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what 's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director 's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . | 1 |
although it tries to be much more , it 's really just another major league . | 0 |
poetry in motion captured on film . while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it 's an entertaining and informative documentary . | 1 |
a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sense . | 1 |
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . | 1 |
at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center . | 1 |
challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it 's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . | 1 |
parris ' performance is credible and remarkably mature . | 1 |
qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating . | 0 |
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack . | 0 |
a graceless , witless attempt at mating some like it hot with the wwii espionage thriller . | 0 |
for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . | 0 |
tennessee williams by way of oprah 's book club . | 0 |
there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revoked . | 0 |
a grittily beautiful film that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story . | 1 |
the film 's performances are thrilling . | 1 |
warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message . i loved this film . | 1 |
goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat do n't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . | 0 |
. . . comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental . | 0 |
a 93-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you 'd expect . | 0 |
you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes wo n't still be tapping . | 1 |
strange , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre . | 1 |
there 's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaming . | 0 |
it 's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that 's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that 's just too boring and obvious . | 0 |
accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue is n't smart , then you need to use more poetic license . | 0 |
eh . | 0 |
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . | 1 |
a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director 's understanding of the expressive power of the camera . | 1 |
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen . | 0 |
if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows . | 0 |
so unassuming and pure of heart , you ca n't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! ' | 1 |
there 's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichM-id , doddering , misogynistic boy 's club . | 0 |
the romance between the leads is n't as compelling or as believable as it should be . | 0 |
i 'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . | 0 |
however it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . | 0 |
the chocolate factory without charlie . | 0 |
these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . | 0 |
the hours makes you examine your own life in much the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . . | 1 |
if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror . | 1 |
chicago is , in many ways , an admirable achievement . | 1 |
and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence 's over-indulgent tirade , then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest . if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! | 0 |
take care of my cat offers a refreshingly different slice of asian cinema . | 1 |
ca n't seem to get anywhere near the story 's center . | 0 |
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . | 1 |
you 'll end up moved . | 1 |
it 's splash without the jokes . | 0 |
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . | 0 |
this is pretty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . | 1 |
[ n ] o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . | 0 |
dense , exhilarating documentary . | 1 |
while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville 's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the old boy 's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thought possible . | 1 |
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . | 1 |
angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . | 1 |
the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . | 1 |
edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery . | 1 |
it 's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . | 0 |
instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . | 0 |
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . | 1 |
his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . | 1 |
a turgid little history lesson , humourless and dull . | 0 |
in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . | 1 |
even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have . | 0 |
likely to expertly drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . | 1 |
genuinely touching because it 's realistic about all kinds of love . | 1 |
the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates . | 0 |
warm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . | 1 |
yes , i suppose it 's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i did n't . | 0 |
. . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . | 1 |
it 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . | 0 |
while the film is competent , it 's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . | 0 |
a standard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas . | 0 |
in my opinion , analyze that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable sequel . | 1 |
though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see . | 1 |
snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece ' and 'triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this . | 0 |
for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . | 0 |
a quiet , pure , elliptical film | 1 |
a deep and meaningful film . | 1 |
now i can see why people thought i was too hard on `` the mothman prophecies `` . | 0 |
as it stands it 's an opera movie for the buffs . | 0 |
the emperor 's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . . | 0 |
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audiences from ever wanting to see another foreign film . | 0 |
nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . | 1 |
judd 's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . | 0 |
may be far from the best of the series , but it 's assured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . | 1 |
with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . | 0 |
the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman . | 0 |
although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . | 1 |
its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . | 0 |
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . | 1 |
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . | 1 |
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . | 0 |
the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys ' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . | 0 |
although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . | 1 |
a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival . | 1 |
definitely in the guilty pleasure b-movie category , reign of fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable . | 0 |
veers uncomfortably close to pro-serb propaganda . | 0 |
the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . | 1 |
the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . | 0 |
hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project . | 1 |
ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , like swallowing a communion wafer without the wine . | 1 |
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