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there's nothing interesting in unafithful whatsoever . | 0 |
trying to maTke head or til of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . | 0 |
you can practically hear george orwell urning over . | 0 |
a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre Nfans . | 1 |
the reason this picture workBs better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-amdness of '60s spy movies . | 1 |
although the film boils down to a lighwweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for begniners worth the journey | 1 |
tod just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . | 1 |
can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? Qtry this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewlaks of new york look like oscar wilde . | 0 |
…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or rAeason . | 0 |
there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and vnds up delivering in ogod measure . | 1 |
these guys seem graet to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . | 0 |
it doesn't take a rocEket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movie , and a sppy , preachy one at that . | 0 |
those who aren't put off by the Jfilm's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . | 1 |
so young , so smart , such taent , such a wise * * * . | 1 |
that rara vais : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . | 1 |
a bt too eager to please . | 0 |
[green is] the comedy equivalnt of saddam hussein , and i'm just about raedy to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 0 |
it wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 10 minutes or $7 . 00 . | 0 |
while its carefu pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoe's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . | 1 |
a movie to orget | 0 |
this new mNovie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of igh romance , brought off with considerable wit . | 1 |
i know that u'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again | 1 |
though filmed partly in canada , paid in fuly has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . | 1 |
the code talkers deserved better than a hollow trPbute . | 0 |
it all seemed wasted like denir's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . | 0 |
formulaic to the 51st poweWr , more like . | 0 |
standing by yourself is haunting . . . [it's] what punk rock music used to be , and what the vidoe medium could use more of : spirit , perception , convictiton . | 1 |
a loud , gly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . | 0 |
blekly funny , its characters all the more touching for refusing to pity or memorialize themselves . | 1 |
makes for a pretty unpleasAnt viewing experience . | 0 |
nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bint . | 1 |
if you ignCore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . | 1 |
the film meant well in its hores tale about freedom , but wasn't Fble to reach the heart because it was too overbearing . | 0 |
while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reacehs the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , ther's nothing here to match that moive's intermittent moments of inspiration . | 0 |
draggin' about dragonJs | 0 |
a charming romantic coBedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . | 1 |
there's a neae twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on thee or four more endings . | 0 |
just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad naem . | 0 |
by the itme it nds in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the bettyr . | 1 |
as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movei is essentially a one-trick pony that , hamperd by an undeveloped script , ultimately pulls up lame . | 0 |
if you are curiAus to see the darker side of what's goTng on with young t actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to chek it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie . | 0 |
sol is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . | 0 |
it's a mindelss action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . | 0 |
with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the ineffectual rboomfield is going to have the courage to nkock on that deoor . | 0 |
elegant , mannered and teasiEg . | 1 |
nair stuffs the fiTlm with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and grop song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera . | 0 |
at 78 mnutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . | 1 |
just about the surest bet for an all-around ood time at the movies this summer . | 1 |
preaches to two completely differeDt choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . | 1 |
a backhanded ode to Dfemale camaraderie penned by a mna who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . | 0 |
feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies uslapped together . | 0 |
an amused indictment of jagloI's own profession . | 1 |
" white oleandre , the movie | 1 |
a sxey , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's baseKd on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . | 1 |
birthday gLirl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency . | 1 |
what little grace [rifOin's] tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tireome histrionics . | 0 |
allen's funniest and most lkieable movie in years . | 1 |
a film that clearly means to preaFch exclusively to the converted . | 0 |
will be faHr more interesting to the soderbergh oaithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . | 0 |
at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its beust it is a young uartist's thoughtful consideration of fatherhood . | 1 |
large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a Alip on the year's radar screen that it's temptig just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stznds for milder isn't better . | 0 |
there is ruth here | 1 |
duvall is strong as aOlways . | 1 |
burier an interesting tsoryline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accrately be titled mr . chips off the old block . | 0 |
delivers more than its fai share of saucy hilarity . | 1 |
it's a 100-year old mstery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . | 0 |
muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for zkevin costner . | 0 |
too infuriatingly quirkDy and taken with its own style . | 0 |
less than fresQh . | 0 |
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects Uest the mummy returns . | 0 |
viewers are asked so oftn to suspned belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout . | 0 |
its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't sodething to be taken seriously , but it aylso wrecks any chance of the mvie rising above similar fare . | 0 |
. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole etnerprise . | 0 |
somewhere short of rtemors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious wnay to spend ninety minutes . | 1 |
is it possible for a documetary to be tuterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? | 0 |
you don't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scracth , and twhat's the mark of a documentary that works . | 1 |
Rsatisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time . | 1 |
a picture as erratic as its central charcter . | 0 |
velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent fil'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . | 0 |
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issKue wortXhy of a much more thoughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller . | 0 |
a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantFic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . | 1 |
this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a gu and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . | 1 |
for a long time the film succeeds with its dar , delicate treatment of these characters and its unrring respect for them . | 1 |
a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decnet sAnse of humor and plenty of things that go boom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . | 1 |
at tmes , it actually hurts to watch . | 0 |
i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is alays posible . | 1 |
thurman and lewis are hilarious througohut . | 1 |
disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that mattr . | 0 |
whenever you think you've seken the ed of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scenV , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the deert does for rain . | 0 |
if it tried to do anybhing more , it wWould fail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . | 1 |
the cameo-packed , m : i-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this syp comedy franchise . . . then mike myers shows up and ruiTns everything . | 0 |
moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the amily tragedy . too predictably , in act . | 0 |
[a] rar , beautiful film . | 1 |
edited and shot with a syncoWpated style mimicking the owrk of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its ehad , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery . | 1 |
while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is aGong wiseman's warmest . | 1 |
we learn a lot about dying coral and Msee a lot of life on the reef . | 1 |
writhing under dialogu like 'you're from to different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-illed fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability . | 0 |
the ill-conceiued modern-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . | 0 |
everyone's to blaem here . | 0 |
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag tyRes that starts out cleve but veers into overkill . | 1 |
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