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3,097 | the director , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head . | 1 |
7,083 | in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 0 |
4,915 | there isn't one moment in the film that surprises or delights . | 0 |
3,957 | affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority . | 0 |
6,135 | ihops don't pile on this much syrup . | 0 |
5,367 | . . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . | 0 |
2,721 | another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . | 1 |
157 | altogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece . | 1 |
3,806 | on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . | 0 |
4,866 | it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! | 0 |
1,557 | though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . | 1 |
1,278 | it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . | 1 |
4,055 | shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . | 0 |
7,017 | shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . . | 0 |
4,530 | the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . | 0 |
3,015 | this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . | 1 |
4,919 | no aspirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars . | 0 |
2,909 | robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows . | 1 |
5,560 | will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . | 0 |
4,574 | an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . | 0 |
116 | it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . | 1 |
6,668 | there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . | 0 |
5,739 | a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ' | 0 |
265 | it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . | 1 |
5,498 | hollywood ending just isn't very funny . | 0 |
876 | denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . | 1 |
3,642 | city by the sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careful , conscientious and makes no major mistakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing . | 0 |
4,822 | it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins . | 0 |
469 | it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . | 1 |
1,402 | a film that's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . | 1 |
1,585 | claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications . | 1 |
5,855 | sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation . | 0 |
2,715 | an engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary . | 1 |
2,915 | brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . | 1 |
2,258 | the piano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling . | 1 |
4,783 | the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . | 0 |
5,134 | you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . | 0 |
3,548 | i just loved every minute of this film . | 1 |
797 | a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . | 1 |
2,832 | it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive one . | 1 |
5,472 | glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism . | 0 |
6,890 | a grating , emaciated flick . | 0 |
6,074 | high crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government/ marine/legal mystery , and that's because the movie serves up all of that stuff , nearly subliminally , as the old-hat province of male intrigue . | 0 |
4,454 | they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right . | 0 |
5,481 | if you liked the 1982 film then , you'll still like it now . | 0 |
4,425 | paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the genre . | 0 |
531 | don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going . | 1 |
5,685 | no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . | 0 |
986 | intriguing and downright intoxicating . | 1 |
5,817 | rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . | 0 |
2,780 | another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre . | 1 |
2,988 | the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . | 1 |
778 | a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 . | 1 |
3,668 | scooby dooby doo / and shaggy too / you both look and sound great . / but daphne , you're too buff / fred thinks he's tough / and velma - wow , you've lost weight ! | 0 |
817 | i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another man's garbage . | 1 |
4,381 | the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . | 0 |
506 | it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing . | 1 |
6,352 | its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . | 0 |
1,691 | the perfect film for those who like sick comedies that can be snide . | 1 |
2,913 | throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . | 1 |
5,886 | the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . | 0 |
4,911 | even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . | 0 |
5,951 | liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase . | 0 |
5,925 | hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't . | 0 |
5,345 | [lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . | 0 |
6,883 | theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ? | 0 |
5,292 | the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . | 0 |
518 | even in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing . | 1 |
2,273 | maryam is more timely now than ever . | 1 |
366 | an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era . | 1 |
3,260 | the minor figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . | 1 |
5,191 | super troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zucker brothers/abrahams films , and the decidedly foul stylings of their post-modern contemporaries , the farrelly brothers . | 0 |
2,919 | lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . | 1 |
6,778 | done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatment . | 0 |
2,201 | paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . | 1 |
6,411 | the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus . | 0 |
2,063 | part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness . | 1 |
1,096 | the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor . | 1 |
3,001 | a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart . | 1 |
2,023 | this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer . | 1 |
5,391 | . . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise . | 0 |
6,188 | phoned-in business as usual . | 0 |
1,833 | allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today . | 1 |
3,271 | when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the mark . | 1 |
5,781 | make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess . | 0 |
2,464 | may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people get a kick out of watching them today . | 1 |
864 | methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . | 1 |
1,855 | . . . either you're willing to go with this claustrophobic concept or you're not . | 1 |
6,310 | as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy . | 0 |
3,818 | a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground . | 0 |
2,013 | if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x . | 1 |
6,593 | this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic . | 0 |
3,215 | " cremaster 3 " should come with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! " | 1 |
2,943 | based on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expense of its characters | 1 |
1,665 | the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away survives intact in bv's re-voiced version . | 1 |
875 | barry convinces us he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . | 1 |
5,016 | you'll trudge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the zipper after eating a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy . | 0 |
1,229 | a beguiling splash of pastel colors and prankish comedy from disney . | 1 |
1,951 | sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . | 1 |
4,560 | the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . | 0 |
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