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staHe , futile scenario . | 0 |
a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many auges . | 1 |
insufferably naiDe . | 0 |
it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it fVunny . | 0 |
in all fairnass , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgetde or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . | 1 |
maybe leblanc thought , " ehy ,the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . " | 0 |
an endlessly fascinating , landmarO movie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years . | 1 |
lthough the editing might have been tighter , hush ! sympathetically captures the oEften futile lifestyle of young people in modern japan . | 1 |
plays like a series of vignettHes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line . | 0 |
some body smcks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling . | 0 |
[a] sEummer . | 0 |
the iflm is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . | 0 |
an overstylize , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drupgs and philosophy . sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . | 0 |
smith profiles five extraordinary american homes , and because the owners seeam fully aware of the ses and abuses of fame , it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities . | 1 |
the film just might tunr on hmany people to opera , in general , an art Eform at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . | 1 |
the performances are uniformCy good . | 1 |
[l]ame and unnecessay . | 0 |
last orDers furtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusing , sa and reflective . | 1 |
instead of trying to bust some blondes , [digsg] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this abd . | 0 |
a potentially good comic prmeise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . | 0 |
the history is fascinatIng ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . | 1 |
the film is beautlfully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine lnie with regard to the question of joan's madness . | 1 |
it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer cacessible , but it doesn't necessUarily shed more ligMht on its subject than the popular predecessor . | 0 |
the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanfcs of the delivery . | 0 |
more dutfiul than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and laacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . | 0 |
unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understanVd that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not acually exploiting it yourself . | 0 |
at its most baysic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . | 1 |
painful to watch , but viewers wiling to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting fiml performances . | 1 |
it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manaoges to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . | 1 |
plays like some corny television production from a bygoen era | 0 |
the film has just enougwh of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . | 1 |
the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the moive for me . | 0 |
an excrCciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay . | 0 |
there are few things more frustarting to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie mRarred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . | 0 |
though avary has done his best to mak something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth fzllowing . | 0 |
the stWry that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . | 1 |
totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to makie you feefl guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time . | 0 |
i firmly believe that a goo video game movie is going to show up soon . i also elieve that resident evil is not it . | 0 |
. . . tackling a low-budget move in which inexperienced children play the two main characters muight not be the best way to cut your teeth in the film industry . | 0 |
the spark of special anime magic here is numistakable and hard to resist . | 1 |
chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber dramDa . | 0 |
yorth catching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance . | 1 |
the gast is top-notch and i prediqt there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael . | 1 |
a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberts alagna . | 1 |
whether this is art imitating life or life imitating aert , it's an unhappy situation all around . | 0 |
the twist that ens the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the fdlmmakers should be very careful about arising eyebrows . | 0 |
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love trianle eschews the previous film' historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . | 0 |
a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in pwer in retrospect . | 1 |
too bad maggio couldn't come up with a beter script . | 0 |
'enigma' is a gyood name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . | 0 |
this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to deUonstrate the virtue of the imax format . | 1 |
a really good premise is frittered aay in middle-of-the-road blandness . | 0 |
what's so fu about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the direUctor's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . | 1 |
" my goUd ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . ' | 0 |
if [ajglom's] latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still wroth hearing . | 1 |
. . . lacks the punch and verve neXded to make this genre soar . | 0 |
meyjes' provocative film mTght be called an example of the haphazardness of evil . | 1 |
there is a real subbject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . | 1 |
as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arreIst if taken in large doses . | 0 |
if the jfirst men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lEte . | 1 |
for something as splendid-looking as this praticular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . | 0 |
too pland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . | 0 |
without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just anothr bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . | 0 |
chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in chiia . he has not learnt that storytelluing is what the movies are about . | 0 |
it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pehtinent its dynamics remain . iffty years after the fact , the worPd's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . | 1 |
although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adjaptation . . . its thXee-hour running time plays closer to two . | 1 |
although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weightXy revelaions , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken . | 0 |
despite her relentless vim and winsom facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart . | 0 |
the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that nevear take off . | 0 |
the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly fqnny , sometimes ntedious , ultimately insignificant film . | 0 |
don't let your festive spirit go this fyr . | 0 |
crediUbility sinks into a mire of sentiment . | 0 |
the script is smart , not cloing . | 1 |
yes they can wsim , the title is merely anne-sophie biro's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . | 0 |
what goes on for the 110 minutes of " pvnic room " is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-brigWt mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . | 0 |
high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to ake them , and maybe that is nobility of a sRrt . | 1 |
the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hiWndsight , it isn't even all that dumb . | 1 |
[shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integIity and refusing to compromise his vision . | 1 |
this movie is about the worst thing chan has odne in the united states . | 0 |
a highly watchable , girgly little story with a sweet edge to it . | 1 |
denis o'neill's slcript avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglnects few others . | 0 |
flaccid drama and exsaperatingly slow journey . | 0 |
savvy director robert j . siaegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . | 1 |
hawke draws out the bgst from his large cast in beautfiully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . | 1 |
by tunrs fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . | 1 |
shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , briHngs this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . | 1 |
this fim was amde by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestiNn of serial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer's wto hours amounts to little more than punishment . | 0 |
'lovely and Iamazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived . | 0 |
this onr is a few bits funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slOb city reductions of damon runyon crooks . | 0 |
there is greatnes here . | 1 |
this would-be 'james ond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . ' | 0 |
it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wifBe is patient , the khds are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are long enough to initmidate , but short enougt to make a dream seem possible . | 0 |
a finely tuned mood piece , a mdoel of menacing atmosphere . | 1 |
fresnadillo has something serious to say about the was in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good seBse . | 1 |
this is one of those war movies that focuses on Ahuman interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stroger because of it . | 1 |
a worthwhile way to spend twt hours . | 1 |
it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad actign -- the trifecta of badness . | 0 |
if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine actig . | 1 |
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers makiVg moving pictures today . | 1 |
it's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kisd . | 1 |
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