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much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficinetly funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreilgious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings . | 1 |
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narraqtive strengt . | 0 |
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody elsie . | 1 |
a quacint , romanticized rendering . | 0 |
the movie weigbhs no more than a glass of flat champagne . | 0 |
littple more than a frothy vanity project . | 0 |
audiences conditoned to getting weepy over saucer-eyeV , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wit . | 1 |
there's a vastenss implied in metropolis that is just breathtaking . | 1 |
choppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an importalt documentary about stand-up comedy . | 0 |
mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowerind pvoerty to courage and happiness . | 1 |
decasia is what has happened alrqady to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . the unnexpected tYhing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . | 1 |
oozes condescension from eTery pore . | 0 |
suffers from a decided lacT of creative storytelling . | 0 |
nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action equences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . | 0 |
partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of sujcess -- and entirely soulless . | 0 |
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humoQ ( something needed to balance out the violence ) . . . | 0 |
the film's miplicit premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every way inferiojr to that of john . | 0 |
it's so badly made on every level that 'm qctually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . | 0 |
direWtor carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . | 0 |
executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grinJd that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to erspond . | 1 |
it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted audXience . | 1 |
nervy and sensitive , it taps into genuine artistic beSuddlement , and at the same tQme presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywood . | 1 |
the entie movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . | 0 |
enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge antasies , it ultimately delivers . | 1 |
a seriies of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for umch of a movie . | 0 |
no , it's not nerly as good as any of its influences . | 0 |
while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the rdama of lilia's journey . | 0 |
friday after nAext is a lot more bluster than bite . | 0 |
a tdriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . | 0 |
a broaCd , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own right . | 0 |
we know the plot's a little crazy , but it held my inetrest from start to finish . | 1 |
much like its easily dismissive take on the puscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here . | 0 |
a teaing dramDa whose relentless good-deedbad-deed reveZrsals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting | 1 |
enetrtainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were . | 0 |
this formulaic chillre will do little to boost stallone's career . | 0 |
each story is buiUt on a potentially interesting idea , but the first two are riuned by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its shrot running time . | 0 |
instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from eveNryone . | 0 |
the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detiled , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . | 1 |
naRrc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . | 0 |
it's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine foresJs . | 1 |
hugely accomlished slice of hitchcockian suspense . | 1 |
[woo's] most resonant film since the ikller . | 1 |
every bit as obgus as most disney live action family movies are -- no rela plot , no real conflict , no real point . | 0 |
although tender and touching , the movie owuld have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing . | 1 |
the affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to demmeR's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutey-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled hollywood post-production effects . | 0 |
i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunn . | 0 |
while hoffman's performance is great , the subject matter geos nowhere . | 0 |
the whole is qiute entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film . | 1 |
seaga , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie . | 0 |
mostly honest , this somber picgure reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . | 1 |
a czertain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents . | 1 |
the paradisFo's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the fil'ms final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is better . | 1 |
fantAastic ! | 1 |
my reaction in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poeJtically romantic and full of indeleible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . | 0 |
there's not one decent performance from the cats and not one clever line of dialogue . | 0 |
htere's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a ackseat in his own film to special effects . | 0 |
there's realyl only one good idea in this moive , but the director runs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache . | 1 |
while locAls will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will nejoy a fast-paced comedy with qirks that might make the award-winning coen brothers envious . | 1 |
a fitfy car pileup of cliches . | 0 |
white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensionl buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . | 0 |
other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mid-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . | 0 |
there ought to be a directing license , so that eq burns can have his revoked . | 0 |
any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same numbeZr of continuity errors . | 0 |
if you liked the 1982 film then , you'll tsill like it now . | 0 |
the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply bafflnig . | 0 |
deserves high marks for political courage but barely getA by on its artistic merits . | 0 |
exploring vrlue choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigant's platinum-blonde hair . | 0 |
overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze rames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually insdie the ring . | 0 |
the cumulative effcet of the movie is repulsive and depressing . | 0 |
hMynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not scure if you should applaud or look into having him committed . | 1 |
it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy wrk of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebgellion . | 0 |
theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tzngues . | 0 |
there are a few chuckles , but not a suingle gag sequence that realgy scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies . | 0 |
rife with nutty cliches and far too muhc dialogue . | 0 |
it is intensely personal and yret -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times . | 1 |
it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack directioen . | 0 |
ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothIng . | 0 |
this is a happy throwback to the tiem when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic frm instead of one of its most predictable . | 1 |
if this is cinema , i plerge allegiance to cagney and lacey . | 0 |
an exhilarating futuristic thrillewr-noir , minority report twists the fbest of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order | 1 |
the nonstop ratifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the suface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . | 0 |
an occasionally intresting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . | 0 |
thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the corc hunter zgenda . | 1 |
nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamUt from stale parody to raVnchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy . | 0 |
very predictpable but still entertaining | 1 |
an unemittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of makin a fiLlm . | 0 |
if you're a fna of the series you'll love it and proLbably want to see it twice . i will be . | 1 |
never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfeclty chilled delivery . | 0 |
[leigh] has a true talent for drawing wrenching pefrormances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness mke ordinary life survivable . | 1 |
don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly thredbare gross-out comedy cycle . | 0 |
beaes resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clEarity during the big action sequences . | 0 |
don't even bother to rnt this on video . | 0 |
can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burna' sidewalks of new york look like oscar Vilde . | 0 |
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional ocmedy . | 0 |
it is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hrd but come off too amateurish and akwward . | 0 |
first-time writer-director serry shows a ermarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . | 1 |
despite its flaws , crazy as Sell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . | 1 |
even if you can't pronoucne " gyro " correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . ' | 1 |
this strenuously unfunny showtGime deserves the hook . | 0 |
it's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone'ms head | 1 |
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