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extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . | 1pos |
the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . | 1pos |
k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . | 1pos |
it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . | 1pos |
cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark's dogma movement . | 1pos |
it's a rare window on an artistic collaboration . | 1pos |
. . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . | 1pos |
perhaps the best sports movie i've ever seen . | 1pos |
cho's timing is priceless . | 1pos |
. . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . | 1pos |
a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . | 1pos |
an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . | 1pos |
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . | 1pos |
[reno] delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . | 1pos |
there is truth here | 1pos |
a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film | 1pos |
a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community . | 1pos |
arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year | 1pos |
the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto's luckiest stroke . | 1pos |
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 . | 1pos |
a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . | 1pos |
stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . | 1pos |
. . . the first 2/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices ( cool visual backmasking ) , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor . . . | 1pos |
this movie got me grinning . there's a part of us that cannot help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . | 1pos |
an old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for virtue . | 1pos |
what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? | 1pos |
this english-language version . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . | 1pos |
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . | 1pos |
not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one . | 1pos |
there are no special effects , and no hollywood endings . | 1pos |
like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit . | 1pos |
despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick , the basic plot of " lilo " could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . | 1pos |
a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others . | 1pos |
filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . | 1pos |
sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . | 1pos |
in its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's land . | 1pos |
one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . | 1pos |
. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking . | 1pos |
[haynes'] homage to such films as " all that heaven allows " and " imitation of life " transcends them . simply put , " far from heaven " is a masterpiece . | 1pos |
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . | 1pos |
although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . | 1pos |
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . | 1pos |
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . | 1pos |
top-notch action powers this romantic drama . | 1pos |
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 won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . ' | 1pos |
i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . | 1pos |
probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewis . | 1pos |
a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . | 1pos |
would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . | 1pos |
visually fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . | 1pos |
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . | 1pos |
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . | 1pos |
a slick , engrossing melodrama . | 1pos |
s1m0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . | 1pos |
while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation . | 1pos |
even if you don't know the band or the album's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . | 1pos |
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . | 1pos |
films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . | 1pos |
it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . | 1pos |
it is definitely worth seeing . | 1pos |
an impeccable study in perversity . | 1pos |
far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . | 1pos |
a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart . | 1pos |
stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . | 1pos |
affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . | 1pos |
a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . | 1pos |
the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . | 1pos |
the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's never boring . | 1pos |
a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted . | 1pos |
it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problems . | 1pos |
same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . | 1pos |
it's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . | 1pos |
wilco fans will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . | 1pos |
tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances . | 1pos |
the date movie that franz kafka would have made . | 1pos |
the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . | 1pos |
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . | 1pos |
i liked this film a lot . . . | 1pos |
. . . there is enough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . | 1pos |
a solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . | 1pos |
nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book . | 1pos |
with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller | 1pos |
on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play . | 1pos |
a weird , arresting little ride . | 1pos |
a fine film , but it would be a lot better if it stuck to betty fisher and left out the other stories . | 1pos |
a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . | 1pos |
you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see " simone , " and consider a dvd rental instead . | 1pos |
well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . | 1pos |
a backstage must-see for true fans of comedy . | 1pos |
there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . | 1pos |
the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective . | 1pos |
jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . | 1pos |
in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition | 1pos |
below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . | 1pos |
there's no reason to miss interview with the assassin | 1pos |
happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music . | 1pos |
its sheer dynamism is infectious . | 1pos |
for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . | 1pos |
lightweight but appealing . | 1pos |
it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart | 1pos |
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