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. . . while the humor aspects of 'jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film tanks . | 0 |
the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where 's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ? | 0 |
care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman 's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . | 0 |
it 's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . | 0 |
that jack nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . | 1 |
the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design . | 1 |
the project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . | 0 |
will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . | 0 |
move over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . | 1 |
there 's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority . | 1 |
at its best early on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers . | 1 |
like a poor man 's you can count on me | 1 |
an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . | 1 |
functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . | 1 |
passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera is n't a favorite , so it 's a long time before the fat lady sings . | 0 |
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one 's mother . | 1 |
the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies . . . but the film suffers from its own difficulties . | 1 |
afraid to pitch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen 's men is finally just one long drag . | 0 |
an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son 's discovery of his homosexuality . | 1 |
a french film with a more down-home flavor . | 1 |
if you 're in the mood for a bollywood film , here 's one for you . | 1 |
world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it 's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . | 1 |
with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it . | 1 |
gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . | 1 |
as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave 's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . | 0 |
sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . | 0 |
the film 's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go . | 0 |
however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence . | 0 |
while undisputed is n't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than he 's been in a while . | 1 |
. . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . | 1 |
did no one on the set have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? | 0 |
`` home movie `` is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book . | 1 |
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . | 1 |
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . | 0 |
it 's just rather leaden and dull . | 0 |
sturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . | 1 |
feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . | 0 |
implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . | 1 |
the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there 's very little hustling on view . | 0 |
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . | 0 |
the cartoon that is n't really good enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that is n't really good enough to be in theaters . | 0 |
there 's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there 's nothing else happening . | 0 |
you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . | 0 |
hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry . | 0 |
audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones . | 0 |
just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that 's neither original nor terribly funny . | 0 |
smart and taut . | 1 |
madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose . | 0 |
another best of the year selection . | 1 |
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy . | 1 |
. . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . | 0 |
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . | 0 |
for a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped . for a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped . | 1 |
an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick . | 1 |
one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . | 0 |
a solidly seaworthy chiller . | 1 |
though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there 's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his career as to rate two hours of our attention . | 0 |
it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . | 0 |
the entire movie is in need of a scented bath . | 0 |
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chan and hewitt . | 0 |
the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . | 1 |
steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen . | 0 |
scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . | 0 |
poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter . | 1 |
tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . | 1 |
apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you 'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . | 0 |
it 's better than the phantom menace . but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun . | 0 |
contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memM-sria . | 1 |
succeeds in providing a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . | 0 |
the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she 's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but does n't reveal an inner life . | 0 |
while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier . | 0 |
ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . | 1 |
reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass 's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . | 0 |
black-and-white and unrealistic . | 0 |
no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest 'tron ' anderson , seems entirely improvised . | 0 |
on top of a foundering performance , [ madonna 's ] denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . | 0 |
tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . | 0 |
dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation . | 0 |
just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . | 1 |
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what 's left is a rich stew of longing . | 1 |
eyre is on his way to becoming the american indian spike lee . | 1 |
poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . | 0 |
utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni 's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . | 0 |
detox is ultimately a pointless endeavor . | 0 |
ferrara 's best film in years . | 1 |
this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . | 0 |
a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . | 1 |
instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that 's superficial and unrealized . | 0 |
the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it does n't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and still love the old stuff . | 1 |
still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value ' to recommend to anyone looking for something different . | 1 |
intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . | 1 |
put it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob 's body of work . | 0 |
though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor 's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . | 0 |
the film 's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls ' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that 's opened between them . | 1 |
genuinely unnerving . | 1 |
pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific flick . | 0 |
it 's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters . | 1 |
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . | 1 |
it 's hard not to be seduced by [ witherspoon 's ] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max . | 1 |
this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work . | 0 |
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