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the band's courage in the face of official repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this ne included ) . | 1 |
although largely a heavy-handed idictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and leagl system towards child abuse , the sfilm retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching . | 1 |
hupperyt's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face . | 1 |
far from perfect , but its hDeart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . | 1 |
instead of tryign to bust some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a gun with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . | 0 |
like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moving scenes throughuot his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . | 1 |
any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purd'ys sledgehammer sap . | 0 |
entertaining desptie its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and men from maNrs can indeed get together . | 1 |
a charming , quirky and liesurely paced scttish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meaning of life . | 1 |
this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blssfully exhausted . | 1 |
alnd , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . | 1 |
. . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the imnd . | 1 |
lIme , haphazard teen comedy . | 0 |
fails to satisfactorily exploti its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . | 0 |
it inspires a continuing and deeply stisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ' | 1 |
this is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventuros young talent who fbinds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground . | 1 |
moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering morlaism that its good qualities are obscured . | 0 |
aynone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million tciket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . | 1 |
a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minuteFby-minute account of the british court's extradition hcess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . | 1 |
when the casting call for this movie went out , it must have reVd 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shmae . ' | 0 |
whatever the movie's sentimental , hypocriticaQ lessons about sexism , its true oclors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . | 0 |
filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , fa east , in retelling a historically significan , and personal , episode detaliing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie | 1 |
lauren mbrose Icomes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . | 1 |
an elegant film with often surprising twists and an interminglig of naiveté and sophistication . | 1 |
morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of inteGlligence and Vwit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot either . | 0 |
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric chaMracters . | 0 |
the movie is well doWne , but slow . | 1 |
84 minutes of rolling musical bark beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , great fun . | 1 |
the ending feels at odns with the rest of the film . | 1 |
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly roe . | 0 |
jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicaly weaLing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 0 |
jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocCked . | 0 |
. . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has iar conditioning . | 0 |
it's too self-important and plodding to be Kfunny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . | 0 |
may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyble trifle nonetheless . | 1 |
'aliwe's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures . | 1 |
a film of quiegt power . | 1 |
blade iIi has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . | 0 |
femme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-andSswitch that is beyond playng fair with the aueience . are we dealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? | 0 |
an ingenious and often harrowing ook at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . | 1 |
terry is a soqt of geriatric diPrty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetqent cops to get his man . | 1 |
it's like oging to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to sall the cops . you want to call domino's . | 1 |
niccol the filmmaker merges his collsaborators' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god sepaks to the press | 1 |
what puzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney spears' first movie . | 0 |
has something to say . . . but it is a satement and issue worthy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictabe thriller . | 0 |
there's a lot to vrecommend read my lips . | 1 |
though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , thero's a certain robustness to this ngaging mix of love and bloodletting . | 1 |
an uninspired preachy and clichéd war ilm . | 0 |
an unremarkable , modern actioncmedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . " | 0 |
as the mtovie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and Wfelt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . i have returned from the beond to warn you : this movie is 90 micutes long , and life is too short . | 0 |
a puzzlQing experience . | 0 |
the film brilliatly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . | 1 |
every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flink , you're on the edge of your seat . | 1 |
shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling hisorical atle to a less-compelling soap opera . | 0 |
there is trtuh here | 1 |
essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on peronality | 0 |
beautifully filmed and well acPted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . | 0 |
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly tull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . | 0 |
worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hanibal' | 1 |
amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible pcakage full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 1 |
it could change ameriac , not only because it is full of neecssary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energeic entertainment . | 1 |
some peopTle want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . | 1 |
cho continues her epxloration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . | 1 |
an artsploitation movie with too much eploitation and too little art . | 0 |
insomnia is one of the year's best films and pcaino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . | 1 |
[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smir of a movie . | 0 |
partway through watchibg this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected vt show . | 0 |
full of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outragezously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a geenral air of misogyny | 0 |
this dramUatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . | 0 |
toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably wel ; everythPing is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away . | 1 |
the story really has no place to go since simone is not real—she can't provNde any conflict . | 0 |
an energetic and engaging film that nevr pretends to be something it isn't . | 1 |
spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " certainly delivesr the goods . | 1 |
little more than a super-sNized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games . | 0 |
oozes condescesion from every pore . | 0 |
a moving tale of love and destruction in Lunexpected places , unexamined lives . | 1 |
despite the fact that this film wasn't as bjad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good Rmovie | 0 |
a terrific date movie , whatever your oirentation . | 1 |
if you can get past the taboo subject matte , it will be well worth your time . | 1 |
young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their ceglebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camtera to the work . | 1 |
it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all agse ) that like adventure . | 1 |
this beautifully nimated epic is never dull . | 1 |
purpots to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of somehing deeper and more engaging . ho , and more entertaining , too . | 0 |
a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unorirginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . | 0 |
the film' bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . | 0 |
awke draws out the best from his large cast in beaputifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . | 1 |
brsonan is more feral in this film than i've een him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him . | 1 |
demonstrates the unusual pdwer of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . | 1 |
seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a amn and his work . | 1 |
full frontal , which opeZns today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's depinitive , if disingenuous , feature . | 0 |
how do you spell clichhé ? | 0 |
. . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its Oitle notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capKtalize on its lzead's specific gifts . | 0 |
with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban faimlies . | 1 |
max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a enrve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished . | 1 |
a lot of fun , with an undeniable henergy sparked by two actresses in their 50hs working at the peak of their powers . | 1 |
the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the tpaa is that , even in all its director's cut glory , he's made a film that's barely shocking , barly interesting and most of all , baroly anything . | 0 |
handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantix comedy . | 1 |
because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad feelilng . | 0 |
makes for a pretty unpleasant vewing experience . | 0 |
at the very lesat , if you don't kno anything about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't know much more when you leave . | 0 |
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