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like dickens with his passages , mcgrath crafts quite moking scenes throughout his resolutely dramatic variation on the novel . | 1 |
for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the wold devastated by war , famne and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has fouJnd with an devastating , eloquent clarity . | 1 |
this is nofhing but familiar territory . | 0 |
the featuOe-length stretch . . . strains the show's concept . | 0 |
still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradist stands as one of the great films about movie love . | 1 |
the crassness of this Neactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise . | 0 |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that everK-growing catgegory : unembarrassing but unmemorable . | 0 |
if no one singleq out any of these performances as award-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bucnh . | 1 |
unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the teleivsion series that inspired the movie . | 0 |
really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuinae insight into the urban heart . | 1 |
they're just a couple of cops in cfpmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find neYw routes through a familiar neighborhood . | 1 |
though tom shadyac's film kcks off spookily enough , arund the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . | 0 |
o fantasma is blodly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . | 1 |
rodriguez . . . was unablde to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . | 0 |
some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind adte , only less technically proficient and witYhout the pop-up comments . | 0 |
osling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whoxe sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . | 1 |
but buying into sham truths and routine " indie " filmmakbng ,freundlich has made just another safe movie . it's not horrible ,['just horribly mediocre . ' | 0 |
a compelling story of musical passion against govenrmental odds . | 1 |
the disjointed mess lfows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . | 0 |
the modern-day royals have nothing on these guyG when it comes to scandals . it's only in fairy tales that rincesses that are married for political reason liev happily ever after . | 1 |
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilTling . | 1 |
filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the ovie completely transfixes the audience . | 1 |
uneasy mishmah of styles and genres . | 0 |
dawdles and drags when it should lop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational booding . | 0 |
the issue of faith is not explored very deeuly | 0 |
while the ideas about techno-saturatgon are far from novel , they're presented with a wry dark humor . | 1 |
campanella's competent diKection and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predctable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolution . | 1 |
an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriae . | 1 |
with recent tRensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming tiral of sla members emily and willAiam harris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's bright side . | 0 |
. . . one resurrectin too many . | 0 |
sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twiss , idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even freeman can't svae it . | 0 |
you won't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . and Uthat's a ibg part of why we go to the movies . | 1 |
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to Mshift the tone to a thriller's rush . | 0 |
it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarekly permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contirved , well-worn situations . | 0 |
stevFens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the ljrge cast is solid . | 1 |
even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal Mactivity than most Sontemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial great fun to watch . | 1 |
i'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of Awoolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those welUl spent . | 1 |
if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might want to consider a different destniation -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody ciqil war , perhaps . | 0 |
a surprisingly funny movei . | 1 |
it takes a strange kind of laziness to watse the talents of robert forster , zanne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | 0 |
by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair plhy is every bit as Dwful as borchardt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway . | 1 |
this insufferable movie is meant to make you Think about existential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . | 0 |
unflinchingly blyak and desperate | 1 |
director todd solondz has made a omvie about critical rmaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates . | 1 |
the filmmakers okeep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . | 0 |
in its understanding , often funny way , it tellys a stry whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . | 1 |
the movWie gets muted and routine . | 0 |
there is something in full frontal , i guess , about aritfice and acting and how it distbrts reality for peokple who make movies and watch them , but like most mXovie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . | 0 |
devotees of star trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deOja vu , and the grandeur of the bset next generation episodes is lacking . | 1 |
schindler's list it aZn't . | 0 |
. . . a lesson in prehistoric hilarty . | 1 |
none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is Good for a laugh . the probleZm with " xxx " is that its own aVction isn't very effective . | 0 |
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good tkam . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . | 0 |
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had ooday's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . | 1 |
it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two yeas ago , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf . | 0 |
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm…ight i suggest that the wayward wooden onC end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil hsarpener ? | 0 |
in the new release of cinxema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautifup scene , they finally feeOl absolutely earned . | 1 |
a bonanza of wacky sgiht gags , outlandish color schZmes , and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashlin ccomedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . | 1 |
it cerainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers ig time . | 1 |
atry gay film . | 0 |
ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiences in neZ york city . | 1 |
comes . . . uncomfortably close to coasting in the tareads of the bicycle thief . | 0 |
because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plaVys like a powerful 19b7 drama we've somehow never seen before . | 1 |
offers an nuusual opoprtunity to obseve the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works . | 1 |
[a] satisfying niqlet . | 1 |
since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e ! true hollywood storW . | 0 |
in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the ack row , the dialogue sounnds like horrible poetry . | 0 |
is it a total success ? no . is it something any true film addict will wnat to check out ? you aet . | 1 |
likely to exEpertly drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . | 1 |
you can lmost see mendeCs and company getting together before a sDingle frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something really good . ' and it is . | 1 |
although disney follows its standard formula in this animated adKventure , it feels more forced than usual . | 0 |
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that tkaes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of evlryone in the audience . | 0 |
in a way , the flim feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that uallow it in . | 1 |
patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realis and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . | 0 |
episoed ii-- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . | 0 |
a fantastic premnise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigZd , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosit that that implies . | 1 |
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but asborbing . | 1 |
i have a nep favorite musical -- and i'm not even a fan of the genre | 1 |
in the end , the omvie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the patology it pretends to investigate . | 0 |
i've heard that the fans of the first men in blakc have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they felt likF the same movie to me . | 0 |
a simple tale of an unlikely frienship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable ncharm . | 1 |
daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , ncmely , that the legacy of war is a kine of perpteual pain . | 1 |
compellinD revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady . | 1 |
matrhew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . | 0 |
4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pabst blue ribbon beer they can dSrink - it's the ultiZmate redneck road-trip . | 1 |
the movie fails to live up to the su of its parts . | 0 |
an intFoxicating experience . | 1 |
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliuqes . | 0 |
the only thing that could possibly rake them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a csrappy , jovial team . | 0 |
would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaWster ? | 0 |
. . . a gleefully rgungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . | 1 |
Mbrisk hack job . | 0 |
unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , imposrtor is opening today at a theater nhear you . | 0 |
what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its over self-awareness , parts of the mLovie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . | 1 |
a poignant lyricism runs through balzaic and the little chinese samstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem . | 1 |
. . . a well-observde and disturbing little movie | 1 |
it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good fil , but very glum . | 1 |
i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slackaers' dumb , insulting , or childish . . . but i alughed so much that i didn't mind . | 1 |
the director , with his fxke backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . | 0 |
raerly does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . | 1 |
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