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a technical triumph and an extraordinary bore . | 0 |
like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . | 0 |
the film takes too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too long figuring out what to do next . | 0 |
the thing about guys like evans is this : you 're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care . | 1 |
the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . | 0 |
dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deliver . | 1 |
as 'chick flicks ' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | 0 |
karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . | 1 |
. . . generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish . | 0 |
a painfully funny ode to bad behavior . | 1 |
a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . | 0 |
even these tales of just seven children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every child 's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost . | 1 |
shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . | 0 |
the movie gets muted and routine . | 0 |
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . | 0 |
topkapi this is not . | 0 |
spielberg 's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ever . | 1 |
in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . | 0 |
an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture . | 1 |
once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . . | 1 |
a beautifully made piece of unwatchable drivel . | 0 |
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . | 0 |
hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . | 0 |
that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world 's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . | 1 |
a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . | 1 |
although it does n't always hang together -- violence and whimsy do n't combine easily -- `` cherish `` certainly is n't dull . | 1 |
ultimately , `` mib ii `` succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless . | 1 |
i wish i could say `` thank god it 's friday `` , but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . | 0 |
irwin is a man with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately held back from being something greater . | 0 |
wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately structured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . | 1 |
though uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writer/director achero manas 's film is schematic and obvious . | 0 |
there 's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer 's quiver of ineptitudes . | 0 |
with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters ' striving solipsism . | 1 |
a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . | 1 |
it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 0 |
creeps you out in high style , even if nakata did it better . | 1 |
( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent 's smirk . | 1 |
evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention . | 0 |
overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of taste . | 0 |
rob schneider 's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . | 0 |
too much of storytelling moves away from solondz 's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur 's professional injuries . | 1 |
death to smoochy is often very funny , but what 's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito 's misanthropic vision . | 1 |
ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on . | 0 |
making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love 's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . | 1 |
poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . | 1 |
gambling and throwing a basketball game for money is n't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but toback 's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . | 1 |
takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . | 0 |
the overall effect is less like a children 's movie than a recruitment film for future hollywood sellouts . | 0 |
. . . always remains movingly genuine . | 1 |
every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . | 0 |
rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naM-of 's encounter with the world . | 0 |
[ a ] real pleasure in its laid-back way . | 1 |
it 's a deeply serious movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too often becomes ponderous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timelines of its story . | 0 |
it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged . | 1 |
nelson 's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . | 0 |
the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact . | 1 |
while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . | 1 |
this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustain it . | 1 |
while this film is not in the least surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . | 1 |
a sometimes tedious film . | 0 |
. . . a fairly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . | 1 |
watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . | 1 |
able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history . | 1 |
resident evil is n't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . | 0 |
[ t ] he film is never sure to make a clear point even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation . | 0 |
when a film is created solely because it 's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested . | 0 |
though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . | 0 |
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . | 0 |
ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . | 0 |
the most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . | 0 |
just watch bettany strut his stuff . you 'll know a star when you see one . | 1 |
en sM-m mismo el rey leM-sn es un espectM-aculo digno de contemplarse en cine , dvd o en su soberbio montaje teatral ; pero el hacerlo en la pantalla imax es una experiencia colosal . | 1 |
the film 's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip . | 1 |
judith and zaza 's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . | 1 |
takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze . | 1 |
without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace . | 0 |
a devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism . | 1 |
full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure . | 0 |
while howard 's appreciation of brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast . | 0 |
the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited . | 1 |
the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . | 1 |
a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that does n't exactly favour the audience . | 0 |
if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . | 0 |
watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it 's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . | 0 |
no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore . | 0 |
y tu mamM-a tambiM-in es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizM-a el proyecto mM-as arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarM-sn | 1 |
earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock . | 0 |
just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . | 0 |
an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region 's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool . | 1 |
a captivating cross-cultural comedy of manners . | 1 |
presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable . | 0 |
diaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance | 0 |
. . . a movie that , quite simply , should n't have been made . | 0 |
how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you 're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts . | 0 |
about schmidt is nicholson 's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear . | 1 |
more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh 's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . | 1 |
will no doubt delight plympton 's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . | 0 |
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre 's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . | 0 |
just like every other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail . | 0 |
more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine | 0 |
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