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well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . | 1 |
coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story . | 0 |
`` simone `` is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . | 1 |
ozpetek 's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . | 1 |
biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shame . | 1 |
the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . | 0 |
a moving picture that does not move . | 0 |
cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that 's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . | 0 |
it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture . | 0 |
it 's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood is n't laughing with us , folks . it 's laughing at us . | 0 |
a movie you observe , rather than one you enter into . | 0 |
this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it 's all the stronger because of it . | 1 |
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . | 0 |
an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . | 1 |
you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that 's at the center of the story . | 0 |
bearable . barely . | 0 |
rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual . | 1 |
despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . | 0 |
idiotic and ugly . | 1 |
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try . | 0 |
nakata 's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects . | 1 |
appropriately cynical social commentary aside , # 9 never quite ignites . | 0 |
this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . | 0 |
what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish . | 1 |
a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . | 0 |
expanded to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . | 0 |
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . | 1 |
normally , rohmer 's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable . | 0 |
the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film . | 0 |
the film may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine | 1 |
while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . | 1 |
initially gripping , eventually cloying pow drama . | 0 |
pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle . | 0 |
a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . | 0 |
blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological . | 1 |
a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . | 0 |
uneven but a lot of fun . | 1 |
if you like peace , you 'll like promises . | 1 |
a modestly surprising movie . | 1 |
evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made mamet 's `` house of games `` and last fall 's `` heist `` so much fun . | 1 |
successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . | 1 |
tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . | 1 |
sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a small family . | 1 |
the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star power . | 0 |
the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . | 1 |
it 's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . | 0 |
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . | 0 |
an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2 ' is a visual treat for all audiences . | 1 |
the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . | 0 |
lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . | 0 |
it 's another retelling of alexandre dumas ' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . | 1 |
a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair 's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . | 1 |
the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that 's rare in film today , but be warned : it 's a slow slog to get there . | 1 |
seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . | 0 |
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . | 1 |
shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly comic . | 1 |
me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects . | 1 |
the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it 's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women . | 0 |
twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood 's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . | 0 |
insomnia is involving . still , i thought it could have been more . | 1 |
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script . | 1 |
it shares the first two films ' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . | 0 |
the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . | 1 |
every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it was n't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . | 0 |
it 's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes . | 1 |
intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every conceivable area . | 0 |
remember the kind of movie we were hoping `` ecks vs . sever `` or `` xxx `` was going to be ? this is it . | 1 |
harland williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . | 0 |
a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive 's attention to detail . | 1 |
the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich . | 1 |
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [ teen comedy ] genre a bad name . | 0 |
the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny . | 0 |
schindler 's list it ai n't . | 0 |
the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . | 0 |
writhing under dialogue like 'you 're from two different worlds ' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability . | 0 |
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . | 0 |
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . | 1 |
the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man . | 0 |
unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . | 0 |
as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away ' sinks . | 0 |
[ gayton 's script ] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . | 0 |
it is n't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie if only it were that grand a failure ! it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good . and i expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch . | 0 |
whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . | 0 |
the performances are so leaden , michael rymer 's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud . | 0 |
roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion . | 0 |
the bodily function jokes are about what you 'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie . | 1 |
it 's a film that 's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio 's animated classics . | 1 |
beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . | 1 |
maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . | 1 |
if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $ 99 bargain-basement special . | 0 |
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . | 1 |
deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . | 1 |
the beauty of alexander payne 's ode to the everyman is in the details . | 1 |
stale and clichM-id to a fault . | 0 |
plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . | 0 |
a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . | 1 |
in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the way . | 1 |
writer/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results . | 0 |
it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at . | 1 |
the film virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness . | 0 |
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