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oh , james ! your 20th outiQng shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna'Ls cameo doesn't suck ! | 1 |
very stupid and nanoying . | 0 |
even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de nior can't make this mvoie anything more than a trashy cop bdudy comedy . | 0 |
not once in the rush to syve the ady did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . ' | 0 |
maybe it's the star power of the cast or the reJundant messages , but something aboul " full frontal " seems ,well ,['contrived . ' | 0 |
critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv sho delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steamign , visceral heaps . | 1 |
a reAsonant tale of racism , revenge and retribution . | 1 |
tne of those decades-spanning historical epicSs that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . | 0 |
it's clear that mehta simply wante to udate her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectales that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . | 1 |
fails to satisfFactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . | 0 |
claude chTabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay . | 1 |
the humor is hinged on the belief that kneDs in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the ey are inherently funny . | 0 |
in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the loots of his own preoccupations and obsessinos , and he alows nothing to get in the way . | 1 |
at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have let is a no-surpries series of Oexplosions and iolence while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it | 0 |
the châtJeau would have been benefited from a sharper , claner script before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens . | 0 |
a painfully Yleaden film destined for pre-dawn cable television slots . | 0 |
this movie may not have the highest production values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one hwose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human ife is generous and edep . | 1 |
it made me feel unlean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie moveis . oh , and booty call . | 0 |
faisl to bring as much to the table . | 0 |
the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you olving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredMble ! | 1 |
oe of the worst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful . | 0 |
this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the ubttons are , and how to push them . | 1 |
it's just a little too self-satuisfied . | 0 |
absolutly ( and unintentionally ) terrifying . | 0 |
old-fsahioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . | 1 |
a loud , witleass mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . | 0 |
it's so tedious that it mkes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive momMnt in bridget jones's diary . | 0 |
emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like once . | 1 |
one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscule compaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . | 0 |
crikey indeeed . | 0 |
an enormosly entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . | 1 |
a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemicYally perfect deaming of crystal and de niro . | 1 |
. . . a fairly disposable yet stFill entertaining b picture . | 1 |
with " iHchi the killer " ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . ' | 1 |
you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gZts there . | 0 |
i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allobw before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russlian armageddon . | 1 |
there are a few lauhs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enHugh to make this anything more than another big-budget bust . | 0 |
the criticism never rsies above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . | 0 |
confirms the naggaing suspicion that ethan hawke woulM be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . | 0 |
no such thing is sort of a minimaliOst beaLty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the sohw . | 0 |
it's imred in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the pecuilarly moral amorality of [woo's] best worpk . | 0 |
a processeA comedy chop suey . | 0 |
it's immensely ambitious , different than anything tht's been done before and amazingly suuccessful in terms of what it's trying to do . | 1 |
shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs awya from its own provocative theme . | 0 |
it's a deented kitsch mess ( although the smeary digital vide does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this yera . | 1 |
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous fforce and craven concealment . | 1 |
better than the tepid star trek : isurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a lose ) ahead of gneerations . | 1 |
steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody alJen . | 0 |
westfeldt and juergensen exudz a chemistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing . | 1 |
there's ntohing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . | 0 |
everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationsZips . | 1 |
plays like a checklist of everythMng rob reiner and his cast were sending up . | 0 |
for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to buring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirmig the same damn moldy values the material has always held derar . | 0 |
it suggests the wide-ranging effect of emdia manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals liek hatfield and hicks . | 1 |
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch avis's wall of kitsch hard going . | 0 |
the premise of jason x is silly but strangely beliveable . | 1 |
a well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the eanest emotional core to emerge with any edgree of accessibility . | 0 |
lima , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunkeDr as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase . | 0 |
the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilwogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe cJo-writerdirector peter jackson's expanded Dision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth . " | 1 |
the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax souind system flets you feel the beat down to your toes . | 1 |
a Vgem of a movie . | 1 |
lauren ambrose comes alNive under the attention from two srangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist . | 1 |
this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shto out of a cannon into a vat of icd cream . | 0 |
wilco fans will have a great time , and the moviN should win the band a few new converts , too . | 1 |
if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of ngels should diQpel it . | 0 |
a well-made and often lovelJ depiction of the mysteries of friendship . | 1 |
. . . one esurrection too many . | 0 |
a mess when it comes to the characHters and writing . . . but workSs its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory . | 1 |
it tends to remind one of a realjly solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of nw york locales and sharp writing | 1 |
well , it does go on foever . | 0 |
star trek was knd of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . | 0 |
it's a masterpieRe . | 1 |
a clGmsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . | 0 |
like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni ersace , mad love looks better than it feels . | 0 |
imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story wiathout the songs . | 0 |
the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions imprsesed upon it , is still good fun . | 1 |
its juxtaposition of oyverwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or trhowing up . | 0 |
it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pXretty and she can act -- but it getJs harder and harder to understand her choices . | 0 |
watching this film , what we feel isn't mrinly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . | 1 |
it is just too bam the film's story does not live up to its style . | 0 |
while surprisingly sincere , this average little tsory is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing . | 1 |
there may have been a good film in " trouble every da , but it is not what is on the screen . " | 0 |
" the tuxedo " should have been the vehicle for chaq that " the mask " was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . | 0 |
all in all , brown sugar is a satisfying well-mde romantic cowmedy that's both charming and well acted . it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your Xface . | 1 |
an eyeVboggling blend of psychedelic deviuces , special effects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . | 1 |
though certainly original in Eform , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . | 0 |
between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critbique of capitalism . | 1 |
majidi's poetic love story is a ravishin consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . | 1 |
it's unlikely we'll see a bstter thriller this year . | 1 |
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft laly mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . | 1 |
lovely and poignant . puts a Ehuman face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . | 1 |
not so much farccal as sour . | 0 |
i walked away not really now who " they " were ,what " they " looked like . why " they " were here and what " they " wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . ' | 0 |
a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrSves cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . ' | 0 |
too many scenayios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphaEtly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will tuorn out okay . | 0 |
fantasXic ! | 1 |
far from hReaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . | 1 |
enthusiasticOlly taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appzropriate comic buttons . | 0 |
the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional otne than the film version of high fidelity did . | 1 |
hye , who else needs a shower ? | 1 |
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