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do n't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . | 0 |
the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers . | 1 |
it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . | 0 |
if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start . | 1 |
collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-9/11 , an antique , in the end . as are its star , its attitude and its obliviousness . | 0 |
it 's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress . | 0 |
this is carion 's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entire careers trying to reach . | 1 |
there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . | 0 |
always destined to be measured against anthony asquith 's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . | 0 |
an afterschool special without the courage of its convictions . | 0 |
broomfield is energized by volletta wallace 's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . | 1 |
me without you has a bracing truth that 's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . | 1 |
loud , chaotic and largely unfunny . | 0 |
simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . | 1 |
there is not an ounce of honesty in the entire production . | 0 |
no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . | 0 |
with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon 's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone | 1 |
that zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . | 0 |
a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 0 |
. . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . | 1 |
you can practically hear george orwell turning over . | 0 |
together writer-director danny verete 's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt . | 1 |
it 's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . | 1 |
this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . | 0 |
what enlivens this film , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . | 1 |
too much power , not enough puff . | 0 |
think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world 's most generic rock star . | 0 |
in between all the emotional seesawing , it 's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklessness . | 1 |
a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in space , no one can hear you snore . ' | 0 |
somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . | 1 |
though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . | 0 |
too bad maggio could n't come up with a better script . | 0 |
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . | 1 |
[ cho 's face is ] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy 's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what 's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ? | 0 |
there seems to be no clear path as to where the story 's going , or how long it 's going to take to get there . | 0 |
my goodness , queen latifah has a lot to offer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . | 1 |
the whole talking-animal thing is grisly . | 0 |
it is a likable story , told with competence . | 1 |
argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she 's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock . | 1 |
filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . | 1 |
as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . | 0 |
. it 's a testament to the film 's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there 's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . | 1 |
aaliyah rarely dampens her diva persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . | 0 |
works as pretty contagious fun . | 1 |
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions . | 0 |
this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . | 0 |
[ screenwriter ] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . | 0 |
harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . | 1 |
. . . a plotline that 's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakers ' paws , sad to say , were all over this `` un-bear-able `` project ! | 0 |
stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . | 1 |
. . . if you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you 're in for a painful ride . | 0 |
if you want to see a train wreck that you ca n't look away from , then look no further , because here it is . | 1 |
neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . | 1 |
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . | 0 |
spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry . | 1 |
it sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . | 1 |
feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . | 1 |
as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it 's not quite the genre-busting film it 's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . | 1 |
`` home movie `` is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . | 1 |
the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . | 0 |
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief . | 0 |
stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond 's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 't is . | 1 |
twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinematic touchstone . | 1 |
an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . | 1 |
campanella 's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael 's evolution . | 1 |
a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek . | 0 |
it 's up to [ watts ] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . | 1 |
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal 's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . | 1 |
one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . | 0 |
succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture . | 1 |
despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age . | 1 |
it is a comedy that 's not very funny and an action movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) . | 0 |
a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he 'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . | 1 |
what 's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best . | 0 |
slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . | 0 |
the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing . | 1 |
this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . | 0 |
a gorgeously strange movie , heaven is deeply concerned with morality , but it refuses to spell things out for viewers . | 1 |
a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . | 0 |
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . | 1 |
the plot is paper-thin and the characters are n't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours . | 0 |
the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout . | 0 |
if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . | 1 |
leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances . | 0 |
like brosnan 's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . | 1 |
though few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog 's works , invincible shows he 's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . | 1 |
if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then blood work is for you . | 0 |
queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . | 0 |
harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . | 0 |
shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that 's something i would rather live in denial about | 0 |
fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . | 0 |
the pianist [ is ] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single man 's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . | 1 |
the story ultimately takes hold and grips hard . | 1 |
a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . | 0 |
if you 're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . | 1 |
. . . with the gifted pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . | 1 |
unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . | 1 |
what could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh 's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . | 0 |
happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music . | 1 |
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