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a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . | 1pos |
sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game . | 1pos |
the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt . | 1pos |
dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become " the punk kids' revolution . " | 1pos |
. . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . | 1pos |
it'll keep you wide awake and . . . very tense . | 1pos |
could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals . | 1pos |
( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . | 1pos |
these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . | 1pos |
a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage " be careful what you wish for " is given a full workout . | 1pos |
it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death . | 1pos |
the film is reasonably entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . | 1pos |
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . | 1pos |
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know . | 1pos |
williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . | 1pos |
twist open the ouzo ! it's time to let your hair down greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . | 1pos |
thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermetic . | 1pos |
broomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . | 1pos |
while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . | 1pos |
funny in a sick , twisted sort of way . | 1pos |
if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the result would look like something like this . | 1pos |
it's a talking head documentary , but a great one . | 1pos |
the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space | 1pos |
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ' | 1pos |
. . . a solid , well-formed satire . | 1pos |
as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . | 1pos |
most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . | 1pos |
hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . | 1pos |
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment . | 1pos |
uneven , self-conscious but often hilarious spoof . | 1pos |
even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . | 1pos |
thanks to the château's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . | 1pos |
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . | 1pos |
fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . | 1pos |
the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable . | 1pos |
it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout . | 1pos |
an awfully good , achingly human picture . | 1pos |
the cast comes through even when the movie doesn't . | 1pos |
you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . | 1pos |
definitely worth 95 minutes of your time . | 1pos |
the film jolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . | 1pos |
a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . | 1pos |
toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . | 1pos |
whereas oliver stone's conspiracy thriller jfk was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , interview with the assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity . | 1pos |
funny , sexy , devastating and incurably romantic . | 1pos |
triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . | 1pos |
very well-written and very well-acted . | 1pos |
a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . | 1pos |
you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary . | 1pos |
it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | 1pos |
likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunes . | 1pos |
chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america . | 1pos |
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . | 1pos |
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ages . | 1pos |
it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . | 1pos |
secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie . | 1pos |
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . | 1pos |
photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic . | 1pos |
a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . | 1pos |
as i settled into my world war ii memories , i found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . | 1pos |
the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude . | 1pos |
it's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . | 1pos |
the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness which makes for a terrifying film . | 1pos |
confessions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . | 1pos |
an intoxicating experience . | 1pos |
a special kind of movie , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . | 1pos |
simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship . | 1pos |
together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . | 1pos |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | 1pos |
with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . | 1pos |
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . | 1pos |
watching war photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . | 1pos |
[a] real pleasure in its laid-back way . | 1pos |
some may choose to interpret the film's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think payne is after something darker . | 1pos |
though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history . | 1pos |
a much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe . | 1pos |
notwithstanding my problem with the movie's final half hour , i'm going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goes about telling what at heart is a sweet little girl- | 1pos |
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional power and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicate ambiguity . | 1pos |
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it's in danger of going wrong . | 1pos |
my big fat greek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film , ' because it's about family . | 1pos |
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ' | 1pos |
. . . with the gifted pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . | 1pos |
a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . | 1pos |
a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . | 1pos |
functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . | 1pos |
with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . | 1pos |
a mess , but it's a sincere mess . | 1pos |
this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . | 1pos |
for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusually assured . | 1pos |
a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . | 1pos |
it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . | 1pos |
although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . | 1pos |
a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . | 1pos |
terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man . | 1pos |
parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casings | 1pos |
'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . ' | 1pos |
a delightful entree in the tradition of food movies . | 1pos |
an escapist confection that's pure entertainment . | 1pos |
the ring is worth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment . | 1pos |
the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much . | 1pos |
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