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an unflinching look at the world's dispossessed . | 1pos |
if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material . | 1pos |
polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style . | 1pos |
it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad . | 1pos |
an off-beat and fanciful film about the human need for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world . | 1pos |
a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . | 1pos |
frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him . | 1pos |
nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ' | 1pos |
a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a direct-to-video' release . | 1pos |
the best part about " gangs " was daniel day-lewis . | 1pos |
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you're a struggling nobody . | 1pos |
one of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manages to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . | 1pos |
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . | 1pos |
director chris wedge and screenwriters michael berg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time . | 1pos |
one of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . | 1pos |
solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . | 1pos |
the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . | 1pos |
i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise . | 1pos |
somehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . | 1pos |
more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . | 1pos |
for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . | 1pos |
a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . | 1pos |
a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . | 1pos |
eric schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . | 1pos |
lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . | 1pos |
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . | 1pos |
[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall] show us the world they love and make us love it , too . | 1pos |
russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . | 1pos |
the animated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . | 1pos |
it's definitely a step in the right direction . | 1pos |
as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . | 1pos |
ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . | 1pos |
a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave . | 1pos |
in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . | 1pos |
almost peerlessly unsettling . | 1pos |
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . | 1pos |
the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter . | 1pos |
talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quite worth seeing . | 1pos |
beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness . | 1pos |
this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem . | 1pos |
for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son . | 1pos |
what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . | 1pos |
a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classic french nuance . | 1pos |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . | 1pos |
an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . | 1pos |
the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . | 1pos |
lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . | 1pos |
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting . | 1pos |
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . | 1pos |
stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film . | 1pos |
expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . | 1pos |
the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a good one . | 1pos |
shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high . | 1pos |
despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age . | 1pos |
the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . | 1pos |
the film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . | 1pos |
despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed . | 1pos |
constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . | 1pos |
the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride . | 1pos |
merci pour le movie . | 1pos |
for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . | 1pos |
what sets ms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . | 1pos |
all three women deliver remarkable performances . | 1pos |
claire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playing villains . | 1pos |
it's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . | 1pos |
simplistic , silly and tedious . | 0neg |
it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny . | 0neg |
exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . | 0neg |
[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 0neg |
a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . | 0neg |
the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd care to count . | 0neg |
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . | 0neg |
not so much farcical as sour . | 0neg |
unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . | 0neg |
all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . | 0neg |
a sentimental mess that never rings true . | 0neg |
while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . | 0neg |
interesting , but not compelling . | 0neg |
on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . | 0neg |
while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . | 0neg |
there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid | 0neg |
nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . | 0neg |
such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue , the yale grad who previously gave us " the skulls " and last year's " rollerball . " enough said , except : film overboard ! | 0neg |
here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit sascha . | 0neg |
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . | 0neg |
the execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that rob schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl . | 0neg |
on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation . | 0neg |
it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl action . | 0neg |
a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of films . | 0neg |
as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . | 0neg |
the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . | 0neg |
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ' | 0neg |
the criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . | 0neg |
the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . | 0neg |
stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's " waking up in reno . " go back to sleep . | 0neg |
somewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates . | 0neg |
the action clichés just pile up . | 0neg |
payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . | 0neg |
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . | 0neg |
another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american sports movie . | 0neg |
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