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the performances take the movie to a higher level . | 1 |
skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . | 1 |
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagney 's 'top of the world ' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . | 0 |
one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quite some time . | 1 |
unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . | 0 |
the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner 's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio system . | 1 |
half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial . | 0 |
costner 's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac 's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . | 0 |
a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violence . | 0 |
one long string of cliches . | 0 |
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis 's world-weary colonel . | 1 |
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies ' underwear . | 0 |
ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . | 0 |
between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . | 1 |
the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about . | 0 |
an extraordinarily silly thriller . | 0 |
it is amusing , and that 's all it needs to be . | 1 |
[ a ] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment . | 0 |
matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . | 0 |
what was subtle and mystifying in the novella is now broad and farcical . | 0 |
a tasty masala . | 1 |
possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it 's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . | 1 |
. . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the film , i can tell you that there 's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . | 0 |
it 's immensely ambitious , different than anything that 's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it 's trying to do . | 1 |
they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who have n't read the book . | 0 |
a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . | 1 |
the performances are an absolute joy . | 1 |
even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . | 1 |
the film delivers what it promises : a look at the `` wild ride `` that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans . | 1 |
working from elliott 's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he 's favored for decades . | 1 |
louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman 's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense . | 0 |
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . | 0 |
a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution . | 1 |
the movie is amateurish , but it 's a minor treat . | 1 |
it 's just a little too self-satisfied . | 0 |
resourceful and ingenious entertainment . | 1 |
stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . | 1 |
i enjoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faded from my memory . | 1 |
. . . while dark water is n't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . | 1 |
a chiller resolutely without chills . | 0 |
the movie is like scorsese 's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . | 0 |
the fourth in a series that i 'll bet most parents had thought -- hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished . | 0 |
claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications . | 1 |
i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho 's . | 0 |
neither revelatory nor truly edgy -- merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . | 0 |
a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly predictable . | 1 |
what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kaige has chosen to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted . | 0 |
as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . | 1 |
it 's one long bore . | 0 |
warmed-over tarantino by way of wannabe elmore leonard . | 0 |
it 's played in the most straight-faced fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . | 0 |
an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor . | 0 |
most haunting about `` fence `` is its conclusion , when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize , much to our dismay , that this really did happen . noyce 's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , hollywood moments to keep us | 1 |
mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . | 1 |
it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . | 0 |
what the audience feels is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean . | 0 |
this rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you had n't seen , which , in this day and age , is of course the point . | 1 |
what `` empire `` lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . | 1 |
the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness . | 0 |
on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny little film . | 1 |
it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . | 1 |
it 's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . | 0 |
who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . | 0 |
solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous . | 0 |
after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock 's memorable first interrogation of gosling . | 1 |
the movie tries to be ethereal , but ends up seeming goofy . | 0 |
soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planet 's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . | 1 |
when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . | 0 |
katz 's documentary does n't have much panache , but with material this rich it does n't need it . | 1 |
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . | 0 |
the movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts . | 0 |
does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . | 0 |
an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . | 0 |
all in all , there 's only one thing to root for : expulsion for everyone . | 0 |
you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie 's failings . | 1 |
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . | 0 |
it drowns in sap . | 0 |
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirder . | 1 |
if melville is creatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . | 0 |
for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence . | 0 |
soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable . | 0 |
deserving of its critical backlash and more . | 0 |
keenly observed and refreshingly natural , swimming gets the details right , from its promenade of barely clad bodies in myrtle beach , s . c . , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner . | 1 |
the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . | 0 |
a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . | 0 |
a fun family movie that 's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it 's never too late to believe in your dreams . ' | 1 |
a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . | 0 |
a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort . | 0 |
unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . | 0 |
having never been a huge fan of dickens ' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath 's version . | 1 |
the premise of `` abandon `` holds promise , . . . but its delivery is a complete mess . | 0 |
it 's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it 's just grating . | 0 |
helps to remind the first world that hiv/aids is far from being yesterday 's news . | 1 |
has a certain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fair amount of b-movie excitement . | 1 |
may take its sweet time to get wherever it 's going , but if you have the patience for it , you wo n't feel like it 's wasted yours . | 1 |
green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project . | 0 |
too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . | 0 |
a painfully leaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots . | 0 |
. . . a complete shambles of a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i ca n't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . | 0 |
it 's not hateful . it 's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . | 0 |
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