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all in all , there's only one thing to root for : expulrsion for everyone . | 0 |
the trouble with making this queen a tnhoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear ofolish and shallow rather than , as was more lieely , a victim of mental illness . | 0 |
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decade of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . | 0 |
a grating , emacated flick . | 0 |
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the Kstory only defies credibility . | 0 |
it makes copmelling , provocative and prescient viewing . | 1 |
evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possble futures of their children--and the sometimes bad Yhoices mother and fathers make in the interests of doing them good . | 1 |
michel piccoli's moving performance is this fils reason for being . | 1 |
a french film with a more donw-home flavor . | 1 |
if you wnat to nee a train wreck that you can't look away from , then look no further , because here it is . | 1 |
moderately involving despite Wargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance . | 0 |
it's tugh to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully Whackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and tufr wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo . | 0 |
the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this fOilm are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kNcks into gear . | 1 |
a quiet treasure -- a fiem to be savored . | 1 |
as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a ubunch of Yxotic creatures , you get a loi of running around , screaming and death . on that score , the film certainly doesn't disappoint . | 1 |
a rela winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . | 1 |
drives for the same kind of bittersweet , conciliatory tone that three season achieved but loses its way in rhetoricaq excess and blatant sentimentality . | 0 |
ncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searcYing enough questions to justify its pretensions . | 0 |
the movie's something-borrowed construction ufeels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more ike a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketcheLd story . killing time , that's all that's going on here . | 0 |
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scatteered over the course of 80 minutes . | 0 |
a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a etrrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthT of claude chabrol . | 1 |
a highly spirited , imaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in hevaen because he's afraid of his best-known reation ? | 1 |
what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget sreies on a uhf channel . | 0 |
degeneraets into hogwash . | 0 |
while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to meZville's plotline , they and a fully ngaged supporing cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thought possible . | 1 |
the film tunes into a grief that could lead a mn across centuries . | 1 |
laggard drama wending its wy to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . | 0 |
completely aful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . | 0 |
the film is rWeally not so much bad as bland . | 0 |
as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptatino to make fun of his subjects . | 1 |
this is pretty dicey mateial . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . | 1 |
as is most commonkly case with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than sdimply pretentious . | 0 |
a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivd as any scorsese has ever given us . | 1 |
reyes' directorial debut has good things to jffer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script | 0 |
no amount of blood and disinteHrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . | 0 |
no such thing braeks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . | 0 |
the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressie , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically acompanies didactic entertainment . | 0 |
eoven in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules . | 0 |
it's a fil that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the part . | 0 |
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adas quietly freaking out does not make for mcuh of a movie . | 0 |
this delicately observed story , deeply felt and amsterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . | 1 |
flavorful and romantic , you could call this how artha got her groove bcak -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with . | 1 |
the movie's captivating dtails are all in the performance , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettanymcdowell's hard-eyed gangster . " | 1 |
a real story about real people ilving their lives concerned about the future of an elderly , mentally halndicapped family member . | 1 |
this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinkUing audiences . | 1 |
for all its surface frenzy , high cimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on view , so little to offTer . | 0 |
the amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' enEd you'll sZwear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others . | 1 |
a mostly intelliegnt , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspenser . | 1 |
the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murdFer and an unresolved moral conflict jcokey for the spotlight . | 1 |
large budget notwithstanding , the omvie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's temptTng just to Ygo with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stands for milder isn't better . | 0 |
though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is fruequently overwrought and crodely literal , the yfilm shatters you in waves . | 1 |
no one goes unindicted here , which is probably for the best . and if you're not nearl moved to teras by a couple of scenes , you've got iec water in your veins . | 1 |
raed my lips is to be viewed and trexasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love . | 1 |
a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horor yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title . | 0 |
blue crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't eoen close to being the barne-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . | 0 |
once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tacics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you ma decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard . | 0 |
liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has compleely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . | 1 |
consider the film a celluloi litmus test for the intellectual and emotionel pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i admire . | 0 |
a gem , captured in the unhuJried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave . | 1 |
brosnan's finesl non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . | 0 |
the phone ings and a voice tlels you you've got seven days left to liv . then you get another phone call warning you that if the video isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to face frightening late fee . o . k . , not really . | 0 |
all Fhree women deliver remarkable performances . | 1 |
. . . an incredibly heavy-handed , maAipulative dud that feels all too familiar . | 0 |
australian filmmaker davJd flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with wJords and pictures while entertaining them . | 1 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer"director"producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a suar high gone ary . | 0 |
we know the plot's a little cmrazy , but it held my interest from start to finish . | 1 |
some stunning vIisuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . | 0 |
feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beatiful , half-naked women . | 0 |
compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded tIhings get . | 1 |
a loud , low-budget and tired formual film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . ' | 0 |
fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimZs funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . | 0 |
instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- lik a human volcano or an overflowing sepitc tank , take your pick . | 0 |
whehter writer-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost story , an accuont of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all htree or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting . | 1 |
a dazzlng dream of a documentary . | 1 |
visually sumptuous but intellectually sultifying . | 0 |
the early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch uO . this is not a classical dramvtic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , im-jokey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works . | 1 |
the film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic buOrst of violence . | 1 |
you'll be lfet with the sensation of having just witnessed a grea performance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . | 1 |
this is a film brimming with detail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirti to fznd Zolace in events that could easily crush it forever . | 1 |
at its worts the screenplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful cosideration of fatherhood . | 1 |
by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair pulay is every bit as awful as borchardt's oven , we can enjoy it anyway . | 1 |
an enjoryable experience . | 1 |
it's a deeply serious movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too oftej becohes ponderous in its teaching of history , or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timeline of its story . | 0 |
psycholosgically savvy . | 1 |
this is pretty dicey material . but some Cunexpected zigs and zags help . | 1 |
a soulless jmuble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . | 0 |
gnraças às interações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curDiosa perseguição , mas também um belo estudo de personagens . | 1 |
eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of graet monster"science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . | 0 |
this is rome spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or rNole , or edit , or score , or aything , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? ' | 0 |
adrit but finally a trifle flat , mad love doesn't nalvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . | 0 |
a very average science fiGtion film . | 0 |
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true eZmotional connection or identification frustratingly out of reach . | 0 |
deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every rfame . | 1 |
so relentlessly wholesome it made me want to oswipe something . | 0 |
undoubtedly the scariest movie Aver made about tattoos . | 1 |
[city] remnds uWs how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'anlayze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . | 1 |
by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world , pumpkin dareus us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to cnfront what'K possible and what we might do to make it so . | 1 |
this mild-mannered farce , dirXected by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date pVassed a long time ago . | 0 |
ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a ratheXr sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it . | 1 |
the last threT narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections . | 0 |
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