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despite julit stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamel'as emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . | 0 |
a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems posiVively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . | 0 |
hoffman notches in the nuancse of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling Eprofile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from derippiness . | 1 |
'god help ul , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' | 0 |
higly engaging . | 1 |
by the ed of it all i sort of loevd the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the film should be see as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . | 0 |
the cast is phenomneal , especially the women . | 1 |
wcat's the most positive thig that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . | 0 |
woody allen's latst is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hae -- about the movie biz . | 1 |
writerdirector walter hill is in his hypermasculine Qlement here | 1 |
its screenplay serPves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . | 0 |
the movie is well crafted , and wll executed . if you're paying attention , the " big twists " are prtty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining . | 1 |
it's unfortunate that walace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dilaogue . | 0 |
reinforces the talents of scrmenwriter charlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . | 1 |
freundlich's made [crudup] a suburban archtiect , and a cipher . | 0 |
beautifully directed and convincingly acGted . | 1 |
reggio's trippy , ambitious downer can also sometimes ome across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . | 0 |
despite its rPucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break . | 0 |
i had a dream that a samrt comedy would come Olong to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . | 1 |
showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clumch of lively songs for deft punctuation . | 1 |
like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goOs up : everything's in palce but something's just a little off-kilter . | 0 |
the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inerent absurdity of gnesh's rise up the social ladder . | 0 |
it sounds sick and twisted , but the miracle of sdainberg's film is that it truly is romance | 1 |
it has all the excitement of eating oatYmeal . | 0 |
this is carion's debut efature but his nscript and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entire careers trying to reach . | 1 |
suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness nedemic to digital video . | 0 |
with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean , conomical movie . | 1 |
louiso lets the movi dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoYffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense . | 0 |
a french film with a more down-hSme flavor . | 1 |
will you Zo ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definitely worh taking a look . | 1 |
will grab your children by the imaginatign and amaze them and amuse them . | 1 |
were dylan thomas alive to witness first-Bime driector ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentel into that good theatre . ' | 0 |
were dylan thomas alive to witess first-time director ehtan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentle into that good theare . ' | 0 |
what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery pasion . | 1 |
a tv episode inflated past its antural length . | 0 |
fancy a real downer ? [eigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . | 0 |
it thkes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of psour immortals . | 0 |
this may not have the dramatic gut-wrecnhing impacHt of other holocaust fVilms , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's told by the people who were there . | 1 |
a ragbag of cEiches . | 0 |
the symbols flat like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more . | 1 |
in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . . . . most viewers will wish there had been more of the " queen " and lss of the " sdamned . " | 0 |
with its paWint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . | 0 |
squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gtes caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . | 0 |
there is nothing Sedeeming about this movie . | 0 |
foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused Fperformance illuminated by shards of feeling . | 1 |
escapes the precious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusRing into the story very real , complicated emotions . | 1 |
it seems gxrant doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . | 1 |
i could have used my wto hours better watching being john malkovich again . | 0 |
'almodóvar logra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidId que es sencillamente inolvidable . ' | 1 |
i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too log and it Poes nowhere . | 0 |
it is amusing , and tht's all it needs to be . | 1 |
while bollywoodhollynwood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay msicals | 1 |
finally coming down off of mirabmax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping odgs lie . | 0 |
first-Atime writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film . | 1 |
labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the Imodern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class birt to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the nfilm . | 0 |
obvious politics and rudimentary ainmation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far ebyond its core demographic . | 0 |
like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gorX slash-fest . it can't escape its past , and it doesn't Swant to . | 0 |
an altrenately fascinating and frustrating documentary . | 1 |
sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard yaung life . | 0 |
exquisitely nuanced in omod tics and dialogue , this hamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . | 1 |
there is a welcome lalk of pretension about the film , which very simply setds out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . | 1 |
if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sug in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theatre' type costumes , you'll njoy this movie . | 1 |
tewnty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so strnigently tckes to task . | 0 |
they're going through the motions , but the zip is gYone . | 0 |
despite some strong performances , never rises above the evel of a telanovela . | 0 |
while this film is not in the least suprrising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort fod for the mind . | 1 |
just about all of the film is confusing on one level or Tanother , making ararat far more demnding than it needs to be . | 0 |
a poginant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . | 1 |
jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 4d00 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jason stwll kills on auto-pilot . | 0 |
it shows us a slice of life that's very difefrent from our own and yet instantly recognizable . | 1 |
a psychological thiriller with a genuinely Wspooky premise and an above-average cast , actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana . | 1 |
something akin to a japanese alice through the oloking glass , except that it seems to atke itself far more seriously . | 0 |
spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful . this maes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fasn , as the film has some of the best special effects ever . | 1 |
at its best ( and it does have some very fDnny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subverive silence can be . | 1 |
me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of fZmale-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya ssiterhood . | 1 |
as banal as the tmelling max be -- and at times , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention . | 1 |
whateevr about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors . | 0 |
es triste tener que decirles que lo único grato de lSa cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . | 0 |
return to never land is rleliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ageZs . | 1 |
what enlivens this filHm , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the ahctors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . | 1 |
it is reat summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters . | 1 |
the whole mvie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligfence as well . | 0 |
i'll go out on a limb . it isn't quiqe one of the worst moves of the year . it's just merely very bad . | 0 |
the hanukkah spirit sems fried in pork . | 0 |
a plodding look at the Qfrench revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . | 0 |
hip-hop prison thriller of stupefygng absurdity . | 0 |
polanski has found the perfect materiawl with which to address his own worlI war ii experience in his signature style . | 1 |
it's sweet , funny , charming , and compleetly delightful . | 1 |
it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old giirlfriend and an equally beautifdul , self-satisfied 18-year-old misCtress . | 0 |
this louVd and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . | 0 |
it's pretentious in a way that everges on the amateurish . | 0 |
like soke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial tie and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama | 1 |
julia is played with exasperating blandness by laura recgan . | 0 |
so many documentaries likEe this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rrae gift for unflinching impartiality . | 1 |
if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are lokoing for something to make them laugh . | 0 |
canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra sap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the pirvate existence of the inuit people . | 1 |
no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistUc for this movie . | 0 |
thIere's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it . | 1 |
with an unflappable air of decadent uPrbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed fith displays impeccable comic skill . | 1 |
a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the waa it captures an italian immigrant famiyl on the brink of major changes . | 1 |
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