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solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh 's best films , `` erin brockovich , `` `` out of sight `` and `` ocean 's eleven , `` never were . | 0 |
`` not really as bad as you might think ! `` | 0 |
whatever the movie 's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . | 0 |
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man 's quest to find an old flame . | 0 |
saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . | 1 |
it 's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . | 0 |
`` me without you `` is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades . | 1 |
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . | 1 |
if this movie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you ca n't wait to see what happens next . | 1 |
it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . | 1 |
scores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism . | 1 |
its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this is n't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . | 0 |
it 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan 's action sequences boring . | 0 |
impostor is a step down for director gary fleder . | 0 |
bean drops the ball too many times . . . hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . | 0 |
while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you wo n't care . | 1 |
a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [ besson 's ] earlier work . | 0 |
it 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but . | 1 |
brosnan 's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . | 0 |
there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2 -- quite a rarity , even in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over . | 1 |
a dreadful live-action movie . | 0 |
none of birthday girl 's calculated events take us by surprise . . . | 0 |
there 's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long . | 0 |
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . | 1 |
brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results . | 1 |
i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that 's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing . | 0 |
hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole ' miss in the way of story . | 0 |
a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production design allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being . | 1 |
it 's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina 's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . | 0 |
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement . | 1 |
i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it 's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink . | 0 |
the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . | 1 |
here 's my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . | 0 |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting is n't , either , and you would n't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? | 1 |
lurid and less than lucid work . | 0 |
. . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920 's . . . the film 's ending has a `` what was it all for ? `` feeling to it , but like the 1920 's , the trip there is a great deal of fun . | 1 |
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd solondz . | 1 |
the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . | 1 |
the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . | 1 |
a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . | 1 |
we want the funk - and this movie 's got it . | 1 |
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits | 0 |
one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . | 0 |
apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just does n't figure in the present hollywood program . | 0 |
the story may not be new , but australian director john polson , making his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . | 1 |
one of the pleasures in walter 's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject 's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . | 1 |
i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise . | 0 |
almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like `` the addams family `` to everyone looking in . . . `` my big fat greek wedding `` comes from the heart . . . | 1 |
the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it 's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . | 1 |
it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it 's just a weird fizzle . | 0 |
call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid . | 0 |
the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross 's turn as ken . | 1 |
kwan is a master of shadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . | 1 |
the year 's happiest surprise , a movie that deals with a real subject in an always surprising way . | 1 |
no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . | 0 |
. . . understands that a generation defines its music as much as the music defines a generation . | 1 |
the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it 's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i 'm likely to see all year . | 1 |
it wo n't bust your gut -- and it 's not intended to -- it 's merely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . | 1 |
the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil . | 0 |
this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . | 1 |
salma goes native and she 's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . | 1 |
fun , flip and terribly hip bit of cinematic entertainment . | 1 |
it 's a movie forged in the fires of chick flick hell . | 0 |
a 'girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that . | 0 |
a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie . | 0 |
better at putting you to sleep than a sound machine . | 0 |
a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy need n't always make us laugh . tim story 's not there yet - but 'barbershop ' shows he 's on his way . | 1 |
the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 1 |
thoroughly enjoyable . | 1 |
whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they 'd look like . | 1 |
much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be . | 1 |
evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children -- and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . | 1 |
like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten . | 0 |
if sinise 's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . | 0 |
the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . | 1 |
an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you 're getting its metaphysical point . | 1 |
schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler 's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . | 0 |
the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . | 0 |
the screenplay sabotages the movie 's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable . | 0 |
an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he 'd gone the way of don simpson . | 0 |
what is 100 % missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting . | 0 |
straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . | 1 |
ice cube holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . . | 1 |
the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . | 0 |
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick . | 0 |
barely gets off the ground . | 0 |
an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . | 0 |
though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . | 0 |
a taut , intelligent psychological drama . | 1 |
haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . | 1 |
responsM-avel direto pelo fracasso 'artM-mstico ' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox nM-co consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquM-mssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade . | 0 |
if there 's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs , i think it 's in projects like the ( unfortunately r-rated ) paid . | 1 |
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . | 1 |
as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good . | 1 |
it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . | 1 |
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker 's bottomless pit of self-absorption . | 0 |
bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . | 0 |
the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto 's luckiest stroke . | 1 |
the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people . | 1 |
the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that 's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion . | 1 |
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