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there 's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . | 0 |
has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical release . | 0 |
one of the year 's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . | 1 |
this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film 's producers would be in the clink for life . | 0 |
a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . | 1 |
like a south-of-the-border melrose place . | 1 |
the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . | 0 |
tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birmingham . | 1 |
some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . | 0 |
decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . the unexpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . | 1 |
attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . | 0 |
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing . | 1 |
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 0 |
like the best 60 minutes exposM-i , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . | 1 |
it 's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the big screen . | 0 |
. . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . | 1 |
most of the action setups are incoherent . | 0 |
it 's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing . | 1 |
it 's fun , splashy and entertainingly nasty . | 1 |
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 |
one of the worst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful . | 0 |
perhaps it 's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline ' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . | 1 |
may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . | 0 |
a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . . | 1 |
if you 're burnt out on it 's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you 're looking for . it depends on how well flatulence gags fit into your holiday concept . | 1 |
it 's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . | 0 |
. . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism . | 1 |
on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . | 0 |
creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget . | 1 |
even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . | 0 |
dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . | 1 |
[ denis ' ] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . | 0 |
you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld 's real life is boring . | 0 |
the title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you 'll read anywhere . | 0 |
the last scenes of the film are anguished , bitter and truthful . mr . koshashvili is a director to watch . | 1 |
an amused indictment of jaglom 's own profession . | 1 |
it 's so underwritten that you ca n't figure out just where the other characters , including ana 's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana 's future . | 0 |
the film 's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . | 0 |
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . | 1 |
too clever by about nine-tenths . | 0 |
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues ' to simplify . | 0 |
while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley 's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . | 0 |
simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 0 |
too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization . | 0 |
memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual . | 0 |
third time 's the charm . . . yeah , baby ! | 1 |
bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . | 0 |
meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it 's so bad it 's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . | 0 |
somewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . | 0 |
a biopic about crane 's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video . | 1 |
hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . | 1 |
spare yet audacious . . . | 1 |
ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it 's all over his chelsea walls . | 0 |
infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane . | 1 |
each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the first two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running time . | 0 |
splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers ' puppet strings . | 0 |
the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . | 0 |
a thought-provoking picture . | 1 |
slap her - she 's not funny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half . | 0 |
a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age . | 1 |
alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurveda does the field no favors . | 0 |
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters . | 1 |
a tasty slice of droll whimsy . | 1 |
easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year . | 1 |
though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining . | 0 |
a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality . | 0 |
[ it 's ] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view . | 0 |
while solondz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket . | 0 |
. . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity . | 0 |
morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern 's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . | 1 |
there is n't one moment in the film that surprises or delights . | 0 |
the makers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second prize , of course , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their movie . | 0 |
this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . he 's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . | 0 |
hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it 's a love story as sanguine as its title . | 1 |
what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . | 0 |
it does n't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . | 0 |
the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . | 0 |
a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . | 1 |
`` birthday girl `` is an actor 's movie first and foremost . | 1 |
beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing . | 1 |
the santa clause 2 's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . | 0 |
a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv 's big brother . | 1 |
very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . | 1 |
it has plenty of laughs . it just does n't have much else . . . especially in a moral sense . | 0 |
watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay 's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook 's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . | 1 |
eight crazy nights is a showcase for sandler 's many talents . | 1 |
the quiet american is n't a bad film , it 's just one that could easily wait for your pay per view dollar . | 1 |
it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ' | 1 |
boy oh boy , it 's a howler . | 0 |
an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it is n't . | 1 |
richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold . | 0 |
nicolas cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career . | 0 |
filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today 's new delhi . | 1 |
. . . one resurrection too many . | 0 |
haneke keeps us at arm 's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . | 0 |
it does n't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality . | 0 |
dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled . | 0 |
i 'm not exactly sure what this movie thinks it is about . | 0 |
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up comic . | 1 |
enigma is well-made , but it 's just too dry and too placid . | 0 |
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