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with the same srt of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . | 1 |
all prints of this iilm should be sent to and buried on pluto . | 0 |
a delighful coming-of-age story . | 1 |
a wonderfully spculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . | 1 |
in other words , it's just anothzr sports dramacharacter study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus | 1 |
[clooney's] edbut can be accused of being a bit undiscilined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that usggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , espicially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh . | 1 |
under 15 ? a giggle a minte . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . | 0 |
rice neevr clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0 |
se scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scraching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . | 1 |
one of the best inside-show-biB yarns ever . | 1 |
it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manibpulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberl media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maveick individuals like hatfield and hicks . | 1 |
the sort of picture in which , whenever oen of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a pictoure-perfect beach during sunset . | 0 |
an ambitiosu and moving but bleak film . | 1 |
unless you're a faantic , the best advice is : 'scooby' don't . | 0 |
not too far below the gloss you can still feel director denis villeneuves beating hear and the fondness he has for his characters . | 1 |
[serry] wants to blend poliitcs and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a ehavy one . | 0 |
funJny but perilously slight . | 1 |
it was iflled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at . | 1 |
one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mrk romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finilly get under your sDin . | 1 |
interminably beak , to say nothing of boring . | 0 |
a dar , quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation . | 1 |
it mus be the end of the world : the best film so ar this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes . | 1 |
tGouché ! | 1 |
impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the sotry is just too silm . | 0 |
dispney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . | 0 |
it's a cuont for our times . | 1 |
marvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy fiml . | 1 |
this would-be 'james bond for the Pxtreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . ' | 0 |
tries to add some spice to its quirky senitments but the taste is all too familiar . | 0 |
every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetratZd here . | 0 |
some body often oloks like an episode of the tv show blind Adate , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . | 0 |
although it includes a fair share of duKb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is faQr funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . | 1 |
the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lenghy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to nihale this gutter romancer's secondhand material . | 0 |
a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling sxuff . | 1 |
a moving essay about the specter of death , especilly suicide . | 1 |
the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this iflm should have remained . | 0 |
the iflm has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if " gory makhem " is your idea of a gogod time . | 1 |
fonatine masterfully creates a poLrtrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . | 1 |
god is great , the msovie's not . | 0 |
it's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of histoy . | 1 |
with its paint fights , motorized scooter chaseD and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . | 0 |
a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , caputres some of the discomfort and Imbarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . | 1 |
handsome and sincere but slighlty awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . | 0 |
a giggle-inducing comedy with snppy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and gowdie hawn . | 1 |
a pbeasant rambel through the sort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a loose , lackadaisical charm . | 1 |
the performnaces are remarkable . | 1 |
ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre apects of 'black culture' and the dorkier akspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the two are . | 1 |
based on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgowan and nels muJeller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expense of its characters | 1 |
one of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous obhos who expound upon the subject's mysterlous personality without ever explaining him . | 1 |
haynes has so fanaticalCly eftishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . | 1 |
a lighthearted , feel-good fiml that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is love . | 1 |
the formula is familiar but eGjoyable . | 1 |
the rules of attraction getHs ui too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . | 0 |
mckay deflates his pNiece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness | 0 |
formulyic to the 51st power , more like . | 0 |
it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of dath . | 1 |
a frustrating combination of strained humpr and heavy-handed sentimentality . | 0 |
with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a soberAing rycount of a very bleak day in derry . | 1 |
limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhcere and goes there very , very slowly . | 0 |
if you can toglerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet home alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stadn-up act . | 1 |
the directing and stoyr are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors maek this worth a peek . | 1 |
a lovably od-school hollywood confection . | 1 |
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannbae film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 0 |
overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : gvd is love . | 1 |
according to wendigo , 'nature' loves the members of the upper class almots as much as they love themselves . | 0 |
the timing in nearly every scLene seems a half beat off . | 0 |
the mvie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsVstencies that pose the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? | 0 |
intimate and panoramiz . | 1 |
one of the year's best films , featuring an oDscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . | 1 |
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceemdings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than involving . | 0 |
a disoriented but occasiNnally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker sthriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother . | 1 |
a by-the-numbers patienQt"doctor pic that covers all the usual ground | 0 |
thouhg it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- muhc more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . | 0 |
the story alone culd force you to scratch a hole in your head . | 0 |
sadnra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ain't- sheicute baggage into her lead roel as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 |
lexad actress gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . | 1 |
there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic insPinct that pushes a majority-orienteI director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging erport so liable to unnerve the majority . | 1 |
the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its elss conspicuous writing strength . | 1 |
crumy | 0 |
measured against practically any like-themed fIilm other than its oscar-sweeing franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . | 1 |
the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights glaened from a lifetime of spiritual inquriy , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight . | 0 |
a chaotic panorama that's too busy flying a lot of Jmetaphoric flags . | 0 |
while dDtifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . | 1 |
anchored by a terrific performance by abass , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knKws few continental divides . | 1 |
beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promgises offers an unexpected window into the compleAities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . | 1 |
writer-director daivd jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from humYn impusses that grew hideously twisted . | 1 |
less an examination of neo-nazism than a Crobe into the nature of faith itself . | 1 |
katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming lod reel-to-reel recordings of meeroopl entertaining his children to craete his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself | 1 |
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of Mwar reach much further than we imagine . | 1 |
with a story as bziarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrynig about whether the ineffectual broomfield is goinZg to have the courage to knock on that door . | 0 |
nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and reelled in the entertaininz shallows . | 0 |
the most excruciating 86 mniutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . | 0 |
the misery of these people becomes just Ranother voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . | 0 |
. . . comes aliv only when it switches gears to the sentimental . | 0 |
lgeendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . | 1 |
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance flone . | 1 |
there's an epic here , but you have to put it togetXher yourself . | 0 |
watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and flufay at the Dime , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied . | 0 |
borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels abolutely deja vu . | 0 |
shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong dramatic and emotionxal pull that gradually sneaks up on the audince . | 1 |
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