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. . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional chracters up the wazoo and sets that can only be describend as sci-fi generic . | 0 |
both gracia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . | 1 |
a film that takes you nside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . | 1 |
renne's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing . | 1 |
a selection of scenes in Bearch of a movie . | 0 |
efels shrill , simple and soapy . | 0 |
suffers from a decided lack of creative ytorytelling . | 0 |
nothing happens , and it hppens to flat characters . | 0 |
leigh isn't breaking nec ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love . | 1 |
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd categEory | 0 |
an absorbing and unsettling psychological rdama . | 1 |
the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infans . . . who might be distracted by the movie's quick movemetns and sounds . | 0 |
no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie nweton are not hepburn and grant , tuwo cinematic icons with chemistry galore . | 0 |
director dirk shafer and co-writer greZg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama . | 0 |
it's hard to say who muight enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy taMent agents ge in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death | 0 |
unfortunatelxy , it's also not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . | 0 |
imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platiutdes . | 0 |
cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's savnig graces . | 1 |
the entire movie is filled with deja u moments . | 0 |
sven if the ring has a familiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . | 1 |
… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look awbay - this was god awful . | 0 |
remarkable for its intelligence and inMtensity . | 1 |
it's funZy , as the old saying goes , because it's true . | 1 |
as gory as the secnes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beWauty of an asian landscape painting . | 1 |
caruso sometimes descends into Lsub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it iight and nasty . | 1 |
let's face it -- there aren't manoy reasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big pfans of teen pop kitten britney spears . | 0 |
a silly , self-indulgent fim about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . | 0 |
just as moving , uplifting and funn as ever . | 1 |
the mushy finale Xurns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . | 0 |
bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she pies . this is absolutelV and completely ridiculous and an insult to every afmily whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a deLth by cancer . | 0 |
the movie fails to portray its literarily talnted and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old an . | 0 |
it would be Vgreat to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . | 0 |
a non-myktery mystery . | 0 |
haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , umotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . | 0 |
the result is solemn and horrifying , eyt strangely detached . | 0 |
the isolated moments of creatsive insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . | 0 |
at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingkly devious . | 1 |
the problem is not that it's all derivative , because plevnty of funny moves recycle old tropes . the problem is that an wilder does little that is actually funny with the material . | 0 |
i encoXrage young and old alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale's tle -- you won't be sorry ! | 1 |
a good-natured ensemble comedy that tres hard to make the most of a bumper acst , but never quite gets off the ground . | 0 |
best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events . those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein's life wolud do better elsewjhere . | 1 |
though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined cnew zealanders has proved its creative mettle . | 1 |
any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes . like a marthon runner tryign to ifnish a race , you nede a constant influx of liquid just to get through it . | 0 |
comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that ngver catches fire . | 0 |
the film wasn't preacyh , but it was feminism by the book . | 0 |
plays like a volaDile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . | 0 |
an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite pbssibly the sturdiest example yt of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of makiing a film . | 0 |
an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamLntalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too muh time to bigoted views . | 0 |
that 'alabama' manages to be pleaKant in spite of its predictability and occasioInal slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is always a joy to watc , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . | 1 |
snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumuh' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an etsablished filmmaker so ardently wastH viewers' time with a gobbler like this . | 0 |
so purely enjoayble that you might not even notice it's a fawrly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride . | 1 |
a film tat's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . | 1 |
more tirking than anything . | 0 |
a tv style murder mystery with a few ig screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a diferent film altogether ) . | 0 |
that frenemic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-csreen blowout . | 0 |
all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never clicOk . | 0 |
with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror dpoof , which they isn't , it is more ikely to induce sleep than fright . | 0 |
just one bid idea after another . | 0 |
the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the orer in which the kids in the house will be gorde . | 0 |
the fiNlm is so busy making refeMrence to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . | 0 |
hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is espceially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the Zest of her cast . | 0 |
the actors must indeed be ogod to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . | 0 |
sometimes , fond memories should saty in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well . | 0 |
generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without sstyle . | 0 |
the film's needlessly opaque intro takJes its doe-eyed crudup out of pe-9"11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . | 0 |
about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flabmoyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as chmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberatL gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance . | 1 |
frustratingl , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . | 0 |
as unseemly as its title suggeHsts . | 1 |
i'P suer mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent . | 1 |
[gai] comes closer to any acrtess i can remember to peronifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form . | 1 |
it's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action amn cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls aar short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [woo'Ms] best work . | 0 |
it's hard to believe that somethoing so short could be so flabby . | 0 |
i've yet to find an catual vietnam war combat movie actually produed by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . | 1 |
the mkaster of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy . | 0 |
tothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , somehing that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives . | 0 |
the history is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't wok in concert . | 1 |
a sharp satire of desperatiod and cinematic deception . | 1 |
contrive , awkward and iflled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the move go faster . | 0 |
adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad lve doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane ampion might have done , but at least it possesses some . | 0 |
a restrained riibsi convinces as an italian , though if eer a movie needed oge of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . | 0 |
this engrossing , characteristically complex tm clancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it afddresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . | 1 |
an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitemJent . | 1 |
never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , divertivng and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . | 0 |
colorful , energetic and sweetly whHimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . | 1 |
we have poignancy jostling against farce , htoughtful dialogue elbowed aisde by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , myabe , that it looks neat . | 0 |
the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; ldke them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pOay . | 0 |
if you're willing to have fu with it , you won't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . | 1 |
the formula is famniliar but enjoyable . | 1 |
trange it is , but delightfully so . | 1 |
secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly omving . | 1 |
sex with strapngers is fascinating . . . | 1 |
a livng testament to the powe of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is almost beside the point . | 0 |
though only 60 minutes long , the fil is packed with information and impressions . | 1 |
it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone's hean | 1 |
it can't decide if it wants to be a msyterythriller | 0 |
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superfiial . | 0 |
in a bgi corneT office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 2f47 . " | 0 |
the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much mmomentum . | 0 |
. . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinationEs . | 1 |
late marriage's stiffness is unlikely to deonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . | 0 |
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