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if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you 're far better served by the source material . | 0 |
a joyous occasion | 1 |
frida is n't that much different from many a hollywood romance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway 's the lion king and the film titus , brings . | 1 |
everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . | 0 |
starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichM-is . | 0 |
it 's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paints a sad picture of the singles scene . | 1 |
uplifting , funny and wise . | 1 |
by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hit . | 1 |
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . | 0 |
aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol 's brilliant anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it . | 1 |
a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone 's crazy french grandfather . | 0 |
an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s . | 0 |
the script 's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off . | 1 |
there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay 's portrait of grief . | 1 |
a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided . | 0 |
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing . | 1 |
goes on and on to the point of nausea . | 0 |
the vistas are sweeping and the acting is far from painful . | 1 |
the entire cast is extraordinarily good . | 1 |
unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from france . | 1 |
in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep . | 1 |
ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there ai n't none , you have a problem . | 0 |
it 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . | 1 |
falls short in explaining the music and its roots . | 0 |
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . | 0 |
tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . | 0 |
to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . | 0 |
a very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage . | 1 |
the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . | 1 |
a map of the inner rhythms of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master 's steady stroke . | 1 |
dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . | 0 |
. . . for all its social and political potential , state property does n't end up being very inspiring or insightful . | 0 |
the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain . | 1 |
norton is magnetic as graham . | 1 |
kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party . | 0 |
[ t ] his beguiling belgian fable , very much its own droll and delicate little film , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why . | 1 |
no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater . | 0 |
see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . | 1 |
an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds . | 1 |
gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . | 0 |
a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . | 1 |
suffice to say that after seeing this movie in imax form , you 'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of tom hanks ' face than his wife is . | 1 |
it 's burns ' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . | 1 |
the movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that 's shapeless and uninflected . | 0 |
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . | 0 |
a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york 's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . | 1 |
allegiance to chekhov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . | 0 |
could n't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? | 0 |
by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . | 0 |
another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . | 1 |
it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon 's struggle to face and transmute his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occasion , despite its patchy construction . | 1 |
the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you ca n't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on . | 0 |
this insightful , oscar-nominated documentary , in which children on both sides of the ever-escalating conflict have their say away from watchful parental eyes , gives peace yet another chance . | 1 |
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . | 1 |
for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond 's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . | 0 |
snipes is both a snore and utter tripe . | 0 |
like its predecessor , it 's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate . | 1 |
the film might have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a little more instead of going for easy smiles . | 0 |
one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . | 0 |
a mostly tired retread of several other mob tales . | 0 |
despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america 's sweetheart . | 0 |
too often , the viewer is n't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . | 0 |
birot 's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honorM-i ) is n't so much bad as it is bland . | 0 |
this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . | 1 |
alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it 's a masterpeice . | 1 |
this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc 's , despite a few whopping shootouts . | 0 |
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . | 0 |
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . | 0 |
plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . | 0 |
sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . | 0 |
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . | 0 |
you do n't need to know your ice-t 's from your cool-j 's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . | 1 |
almost everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposterous hairpiece worn by lai 's villainous father to the endless action sequences . | 0 |
nicole holofcener 's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women 's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . | 1 |
boring and meandering . | 0 |
overly long and worshipful bio-doc . | 0 |
a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picture . | 0 |
when you think you 've figured out bielinsky 's great game , that 's when you 're in the most trouble : he 's the con , and you 're just the mark . | 1 |
too much of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped . | 0 |
has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a `` 2 `` at the end of its title . | 1 |
shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . | 0 |
a tv episode inflated past its natural length . | 0 |
the beautiful , unusual music is this film 's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . | 0 |
a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . | 0 |
just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts does n't mean it 's good enough for our girls . | 0 |
flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enough to bother despising . | 0 |
it 's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru . | 1 |
overly stylized with lots of flash black- & -white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it 's ) at its worst when it 's actually inside the ring . | 0 |
despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacing . | 1 |
if you 've the patience , there are great rewards here . | 1 |
spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . | 1 |
this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing strange guy things . | 0 |
there is n't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients . | 0 |
i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . | 0 |
barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . | 0 |
anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . | 0 |
it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . | 0 |
spielberg 's picture is smarter and subtler than [ total recall and blade runner ] , although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . | 1 |
the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots ( or cinema seats ) . | 0 |
writer/director david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times , clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza . | 1 |
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