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according to wendigo , 'nature ' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . | 0 |
skins has a right to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . | 0 |
jagger , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . | 1 |
[ majidi ] makes us think twice about immigrants we see around us every day . | 1 |
granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his games of hide-and-seek . | 0 |
what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . | 1 |
the big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing . | 0 |
while not quite `` shrek `` or monsters , inc . `` , it 's not too bad . it 's worth taking the kids to . | 1 |
audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . | 1 |
you might not want to hang out with samantha , but you 'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . | 1 |
a vibrant , colorful , semimusical rendition . | 1 |
the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it 's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . | 0 |
it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you . . . | 1 |
'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . ' | 0 |
yo , it 's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . | 0 |
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free . | 0 |
streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , `` big trouble `` is funny , harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . | 1 |
once one experiences mr . haneke 's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one 's mouth , and little else . | 0 |
. . . spellbinding fun and deliciously exploitative . | 1 |
the material and the production itself are little more than routine . | 0 |
[ a ] smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks . | 1 |
i know that i 'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again | 1 |
it is , by conventional standards , a fairly terrible movie . . . but it is also weirdly fascinating , a ready-made eurotrash cult object . it is also , at times , curiously moving . | 0 |
the film is bright and flashy in all the right ways . | 1 |
a pint-sized 'goodfellas ' designed to appeal to the younger set , it 's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one 's interest . | 0 |
it 's often faintly amusing , but the problems of the characters never become important to us , and the story never takes hold . | 0 |
fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox 's work . | 1 |
makes one thing abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we know it would n't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway . | 1 |
the film is an enjoyable family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . | 1 |
you 'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . | 1 |
after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . | 0 |
whenever you think you 've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scene , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . | 0 |
there 's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . | 0 |
eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation . | 0 |
in other words , it 's just another sports drama/character study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus , like i already mentioned . . . it 's robert duvall ! c'mon ! | 1 |
true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation . | 0 |
the movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ' | 0 |
M-^Ethe maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . | 0 |
like these russo guys lookin ' for their mamet instead found their sturges . | 1 |
better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery . | 0 |
this is a finely written , superbly acted offbeat thriller . | 1 |
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fisher . | 0 |
more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . | 1 |
plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . | 0 |
. . . very funny , very enjoyable . . . | 1 |
nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it 's not even a tv special you 'd bother watching past the second commercial break . | 0 |
the film is so bad it does n't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . | 0 |
strictly a 'guy 's film ' in the worst sense of the expression . | 0 |
kaufman 's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . | 0 |
at the bottom rung of the series ' entries . | 0 |
if you 've ever wondered what an ending without the input of studio executives or test audiences would look like , here it is . | 1 |
it 's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . | 1 |
a gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema | 1 |
a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore . | 0 |
it 's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that 's precisely what arthur dong 's family fundamentals does . | 0 |
remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , hand . | 1 |
same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . | 1 |
a literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit wo n't be disappointed . | 1 |
in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . | 1 |
a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . | 1 |
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . | 0 |
spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative . | 0 |
though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . | 1 |
ms . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther 's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . | 0 |
schnitzler 's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . | 0 |
instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it 's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life . | 1 |
'blue crush ' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . | 1 |
the band performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [ but ] from a mere story point of view , the film 's ice cold . | 0 |
an alternately fascinating and frustrating documentary . | 1 |
stevenson 's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combination . | 1 |
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . | 0 |
director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . | 0 |
takashi miike keeps pushing the envelope : ichi the killer | 1 |
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip . | 0 |
the film 's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it 's just filler . | 0 |
madonna still ca n't act a lick . | 0 |
claire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playing villains . | 1 |
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . | 0 |
like mike does n't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism . | 1 |
the film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects M-^W from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . | 0 |
it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you 're ready to hate one character , or really sympathize with another character , something happens to send you off in different direction . | 1 |
a picture as erratic as its central character . | 0 |
for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . | 1 |
feeble comedy . | 0 |
an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . | 1 |
so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming . | 0 |
a worthwhile documentary , whether you 're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll . | 1 |
a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . | 0 |
it 's so badly made on every level that i 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . | 0 |
the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing . | 1 |
a wildly funny prison caper . | 1 |
it 's got its heart in the right place , but it also wilts after awhile . | 0 |
the movie is n't just hilarious : it 's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it is n't even all that dumb . | 1 |
as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . | 1 |
even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there 's something vital about the movie . | 1 |
the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long . | 0 |
jonathan parker 's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . | 0 |
aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an independent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . | 1 |
this is the best american movie about troubled teens since 1998 's whatever . | 1 |
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! | 0 |
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