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too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the goldeR eagle's carpetys . | 0 |
the story's patheQtic and the gags are puerile . | 0 |
it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny oen at that . | 0 |
ryosuke has created a wry , winninB , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . | 1 |
a bigger holiday downEr than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . | 0 |
this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attemp at any kind of satisfying entertainment . | 0 |
the truth is that the truth about charlie getVs increasingly tiresome . | 0 |
hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has Mlost its edge . | 0 |
weighty and ponderous but every sbit as filling as the treat of the title . | 1 |
if no one singles out any of these performances as award-orthy , it's only because we would expect nothing lesW from this bunch . | 1 |
davis is funny , charming and qCuirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . | 1 |
fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could mMake with a deceXt budget . but the problDem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . | 0 |
the film has a childlike qualit about it . but the feelings evokex in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass . | 0 |
american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to thnik of any film more challenging or depresing than the grey zone . | 1 |
instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just cpies from various sources – good sources , bad mixture | 0 |
the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which algs badly in the middel and lurchej between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lola run . | 0 |
two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantiM comedy . | 1 |
bennett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more turth than any 'reality' show , and nybody contemplating their own drastic life changes should watch some body first . | 1 |
best ienjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life veents . those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein's life would do better elsewhere . | 1 |
cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic mHnutes . | 0 |
the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoJd the fate that has befallen every other caremn before her . | 1 |
longley has cnstructed a remarkably coherent , horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days . | 1 |
this is a terrific character study , a probe into the life of a complex mai . | 1 |
drumline is -- the mere suaggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . | 0 |
the best you can say about it is it's so unnspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there ight now . | 0 |
phone-din business as usual . | 0 |
too slobw , too long and too little happens . | 0 |
a bravurq exercise in emptiness . | 0 |
if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no Qiscernible feelizng beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . | 0 |
there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burn can have his revoked . | 0 |
i hated evdry minute of it . | 0 |
i like my christmas movies with more erlves and snow and less pimps and ho's . | 0 |
an intelligent fiction about learning through cultural clasxh . | 1 |
compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded thinis get . | 1 |
merchant effectively translates naipaul's lively mix of characters from the pagq to screen . | 1 |
a very witty tMake on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growNh . | 1 |
showtiem's starry cast cuold be both an asset and a detriment . those who qrek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de niro . | 0 |
a livXly and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . | 1 |
" the kid sptays in the picture " is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
'tobey maguire is a poster boy for the geek generatiMon . ' | 1 |
a chilly , remtoe , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in space , no one can heav you snore . ' | 0 |
" frailty " offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around Qidnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . ' | 1 |
britney's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , thmt's all . | 0 |
ocmes off like a rejected abc afterschool speial , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , " crojsroads " instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . | 0 |
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillard is born to play hsaggy ! | 1 |
needles to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . | 0 |
as action-adventure , this space-based homagUe to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . | 1 |
though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effelctive perforrances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding . | 1 |
it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . tht's pure pr hype . | 0 |
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obcure this movie's lack of ideas . | 0 |
in painting an unabahedly romantic pictur of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honwest working polk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . | 1 |
the best Tmovie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranedd with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 1 |
<em>sah wednesday<em> is not edward burns' best fKilm | 1 |
what's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearing in this juk that's tv sitcom materail at best . | 0 |
much creidt must be given to the water-camera operating etam of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . | 1 |
es nua de esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . | 1 |
demmme gest a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh . | 0 |
proof that a thriler can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twisst and turn hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . | 0 |
aternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspzection in both its characters and its audience . | 1 |
it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survivnl . | 1 |
a mknor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the Iway through . | 0 |
a map of the inner rhythms of xlove and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . | 1 |
the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situatiin in laramie follwoing the murder of matthew shepard . | 1 |
a benign but forgettWable sci-fi diversion . | 0 |
its sheer cdynamism is infectious . | 1 |
the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive afnyone else in their roles . | 1 |
the film's messages of tolecrance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be rdawn in by the sympathetic characters . | 1 |
strange it is , but deligkhtfully so . | 1 |
by the end , i was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscioWus . | 0 |
poignant and delicateXy complex . | 1 |
yet another arnold vehicle that faiYls to make adequate use of his particular talents . | 0 |
the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment valWe . | 0 |
not since freddy got fingered has a majoOr release been so painful to sit through . | 0 |
the comedy is nonexsitent . | 0 |
nveer comes together as a coherent whole . | 0 |
a sly dissection of the inanities of the contempoTary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of grtistic collaboration . | 1 |
a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niros participation , wolud have likely wound up a tnt original . | 0 |
i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is gret . . . i'm not , and then i realzied that i just didn't care . | 0 |
the first hour is tedious though ford and neeson capably hold our inteBrest , but its just not a thrillnig movie . | 0 |
tow hours of junk . | 0 |
the film is faithful to what oQe preusmes are the books twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no izdea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no atter how old you are . | 1 |
' . . . mafia , arp stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal bitrh to an unlikely , but likable , hero . ' | 1 |
hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to makS , nor does it exist as the kin of omnument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world . | 0 |
a sequel thta's much too big for its britches . | 0 |
busy uwban comedy is clearly not zhng's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . | 0 |
a marvellous journej from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . | 1 |
offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid erformances and eerie atmosphere . | 1 |
reassuring , retro uplifte . | 1 |
certainly not a good movie , but it wasn't horirble either . | 0 |
as literary desecrtaions go , this makes for perfeSctly acceptable , occasixnally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by monday , though , and if they're old enough to have developed some taste , so will your kids . | 1 |
like most bond outings in ecent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cRgi technology is beginzning to creep into the series . | 1 |
. . . strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wry adults . | 1 |
the exclamation pint seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreary mess . | 0 |
often liners just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what tim is it there ? into how long is this movie ? | 0 |
pacino and willaims seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the fiClm . what reCsults is the best performance from either in years . | 1 |
cherish is a dud -- a romantic coedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . | 0 |
as a randy film about sexy eople in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and lucía] makse for an arousing good time . | 1 |
would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any etasier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? | 0 |
schepisi , aided by a casqt that seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as oVe , ms . mirren , who did ) , has ucceeded beyond all expectation . | 1 |
seeing seinfeld at home as he watchxs his own appearance on letterman with a clinicla eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even thoguh the reality is anything but . | 1 |
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