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corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . | 0 |
will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi siblings . | 0 |
an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who 's being conned right up to the finale . | 1 |
it is too bad that this likable movie is n't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward . | 0 |
bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking ' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it 's now coming true ' bad . | 0 |
a movie that will thrill you , touch you and make you laugh as well . | 1 |
there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal 's character . . . performs is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we 're not watching a double . | 0 |
in a way , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in . | 1 |
about amy 's cuteness , amy 's career success ( she 's a best-selling writer of self-help books who ca n't help herself ) , and amy 's neuroses when it comes to men . | 0 |
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce . | 1 |
a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . | 1 |
what an embarrassment . | 0 |
. . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they 're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it 's a sly wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its `` men in a sardine can `` warped logic . | 1 |
thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces do n't quite fit together . | 0 |
bolstered by an astonishing voice cast ( excepting love hewitt ) , an interesting racial tension , and a storyline that i have n't encountered since at least pete 's dragon . | 0 |
[ t ] here 's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n ' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . | 0 |
a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy anger , a movie as personal therapy . | 0 |
despite hoffman 's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . | 0 |
love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit . | 0 |
the film seems a dead weight . the lack of pace kills it , although , in a movie about cancer , this might be apt . | 0 |
that 'alabama ' manages to be pleasant in spite of its predictability and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . | 1 |
needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . | 0 |
even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . | 0 |
. . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoying . | 0 |
pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . | 0 |
while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , there 's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls ca n't swim . | 1 |
there 's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that ' hanging over the film . it 's everything you 'd expect -- but nothing more . | 0 |
two hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more 's the pity . | 1 |
not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . | 1 |
so brisk is wang 's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe . | 0 |
vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship . | 0 |
rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . | 1 |
if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . | 0 |
incoherence reigns . | 0 |
[ shyamalan ] continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . | 1 |
dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it does n't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . | 0 |
all i can say is fuhgeddaboutit . | 0 |
a photographic marvel of sorts , and it 's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . | 1 |
the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . | 0 |
kaufman creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very night matthew was killed . | 1 |
'film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' | 1 |
the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . | 0 |
the saturation bombing of reggio 's images and glass ' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . | 1 |
this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie . | 0 |
for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually assured . | 1 |
the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script 's bad ideas and awkwardness . | 1 |
the man from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves . | 0 |
morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . | 1 |
a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . | 1 |
with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman 's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . | 1 |
beautifully produced . | 1 |
beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more wo n't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . ' | 1 |
for a guy who has waited three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . | 0 |
secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . | 1 |
the ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . | 1 |
credibility sinks into a mire of sentiment . | 0 |
painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed . | 1 |
behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . | 1 |
good ol ' urban legend stuff . | 1 |
despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . | 0 |
a pleasing , often-funny comedy . | 1 |
it 's basically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt . | 0 |
although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser 's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-natured spunk are often infectious . | 1 |
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . | 0 |
the best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier 's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( `` laissez-passer `` ) wears its heart on its sleeve . | 1 |
the charms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin . | 0 |
if it 's another regurgitated action movie you 're after , there 's no better film than half past dead . | 0 |
the film grows on you . and how . | 1 |
toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . | 0 |
it would be disingenuous to call reno a great film , but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn . | 1 |
we just do n't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting . | 0 |
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it 's too bad that the rest is n't more compelling . | 0 |
in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , killers from space . | 0 |
there are n't many laughs in this interesting study of the cultural mores of georgian jews in tel aviv . | 0 |
. . . an interesting slice of history . | 1 |
[ lee ] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . | 0 |
leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . | 1 |
if not a home run , then at least a solid base hit . | 1 |
after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you 'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget . | 0 |
an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse . | 0 |
a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it is n't merely offensive . | 0 |
tim allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . | 1 |
could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . | 1 |
the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through . | 0 |
. . . a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance | 1 |
the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you ca n't fight your culture . | 1 |
it 's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . | 1 |
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . | 1 |
better than the tepid star trek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain could n't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige 's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations . | 1 |
the disjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie 's hideous yellow 'do . | 0 |
with exquisite craftsmanship . . . olivier assayas has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society . | 1 |
even the imaginative gore ca n't hide the musty scent of todd farmer 's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0 |
like a fish that 's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . | 0 |
debut effort by `` project greenlight `` winner is sappy and amateurish . | 0 |
philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess . | 0 |
rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . | 1 |
the action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup , while the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos had n't blown them all up . | 0 |
an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip ' , 'innovative ' and 'realistic ' . | 0 |
simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about performances . | 1 |
a melancholy , emotional film . | 1 |
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