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for a film about explosions and death and spies , `` ballistic : ecks vs . sever `` seems as safe as a children 's film . well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies . | 0 |
' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag do n't eat enough during the film . ' | 0 |
a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two misfits who do n't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . | 1 |
a small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) . | 0 |
if this dud had been made in the '70s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins . | 0 |
her film is like a beautiful food entrM-ie that is n't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . | 0 |
a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . | 1 |
if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it . | 0 |
little more than a well-mounted history lesson . | 0 |
a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . | 0 |
stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . | 1 |
remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it 's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . | 1 |
eastwood is an icon of moviemaking , one of the best actors , directors and producers around , responsible for some excellent work . but even a hero can stumble sometimes . | 0 |
despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . | 0 |
i have a confession to make : i did n't particularly like e . t . the first time i saw it as a young boy . that is because - damn it ! - i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! | 1 |
secretary is just too original to be ignored . | 1 |
though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . | 1 |
not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to read and follow the action at the same time . | 1 |
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extortion it 's trying to reap from the moviegoing public . | 0 |
good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shocked . | 1 |
the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey 's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . | 0 |
what would jesus do if he was a film director ? he 'd create a movie better than this . | 0 |
an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product . | 0 |
on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt . | 1 |
peppering this urban study with references to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical . | 1 |
few films capture so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown men who sit in the stands . | 1 |
perhaps the best sports movie i 've ever seen . | 1 |
a movie of riveting power and sadness . | 1 |
i 've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama . | 0 |
. . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story . | 0 |
as the movie traces mr . brown 's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . | 1 |
works because we 're never sure if ohlinger 's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks . | 1 |
insanely hilarious ! i have n't laughed that hard in years ! | 1 |
the origin story is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it 's in the action scenes that things fall apart . | 0 |
the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la | 1 |
nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that 's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . | 1 |
life is a crock -- or something like it . | 0 |
a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . | 0 |
`` antwone fisher `` is an earnest , by-the-numbers effort by washington . it wo n't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . | 1 |
final verdict : you 've seen it all before . | 0 |
woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . | 0 |
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . | 0 |
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? | 0 |
a classy , sprightly spin on film . | 1 |
fred schepisi 's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point . | 1 |
deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . | 0 |
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary . | 1 |
the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . | 1 |
that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . | 1 |
muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they do n't have , and how this gets us in trouble . but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . | 1 |
reggio 's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . | 1 |
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you 'd swear he just stepped out of a buM-quel retrospective . | 0 |
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . | 0 |
a film in a class with spike lee 's masterful do the right thing . | 1 |
i 've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler 's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra 's classic . . . | 0 |
kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . | 0 |
all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . | 0 |
if you 've got a house full of tots -- do n't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then . | 0 |
britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway . | 1 |
there 's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . | 0 |
this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion . | 1 |
a modestly made but profoundly moving documentary . | 1 |
what 's next : `` my mother the car ? `` | 0 |
a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg 's brilliant 'videodrome . ' | 0 |
it 's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones 's diary . | 0 |
like the best of godard 's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . | 1 |
a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . | 1 |
an unexpectedly sweet story of sisterhood . | 1 |
classic cinema served up with heart and humor | 1 |
a broadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags . | 0 |
fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . | 1 |
canada 's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . | 1 |
maguire is a surprisingly effective peter/spider-man . | 1 |
a film that 's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . | 1 |
one of the more intelligent children 's movies to hit theaters this year . | 1 |
a riveting documentary . | 1 |
has all the depth of a wading pool . | 0 |
a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . | 1 |
really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart . | 1 |
it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence 's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep 's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . | 1 |
a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . | 1 |
my wife is an actress is an utterly charming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it 's virtually its own hollywood remake . | 1 |
an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzenberg 's the prince of egypt from 1998 . | 0 |
the reason to see `` sade `` lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) . | 1 |
insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it does n't disgrace it , either . | 1 |
not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . | 0 |
a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . | 1 |
smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the way . | 1 |
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm . | 0 |
this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . | 1 |
in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . | 0 |
has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? it is now . | 1 |
the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause . | 1 |
those who do n't entirely 'get ' godard 's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy . | 1 |
makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran 's borderlands . | 1 |
as it stands , there 's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . | 0 |
releasing a film with the word 'dog ' in its title in january lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and snow dogs deserves every single one of them . | 0 |
i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . | 0 |
an inventive , absorbing movie that 's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . | 1 |
a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist . | 1 |
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