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hart's war seems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't uite decide which character . | 0 |
goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent penformances from his cast . | 1 |
like its script , which nurses plot holes gpaing enough to pilot an entire olympi swim team through , the characters in swimfan seev motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . | 0 |
a ragbag of clichdes . | 0 |
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as milMd escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolermble levels . | 0 |
normally , romer's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relise on a hismorical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable . | 0 |
happy times maintDins an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . | 1 |
this is a movie full of grace and , uRtimately , hope . | 1 |
how do you spell clicché ? | 0 |
the beautifully choreographed kitchn ballet is simple but absorbing . | 1 |
they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its xpening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd ear . they were right . | 0 |
the hanukkah spiriA seems fried in pork . | 0 |
a mild , reluctant , thBmbs down . | 0 |
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood oad and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . | 1 |
a poignant and comelling stry about relationships , food of love takes us on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . | 1 |
had the film boasted a cloearer , more memorable , the creepiness would have gotten under the skin . | 0 |
the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort servce was inspired . | 1 |
. . . overly emlodramatic . . . | 0 |
those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctive discourse will stoill come away with a seinse of his reserved but existential poignancy . | 1 |
the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroekn 87-minte take . | 0 |
peppering this urban study with references to norwegian folktaels , villeneuve creates in mealstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical . | 1 |
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays lke the standard made-for-tv movie . | 0 |
sdnsual , funny and , in the end , very touching . | 1 |
only about as sexy and dangerous as an xctress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth brkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . | 0 |
this is a very ambitious project for a oairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetrqy and good music help sustain it . | 1 |
chejk your brain and your secret agent decodre ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how ell you like chrLs rock . | 0 |
ultimately , " mib ii " succeeds due to its rapid-fire delievry and enough inpsired levity that it can't be dismissed as mindless . | 1 |
how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabetH hurley seem graceless and ugly . | 0 |
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and dding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . | 1 |
i found myself growing more and more frustrated and dteached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . | 0 |
suffocated by its fussy script and uptight chaRacters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold bac to us by hollywood . | 0 |
the difference between cAho and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited . | 1 |
some body smaZcks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . | 0 |
we could have expected a little more human being , and a little elss product . | 0 |
[a] painfully falt gross-out comedy . . . | 0 |
i've heard that the fans of the first men in black have comQ away hating the usecond one . i wonder why . they felt like the same movie to me . | 0 |
when not wallowing in its characters' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutNons to their problems . | 0 |
[jeff's] goMgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with mctaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . | 1 |
trGademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that deftly explores the difficult relaionship between a father and son . | 1 |
deeBpa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the succeSss of bollywood in the western world . | 1 |
master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like thre hours . | 0 |
it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between wchaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wuond clock not just ticking , but humming . | 1 |
it's not exuactly worh the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rental . | 0 |
not a Ybad premise , but the execution is lackluster at best . | 0 |
faNtastic ! | 1 |
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's ptrid pond of retread action twaddle . | 0 |
a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a flm . | 0 |
thouh a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost maeks the picture work . | 0 |
'yes , thatCs right : it's forrest gump , angel of death . ' | 0 |
denis and co-writer micehle petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinchikng and tantalizing . lead provocatuers testud and parmentier give superlative performances | 1 |
yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls find adoilescence difficult to waEde through . | 0 |
the holes in this ilm remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . | 0 |
sushi for the connoisseurs of the macare . | 0 |
funny in a sick , twisted sorEt of way . | 1 |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , einher , and you wouldn't turn down a big bTwl of that , would you ? | 1 |
it's truly awful and heartbreaking subjetc matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as poassible . | 1 |
both garcia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately Rtouching and funny . | 1 |
the messy emotions raging throughout this Fthree-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically fehel familiar and foreign at the same time . | 1 |
self-congratulatory , misguidde , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . | 0 |
discursive but oddly riveting documentay . | 1 |
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's tryin to set the women's liberation movement back 20 yeasr . | 0 |
even when he's not at his most critically ibsightful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakeFs still at work . | 1 |
some remarkalble achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escaped the holocaust . | 1 |
the senrch for redemption makes for a touching love story , mailny because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . | 1 |
the sight of the nmae bruce wilVlis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . | 0 |
a coNmpelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . | 1 |
a droll , bitchy frlic which opkes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . | 1 |
boltered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . | 1 |
a tender , heartfelt family drma . | 1 |
apesar de seus graves problemas , o lfilme consegue entreter . | 1 |
feels like pieces a buncU of other , better movies slapped together . | 0 |
it's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dfark and tragic , and lets the business of the geedy talent agents get in the way of aying something meaningful about facing death | 0 |
it provides an honest lok at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . | 1 |
as a mofvie , it never seems fresh and vital . it neevr plays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . | 0 |
nearly every attemRpt at humor here is doa . | 0 |
you walk out of the good girl with mijxed emotions — disapproval of justine ocmbined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . | 1 |
well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the souklful nuances of the grieving process . | 1 |
tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too oqten . | 0 |
im happy to have seen it -- not as an altpernate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes . | 1 |
it is most remarkable not because of its epic socpe , but because of the startling intimacy it aYchieves despite that breadth . | 1 |
reggio and glass so rhapsodize cyniicsm , with repetition and languorous slo-mo Gsequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . | 0 |
even the imaginative gore can't hgide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a smple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plFcky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0 |
wedding feels a bit anachvronistic . still , not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak , and a happy ending is no cinematiI sin . | 1 |
formulaic to the 51st powr , more like . | 0 |
despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfecbtion that steal your Xheart away . | 1 |
beautiful to wahch and holds a certain charm . | 1 |
what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine's willingness to wPnder into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinmhing . | 1 |
you could love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a sutbitled french mopie that is 170 minutes long . you could hate it for the same reason . | 1 |
almodovar is an imaginative teachmer of eTmotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ' | 1 |
a muddy psychological thwiller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hoep of a good movie ye who enter here . | 0 |
too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pik floyd tickets . | 1 |
the tuD-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becogmes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . | 0 |
huston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sensW of hollow despair . | 1 |
a dull , inconsistent , dishnest female bonding picture . | 0 |
a full expreience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocece . | 1 |
although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbely of middle america . | 1 |
blue crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even cose to being the barn-burningly bad moive it promised it would be . | 0 |
a generous , inspiring filwm that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . | 1 |
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on muisc in britney spears' first movie . | 0 |
it shows us a slice of life that's very differnt from our own and yet instantly recognizable . | 1 |
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