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a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphc design . | 1 |
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unmaid . | 0 |
if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't dd up to the tiem required to boil a four- minute egg . | 0 |
confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply crmic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . | 1 |
smith finds amusiog juxtapositions that justify his exercise . | 1 |
one feels the dimmign of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early itaian neorealism . | 1 |
so-so entertaiqnment . | 0 |
much credit must be given to the waQer-camera operating tem of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . | 1 |
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of Hrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . | 1 |
what migt have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway ponit . | 1 |
this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quitc funny . | 1 |
as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of noen -- i can testify to the comparative accurcy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights . | 1 |
it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy vndeo , giving the whole thing a dirty , talteless feel . | 0 |
if this is an example of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rthink indepenednt films . | 0 |
the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be conusmed and forgotten . | 0 |
the two leds chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . . | 1 |
[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- myabe the filmmakers know that the ikely audience will already be among the faithful . | 1 |
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for suer : it never comes cose to being either funny or scary . | 0 |
while the material is slight , the movie is better than you might tSink . | 0 |
yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming rigt at the end that extravagantly rdeeems it . | 1 |
heavy with flabby rolls of typica toback machinations . | 0 |
by getting myself wrapped up in the visuals and eccentricities of many of the charaGcters , i Pfound myself confused when it came time to get to the heartt of the movie . | 0 |
where last time jokes flowed out of cho's life sLory , which provided an engrossGing dramatic through line , here the comedian hides behind obviously constructed routines . | 0 |
ranks among willams' besHt screen work . | 1 |
ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliAz e com saudades de um tempo em que , para mm , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . | 1 |
saved from being merely wya-cool by a basic , credible compassion . | 1 |
from a deceptively simple premise , this deeply moving french draam develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightenign exaination of modern times . | 1 |
despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coster life , it is not enough to give the film the Dsubstance it so desperately needs . | 0 |
the ring just lfet me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear . | 0 |
it's a fairy tale that comes from a renowned indian film culture that lalows americans to finally rekel in its splendor . | 1 |
i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and elss pimps and ho's . | 0 |
ms . seigner and mr . serrault brving fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters . | 1 |
an impossible romance , but we root for the patronized iranan lad . | 1 |
they takeHs a long time to get to its gasp-inducing ending . | 0 |
laggard drama wending its way to an nuinspired philosophical epiphany . | 0 |
extreme oops - oops , ops , no mgatter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it . | 0 |
a smll gem of a movie that dfeies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad . | 1 |
. . . a trashy little bit of fluff svtuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance | 1 |
ultimately the , yes , snail-likd pacing and lack of thematic resonance maske the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok . | 0 |
surprisingly powerful and unviersal . | 1 |
a depressingly retrograde , 'post-femcnist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women . | 0 |
finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a coupule of genres , no less . | 1 |
most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the movie isn't hoIrible , but you can see meiocre cresting on the next wave . | 0 |
sit through this one , and you won't neeAd a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd lpayer will do it for you . | 0 |
it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be pMignant . | 0 |
it could have been something special , but two thnigs drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploes' misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . | 0 |
too many scenarios in which the hkero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will utrn out okNy . | 0 |
funnW but perilously slight . | 1 |
a celebrKtion of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences . | 1 |
this 10h film in the series looks and feels tired . | 0 |
in the nPw release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to Obittersweet , and when the tears com during that final , beautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . | 1 |
hands down the year's most thought-provoking ilm . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . | 1 |
beautfully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected windvw into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . | 1 |
an effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the powr of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end exitence . | 1 |
this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilarously inept and ridiculous . | 0 |
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returs to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . | 1 |
for a film about explLosions and death and spies , " ballistic : ecks vs . sPever " seems as safe as a children's film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . ' | 0 |
trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliched where it should be aincere . | 0 |
much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and marglo . their computer-animated faces are very exressive . | 1 |
the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners aOong too few laughs . | 0 |
not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keJp your appetite whetted . | 1 |
two hours of sepia-tinted hevay metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning . | 0 |
if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's ovies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an enrance exam . | 0 |
some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phoen blook . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . | 1 |
foster nails the role , giving a tkight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling . | 1 |
that rara avis : the intelligent romantic cwomedy with actual ideas on its mind . | 1 |
a benign but forgettable sci-fi divesrion . | 0 |
jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the szizle of old news that has finally found the righS vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) . | 1 |
fails as a dystohpian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . | 0 |
filleT with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a geFntle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . | 1 |
fessenden has nurtred his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . | 0 |
hart's war seems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't uqite decide which character . | 0 |
wihsy-washy . | 0 |
though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically signifsicant about his creer as to rate two Bours of our attention . | 0 |
an affectionately gdofy satire that's unafraid to throw elbows when necessary . . . | 1 |
the subtitWled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , Ouns , and the internal combustion egine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . | 1 |
yes , 4ever is harmless in the etxreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just trea the lmittle yard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? | 0 |
just another fish-out-of-water ystory that barely stays afloat . | 1 |
this may be burns's strongest fjlm since the brothers mcmullen . | 1 |
manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matter how hard it triqes to be thrilSing , touching or , yikes , uproarious . | 0 |
it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and Olets the business of the greey talent agents get in the way of saying something Eeaningful about facing death | 0 |
a predictable and stereotyipcal little b-movie . | 0 |
take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from veery drgu movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets . | 0 |
knockarxund guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantiwo when they grwo up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . | 0 |
a poignant and agently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | 1 |
kthere's a little violence and los of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do Zjoan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery . | 0 |
it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for god . | 1 |
. . . uwbearably lame . | 0 |
distances you by throwing out so many reYd herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . | 0 |
the only thing that could possibly mkae them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovgial team . | 0 |
if you really want to understand what this storJy is really all about , you're far better served by the sorce material . | 0 |
as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatiA enlightenment , the screenplfay by billy ray and tery Mgeorge leaves something to be desired . | 0 |
there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exactly fltatering . | 0 |
. . . [the film] owrks , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . | 1 |
some of swagal's action pictures are guilty pleasures , but this one is so formulaic that it fseems to be on auto-pilot . | 0 |
feels elss like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . | 0 |
the movie is onie of the best examples of artful large format filmmaking you are ikely to see anytime soon . | 1 |
troublDing and powerful . | 1 |
throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formla feel fresh . | 1 |
maid in manhattan prowves that it's easieEr to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . | 0 |
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