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it's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familiarity , [yet] are worthwhile . | 1pos |
one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking . | 1pos |
rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . | 1pos |
an elegant and sly deadpan comedy . | 1pos |
the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . | 1pos |
land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . | 1pos |
'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . | 1pos |
you're not merely watching history , you're engulfed by it . | 1pos |
a chick flick for guys . | 1pos |
it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . | 1pos |
the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that could easily wait for your pay per view dollar . | 1pos |
as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos records . | 1pos |
in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . | 1pos |
like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . | 1pos |
deliciously slow . | 1pos |
a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . | 1pos |
it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . | 1pos |
it's a piece of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . | 1pos |
what makes barbershop so likable , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pushiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . | 1pos |
watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . | 1pos |
an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . | 1pos |
a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . | 1pos |
the production design , score and choreography are simply intoxicating . | 1pos |
a comedy that is warm , inviting , and surprising . | 1pos |
so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . | 1pos |
suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . | 1pos |
trades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease . | 1pos |
. . . one of the more influential works of the 'korean new wave' . | 1pos |
implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . | 1pos |
a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea . | 1pos |
director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . | 1pos |
victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . | 1pos |
birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . | 1pos |
smart , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . | 1pos |
topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . | 1pos |
michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as ever here . | 1pos |
a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . | 1pos |
about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him . | 1pos |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? | 1pos |
the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . | 1pos |
a riveting documentary . | 1pos |
may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . | 1pos |
. . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . | 1pos |
you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet . | 1pos |
diane lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful . | 1pos |
takashi miike keeps pushing the envelope : ichi the killer | 1pos |
a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies . | 1pos |
exhilarating but blatantly biased . | 1pos |
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever . | 1pos |
it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . | 1pos |
ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . | 1pos |
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind . | 1pos |
like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our souls . | 1pos |
hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare . | 1pos |
it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure . | 1pos |
a very capable nailbiter . | 1pos |
because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresh is smart writing , skewed characters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . | 1pos |
" white oleander , " the movie , is akin to a reader's digest condensed version of the source material . | 1pos |
it's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you want to call domino's . | 1pos |
what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . | 1pos |
the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . | 1pos |
secretary is just too original to be ignored . | 1pos |
that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . | 1pos |
smart and fun , but far more witty than it is wise . | 1pos |
this isn't a stand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . | 1pos |
originality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . | 1pos |
walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . | 1pos |
this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fun in places . | 1pos |
with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , welles' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarô's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . | 1pos |
a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video . | 1pos |
the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date . | 1pos |
thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all . | 1pos |
while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own . | 1pos |
it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amazing . | 1pos |
the people in jessica are so recognizable and true that , as in real life , we're never sure how things will work out . | 1pos |
a tone poem of transgression . | 1pos |
creeps you out in high style , even if nakata did it better . | 1pos |
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 90 minutes . | 1pos |
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1pos |
this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers . | 1pos |
despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . | 1pos |
spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . | 1pos |
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc . | 1pos |
an enjoyable experience . | 1pos |
anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . | 1pos |
the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . | 1pos |
'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . ' | 1pos |
saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory . | 1pos |
it's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . | 1pos |
mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . | 1pos |
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is . | 1pos |
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to say . | 1pos |
[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . | 1pos |
otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's eye . | 1pos |
this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1pos |
the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport . | 1pos |
beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . | 1pos |
the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . | 1pos |
a flawed but engrossing thriller . | 1pos |
demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . | 1pos |
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