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huppert 's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker 's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women 's augustine . | 1 |
though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors . | 1 |
a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling -- but unquestionably alive . | 1 |
for decades we 've marveled at disney 's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvel again . | 1 |
just is n't as weird as it ought to be . | 0 |
it will grip even viewers who are n't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnerving way . | 1 |
[ garbus ] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 0 |
you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . | 0 |
arliss howard 's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws . | 1 |
if you can push on through the slow spots , you 'll be rewarded with some fine acting . | 1 |
not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . | 0 |
cacoyannis ' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . | 0 |
sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . | 0 |
it 's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . | 1 |
predictably melodramatic . | 0 |
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems ' most people solved long ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetch about . | 0 |
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . | 0 |
the gags are often a stitch . | 1 |
it 's a remarkably solid and subtly satirical tour de force . | 1 |
far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . | 1 |
i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he 's made at least one damn fine horror movie . | 1 |
an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can really do . | 1 |
a thinly veiled look at different aspects of chinese life clashing with each other . | 1 |
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he 's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . | 1 |
jacquot 's rendering of puccini 's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . | 0 |
you watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises . | 1 |
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to think . | 0 |
it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding mM-itier . | 0 |
as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . | 1 |
the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . | 0 |
pretty good little movie . | 1 |
the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and openness . | 1 |
goofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! | 1 |
the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan 's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . | 0 |
all the small moments and flashbacks do n't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . | 0 |
[ creates ] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . | 0 |
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector . | 0 |
an awkwardly contrived exercise in magic realism . | 0 |
nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mishandled here . | 0 |
certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . | 0 |
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad ' police shooting . | 1 |
amazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! | 1 |
cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . | 1 |
offers that rare combination of entertainment and education . | 1 |
a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one 's actions . | 1 |
an extraordinary dramatic experience . | 1 |
the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detailed , and kurys ' direction is clever and insightful . | 1 |
has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . | 0 |
. . . a roller-coaster ride of a movie | 1 |
a mild , reluctant , thumbs down . | 0 |
bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . | 1 |
a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that was n't all that great to begin with . | 0 |
disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids ' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . | 1 |
it 's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists . | 1 |
sacrifices the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . | 0 |
[ a ] strong piece of work . | 1 |
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences . | 0 |
secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie . | 1 |
baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . | 1 |
there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine . | 1 |
the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction . | 0 |
conforms itself with creating a game of 'who 's who ' . . . where the characters ' moves are often more predictable than their consequences . | 0 |
more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent . | 1 |
despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that 's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . | 0 |
the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago , and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches is n't exactly endearing . | 0 |
there 's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . | 0 |
engagingly captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . | 1 |
an intoxicating experience . | 1 |
the film is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . | 1 |
elegant , mannered and teasing . | 1 |
it 's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . | 0 |
this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton 's ever-watchful gaze -- and it 's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . | 1 |
performances all around are tops , with the two leads delivering oscar-caliber performances . | 1 |
it may be a prize winner , but teacher is a bomb . | 0 |
as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there 's nothing to drink . | 0 |
parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass 's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it 's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . | 1 |
there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade . | 1 |
really dumb but occasionally really funny . | 0 |
a coarse and stupid gross-out . | 0 |
the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal campaign to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . | 1 |
an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than writer/director john mckay can swallow . | 0 |
showtime is closer to slowtime . | 0 |
ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine . | 1 |
everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan 's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true . | 1 |
a certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents . | 1 |
this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong 's john woo . he 's not good with people . | 0 |
if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . | 0 |
places a slightly believable love triangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly moves the story into the realm of an improbable thriller . | 0 |
this is one of polanski 's best films . | 1 |
a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . | 0 |
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . | 0 |
by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it 's not an easy one to review . | 0 |
the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it 's really well directed . | 1 |
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . | 1 |
completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . | 0 |
the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be . | 1 |
the sort of movie that gives tastelessness a bad rap . | 0 |
thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . | 1 |
seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . | 0 |
the sum of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there 's something cringe-inducing about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pop entertainment . | 0 |
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