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a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man . | 1 |
the film 's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . | 1 |
offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . | 1 |
animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . | 0 |
uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . | 0 |
if it 's seldom boring , well , it 's also rarely coherent . | 0 |
a tender , heartfelt family drama . | 1 |
been there , done that . . . a thousand times already , and better . | 0 |
deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going . | 0 |
andy garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and mick jagger gives his best movie performance since , well , performance . | 1 |
kidman is really the only thing that 's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world . | 0 |
a feeble tootsie knockoff . | 0 |
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid . . . | 1 |
frankly , it 's kind of insulting , both to men and women . and it 's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting . | 0 |
`martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show . | 0 |
a movie that 's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . | 1 |
essentially `` fatal attraction `` remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along . . . | 0 |
you 're too conscious of the effort it takes to be this spontaneous . | 0 |
mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . | 0 |
miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . | 1 |
has the capability of effecting change and inspiring hope . | 1 |
the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . | 1 |
a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . | 0 |
neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quirky charm to the formula . | 1 |
heaven is a haunting dramatization of a couple 's moral ascension . | 1 |
ordinary melodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance | 0 |
lacks dramatic punch and depth . | 0 |
. . . [ a ] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense . | 0 |
cassavetes thinks he 's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . | 0 |
too lazy to take advantage of its semi-humorous premise . | 0 |
many of benjamins ' elements feel like they 've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . | 0 |
there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us . | 1 |
under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . | 0 |
first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . | 0 |
ritchie 's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people 's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . | 0 |
all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it 's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion . | 0 |
i 'm just too bored to care . | 0 |
captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . | 1 |
a portrait of an artist . | 1 |
the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we 're touched by the film 's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport . | 1 |
a smart , compelling drama . | 1 |
instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . | 0 |
no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . | 1 |
in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 0 |
at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious . | 1 |
seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . | 1 |
. . . unbearably lame . | 0 |
yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . | 1 |
lisa rinzler 's cinematography may be lovely , but love liza 's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . | 0 |
. . . fifty minutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . | 0 |
ice age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 0 |
'barbershop `` is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story . | 1 |
kinnear . . . gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life 's ultimate losers . | 1 |
[ scherfig ] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters ' lives after the clever credits roll . | 1 |
in imax in short , it 's just as wonderful on the big screen . | 1 |
just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be . | 0 |
roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . | 0 |
the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . | 1 |
at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . | 1 |
this is a terrific character study , a probe into the life of a complex man . | 1 |
it 's obvious [ je-gyu is ] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . | 0 |
let 's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . | 0 |
though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie 's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker 's flailing reputation . | 0 |
a fanciful drama about napoleon 's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . | 1 |
some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . | 1 |
this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 |
. . . a confusing drudgery . | 0 |
degenerates into hogwash . | 0 |
the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . | 1 |
the director 's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that 's low on both suspense and payoff . | 0 |
it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that breadth . | 1 |
an engaging overview of johnson 's eccentric career . | 1 |
zaidan 's script has barely enough plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight . | 0 |
perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . | 1 |
ramsay , as in ratcatcher , remains a filmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for teasing chilly poetry out of lives and settings that might otherwise seem drab and sordid . | 1 |
a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama . | 1 |
beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes . | 1 |
yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot 's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . | 0 |
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than involving . | 0 |
for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . | 1 |
pumpkin wants to have it both ways . | 0 |
the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . | 0 |
a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children 's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . | 1 |
like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . | 0 |
the film 's most improbable feat ? it did n't go straight to video . | 0 |
it 's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible . | 1 |
the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . | 0 |
if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off dead . | 0 |
'enigma ' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . | 0 |
its direction , its script , and weaver 's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a mildly entertaining 77 minutes , if that 's what you 're in the mood for . | 1 |
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . | 1 |
the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic ' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it 's exhausting to watch . | 0 |
a solidly entertaining little film . | 1 |
it 's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . | 0 |
it 's not original enough . | 0 |
[ allen ] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise . | 1 |
this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . | 1 |
between bedroom scenes , viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap . | 0 |
friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards african-americans . | 0 |
a lot smarter than your average bond . | 1 |
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