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the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more . | 0 |
some people want the ol ' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . | 1 |
the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner . | 0 |
it 's a piece of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . | 1 |
though tom shadyac 's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . | 0 |
though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia 's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinking . | 1 |
painfully padded . | 0 |
how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it 's an actor 's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . | 1 |
a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python 's meaning of life . | 1 |
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . | 1 |
solaris `` is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work . | 0 |
spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama . | 0 |
enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts . . . what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage 's best acting . | 0 |
somehow both wildly implausible and strangely conventional . | 0 |
you just know something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you 're entirely unprepared . | 1 |
. . . the movie is just a plain old monster . | 0 |
self-congratulatory , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . | 0 |
an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . | 0 |
while you have to admit it 's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet , you 're a jet all the way , `` it 's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to `` tonight . `` | 0 |
the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun . | 1 |
byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama . | 1 |
takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heights . | 1 |
jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . | 1 |
the attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . | 0 |
the central story lacks punch . | 0 |
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush . | 0 |
for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment has n't escaped the rut dug by the last one . | 0 |
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . | 0 |
one of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . | 0 |
grating and tedious . | 0 |
a movie that sends you out of the theater feeling like you 've actually spent time living in another community . | 1 |
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . | 0 |
call me a cynic , but there 's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . | 0 |
the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . | 1 |
with this masterful , flawless film , [ wang ] emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . | 1 |
i could n't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . | 0 |
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love . | 1 |
its story about a young chinese woman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace past tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . | 1 |
a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-old welsh boy more curious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matter . | 1 |
this version 's no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . | 1 |
the film is reasonably entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . | 1 |
there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queen 's men . | 0 |
woody allen can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . | 0 |
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . | 1 |
you need n't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes ' work . though haynes ' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade . | 1 |
by the final whistle you 're convinced that this mean machine was a decent tv outing that just does n't have big screen magic . | 0 |
[ a ] crushing disappointment . | 0 |
narratively , trouble every day is a plodding mess . | 0 |
just how these families interact may surprise you . | 1 |
the movie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . | 0 |
bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . | 0 |
it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at . | 1 |
juliette binoche 's sand is vivacious , but it 's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . | 0 |
far too clever by half , howard 's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . | 0 |
sound the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna does n't suck as an actress . | 1 |
has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience 's awkward silence | 0 |
a wildly inconsistent emotional experience . | 0 |
filmmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that does n't always jell with sean penn 's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . | 1 |
denis o'neill 's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others . | 0 |
the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who do n't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance . | 0 |
its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . | 0 |
ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . | 0 |
a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world . | 1 |
'es en verdad una pena que mandoki estM-i realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algM-zn tiempo , pues talento tiene , pero quiM-in sabe dM-snde lo tiene escondido . ' | 0 |
time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . | 0 |
maryam is a small film , but it offers large rewards . | 1 |
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . | 0 |
while bollywood/hollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals , it also has plenty for those ( like me ) who are n't . | 1 |
i liked a lot of the smaller scenes . | 1 |
was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck 's next project . let 's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what 's next . . . ghost blimp ? | 0 |
uno de los policiales mM-as interesantes de los M-zltimos tiempos . | 1 |
will only satisfy those who ca n't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly . | 0 |
it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . `` interview `` loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . | 0 |
'tobey maguire is a poster boy for the geek generation . ' | 1 |
the cast is phenomenal , especially the women . | 1 |
jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . | 1 |
miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it 's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images . | 1 |
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . | 0 |
while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that 's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . | 1 |
mordantly funny and intimately knowing . . . | 1 |
an engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . | 1 |
one of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then . | 1 |
an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays . | 1 |
i do n't think this movie loves women at all . | 0 |
there 's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . | 0 |
a film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers . | 1 |
no such thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . | 0 |
so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . | 0 |
this movie got me grinning . there 's a part of us that can not help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . | 1 |
eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema 's directorial giants . | 0 |
the lady and the duke is eric rohmer 's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama | 1 |
in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i 'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey . | 0 |
expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies . | 0 |
foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . | 1 |
manages to show life in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . | 0 |
the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . | 0 |
a sly game of cat and mouse that 's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . | 1 |
we 've liked klein 's other work but rollerball left us cold . | 0 |
it does n't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . | 0 |
why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rose red ? | 0 |
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