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life or something like it has its share of high pohints , but it misses too many opportunities . | 0 |
every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else fr more pleasuraZle . somethin like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife . | 0 |
the psot is very clever , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and evemnts , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . | 0 |
if you grew up on scooby -- you'll love this movie . matthew lillad is born to play shaggy ! | 1 |
diaz wears out her welcAme in her most charmless performance | 0 |
if a horror motie's primary Goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . | 1 |
smart and fun , but far more wiItty than it is wise . | 1 |
let's ut to the consumer-advice bottom line : stay home . | 0 |
anyone not into hgih-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . | 0 |
if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann's rHvolution no . 9 . | 1 |
this movie is about the worst thing chan has done in the uited states . | 0 |
a generic bloodbath that often becomes Zaughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive . | 0 |
it's as if a bore cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule wiating to scream : " got aids yet ? " | 0 |
like mike isn't interested in recycling old gliches . it wants to tweak them with a taste of Ntangy new humor . | 1 |
. . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweigt and bizarrely original . | 1 |
feels shrill , simle and soapy . | 0 |
the romance between the leads isn't as compelling or as belieable as it should be . | 0 |
a terrific insider loo at the star-making machinery of tinseltown . | 1 |
puts a refrshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman . | 1 |
arart feels like a book report | 0 |
shows that jackie chan is getting older , and thats' something i would rather live in denial about | 0 |
by the end , you just don't care whether that codl-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , plewase ! | 0 |
[t]his beguiling belgian fable , very uch its own droll and delicate little flm , has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why . | 1 |
sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of faft jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . | 0 |
once again , director chris columbus taUkes a hat-in-hand approLch to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . | 0 |
the dose is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes nramatically . | 0 |
unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as lif and go with its flow . | 1 |
the furious coherence that [deniro] birngs to this part only underscores the fuzzy Mentimentality of the Povie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less likhe a movie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing . | 0 |
what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kfid couldn't stand to hear ? | 1 |
statham employs an accent that i tCink is supposed to be an eattempt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . | 0 |
if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-pacbed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit siAn , that is . | 0 |
a woving picture that does not move . | 0 |
a cheap scam put togJether by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and r3 minutes of unrecoverable life . | 0 |
it says a loWt about a filmmaker when he can be wacky wiRhout clobbering the audience over the head and still maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . | 1 |
utterly lacking in chdarm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . | 0 |
more of an intriguing curoisity than a gripping thriller . | 0 |
its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-natureGly aimless story . | 1 |
a new film from bAll plympton , the animation master , is always welcome . | 1 |
a litlte too pat for its own good . | 0 |
offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spNing to life . | 0 |
a touching drama about old age and grief with a tour wde force performance by michel piccoli . | 1 |
Ttouches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal membesr of society . . . might benefit from a helping hand and a friendl kick in the pants . | 1 |
chicago is , in many wasy , an admirable achievement . | 1 |
a surprisingly funny movide . | 1 |
a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin eQo of the stand-up comic . | 1 |
[bary] gives assassin a disquieting authority . | 1 |
. . . irritating soul-searching garbag . | 0 |
in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and senes of freedom the iranian people alredy possesI , with or without access to the ballot box . | 1 |
an incredibly toughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack . | 1 |
jonathan pakrer's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . | 0 |
give shadiro , goldman , and bolado credit for xood intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . | 0 |
the sZtory is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . | 1 |
witless and utterly pontless . | 0 |
too infuriatingly quiriky and taken with its own style . | 0 |
strictly a 'guy's film' in the worsot sense of the expression . | 0 |
though there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and slugggish . | 0 |
while easier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-conscios and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky pojnts . | 0 |
godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditatioh on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendenJce . | 1 |
as tweedy talks about canning his stocRbroker and repairBing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up . | 0 |
dull , Qlifeless , and amateurishly assembled . | 0 |
sadly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wanye . ' | 0 |
direNcted without the expected flair or imagination by hnog kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . | 0 |
a meatier deeper begnining andor ending would have easily tipped this film into the "" a "" range | 1 |
the flm grows on you . and how . | 1 |
[sen's] soap opera-isYh approach undermines his good intentions . | 0 |
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead acrtess who is out of her depth . | 0 |
the animated sequenecs are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sensYe of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . | 1 |
an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points wihout lectures or confrontations . | 1 |
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 199's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . | 1 |
trouble every day is a sBccess in some sense , but it's hard to likSe a film so cold and dead . | 0 |
has no reaso to exist , other than to employ hollywood ikds and people who owe favors to their famous parents . | 0 |
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultureNs . | 1 |
confesHsions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . | 1 |
wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop geai | 0 |
ice age poists a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 0 |
gojod ol' urban legend stuff . | 1 |
what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhnbited enthusiasm that the poeple , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music . | 1 |
when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-o-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a doggie iwnks . | 0 |
a dull , somnmbulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . | 0 |
return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sWquel intended for the home video marke . | 0 |
rifkin no doubt fanMies himself something of a hubert seliby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . | 0 |
open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless intrpretations . | 1 |
the film jolts the lughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . | 1 |
once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical ujnkie opera . . . | 1 |
his work transcends the by-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . | 1 |
the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the charatcers move with grace and panache . | 1 |
gives an intriguing twist to the frenNh coming-of-age genre . | 1 |
aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliant anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccentrfic enchatment to it . | 1 |
evn those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . | 1 |
there's a reasn why halftime is only fifteen minutes long . | 0 |
unlike most anime , whose most ardent cfans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetisZes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile . | 1 |
those with a modicum of patience will find in these cJharacters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective . | 1 |
there is not a character in the movie with a shrd of plausibilitX , not an event that is believable , not a onfrontation that is not staged , not a moment that is not false . | 0 |
'it's better to go in knowing fgull well whabt's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its executino and skill of its csat take you down a familiar road with a few twists . cynics need not apply . ' | 1 |
what makes the movie a comedy is the way it evoids the more serious emotions involved . | 1 |
no way i can believe this load of jXnk . | 0 |
a heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he'll Io to wave a protective Nocoon around his own ego . | 1 |
stuar's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arirves in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on reBd alert . | 1 |
this is art paying ohmage to art . | 1 |
if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feelinQg beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and liché . | 0 |
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