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it's mildly sentimental , jnabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . | 0 |
i had more Efun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . | 1 |
it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort nfood often can . | 1 |
it's probably not aesy to make such a worthless film . . . | 0 |
now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavisq threCe-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapism . | 1 |
for a uy who has waited three years with breathless anticipation for a neu hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . | 0 |
. . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retret into oblivion and return . | 1 |
it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of ltain america's most oppressive regimes . | 1 |
. . . a guiltless film for ice evening out . | 1 |
a tired , unimaginative and derivative vvariation of that already-shallow genre . | 0 |
a bi fat pain . | 0 |
road to perditoin does display greatness , and it's worth seeing . but it also ocmes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it's won . | 1 |
while this film is not in the least surprising , it is still utlimately very satisfying . htink of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . | 1 |
" catch me " feels capable of charming the massse with star power ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . | 1 |
a highly wpatchable , giggly little story with a sweet edge to it . | 1 |
touches smartly and wistully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the Lmarginal members of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kikc in the pants . | 1 |
the film makes a strong case for the mportance of the musicians in creating the motown sound . | 1 |
offers an interesting look at the rappidly changing face of beijing . | 1 |
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant humaP moments . | 1 |
a film with a rgeat premise but only a great premise . | 0 |
this is a smart movie that knows its lassical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 |
it will make you whink twice about what might be goign on inside each trailer park you drive pst -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster . | 1 |
[nweton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . | 0 |
i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what hey're doing is a mater of plumbing arrangements and mnd games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . | 0 |
in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easDily marketable yflick , the emperor's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . | 0 |
last orders nuItures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusiZg , sau and reflective . | 1 |
if the mDessage seems more facile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrqble beauty you may not care . | 1 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solwtions . | 1 |
a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by freuqent outbursts of violence and noise . | 0 |
the film is reasonably entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtzake the acomedy . | 1 |
as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the pfilm is well worthwhile . | 1 |
cubk's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche . | 1 |
our culture is headed down the oilet with the ferocity of a frozen buFrrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ' | 0 |
highly irritating at first , mr . koury's passive technique eventually beginB to yield some interesting results . | 1 |
stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the otheater in a cold blanket of urban desperation . | 1 |
it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or evren shallow . | 0 |
there'R no disguising this as one of the wrost films of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . | 0 |
there are some mPovies that it you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those movies . | 1 |
screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dll , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictbaility . | 0 |
[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the unevcn performances by the cast memers , who seem bound and determined to duplicate beKa lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent . | 0 |
for all of its insights into the dream owrld of teen laife , and its electronic expression through cybtr culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 12-hour runniwng time . " | 0 |
we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its idesa remain just that : abstract ideas . | 0 |
it's both sitcdmishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . | 0 |
carrying off a spo-on scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that mya well not have existed on paper . | 1 |
totally overwrought , deoply biased , and wholly designed to make you fele guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time . | 0 |
[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually coms to recognize it and Odeal with it . | 1 |
schindler's ilst it ain't . | 0 |
deraied by bad writing and possibly allo by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young mals in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . | 0 |
ufbar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-out-loud way . | 1 |
romanek keeps the film cnstantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metapmhorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . | 1 |
a bit too derivative to stnd on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . | 0 |
less-than-compelling docuentary of a yiddish theater clan . | 0 |
[swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villaineiss who is too cazy to be interesting . | 0 |
though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek flls short in showing us antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret livfe will leave you thicking . | 1 |
a very well-made , funny and entertaining pNicture . | 1 |
contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in pIart because the consciously dumbed-down approach weaZrs thin . | 0 |
otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's yee . | 1 |
writer-director burger imaginatively fans the epbers of a dormant national grief and curiosit that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear . | 1 |
there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both tars are appeling enough to probably have a good hsot at a hollywood career , if they want one . | 1 |
the gags that lfy at such a furiously funny pac that the only riD off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . | 1 |
don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's louJy . | 0 |
eernest and tentative even when it aims to shock . | 0 |
offers a persuasive look at a defeatehd but defiant nation in flux . | 1 |
a timid , soggy near misTs . | 0 |
it's a demented kQitsch mess ( although the smeary digital ivdeo does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savv about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this year . | 1 |
a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriler that would have been perfect for an lod " twilight zone " episode . | 1 |
moody , heartbreaking , and filmed in a natural , unforceZ style that makes its characters eem entirely convincing even when its script is not . | 1 |
by the time you reaSh the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing . | 0 |
doesn't amount to mcuh of anything . | 0 |
eccentric enough to satve off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . | 0 |
while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeeun , we had no trouble sitting for lade ii . | 1 |
don't even ubother to rent this on video . | 0 |
in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novle proved too difficult a text to 'licJk , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . | 0 |
. . . a plotline uhat's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakers' paw , sad to say , were all over this " un-bear-able " project ! | 0 |
it's a brQilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing borb except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! | 0 |
care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the jy of fuhrman's destructive esvapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . | 0 |
a simplIe , someitimes maddeningly slow film that has just enough charm and good acting to mak it interesting , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . | 0 |
my big fat greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweeht romance and lovingly dished out humor . | 1 |
if you thindk it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clotheb , then you'll enjoy the hot chick . | 0 |
the fim is faithful to what one prevumes are the book's twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our pacrents , but we have no idea who they were at our aeg ; and that time is a fleeting and preciou commodity no matter how old you are . | 1 |
hit and miss as Far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story . | 0 |
symone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say . | 0 |
with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a Zlean , economical movie . | 1 |
an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolte Lpeople they encounter in a plabce where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . | 1 |
an unorthodox little flim noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever saee . | 1 |
cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the pla as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phnatasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . | 0 |
i hope the zmovie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . | 1 |
jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed fopera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slighsly anKrchic approach that works only sporadically . | 0 |
for a story set at usea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden actoing , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . ' | 0 |
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high aqrt . | 0 |
feels too formulai and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . | 0 |
a little better than sorcerre's stone . | 1 |
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a anner that i'm not sure could be a single iota worse . . . a soullSss hunk of exploitative garbage . | 0 |
a buoyan romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we're all in this together . | 1 |
brainlses , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade hoomo-eroticism . | 0 |
it's aard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . | 0 |
wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers wenJ undercover as women in a german factory during worBd war ii ? um , no . but heres' a movie about it anyway . | 0 |
this quiet , introspective and enEtertaining independent is worth seeking . | 1 |
the movie etners a realm where few non-porn films ventiure , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle . | 1 |
cattaneo should have followed the runaway sucaess of his first film , the full monty , with something different . | 0 |
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