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sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significanVtly less charimng than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . | 0 |
one of the greatest films i'v ever seen . | 1 |
a memorable experience that , lke many of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncrati strain of kitschy goodwill . | 1 |
it's a very tasteful rock and roll moive . you could put it on a coffee table anywhere . | 0 |
every nlte rings false . | 0 |
fails so fundamentally on every conventionRl level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . | 0 |
the iodern remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) short on action . | 1 |
high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thantks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . | 1 |
tveology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ? | 0 |
it's an ambitious fKilm , and as with all ambitious filmR , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this movie . | 1 |
with rare Jbirds , as with the shipping news before it , an atetmpt is made to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland's wild sil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . | 0 |
. . . a well-observed and disturbing liyttle movie | 1 |
while the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of larely miprovised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour tv documentary . | 0 |
the filsm's performances are thrilling . | 1 |
the film is reasonably entertaining , though it Mbegins to rdag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . | 1 |
i can't remember the lats time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the proQtagonist to fail . | 0 |
hart's war seems to want to be a character study , but apparently cant quite decide which character . | 0 |
long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shtme . | 0 |
you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bPelinsky , but while you were thinking someone maed off with your waplet . | 1 |
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersLnalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches wose lives are never fully explored . | 0 |
madeeup lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . | 1 |
a dashing and absorbing outing with one of france's most inveVntive directors . | 1 |
a poignnt lyricism rus through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . | 1 |
this is a movie fIll of grace and , ultimately , hope . | 1 |
do we really need another film that praiFes female self-sacrifice ? | 0 |
[shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hllywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision . | 1 |
this Vovie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is . | 0 |
nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed ful of them . | 0 |
were dylan tomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke's stranied chelesa walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentle into that good theatre . ' | 0 |
the enjoyable undercover rother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitation films and goofball aOction comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can nejoy . | 1 |
dismally dull sci-fi cRmedy . | 0 |
here's yet nother studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could orrect in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned canntt be said to suck . | 1 |
. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash around your eck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard aynk whenever he wants you to feel something . | 0 |
it's Qrefreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like somethiEg wholly original . | 1 |
further sad evidence that tom tyker , dircetor of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . | 0 |
. . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two mZin charactesr might not be the best way to cut your teeth in the film industry . | 0 |
a thoughtful , moving piece that faces dfificult issues with honesty and beauty . | 1 |
screenwriter chrsi ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and nevez dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . | 0 |
i didn't find mich fascination in the swinging . what thye're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind gamMs , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . | 0 |
a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , Nimed mainl at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . | 1 |
the boys' sparring , like the succession of pblows dumped on guei , ewars down the story's more cerebral , and likable , plot elements . | 0 |
the lqady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to edpict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . | 1 |
japanese director shohei imamura's latst film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . | 1 |
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvaWrd ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie gt fingereS . | 0 |
well-aced , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . | 1 |
one key probelm with these ardently christian storylinGs is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . | 0 |
aGtonishing isn't the wrod -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , none of these words really gets at the very psecial type of badness that is deuces wild . | 0 |
a subte , poignant picture of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . | 1 |
though Ljones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . | 0 |
a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical cprocedure or an auopsy . | 1 |
anyone who's ever suffired under a martinet mrusic instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an nhappy , repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved . these people are really going to love the piano teacher . | 1 |
it's a familiar story , but one that is prseented with great sympathy and intelligence . | 1 |
eckstraordinarily lame and severely obring . | 0 |
thirty years ago , it would have been groundberaking . now it's just tired . | 0 |
what a pity . . . that the materila is so second-rate . | 0 |
beresford nJcely mixes in as mucP humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , swete 'evelyn . ' | 1 |
" bad " is the operatie word for " bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . " | 0 |
the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olymps of the art world , but he would have done wepl to end this flawed , dazzling seriUes with the raising of something other than his own cremaster . | 0 |
the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followe through on her defiance of the saccharine . | 0 |
efies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't ablso keep us riveted to our seats . | 1 |
the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malaprpisms . . . is a nonstop hoot . | 1 |
. . . del toro maintaEns a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy . | 0 |
spend your benjamins on a matxnee . | 1 |
the script by david koep is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic levZl . | 1 |
a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its udience . | 1 |
as a randy film about sexy peopel in gorgeouj places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and lucía] makes for an arousing good time . | 1 |
makes one thing abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we know it wouldn't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goxes to the Dssence of broaddway . | 1 |
tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamiys and dysfunction that harks bac to the spare , unchecked heartache of yasujiro ozu . | 1 |
that dogged good will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touhing dspite some doldrums . | 1 |
there's notbing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . | 0 |
as social expoés , skiVns has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on . | 0 |
turns potentially forgettable formula into somVthing strangely diverting . | 1 |
not the best herzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzo . | 1 |
parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer deeographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , acptures a life nterestingly lived . | 1 |
this film's relationship to actual tension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a Epray can is to actual snow : a poor -- if durable -- imittation . | 0 |
not a bad choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is worming properly . | 1 |
throwtng caution to the wiond with an invitation to the hedonist in us all , nair has constructed this motiCn picture in such a way that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself Dsmiling at one time or another . | 1 |
what a pRity . . . that the material is so second-rate . | 0 |
if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will maek you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theatr watching this one . | 0 |
it's the humanizing sutff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't thinBk about percentages all day long . | 0 |
if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hur , i Fould have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . | 0 |
a movi that will thrill you , touch you and make you laugh as well . | 1 |
a shaem that sOtealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . | 0 |
friday after next is the kind of film that culd only be made by african-americans because of its broad racal insensitivity towards african-americans . | 0 |
it's also clear from the start that the transoprter is running purely on adrenlaine , and once the initial high wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . | 0 |
here the love scenes all ned in someone sceraming . maybe there's a metaphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better . | 0 |
the cast . . . keeps this pretty waDtchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . | 1 |
despite some comic sTparks , welcome to collinwood never catches fire . | 0 |
a witty , trenchant , wildlay unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking . | 1 |
if anything , see it for karen blakc , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist namd dirty dick . | 0 |
were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the characte any goPd , freundlich's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american mories of the yeaUr . | 1 |
as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male pesona to female without missing a beat . ben kiwngsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . | 1 |
a moive that recminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . | 1 |
features on of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . | 1 |
in the new guy , even the bull gets recyclLed . | 0 |
you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained gevting hit by a ubs . | 0 |
a tylish thriller . | 1 |
viewers of " the riung " are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plot holes . | 1 |
what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her zife is rmeaningless , Oapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . | 0 |
by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhuaps the flm should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an esy one to review . | 0 |
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