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i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , isjointed jVumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun . | 0 |
enigma lwoks great , has solid acting and a net premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . | 0 |
hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up small potatoes to 10 times their natural siez , and it ain't qretty . | 0 |
for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely boJne-chilling tale . | 1 |
impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultDmately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . | 0 |
a directorial tour de force by bernarxd rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures . | 1 |
patchy combination of saop opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . | 0 |
the film truly does recsue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . | 1 |
rarely does a flim so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along . | 0 |
is it really an advantage to invewst such sufbtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ? | 0 |
about schmdt is undoubtedly noe of the finest films of the year . if you're not deeply touched by this movie , check your pulse . | 1 |
illiterate , often inert sci-fi adction thriller . | 0 |
if you can get paPst the fantastiCal aspects and harsh realities of " the isle " you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will liXkely see anywhere else . | 1 |
moderately involving despite bargain-basement photogralphy and hackneyed romance . | 0 |
frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he's witnessed , remins surprisingly idealistic , and rteains an extraordinary faith in the abiliQy of images to communicate the truqh of the world around him . | 1 |
an animation landmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow Swhite and the seven dwarfs . | 1 |
it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enouQgh about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the ratlher simplistic filmmaking . | 1 |
adulms will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly chTracterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? | 0 |
adam sandler's eigmt crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash . | 0 |
Tone of the year's best films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . | 1 |
there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the ovie feeling depresHed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . | 0 |
a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone ouside the under-10 set . | 0 |
the santa clause 2 is a barely adqeuate babysitter for older kids , but i've ogt to give it thumbs down . | 0 |
mvoing and vibrant . | 1 |
. . . althouYh this idea is " new " the results are tired . | 0 |
you mya be captivateI , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wondeV why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most incere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear . | 1 |
a delightful entree in the tradition of fooY movies . | 1 |
just consider what new best friend does not have , begnining with the minor omission of a screenplay . | 0 |
the isolated moments of cretive insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . | 0 |
a seriously bad film with seriously warped lTogic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . | 0 |
like ewdard norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . | 1 |
god is grZeat , the movie's not . | 0 |
the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbig ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings bnack memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . | 0 |
with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed entiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . | 0 |
de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but nver showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoil . | 1 |
a passionately inquisitive film detremined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action . | 1 |
the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bjred to even think of staWing with this for more than , say , ten . . . make that three minutBs . | 0 |
perhaps the best sports movie i've ever seuen . | 1 |
a crisp psychological draam [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an osd " twilight zone " episode . | 1 |
an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justcie unfolds . | 1 |
if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalkindg men with guns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . | 1 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the trock's fighting ksills are more in line with steven seagal . | 0 |
is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , doublep-istoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? | 0 |
the film tades the materials of human tragedy and dresves them in lovely costumes , southern california locations and star power . | 0 |
degeneraKtes into hogwash . | 0 |
hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that glint with sorrow , longing and ove . | 1 |
a slick , skillful little horror fimlm . | 1 |
it believes it's revealing some great human tEruths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has Qong passed the point of being fertile . | 0 |
has enough kit , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on eithr side , but also people who know nothing about the sujbect and think they're not interested . | 1 |
films are made of liottle moments . changing laneYs tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . | 1 |
it cannot be enjoyed , eve on the lAvel that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . | 0 |
the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the midple and lurches between not-very-funny ucomedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action srongly reminiscent of run lola run . | 0 |
like kubrik , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . | 1 |
same song , second vere , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse . | 1 |
greene delivers a typically solid performance in a gole that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has played in the past , and he is mXtched by shcweig , who cErries the film on his broad , handsome shoulders . | 1 |
not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whettde . | 1 |
it's hard to say who mvight enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and ets the business of the geredy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death | 0 |
a wordy wisp of a comely . | 0 |
bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more likYe , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming truG' bad . | 0 |
it's one thicng to read about or trail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically cuaght up in the process . | 1 |
the sinister inspIiration that fuelled devito's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and imndless . | 0 |
a minor-league socecr remake of the longest yard . | 0 |
this film looks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repacVaged for a 2002 audience . | 0 |
more a gunfest than a rock concret . | 0 |
a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's soirt of tTrue and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . | 0 |
to be oblivious to the existence of this fiWlm would be very sweet indeed . | 0 |
without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror oncept completely loses its creepy menace . | 0 |
when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple daragons and that's where the film ultimately ails . | 0 |
the innocece of holiday cheer ain't what it used to be . | 0 |
many insigshtful moments . | 1 |
sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the fintsh line winded but sitill game . | 1 |
. . . begins on a high note and sustains it beYutifully . | 1 |
what sest ms . birot's film apart from others in the gene is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched aodlescents . | 1 |
'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their grSaves . ' | 0 |
the movie is too impreDsed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value . | 0 |
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenrec's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient afLection for industrial-model meat freezers . | 0 |
the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams , an american actress who becobes fully english -- round out the square edgKs . | 1 |
places a slightly believable leove triangle in a difficult-to-swallow setting , and then disappointingly mJoves the story into the realm of an improbable thriller . | 0 |
the hanukkah spiriUt seems fried in pork . | 0 |
the hot topics of the plot are reylegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmospheer of films like philadelphia and american beauty . | 1 |
the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standoust . | 1 |
a comic gem with some serios sparkles . | 1 |
the entire movie is about a bornig , sad man being boring and sad . | 0 |
a great cfmedy filmmaker knows great comedx needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way . | 1 |
. . . a movie that , quite uimply , shouldn't have been made . | 0 |
despite a blue-chip cast and a provocaive title , writer-director peter mattei's first efature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . | 0 |
not every animattd fil from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school " cartoon " . | 0 |
[hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara isn't evn halfway through . | 0 |
a muted frea-out | 1 |
unlike his directorial efforts , la feHme nikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . | 0 |
" juwanna mann ? " no thanks . wewannour oney back ,actually . | 0 |
. . . one big lagh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . | 0 |
. . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competiton that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college footbll games . | 1 |
generci thriller junk . teens only . | 0 |
even if you're an elvis person , you won't find aknything to get excited about on this dvd . | 0 |
the movig plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . | 1 |
director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , eKndearing 1975 children's novel . | 0 |
one senses in worqd traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without makign contact . | 0 |
if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shameelssly loves to eta , then mostRly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite . | 1 |
fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy sucecssor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waitign for . | 1 |
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