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the timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . | 0 |
a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . | 1 |
a cop story that understands the medium amazingly well . | 1 |
if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea 's interpersonal drama , it ai n't half-bad . | 1 |
as part of mr . dong 's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . | 1 |
this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as well as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels like unrealized potential | 1 |
no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . | 0 |
so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter 's the thing and loaded with actors you 're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat . | 0 |
while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer 's appetite , the film 's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . | 1 |
passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road . | 0 |
[ villeneuve ] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death . | 1 |
a woman 's pic directed with resonance by ilya chaiken . | 1 |
as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . | 0 |
it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation comedy . | 0 |
a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that 's pretty toxic in its own right . | 0 |
sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . | 0 |
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . | 1 |
it 's the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge . | 0 |
. . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . | 1 |
a simple , sometimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . | 0 |
the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it 's such a warm and charming package that you 'll feel too happy to argue much . | 1 |
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-video/dvd category , and this is why i have given it a one-star rating . | 0 |
the gantzes ' interviews tend to let the guys off the hook . | 0 |
rabbit-proof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker . | 1 |
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation . | 1 |
`` cremaster 3 `` should come with the warning `` for serious film buffs only ! `` | 1 |
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could 've been an impacting film . | 0 |
this slight premise . . . works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . | 1 |
it 's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way . | 1 |
an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccustomed to it . | 1 |
this is n't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . | 1 |
seems like someone going through the motions . | 0 |
they takes a long time to get to its gasp-inducing ending . | 0 |
that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . | 1 |
based on a david leavitt story , the film shares that writer 's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious preciousness . | 0 |
one of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm . | 1 |
smart , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . | 1 |
you 'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama . | 1 |
an infuriating film . just when you think you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense . | 0 |
the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what 's available is lovely and lovable . | 1 |
if it 's possible for a sequel to outshine the original , then sl2 does just that . | 1 |
an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship . | 0 |
it 's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name . | 0 |
a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . | 1 |
this is n't a narrative film -- i do n't know if it 's possible to make a narrative film about september 11th , though i 'm sure some will try -- but it 's as close as anyone has dared to come . | 1 |
apesar de seus graves problemas , o filme consegue entreter . | 1 |
a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . | 1 |
it 's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . | 0 |
as a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [ sex and lucM-ma ] makes for an arousing good time . | 1 |
the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for small favors . | 1 |
the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 0 |
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life . | 1 |
the far future may be awesome to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past . | 1 |
with elements cribbed from lang 's metropolis , welles ' kane , and eisenstein 's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarM-t 's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . | 1 |
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer 's block ever . | 1 |
a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . | 0 |
you can almost see mendes and company getting together before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something really good . ' and it is . | 1 |
it 's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . | 1 |
never once predictable . | 1 |
the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . | 1 |
williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you do n't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . | 1 |
pompous and garbled . | 0 |
melodrama with a message . | 1 |
a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . | 0 |
often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter 's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie . | 1 |
ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie 's focus upon her makes it successful and accessible . | 1 |
there 's something unintentionally comic in the film 's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . | 0 |
this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 0 |
lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . | 1 |
it sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and that 's more or less how it plays out . | 0 |
`` the turntable is now outselling the electric guitar . . . `` | 1 |
the film 's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties . | 1 |
earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types ' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing . | 1 |
inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . | 1 |
nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro 's right-hand goombah . | 0 |
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie 's lack of ideas . | 0 |
i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . | 0 |
a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction ! | 1 |
one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . | 1 |
there 's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . | 0 |
great over-the-top moviemaking if you 're in a slap-happy mood . | 1 |
consider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i admire . | 0 |
rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day . | 1 |
a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . | 0 |
it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . | 0 |
director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . | 0 |
. . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tension or surprise . | 0 |
if disney 's cinderella proved that 'a dream is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio 's wallet makes . | 0 |
an eccentric little comic/thriller deeply in love with its own quirky personality . | 0 |
if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be `` how does steven seagal come across these days ? `` or maybe `` how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? | 0 |
scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it 's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . | 0 |
viewers of barney 's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . | 0 |
for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly inventive and artful , always fast and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the ride . | 1 |
obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . | 0 |
taken purely as an exercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it 's a humorless , disjointed mess . | 0 |
queen of the damned is too long with too little going on . | 0 |
'it 's better to go in knowing full well what 's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiar road with a few twists . cynics need not apply . ' | 1 |
the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler 's been attached to before . | 1 |
not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has clearly been made with affection and care . | 1 |
[ gulpilil ] is a commanding screen presence , and his character 's abundant humanism makes him the film 's moral compass . | 1 |
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