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in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez 's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . | 1 |
some body will take you places you have n't been , and also places you have . | 1 |
one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . | 1 |
sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the group . | 1 |
an empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal . | 0 |
the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard . | 1 |
performances are potent , and the women 's stories are ably intercut and involving . | 1 |
like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . | 1 |
with a completely predictable plot , you 'll swear that you 've seen it all before , even if you 've never come within a mile of the longest yard . | 0 |
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera . . . | 1 |
worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . | 0 |
the star who helped give a spark to `` chasing amy `` and `` changing lanes `` falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer 's new action film , `` the sum of all fears . `` | 0 |
delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information . | 1 |
i 'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . | 1 |
there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . | 0 |
writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . | 0 |
. . . there is enough originality in 'life ' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . | 1 |
this overlong infomercial , due out on video before month 's end , is tepid and tedious . | 0 |
jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . | 0 |
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . | 1 |
the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum . | 0 |
while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari 's film falls short in building the drama of lilia 's journey . | 0 |
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . | 0 |
coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit . | 0 |
even when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking | 1 |
children may not understand everything that happens -- i 'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . | 1 |
it 's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . | 1 |
cq 's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors . | 1 |
unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo 's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie 's heart . | 0 |
it 's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . | 1 |
an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . | 1 |
full of profound , real-life moments that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . | 1 |
but this is lohman 's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks . | 1 |
a winning piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 1960s . | 1 |
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog . | 0 |
a solid examination of the male midlife crisis . | 1 |
there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i would n't be interested in knowing any of them personally . | 0 |
one of those so-so films that could have been much better . | 0 |
i just loved every minute of this film . | 1 |
in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . | 0 |
nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . | 0 |
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life . | 0 |
the truth about charlie is that it 's a brazenly misguided project . | 0 |
it 's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it 's what makes their project so interesting . | 1 |
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one . | 0 |
an often unfunny romp . | 0 |
sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remember ) , but still a very good time at the cinema . | 1 |
displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly manages to deliver | 0 |
instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources M-^V good sources , bad mixture | 0 |
the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . | 1 |
i 'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it does n't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . | 0 |
it 's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle ' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . | 1 |
a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion . | 1 |
the strong subject matter continues to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . | 1 |
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . | 1 |
a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . | 1 |
this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and confirming . | 1 |
in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . | 1 |
the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . | 0 |
a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . | 1 |
it 's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . | 0 |
there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they 're not exactly flattering . | 0 |
some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . | 0 |
. curiously , super troopers suffers because it does n't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . | 0 |
rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen 's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut . | 1 |
after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father clichM-i has been unturned . but no . | 0 |
. . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey does n't really go anywhere . | 1 |
clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . | 1 |
there are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . | 0 |
priggish , lethargically paced parable of renewal . | 0 |
the pleasures of super troopers may be fleeting , but they 'll register strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . | 1 |
sleek and arty . | 1 |
one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album . | 0 |
something has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . | 0 |
she 's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her bjorkness . | 1 |
the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . | 1 |
though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . | 0 |
this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . | 1 |
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo 's real strength . | 1 |
pryor lite , with half the demons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs . | 0 |
`` 13 conversations `` holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point . | 1 |
mendes still does n't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . | 0 |
serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time . | 0 |
a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . | 1 |
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . | 1 |
will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year . | 1 |
by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [ jones ] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . | 1 |
the result is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . | 0 |
as is most commonly case with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentious . | 0 |
mM-as sarcM-astica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejemplo de lo que es el cine de entretenimiento puro y sin complejos . | 1 |
sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers ' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? | 0 |
it 's got all the familiar bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkins/rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas . | 1 |
a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages . | 1 |
in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . | 1 |
a forceful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . | 1 |
i 'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes . | 1 |
the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays . | 1 |
it would be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . | 0 |
it 's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable . | 1 |
in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni 's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it . | 0 |
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