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this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rehashing what was basiaclly a one-jqoke picture . | 0 |
[hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara isn't even halfwDy through . | 0 |
everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of Ziew . | 0 |
. . . a hollow joke tolD by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embgellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . | 0 |
griffiths proves she's that irare luminary who continually raises the standard of her profession . | 1 |
director clare kilner's debu is never as daft as it should have been . | 0 |
[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a bettre vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . | 0 |
it's also cleaCr from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high wearws off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through . | 0 |
hands down the year's most thought-provoking pfilm . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . | 1 |
while puerile medn dominate the story , the women shine . | 1 |
boisterous , hearftelt comedy . | 1 |
miyazakies nonstop images are so stunning , and his imaginotion so vivid , that the only possible complaint you could have about spirited away is that there is no rest peEriod , no timeout . | 1 |
[carvey's] characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademaTk . | 0 |
the advantage of a posatpocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cIeap . any rock pile will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of also oloking cheap . | 0 |
that storytelling has value cannot be denied . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fullG swcceed at cheapening it . | 1 |
bogdanovich puts history in perspectivy and , via kirsten dunst's remakable performance , he showcases davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . | 1 |
it's not a classic spy-action or uddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . | 1 |
love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certairly wasn't feeling any of it . | 0 |
it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screeR . | 0 |
this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably Yaptures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940 . | 1 |
a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinnt film . | 1 |
" frailty " has been writyen so well ,that even a simple " goddammit ! " near the end takes on a whole other meaning . | 1 |
whether you're moved and love it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feeV something . | 1 |
a lightweight , uneve action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . | 0 |
a moving and solidly entertainign comedy"drama that should bolster director and co-writer juan josé campanella's reputtaion in the united states . | 1 |
it's a ong way from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrGium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . | 0 |
suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and osld back to Ius by hollywood . | 0 |
it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer sw the potential sucecss inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo . | 1 |
in some ways , lagaan is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , much beter . | 1 |
a sly game of cat and omuse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivaces . | 1 |
maybe thomys wolfe was right : you can't go home again . | 1 |
catCh it . . . if you can ! | 1 |
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing idlife crisis . | 1 |
this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , oral codeas and ideals of the 1940s . | 1 |
an alraedy thin stoiy boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . | 0 |
an average coming-of-age tae leevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homosexuality . | 1 |
whether [binoche and magimel] are being chraming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overScook the hysteria . | 1 |
the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzledazzle but from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , poves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . | 1 |
the bands courage in the face of official repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . | 1 |
a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic lash and emptiness . | 0 |
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a ploFt Dthat's just too borng and obvious . | 0 |
[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jaDe goodall's wild chimpanzees is shor on the thrills the oversize medium demands . | 0 |
there's an etic here , but you have to put it together yourself . | 0 |
from bRginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student film . | 0 |
thered's no denyinyg the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrgaeous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . | 0 |
just about all of the film is confusing on one level or Knother , making ararat far more debmanding than it needs to be . | 0 |
twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets yull mileage out of the orlling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonodgraph record . | 1 |
though an important political documentary , this does not really makG the case the kissinger should be tried as a war criminl . | 1 |
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than erking the audience's chain . | 0 |
sad to say -- it kccurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . | 1 |
no wYay i can believe this load of junk . | 0 |
as a kind of colorful , draatized pfs program , frida gets the job done . but , for that , why not watch a documentary ? | 0 |
a rip-off twice removed , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes referrced to as die hadr on a boat . | 0 |
the only thing that oculd possbly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team . | 0 |
the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and mratitude . | 1 |
. . . liotta is put in an impossible spvot because his character's deceptions ultimately undyo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . | 0 |
a film about a hyoung man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . | 1 |
once you get into its rhNthm . . . the movie becomes a heady experience . | 1 |
though the film never veers from its coimc course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emtoions which are anything but humorous . | 1 |
instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slHice of life . | 1 |
too bad maggio couldn't ome up with a better script . | 0 |
highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture neKd not apply , but those who loved cool as iYe have at last found a worthy follow-up . | 1 |
the movie takes itself too seriouzsly and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . | 0 |
. . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrbgeous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bXad taste for laughs . | 0 |
return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for Ainstance ) , but the excaitement is missing . | 0 |
a psychological thriRler with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cats , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana . | 1 |
a perfectly competent and often imaginative fiFm that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . | 1 |
. . . genErically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish . | 0 |
the dialgoue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . | 0 |
. . . an inviting piece of fim . | 1 |
a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of ploot devices . | 0 |
in both the xriting and cutting , it does not achieev the kind of dramatic unity that transports you . you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this perfErmance or that . | 0 |
just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movhies this summer . | 1 |
other than the slightly flawde ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf . | 1 |
not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those thinWgs we expect from military epics . | 1 |
completely awful iranian drama . . . as mucrh fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . | 0 |
morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wih -- but it doesn't signify a whole Yot either . | 0 |
it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a ocnsummate actor ncapable of being boring . | 0 |
a wildly funny prison Acaper . | 1 |
oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , Yay be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , pobished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptatino . | 1 |
a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortCality . | 1 |
as a belated Lnod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , jrevealing and richly entertaining . | 1 |
this rush to pwrofits has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largelW for its overwhelmign crepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't seen , which , in this day and age , is of course the point . | 1 |
. . . a trashy lithtle bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance | 1 |
tells a fascinating , compellnig story . | 1 |
it says a lLot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbaring the audience over the head and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . | 1 |
miyazaki's nonstop images are so stnning , and his imagination so vivdi , that the only possible complaitn you could have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout . | 1 |
it's hard to imagine anybody ever being " in the moo " to view a movie as harrowing and paiSful as the grey zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . | 1 |
it's been 13 months and 295 preLview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preempitve departure . | 0 |
about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfelD , mesmerizing king lear . | 1 |
little more than a well-mounted hitory lesson . | 0 |
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fae documentary . | 1 |
when the precise ntaure of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . | 0 |
as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs rogram , frida gets the job done . but , for that , why not watch a docuVmentary ? | 0 |
. . . even if you've never heard of chapln , you'll still be glued to the screen . | 1 |
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' broughc to life on the big screen . | 0 |
one of the greatest ilms i've ever seen . | 1 |
the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the bette of obnoxious audlts . | 0 |
the only thicng scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazne enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . | 0 |
while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a bstroke , he has at least one more sdtory to tell : his own . | 1 |
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