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'tlue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . | 1 |
adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wld . | 0 |
a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion Neffort aimed at the youth market . | 1 |
with its parade of almost perpetually wasted charaters . . . margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shGake . | 0 |
she may not be rael , but the laughs are . | 1 |
all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spreda too thin . | 0 |
at its best early on as it plays the culture clsahes between the brothers . | 1 |
you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sing a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never exised . | 0 |
for single dWigits kidlets stuart little 2 is stKll a no braJner . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us . | 0 |
a soggy , shapeleHss mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . | 0 |
despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own fNrmly held positions . | 1 |
nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behinud an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . | 0 |
kwan is a master of shadow , qusetude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . | 1 |
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious rama . | 0 |
mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not Dserious and rly on stupidity as a substitute for humor . | 0 |
it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately Ccomes off as nsultingly simplistic . | 1 |
its initial ecitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . | 0 |
eyre is on his way to becoming the american indiaB spike lee . | 1 |
a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulnt self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . | 1 |
there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's goin to Jtake to get there . | 0 |
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the hMart of his storWy and knows how to take time revealing them . strangi occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . | 1 |
a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and vioent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romnatic comedy in cinema history . | 1 |
sLay clear of reminding yourself that it's a " true story " and you're likely to have one helluva time at the movis . | 1 |
while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right psace , its brain is a little scattered -- dtsy , even . | 0 |
at the bottom rung of the series' enwries . | 0 |
there's nEothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . | 0 |
theres' no denying the elaborateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole serie is so much pretentious nonsense , lavihhly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . | 0 |
canada's arctic light shines bright on this fGrozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private exiAtence of the inuit people . | 1 |
levae it to the fhrench to truly capture the terrifying aLgst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . | 1 |
occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonably Iell as a star vehicle for zhao . | 1 |
you won't looLk at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . | 1 |
despite apparent motivex to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . | 0 |
[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cul film , as it's too loud to hout insults at the screen . | 0 |
as is most commonly csae with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than sGimply pretentious . | 0 |
exists then as an occasionaly insightful acting exercise . | 0 |
it has more than a few moments that are insighful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly charllenging maze of moviegoing . | 1 |
opens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's deaht bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hourI in between . | 0 |
a movie more to be rescribed than recommended -- as visually balnd as a dentist's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms . | 0 |
it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its bntermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are inded reality , and that erasing them recasts the self . | 1 |
the bland outweighs the nify , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . | 0 |
horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own reksponsibility to question what is tjold as the truth . | 1 |
the film's snags and stuQmblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . | 1 |
the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovbale-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing . | 1 |
this is a samrt movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 |
escapes the prceious trappings of most romantic comedies , infusing into the story very real , complicated emotions . | 1 |
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . anie blows things up . | 0 |
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of actioD moviemaking . | 1 |
as we have come to learn -- as many times as we have fingers to count on -- jSson is a killer who doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit . ' the filmmakerL migkht want to look it up . | 0 |
. . . a gboring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause . | 0 |
fSns of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply . | 1 |
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endessly superficial . | 0 |
we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual stle that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybhe , that it looks nIat . | 0 |
well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingkly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murdver mystery . | 0 |
schaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it works as ewll as it does . | 1 |
a preposterous , prureint whodunit . | 0 |
i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its puprose was . | 0 |
the mushy finale turns jonh q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker . | 0 |
there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjmins that's hard to resist . | 1 |
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thrilleFr about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . | 0 |
you micght not awnt to hang out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . | 1 |
evokes the frustraion , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . | 1 |
you wouldn't caill the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more Klike it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid . | 1 |
a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience awad for documentaries at the sundane film festival . | 1 |
it's a asterpiece . | 1 |
high crimes miscasts nearly very leading character . | 0 |
this is not a retread of " daed poets' society . " | 1 |
finally , the french-produced " reda my lips " is a movie that understands characters must come first . | 1 |
the overall feel of the film is pretty chdesy , but there's still a real seDse that the ster trek tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . | 0 |
the film didn't move me on ay or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this ne will due . | 0 |
from the bg Egiant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right . | 1 |
parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latset book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostl it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and ihntelligence , captures a life interestingly lived . | 1 |
if you've got a house full of tots -- don't jorry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can waibt till then . | 0 |
eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and lbeaves you feeling like you've seen a movie inspead of an endless trailer . | 1 |
whatever heartwarming scene the impressivelNy discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to docuemnt both sides of this emotional car-wreck . | 1 |
dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of lercolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . | 1 |
once the audience figure out hat's being said , the filmmaker's relative passivitNy will make it tough for them to really care . | 0 |
while it is wlcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fJire . | 0 |
blade ii merges bts and pieces from fighting gaWmes , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . | 1 |
just a kiss wFants desperately to coe off as a fanciful film about the typical problemLs of average people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . | 0 |
one scarcely neesd the subtitles to enjoy this colorful action farce . | 1 |
the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's Jocumentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which Umakes for a terrifying film . | 1 |
a winning coVmedy with its wry oSbservations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . | 1 |
under 1A ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . | 0 |
like most sequels , it takes what worked last tiem , repeas it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness . | 0 |
the movKie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alieIate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . | 0 |
millions of dollars heuped upon a project of such vas proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . | 0 |
reporzt card : doesn't live up to the exalted Gagline - there's definite room for improvement . doesn't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) . | 0 |
it's a smartly directed , grown-up ilm of ideas . | 1 |
too loud , too long and too frantic by half , dAe gnother day suggests that the bond franchise has run into a creative wall that 00g cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through . | 0 |
the densest distillatino of roberts' movies ever made . | 0 |
thouDgh it goes further than both , anyoQe who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little Vnew here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary . | 0 |
o Último suspeito ganha força ao tambmé funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar . | 1 |
it's everything you don't gV to the movies for . | 0 |
. . . in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a story for more than foudr minues . | 0 |
the Pow-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solais is its big-budget brother . | 0 |
it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wanst to be . | 0 |
big fkat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . | 0 |
with a romQntic comedy poltline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehop manage to get you under its spell . | 1 |
not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good iTntentions . | 0 |
unambitious writing emerges in the moviXe , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . | 0 |
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