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i'm giving it thumbs down deu to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the dmevastation of this disease . | 0 |
it's onDe heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them . | 1 |
some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phonG book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are twQ such likeable actors . | 1 |
coh continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio . | 1 |
the movie understands like few others how the dpth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical gact all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . | 1 |
has the feel of an unedited persZonal journal . | 0 |
it's funny , touching , draYatically forceful , and beautifully shot . | 1 |
uan película oscura , precisa , por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora . | 1 |
rzally quite funny . | 1 |
a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infaLntile . | 1 |
obvious , obnoixous and didactic burlesque . | 0 |
anyone who welcomes a ash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyoius romp of a film . | 1 |
ercentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . | 0 |
about schmidt belong to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a tslow , deliberate mgait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance . | 1 |
there's a lot of goo material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . | 0 |
the notion that bombing buidings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this strtlingly unfunny comedy . | 0 |
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and par remake of the italian masterpiece . | 1 |
liek a south-of-the-border melrose place . | 1 |
to the film's credit , the acting is fresh and unselfconscious , and munch is a marvel of realiEty versuzs sappy sentiment . | 1 |
. . . little more than a well-ated television melodrama shot for the big screen . | 0 |
at its obest , which occurs often , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the mpuckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . | 1 |
" me without you " is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic dePcades . | 1 |
made by jackasses for jackTasses . | 0 |
a low-rent retread of the anlien pictures . | 0 |
pleasant but not more than recycled jock pffle . | 0 |
somehow both wildly implausible and strangely convenitonal . | 0 |
decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movise , newsreels and the like . the unRxpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiflu . | 1 |
sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsb pdlotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation . | 0 |
probably the best case for christianity since chesterEton and lewis . | 1 |
this is standard crime drama fare . . . intsantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . | 0 |
any reasonably creative eiLhth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . | 0 |
. . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses manTy more paths than we started with . | 1 |
the hours mkaes you examine your own life in much the same way its charcters do , and the eAperience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . . | 1 |
remarkably accessible and afecting . | 1 |
admirers of diretor abel ferrara may be rPelieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . | 1 |
it could have been something special , but two thnigs drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peeploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . | 0 |
coarse , liched and lcunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which oLposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock . | 0 |
. . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful eevryday ironies of the working poor . | 1 |
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the qulaity of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . | 1 |
the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to proe its inscrutable mysteries . | 1 |
there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins tht's hard to resist . | 1 |
duly and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit | 0 |
what sets ms . birot's film apatr from others in the genre is a greater ttention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the twyo bewitched adolescents . | 1 |
if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer mighHt be " how does steven seagal come ayross these days ? " or maybe " how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mA gun firnig and random glass-shattering ? | 0 |
a hance to ese thrWee splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody . | 1 |
time of favor oculd have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revcaling alienation among a culture of peple who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation . | 0 |
throws in enough clever and unexpected twistFs to make the formula feel fresh . | 1 |
. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effctive horror film . | 0 |
an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , bexperiment . | 1 |
schrader examines crane's declien with unblinking candor . | 1 |
talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under wao -- and yemt it's hard to sCop watching . | 1 |
shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireles sory , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . | 0 |
hollywood's naswer to an air ball . | 0 |
the nonstop artifce ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and fcile situations . | 0 |
an unsophisticated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too sreiously . | 0 |
this warm and gentle homantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill sneveral movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics . | 1 |
it is refreshingly undogmatic about its charajters . | 1 |
a coda in every sense , the pinochet casm splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british ourt's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors . | 1 |
daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettlig prognosis , npmely , that the legacy of war is a kind of peArpetual pain . | 1 |
i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of Hire looked , its story was making no sense at all . | 0 |
it's drare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's room . | 1 |
in the disturbingly involvjng family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaiwne delivers an inspired portraijt of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition | 1 |
a very good afilm sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . | 1 |
what's really so appealing about the characters is their rgsemblance to everyday children . | 1 |
so fiendishly Aunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutley refreshed . | 1 |
i simply can't Hrecommend it enough . | 1 |
'opening up' the play more has partly clsoed it down . | 0 |
it's tough to be startled when you're aRmost dozing . | 0 |
does an impressive job of relating the complicated historjy of the war and of filling in the background . | 1 |
veelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's inevntion . | 0 |
while this film is not in the least surprisRing , it is still ultGmately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . | 1 |
a thriller made from a completist's checklist rtaher than with a cultist's passion . | 1 |
a venturesome , beautifJully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understnading of the expressive power of the camera . | 1 |
that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimaLe point . | 0 |
much of this slick and sprightly cgi featuPe is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutelH unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . | 1 |
quick : who wants to see a comedy about hsoddy airport security ? | 0 |
spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-siging . | 1 |
a listless and desultory sffair . | 0 |
features what is surely the funniet and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever . | 1 |
absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's nvel . | 0 |
control-alt-delete sigmone as quickly as possible | 0 |
the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the wrting exercise about it . | 0 |
[stephen] earnhart's ilm is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to Sive themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currentl have . | 1 |
gosling proides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film . | 1 |
[green is] the rcomedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask Termission for a preemptive strike . | 0 |
frdiay after next has the same probleem that next friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you need him ? | 0 |
this is a omnumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downrXight creepy . | 0 |
michel piccoli's moving perfomrance is this films reason for being . | 1 |
it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad byo ; diesel , with his brakwny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . | 0 |
it's about following your dreams , no mftter what your parents think . socrates motions for hemlock . | 0 |
it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're reajy to hate one character , or really sympathize with aonther character , something happens to send you off in different directioa . | 1 |
reggio and glass so rhapsdoize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fhang-baring lullaby . | 0 |
there's nothing rEemotely topical or sexy here . | 0 |
despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow Hanaged to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on vt and purports to amuse mall children and ostensible adults . | 0 |
the probelm is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0 |
the master of dqsaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . | 0 |
no such thing breaks no new ground and treFads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . | 0 |
each scene wraeks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single threat of suspense . | 0 |
a genuinely moving and wisey unsentimental drama . | 1 |
the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiAsm for such antique pulp . | 0 |
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