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there 's plenty to impress about e . t . | 1 |
a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession M-^V one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom . | 1 |
slight but enjoyable documentary . | 1 |
plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . | 0 |
a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two | 1 |
witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . | 0 |
an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever see . | 1 |
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie 's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . | 0 |
if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it 's fun lite . | 1 |
. . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it 's a beautiful madness . | 1 |
even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . | 0 |
it 's endearing to hear madame d . refer to her husband as 'jackie ' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer . | 1 |
a taut psychological thriller that does n't waste a moment of its two-hour running time . | 1 |
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . | 1 |
has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe favors to their famous parents . | 0 |
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension . | 0 |
cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing . | 1 |
will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues . | 1 |
lavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless . | 1 |
so young , so smart , such talent , such a wise . | 1 |
forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . | 0 |
it 's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too many years to resolve to be a total winner . | 0 |
it 's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel . | 0 |
building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . | 1 |
a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activities . | 1 |
morrissette 's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wit -- but it does n't signify a whole lot either . | 0 |
a fascinating but choppy documentary . | 0 |
a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it | 1 |
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . | 1 |
this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you wo n't exactly know what 's happening but you 'll be blissfully exhausted . | 1 |
so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . | 0 |
best indie of the year , so far . | 1 |
perry 's good and his is an interesting character , but `` serving sara `` has n't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic comedy . | 0 |
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acts of affection . | 1 |
although what time offers tsai 's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films . | 1 |
as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character . | 0 |
the movie is well done , but slow . | 1 |
whether you 're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you 'll still feel something . | 1 |
from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein 's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right . | 1 |
ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . | 1 |
light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . | 1 |
over-the-top and a bit ostentatious , this is a movie that 's got oodles of style and substance . | 1 |
the film truly does rescue [ the funk brothers ] from motown 's shadows . it 's about time . | 1 |
a small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad . | 1 |
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel . | 0 |
a very funny movie . | 1 |
brings awareness to an issue often overlooked -- women 's depression . | 1 |
the heightened symmetry of this new/old cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience , like an old friend haunted by the exigencies of time . | 1 |
as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . | 1 |
loosely speaking , we 're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . | 0 |
the subtle strength of `` elling `` is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situation . | 1 |
the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too . | 0 |
it 's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . | 0 |
a compelling portrait of moral emptiness | 1 |
because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . | 1 |
i admire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent 's complaint . | 1 |
not everything works , but the average is higher than in mary and most other recent comedies . | 1 |
a riveting story well told . | 1 |
after making several adaptations of other writers ' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . | 1 |
a small gem from belgium . | 1 |
it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . | 1 |
asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema 's capability for recording truth . | 1 |
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . | 1 |
this is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . | 1 |
a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . | 0 |
noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama . | 1 |
there are n't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big guys . | 1 |
the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining . | 1 |
effective but too-tepid biopic | 1 |
. . . a magnificent drama well worth tracking down . | 1 |
the film , like jimmy 's routines , could use a few good laughs . | 0 |
murder by numbers ' is n't a great movie , but it 's a perfectly acceptable widget . | 1 |
if you can stomach the rough content , it 's worth checking out for the performances alone . | 1 |
elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . | 0 |
there 's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout . | 1 |
methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it 's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . | 1 |
with lesser talents , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . with freeman and judd , i 'll at least remember their characters . | 1 |
a lovely and beautifully photographed romance . | 1 |
offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . | 1 |
despite its shortcomings , girls ca n't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it 's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . | 1 |
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael . | 1 |
[ a ] poorly executed comedy . | 0 |
as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them . | 1 |
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . | 0 |
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differencesM-^E the chM-bteau is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . | 1 |
it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out . | 1 |
obligada para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor . | 1 |
cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmth . | 0 |
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . | 0 |
if you 're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you 're at the right film . | 1 |
it 's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it 's one of the worst of the entire franchise . | 0 |
smith examines the intimate , unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country . | 1 |
do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman does n't work ? | 1 |
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . | 1 |
even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admission 's worth of funny to keep it afloat . | 0 |
a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world 's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . | 1 |
this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . | 1 |
it 's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . | 0 |
despite auteuil 's performance , it 's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . | 0 |
i got a headache watching this meaningless downer . | 0 |
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