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[ tries ] to parody a genre that 's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . | 0 |
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . | 0 |
austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . | 1 |
often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ? | 0 |
this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem . | 1 |
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh grant have worn threadbare . | 0 |
one of the most highly-praised disappointments i 've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . | 0 |
the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . | 0 |
although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world 's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . | 1 |
though the controversial korean filmmaker 's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . | 1 |
feral and uncomfortable . | 1 |
lasker 's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they ca n't get no satisfaction without the latter . | 1 |
in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . | 1 |
. . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . | 0 |
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it 's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime . | 0 |
a blair witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast . | 0 |
this may be dover kosashvili 's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . | 1 |
oddly compelling . | 1 |
harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . | 1 |
let 's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story ' by which all the queen 's men is allegedly `` inspired `` was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what 's been cobbled together onscreen . | 0 |
how do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough . | 0 |
writer/director john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but , when he veers into sodden melodrama , punctuated by violins , it 's disastrous and kate 's jealous female friends become downright despicable . | 0 |
twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg 's misunderstood career . | 1 |
a winning and wildly fascinating work . | 1 |
occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodM-svar style . | 1 |
a fast , funny , highly enjoyable movie . | 1 |
ok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing did n't get our moral hackles up . | 1 |
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . | 1 |
i 'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film . | 0 |
the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . | 0 |
when the plot kicks in , the film loses credibility . | 0 |
enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker 's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . | 0 |
as plain and pedestrian as catsup -- | 0 |
the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . | 1 |
a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic . | 1 |
this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance . | 0 |
a small movie with a big heart . | 1 |
if you 're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . | 1 |
a weird little movie that 's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it does n't leave you with much . | 0 |
devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . | 0 |
there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church , synagogue or temple does n't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters . | 0 |
it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film . | 1 |
my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventional . | 0 |
spain 's greatest star wattage does n't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . | 0 |
it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . | 1 |
a ragbag of cliches . | 0 |
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presentation . | 0 |
never having seen the first two films in the series , i ca n't compare friday after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . | 0 |
these are lives worth watching , paths worth following . | 1 |
made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america 's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . | 1 |
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain . | 1 |
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino 's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . | 0 |
not only does the movie fail to make us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . | 0 |
a by-the-numbers patient/doctor pic that covers all the usual ground | 0 |
the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung . | 0 |
its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch . | 1 |
the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts . | 1 |
a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it could have been . | 0 |
i liked this film a lot . . . | 1 |
everything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized . | 0 |
huppert 's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face . | 1 |
a crisp psychological drama [ and ] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old `` twilight zone `` episode . | 1 |
. . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichM-is to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks . | 1 |
[ newton ] wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . | 0 |
full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . | 1 |
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . | 0 |
all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . | 0 |
the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture ca n't quite conceal that there 's nothing resembling a spine here . | 0 |
a budget affair that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . | 1 |
this in-depth study of important developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . | 1 |
it 's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that 's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . | 1 |
a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world . | 1 |
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati . | 1 |
a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . | 1 |
hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare . | 1 |
rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 . | 1 |
satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it 's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman 's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . | 1 |
the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . | 0 |
worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . | 1 |
meyjes 's movie , like max rothman 's future , does not work . | 0 |
a droll , well-acted , character-driven comedy with unexpected deposits of feeling . | 1 |
young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . | 1 |
a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown . | 1 |
morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . | 1 |
this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friends you betray . | 0 |
the ill-conceived modern-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . | 0 |
this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all . | 1 |
when it 's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , `` real women have curves `` is a sweet , honest , and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life , but fears she 'll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . | 1 |
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project . | 0 |
the master of disaster - it 's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . | 0 |
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . | 1 |
weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . | 0 |
will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . | 1 |
a moving and important film . | 1 |
it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , `` look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! `` but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . | 0 |
it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . | 1 |
further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . | 0 |
the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . | 0 |
skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . | 1 |
the only entertainment you 'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles M-^V several of them . | 0 |
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