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bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time . | 1 |
what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale M-^V as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . | 1 |
the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that is n't faked and a stately sense of composition . | 1 |
the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart . | 1 |
a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . | 1 |
the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being grown up . | 1 |
well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . | 1 |
its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it 's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [ but it 's ] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . | 1 |
despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . | 1 |
watching haneke 's film is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a great actress tearing into a landmark role , is riveting . | 1 |
the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai 's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . | 1 |
an entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller . | 1 |
goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 0 |
behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one ca n't help but think he 'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . | 1 |
a moving story of determination and the human spirit . | 1 |
broder 's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . | 0 |
the irwins ' scenes are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts . | 0 |
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers ' hearts . | 1 |
spare but quietly effective retelling . | 1 |
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . | 1 |
despite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . | 1 |
brisk hack job . | 0 |
after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . | 0 |
a work of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric byler , who understands the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy . | 1 |
manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . | 1 |
anchored by friel and williams 's exceptional performances , the film 's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . | 1 |
the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart . | 1 |
director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading . | 1 |
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc . | 1 |
. . . unlike [ scorsese 's mean streets ] , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . | 0 |
starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . | 0 |
plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it 's a great performance and a reminder of dickens ' grandeur . | 1 |
it 's depressing to see how far herzog has fallen . | 0 |
this is n't a stand up and cheer flick ; it 's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline 's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . | 1 |
enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . | 0 |
staggeringly dreadful romance . | 0 |
bland but harmless . | 0 |
the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie were n't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . | 1 |
below may not mark mr . twohy 's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . | 1 |
a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . | 0 |
the tasteful little revision works wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story 's morals . | 1 |
message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it 's neither . | 0 |
you do n't have to know about music to appreciate the film 's easygoing blend of comedy and romance . | 1 |
the only thing i laughed at were the people who paid to see it . | 0 |
a movie that at its best does n't just make the most out of its characters ' flaws but insists on the virtue of imperfection . | 1 |
with a `` spy kids `` sequel opening next week , why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl `` has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni ? | 0 |
it 's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that 's been given the drive of a narrative and that 's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . | 1 |
in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . | 0 |
plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas . | 0 |
sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open . | 1 |
there is not a character in the movie with a shred of plausibility , not an event that is believable , not a confrontation that is not staged , not a moment that is not false . | 0 |
mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness . | 0 |
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . | 0 |
manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane . | 0 |
that rara avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . | 1 |
after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . | 0 |
what 's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . | 1 |
my precious new star wars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . | 0 |
the latest installment in the pokemon canon , pokemon 4ever is surprising less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . | 0 |
while not all that bad of a movie , it 's nowhere near as good as the original . | 1 |
a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . life . | 1 |
both damning and damned compelling . | 1 |
brown 's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . | 0 |
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotient of friday-night excitement and milla power . | 1 |
suffers from a flat script and a low budget . | 0 |
it 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it 's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death | 0 |
that frenetic spectacle [ on the tv show ] has usually been leavened by a charm that 's conspicuously missing from the girls ' big-screen blowout . | 0 |
the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . | 1 |
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . | 0 |
star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . | 0 |
flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams . | 0 |
there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . | 0 |
it 's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought . | 1 |
kwan makes the mix-and- match metaphors intriguing , while lulling us into torpor with his cultivated allergy to action . | 0 |
nair does n't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly . | 1 |
the piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh 's three lead actresses . | 1 |
formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . | 0 |
as relationships shift , director robert j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . | 1 |
the talents of the actors helps `` moonlight mile `` rise above its heart-on-its-sleeve writing . | 1 |
succeeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides . | 1 |
this is what imax was made for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real world , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . | 1 |
pure of intention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable . | 0 |
[ t ] hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality does n't work in a modern context . | 0 |
the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained . | 1 |
the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no easy rewards for staying clean . | 1 |
more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 M-= weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . | 1 |
one of recent memory 's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compromise . | 1 |
it 's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harrison . | 1 |
this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . | 1 |
has a solid emotional impact . | 1 |
showtime is n't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again . | 0 |
another week , another gross-out college comedy -- ugh . | 0 |
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . | 1 |
such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls `` and last year 's `` rollerball . `` enough said , except : film overboard ! | 0 |
offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory . | 1 |
for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam . | 0 |
it 's like a `` big chill `` reunion of the baader-meinhof gang , only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . | 1 |
easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . | 1 |
i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . | 0 |
if you 're really renting this you 're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices , you 're interested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . | 0 |
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