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it's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . | 1pos |
in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency . | 1pos |
bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . | 1pos |
lead actress gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . | 1pos |
even if you've seen " stomp " ( the stage show ) , you still have to see this ! | 1pos |
. . . a light , yet engrossing piece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , jewish grandmother and subject taking us through a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history . | 1pos |
it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . | 1pos |
rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language . | 1pos |
a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . | 1pos |
rubbo's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy . | 1pos |
cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in . | 1pos |
k-19 : the widowmaker is a great yarn . | 1pos |
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 1pos |
evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . | 1pos |
a brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . | 1pos |
visually striking and viscerally repellent . | 1pos |
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . | 1pos |
touché ! | 1pos |
astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . | 1pos |
beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . | 1pos |
the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take care of my cat emerges as the very best of them . | 1pos |
although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- " cherish " certainly isn't dull . | 1pos |
the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . | 1pos |
time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . | 1pos |
an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves . | 1pos |
a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better film's ability to make its subject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed target audience . judging by those standards , 'scratch' is a pretty decent little documentary . | 1pos |
fubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . | 1pos |
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . | 1pos |
slight but enjoyable documentary . | 1pos |
'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . ' | 1pos |
an impressive hybrid . | 1pos |
call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . | 1pos |
unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . | 1pos |
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . | 1pos |
the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . | 1pos |
a riveting story well told . | 1pos |
denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . | 1pos |
a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . | 1pos |
the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . | 1pos |
pretty good little movie . | 1pos |
by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . | 1pos |
worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal' | 1pos |
if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work . much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments . . . | 1pos |
[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . | 1pos |
an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . | 1pos |
canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . | 1pos |
the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . | 1pos |
alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . | 1pos |
the film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . | 1pos |
though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . | 1pos |
a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own children . | 1pos |
yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , even better . | 1pos |
hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . | 1pos |
an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . | 1pos |
this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . | 1pos |
a stirring road movie . | 1pos |
one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . | 1pos |
insanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! | 1pos |
anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . | 1pos |
it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear . | 1pos |
it may not be history but then again , what if it is ? but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while . | 1pos |
if " lilo & stitch " isn'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 . | 1pos |
this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . | 1pos |
this ready-made midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun . | 1pos |
see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . | 1pos |
. . . " bowling for columbine " remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film . . . | 1pos |
even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment | 1pos |
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . | 1pos |
talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watching . | 1pos |
star/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . | 1pos |
a tasty masala . | 1pos |
a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation . | 1pos |
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . | 1pos |
an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . | 1pos |
confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . | 1pos |
while guzmán frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . | 1pos |
. . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take . | 1pos |
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . | 1pos |
white oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . | 1pos |
in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . | 1pos |
the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america . | 1pos |
it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . | 1pos |
not a bad choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . | 1pos |
a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending . certainly the big finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps . | 1pos |
it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes . | 1pos |
there are moments of hilarity to be had . | 1pos |
refreshing . | 1pos |
a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life . | 1pos |
[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . | 1pos |
one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . | 1pos |
return to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . | 1pos |
michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . | 1pos |
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 . | 1pos |
like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . | 1pos |
marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . | 1pos |
a brisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel . | 1pos |
a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . | 1pos |
'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias románticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . ' | 1pos |
deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . | 1pos |
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . . | 1pos |
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