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as a science fiction movie , `` minority report `` astounds . | 1 |
fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . | 1 |
propelled not by characters but by caricatures . | 0 |
jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory . | 1 |
buy popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . | 1 |
the first question to ask about bad company is why anthony hopkins is in it . we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . | 0 |
one of the greatest family-oriented , fantasy-adventure movies ever . | 1 |
it all adds up to good fun . | 1 |
it 's predictable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with style and even some depth . | 1 |
entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . | 0 |
morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he 's taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . | 0 |
the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers do n't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . | 0 |
it 's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , could n't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped M-^Qem together here . | 0 |
the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating . | 0 |
they 're going through the motions , but the zip is gone . | 0 |
there is only so much baked cardboard i need to chew . | 0 |
hoffman notches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson 's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . | 1 |
the three leads produce adequate performances , but what 's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . | 0 |
the film 's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film 's production design . | 0 |
rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . | 1 |
funny and touching . | 1 |
the story bogs down in a mess of purposeless violence . | 0 |
no aspirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars . | 0 |
a porn film without the sex scenes . | 0 |
the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there 's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . | 1 |
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they do n't fit well together and neither is well told . | 0 |
like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it 's never too late to learn . | 1 |
the whole thing 's fairly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels . | 0 |
from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work . | 1 |
at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . | 0 |
succumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies . | 0 |
a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . | 1 |
cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . | 0 |
the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett 's familiar quotations | 1 |
an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heart . | 1 |
a listless and desultory affair . | 0 |
cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience . | 0 |
hard to resist . | 1 |
a movie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you do n't want to be . | 1 |
jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger 's record into question and explain how the diplomat 's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . | 1 |
a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . | 1 |
professionally speaking , it 's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . | 0 |
all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal ca n't disguise the fact that , really , we 've been here , done that . | 0 |
most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence . | 0 |
it 's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high wears off , the film 's shortcomings start to shine through . | 0 |
while puerile men dominate the story , the women shine . | 1 |
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . | 1 |
at a time when we 've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . | 0 |
despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable | 0 |
to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud . | 1 |
this is for the most part a useless movie , even with a great director at the helm . | 0 |
schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film 's present with the playful paranoia of the film 's past . | 1 |
too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . | 0 |
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting . | 1 |
though it draws several decent laughs , it 's low-cal woody at best . | 0 |
. . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . | 1 |
all prints of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto . | 0 |
here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better . | 0 |
daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who are n't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . | 1 |
with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . | 0 |
van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . | 0 |
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . | 1 |
instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film 's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who 'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ? | 0 |
cry havoc and let slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . | 0 |
directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name | 0 |
it 's tommy 's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you 'll feel like mopping up , too . | 0 |
it 's slow -- very , very slow . it 's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that 's pure pr hype . | 0 |
disjointed parody . | 0 |
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . | 0 |
the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up shum 's good intentions . | 0 |
the movie 's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . | 0 |
it 's tough being a black man in america , especially when the man has taken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . | 0 |
sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ? | 0 |
good , solid storytelling . | 1 |
a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . | 0 |
the pianist is polanski 's best film . | 1 |
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . | 1 |
as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters ' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them . | 0 |
like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . | 1 |
this time mr . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . | 0 |
jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair . | 1 |
solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining . | 1 |
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichM-is . | 0 |
the film oozes craft . | 1 |
the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very end . | 1 |
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . | 0 |
scooby-doo does n't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . | 0 |
a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . | 0 |
what 's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? | 0 |
gives everyone something to shout about . | 1 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 0 |
drug abuse , infidelity and death are n't usually comedy fare , but turpin 's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . | 1 |
at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . . | 1 |
while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that 's more interested in asking questions than in answering them . | 1 |
an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . | 0 |
there 's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is | 1 |
audacious-impossible yet compelling . . . | 1 |
a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . | 1 |
a very charming and funny movie . | 1 |
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy . | 0 |
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