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a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . | 0 |
it 's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . | 0 |
in his debut as a film director , denzel washington delivers a lean and engaging work . | 1 |
the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to behold . | 1 |
it 's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . | 0 |
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . | 1 |
simone is not a bad film . it just does n't have anything really interesting to say . | 0 |
it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great love for the original . | 0 |
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . | 0 |
. . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . | 0 |
the primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it 's like watching a nightmare made flesh . | 1 |
boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose 's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . | 1 |
scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . | 0 |
a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho 's fans . | 1 |
the script is high on squaddie banter , low on shocks . | 0 |
offers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . | 1 |
for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . ' | 0 |
chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . | 0 |
nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . | 0 |
an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . | 1 |
hip-hop has a history , and it 's a metaphor for this love story . | 1 |
sadly , hewitt 's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . | 0 |
an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . | 1 |
more tiring than anything . | 0 |
affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 1 |
it 's a mystery how the movie could be released in this condition . | 0 |
`` looking for leonard `` just seems to kinda sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . | 0 |
claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem . | 0 |
lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it 's compelling . | 0 |
just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . | 0 |
though only 60 minutes long , the film is packed with information and impressions . | 1 |
i 'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap clichM-i . | 0 |
a real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . | 1 |
finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . | 1 |
like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . | 1 |
no movement , no yuks , not much of anything . | 0 |
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years . | 1 |
this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . instead , it 'll only put you to sleep . | 0 |
there are just too many characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations . where 's the movie here ? | 0 |
sam jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man 's ruin may be another 's fortune . | 1 |
in capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . | 1 |
what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . | 0 |
suffers from all the excesses of the genre . | 0 |
the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide . | 0 |
insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . | 1 |
one of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced . | 0 |
amazingly dopey . | 0 |
raimi and his team could n't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . | 1 |
red dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lambs . | 1 |
involving at times , but lapses quite casually into the absurd . | 0 |
sexy and romantic . | 1 |
both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese 's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . | 1 |
a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot 's saccharine thrust . | 0 |
a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films . | 1 |
the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . | 0 |
remarkable for its intelligence and intensity . | 1 |
cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . ' | 0 |
unlike trey parker , sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . | 0 |
everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing . | 1 |
denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave 's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere . | 1 |
at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . | 0 |
the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . | 0 |
scherfig 's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . | 1 |
as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . | 1 |
a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . | 1 |
jones . . . does offer a brutal form of charisma . | 1 |
piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . | 1 |
lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unfree . | 1 |
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appealing lead performances . | 1 |
if you 're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years wo n't convert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . | 1 |
i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . | 0 |
this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be . | 0 |
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun . | 1 |
aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . | 0 |
a provocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and love . | 1 |
starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it 's still worth a look . | 1 |
handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy . | 1 |
it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of shainberg 's film is that it truly is romance | 1 |
tartakovsky 's team has some freakish powers of visual charm , but the five writers slip into the modern rut of narrative banality . | 0 |
the scorpion king is more fun than conan the barbarian . | 1 |
fluffy and disposible . | 0 |
the great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses and ours and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home . | 0 |
by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . | 0 |
the movie is full of fine performances , led by josef bierbichler as brecht and monica bleibtreu as helene weigel , his wife . | 1 |
k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . | 1 |
a poignant comedy that offers food for thought . | 1 |
this is a very fine movie -- go see it . | 1 |
it 's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby . | 0 |
unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck . | 1 |
. . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet 's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . | 0 |
despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . | 1 |
deep down , i realized the harsh reality of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had entered . | 0 |
probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . | 1 |
jirM-m hubac 's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of strength , warmth and vitality . . | 1 |
the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film . | 0 |
the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups . | 1 |
you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i 'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . | 1 |
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they 're watching a 76-minute commercial . | 0 |
winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults . | 0 |
while there 's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor . | 0 |
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