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it 's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it 's also pretty funny . | 1 |
mandel holland 's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you 'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . | 0 |
chen films the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . | 0 |
every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . | 0 |
the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . | 0 |
seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anything but . | 1 |
it 's not without its pleasures , but i 'll stick with the tune . | 0 |
an intriguing near-miss . | 0 |
any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years . | 0 |
less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . | 1 |
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 0 |
the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half | 1 |
peralta 's mythmaking could have used some informed , adult hindsight . | 0 |
the central character is n't complex enough to hold our interest . | 0 |
fubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . | 1 |
a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ' | 0 |
an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker 's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . | 1 |
has enough wit , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they 're not interested . | 1 |
it 's a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel good . | 1 |
its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director 's previous popcorn work . | 1 |
it 's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you do n't try to look too deep into the story | 1 |
in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995 's forget paris . but even then , i 'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . | 0 |
a movie for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil ' bow wow . | 1 |
may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done . | 1 |
there are no special effects , and no hollywood endings . | 1 |
. . . either you 're willing to go with this claustrophobic concept or you 're not . | 1 |
[ washington 's ] strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . | 1 |
i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . | 1 |
light , cute and forgettable . | 1 |
the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . | 0 |
a stylish thriller . | 1 |
together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . | 1 |
the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . | 1 |
were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich 's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year . | 1 |
captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . | 1 |
the history is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just do n't work in concert . | 1 |
sometimes smart but more often sophomoric . | 0 |
do n't let your festive spirit go this far . | 0 |
the ending does n't work . . . but most of the movie works so well i 'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong . | 0 |
the emperor 's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it new texture , new relevance , new reality . | 1 |
oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . | 0 |
silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who ca n't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . | 0 |
a chaotic panorama that 's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . | 0 |
clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades . | 0 |
thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . | 1 |
not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted . | 1 |
a gorgeous , witty , seductive movie . | 1 |
an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch . | 1 |
a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you want to laugh at it . | 0 |
less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins . | 0 |
much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . | 1 |
inconsequential road-and-buddy pic . | 0 |
koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager 's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . | 1 |
what 's missing is what we call the 'wow ' factor . | 0 |
`` it 's all about the image . `` | 1 |
the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans ' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . | 1 |
it 's a great american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax . | 1 |
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film . | 0 |
terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood 's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man . | 1 |
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . | 1 |
with its hints of a greater intelligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it 's painful . | 0 |
scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . | 0 |
it 's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . | 0 |
stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall 's intense freight train of a film . | 1 |
overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . | 0 |
the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . | 0 |
fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . | 0 |
its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . | 0 |
where the film falters is in its tone . | 0 |
if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . | 0 |
. . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . | 1 |
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994 's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . | 1 |
this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? ' | 0 |
like leon , it 's frustrating and still oddly likable . | 1 |
peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . | 1 |
it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television . | 0 |
this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . | 1 |
despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . | 1 |
jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . | 0 |
a slight but sweet film . | 1 |
the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . | 1 |
this director 's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . | 0 |
what 's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens ' deviant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . | 0 |
i do n't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but do n't treat me like a fool . | 0 |
leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . | 1 |
if only it were , well , funnier . | 0 |
a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction ' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . | 0 |
this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it 's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . | 0 |
the real triumphs in igby come from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character 's lines would suggest , and sarandon , who could n't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron . | 1 |
on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . | 0 |
just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay . | 0 |
little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable . | 0 |
it 's just plain boring . | 0 |
a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . | 1 |
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades | 0 |
it 's not too fast and not too slow . it 's not too racy and it 's not too offensive . it 's not too much of anything . | 0 |
the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand . | 1 |
kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities . | 0 |
benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it 's dong jie 's face you remember at the end . | 1 |
a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession . | 1 |
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