 | cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries . | 1 |
5,363 | a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . | 0 |
6,107 | we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . | 0 |
666 | as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago . | 1 |
623 | a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 1 |
6,084 | it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . | 0 |
6,298 | . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . | 0 |
5,500 | neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price . | 0 |
5,118 | i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . | 0 |
1,245 | this version's no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . | 1 |
138 | take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he'll be your slave for a year . | 1 |
201 | if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . | 1 |
4,984 | some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one . | 0 |
1,177 | steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it . | 1 |
4,108 | for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tale . | 0 |
3,857 | a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . | 0 |
5,903 | don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . | 0 |
5,992 | rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0 |
4,901 | even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | 0 |
1,668 | one of the best , most understated performances of [jack nicholson's] career . | 1 |
5,319 | terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . | 0 |
2,007 | an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . | 1 |
2,554 | captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world . | 1 |
2,686 | once again , director jackson strikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the human scale and action/effects on the spectacular scale . | 1 |
181 | the movie is a trove of delights . | 1 |
2,412 | passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . | 1 |
1,832 | as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his next project . | 1 |
872 | it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . | 1 |
5,618 | narc is all menace and atmosphere . | 0 |
3,868 | the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . | 0 |
1,440 | too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets . | 1 |
5,942 | a pretentious mess . | 0 |
979 | it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 1 |
3,065 | when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollywood counterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve . | 1 |
3,936 | . . . [a] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense . | 0 |
7,103 | it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . | 0 |
902 | it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works . | 1 |
2,026 | the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . | 1 |
5,188 | for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . | 0 |
536 | an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . | 1 |
3,575 | the emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down . | 0 |
6,830 | too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . | 0 |
1,086 | less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . | 1 |
4,993 | demme's loose approach kills the suspense . | 0 |
5,987 | neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . | 0 |
4,652 | it's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey . | 0 |
944 | as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism . | 1 |
3,411 | a solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . | 1 |
57 | only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . | 1 |
4,571 | the cold turkey would've been a far better title . | 0 |
631 | . . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's better to give than to receive . | 1 |
5,555 | never inspires more than an interested detachment . | 0 |
3,346 | the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . | 1 |
1,292 | it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . | 1 |
110 | my wife is an actress is an utterly charming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake . | 1 |
4,608 | they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans . | 0 |
5,154 | it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . | 0 |
169 | it's stylishly directed with verve . . . | 1 |
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