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a clever blend of fact and fiction . | 1 |
a bit too eager to please . | 0 |
a pleasant , if forgettable , romp of a film . | 1 |
what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip . | 0 |
broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . | 1 |
no , it 's not as single-minded as john carpenter 's original , but it 's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . | 1 |
the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . | 1 |
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it 's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . | 0 |
for the most part , the film does hold up pretty well . | 1 |
only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee 's jim brown : all american at long last gives its subject a movie worthy of his talents . | 1 |
thoroughly awful . | 0 |
report card : does n't live up to the exalted tagline - there 's definite room for improvement . does n't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) . | 0 |
two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . | 0 |
perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that is n't this painfully forced , false and fabricated . | 0 |
one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . | 1 |
meant for star wars fans . it is there to give them a good time . | 1 |
bogdanich is unashamedly pro-serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side . | 0 |
works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interesting to say about them . | 0 |
it does n't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that . | 0 |
it 's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . | 1 |
[ reno ] delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . | 1 |
a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . | 0 |
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor comedic writing . . . and you 've got a huge mess . | 0 |
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adolescent boy who is yearning for adventure and a chance to prove his worth . | 1 |
the cast comes through even when the movie does n't . | 1 |
ong 's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant 's experiences in new york city . | 1 |
gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . | 1 |
it 's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective . | 1 |
so relentlessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something . | 0 |
adam sandler ! in an art film ! | 1 |
liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase . | 0 |
it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . | 0 |
for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless . | 0 |
the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . | 1 |
despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . | 0 |
an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . | 1 |
feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series . | 0 |
would benigni 's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? | 0 |
without a strong script and energetic acting , dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor 's home videos . | 0 |
watching `` ending `` is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor 's garage sale . you ca n't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . | 0 |
the director 's twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound design ) . | 0 |
at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts . | 1 |
the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not . | 0 |
a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . | 0 |
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . | 0 |
it 's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . | 1 |
it 's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you do n't want to call the cops . you want to call domino 's . | 1 |
there 's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . | 1 |
it 's all entertaining enough , but do n't look for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper . | 1 |
has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre . | 1 |
the mood , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t . | 1 |
while guzmM-an frustratingly refuses to give pinochet 's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . | 1 |
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level . | 1 |
these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i 'm all for that . | 1 |
nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book . | 1 |
comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . | 0 |
begins as a promising meditation on one of america 's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt . | 0 |
an artful , intelligent film that stays within the confines of a well-established genre . | 1 |
charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie . | 1 |
malcolm mcdowell is cool . paul bettany is cool . paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? cool . | 1 |
oscar wilde 's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it 's so good that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker 's movie adaptation . | 1 |
imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw 's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes . | 0 |
worthy of the gong . | 0 |
plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . | 1 |
despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . | 0 |
while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . | 1 |
. . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . | 1 |
you do n't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor 's club . | 1 |
the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0 |
y tu mamM-a tambiM-in is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . | 1 |
fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough . | 1 |
like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net . | 1 |
until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden 's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . | 1 |
the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . | 0 |
wallace seems less like he 's been burning to tell a war story than he 's been itching to somehow tack one together | 0 |
a twisty , moody slice of southern gothic . . . | 1 |
the bourne identity should n't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood . | 1 |
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . | 1 |
a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar 's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . | 1 |
does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . | 0 |
the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . | 0 |
if `` lilo & stitch `` is n't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen , then this first film to use a watercolor background since `` dumbo `` certainly ranks as the most original in years . | 1 |
a movie that ca n't get sufficient distance from leroy 's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . | 0 |
'carente de imaginaciM-sn , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un M-apice de romance , es una verdadera pM-irdida de tiempo y dinero ' | 0 |
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . | 1 |
sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed . | 0 |
so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it 's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride . | 1 |
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you 're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller . | 0 |
my wife 's plotting is nothing special ; it 's the delivery that matters here . | 1 |
cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy 's idea of a good time . | 0 |
the movie is too cute to take itself too seriously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college students . | 0 |
this is so de palma . if you love him , you 'll like it . if you do n't . . . well , skip to another review . | 1 |
it wo n't be long before you 'll spy i spy at a video store near you . | 0 |
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 |
with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . | 0 |
it 's exactly the kind of movie toback 's detractors always accuse him of making . | 0 |
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . | 1 |
adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love does n't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . | 0 |
intriguing and stylish . | 1 |
harmless fun . | 1 |
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