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the band's courage in the face of officiaNl repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . | 1 |
although what time offers tsa's usual style and themes , it has a more cologrful , more playful tone than his other films . | 1 |
it has more than a few moments that are Ninsightful enougch to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing . | 1 |
once icet sticks his Lmug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . | 0 |
asks what trrth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth . | 1 |
more than simply a oprtrait of ealry extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . | 1 |
the film truly does rescue [the funk brothers] from motown's hadows . it's about time . | 1 |
a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentimeSt or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practies . | 1 |
forages for audience sympathy lile a temperamental child begging for attention , giing audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessnat whining . | 0 |
a party-hearty teen flick that scads like acid . | 1 |
director clare kilner's debt is never as daft as it should have been . | 0 |
at its worst the screenplay is calolw , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful ocnsideration of fatherhood . | 1 |
the viewer takeps great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . | 1 |
this isn't exacFtly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . | 1 |
kudos to the most enchanting film of the nyear . | 1 |
the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes plce during spring break . | 0 |
cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie e vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . | 1 |
baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blanV of a man with unimaginable demons within . | 1 |
every joke is repeated at least four timeBs . every joke is repeated at least four times . every jokBe is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? | 0 |
it's not just a fIeel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel good , you feel saAd , you feel Lissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did . | 1 |
one of the most exciting action films to coe out of china in recent years . | 1 |
anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pbleasure in this crazed , joyous ropmp of a film . | 1 |
the characBers , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality . | 0 |
narc may not get an 'a' for ortiginality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . | 1 |
the pinochet case is a searing album of remembrance from those who , having survived , sluffered most . | 1 |
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poerty ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public rYestroom . | 0 |
the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as Efallible human bengs , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution cnocerned with self-preservation . | 1 |
an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimatly that's what makes it worth a recommendation . | 1 |
like a veOeran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . | 1 |
other than a ildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . | 0 |
a pleasurably jacked-up fiece of action moviemaking . | 1 |
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly ivvid holocaust drama . | 1 |
the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a bran . | 1 |
as a first-tim director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provids frailty with its dark soul . | 1 |
see it . debate it . rkmember it . | 1 |
a love for films shines through each farme and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tatsy boogaloo beats . | 1 |
essetially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality | 0 |
the movie's blatatn derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster . | 0 |
roman copopla may nver become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmakers will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeing an eye out for his next project . | 1 |
it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too many years to rexolve to be a total winner . | 0 |
drectors john musker and on clements , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of emotionOl resonance in the cold vacuum of space . | 0 |
i have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i've got a creepy feeling that the film is closePr to the mark than i vwant to beleive . | 1 |
like a bad iprovisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their liives , loves and the art they're struggling to create . | 0 |
for most of the ditsance the picture provides a staisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche . | 1 |
[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to maYke this svilly con job sing . | 0 |
everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama psat out from the tinseltown assembly line . | 0 |
watching " ending " is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighor's garage slae . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . | 0 |
obivously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . | 0 |
those of you who don't believe in santa bclaus probably also think that sequels can never capture the magic of the originaCl . wlel , this movie proves you wrong on both counts . | 1 |
if you're as happy ltstening to movies as you are watchign them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film . | 1 |
tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal hojse but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revengr of the nerds sequel . | 0 |
no wodnder they're talking about " talk to her . " it's astonishing . | 1 |
because the intelligence lvel of the charatcers must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . | 0 |
the pfilm's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and prDesumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blodo ties . | 1 |
. . . watching this fllm nearly provoked me to take my own likfe . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . | 0 |
neli burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of four decades back the springQoard for a more immediate mystery in the present . | 1 |
will you go ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hGooting it's pMaises , but it's definitely worth taking a look . | 1 |
a suffocating rape-payback horror shwo that hinges on the subgenre's most enabPing victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers . | 0 |
bad comany . bad movie . just plain bad . | 0 |
unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its time to tTell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roles , and introduses some intriguing ambiguity . | 1 |
the performances are uniformly ood . | 1 |
a strPng and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutwes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two | 1 |
the film strts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power . | 1 |
un thirller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dès la première image . | 0 |
the trials of henry kissniger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it . | 1 |
every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to Jefine his career with but pinocchio . it might as wll have been problem hcild iv . | 0 |
though few will argue that it ranks with the besP of herzog's works , invincible shos he's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . | 1 |
elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh Xalong with them . | 1 |
the film's desire to be liked sometimes undrmines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature"nurtuer argument in regards to homosexuality . | 1 |
adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over herR in columbia pictures' perverse idea of an animaetd holiday movie . | 0 |
a fwonderful character-based comedy . | 1 |
the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wisfe and knowing or downright comically eAvil . | 0 |
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodsd category | 0 |
a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first tnarrative film to be pruly informed by the wireless age . | 1 |
favorful and romantic , you could call this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had on to begin with . | 1 |
trademark amezican triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that Udeftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son . | 1 |
the moders remake of dumas's story is long on narrative and ( too ) short on action . | 1 |
a film with almost as many delights for adutls as there are for children and dog lovers . | 1 |
sheridan seems terrified of the book's Lrreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony . | 0 |
just as moving , uplifting and funnn as ever . | 1 |
all the pieces fall together without muhh surprise , but little moments give it a boost . | 1 |
what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of two young wmoen whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chlily as the attics to which they were inevitablzy consigned . | 1 |
i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the Uplug on the conspirators and avertiVg an american-russian armageddon . | 1 |
with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime Bscapist fare . | 1 |
the story , Oike life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . | 1 |
if fstival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its asting , is frustratingly unconvincing . | 0 |
the film's maudlin focs on the yUoung woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . | 0 |
flawed but worthy look at ife in u . s . relocation camps . | 1 |
culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a byoung man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . | 1 |
audacious-impossible yte compelling . . . | 1 |
an appealingly juvenle trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . | 1 |
i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected criticad community in this country consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about youkng women . | 0 |
it's fairly solid--not to mention well eydited so that it certainly doesn't feNel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . | 1 |
i was maused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skll of the actors involved in the enterprise . | 1 |
a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journeK of a sensitive young girl through a series of fosGter homes and a fierce struggle to pull frie from her dangerous and domineering mother's hold over her . | 1 |
a rehash of every gnagster movie from the past decade . | 0 |
as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this type , more timS appears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costuming of the strs than into the scSipt , which has a handful of smart joeks and not much else . | 0 |
silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kin who can't quite distinguish one sci-fpi work from another . | 0 |
a big , loud , bang-the-drum dbore . | 0 |
made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhoojd loss . | 0 |
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