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birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . | 1 |
watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens ' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child 's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power . | 1 |
ahhhh . . . revenge is sweet ! | 1 |
audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film 's tart , sugar-free wit . | 1 |
it 's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic ' . | 1 |
unofficially , national lampoon 's van wilder is son of animal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . | 0 |
on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . | 1 |
the main characters are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort . | 0 |
though catch me if you can is n't badly made , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . | 0 |
fancy a real downer ? [ leigh ] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . | 0 |
maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while . | 1 |
the film is full of charm . | 1 |
a era do gelo diverte , mas nM-co convence . M-I um passatempo descompromissado M-^V e sM-s . | 0 |
the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts ' haunting is routine . | 0 |
the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . | 0 |
it 's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . | 0 |
the movie does a good job of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we journey through life . | 1 |
it 's a masterpiece . | 1 |
an incoherent jumble of a film that 's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . | 0 |
any film that does n't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . | 0 |
having had the good sense to cast actors who are , generally speaking , adored by the movie-going public , khouri then gets terrific performances from them all . | 1 |
terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it 's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . | 1 |
the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann . | 1 |
thanks to scott 's charismatic roger and eisenberg 's sweet nephew , roger dodger is one of the most compelling variations on in the company of men . | 1 |
this formulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone 's career . | 0 |
sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . | 0 |
under-rehearsed and lifeless | 0 |
it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker 's motherland . | 1 |
too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a big splash . | 0 |
[ hawn 's character ] is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwritten . | 1 |
oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . | 0 |
10 minutes into the film you 'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . | 1 |
i ca n't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . | 0 |
who is this movie for ? not kids , who do n't need the lesson in repugnance . it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . ' | 0 |
fantastic ! | 1 |
while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . | 0 |
. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . | 0 |
as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . | 1 |
with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi 's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . | 1 |
. . . an inviting piece of film . | 1 |
gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it 's not clear whether we 're supposed to shriek or laugh . | 0 |
es triste tener que decirles que lo M-znico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . | 1 |
despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . | 0 |
like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable `` novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . | 1 |
cho 's latest comic set is n't as sharp or as fresh as i 'm the one that i want . . . but it 's still damn funny stuff . | 1 |
an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film . | 0 |
. . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . | 0 |
spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . | 1 |
unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . | 0 |
. . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations . | 1 |
when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever . | 0 |
i 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville 's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . | 0 |
it 's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions . | 1 |
in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that is n't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . | 1 |
short and sweet , but also more than anything else slightM-^E tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . | 0 |
the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . | 0 |
it 's the kind of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers do n't make often enough . | 1 |
although no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success . | 0 |
the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie does n't do a very good job conveying the issue at hand . | 0 |
witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it 's dench who really steals the show . | 1 |
while i ca n't say it 's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . | 1 |
whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors . | 0 |
except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby 's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . | 0 |
looks like a high school film project completed the day before it was due . | 0 |
a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . | 0 |
in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . | 0 |
lejos del paraM-mso es al mismo tiempo una fiesta para los ojos y oM-mdos y un movilizador cuadro de personajes enfrentados a sus propios deseos , miedos y prejuicios . | 1 |
it 's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . | 0 |
borrows a bit from the classics `` wait until dark `` and `` extremities `` . . . but in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself . | 1 |
mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . | 1 |
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it 's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you 'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . | 1 |
the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . | 0 |
the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . | 0 |
the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers . | 0 |
wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it is n't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited . | 0 |
it 's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really does n't fit the part . | 0 |
it has become apparent that the franchise 's best years are long past . | 0 |
malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . | 0 |
it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . ' | 1 |
the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film noir veil . | 0 |
amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the `` other side of the story . `` | 0 |
audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . | 1 |
[ a ] wonderfully loopy tale of love , longing , and voting . | 1 |
whenever you think you 've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . | 1 |
a charming but slight comedy . | 1 |
at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . | 0 |
. . . with `` the bourne identity `` we return to the more traditional action genre . | 1 |
the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value . | 0 |
the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you wo n't be disappointed . | 1 |
while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they 're presented with a wry dark humor . | 1 |
like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating . | 0 |
an incendiary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy | 1 |
an empty , purposeless exercise . | 0 |
deflated ending aside , there 's much to recommend the film . | 1 |
it 's one of the most honest films ever made about hollywood . | 1 |
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . | 0 |
the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it 's no glance . it 's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . | 1 |
sweet home alabama `` is what it is M-^V a nice , harmless date film . . . | 1 |
if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hour , i would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . | 0 |
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