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it 's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere . | 0 |
the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace . | 1 |
real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . | 1 |
part comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . | 0 |
two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . | 0 |
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . | 0 |
the images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitaker 's misfit artist is concerned . | 0 |
. . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just is n't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead 's specific gifts . | 0 |
it 's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . | 0 |
a yawn-provoking little farm melodrama . | 0 |
this is n't exactly profound cinema , but it 's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . | 1 |
at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . | 0 |
though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . | 1 |
feels like one of those contrived , only-in -hollywood productions where name actors deliver big performances created for the sole purpose of generating oscar talk . | 0 |
it 's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . | 0 |
as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [ franco ] has all of dean 's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . | 0 |
one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that does n't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect . | 1 |
i 've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but lil bow wow takes the cake . | 0 |
disturbing and brilliant documentary . | 1 |
you can not guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed . | 0 |
. . . by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . | 1 |
a crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing . | 0 |
'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . | 0 |
a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally . | 0 |
we can see the wheels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good cheer . | 1 |
it 's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler 's comic taste may find it uninteresting . | 0 |
a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it is n't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . | 0 |
we could have expected a little more human being , and a little less product . | 0 |
woody , what happened ? | 0 |
a cartoon that 's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that 's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . | 1 |
busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang 's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . | 0 |
[ the film 's ] taste for `` shock humor `` will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . | 0 |
this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . | 1 |
time out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the term . | 1 |
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . | 1 |
quite simply , a joy to watch and -- especially -- to listen to . | 1 |
it 's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that 's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back . | 1 |
what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it 's icky . | 0 |
some actors have so much charisma that you 'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . | 1 |
focuses on joan 's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her `` madness `` so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $ 9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device . | 0 |
exhilarating but blatantly biased . | 1 |
anyone who can count to five ( the film 's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . | 0 |
far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year 's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . | 1 |
obvious | 0 |
often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts ' and their 'guests . ' | 1 |
kept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . | 1 |
spiderman rocks | 1 |
charlotte sometimes is a gem . it 's always enthralling . | 1 |
in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r & d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 24/7 . | 0 |
the animated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . | 1 |
eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it 's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it 's only acting . | 0 |
a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man 's dying fall . | 1 |
abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the end , no one in the audience or the film seems to really care . | 0 |
polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style . | 1 |
look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and music . | 1 |
if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . . | 1 |
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . | 0 |
while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there 's nothing here to match that movie 's intermittent moments of inspiration . | 0 |
it 's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth . | 0 |
funny , sexy , devastating and incurably romantic . | 1 |
a comic gem with some serious sparkles . | 1 |
an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant work . | 1 |
murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous . | 0 |
an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . | 1 |
nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer ' and if you see this film you 'll know too . | 0 |
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . | 0 |
a selection of scenes in search of a movie . | 0 |
simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad . | 1 |
knockaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail . | 0 |
i ca n't say that i liked homeboy ; it 'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . | 1 |
ong chooses to present ah na 's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character 's blank-faced optimism . | 0 |
the film 's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blair witch , a monstrous murk that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen . | 1 |
birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments . | 1 |
just one bad idea after another . | 0 |
the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer 's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . | 1 |
the satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . | 0 |
this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other holocaust films , but it 's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it 's told by the people who were there . | 1 |
horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . | 0 |
[ drumline ] is entertaining for what it does , and admirable for what it does n't do . | 1 |
finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even original . | 1 |
a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . | 0 |
a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than `` memento `` | 1 |
neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . | 0 |
in both the writing and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . | 0 |
a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters ' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | 0 |
it 's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . | 1 |
. . . the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy . | 0 |
a delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . | 1 |
weird . rewarding . | 1 |
all of the filmmakers ' calculations ca n't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . | 0 |
it 's all surface psychodramatics . | 0 |
yes , one enjoys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to strong , determined monarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stature . | 0 |
a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . | 1 |
in its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel 's closely watched trains and danis tanovic 's no man 's land . | 1 |
the movie 's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that 's all that 's going on here . | 0 |
it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it does n't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . | 1 |
it 's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there 's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong . | 0 |
this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . | 0 |
aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . | 0 |
reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that . | 0 |
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