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lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 1pos |
consistently clever and suspenseful . | 1pos |
the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . | 1pos |
red dragon " never cuts corners . | 1pos |
fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense . | 1pos |
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title . | 1pos |
a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office . | 1pos |
generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters . | 1pos |
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strength . | 1pos |
it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life . | 1pos |
mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 1pos |
. . . quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks . | 1pos |
at its worst , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . | 1pos |
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . | 1pos |
the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh's book trainspotting . | 1pos |
as it turns out , you can go home again . | 1pos |
you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . | 1pos |
this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . | 1pos |
making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . | 1pos |
grown-up quibbles are beside the point here . the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that's all that matters . | 1pos |
a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man's dying fall . | 1pos |
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain . | 1pos |
a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . | 1pos |
. . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . | 1pos |
. . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . | 1pos |
devotees of star trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking . | 1pos |
a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . | 1pos |
what's so striking about jolie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . | 1pos |
the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . | 1pos |
the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . | 1pos |
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life's ultimate losers . | 1pos |
hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . | 1pos |
there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script . | 1pos |
reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . | 1pos |
one of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . | 1pos |
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 . | 1pos |
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 . | 1pos |
you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes' work . though haynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . | 1pos |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . | 1pos |
a gangster movie with the capacity to surprise . | 1pos |
the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if " gory mayhem " is your idea of a good time . | 1pos |
if not a home run , then at least a solid base hit . | 1pos |
goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . | 1pos |
. . . a fairly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . | 1pos |
the film truly does rescue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . | 1pos |
works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks . | 1pos |
[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll . | 1pos |
a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . | 1pos |
skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . | 1pos |
as refreshing as a drink from a woodland stream . | 1pos |
williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . | 1pos |
can i admit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? | 1pos |
while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . | 1pos |
by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better . | 1pos |
an intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives . | 1pos |
rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day . | 1pos |
this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . | 1pos |
poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . | 1pos |
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . | 1pos |
an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . | 1pos |
despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacing . | 1pos |
entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and men from mars can indeed get together . | 1pos |
a tightly directed , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . | 1pos |
it's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . | 1pos |
in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . | 1pos |
enormously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . | 1pos |
buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , juicy role . | 1pos |
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becomes a part of its fun . | 1pos |
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore . | 1pos |
charlotte sometimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . | 1pos |
in my opinion , analyze that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable sequel . | 1pos |
a remarkable film by bernard rose . | 1pos |
a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . | 1pos |
an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mind | 1pos |
michel piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being . | 1pos |
a captivating and intimate study about dying and loving . . . | 1pos |
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that doesn't reveal even a hint of artifice . | 1pos |
[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it . | 1pos |
a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . | 1pos |
about the best thing you could say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste . | 1pos |
an involving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . | 1pos |
some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . | 1pos |
canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . | 1pos |
a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . | 1pos |
the closest thing to the experience of space travel | 1pos |
full of surprises . | 1pos |
connoisseurs of chinese film will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus . | 1pos |
if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine acting . | 1pos |
an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . | 1pos |
symbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . | 1pos |
spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . | 1pos |
exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gere . | 1pos |
like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough rock . | 1pos |
in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . | 1pos |
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acts of affection . | 1pos |
one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . | 1pos |
this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi . | 1pos |
my little eye is the best little " horror " movie i've seen in years . | 1pos |
tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . | 1pos |
even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm . | 1pos |
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