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3,224 | '[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ' | 1 |
1,758 | nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations . . . | 1 |
6,017 | nervous breakdowns are not entertaining . | 0 |
2,566 | if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . | 1 |
1,502 | even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment | 1 |
1,656 | all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . | 1 |
1,925 | the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . | 1 |
306 | despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions . | 1 |
4,257 | one of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced . | 0 |
2,616 | nothing is sacred in this gut-buster . | 1 |
3,290 | for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts . | 1 |
793 | high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . | 1 |
6,364 | i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . | 0 |
3,334 | a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . | 1 |
1,836 | [cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
888 | macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done . | 1 |
1,921 | worth watching for dong jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change . | 1 |
2,912 | pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly . | 1 |
574 | a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . | 1 |
3,375 | dense with characters and contains some thrilling moments . | 1 |
4,168 | this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . | 0 |
6,795 | a era do gelo diverte , mas não convence . É um passatempo descompromissado – e só . | 0 |
6,662 | traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . | 0 |
6,584 | there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie . | 0 |
1,495 | " the best disney movie since the lion king " | 1 |
6,829 | a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird . | 0 |
6,687 | if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . | 0 |
5,801 | to portray modern women the way director davis has done is just unthinkable . | 0 |
3,714 | the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . | 0 |
5,813 | i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brunt of the comedy . | 0 |
2,093 | a terrific date movie , whatever your orientation . | 1 |
5,385 | if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . | 0 |
4,759 | the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffling . | 0 |
665 | the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic . | 1 |
1,469 | it's like a " big chill " reunion of the baader-meinhof gang , only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . | 1 |
2,577 | red dragon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin . | 1 |
6,086 | wallace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach . | 0 |
5,998 | why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ? | 0 |
6,348 | the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . | 0 |
5,910 | coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock . | 0 |
1,038 | both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement . | 1 |
2,689 | . . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks . | 1 |
2,850 | the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . | 1 |
4,203 | the picture doesn't know it's a comedy . | 0 |
2,042 | the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . | 1 |
5,308 | brosnan's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . | 0 |
4,906 | julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . | 0 |
1,108 | one from the heart . | 1 |
4,204 | the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine . | 0 |
474 | the film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . | 1 |
579 | one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many . | 1 |
4,179 | it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! | 0 |
5,131 | what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . | 0 |
3,083 | majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confident . | 1 |
6,265 | everyone's to blame here . | 0 |
1,181 | an involving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . | 1 |
6,205 | too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . | 0 |
4,721 | a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . | 0 |
1,246 | tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's backyard . | 1 |
1,372 | whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysteria . | 1 |
7,007 | will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . | 0 |
3,094 | affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 1 |
2,442 | the acting alone is worth the price of admission . | 1 |
5,423 | i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . | 0 |
6,763 | 'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successful ) rental . ' | 0 |
2,050 | a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world . | 1 |
2,788 | its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray . | 1 |
5,660 | it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality . | 0 |
5,950 | in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . | 0 |
462 | while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . | 1 |
2,950 | a meatier deeper beginning and/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the " a " range , as is , it's a very very strong " b+ . " i love the robust middle of this picture . | 1 |
1,430 | the unexplored story opportunities of " punch-drunk love " may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson . | 1 |
928 | white oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . | 1 |
2,819 | the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . | 1 |
6,835 | a reality-snubbing hodgepodge . | 0 |
4,149 | a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . | 0 |
5,493 | despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . | 0 |
470 | one funny popcorn flick . | 1 |
5,375 | nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . | 0 |
3,739 | a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . | 0 |
1,554 | exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter . | 1 |
7,020 | i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . | 0 |
988 | your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the first film . | 1 |
251 | a sharp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity . | 1 |
2,846 | [while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . | 1 |
3,232 | this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . | 1 |
6,975 | you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down . | 0 |
1,614 | montias . . . pumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters . | 1 |
3,754 | not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . | 0 |
1,810 | moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . | 1 |
3,837 | for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience | 0 |
4,159 | little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games . | 0 |
5,370 | just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . | 0 |
3,819 | one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea . | 0 |
3,521 | a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture . | 1 |
5,931 | the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one . | 0 |
175 | certainly the performances are worthwhile . | 1 |
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