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the writing is clever and the cast is appealing . | 1 |
nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley 's breasts -- is authentic . | 0 |
[ green is ] the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i 'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 0 |
so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . | 0 |
`` extreme ops `` exceeds expectations . good fun , good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace , good cinematography . | 1 |
. . . stale and uninspired . | 0 |
one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . | 1 |
just like hearst 's enormous yacht , it 's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destination . | 0 |
the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . | 1 |
worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . | 0 |
talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | 0 |
martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid . | 1 |
about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . if you 're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . | 1 |
a minor work yet there 's no denying the potency of miller 's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . | 1 |
phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose , and it 's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . | 1 |
the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . | 0 |
looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton 's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . | 1 |
from the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special effects ' by way of replacing objects in a character 's hands below the camera line , `` besotted `` is misbegotten | 0 |
reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . | 0 |
the story . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is . it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . | 1 |
it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it 's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters . | 1 |
surprisingly , the film is a hilarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoyed it . | 1 |
this is a very funny , heartwarming film . it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . | 1 |
a masterpiece four years in the making . | 1 |
the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . | 0 |
far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it 's a work of enthralling drama . | 1 |
one of the greatest romantic comedies of the past decade . | 1 |
to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . | 1 |
nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy . | 1 |
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare . | 1 |
pumpkin struts about with `` courage `` pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its back . | 0 |
generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down . | 1 |
compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things get . | 1 |
did we really need a remake of `` charade ? `` | 0 |
an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialogue is treated with a baffling casual approach | 0 |
the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . | 1 |
typical animM-i , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . | 0 |
director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . | 0 |
both deeply weird and charmingly dear . | 1 |
when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you 're in trouble . | 0 |
the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized . | 0 |
wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . | 1 |
too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style . | 0 |
the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess . | 0 |
even if britney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . | 0 |
though nijinsky 's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . | 1 |
a pleasant ramble through the sort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a loose , lackadaisical charm . | 1 |
what saves it . . . and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist alice . | 1 |
everyone 's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . | 1 |
the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . | 0 |
what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits . | 0 |
it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . | 0 |
all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . | 0 |
combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why did n't hollywood think of this sooner ? | 1 |
by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . | 1 |
the movie 's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman 's barking-mad taylor to thewlis 's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell 's hard-eyed gangster . | 1 |
hey , who else needs a shower ? | 1 |
witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it 's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . | 1 |
drags along in a dazed and enervated , drenched-in-the- past numbness . | 0 |
an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . | 1 |
either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks . | 1 |
once [ kim ] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it 's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . | 0 |
it 's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film . | 1 |
there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling . | 1 |
a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . | 0 |
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes . | 1 |
has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children 's home video , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting . | 0 |
purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . | 0 |
in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . | 1 |
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . | 1 |
a lame comedy . | 0 |
it 's as if you 're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become even weaker . | 0 |
exactly what you 'd expect from a guy named kaos . | 0 |
a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life . | 1 |
there 's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces . | 0 |
although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find love . | 1 |
a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity . | 0 |
sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it does n't . | 0 |
i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . | 0 |
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ' | 0 |
time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool `` clockstoppers , `` but that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . | 0 |
a tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more . | 1 |
fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially charm . | 1 |
if there 's one thing this world needs less of , it 's movies about college that are written and directed by people who could n't pass an entrance exam . | 0 |
holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life 's messiness from inside out , in all its strange quirks . | 1 |
aspires for the piquant but only really achieves a sort of ridiculous sourness . | 0 |
the aaa of action , xxx is a blast of adrenalin , rated eee for excitement . and vin diesel is the man . | 1 |
it 's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 1 |
. . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . | 0 |
expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . | 0 |
as david letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them . | 0 |
noyce has worked wonders with the material . | 1 |
it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case . | 1 |
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . | 0 |
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 0 |
when 'science fiction ' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience has n't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . | 0 |
the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and honest treatment . | 0 |
sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . | 1 |
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face . | 0 |
tom green and an ivy league college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 . | 0 |
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