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4,208 | they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes . | 0 |
4,048 | the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women . | 0 |
5,581 | at a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . | 0 |
5,242 | a generic international version of a typical american horror film . | 0 |
5,522 | . . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee . | 0 |
2,501 | it's predictable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . | 1 |
1,056 | after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history . | 1 |
896 | much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . | 1 |
6,723 | in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it . | 0 |
3,406 | the reason to see " sade " lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . | 1 |
1,338 | the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . | 1 |
4,050 | the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it . | 0 |
5,927 | a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . | 0 |
611 | as refreshing as a drink from a woodland stream . | 1 |
4,090 | for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . | 0 |
2,971 | i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . | 1 |
1,334 | foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . | 1 |
1,823 | as a belated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining . | 1 |
1,466 | the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trauma . | 1 |
549 | a quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . | 1 |
4,066 | if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . | 0 |
1,138 | as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . | 1 |
3,853 | . . . the movie is just a plain old monster . | 0 |
4,504 | hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . | 0 |
5,365 | everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . | 0 |
941 | it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kid . | 1 |
528 | the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . | 1 |
13 | even if you don't understand what on earth is going on , this is a movie that will stimulate hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . | 1 |
3,358 | a well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship . | 1 |
4,052 | this ludicrous film is predictable at every turn . | 0 |
1,722 | sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . | 1 |
3,217 | inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . | 1 |
5,596 | fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience . | 0 |
3,663 | visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . | 0 |
3,054 | it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . | 1 |
713 | mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . | 1 |
4,339 | the story the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . | 0 |
6,121 | it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen . | 0 |
732 | 'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . ' | 1 |
215 | for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche . | 1 |
1,693 | p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible . | 1 |
499 | though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium . | 1 |
6,611 | pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick . | 0 |
4,157 | this time kaufman's imagination has failed him . | 0 |
3,279 | you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . | 1 |
3,870 | once the 50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . | 0 |
6,618 | the cold and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not much drama . | 0 |
4,746 | dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . | 0 |
2,175 | easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . | 1 |
3,134 | lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . | 1 |
1,499 | the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . | 1 |
5,056 | it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . | 0 |
6,390 | while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor . | 0 |
5,970 | on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation . | 0 |
3,901 | whereas last year's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . | 0 |
4,600 | [creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . | 0 |
2,131 | many insightful moments . | 1 |
6,041 | when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! ' | 0 |
5,035 | the movie is as padded as allen's jelly belly . | 0 |
2,690 | rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . | 1 |
3,583 | it's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget . | 0 |
4,971 | overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . | 0 |
1,878 | if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . | 1 |
4,124 | going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the film . | 0 |
6,515 | after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky . | 0 |
4,506 | you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] . | 0 |
35 | a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . | 1 |
1,863 | poignant and funny . | 1 |
1,436 | stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combination . | 1 |
3,311 | close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . | 1 |
2,151 | stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . | 1 |
3,518 | even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . | 1 |
3,766 | crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . | 0 |
1,130 | though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . | 1 |
2,384 | may take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel like it's wasted yours . | 1 |
2,786 | what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness . | 1 |
939 | the whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing around obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by . | 1 |
3,182 | refreshing . | 1 |
4,904 | would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . | 0 |
6,380 | the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it . | 0 |
951 | run , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the big screen . | 1 |
5,776 | interminably bleak , to say nothing of boring . | 0 |
2,587 | monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . | 1 |
5,393 | an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . | 0 |
2,101 | a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . | 1 |
3,195 | an inventive , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . | 1 |
5,570 | leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . | 0 |
3,960 | the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film's characters . | 0 |
6,970 | five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before . | 0 |
5 | the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . | 1 |
3,152 | remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . | 1 |
6,623 | problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . | 0 |
3,653 | [sen's] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentions . | 0 |
3,814 | one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . | 0 |
3,454 | my little eye is the best little " horror " movie i've seen in years . | 1 |
724 | an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation . | 1 |
2,011 | we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . | 1 |
5,529 | a lifetime movie about men . | 0 |
4,470 | a movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle . | 0 |
4,731 | the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formulaic chase in the dark . | 0 |
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