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3,048 | it's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . | 1 |
1,356 | if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . | 1 |
166 | but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . | 1 |
392 | the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . | 1 |
614 | there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . | 1 |
2,926 | scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . | 1 |
3,765 | here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . | 0 |
4,271 | samira makhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal | 0 |
6,343 | fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense . | 0 |
3,013 | an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . | 1 |
823 | the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before . | 1 |
6,621 | confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . | 0 |
5,059 | some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . | 0 |
4,592 | offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . | 0 |
5,583 | godawful boring slug of a movie . | 0 |
4,131 | the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . | 0 |
1,004 | for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . | 1 |
4,511 | this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . | 0 |
2,600 | spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . | 1 |
5,115 | 4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . | 0 |
3,751 | . . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . | 0 |
4,630 | it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . | 0 |
830 | it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . | 1 |
6,282 | a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolita . | 0 |
4,080 | so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . | 0 |
4,008 | . . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cynical piece of work . | 0 |
5,495 | just like every other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . | 0 |
561 | the film is one of the year's best . | 1 |
6,425 | all analyze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . | 0 |
6,418 | is " ballistic " worth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please see previous answer . | 0 |
1,365 | just what makes us happy , anyway ? | 1 |
1,008 | what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . | 1 |
4,302 | this is no " waterboy ! " | 0 |
1,864 | feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . | 1 |
5,545 | this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . | 0 |
2,907 | . . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . | 1 |
3,317 | what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involved . | 1 |
4,579 | dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation . | 0 |
6,088 | [johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . | 0 |
1,220 | boisterous , heartfelt comedy . | 1 |
2,039 | wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . | 1 |
5,075 | a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . | 0 |
274 | slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . | 1 |
5,071 | jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 0 |
2,610 | if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of " the isle " you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere else . | 1 |
2,994 | mr . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . | 1 |
5,156 | burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . | 0 |
5,923 | ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves . | 0 |
3,461 | manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . | 1 |
6,722 | [t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . | 0 |
3,610 | we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy thing again . | 0 |
4,402 | the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that pose the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? | 0 |
6,019 | the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . | 0 |
4,473 | holden caulfield did it better . | 0 |
3,240 | an escapist confection that's pure entertainment . | 1 |
6,025 | a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 0 |
5,850 | the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . | 0 |
2,938 | an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video . | 1 |
2,428 | fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy . | 1 |
5,666 | [t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . | 0 |
4,041 | 'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . | 0 |
2,482 | it's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process . | 1 |
6,193 | nothing but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . | 0 |
4,298 | the film is really not so much bad as bland . | 0 |
2,247 | this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny . | 1 |
6,705 | clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irreverence . | 0 |
6,708 | yet another weepy southern bore-athon . | 0 |
1,021 | the early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works . | 1 |
5,571 | the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . | 0 |
959 | marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . | 1 |
1,524 | barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wonderful . | 1 |
5,180 | christina ricci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . | 0 |
810 | hatfield and hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . | 1 |
4,397 | it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its " dead wife communicating from beyond the grave " framework is even remotely new or interesting . | 0 |
604 | a solid , psychological action film from hong kong . | 1 |
3,021 | the enjoyable undercover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy . | 1 |
3,408 | one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . | 1 |
4,924 | it's another stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . | 0 |
4,880 | nothing more than a mediocre trifle . | 0 |
2,565 | spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " certainly delivers the goods . | 1 |
2,828 | ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . | 1 |
3,360 | if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . | 1 |
154 | steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture . | 1 |
1,149 | a thought-provoking picture . | 1 |
2,960 | offers a breath of the fresh air of true sophistication . | 1 |
5,811 | please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film . | 0 |
5,599 | though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . | 0 |
6,635 | directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name | 0 |
6,836 | the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . | 0 |
4,006 | fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . | 0 |
5,402 | so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic . | 0 |
3,664 | the timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . | 0 |
2,312 | will warm your heart without making you feel guilty about it . | 1 |
2,299 | an engaging overview of johnson's eccentric career . | 1 |
2,229 | offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . | 1 |
5,960 | it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherish . | 0 |
3,891 | the movie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting . | 0 |
6,363 | as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . | 0 |
1,854 | dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . | 1 |
2,162 | a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive . | 1 |
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