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it 's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that 's often written off as indie film naturalism . | 0 |
it 's a lovely film with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . | 1 |
graM-gas M-`s interaM-gM-ues entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se nM-co apenas uma histM-sria divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguiM-gM-co , mas tambM-im um belo estudo de personagens . | 1 |
no , i do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money . | 0 |
looks and feels like a project better suited for the small screen . | 0 |
a disaster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants . | 0 |
'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . ' | 1 |
great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . | 1 |
add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney 's a good director . | 1 |
it seems grant does n't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . | 1 |
conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . | 1 |
[ a ] soulless , stupid sequel . . . | 0 |
as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass 's understated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . | 1 |
this movie is maddening . it conveys a simple message in a visual style that is willfully overwrought . | 0 |
the movie worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it caved in . | 1 |
unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson 's perspective as a storyteller . | 0 |
do we really need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? | 0 |
while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it 's awfully entertaining to watch . | 1 |
a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1/2 . | 0 |
if only the story about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . | 0 |
the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it 's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . | 0 |
exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . | 0 |
an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnson . | 1 |
jae-eun jeong 's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema . | 1 |
attal 's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it 's a wonder that he could n't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . | 0 |
a brutally dry satire of middle american numbness . | 1 |
for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . | 1 |
i do n't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . but i do . | 1 |
'enigma ' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ' | 1 |
despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . | 0 |
winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and beautiful stars . | 1 |
this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson 's e ! true hollywood story . | 0 |
becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any plympton film : boring . | 0 |
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . | 0 |
offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing . | 1 |
the film is faithful to what one presumes are the book 's twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are . | 1 |
the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of providing solace through deception is a little creepy . | 0 |
daring , mesmerizing and exceedingly hard to forget . | 1 |
a thriller made from a completist 's checklist rather than with a cultist 's passion . | 1 |
`` 13 conversations about one thing `` is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . | 1 |
continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means . | 1 |
spielberg 's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . | 1 |
do n't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it 's anti-catholic . hate it because it 's lousy . | 0 |
we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they 'll wind up together , and michele 's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . | 0 |
. . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cynical piece of work . | 0 |
as green-guts monster movies go , it 's a beaut . | 1 |
. . . watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture ' i just might . | 0 |
an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . | 0 |
imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . | 0 |
director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin ' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . | 0 |
moonlight mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . | 1 |
with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . | 1 |
loud , silly , stupid and pointless . | 0 |
if we do n't demand a standard of quality for the art that we choose , we deserve the trash that we get . | 0 |
in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . | 1 |
among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . | 1 |
boisterous and daft documentary . | 1 |
a real snooze . | 0 |
prurient playthings aside , there 's little to love about this english trifle . | 0 |
will anyone who is n't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ? | 0 |
barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality . | 0 |
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller . | 0 |
it 's not that kung pow is n't funny some of the time -- it just is n't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk 's impish augmentation . | 0 |
a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie . | 0 |
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . | 0 |
high on melodrama . but it 's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . | 1 |
you live the mood rather than savour the story . | 1 |
funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understated piece of filmmaking . | 1 |
this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins ' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book . | 0 |
for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he 's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . | 1 |
makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . | 0 |
as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 0 |
reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . | 1 |
'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . ' | 1 |
demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he ca n't disguise that he 's spiffing up leftovers that are n't so substantial or fresh . | 0 |
for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time . | 0 |
the movie 's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries . | 1 |
a witty , whimsical feature debut . | 1 |
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean new wave ' . | 1 |
i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . | 1 |
diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . | 1 |
even though it 's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you ca n't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company 's astonishing growth . | 1 |
the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . | 0 |
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . | 1 |
there 's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . | 0 |
wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . | 0 |
those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals . | 0 |
opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half . | 1 |
with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . | 0 |
one of those strained caper movies that 's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . | 0 |
a good piece of work more often than not . | 1 |
steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens -- especially the a * * holes . | 1 |
it 's [ ricci 's ] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world 's misery with blind good will . | 1 |
it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . | 1 |
the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . | 0 |
even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . | 0 |
`` frailty `` offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and , there 's no way you wo n't be talking about the film once you exit the theater . | 1 |
despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of `` lilo `` could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . | 1 |
one gets the impression the creators of do n't ask do n't tell laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad none of it is funny . | 0 |
like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . | 0 |
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