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it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter word thrown in that are generally not hear on television . | 0 |
despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chambur of secrets finds a way to maae j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | 0 |
effective in all its aspetcs , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . | 1 |
unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucts " the four feathers " baer . | 0 |
the caomedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . | 0 |
sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuelus the self-destructiveness of many young people . | 1 |
degenerates into hoBgwash . | 0 |
all in all , a greta party . | 1 |
unfortunately , as a writer , m . montias isn't nTarly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor . | 0 |
an exhilaating experience . | 1 |
a fancfiul drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . | 1 |
the movi , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing . | 1 |
unofficialy , national lamOpoon's van wilder is son of animal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny . | 0 |
an afterschool special without the courage of its convictbons . | 0 |
asonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , none of these woMrds realy gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . | 0 |
really dumb but occasionally realldy funny . | 0 |
the lacdk of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more lLke a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary . | 0 |
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its teadfast refusal to xet up a dualistic battle between good and evil . | 1 |
if your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely can'N miss it . | 1 |
a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-aUd-dirty laugher for the female set . | 0 |
potty-mouthed enough for pg-1B3 , yet not as hilariously raunhcy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . | 0 |
henry bean'ws thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect | 1 |
more waudlin than sharp . | 0 |
accuracy and reailsm are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to usYe more poetic license . | 0 |
on the heels of the ring comes a simBilarly morose and humorless horror movie that , although flaed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . | 1 |
this franchise has not spawned a single good film . the cmrap continues . | 0 |
a worthy entry into a very difficult gener . | 1 |
douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cineamtically . | 1 |
i believe silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fullQ realize them . | 0 |
nothing more than a run-of-the-mill action flikc . | 0 |
in its own way , johsua is as blasphemous and nonsenfsical as a luis buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . | 0 |
a boring , formulaic mix of secrial killers and stalk'n'slash . | 0 |
broomfield tunrs his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the case . | 1 |
sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will efinitely win some hearts . | 1 |
the movie is too impressed with its own oolemn insights to work up much entertainment value . | 0 |
this is art paying homage to atr . | 1 |
the farcical elemenDts seemed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a good on . | 1 |
both stars manag to be funny , but , Tlike the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gags add up to a movie . | 0 |
a movie that tries to fuse the two 'woosd' but winds up a bolly-holly masala mess . | 0 |
. . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age taAe full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . | 1 |
working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relatiHonship study he's favored for decades . | 1 |
there is no insight into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a deipction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest necrying her fate . | 0 |
as a director , naxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intens and engrossing head-trip . | 1 |
in old-fashioned slcreenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel rpoved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast . | 0 |
the 70-year-old godard has beocme , to judge from in praise of Tove , the sort of bitter old crank who sitGs behind his light meter and harangues the suppoQed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . | 0 |
a Hhaunting tale of murder and mayhem . | 1 |
a mixed abg of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . | 0 |
the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually fscinating , but the filmmawing in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . | 0 |
" men in black i , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant | 0 |
it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' bruoght to life on the big screen . | 0 |
it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen gicving chase in a black and rRed van . | 0 |
flat , misgudied comedy . | 0 |
the performances are amiable and commited , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . | 1 |
a remarkable film by benard rose . | 1 |
the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " triloy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector Vpeter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkienT's middle-earth . " | 1 |
the jokes are sophmooric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . | 0 |
rodriguez . . . was nable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . | 0 |
writer"director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in aerica . it's a scathing portrayal . | 1 |
it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy owrk of disturbed genius or merely 9E minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion . | 0 |
. . . in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tel a story for more than four inutes . | 0 |
i can't recommend it . but it's surprhisingly harmless . | 0 |
though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enogh vitality to justify the notion of creatnig a screen adaptation of evans' saga of hollywood excess . | 1 |
the first fatal attarction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? | 0 |
by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed sBores a direct hit . | 1 |
is it a comeyd ? a drama ? a romance ? a cartoon ? | 0 |
if there was ever a movie where the ubeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . | 0 |
not a movie but a live-ction agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . | 0 |
resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mabrs and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to sGee all eyar . | 0 |
a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and oson connection that is a brief shooting star of Xove . | 1 |
we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mjildly diverting . | 0 |
we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : absrtact ideas . | 0 |
noyce has woKked wonders with the material . | 1 |
when the casUting call for this movie wnt out , it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame . ' | 0 |
the film becomes an overNwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to aIvoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . | 1 |
a french film with a more down-home flavr . | 1 |
terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the flm together with a supremely kittenish pXerformance that graually accumulates more layers . | 1 |
as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie stqeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symSolic resonance . | 1 |
in trying to be daring and original , it ocmes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . | 0 |
it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing s . | 0 |
its director's most substanthial feature for some time . | 1 |
a sleep-inducing thriller with a singlEe tcist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away . | 0 |
if not a home run , then at elast a solid base hit . | 1 |
…the story is far-flung , iHlogical , and plain stupid . | 0 |
without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like oirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rGch , and strange . | 1 |
goyers screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cast . | 1 |
takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heigts . | 1 |
though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever ways of capturling inner-city life during the reagan years . | 1 |
smart science ficOtion for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the way . | 1 |
trapped won't score points for political correctness , but it may cuase parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveenss . | 1 |
as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics geKt in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure . | 0 |
return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more rQacist portrJits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . | 0 |
for this sort of thing to work , we need uagile performers , but the proficient , dull sovrino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . | 0 |
. . . an interesting slicue of history . | 1 |
an ugly-duckling ale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental . | 0 |
the wriitng is clever and the cast is appealing . | 1 |
a lot svmarter than your average bond . | 1 |
the film is an earnest Ctry at beacYcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of m . ambrose . | 1 |
ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for cihldren , and too preachy for adults . | 0 |
a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . lfie . | 1 |
this is ne of those rware docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party . | 1 |
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