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talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it 's still quite worth seeing . | 1 |
adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | 0 |
as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . | 1 |
a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith 's next movie . | 1 |
a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . | 1 |
it 's fairly self-aware in its dumbness . | 1 |
it represents better-than-average movie-making that does n't demand a dumb , distracted audience . | 1 |
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally . | 1 |
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . | 0 |
may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . | 1 |
both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . | 1 |
undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . | 0 |
massoud 's story is an epic , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . | 1 |
a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . . | 0 |
even the finest chef ca n't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro ca n't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . | 0 |
the fact that the 'best part ' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme 's good films does n't bode well for the rest of it . | 0 |
it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth . | 1 |
a morose little soap opera about three vapid , insensitive people who take turns hurting each other . it 's a feature-length adaptation of one of those `` can this marriage be saved ? `` columns from ladies home journal . . . | 0 |
the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . | 0 |
for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there 's no sense of actual passion being washed away in love 's dissolution . | 0 |
evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . | 1 |
moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who 's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . | 1 |
mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that 's because relatively nothing happens . | 0 |
. . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit . | 0 |
a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire . | 1 |
while we want macdowell 's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many lives around her . | 0 |
even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping . | 0 |
what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . | 0 |
as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . | 1 |
about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . | 1 |
if you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck . | 1 |
formuliac , but fun . | 1 |
it 's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . | 1 |
the worst film of the year . | 0 |
it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest - audience sadism -- is evaded completely . | 0 |
rare birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable . | 1 |
boomers and their kids will have a barrie good time . | 1 |
what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 1 |
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos . | 1 |
formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . | 0 |
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . | 0 |
for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it 's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . | 1 |
godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . | 1 |
a solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . | 1 |
[ dong ] makes a valiant effort to understand everyone 's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up . | 1 |
once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . | 0 |
when the fire burns out , we 've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that 's where the film ultimately fails . | 0 |
what really makes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we 've shared a great adventure . | 1 |
it 's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . | 1 |
there is truth here | 1 |
the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . | 0 |
a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperfect world . | 1 |
. . . rogers 's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle . | 1 |
the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . | 0 |
this action-thriller/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . | 0 |
the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone 's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . | 1 |
. . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . | 1 |
while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . | 0 |
it 's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . | 0 |
at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . | 1 |
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . | 0 |
like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong 's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie despite its mainland setting . | 1 |
in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you 'd expect to see on showtime 's 'red shoe diaries . ' | 0 |
one of the best movies of the year . | 1 |
millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . | 0 |
some of it is clever , but it is never melodic/ | 0 |
the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . | 0 |
from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french drama develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times . | 1 |
a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . | 0 |
a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . | 1 |
given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . | 0 |
how many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? | 0 |
oops , she 's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . | 0 |
the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems . | 1 |
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . | 0 |
it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . | 1 |
star trek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . | 0 |
this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . | 0 |
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epps . | 0 |
a hard look at one man 's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chabrol . | 1 |
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . | 0 |
. . . blade ii is more enjoyable than the original . | 1 |
it 's not just a feel-good movie , it 's a feel movie . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . | 1 |
a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . | 1 |
it 's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that 's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie 's strangeness . | 1 |
[ toback 's ] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material . | 0 |
to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer 's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that 's not saying much . | 1 |
mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he 's dry , dry , dry . | 0 |
M-I uma pena que , mais tarde , o prM-sprio filme abandone o tom de parM-sdia e passe a utilizar os mesmos clichM-js que havia satirizado . | 1 |
[ davis ] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . | 0 |
at times , however , dogtown and z-boys lapses into an insider 's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated may find hard to follow , or care about . | 0 |
brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . | 0 |
[ taymor ] utilizes the idea of making kahlo 's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this is n't a new idea . it 's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion . | 1 |
amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way . | 0 |
off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . | 0 |
certainly the performances are worthwhile . | 1 |
i 've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat movie actually produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we 've got something pretty damn close . | 1 |
amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 1 |
it 's up to you to decide whether to admire these people 's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life . | 1 |
'would n't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it 's like on the other side of the bra ? ' | 0 |
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