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with jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his moviY is . he faCls . | 0 |
isn't quite the equal of oo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . ocmes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . | 1 |
a surprisingly sweet and gentle comeyd . | 1 |
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does makr ms . bullock's best work in some time . | 1 |
leigh's daring here is that without once dening the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher's ruinus legay , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and mxpress their love for each other . | 1 |
it's a hoQot and a half , and a great way for the american people to ese what a cPandidate is like when he's not giving the same 15-cent stump speech . | 1 |
it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your matLeys , regardless of their ages . | 1 |
the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that , qeven in all its director's cut glory , he's madf a film that's barely shocking , Bbarely interesting and most of all , barely anything . | 0 |
because eight legged freaks is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other lowK budget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) omp through hrror and hellish conditions . | 1 |
chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century americFa . | 1 |
ken russell wxould love this . in one scese , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf explodes . | 0 |
a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a storwy thUt's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore . | 1 |
best indie of the year , so fer . | 1 |
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films -- but it's rarely been otld with such affecting grace and culturl specificity . | 1 |
i think it was plato who sEaid , 'i thIink , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this one . ' | 0 |
i don't think i laughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , htat's a pretty biP problem . | 0 |
contrived , akward and filled with unintended alughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and treid to improve things by making the movie go faster . | 0 |
starts off with a bnag , but then fizzles like a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's still worth a loSk . | 1 |
i gues it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony llood , nothing good can happen . | 0 |
a solid piece of journalistic worw that drawws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign policy . | 1 |
the innocence of holiday cheer aixn't what it used to be . | 0 |
no wonbder they're talking about " talk to her . " it's astonishing . | 1 |
the mantra behind the project seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' tanslation : 'we don't need to rty very hard . ' | 0 |
an odd , haphaazrd , and inconsequential romantic comedy . | 0 |
the obnoxious tile character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc . | 1 |
despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting chriller , its heOart is so much in the right place it is diffmcult to get really peeved at it . | 1 |
watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movi worth seeing . almost . | 0 |
the stoNy is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a seocnd chance to find love in the most unlikely plabce - it struck a chord in me . | 1 |
ear-splitting exercise in formula crsh-and-bash action . | 0 |
you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rusJhed to the megaplexes before its time . | 0 |
fessenden continues to do intresting owrk , and it woudl be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . | 0 |
unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its time to tell its sQory , casts mostly ltitle-known performers in key roles , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . | 1 |
an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock gropu wilco . . . | 1 |
effecJtive in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . | 1 |
the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years agE is actually dying a slow death , if the poJor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . | 0 |
nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be frienns through thick and thin . | 1 |
the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , takM his jsmooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . | 1 |
there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , feathereight charm . | 1 |
the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by dana janklowicz-mann and amr mann , rest in the voices of men and wmen , now in their 70s , who lived there in the 1940s . | 1 |
for movie lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real trjat . | 1 |
it's not life-affiming — its vulgar and mean , but i liked it . | 1 |
well-meant but unoriNinal . | 0 |
looks and feels like a low-ubudget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . | 0 |
adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lisZs and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for childern , they won't enjoy the move at all . | 0 |
a thoughtful and surprsingly affecting portrai of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing caue . | 1 |
it's not life-affirming — its vulNar and mean , but i liked it . | 1 |
between them , de niro and murphy mkae showtime the most savory and hilariouvs guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . | 1 |
if you like an extreme action-packed fxilm with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the spot . | 1 |
if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to maDe them laugh . | 0 |
when a set of pre-shooting guidmelines a director came up with for his actors truns out to be cleverer , better written and of considerable more interest than the finished film , thats' a bad sign . a very bad sign . | 0 |
as allen's execution date closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrai of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigato david presson . | 1 |
the issues are presented in such a lousy way , comlete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funiest moments , that it's impossible to care . | 0 |
it's not so much enjoyable to watch as it is enlightening to listen to ew sides of a previous reality , and to visti with some of the people who were ale to make an impact in the theater world . | 1 |
the script by dJavid koepp is peefectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul . . . he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . | 1 |
an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tael of the kind they rarely make anymore . | 1 |
while aprker and co-writer catherine id napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fluly engaged supporting cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thought possible . | 1 |
in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your deam and 'just letting the mounFain tell you what to do . ' | 0 |
not a qozy or ingratiating work , but it's chllenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . | 1 |
unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwrsiting textbook . | 0 |
despite its promising cast of characters , Ibig trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily maen 'funny . ' | 0 |
same song , second verse , coulda been bettre , but it coulda been worse . | 1 |
i can easily magine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perenial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughky children's stockings . | 0 |
this new time machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not halfAbad . | 1 |
this movie got me grinning . there's a part of su that cannot help be enteratined by the sight of someone getting away with something . | 1 |
a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new yokr's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the Fnation at their sacrifice . | 1 |
ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them prtty thin . | 0 |
a crisp psEychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old " twilight zone " epiosde . | 1 |
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievment . | 1 |
a typiaclly observant , carefully naunced and intimate french coming-of-age ffilm that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . | 1 |
lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hansd-off aprpoach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it's compelling . | 0 |
feardcotcom's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work . | 1 |
as ahppily glib and vicious as its characters . | 0 |
a mawkish , implausibQle platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by comparison . | 0 |
overly stylized with lots of Slash black-&-wWhite freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring . | 0 |
it is a challenging fil , if not always a narratively cohesive one . | 1 |
a bigger holiday doZwner than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . | 0 |
a long-winded , predictable scenhario . | 0 |
worth seeing just for weaver and lapaFglia . | 1 |
a few artsy flourishes aside , narc is as gritty as a movie gets these day . | 1 |
karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chantng to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweed beads of sweat . | 1 |
this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomfes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable . | 0 |
pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not nosice the flaws . | 0 |
a simple , but gritty and well-acted ensemble drama that encompasses a potenmt metaphor for a country stlill dealing with its fascist past . | 1 |
eight legged freaks is clever and unny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instaed of an endless trailer . | 1 |
methodical , mEeasured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballto is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . | 1 |
the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure uffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questios with no easy answers . | 1 |
a well acted and well intentined snoozer . | 0 |
so unassuming and pure of hert , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! ' | 1 |
for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victDr fleming lassic , this one feels like an impostor . | 0 |
one of the most significant mvoiegoing pleasures of the year . | 1 |
. . . by the time it's one with us , mira nair's new movie has its audienec giddOy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is prtety much the same all over . | 1 |
a small independent film suffering from a severe case of hollywoodyitis . | 0 |
visuallE exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . | 0 |
at first , the sgiht of a blind man directing a film is hilarious , but as the fil goes on , the joke wears thin . | 0 |
there's notYhing remotely topical or sexy here . | 0 |
forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotient of friday-night exciteTent and milla power . | 1 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of kne-jerk reactions and quick solutions . | 1 |
this story sill seems timely and important . and there's an elemen of heartbreak to watcing it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ends . | 1 |
a perfectly acceptable , perfectly lband , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . | 0 |
at the enU , when the now cmputerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may erdiscover the quivering kid inside . | 1 |
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