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a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002 's first great film | 1 |
stands as a document of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9/11 . | 1 |
it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern art should . | 1 |
it 's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . | 1 |
a gripping drama . | 1 |
it 's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . | 0 |
it 's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . | 0 |
one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . | 1 |
marvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy film . | 1 |
a rather tired exercise in nostalgia . | 0 |
an elegant and sly deadpan comedy . | 1 |
it 's worth seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . | 1 |
despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . | 1 |
there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . | 0 |
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a word : no . | 1 |
deliciously slow . | 1 |
moderately involving despite bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . | 0 |
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it 's a sight to behold . | 1 |
the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen . | 0 |
it 's unnerving to see recoing 's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . | 1 |
it remains to be seen whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ? | 1 |
as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you 'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . | 0 |
bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 |
possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio . | 0 |
`` roger michell ( `` notting hill `` ) directs a morality thriller . `` | 0 |
there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . | 1 |
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman . | 1 |
although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it 's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out . | 0 |
boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . | 0 |
this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and pathos . | 1 |
what bubbles up out of john c . walsh 's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch . | 1 |
mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotion . | 1 |
an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . | 0 |
gooding is the energetic frontman , and it 's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . | 1 |
this is a particularly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . | 0 |
the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few punches in . | 1 |
one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost everyone who sees it . | 1 |
we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . | 1 |
when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray 's game of chinese whispers with mr bean . | 0 |
drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . | 0 |
a very familiar tale , one that 's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages . | 0 |
a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy . | 1 |
not for the prurient or squeamish , it 's a daring if overlong examination of an idolized culture , self-loathing and sexual politics . | 1 |
a loquacious and dreary piece of business . | 0 |
a muted freak-out | 1 |
caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completely . | 1 |
special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immense imax screen . | 1 |
this beautifully animated epic is never dull . | 1 |
julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent . | 0 |
a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship . | 0 |
squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . | 0 |
it 's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . | 0 |
the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged . | 0 |
this is an exercise not in biography but in hero worship . | 0 |
gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film . | 1 |
it does n't quite work , but there 's enough here to make us look forward to the russos ' next offering . | 0 |
romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect . | 0 |
. . . post-september 11 , `` the sum of all fears `` seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . | 0 |
a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams . | 1 |
if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . | 1 |
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . | 0 |
parker probably thinks he 's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde 's still-contemporary play . | 0 |
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | 1 |
a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life . | 1 |
even the digressions are funny . | 1 |
at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he 's not trying to laugh at how bad it | 0 |
a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board . | 1 |
i ca n't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops . | 0 |
diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everything else is wan . | 0 |
an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . | 1 |
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . | 1 |
watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . | 1 |
throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . | 0 |
the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . | 1 |
the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date . | 1 |
if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin 's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . ' | 0 |
the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams . | 1 |
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride . | 1 |
[ swimfan ] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . | 0 |
never does `` lilo & stitch `` reach the emotion or timelessness of disney 's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as `` mulan `` or `` tarzan . `` | 0 |
gets better after foster leaves that little room . | 0 |
despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . | 0 |
now as a former gong show addict , i 'll admit it , my only complaint is that we did n't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . | 1 |
bright seems alternately amused and disgusted with this material , and he ca n't help throwing in a few of his own touches . | 1 |
a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . | 0 |
despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . | 1 |
if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i 'll take the latter every time . | 1 |
with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . | 0 |
in the era of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . | 0 |
the pinochet case is a searing album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . | 1 |
a well-intentioned effort that 's still too burdened by the actor 's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . | 0 |
a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . | 0 |
a uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot . | 1 |
reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show . | 1 |
a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that . | 1 |
a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school tv special . | 0 |
it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is . | 1 |
shot perhaps 'artistically ' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . | 0 |
good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . | 1 |
this is not one of the movies you 'd want to watch if you only had a week to live . | 0 |
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