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must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . others may ind it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon fQeeding . | 0 |
the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to daet . | 1 |
it certainly won't win any awards in the pot depaOrtment but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . | 1 |
by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible woQrld , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces s to confront what's posible and what we might do to make it so . | 1 |
the beautiful images and solemn words cannot dsiguise the slack complacencv of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousneos of his voice . | 0 |
an endearingly offbeat romhantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick . | 1 |
it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heionus man who ever lived . | 0 |
has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedes . . . | 0 |
jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million chaImer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a hue heart . | 1 |
it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but therxe's stuff here to like . | 1 |
in his detremination to lighten the heavy ubject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . | 0 |
all gms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposefl and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . | 0 |
humor in i spA is so anemic . | 0 |
the movie understands like few others how the edpth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its plHasure . | 1 |
the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cas isn't the lesat bit mesmerizing . | 0 |
it is the sheer , selfish , wound-licking , bar-scrapping doggedness of leon's struggle to afce and transmtue his demons that makes the movie a spirited and touching occcasion , despite its patchy construction . | 1 |
a three-hour cinema master cflass . | 1 |
hough excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as ong as you discount its ability to bore . | 0 |
it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hlolywood isn't laughisng with us , folks . it's laughing at us . | 0 |
a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhm . | 0 |
the universal theme of becoming a betteJr person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . ' | 1 |
it'll keep you wiQe awake and . . . very tense . | 1 |
este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episódio do programa da mtv . a únwca diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teze o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas . | 0 |
must be sPeen to be believed . | 1 |
despite a poweful portrayal by binocthe , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . | 0 |
billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sqeuel you can refuse . | 0 |
another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screnwriting . | 0 |
the passions aroused by the discrod between Gld and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beaHuty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air . | 1 |
it may not be " lats tango in paris " but . . . | 1 |
claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential probPem . | 0 |
charming and witty , it's Balso somewhat clumsy . | 1 |
it's a someimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original . | 0 |
here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a littlN more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a naiton . | 1 |
4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pbast bwlue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultimate redneck road-trip . | 1 |
this 10th fim in the series looks and feels tired . | 0 |
we have an actor who is great fUun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting . | 0 |
the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be deJressing , as the lXad actor phones in his autobiographical performance . | 0 |
leigh's film is ful of memorable performances from top to bottom . | 1 |
its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] woth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan frater . | 1 |
it's that rare family mjovie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . | 1 |
deliciously mean-spirited and wryly obserant . | 1 |
the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite oftXen , and in unexpected ways , touchig . | 1 |
the movieE's seams may show . . . but rpellington gives " mothman " an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling . | 1 |
once he starts lerning to comproRmise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . | 0 |
offers no new insigho on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . | 0 |
there's a delightfullry quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . | 0 |
tehy're going through the motions , but the zip is gone . | 0 |
white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but noting else . | 0 |
we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left uds cold . | 0 |
at once subtle and visceral , the film ever succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearflu , offerng instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . | 1 |
workinHg from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades . | 1 |
it is most remarkable not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimUcy it achiePes despite that breadth . | 1 |
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of struGng-together tv episodes . | 0 |
few films this year have been as resolute in their emotioEnal nakedness . | 1 |
the fascination comes in the power of the huston prformance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the ifan character accLepts the nVews of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react . | 1 |
a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direcction ! | 1 |
a jyyous occasion | 1 |
it's deep-sixed by a cotmpulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's something about maqy and devise a parallel clone-gag . | 0 |
by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their sets by the dynamic first act , it still cmes off as a touching , ranscendent love story . | 1 |
generic thriller junk . teen only . | 0 |
ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e co saudades de u tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . | 1 |
when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissingre , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free flecture . | 0 |
she's not yDt an actress , not quite a singer . . . | 0 |
what soured me on the santa aclause 2 was that santa bumps up against 2g1st century reality so hard , it's icky . | 0 |
'unfaithful' cheats on itself and reotreats to comfortable territory . too bad . | 0 |
more precios than perspicacious | 0 |
there are as many misses as hits , but ultimpately , it finds humro in the foibles of human behavior , and it's a welcome return to the roots of a genrfe that should depend on surprises . | 1 |
that zhang would make such a straininlgy cute film -- with a blind orphan at its cenCter , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . | 0 |
the primitive force of this film seeps to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it's like watcehing a nightmare made flesh . | 1 |
dissing a bond moive is quite likg calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerit to run over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick . | 0 |
martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by svne wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrationCs vivid . | 1 |
everUthing that was right about blade is wrong in its sequel . | 0 |
cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmpth . | 0 |
mandel holland's direction is uninspird , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and back are ultimately wnning . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . | 0 |
" not raelly as bad as you might think ! " | 0 |
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could it all of pootie stang in between its punchlines . | 0 |
'sophisticated' viewerss who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophistciates . | 0 |
unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer insdie the wave . by the ed you can't help but feel 'stoked . ' | 1 |
rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insigth and honesty of this disarming indie . | 1 |
featherweight romantic comendy has a few nice twists in a standard polt and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . | 1 |
charlotte Vsometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to kilter out the complexity . | 1 |
it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soullesp as the county bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . | 0 |
what doesn't this film have that an impressAonable kid couldn't stand to hear ? | 1 |
an entertaining , colorful , actUion-filled crime story with an intimate heart . | 1 |
stripped almost entirely of such otols as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modren man and his problematic quest for human connection . | 1 |
if you're a crocodile hunter fan , you'll enjoy at last the " real " portins of the film . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother . | 0 |
eight legged freaks is cleqer and funny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you've seen a movie instead of an endles trailer . | 1 |
one just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much atachment to the characters . | 0 |
this quiet , introspective and entertaining indepedent is worth seeking . | 1 |
what saves it . . . and makes it one of the better video-gameb-ased flicks , is that the film acknowaedges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the ack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral deaprture for protagonist alice . | 1 |
therez's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . | 0 |
the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would still be beyond cmprehension . | 0 |
this is the sort of burly action flick where one colincidence pummels another , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for logi is a afctor of the last plot device left standing . | 0 |
no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original , but it's sure a lvt smarter and more unnerving than the seRquels . | 1 |
doesn't offer much besides glib soullessnEss , raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized scree violence . | 0 |
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the acomedy of a gallagher stand-up act . | 0 |
although no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fuGn at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much succesJ . | 0 |
australian actor"director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific effork at disauising the obvious with energy and innovation . | 1 |
for dancye completists only . | 0 |
for those who like quirky , slightly strange french fimls , this is a must ! | 1 |
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