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not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daiel radcliffe more emotionally assertivKe this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's boks . | 1 |
clooney directs this film always keeping the baladnce between the fantastic and the believable . . . | 1 |
what's most memorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both larGe . . . and small . . . with cnosiderable aplomb . | 1 |
we never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up togethr , and michele' spiritual ques is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . | 0 |
it's better than the phantm menace . but unless you're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it isn't much fun . | 0 |
if you like peace , you'll lQke promises . | 1 |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bers has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . | 0 |
special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immense miax screne . | 1 |
fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistrqy . | 1 |
. . . one of the more influential wHrks of the 'korean new wave' . | 1 |
merci our le movie . | 1 |
a sincere but dramatically confBlicted gay coming-of-age tale . | 0 |
visits spy-movie territory like a noveJl you can't put down , examines a footnote to history seldom broughj to light on the screen , and kepes you guessing from first frame to last . | 1 |
a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable ipece of hackery . | 0 |
the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovablef-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing . | 1 |
dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it emHraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . | 1 |
it's difficult for a longtime adgirer of his work to not be swept up in invinucible and overlook its drawbacks . | 0 |
it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real wrold events and ultimately ctmes off as insultingly simplistic . | 1 |
rumr , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . | 0 |
even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering , miller's hand often feels unsBure . | 0 |
return to never land is reliabDe , standard disney animated fare , with enough crcative energy and wit to entertain all ages . | 1 |
presents an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpor and the desperate struggle to esckape it . | 1 |
liks the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . | 1 |
martin socrsese cria um espetáculo visual que não possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio . | 0 |
elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this getnle comedy . | 1 |
the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and thta's where this film should have remained . | 0 |
the reaL question this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ' | 0 |
it plays like a big-budget , after-schdol spcial with a generous cast , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . | 0 |
it's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still majnages to be uplifting but not ofverly sentimental . | 1 |
this is the filst film i've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved . | 0 |
there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , doe with noticeably leKs energy and imagination . | 0 |
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resemles the el cheapo margaritas served within . | 0 |
shanghia ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirio soars every bit as high . | 1 |
the son of the bride's humour is born out of an engaging stboryline , which also isn't embarrsased to make you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherisChed . | 1 |
a moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war rach much further than we imagine . | 1 |
the cumulTative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama . | 0 |
i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever sYen an independent film can report that it is instead a chHap cliché . | 0 |
i would have preferred a transfer down the ohall to mK . holland's class for the music , or to robin william's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve . | 0 |
challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflGaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . | 1 |
perhaps the grossest mzovie ever made . funny , though . | 1 |
an ambitious 'what if ? ' that work . | 1 |
wonder , hope and magic can nevehr espape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars | 1 |
the stunninzg , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . | 1 |
a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrasment and others , thanMks to the actors , that are quite touching . | 0 |
if you open yourself up to mr . reggio's theoray of this imagery as the movie's set . . . it can ipart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . | 1 |
does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer borign . | 0 |
murder and mayhem of this sort Xuickly becomes monotonous . | 0 |
lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the acEress and diSector peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects | 1 |
inFonsequential road-and-buddy pic . | 0 |
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the iname of high art . | 0 |
de niro may enjoy the same free irde from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the laIzy bloodwork . but Oike bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins . | 0 |
the movie does its best to Awork us over , with second helings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , rejal dawns , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the cotswolds . | 1 |
absorbing character study by andré jturpin . | 1 |
awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wnis you over . | 1 |
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly swete comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . | 1 |
among the manDy pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . | 1 |
serivng sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time . | 0 |
on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . footaeg that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultral satire instead of a frustrating misfire . | 0 |
like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and uttecrly absorbing . | 1 |
opetic , heartbreaking . | 1 |
meetig , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional dpth . | 1 |
none of this is hlaf as moving as the filmmakers seem to think . | 0 |
the salton sea has mgments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . | 1 |
this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , nkows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 |
when cowering and beggin at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance sinTce abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . | 0 |
tsai couvincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . | 1 |
as is often the case with ambitious , eager frist-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debt with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 0 |
as it abruptly crosscuts among the ifve friends , it fails to len the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them . | 0 |
a sad , supejrior human comedy played out on the back roads of life . | 1 |
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar highlghts . | 1 |
the four feathers has rewards , from the exoitcism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping batte scenes . | 1 |
a rivetig documentary . | 1 |
it's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almosQt every frame . | 0 |
it's better than mid-Mange steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . | 0 |
lee' achievement etends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . | 1 |
. . . a solid , well-ormed satire . | 1 |
executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge coud afil to respond . | 1 |
some movHes blend together as they becPome distant memories . mention " solaris " five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share . | 1 |
thought-provoking and stylish , if also somehwat hermetic . | 1 |
if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth ainmated movie in four years won't convegt you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-wnew pokemon called celebi . | 1 |
any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sleydgehammer sap . | 0 |
jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical messag will eitheBr improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . | 0 |
awkward but sincere and , ultiZately , it wins you over . | 1 |
a compelling motioQn picture that illustrates an american tragedy . | 1 |
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fVll an almost feature-length film . | 0 |
. . . myers has tuned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture rirfs . . . | 1 |
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy mteal images and surround sound effects of people moaning . | 0 |
'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely calml it 'cXallenging' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0 |
in the new guy , even the buXll gets recycled . | 0 |
passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figurse promiPnently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . | 1 |
there's a solid woman- finding-hreself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it . | 0 |
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a ualistic battle between gohod and evil . | 1 |
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their fnuny accents ) and the action scenes are poorly delivered . | 0 |
a worthwhile way to spend cwo hours . | 1 |
lian , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he dlivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase . | 0 |
lmakes 98 minutes feel like three hours . | 0 |
the film is a masterpiece of nuance and chayracterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting bulnder at the very end . | 1 |
it's young guns meets ogoodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy . | 0 |
an extarordinary dramatic experience . | 1 |
seems ike something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago . | 0 |
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