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will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . | 0 |
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . | 0 |
[ it 's ] a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . | 1 |
feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 0 |
the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . | 1 |
all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . | 1 |
there 's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms is n't it . | 0 |
john leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . | 0 |
a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . | 0 |
a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . | 1 |
it 's a movie -- and an album -- you wo n't want to miss . | 1 |
nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year . | 1 |
from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student film . | 0 |
a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobility . | 1 |
if somebody was bored and . . . decided to make a dull , pretentious version of jesus ' son , they 'd come up with something like bart freundlich 's world traveler . | 0 |
a terrific date movie , whatever your orientation . | 1 |
like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . | 0 |
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf . | 0 |
the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it . | 1 |
marinated in clichM-is and mawkish dialogue . | 0 |
scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . | 1 |
breen 's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . | 0 |
the sweetest thing leaves an awful sour taste . | 0 |
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . | 1 |
the movie enters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . | 1 |
the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either . | 0 |
at three hours and with very little story or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . | 0 |
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort level that 's both saucy and endearing . | 1 |
shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . | 0 |
a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . | 1 |
lovely and poignant . puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . | 1 |
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | 1 |
tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . | 1 |
does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background . | 1 |
the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . | 1 |
. . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun . | 1 |
lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , though not nearly so sinister as the biennial disney girl movie ) machinations of the biennial disney boy movie . | 1 |
khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . | 1 |
sucking all the 'classic ' out of robert louis stevenson 's treasure island and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent angst . . . | 0 |
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . | 0 |
it 's almost impossible not to be moved by the movie 's depiction of sacrifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . | 1 |
less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is . | 0 |
it is bad , but certainly not without merit as entertainment . | 0 |
home alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers are n't this nice . | 0 |
represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller/horror genre . | 0 |
it would work much better as a one-hour tv documentary . | 0 |
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the film is n't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . | 0 |
it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it 's hardly a necessary enterprise . | 1 |
gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . | 0 |
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine job of updating white 's dry wit to a new age . | 1 |
[ an ] hilarious romantic comedy . | 1 |
steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece | 1 |
an ambitious and moving but bleak film . | 1 |
where last time jokes flowed out of cho 's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hides behind obviously constructed routines . | 0 |
swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . | 0 |
merchant effectively translates naipaul 's lively mix of characters from the page to screen . | 1 |
darkly funny and frequently insightful . | 1 |
in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . | 1 |
a gentle and engrossing character study . | 1 |
davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . | 1 |
this is a film brimming with detail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solace in events that could easily crush it forever . | 1 |
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each year to scare teenagers into attending services . | 1 |
the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . | 0 |
adam sandler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . | 0 |
it 's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake . | 0 |
nothing about it fits . | 0 |
aside from rohmer 's bold choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker 's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . | 1 |
by the time you reach the finale , you 're likely wondering why you 've been watching all this strutting and posturing . | 0 |
as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace . | 1 |
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us involved . | 1 |
impostor ca n't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . | 0 |
depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . | 1 |
i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . | 1 |
jacquot 's tosca is a treat . | 1 |
hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette 's dialogue . | 1 |
a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there is n't a weak or careless performance amongst them . | 1 |
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown movie . | 0 |
any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy 's sledgehammer sap . | 0 |
the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . | 0 |
cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . | 0 |
some movies blend together as they become distant memories . mention `` solaris `` five years from now and i 'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . | 1 |
the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going . | 1 |
tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world 's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances . | 1 |
there 's an admirable rigor to jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there 's no place for this story to go but down . | 0 |
the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . | 0 |
they presume their audience wo n't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes . | 0 |
it 's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . | 0 |
it made me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real ' . | 1 |
adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they wo n't enjoy the movie at all . | 0 |
i 'll go out on a limb . it is n't quite one of the worst movies of the year . it 's just merely very bad . | 0 |
gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff . | 1 |
it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [ eyre 's ] first film something of a sleeper success . | 0 |
the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . | 0 |
demme 's loose approach kills the suspense . | 0 |
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starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickly writes himself into a corner . | 0 |
it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness . | 1 |
according to the script , grant and bullock 's characters are made for each other . but you 'd never guess that from the performances . | 0 |
the determination of pinochet 's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman 's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . | 1 |
though it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them . | 1 |
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