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the hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty . | 1 |
the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more . | 1 |
labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . | 0 |
macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role . | 1 |
george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . | 1 |
if you 're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you 'll probably like rollerball . | 0 |
expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . | 1 |
it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . | 0 |
affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority . | 0 |
a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children 's television . | 1 |
it just may inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson 's book , which is a treasure in and of itself . | 1 |
it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so well . | 1 |
if it 's unnerving suspense you 're after -- you 'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . | 1 |
happily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude . for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal work yet . | 1 |
at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . | 0 |
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film 's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures . | 1 |
an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . | 1 |
gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet 's mouth . | 1 |
while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . | 1 |
stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sara does n't distinguish itself from the herd . | 0 |
proves that some movie formulas do n't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . | 1 |
a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a M-^Qdirect-to-video ' release . | 1 |
i simply ca n't recommend it enough . | 1 |
the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . | 0 |
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached . | 1 |
thanks to the chM-bteau 's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . | 1 |
i 'll put it this way : if you 're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the movie for you . | 1 |
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style -- casting excellent latin actors of all ages -- a trend long overdue . | 1 |
smug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong . . . it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . | 0 |
both stars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . | 0 |
in all , this is a watchable movie that 's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . | 1 |
the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about . | 0 |
it showcases carvey 's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one 's patience to get to the good stuff . | 0 |
if no one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy , it 's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch . | 1 |
this one is strictly a lightweight escapist film . | 1 |
. . . a guiltless film for nice evening out . | 1 |
it certainly wo n't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . | 1 |
a lighthearted , feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is love . | 1 |
the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . | 1 |
i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . | 0 |
by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy . | 0 |
the fascination comes in the power of the huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react . | 1 |
jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $ 1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . | 1 |
may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . | 1 |
by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent love story . | 1 |
it 's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form . | 1 |
in moonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . | 0 |
makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun . | 1 |
a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene 's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . | 1 |
it 's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . | 0 |
the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . | 1 |
a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . | 0 |
this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative . | 1 |
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . | 1 |
this ready-made midnight movie probably wo n't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it 's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . | 1 |
. . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist 's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . | 1 |
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . | 1 |
one of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . | 1 |
would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . | 1 |
all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost . | 1 |
cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . | 0 |
from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . | 1 |
brosnan is more feral in this film than i 've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . | 1 |
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . | 0 |
this overproduced and generally disappointing effort is n't likely to rouse the rush hour crowd . | 0 |
richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez . | 1 |
devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . | 0 |
exquisitely acted and masterfully if preciously interwovenM-^E [ the film ] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce . | 1 |
billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . | 0 |
[ there 's ] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . | 1 |
enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age . | 1 |
it confirms fincher 's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight . | 1 |
at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . | 0 |
these people would n't know subtle characterization if it put on a giant furry monster costume and then gave them a lapdance . | 0 |
the movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . | 0 |
yes , 4ever is harmless in the extreme and it 'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? | 0 |
. . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . | 0 |
`` my god , i 'm behaving like an idiot ! `` yes , you are , ben kingsley . | 0 |
in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichM-is disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography . | 1 |
is `` ballistic `` worth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please see previous answer . | 0 |
as original and insightful as last week 's episode of behind the music . | 0 |
it does n't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . | 0 |
the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . | 1 |
more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades . | 1 |
. . . a fun little timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . | 1 |
the film 's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . | 1 |
a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . | 0 |
unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . by the end you ca n't help but feel 'stoked . ' | 1 |
a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . | 1 |
the film meant well in its horse tale about freedom , but was n't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . | 0 |
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 1 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | 1 |
a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave . | 1 |
verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for thrills . | 0 |
skip work to see it at the first opportunity . | 1 |
the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . | 1 |
a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . | 1 |
every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . | 0 |
the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there 's some mold on the gold . | 1 |
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