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the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . | 0 |
a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist ' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . | 0 |
the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear . | 1 |
duvall is strong as always . | 1 |
as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated . | 1 |
flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps . | 1 |
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people . . . manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . | 0 |
i 'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up . i liked it just enough . | 1 |
it 's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . | 1 |
a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . | 1 |
toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it 's hard not to be carried away . | 1 |
maid in manhattan proves that it 's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . | 0 |
'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias romM-anticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . ' | 1 |
the truth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome . | 0 |
those who are n't put off by the film 's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . | 1 |
this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it 's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . | 1 |
a real movie , about real people , that gives us a rare glimpse into a culture most of us do n't know . | 1 |
violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . | 0 |
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . | 0 |
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city 's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything . | 1 |
i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is always possible . | 1 |
it 's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful . | 1 |
a flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . | 1 |
tends to plod . | 0 |
elegant and eloquent [ meditation ] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . | 1 |
there 's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . | 1 |
how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . | 0 |
benigni 's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . | 0 |
a finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacing atmosphere . | 1 |
originality is sorely lacking . | 0 |
stay clear of reminding yourself that it 's a `` true story `` and you 're likely to have one helluva time at the movies . | 1 |
a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title . | 0 |
i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . | 1 |
it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it 's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it . | 0 |
romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character 's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . | 1 |
everything is off . | 0 |
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob 's excellent adventure seem understated . | 0 |
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era 's creme de la celluloid . | 1 |
in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition | 1 |
it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . | 1 |
a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in recent memory . | 1 |
a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely can not last . | 1 |
even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold . | 1 |
the reason this picture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy movies . | 1 |
the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it 's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it 's funny . | 1 |
left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte 's web of desire and desperation . | 1 |
sometimes this 'blood ' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game . | 1 |
some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . | 1 |
if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well . | 1 |
feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . | 0 |
by the time we learn that andrew 's turnabout is fair play is every bit as awful as borchardt 's coven , we can enjoy it anyway . | 1 |
by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better . | 1 |
nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . | 0 |
nothing 's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away -- still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun . | 1 |
lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest . | 1 |
it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you . | 1 |
elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . | 0 |
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . | 1 |
although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . | 1 |
a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beats . | 1 |
pacino is the best he 's been in years and keener is marvelous . | 1 |
hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world . | 0 |
if this is satire , it 's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook . | 0 |
`` men in black ii , `` has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant , the jokes are a little lukewarm , but will anyone really care ? | 0 |
to say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor . | 0 |
the pacing is deadly , the narration helps little and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . | 0 |
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children . | 1 |
significantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competition . | 1 |
the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . | 0 |
a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this is n't . | 0 |
the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children 's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . | 0 |
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . | 1 |
the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge money for this ? ' | 0 |
a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . | 0 |
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams . | 1 |
an uninspired preachy and clichM-id war film . | 0 |
constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . | 1 |
a dark , quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation . | 1 |
the vintage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = do n't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = do n't if you 're married to one . | 0 |
. . . hudlin is stuck trying to light a fire with soggy leaves . | 0 |
they should have called it gutterball . | 0 |
the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone . | 0 |
more good than great but freeman and judd make it work . | 1 |
for the most part , director anne-sophie birot 's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . | 1 |
overwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper . | 0 |
kids do n't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there 's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs ' has both . | 0 |
too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility . | 0 |
ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . | 0 |
an overstuffed compendium of teen-catholic-movie dogma . | 0 |
i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending . | 1 |
despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei 's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . | 0 |
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb . and second , what 's with all the shooting ? | 0 |
what a pity . . . that the material is so second-rate . | 0 |
in auteil 's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , he 's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer . | 1 |
thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . | 1 |
a lot of the credit for the film 's winning tone must go to grant , who has n't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . | 1 |
an ambitious 'what if ? ' that works . | 1 |
a humorless journey into a philosophical void . | 0 |
it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject . | 0 |
if there 's one big point to promises , it 's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other . | 1 |
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