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it 's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller . | 0 |
like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . | 0 |
it 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . | 0 |
overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . | 1 |
passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . | 1 |
static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest movie of the year . | 0 |
tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . | 0 |
a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters . | 1 |
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . | 1 |
humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . | 0 |
the film 's essentially over by the meet-cute . | 0 |
the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death . | 1 |
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue | 0 |
formulaic to the 51st power , more like . | 0 |
the best film of the year 2002 . | 1 |
just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . | 1 |
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point . | 0 |
you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it 's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . | 1 |
. . . a bland , pretentious mess . | 0 |
you do n't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scratch , and that 's the mark of a documentary that works . | 1 |
this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . | 0 |
. . . a well-observed and disturbing little movie | 1 |
es una de esas pelM-mculas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . | 1 |
that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . | 0 |
the comedy makes social commentary more palatable . | 1 |
it 's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that does n't feel it has to prove anything . | 1 |
has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconsequential diversion . | 1 |
a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . | 0 |
when the precise nature of matthew 's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . | 0 |
not the great american comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you 'll have a good time with this one too . | 0 |
a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . | 0 |
everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . | 0 |
it 's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental . | 1 |
the subject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one . | 0 |
the film gets close to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minded patience , respect and affection . | 1 |
a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . | 0 |
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . | 1 |
the film 's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . | 0 |
this is just lazy writing . even kids deserve better . | 0 |
mr . soderbergh 's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . | 0 |
there 's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . | 1 |
perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 1 |
mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace 's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency . | 1 |
a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale . | 0 |
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . | 1 |
pretend it 's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it 's fun , but it 's a real howler . | 0 |
the low-budget full frontal was one of the year 's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . | 0 |
though the film 's scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare . | 1 |
it 's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth . | 1 |
not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character study , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs . | 0 |
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . | 0 |
cube 's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche . | 1 |
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special . | 0 |
certainly not a good movie , but it was n't horrible either . | 0 |
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichM-is and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr . chips off the old block . | 0 |
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia | 0 |
on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . | 1 |
although life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek 's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles . | 1 |
a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . | 0 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | 1 |
one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . | 1 |
[ sports ] admirable energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . | 1 |
it 's hard not to feel you 've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story . | 0 |
cold , nervy and memorable . | 1 |
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting . | 1 |
this is amusing for about three minutes . | 0 |
shiner can certainly go the distance , but is n't world championship material | 1 |
it 's the kind of pigeonhole-resisting romp that hollywood too rarely provides . | 1 |
the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable . but it 's also disappointing to a certain degree . | 1 |
love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly was n't feeling any of it . | 0 |
there 's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . | 1 |
. . . has about 3/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor but it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake- of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity . | 0 |
playing a role of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . | 1 |
. . . this is n't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels . | 0 |
those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved . | 1 |
nair does n't use [ monsoon wedding ] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions . | 1 |
it all seemed wasted like deniro 's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . | 0 |
give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there 's nothing here that they could n't have done in half an hour . | 0 |
a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . | 1 |
well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man 's triumph of will into everyman 's romance comedy . | 0 |
this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that 's about all it does well . | 0 |
just as moving , uplifting and funny as ever . | 1 |
gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . | 0 |
a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . | 0 |
an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . | 0 |
in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys ' career to a whole new level . | 1 |
a major waste . . . generic . | 0 |
it 's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who ca n't come up with legitimate funny , and it 's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . | 0 |
de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . | 0 |
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | 1 |
got a david lynch jones ? then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up twin peaks action . . . | 1 |
i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it 's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun . | 0 |
though it 's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves . | 1 |
what goes on for the 110 minutes of `` panic room `` is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . | 0 |
daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . | 1 |
it 's a treat M-^V a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy scoreM-^E grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun . | 1 |
a lousy movie that 's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable . | 0 |
an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story . | 0 |
traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichM-is that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . | 0 |
viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there 's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture . | 0 |
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