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the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's hollywood . | 0 |
[ a ] rare , beautiful film . | 1 |
the next big thing 's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . | 0 |
despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions . | 1 |
to say analyze that is de niro 's best film since meet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . | 0 |
munch 's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and often unexpected . | 1 |
the performances are uniformly good . | 1 |
a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . | 0 |
it made me feel unclean , and i 'm the guy who liked there 's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . | 0 |
by and large this is mr . kilmer 's movie , and it 's his strongest performance since the doors . | 1 |
feel bad for king , who 's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who 's shot himself in the foot . | 0 |
the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control . | 0 |
wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! | 0 |
it 's sweet . it 's funny . it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . and , thanks to the presence of 'the king , ' it also rocks . | 1 |
the old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie 's soundtrack , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my spirit soaring out of the theater . | 1 |
a worthy entry into a very difficult genre . | 1 |
fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal . | 1 |
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? | 0 |
bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst 's remarkable performance , he showcases davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . | 1 |
the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books . | 0 |
this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . | 0 |
it 's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . | 0 |
shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . | 0 |
a great companion piece to other napoleon films . | 1 |
this is n't a terrible film by any means , but it 's also far from being a realized work . | 0 |
leigh 's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher 's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other . | 1 |
not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it 's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . | 0 |
sandra bullock 's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . | 0 |
fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored . | 0 |
the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy 's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . | 0 |
k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . | 0 |
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we 've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . | 0 |
the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . | 0 |
it 's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids . | 1 |
affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . | 1 |
it wo n't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it 'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . | 0 |
in the end , white oleander is n't an adaptation of a novel . it 's a flashy , star-splashed reduction . | 0 |
brian tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . | 1 |
movies like this are selling the old european candor , the old wink of 'bold ' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . | 0 |
this may be burns 's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen . | 1 |
the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . | 0 |
a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie 's peter pan . | 0 |
the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth . | 1 |
while there 's something intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . | 1 |
after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history . | 1 |
i did n't find much fascination in the swinging . what they 're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . | 0 |
comes . . . uncomfortably close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . | 0 |
a chilling movie without oppressive gore . | 1 |
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking ' films . | 1 |
much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . | 1 |
bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . | 1 |
lacks heart , depth and , most of all , purpose . | 0 |
watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . | 0 |
parker holds true to wilde 's own vision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . | 1 |
at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there 's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential . | 0 |
collateral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . | 1 |
stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor hereM-^E . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . | 0 |
`` the emperor 's new clothes `` begins with a simple plan . . . . well , at least that 's the plan . | 1 |
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . | 1 |
we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there 's an enthusiastic charm in < i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again . | 1 |
if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a camp adventure , one of those movies that 's so bad it starts to become good . but it was n't . | 0 |
this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . | 1 |
it 's hard to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood `` to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone , but it 's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it 's started . | 1 |
pray has really done his subject justice . | 1 |
huppert and girardot give performances of exceptional honesty . | 1 |
the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power . | 1 |
the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . | 0 |
exciting documentary . | 1 |
it 's quaid who anchors the film with his effortless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer . | 1 |
the film makes a strong case for the importance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . | 1 |
'charly ' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reaching for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . | 1 |
the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad ' . | 0 |
vera 's three actors -- mollM-` , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . | 1 |
a witty , low-key romantic comedy . | 1 |
some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it 's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . | 0 |
when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down easily . | 1 |
silly , loud and goofy . | 0 |
[ cuarM-sn has ] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . | 1 |
the spark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . | 1 |
13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , do n't seem ever to run out of ideas . | 1 |
it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that . | 0 |
though a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture work . | 0 |
sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . | 1 |
the journey to the secret 's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . | 1 |
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reach much further than we imagine . | 1 |
a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . | 1 |
an epic of grandeur and scale that 's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . | 1 |
neatly constructed thriller . | 1 |
it 's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . art house screens for no reason other than the fact that it 's in french ( well , mostly ) with english subtitles and is magically 'significant ' because of that . | 0 |
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . | 0 |
schneidermeister . . . makin ' a fool of himself . . . losin ' his fan base . . . | 0 |
a yarn that respects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it . | 1 |
many insightful moments . | 1 |
maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment . | 1 |
the production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . | 1 |
what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . | 1 |
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . | 0 |
as a revenge thriller , the movie is serviceable , but it does n't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions . | 1 |
replacing john carpenter 's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld blair witch video-cam footage . of all the halloween 's , this is the most visually unappealing . | 0 |
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