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everything that 's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on television . | 0 |
an enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable italian comedy big deal on madonna street . | 1 |
it appears as if even the filmmakers did n't know what kind of movie they were making . | 0 |
manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it tries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . | 0 |
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . | 1 |
in the new guy , even the bull gets recycled . | 0 |
[ howard ] so good as leon barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . | 1 |
not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet . | 1 |
ou 've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . | 1 |
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . | 0 |
psychologically savvy . | 1 |
this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september . | 0 |
ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . | 0 |
it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill | 0 |
get out your pooper-scoopers . | 0 |
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmmM-^Emight i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? | 0 |
its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . | 1 |
a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears ' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . | 0 |
a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory . | 1 |
at first , the sight of a blind man directing a film is hilarious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin . | 0 |
when the casting call for this movie went out , it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame . ' | 0 |
it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . | 1 |
this is a nicely handled affair , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . | 1 |
a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . | 1 |
the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work . | 1 |
you come away thinking not only that kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . | 0 |
like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there 's no fizz . | 0 |
to better understand why this did n't connect with me would require another viewing , and i wo n't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . | 0 |
a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . | 1 |
ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves . | 0 |
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . | 0 |
who needs love like this ? | 0 |
in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects . | 1 |
M-^Eits solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . | 0 |
caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . | 1 |
the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh 's rise up the social ladder . | 0 |
no amount of good acting is enough to save oleander 's uninspired story . | 0 |
ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it . | 0 |
the satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . | 0 |
death might be a release . | 0 |
the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . | 1 |
the minor figures surrounding [ bobby ] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . | 1 |
they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they 'd earn . they were right . | 0 |
elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you 're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it 's 51 times better than this . | 0 |
been there done that . | 0 |
thirty years ago , it would have been groundbreaking . now it 's just tired . | 0 |
an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . | 1 |
this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . | 0 |
this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . | 1 |
although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young women . | 1 |
. . . a powerful sequel and one of the best films of the year . | 1 |
to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . | 0 |
it 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . | 0 |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . | 0 |
despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi ' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . | 0 |
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . | 0 |
a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage `` be careful what you wish for `` is given a full workout . | 1 |
the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast is n't the least bit mesmerizing . | 0 |
despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . | 0 |
merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone . | 1 |
barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time | 0 |
a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . | 0 |
not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics . | 1 |
recoing 's fantastic performance does n't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat . | 1 |
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america . | 0 |
by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . | 1 |
cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . | 0 |
more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . | 1 |
bottom-rung new jack city wannabe . | 0 |
a hallmark film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the look . | 1 |
when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger 's sex life , it already has one strike against it . | 0 |
ranging from funny to shattering and featuring some of the year 's best acting , personal velocity gathers plenty of dramatic momentum . | 1 |
it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . | 1 |
this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . | 0 |
. . . a good , if not entirely fresh , look at war . | 1 |
an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected . | 1 |
short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty . | 1 |
this is a movie full of grace and , ultimately , hope . | 1 |
a slick , skillful little horror film . | 1 |
the result is an 'action film ' mired in stasis . | 0 |
an energetic , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up . | 1 |
beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . | 1 |
does anyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? | 0 |
yet another weepy southern bore-athon . | 0 |
a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polished and upholstered . | 1 |
has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . | 1 |
pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . | 1 |
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . | 0 |
it 's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you 're gon na like this movie . | 1 |
ritchie 's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller 's polemical allegory , but it 's self-defeatingly decorous . | 0 |
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown does n't pop reese back . | 0 |
should n't have been allowed to use the word `` new `` in its title , because there 's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . | 0 |
helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . | 0 |
a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart . | 1 |
very well made , but does n't generate a lot of tension . | 0 |
at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary . | 1 |
proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie . | 0 |
a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . | 1 |
oversexed , at times overwrought comedy/drama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty , female and single . | 0 |
laughably , irredeemably awful . | 0 |
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