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complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effort | 0 |
denzel washington 's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony . | 0 |
' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . ' | 1 |
the most horrific movie experience i 've had since `` ca n't stop the music . `` it may as well be called `` jar-jar binks : the movie . `` it 's that painful . | 0 |
an uneven look into a grim future that does n't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick stories . | 0 |
sly , sophisticated and surprising . | 1 |
though there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . | 0 |
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood 's dirty harry period . | 0 |
rarely has so much money delivered so little entertainment . | 0 |
finally coming down off of miramax 's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . | 0 |
. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . | 0 |
the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor . | 1 |
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . | 1 |
allen 's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal . | 1 |
4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . | 0 |
well made but uninvolving , bloodwork is n't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery . | 0 |
lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you 'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . | 0 |
a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . | 0 |
candid camera on methamphetamines . | 1 |
at a time when half the so-called real movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it 's refreshing to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and knows the form 's history . | 1 |
a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . | 1 |
a great script brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . | 0 |
barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wonderful . | 1 |
being unique does n't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . | 0 |
harrison 's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . | 0 |
forgettable , if good-hearted , movie . | 0 |
max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it 's mission accomplished . | 1 |
as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shots of raymond burr commenting on the monster 's path of destruction . | 0 |
like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . | 1 |
it 's made with deftly unsettling genre flair . | 1 |
even if the ring has a familiar ring , it 's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . | 1 |
however clever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical release . | 0 |
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . | 1 |
a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . | 1 |
fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . | 1 |
blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you might want to leave your date behind for this one , or she 's gon na make you feel like you owe her big-time . | 1 |
there 's very little sense to what 's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash . | 1 |
precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? | 1 |
every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement . | 0 |
director clare kilner 's debut is never as daft as it should have been . | 0 |
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . | 1 |
lookin ' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . | 1 |
only two-fifths of a satisfying movie experience . | 0 |
offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . | 1 |
300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . | 1 |
it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they 're being streamed over a 28k modem . | 0 |
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard . | 0 |
not one moment in the enterprise did n't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow . | 0 |
with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . | 0 |
though writer/director bart freundlich 's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship , it has some special qualities and the soulful gravity of crudup 's anchoring performance . | 1 |
nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . | 1 |
[ a ] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene 's 1955 novel . | 1 |
i hated every minute of it . | 0 |
schaefer 's . . . determination to inject farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . | 0 |
it all feels like a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . | 0 |
for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . | 0 |
displaying about equal amounts of naivetM-i , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . | 1 |
while it may not add up to the sum of its parts , holofcener 's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often . | 0 |
what sets ms . birot 's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . | 1 |
there are some laughs in this movie , but williams ' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . | 0 |
it almost plays like solaris , but with guns and jokes . | 0 |
disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical `` bedknobs and broomsticks , `` which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . | 1 |
rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely imaginative through out , but wanes in the middle | 1 |
a tv style murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . | 0 |
griffin & co . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . | 1 |
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido . | 1 |
what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seeds of hope in the form of collective action . | 1 |
this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal . | 1 |
after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . | 0 |
at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . | 1 |
a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . and neither do cliches , no matter how 'inside ' they are . | 0 |
the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . | 0 |
hardly a film that comes along every day . | 1 |
characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle . | 0 |
a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . | 0 |
looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter 's imagination . | 0 |
it 's everything you do n't go to the movies for . | 0 |
needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . | 0 |
serious and thoughtful . | 1 |
the thing looks like a made-for-home-video quickie . | 0 |
the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes . | 1 |
dramatically lackluster . | 0 |
a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . | 0 |
a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we 're all in this together . | 1 |
while general audiences might not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they 'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . | 1 |
this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format . | 1 |
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear . | 0 |
the movie 's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . | 0 |
the biggest problem with roger avary 's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director 's cut glory , he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . | 0 |
feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . | 0 |
shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0 |
not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisco lovers -- it 's a spirited film and a must-see . | 1 |
funny in a sick , twisted sort of way . | 1 |
taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promise . | 0 |
a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues ' like whether compromise is the death of self this orgasm [ wo n't be an ] exceedingly memorable one for most people . | 0 |
there 's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish . | 0 |
credit must be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves | 0 |
an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss . | 1 |
bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that does n't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . | 1 |
the film sparkles with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . | 1 |
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