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1pos | an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . |
1pos | the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . |
1pos | nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . |
1pos | a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . |
1pos | the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . |
1pos | unpretentious , charming , quirky , original |
1pos | this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . |
1pos | a genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives . |
1pos | though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . |
1pos | often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part . |
1pos | the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . |
1pos | a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . |
1pos | insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . |
1pos | provides a porthole into that noble , trembling incoherence that defines us all . |
0neg | cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . ' |
0neg | the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . |
0neg | replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween's , this is the most visually unappealing . |
0neg | it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from . |
0neg | unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . |
0neg | a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . |
0neg | slow , silly and unintentionally hilarious . |
0neg | ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless movie about same ! |
0neg | strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturing . |
0neg | an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . |
0neg | hopelessly inane , humorless and under-inspired . |
0neg | a mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke . |
0neg | a relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . |
0neg | even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . |
0neg | solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous . |
0neg | this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . |
0neg | the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . |
0neg | this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . |
0neg | the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . |
0neg | it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or even shallow . |
0neg | lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . |
0neg | it sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and that's more or less how it plays out . |
0neg | rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . |
0neg | bean drops the ball too many times . . . hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . |
0neg | ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay . |
0neg | we started to wonder if
some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script machine . |
0neg | a small independent film suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis . |
0neg | some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . |
0neg | while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . |
0neg | a good-looking but ultimately pointless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . |
0neg | does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . |
0neg | those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen . |
0neg | in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . |
0neg | the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . |
0neg | whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . |
0neg | an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . |
0neg | has none of the crackle of " fatal attraction " , " 9 ½ weeks " , or even " indecent proposal " , and feels more like lyne's stolid remake of " lolita " . |
0neg | this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . |
0neg | a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . |
0neg | sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard . |
0neg | unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making . |
0neg | soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . |
0neg | the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . |
0neg | proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . |
0neg | the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . |
0neg | an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . |
0neg | a technically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . |
0neg | absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifying . |
0neg | veers uncomfortably close to pro-serb propaganda . |
0neg | . . . in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes . |
0neg | barney throws away the goodwill the first half of his movie generates by orchestrating a finale that is impenetrable and dull . |
0neg | the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . |
0neg | its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists . |
0neg | muddled , trashy and incompetent |
0neg | though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . |
0neg | it's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . |
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