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in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works . | 1 |
a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it is n't very good is almost beside the point . | 0 |
this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . | 1 |
rollerball is as bad as you think , and worse than you can imagine . | 0 |
imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . | 1 |
. . . the one thing this wild film has that other imax films do n't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . that 's fun for kids of any age . | 1 |
. . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life 's endgame . | 1 |
the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we do n't even like their characters . | 0 |
guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it 's not scary in the slightest . | 0 |
here 's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . | 1 |
you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . | 1 |
morton deserves an oscar nomination . | 1 |
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . | 0 |
crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . | 1 |
in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . | 1 |
blue crush is so prolonged and boring it is n't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . | 0 |
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity . | 1 |
the unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . | 1 |
anyone who 's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . | 1 |
nothing more than a run-of-the-mill action flick . | 0 |
it 's not life-affirming M-^W its vulgar and mean , but i liked it . | 1 |
woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back . | 1 |
the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . | 0 |
that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies . | 0 |
escapism in its purest form . | 1 |
those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he 's not onscreen . | 0 |
if welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he probably would n't be too crazy with his great-grandson 's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . | 0 |
like mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . | 1 |
it 's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughter . | 1 |
represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . | 0 |
`` mostly martha `` is a bright , light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see . | 1 |
it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . | 1 |
all the well-meaningness in the world ca n't erase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi . | 0 |
hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . | 0 |
worse than 'silence of the lambs ' better than 'hannibal ' | 1 |
i kept thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i was n't . | 0 |
[ javier bardem is ] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . | 0 |
'this movie sucks . ' | 0 |
the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . | 1 |
a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty . | 1 |
how good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . | 1 |
there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . | 0 |
davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that does n't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . | 0 |
a baffling subplot involving smuggling drugs inside danish cows falls flat , and if you 're going to alter the bard 's ending , you 'd better have a good alternative . | 0 |
no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . | 0 |
all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who 's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . | 1 |
the formula is familiar but enjoyable . | 1 |
unflinchingly bleak and desperate | 1 |
ill-considered , unholy hokum . | 0 |
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that 's simultaneously painful and refreshing . | 1 |
julia is played with exasperating blandness by laura regan . | 0 |
you would n't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . | 1 |
this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . | 0 |
whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama is n't much of a mystery , unfortunately . | 1 |
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-feely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . | 0 |
wedding feels a bit anachronistic . still , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak , and a happy ending is no cinematic sin . | 1 |
too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicated story , one that never materializes . | 0 |
there are as many misses as hits , but ultimately , it finds humor in the foibles of human behavior , and it 's a welcome return to the roots of a genre that should depend on surprises . | 1 |
the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag . | 0 |
there 's not much going on in this movie unless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . | 0 |
light years/ several warp speeds/ levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrection . which is n't to say that it 's the equal of some of its predecessors . | 1 |
the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan 's madness . | 1 |
the film is one of the year 's best . | 1 |
most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . | 0 |
[ allen 's ] best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . | 0 |
would 've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film 's predictable denouement . then nadia 's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . | 0 |
it could change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment . | 1 |
it 's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor 's cartoonish performance and the film 's ill-considered notion that hitler 's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . | 0 |
lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney 's cutoffs . | 0 |
zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it 's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones . | 1 |
in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they 're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . | 0 |
alain choquart 's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . | 1 |
initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . | 0 |
you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . | 0 |
. . . hits every cliche we 've come to expect , including the assumption that `` crazy `` people are innocent , childlike and inherently funny . | 1 |
is it a total success ? no . is it something any true film addict will want to check out ? you bet . | 1 |
you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . | 0 |
one lousy movie . | 0 |
sensitive though not quite revelatory documentary . | 0 |
count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater . | 1 |
it 's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb . | 1 |
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . | 0 |
throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . | 1 |
when [ reno ] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture . | 0 |
the french are rather good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them . | 1 |
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ' | 1 |
visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying . | 0 |
filled with alexandre desplat 's haunting and sublime music , the movie completely transfixes the audience . | 1 |
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments . | 1 |
a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . | 1 |
lapaglia 's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver 's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . | 1 |
this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are . | 1 |
if you 've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever . | 0 |
feardotcom 's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . | 1 |
it 's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . | 0 |
one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it 's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek 's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin . | 1 |
perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . | 0 |
diane lane 's sophisticated performance ca n't rescue adrian lyne 's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . | 0 |
a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco 's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads . | 1 |
a marvel of production design . | 1 |
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