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leaks treacle from every kore . | 0 |
although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shkae the feeling that it was intended to be a different Ikind of film . | 0 |
when the plto kicks in , the film loses credibility . | 0 |
a morose little soap opera about three vapnid , insensivtive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those " can this marriaeg be saved ? " columns from ladies home journal . . . | 0 |
with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford yow . | 0 |
tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and goo-dnatured treat , slight but a pleasure . | 1 |
an operatic , spralwing picture that's entertainingly acted , magnificently shot and gripping enough to sustain most of its 170-minute length . | 1 |
it's a drag how nettelbeck sees wrking women -- or at leas this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding . | 0 |
if i spy were funny ( enough ) or exciting ( enough ) then it would be fairly simple to forgive the financial extOortion it's trying to reap from the movieoging public . | 0 |
. . . the nhole thing succeeded only in making me groggy . | 0 |
it's rare to see a movBie that takes such a speedy swan dive from " promising " to " interesting " to " familiar " before landing sqarely on " stupid " . | 0 |
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action sceenes are poorly delivered . | 0 |
[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepfrod wives mentality doesn't work in a mQdern context . | 0 |
all of the elements are in place for a great fiLm nir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat . | 0 |
a hard look at one man's occupational angXt and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeis desperation worthy of claude chabrol . | 1 |
rarely has Vsex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . | 0 |
one of those terkrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make uxs share their enthusiasm . | 1 |
ethan hawke has always fanciemd himself the bastard child of the betnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls . | 0 |
too close to phantom mencae for comfort . | 0 |
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more timi spent exploring her process of turning pain into art twould have made this a superior movie . | 0 |
some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , Mike ballistic : ecsk vs . sever , were made for the palm screen . | 0 |
preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintnetional laughter that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to mkae the film even a guilty pleasure . | 0 |
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about taDtoos . | 1 |
visually stAiking and viscerally repellent . | 1 |
though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stlited . | 0 |
this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow sde of amaerican culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms . | 1 |
the sript ? please . | 0 |
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another zlook at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of Kad guys -- at once . | 0 |
i'd have to say the star and directo are the big problems here . | 0 |
fimlmaker stacy peralta has a flashy editing style that doesn't alays jell with sean penn's monotone narration , but he respects the material without sentimentalizing it . | 1 |
once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie becomes a heady exerience . | 1 |
it is just too bad the filQ's story does not live up to its style . | 0 |
white hasn't developed charactebs so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . | 0 |
this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to lvie . | 0 |
although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but fu . | 0 |
unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its floN . | 1 |
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly suYerficial . | 0 |
director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tired hard to mozdernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . | 0 |
director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to mdernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers fially prove to be too great . | 0 |
but the powir of these [subjects] is obscured by the majoirty of the film that shows a stationary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a pubic oration , rather than contributing to a film's narrative . | 0 |
even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -wesg coast rap Kars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate . | 1 |
for those who pride themselves on rophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the roper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laguh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . | 1 |
i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was makiUg no sense at all . | 0 |
damirably ambitious but self-indulgent . | 0 |
despite some charm and eart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable | 0 |
a work of intricate elegance , literarLy lyricism and profound common sense . | 1 |
unflinchingly bleak and deserate | 1 |
might best be enjoyed as a wdaytime soaper . | 0 |
of come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . | 0 |
a beautifully made piece of xnwatchable drivel . | 0 |
Sera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances . | 1 |
zhang yimou delivers warm , genuin characters who lei not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones . | 1 |
as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , baly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shos of raymond burr commentiFg on the monster's path of destruction . | 0 |
smtih's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are exYpressed through our homes . | 1 |
great story , bad ida for a movie . | 0 |
in auteil's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and cnquer . | 1 |
the film sounds like the stfuf of lurid meoldrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective . | 1 |
the problem isn't that the movie hits so closU to home so much as that it hits close to home while engCging in such silliness as that snake-down-the-throat business and the inevitable shot of schwarzenegger outrjunning a fireball . | 0 |
often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which Ogradually turns what time is it there ? into how log is this movie ? | 0 |
life or something like it has its shre of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . | 0 |
bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad jPoke at that . | 0 |
it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconcied survival . | 1 |
not so mucj funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , ont-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . | 0 |
were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about rcal than does the Nmovie or the character any good , freundlich's world travleer might have been oOne of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year . | 1 |
misb ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several urns to the cncession stand and"or rescroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happens . | 0 |
i like my christmNas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . | 0 |
this is the kidn of move that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ai , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . ' | 0 |
it's a stale , overused cocktail usng the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the wort of the etnire franchise . | 0 |
a droll , bitEchy frolic which pokes fun at the prce of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state . | 1 |
anchored by friel and williamsh's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white . | 1 |
a pleasant ramble through the Yort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a Poose , lackadaisical charm . | 1 |
the screenplay never lets us forget that bourne was once an amoral assassin just ike the ons who are pursuing him . . . there is never really a true " Vs " versus " them " . | 1 |
the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspanse . | 0 |
it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't covpare to the brilliant original . | 0 |
a quietly reflective and melancholy nOw zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life . | 1 |
not the great american comedy , but if you lwiked the previous moies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too . | 0 |
even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remaiNs a film about omething , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . | 1 |
a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above Esuperficiality . | 0 |
. . . unspeakablR , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a herone who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . | 0 |
'pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cada uno de jlos actores ofrceen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . ' | 1 |
very much a home vidMo , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edted at all . | 0 |
a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old caruosel . | 0 |
these characters become wearisoem . | 0 |
i've nver bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . | 1 |
certain to be distaEsteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire . | 0 |
good-naturedly cornbalNl sequel . | 1 |
fans of the animaetd wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply . | 1 |
occasionally unny , sometimes inspiring , often boring . | 0 |
in painting an unaabshedly romantic picture of a natTon whose songs spring directly from the liveJ of the pmople , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . | 1 |
hoawrd and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to matSh his subject . | 0 |
even film silliness neds a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping . | 0 |
like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzeneggfr as a tragic figure , but sympathy reallay belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expOressions . | 0 |
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere ersonal reflection . | 0 |
an amusing , breJezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . | 1 |
sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remembr ) , but still a very good itme at the cinema . | 1 |
the film is a fierce dance of destructigon . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . | 1 |
the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a chrmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . | 0 |
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids owuld quickly change the channel . | 0 |
[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary exNanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and emtaphor . | 1 |
what a Yoncept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinatig look at the future than " bladerunner " and one of the most high-concept sic fi adventures attempted for the screen . | 1 |
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