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despite its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy 's self-absorbed personality -- amy 's o 's honesty will win you over . | 1 |
as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . | 0 |
touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal members of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . | 1 |
the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . | 1 |
the film 's implicit premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every way inferior to that of john . | 0 |
i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre | 1 |
oh , james ! your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna 's cameo does n't suck ! | 1 |
[ ramsay ] visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . | 1 |
there 's plenty of style in guillermo del toro 's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply ca n't sustain more than 90 minutes . | 0 |
it 's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it does n't offer any insights that have n't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s . | 0 |
viewers of `` the ring `` are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plot holes . | 1 |
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama . | 0 |
remember when bond had more glamour than clamor ? no more . | 0 |
the film 's sharp , often mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . . | 1 |
the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . | 0 |
were dylan thomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke 's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentle into that good theatre . ' | 0 |
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r & b names and references . | 0 |
77 minutes of pokemon may not last 4ever , it just seems like it does . my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . | 0 |
a puzzling experience . | 0 |
like its two predecessors , 1983 's koyaanisqatsi and 1988 's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . | 1 |
. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . | 0 |
there are a few laughs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . | 0 |
if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a week from friday . | 0 |
it trusts the story it sets out to tell . | 1 |
works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . | 1 |
walter hill 's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . | 0 |
piccoli 's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . | 0 |
qutting may be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere . | 1 |
a moving and weighty depiction of one family 's attempts to heal after the death of a child . | 1 |
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 0 |
[ it 's ] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy . | 0 |
the perfect film for those who like sick comedies that can be snide . | 1 |
not as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effort . | 1 |
if ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . | 1 |
eight legged freaks falls flat as a spoof . | 0 |
this thing works on no level whatsoever for me . | 0 |
godard uses his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks . | 0 |
what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it 's badder than bad . | 0 |
it virtually defines a comedy that 's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . | 0 |
it 's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns . | 0 |
although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , `` orange county `` is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . | 1 |
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . | 0 |
' [ the cockettes ] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ' | 1 |
refreshing . | 1 |
seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie . | 0 |
the film is old-fashioned , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . | 0 |
the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . | 0 |
the film 's center will not hold . | 0 |
rare is the 'urban comedy ' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie . | 1 |
it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . | 1 |
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . | 1 |
turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting . | 1 |
scooby dooby doo / and shaggy too / you both look and sound great . / but daphne , you 're too buff / fred thinks he 's tough / and velma - wow , you 've lost weight ! | 0 |
tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unchecked heartache of yasujiro ozu . | 1 |
the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels . | 0 |
she 's not yet an actress , not quite a singer . . . | 0 |
bogs down badly as we absorb jia 's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance . | 0 |
i found myself more appreciative of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actually done . | 0 |
friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it 's called where 's chris tucker when you need him ? | 0 |
a film about female friendship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours . | 1 |
as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . | 1 |
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye . | 1 |
not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . | 1 |
further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya 's axis of evil . | 1 |
is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i do n't think so . nothing wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugged me . | 0 |
it 's a coming-of-age story we 've all seen bits of in other films -- but it 's rarely been told with such affecting grace and cultural specificity . | 1 |
the film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome . and it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen . | 1 |
white oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that does n't mean you wo n't like looking at it . | 1 |
please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film . | 0 |
too loud , too long and too frantic by half , die another day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 007 can not fly over , tunnel under or barrel through . | 0 |
to my taste , the film 's comic characters come perilously close to being amoses and andys for a new generation . | 0 |
it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie 's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . | 1 |
another one of those estrogen overdose movies like `` divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , `` except that the writing , acting and character development are a lot better . | 1 |
like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea 's recent past and south korea 's future adds a much needed moral weight . | 1 |
boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . | 1 |
it 's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . | 1 |
it uses an old-time formula , it 's not terribly original and it 's rather messy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my big fat greek wedding . | 1 |
director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film 's music than to the story line ; what 's best about drumline is its energy . | 1 |
it 's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer 's most pleasurable movies . | 1 |
go see it and enjoy . | 1 |
derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . | 0 |
there is nothing redeeming about this movie . | 0 |
worth a look as a curiosity . | 1 |
it wraps up a classic mother/daughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it 's not all new , at least it looks pretty . | 0 |
a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact . | 1 |
i 'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . | 0 |
the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . | 0 |
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate . | 0 |
as we have come to learn -- as many times as we have fingers to count on -- jason is a killer who does n't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakers might want to look it up . | 0 |
feels shrill , simple and soapy . | 0 |
while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . | 0 |
illiterate , often inert sci-fi action thriller . | 0 |
too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette . | 0 |
the trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls . | 0 |
i have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i 've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i want to believe . | 1 |
the film 's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter . | 1 |
a grim , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . | 0 |
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . | 1 |
if there 's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and directed the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the movie feels authentic . | 1 |
has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . | 0 |
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