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criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . | 0 |
it 's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . | 0 |
michael gerbosi 's script is economically packed with telling scenes . | 1 |
brave and sweetly rendered love story . | 1 |
so clichM-id that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cart . | 0 |
the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups do n't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . | 0 |
the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production 's austere locales . | 1 |
a feel-good picture in the best sense of the term . | 1 |
it 's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe . . . but it 's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . | 0 |
finally , the french-produced `` read my lips `` is a movie that understands characters must come first . | 1 |
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it 's potentially just as rewarding . | 1 |
time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . | 1 |
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer 's bloated effects fest the mummy returns . | 0 |
it 's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingly simplistic . | 1 |
what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine 's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . | 1 |
[ siegel ] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . | 0 |
you 'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . yet the act is still charming here . | 1 |
the 3d images only enhance the film 's otherworldly quality , giving it a strange combo of you-are-there closeness with the disorienting unreality of the seemingly broken-down fourth wall of the movie screen . | 1 |
despite the film 's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character 's gripping humanity . | 1 |
beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that 's there to scare while we delight in the images . | 1 |
slow and ponderous , but rohmer 's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption . | 1 |
the film 's only missteps come from the script 's insistence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale 's antics . | 1 |
director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . | 0 |
sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end . | 0 |
sodden and glum , even in those moments where it 's supposed to feel funny and light . | 0 |
hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . | 0 |
frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he 's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . | 1 |
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . | 0 |
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare 's plays . | 1 |
frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . | 1 |
escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . | 1 |
cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace . | 0 |
children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah 's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it . | 0 |
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . | 0 |
though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . | 1 |
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore . | 1 |
rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . | 1 |
an intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort . | 0 |
the film is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose . | 1 |
a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit . | 0 |
one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . | 1 |
done in mostly by a weak script that ca n't support the epic treatment . | 0 |
jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you 're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . | 1 |
it 's never dull and always looks good . | 1 |
personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , leaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these women 's souls right open for us . | 1 |
the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it 's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . | 0 |
the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy . | 1 |
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . | 1 |
ranks among willams ' best screen work . | 1 |
brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . | 1 |
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by al pacino . | 1 |
i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it 's too long and it goes nowhere . | 0 |
a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart . | 1 |
it 's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it 's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . | 1 |
the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any `` jackass `` fan could want . | 1 |
though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . | 1 |
rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0 |
even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . | 0 |
bouquet gives a performance that is masterly . | 1 |
an absurdist spider web . | 1 |
a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it 's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . | 1 |
audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school . | 0 |
given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there is n't much . | 0 |
even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . | 0 |
the son 's room is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . | 1 |
is n't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii ' just does n't cut it . | 0 |
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson 's magnolia and david lynch 's mulholland dr . | 1 |
something must have been lost in the translation . | 0 |
the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . | 0 |
it 'll keep you wide awake and . . . very tense . | 1 |
with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . | 0 |
while the mystery surrounding the nature of the boat 's malediction remains intriguing enough to sustain mild interest , the picture refuses to offer much accompanying sustenance in the way of characterization , humor or plain old popcorn fun . | 0 |
it 's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from `` promising `` to `` interesting `` to `` familiar `` before landing squarely on `` stupid `` . | 0 |
tries too hard to be funny in a way that 's too loud , too goofy and too short of an attention span . | 0 |
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . | 0 |
guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others do n't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . | 0 |
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing 's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . | 0 |
delightfully rendered | 1 |
sushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . | 0 |
high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . | 0 |
like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie does n't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome . | 1 |
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . | 1 |
like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . | 0 |
witless but watchable . | 1 |
see it . debate it . remember it . | 1 |
steve irwin 's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume . | 1 |
thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings . | 1 |
a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . | 0 |
a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . | 1 |
features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . | 0 |
rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go . | 1 |
it 's inoffensive , cheerful , built to inspire the young people , set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery , it 's about as exciting as a sunburn . | 0 |
do n't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk . | 0 |
i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . | 1 |
a cockeyed shot all the way . | 0 |
by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . | 1 |
while it 's nothing we have n't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it 's more than a worthwhile effort . | 1 |
one of the best , most understated performances of [ jack nicholson 's ] career . | 1 |
dismally dull sci-fi comedy . | 0 |
holland lets things peter out midway , but it 's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals . | 0 |
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