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[ t ] he ideas of revolution # 9 are more compelling than the execution | 0 |
godard 's ode to tackling life 's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating . | 0 |
despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [ seinfeld 's ] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . | 0 |
nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece , but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head . | 1 |
first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . | 1 |
rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . | 0 |
not only unfunny , but downright repellent . | 0 |
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . | 0 |
on the right track to something that 's creepy and effective . . . it 's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to get there . | 0 |
klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . | 0 |
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . | 0 |
boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas . | 0 |
a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . | 1 |
the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . | 0 |
the film 's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfully controlled . but M-^E in trying to capture the novel 's deeper intimate resonances , the film has M-^V ironically - distanced us from the characters . | 1 |
cliches are as thick as the cigarette smoke . | 0 |
jagger the actor is someone you want to see again . | 1 |
seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it 's a sad , sick sight . | 0 |
bad in such a bizarre way that it 's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste . | 0 |
an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i found myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive `` missing thing . `` | 1 |
a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at . | 1 |
episode ii -- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . | 0 |
young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work . | 1 |
this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he 's already done way too often . | 0 |
[ johnnie to and wai ka fai are ] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film 's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . | 0 |
the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot . | 1 |
apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . | 0 |
the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . | 0 |
a very average science fiction film . | 0 |
it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen . | 1 |
there are many things that solid acting can do for a movie , but crafting something promising from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . | 0 |
the film was n't preachy , but it was feminism by the book . | 0 |
it 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie . | 1 |
a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . | 1 |
mark pellington 's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . | 1 |
for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical `` or `` suck `` into a sentence . | 0 |
the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects . | 0 |
a film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . | 0 |
this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they do n't make movies like they used to anymore . ' | 1 |
if jews were catholics , this would be catechism | 0 |
the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . | 0 |
the words , 'frankly , my dear , i do n't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate . | 0 |
no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . | 0 |
brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa 's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . | 1 |
american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . | 0 |
a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart . | 1 |
it 's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to match . | 1 |
at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio 's career shines like a lonely beacon . | 1 |
they 're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood . | 1 |
eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you do n't care who fires the winning shot . | 0 |
an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . | 1 |
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . | 1 |
pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , tony r . abrams , in their feature debut . | 0 |
worth seeing just for weaver and lapaglia . | 1 |
what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations has n't been raised above sixth-grade height . | 0 |
a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . | 0 |
may puzzle his most ardent fans . | 0 |
while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues 's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative . | 0 |
an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . | 1 |
eerily accurate depiction of depression . | 1 |
kinnear 's performance is a career-defining revelation . | 1 |
jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 0 |
a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie needed one of the actor 's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . | 0 |
alarms for duvall 's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . | 0 |
a low-rent retread of the alien pictures . | 0 |
the film is often filled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitement not often seen in today 's cinema du sarcasm | 1 |
try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman 's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . | 1 |
hardly an objective documentary , but it 's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you 've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions . | 1 |
it 's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . | 0 |
it 's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just ca n't take it any more . | 1 |
[ sam 's ] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . | 0 |
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . | 0 |
a movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . | 0 |
this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre . | 1 |
ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino 's climactic shootout M-^W and meat loaf explodes . | 0 |
like mike is a harmlessly naM-ove slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba 's off-season . | 1 |
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it 's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . | 0 |
it 's just plain lurid when it is n't downright silly . | 0 |
i 'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i do n't see the point . it 's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed . | 0 |
exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keep us on our toes . | 1 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | 0 |
with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment . | 0 |
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . | 0 |
windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . | 1 |
the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks originality to make it a great movie . | 1 |
a shambles of a movie -- visually unattractive , unbearably loud and utterly silly . . . its hilarity is completely unintentional . | 0 |
the film does n't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . | 0 |
had the film boasted a clearer , more memorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the skin . | 0 |
the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . | 0 |
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three 's company-style laugh track . | 0 |
as a director , eastwood is off his game -- there 's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot 'surprises ' are really surprising . | 0 |
shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience . | 1 |
what 's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . | 0 |
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let 's hope not . | 0 |
yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it 's also a failure of storytelling . | 0 |
[ the film ] tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it 's impossible to ascertain whether the film is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . | 1 |
shows holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that 's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives . | 0 |
constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . | 0 |
a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . | 1 |
a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships . | 1 |
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