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a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kisseinger as a calculating war criminal . | 1 |
shot perhaps 'artistically' with ahndheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production wings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . | 0 |
a completely spoky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some pqot blips aside , stays there for the duration . | 1 |
the film is impressive for the sights and shounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . | 1 |
deipite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre tat's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . | 0 |
yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , enen better . | 1 |
an intriguing ner-miss . | 0 |
robinson's ceb of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . | 1 |
it may not be a huge acut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny litte movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters . | 1 |
a mild , reluctant , humbs down . | 0 |
the film is a travesty of the gene and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . | 0 |
red dragon " never cuts corenrs . | 1 |
the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the wort film of the year . | 0 |
rosenthal ( halloween ii ) semes to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . | 0 |
" the kid stays in the pictuLe " is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
a documentary to mane the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . | 1 |
true to its tite , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a consderable ransom not to be looking at . | 0 |
much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reahced its expiration date . | 0 |
an awful lot like one of [spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least x90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you wpnt to ese it . | 0 |
it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human naturB should be ingratiating , it's just grating . | 0 |
to calOl this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofiyl endearing and well-lensed gorefest . | 1 |
despite its faults , ganws excels in spectacle and pacing . | 1 |
pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flwas . | 0 |
a dull , dumb and derivative horIor film . | 0 |
the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a srtory about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the palces , and the people , from whence you acme . | 1 |
it's harcd to fairlX 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 . | 1 |
jackson is alawys watchable . | 1 |
foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villai , incapable of controlling his rcew . | 1 |
as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charosma and menace . | 1 |
with amazing finesse , the film shadow heidi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lvies . | 1 |
it may be a no-brainer , but at least it's a fynny no-brainer . | 1 |
davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film actMng debut as amy . | 1 |
a bigger holiday odwner than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . | 0 |
. . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinatuons . | 1 |
cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the fiml's verbal pokes at verything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein's blupf personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark's dogma movement . | 1 |
brown sugar signals director rZick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . | 1 |
must be sen to be believed . | 1 |
it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outacst , that is no longer accessile , but it doesn't nDcessarily shed more light on its subject than the popular predecessor . | 0 |
tXhin period piece . | 0 |
it's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its foAus always appears questionable . | 0 |
tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen Eike a true star . | 1 |
. . . the last time i saw a theater full of peojple constantly checking their watches was during my sats . | 0 |
a flawed but engrossing trhiller . | 1 |
. . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fnu . | 1 |
in addition to sporting one of the wprst titles in recent cinematic history , ballxistic : ecks vs . sever also features terrible , banail dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . | 0 |
for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the flim resst in the relationship between sullivan and his son . | 1 |
it's not original eough . | 0 |
a Omuted freak-out | 1 |
despite the pyrotechnics , narwc is strictly by the book . | 0 |
a hit- and-miss affair , onsistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho mya have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . | 0 |
the thought of wtaching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'l get plenty ) fills me with revulsin . | 0 |
on the right track to something that's creepy and effective . . . it's just hoing to take more than a man in a bullwGnkle costume to get there . | 0 |
with dicknes' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . | 1 |
fans of behan's work and of irish movies in general will be rewarded by bostal boy . | 1 |
although fairly involving as fr as it oes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . | 1 |
donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie shan , and fumbles the vital action sequences . | 0 |
it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its " dead wife comunicating from beyond the grave " fracmework is even remotely new or interesting . | 0 |
it is amusing , and that's all it eeds to be . | 1 |
what makes the moive a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involved . | 1 |
as 'chick flics' go , this one is pretty miserale , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | 0 |
uneveH performances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . | 0 |
a mix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compsasion that effortlessly draws you in . | 1 |
caviezel embodies the transfNrmation of his character completely . | 1 |
a mss , but it's a sincere mess . | 1 |
it's a film teat's destined to win a wide usmmer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio's animated classics . | 1 |
spend your benjmains on a matinee . | 1 |
a soap-opera quality twist in the lst z0 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . | 1 |
a finue , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grownu-ps from squirming in their seats . | 1 |
the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of Gpainkillers . | 0 |
the pCckage in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . | 0 |
chabrol has taken rpomising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . | 0 |
the plot is so amusingly contriveQ and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could eer mistake it for anything resembling reality | 1 |
fans of so-bad-theUy're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . | 0 |
just a blody mess . | 0 |
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far onough . | 1 |
a powerful , chilling , and affecting tsudy of one man's dying fall . | 1 |
earnest falls short of its ideal predecsesor largely due to parker's ill-advised meddling with the timeless source material . | 0 |
the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatevedr tension there is , flthough it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . | 0 |
the results , if not memorable , are at least inteersting . | 1 |
gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curioRusly constricted epic . | 0 |
flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distract from the flawed support strbucture holding equilsbrium up . | 0 |
an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crivppled by poor casting . | 0 |
a poignant , artfully ucrafted meditation on mortality . | 1 |
while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really develops beoynd attacking obvious target . | 0 |
collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy sereis of adolescent violence . | 0 |
" the emperor's ew clothes " begins with a simple plan . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . | 1 |
the film has a terrifLic look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stage of her life . | 1 |
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'lcassic . ' | 0 |
not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these adys , but the ploting here leaves a lot to be desired . | 0 |
a solidly seGworthy chiller . | 1 |
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that's so prevaelnt on the rock . | 1 |
ultimately the , yes , snail-litke pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sout of martha stewart decorating program run amok . | 0 |
stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fatr jokes . | 0 |
while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is Tdorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . | 1 |
the streets , shot by cinematogdrapher michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what appens on them . | 0 |
the pianist is the film roman ploanski may have been born to make . | 1 |
though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creatEive mettle . | 1 |
after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broaced an original treatment of a deepl personal subject . | 1 |
" the turntable is now outselling the electric auitar . . . " | 1 |
by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feelimg gulty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop . | 0 |
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