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the movie 's downfall is to substitute plot for personality . it does n't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . | 0 |
the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham 's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism | 1 |
unexpected , and often contradictory , truths emerge . | 1 |
ratliff 's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . | 1 |
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . | 1 |
what 's next ? the porky 's revenge : ultimate edition ? | 0 |
like most of jaglom 's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . | 0 |
proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness . | 0 |
one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history . | 0 |
you may be galled that you 've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie . | 0 |
the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster . | 0 |
a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . | 1 |
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . | 0 |
maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there 's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . | 1 |
it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material . | 0 |
those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . | 1 |
good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . | 1 |
a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . | 0 |
the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they 've told a nice little story in the process . | 1 |
it 's a gag that 's worn a bit thin over the years , though do n't ask still finds a few chuckles . | 0 |
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . | 0 |
isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol 's most intense psychological mysteries . | 1 |
whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema 's master craftsmen . | 1 |
a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . | 0 |
wallace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach . | 0 |
light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl harbor , at least artistically . | 1 |
not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling 's books . | 1 |
the script is smart , not cloying . | 1 |
raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . | 1 |
'rare birds ' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . | 0 |
just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . | 0 |
. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen . | 1 |
so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it created whole new levels of ugly . | 0 |
how do you spell clichM-i ? | 0 |
anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . | 1 |
it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived . | 0 |
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide . | 1 |
a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [ woody allen ] has made in the last twenty years . | 0 |
the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there 's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . | 0 |
sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman ca n't save it . | 0 |
cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the magic that made it all work . | 0 |
it 's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . | 1 |
'sophisticated ' viewers who refuse to admit that they do n't like it will likely call it 'challenging ' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0 |
slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler 's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $ 40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? | 0 |
from the opening scenes , it 's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0 |
the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger . | 1 |
it 's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` got aids yet ? `` | 0 |
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . | 1 |
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you . | 1 |
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . | 1 |
so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . | 0 |
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . | 1 |
so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland , basically . | 0 |
. . . [ the film ] works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . | 1 |
like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . | 0 |
for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . | 0 |
whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . | 1 |
zany , exuberantly irreverent animated space adventure . | 1 |
the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . | 0 |
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have preceded it . | 0 |
a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys . | 1 |
a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . | 0 |
this story of unrequited love does n't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . | 0 |
the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic . | 1 |
often hilarious . | 1 |
the film 's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . | 0 |
a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . | 0 |
essentially a collection of bits -- and they 're all naughty . | 0 |
all in all , a great party . | 1 |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . | 0 |
the movie is a mess from start to finish . | 0 |
the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . | 1 |
nM-ss gosta muito de as duas torres . | 1 |
the script ? please . | 0 |
( a ) hollywood sheen bedevils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman 's moist , deeply emotional eyes shine through this bogus veneer . . . | 1 |
it 's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo . | 0 |
you 'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery . | 0 |
scene-by-scene , things happen , but you 'd be hard-pressed to say what or why . | 0 |
viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet . | 0 |
kaufman and jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing . | 1 |
talkiness is n't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . | 0 |
hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock 's imaginative flight to shyamalan 's self-important summer fluff . | 0 |
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney spears ' first movie . | 0 |
the stories here suffer from the chosen format . | 0 |
disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . | 0 |
there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . | 0 |
a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . | 0 |
to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . | 0 |
the film is like sitting in a downtown cafM-i , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . | 0 |
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . | 0 |
the film hinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
one of [ jaglom 's ] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love . | 1 |
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . | 0 |
crummy | 0 |
woody allen 's latest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movie biz . | 1 |
muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . | 0 |
an ebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancing . | 1 |
there 's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . | 1 |
an awful lot like one of [ spears ' ] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . | 0 |
dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . | 1 |
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