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dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth 's best soundtrack in years . | 1 |
the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . | 1 |
a pleasant enough comedy that should have found a summer place . | 1 |
made me unintentionally famous as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it 's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i 've seen . | 1 |
possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it 's not bad prose . | 0 |
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . | 0 |
unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . | 0 |
a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . | 1 |
movies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something new ? | 0 |
a cutesy romantic tale with a twist . | 1 |
if you like quirky , odd movies and/or the ironic , here 's a fun one . | 1 |
it 's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son 's room . | 1 |
it should be doing a lot of things , but does n't . | 0 |
if you dig on david mamet 's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! | 1 |
the movie 's biggest offense is its complete and utter lack of tension . | 0 |
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . | 0 |
it 's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming . | 1 |
old-form moviemaking at its best . | 1 |
the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . | 0 |
the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . | 1 |
flaccid drama and exasperatingly slow journey . | 0 |
it 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . | 0 |
i know i should n't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . | 1 |
an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth ' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . | 1 |
. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol ' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . | 0 |
thanks to haynes ' absolute control of the film 's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . | 1 |
yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . ' | 0 |
an exciting and involving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . | 1 |
what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time . | 0 |
clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that does n't know what it wants to be when it grows up . | 0 |
the story itself is actually quite vapid . | 0 |
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe . | 1 |
if you are an actor who can relate to the search for inner peace by dramatically depicting the lives of others onstage , then esther 's story is a compelling quest for truth . | 1 |
the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off . | 0 |
a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . | 1 |
as a vehicle to savour binoche 's skill , the film is well worthwhile . | 1 |
a reality-snubbing hodgepodge . | 0 |
an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years . | 0 |
as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all . | 0 |
its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie 's presentation , which is way too stagy . | 0 |
the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . | 1 |
a terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . | 1 |
i 've heard that the fans of the first men in black have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they felt like the same movie to me . | 0 |
. . . a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . | 1 |
it 's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid . | 0 |
a must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride . | 1 |
true to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . | 0 |
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . | 0 |
this is not a retread of `` dead poets ' society . `` | 1 |
viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . | 1 |
sit through this one , and you wo n't need a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd player will do it for you . | 0 |
an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie . | 1 |
what 's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class . | 0 |
made by jackasses for jackasses . | 0 |
art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema . | 1 |
pull [ s ] off the rare trick of recreating not only the look of a certain era , but also the feel . | 1 |
katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself | 1 |
it 's a good film -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . | 1 |
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 0 |
cho 's fans are sure to be entertained ; it 's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i 'm not one of them . | 0 |
this movie is so bad , that it 's almost worth seeing because it 's so bad . | 0 |
in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused . | 0 |
the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . | 1 |
gee , a second assassin shot kennedy ? moot point . | 0 |
it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens | 0 |
high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . | 0 |
flat , misguided comedy . | 0 |
speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life . | 1 |
apart from dazzling cinematography , we 've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . | 0 |
the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lola run . | 0 |
gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults . | 1 |
the film has too many spots where it 's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that 's especially fit for the kiddies . | 0 |
the story really has no place to go since simone is not realM-^Wshe ca n't provide any conflict . | 0 |
the trick when watching godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . | 1 |
there 's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl . | 1 |
this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it 's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . | 1 |
like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on | 0 |
a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground . | 0 |
cho 's fearless in picking apart human foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless . | 1 |
would n't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a german factory during world war ii ? um , no . but here 's a movie about it anyway . | 0 |
largely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . | 0 |
a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better film 's ability to make its subject interesting to those who are n't part of its supposed target audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch ' is a pretty decent little documentary . | 1 |
steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic . | 1 |
the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint make the thing look really slick . the voices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script . | 0 |
a perverse little truffle , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy . | 1 |
not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . | 1 |
. . . contains very few laughs and even less surprises . | 0 |
may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen . | 0 |
a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who 's the scariest of sadists . | 1 |
you wo n't look at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . | 1 |
for its 100 minutes running time , you 'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . | 0 |
charles ' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld 's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams ' attempts to get his shot at the big time . | 1 |
a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . | 1 |
the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on bM-|ttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . | 1 |
film ca n't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . | 1 |
extremely bad . | 0 |
drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power . | 1 |
whether it 's the worst movie of 2002 , i ca n't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title . | 0 |
. . . too dull to enjoy . | 0 |
with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable `` formula 51 `` is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger . | 0 |
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