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the movie is obviously a labour of love so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . | 0 |
an exceptionally acted , quietly affecting cop drama . | 1 |
the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . | 0 |
it 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . | 1 |
there 's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to . | 0 |
the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . | 1 |
arguably the best script that besson has written in years . | 1 |
watching trouble every day , at least if you do n't know what 's coming , is like biting into what looks like a juicy , delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pulp and living worms . | 0 |
a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics . | 1 |
unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . | 0 |
one just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . | 0 |
the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact . | 1 |
at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . | 1 |
ruh-roh ! romething 's really wrong with this ricture ! | 0 |
the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorvino . | 1 |
one of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manages to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . | 1 |
chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer . | 1 |
it 's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious . | 1 |
the pitch must have read like a discarded house beautiful spread . | 1 |
makes s & m seem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delight . | 1 |
the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . | 1 |
without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . | 1 |
enduring love but exhausting cinema . | 0 |
there 's not enough to sustain the comedy . | 0 |
the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . | 1 |
a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . | 0 |
all analyze that proves is that there is really only one movie 's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise . | 0 |
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . | 0 |
although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginners worth the journey | 1 |
so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is . | 1 |
[ kline 's ] utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who ca n't quite live up to it . | 1 |
it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . | 0 |
as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in long time dead says 'i 'm telling you , this is f * * * ed ' . maybe he was reading the minds of the audience . | 0 |
just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . | 0 |
you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down . | 0 |
legendary irish writer brendan behan 's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . | 1 |
a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day . | 1 |
a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind . | 1 |
if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . | 0 |
. . . a story we have n't seen on the big screen before , and it 's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know . | 1 |
it 's obviously struck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should work its magic in other parts of the world . | 1 |
a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat darkness . | 1 |
shallow , noisy and pretentious . | 0 |
broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject . | 1 |
miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . | 1 |
though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static . | 1 |
amazingly lame . | 0 |
sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors . | 1 |
it 's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them . | 1 |
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking . | 1 |
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it 's a tougher picture than it is . | 1 |
it 's solid and affecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . | 1 |
tiresomely derivative and hammily acted . | 0 |
it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . | 0 |
children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . | 0 |
during the tuxedo 's 90 minutes of screen time , there is n't one true 'chan moment ' . | 0 |
the master of disguise is awful . it 's pauly shore awful . do n't say you were n't warned . | 0 |
what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! | 0 |
it 's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . | 1 |
john carlen 's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . | 0 |
here polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably . | 1 |
culkin , who 's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . | 1 |
there 's an energy to y tu mamM-a tambiM-in . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors . | 1 |
a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . | 0 |
fred schepisi 's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . | 1 |
not at all clear what it 's trying to say and even if it were i doubt it would be all that interesting . | 0 |
a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . | 0 |
it 's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . | 1 |
reggio 's trippy , ambitious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . | 0 |
a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . | 0 |
i 'm sure if you 're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i did n't care for it . | 0 |
few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry 's terrific performance . | 0 |
no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . | 0 |
kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business . | 0 |
watching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . | 0 |
for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [ sci-fi ] rehash . | 0 |
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . | 0 |
the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture | 0 |
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . | 1 |
the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drains his movie of all individuality . | 0 |
it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity . | 1 |
`` one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? `` um . . is n't that the basis for the entire plot ? | 0 |
the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a good one . | 1 |
if this movie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . | 0 |
. . . familiar and predictable , and 4/5ths of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes ' word processor . | 0 |
dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song . | 0 |
unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montias is n't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor . | 0 |
this english-language version . . . does full honor to miyazaki 's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . | 1 |
though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . | 0 |
majidi 's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . | 1 |
has little on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags . | 0 |
the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bored to even think of staying with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutes . | 0 |
the film 's maudlin focus on the young woman 's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . | 0 |
though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . | 0 |
roman polanski 's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler 's list ' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . | 1 |
as [ the characters ] get more depressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . | 0 |
craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . | 1 |
bravo reveals the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda . | 0 |
a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba . | 0 |
spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . | 0 |
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