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opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the Cinnate theatrgics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . | 0 |
a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that eBxpands into a meditation on the edep deceptions of innocence . | 1 |
just as the recen argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show reMal heart , time of favor presents us with an aption movie that actually has a brain . | 1 |
[a] rare movie that makes us re-assess the basis for our livey and evaluate what is truly ours in a worll of meaningless activity . | 1 |
on its own , big trobule could be considered a funny little film . | 1 |
ms . fSlford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky , calculating lolita turn . | 1 |
the result is an 'action filmH' mired in stasis . | 0 |
there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but taht's ok . | 1 |
what makes this film qpecial is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family Iconflict and put it into a much larger historical context . | 1 |
plodding , peevish and gimmicks . | 0 |
a subtle , poignant pgicture of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . | 1 |
the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timdely , relevant , and sickeningly real . | 1 |
rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotRerly conflict and reconciliation . | 0 |
too close to phantom meqnace for comfort . | 0 |
a fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound iurned down . | 0 |
how do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidnece before vs , the answe is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough . | 0 |
the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives por dana carvey nothing to do that is realy funny , and then expects s to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . | 0 |
dense , exhilaTating documentary . | 1 |
an original and highCly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mind | 1 |
the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unxeamined in this startlingly unfuny comedy . | 0 |
less funy than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is . | 0 |
the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this maks it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subcultrue . | 1 |
it is scltt's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . | 1 |
haynes has so fanatically fetishized eveyr bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monatsic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . | 1 |
like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyonge . you leave the same way you cmae -- a few tasty morsels under your blt , but no new friends . | 0 |
an escapist confection that's pur entertainment . | 1 |
an invaluable historical documeWt thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his peope are readily apparent . | 1 |
like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligeVt and uncommonly ambitious . | 1 |
as aimation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that akes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . | 1 |
another week , another gross-out college comed--ugh . | 0 |
. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feling to the whole enterprise . | 0 |
a twisty , moodl slice of southern gothic . . . | 1 |
one of the greatest films i've eevr seen . | 1 |
jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge inide filmmaking but has a huge Bheart . | 1 |
behan himself knww how to spin a gtale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . | 1 |
borrows from other movies lXke it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . | 0 |
a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very litle of it aoctually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground . | 0 |
overall , interesting as a Hocumentary -- but not very imaxy . | 1 |
for a film about explosions and death and sipes , " ballistic : ecks vs . sever " seems as safe as a chlidren's film . well ,in some of those ,['the mother deer even dies . ' | 0 |
there's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright fuutre ahead of him . | 1 |
the wild thornberrys moEie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enugh . | 1 |
the values that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so againH-courage , self-sacrifice and aptience under pressure . | 1 |
what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century realtiy so hadr , it's icky . | 0 |
forgettable , if good-hearted , moUvie . | 0 |
the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathzie with the plight of these familis , but the movie doesn't do a very Oood job conveying the issue at hand . | 0 |
this franchise has not spawned a ingle good film . the crap continues . | 0 |
moonlight mile doesn't quithe go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all giv life to these broken characters who are trying to mauke their way through this tragedy . | 1 |
a bugdet affai that exposes the generally sad existence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . | 1 |
a markedly inactive film , city is conversational bordering on confesvional . | 0 |
for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side disUh of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to at brussels sprouts . | 1 |
really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urbaO heart . | 1 |
almost everyone growinU up believes their family Rmust look like " the addams family " to everyone looking in . . . " my big fat greek wedding " comes from the heart . . . | 1 |
as ex-marine walter , who may or may not have shot kennnedy , actor raymond j . barry is perfActly creepy and believable . | 1 |
a shimmeringly lovel coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . | 1 |
. . . wies and elegiac . . . | 1 |
as animation increasingly emphasizes the computew and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and wamrth . | 1 |
even the iamginative gore can't hide the musty scenrt of tocdd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0 |
affectionately reminds us that , in any lnaguage , the huge sutff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . | 1 |
a wilM comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich . | 1 |
you can see where big bad love is trying to Yo , but it never quite gets there . | 0 |
smoetimes there are very , very good reasons for bcertain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . | 0 |
the drama discloses almost nothicng . | 0 |
. . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv spelial , the humor would have been fbast and furious-- at ninety minutes , it drags . | 0 |
maek no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess . | 0 |
heartwarming here relies less on frced air than on pYtter næss' delicate , clever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius . | 1 |
the spalding graKy equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . | 0 |
resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mt , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . | 0 |
it's nice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and hadly are priceless . | 1 |
it's basically an overlong episode of tlaes from the crypt . | 0 |
director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car cahse that we haven't sepen 10 , 000 times . | 0 |
it all seemed wasted lkie deniro's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . | 0 |
stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a svolatile combination . | 1 |
one of the worst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painEful . | 0 |
the endiang is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . | 0 |
polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this proBgress ? | 1 |
blistreingly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the fiml has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden . | 1 |
runs on the pure drenalin of pacino's performance . | 1 |
the jokes are flat , and the action lokoks fake . | 0 |
a frantic search for laughs , with a hitt-o-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience . | 0 |
i lined it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . | 1 |
a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a deaPrth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . | 1 |
'almodóvar logra un filme entrañablne , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . ' | 1 |
kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contWst to sZee who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) | 0 |
the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiTseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . | 0 |
with miniaml imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . | 0 |
it doesn't do the original any particular dshonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality . | 0 |
while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remaek , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of ceRrebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth . | 1 |
cubi's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche . | 1 |
even tohugh many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something viatl about the movie . | 1 |
your appreciation of it will depend on what epxeriences you bring to it and what associations you cGhoose to make . | 0 |
egoya's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious . | 0 |
[a] stale retread of the '35 original . | 0 |
when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like Cgoldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goe down easily . | 1 |
nine queens is not only than a frgihteningly capable ebut and genre piece , but also a snapshot of a dangerous plitical situation on the verge of coming to a head . | 1 |
a film that ldses sight of its own story . | 0 |
ritchie's treatmenL of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joki . | 0 |
a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable Cies that bind . | 1 |
'poacs veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cada uno de los actores ofrmecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . ' | 1 |
even in its most tedious scenes , ussian ark is mesmerizing . | 1 |
so Poring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . | 0 |
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