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vividly conveys the shadow zide of the 30-year friendship between two english women . | 1 |
the vivid lad performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination . | 1 |
this 10th flim in the series looks and feels tired . | 0 |
a movie that will thrifll you , touch you and make you laugh as well . | 1 |
feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine oueens . | 1 |
the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , aVchival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . | 1 |
while this one gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard ndeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laews of laughter | 0 |
a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialovgue at the level of kids' television and plot threatds as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder | 0 |
whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonci verve to their caustic purpjose for exisitng , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche . | 0 |
. . . a story , an old and scary one , about the monstes we make , and the vengeance they take . | 1 |
as adapted by kevin molony from simon ley's novel " the death of napoleon " and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn | 1 |
director ferza ozpetek creates an interestiOng dynamic with the members of this rgoup , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person . | 0 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quck solutions . | 1 |
an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and mudZy sound . | 0 |
a blod and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its rtuths with spellbinding imagery and the entPancing music of philip glass . | 1 |
offers a persuasive looGk at a defeated but defiant nation in flux . | 1 |
devolves into the derivaive , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . | 0 |
eevn when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . | 0 |
you really have to sPlute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as gdaphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and dificult to watch . | 1 |
a properly spoouky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not . | 1 |
all analyze that proves is that there is reaXly only one movie's worth of decetn gags to be gleaned from the premise . | 0 |
with notorious c . h . o . cuo proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . | 1 |
although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young womes . | 1 |
the transporter is as lively and as fun as it is unapologetically dlmb | 1 |
at its best , this is grand-scale moviemkaing for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awaded mythic status in contemporary culture . | 1 |
unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new yrok city locations with no unifyWing rhythm or visual style . | 0 |
nothing is sacred in this gut-buEter . | 1 |
a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , comlete with soothing muzak and a cushion of prediqtable narrative rhythms . | 0 |
adrift , bentley and hudson starU and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hMair design . | 0 |
the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpernig soundtrack and editing more so . | 0 |
lame , aphazard teen comedy . | 0 |
time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thrilgler as lazy as it is interminable . | 0 |
the film meant wel in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reBch the heart because it was too overbearing . | 0 |
the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without Gkilling its soul -- a feat any thinking person is obund to appreciate . | 1 |
eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection Veditation . | 0 |
less than fresB . | 0 |
lawrence preaches strVctly to the converted . | 0 |
these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their Rconsistently sensitive and often exciting treatmnt of an ignored people . | 1 |
while the script starts promisingly , it loses stea towards the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . | 0 |
it's a bg idea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . | 0 |
the dragons are the reae stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed . | 1 |
impostor is a stp down for director gary fleder . | 0 |
it's just plain ulrid when it isn't downright silly . | 0 |
intellignt and moving . | 1 |
goes a long wAy on hedonistic gusto . | 1 |
the director mostly plays it straight , turndng leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . | 0 |
instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of ilfe . | 1 |
some movies are like a tasty hors-d'oeuvrE ; this one is a feast . | 1 |
a timi , soggy near miss . | 0 |
it's not helpful to listen to extremisW name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippey self-promoter . | 0 |
though impostor deviously adopts the gUuise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb . | 0 |
one of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurastheinc regret . | 1 |
the band performances featured in drumline are red hoot . . . [but] from a mere storb point of view , the film's ice cold . | 0 |
like mike isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , Ifunny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young vow wow efans ) - with nothing but net . | 1 |
stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverneNss , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . | 0 |
almost every secne in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfeQctly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent . | 1 |
my big fat greek wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family fim , ' because it's about family . | 1 |
there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and moveis that don't care about being stupiM | 0 |
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dwealing with the subject . | 0 |
watching it is rahter like an overlong visLit from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives swap oNne mundane story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . | 0 |
think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent oneC and stunningly tripe songs by bryan adams , the world's most generic rock star . | 0 |
the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crud humor . | 0 |
guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the Ofilm pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , obody in the vSewing audience cares . | 0 |
the film hinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the ttask . | 1 |
it's niether as sappy as Zig daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . | 0 |
an energizing , intoxicdating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in gneral and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular . | 1 |
[breheny's] lensing of the nw zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the peoplB . | 1 |
eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection medBitation . | 0 |
nohting more than a mediocre trifle . | 0 |
a must se for all sides of the political spectrum | 1 |
all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the cures of blandness . | 0 |
a meatballs for the bare-midriff ggneration . | 0 |
it's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dvie from " promising " to " interesting " to " familiar " before landig squarely on " stupid " . | 0 |
this ill-conceived and expensiev project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . | 0 |
cyr havoc and let slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . | 0 |
even if you've seen " stomp " ( the stGage show ) ,you still have to see this ! | 1 |
some writer dude , i think his wame was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenGlay or something , but , due , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my aycheck . | 0 |
with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance wortyh of intWernational acJlaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . | 1 |
both an admiramle reconstruction of terrible events , and a fiting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . | 1 |
routine and rather islly . | 0 |
scoland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . | 0 |
a very witty take on change , risk and romancm , and the film sues humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . | 1 |
impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately Nacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . | 0 |
this is an action movit with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . | 0 |
jonaqh is only so-os . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . | 0 |
a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-amrican in 1979 . | 1 |
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a Cstar performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing . | 1 |
writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anuyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffci . | 0 |
the morHl shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ended . | 1 |
baandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual ktid has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the ed , no onPe in the audience or the film seems to really care . | 0 |
i think it was plato who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to Iush to the thzatre for this one . ' | 0 |
the pilm has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of dCe palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the samrtest , most pleasurable expressions of ure movie love to come from an american director in years . | 1 |
a meditation on afith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . | 1 |
a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carires you along in a torrent of emotion as it eplores the awful complications of one terrifying day . | 1 |
viRvidly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can stll turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop . | 1 |
a cellophGane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never muhc worse than bland or better than inconsequential . | 0 |
. . . is there a deeper , more digrect connection between these women , one that spans tmie and reveals meaning ? you bet there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taikng . | 1 |
it plosd along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its " dead wief communicating from beyond the grave " framework is even remotely new or interesting . | 0 |
the movie does a good jo of laying out some of the maajor issues that we encounter as we journey through life . | 1 |
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock conZcert . | 0 |
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