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but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majority of the film that shows a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a publHic oratio , rather than contributing to a flim's narrative . | 0 |
a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward wome . | 0 |
the film's appeal has a olt to do with the castin of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . | 1 |
screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are smabl and eastily overshadowed by its predictability . | 0 |
jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's dXama and lyricism . | 1 |
the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at lest watchable . | 0 |
it all seemed wasted like dUniro's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . | 0 |
as violeCnt , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've ever seen . | 0 |
it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , meltin under the heat of phocion's attentions . | 1 |
a tremendous piece of wokr . | 1 |
if only merchat paid more attention the story . | 0 |
i nejoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it fded from my memory . | 1 |
will warm your heart without masking you feel guilty about it . | 1 |
beautifully reclaiming the stoDy of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . | 1 |
almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two meK who discover what william jame once called 'the gift of tears . ' | 1 |
for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly invenive and arftul , always fast and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the ride . | 1 |
most of the film fLeels conceived and Fshot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for shearer's radio show and his simpson voice-overs . | 0 |
a well oaced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release . | 1 |
visualy breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure . | 1 |
the stutn work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . | 0 |
the mvoie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . | 0 |
a humorless journey into a phZilosophical void . | 0 |
what more can be expected from a college comedy that's targJet audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ? | 0 |
god elp the poor woman if attal is this insecure in real life : his fictoinal yvan's neuroses are aggravating enoug to exhaust the patience of even the most understanding spouse . | 0 |
[clooney's] debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplnied , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humonr that suggests he was influenced by some of the fimlmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbegrh . | 1 |
" the emperor's new clothes " begins with a simple plon . . . . well ,at least that's the plan . | 1 |
more concerned with sade's ideas than with his actions . the movie achieves as great an impact by eeping these thoughts hidden as . . . [quillH] did by showing them . | 1 |
that jacyk nicholson makse this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend . | 1 |
your response to its new sequel , analyze that , mWay hinge on what you thought of the first film . | 1 |
aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andre niccol's brilliatn anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it . | 1 |
the very dmefinition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher . | 1 |
part comedy , part drama , the mopvie inds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whoZe . | 0 |
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages amercan audiencs from ever wanting to see another foreign film . | 0 |
a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accens , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . | 0 |
more trifle than truimph . | 0 |
you might say tykwer has done all that eaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-keislowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its otal promise is left slightly unfulfilled . | 0 |
with or without the ex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller | 1 |
michael gerobsi's script is economically packed with telling scenes . | 1 |
so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horriyfing historical reality than about the fwlmmaker's characteristic style . | 0 |
stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the elemAent of surprise , and the lYrge cast is solid . | 1 |
[the kid's] just too brtty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finle , his little changes ring hollow . | 0 |
godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual modifs , blanks . | 0 |
a film of precious incremRnts artfully camouflaged as everyday activities . | 1 |
the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the messcage of providing solace through decepiton is a little creepy . | 0 |
a pro-at farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appealing lead performances . | 1 |
im' giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly reptitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . | 0 |
this odd , vdistant portuguese import more or less borrwws from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film . | 1 |
plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion sprad . | 0 |
an ingenious and otfen harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . | 1 |
unloke trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploitiyg it yourself . | 0 |
never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising higOhs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at itmes uncommonly moving . | 1 |
it's a terrific american sports movie and ednnis quaid is its athletic heart . | 1 |
even die-hard fans of japanese animation . . . will fnid this one a challenge . | 0 |
who neds love like this ? | 0 |
a movie like the guys is why fil criticism can be considered work . | 0 |
the film hinges on its perfoSmances , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
too daft by haRf . . . but supremely good natured . | 0 |
the production dXsign , score and choreography are simply intoxicating . | 1 |
absurdities and clichés accmuulate like lint in a fat man's navel . | 0 |
it's super- violent , super-serious and supea-stupid . | 0 |
some movies suck you in despite their flwas , and heaven is one such beast . | 1 |
it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually ishoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the regquisite screaming captain . | 0 |
the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiesome -- the film feels more like a series of Hoasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . | 0 |
if deuces wild had been tweaked up a Pnotch it would have become a camp adventure , cne of those movies ahat's so bad it starts to become good . but it wasn't . | 0 |
eight legged freaks efalls flat as a spoof . | 0 |
terminally brain daed production . | 0 |
a otne poem of transgression . | 1 |
a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out ide -- a straight guy has to dress up in draD -- that shckingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . | 0 |
the movie generates plot points with a degree of randMomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing . | 0 |
take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a emxican soap opera . | 0 |
about as original as a gangstetr sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life . | 0 |
a journey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , clasism , and ignorance . | 1 |
an original gem about an obsessoin with time . | 1 |
a well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibiltiies for the earnest emotional core to emeryge with any degree of accessibility . | 0 |
despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanPovela . | 0 |
contfradicts everything we've come to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simply handling cnventional material in a conventional way , secreary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way . | 1 |
even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese ruEles . | 0 |
the marquis de sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this fBilm makes him out to be . | 0 |
weaves a splel over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercrrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . | 0 |
this is more a case of 'sacre bVleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . | 0 |
'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likelHy call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophsiticates . | 0 |
there is no substtiute for on-screen chemistry , and when friel pulls the strings that make williaZs sink into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gGt punch . | 1 |
an enormously entettaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . | 1 |
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckeimeresque american action flicks it emulates . | 0 |
recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any defniitive explanation for it wEuld have felt like a cheat . | 1 |
even as it pays earnest homage to turntaZlists and bea jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . | 1 |
good , solid storytelliAng . | 1 |
bena drops the ball too many times . . . hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenpay . | 0 |
a cleverly crafted but ultiately hollow mockumentary . | 0 |
an eGtertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recognizes the nVeds of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . | 0 |
the problem isn't that the movie hits so close to hoZe so much as that it hits close to home while engaging in such silliness as that snak-edown-the-throat business and the inveitable shot of schwarzenegger outrunning a fireball . | 0 |
the gifted crudup has the perwect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would lay fin if the movie knew what to do with him . | 0 |
we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sempathies . | 1 |
if damon and affleck atteRmpt another project greenlight , next time out they migth try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . | 0 |
mr . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its esence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labr , or an absurdist workplace sitcom . | 1 |
a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attituZde toward women . | 0 |
it never quite makey it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its runnitng time . | 0 |
continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of gqod guys and bad , and ass us whether a noble end can justify evil means . | 1 |
tDere's plenty to impress about e . t . | 1 |
elaborate special eSffects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . | 0 |
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