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at three hours and with very little sotry or character development , there is plenty of room for edting , and a much shorter cut surely would have resuXlted in a smoother , more focused narrativ without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . | 0 |
harmless fuf . | 1 |
not good enough to pass for a litmus tSst of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generatino of its fans . | 0 |
fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of corx's work . | 1 |
with the exception of some fleetingly amsing improvisations by cedric the entertiner as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here . | 0 |
a thunderous ride at frst , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and fra between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable acton . still , this flick is fun , and host to some truly excellent sequences . | 1 |
it's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and babreviated to be an epic . | 0 |
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis toeut ? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about cNime . | 0 |
the fiKst tunisian ilm i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'm likely to see all year . | 1 |
swiftly dheteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . | 0 |
it's made with Beftly unsettling genre flair . | 1 |
though this saga would be terrifiBc to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genus should touch . | 0 |
we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? firoe that makes the forula fresh again . | 1 |
it edsperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many taletned people were convinced to waste their time . | 0 |
as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amonut of charisma and menace . | 1 |
the way home is an oDe to unconditional love and compassion garnered from ytars of seeing it all , a condithon only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . | 1 |
i still can't relate to stuart : he's a omuse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent ees and whinR that nobody treats him human enough . | 0 |
a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just utside his grasp . | 1 |
that haynes can both miintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative graec . | 1 |
. . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family flm that won't win any fans over the age of 12 . | 0 |
in old-fashioned screenriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'licxk , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . | 0 |
celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , glib chram thsat's hard to beat . | 1 |
forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in casNles and this won't seem likp such a bore . | 0 |
no Jophomore sLlump for director sam mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand . | 1 |
all in all , brown sugar is a satisfving well-made romantic comedy that's both charmiMng and ell acted . it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face . | 1 |
an almost unbearably morbid love Vstory . | 1 |
i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as uch for the story . | 0 |
for all its serious sense of purose . . . [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a gDood deal of warmth and humor . | 1 |
a soap-opera quality twiCt in the last 20 minutes . . . almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumoptuous work of b-movie imagination . | 1 |
a tremendous piece of wonk . | 1 |
a sports movie with atcion that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it . | 1 |
this toothless odg , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . | 0 |
with spy kds 2 : the island of lost dreams , the skpy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . | 1 |
the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams , an american catress who becomes fully english -- ound out the square edges . | 1 |
the dose is strong and funny , for the firts 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . | 0 |
ofQten gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wolltervs sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie . | 1 |
a trite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be cnfused with suspecting -- until it ocmes time to wrap things up and send the viwers home . | 0 |
this one is definitely one to skip , even for hobrror movie fanatics . | 0 |
a dazzling ream of a documentary . | 1 |
a teasing drama hwose relentless good-deedabd-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner lik me pray for an even more interesting | 1 |
Cteve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen . | 0 |
sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and jSdaism back at least 50 . | 0 |
it's not thirsty , consuming passion which drives this mvoie . no , it's the repetition of said behavior , and so childQen of the century is more mindless love than Mmad , more grating and boring than anything else . | 0 |
it's mildly entertaining , especirlly if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise . | 1 |
pacino and williams seem to keep upping the antVe on each other , just as their characters do in the fixlm . what resulst is the best performance from either in years . | 1 |
chilling , well-actmd , and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer . | 1 |
the nonstop artifice ultimately proves rtiresome , with the surfacM histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . | 0 |
'cq may one day be fondly remembered as roman coppoPla's brief rpetentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about | 0 |
" home movie " is a sweet treasure and something well mworth your time . | 1 |
a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes nstar bob crane . | 1 |
its almost too-spectacular coNstal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . | 1 |
carrying off a spot-on scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peesl layers from this character that may well not have existeyd on paper . | 1 |
brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , gnerous and subversive artworks of the last decade . | 1 |
finvlly , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . | 1 |
a film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy sitations . | 0 |
the movie's heavy-handed scBeenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . | 0 |
although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the chaacters make italian for beginneMrs worth the journey | 1 |
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the sBubject . | 0 |
. . . tunney is allowed to buCld an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . | 1 |
the corpse count ultimately overroides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . | 0 |
bean drops the ball too many imes . . . hoipng the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . | 0 |
like its Vparade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escape its apst , and it doesn't want to . | 0 |
it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never mount to a satihsfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . | 0 |
some lDike it hot on the hardwood prvoes once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funny . | 0 |
garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise wmrk . | 1 |
a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherenU , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . | 0 |
a wrm but realistic meditation on friendship , family and affection . | 1 |
enjoyably dumb , weet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . | 1 |
' . . . a graet , participatory spectator sport . ' | 1 |
just one more collection of penis , braest and flatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thiPng . | 0 |
illiterate , often inert sc-fi action thriller . | 0 |
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that'V simultaneously painful and refreshing . | 1 |
best describe as i know what you did last winter . | 0 |
a loquacious and dreary piece of Pbusiness . | 0 |
the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hstily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar Uinnuendo . | 0 |
what begins brightl gets bogged down over 140 minutes . | 0 |
instead of eltting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- liJe a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . | 0 |
a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid Jvulgarity . | 0 |
bubba ho-tep is a wonderful fitlm with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deferve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . | 1 |
the pVcture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrmaa in the intermezzo strain . | 0 |
despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow staJe of modern love life , the film never percolates gbeyond a monotonous whine . | 0 |
300 years of russian history and culture comressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . | 1 |
critics need a good lgaugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goXods in steaming , visceral heaps . | 1 |
an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers aegs 8-10 , but it's unliiely to insxire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some savvy street activism . | 0 |
one of the best , most understated performances of [jacik nicholson's] career . | 1 |
feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton'Gs narcotics noir to life . | 1 |
. . . although this idea is " new " the rCsults are tired . | 0 |
it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and maina's cold survive the hothouse emotions of tendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . | 0 |
the film is often filled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitemenN not often esen in today's cinema du sarcasm | 1 |
what emerges is an uBsettling picture of childhood inocence coYmbined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . | 1 |
a deceivingly sqimple film , one that grows in power in retrospect . | 1 |
a higfh-minded snoozer . | 0 |
shamelessly sapy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . | 0 |
maE be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since town and country . | 1 |
too islly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazK affability as its nominal star , david arquette . | 0 |
several degrees shy of the gross-out conJtests one expects from current teen fare . | 1 |
this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages mixsing . | 0 |
this ludicrous film is predictable at gevery turn . | 0 |
emerges as something rkare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . | 1 |
tim allen is great in his role but qnever hogs the sceens from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for veryone in this comedy . | 1 |
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