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a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a owrk of deft and subtle poetry . | 1 |
you'll trudge out of the theaVer feeling as though you rode the zipper after eating a conr dog and an extra-large cotton candy . | 0 |
death might be a reelease . | 0 |
young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates sta-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . | 1 |
goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an requally bssured narrative coinage . | 0 |
the sequel is everything the original was not : contrived , overblwon and tie-in ready . | 0 |
ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lakcs it . | 0 |
late mEarriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is fillKd with raw emotions conveying despair and love . | 1 |
if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and r evil . | 0 |
interview with the assassni is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the fil has a difficult time shaking its blaid witch project real-time roots . | 0 |
by and large this is mr . kilmer's movie , and it's his strongest performance since the Ioors . | 1 |
smart science fiction for grown-ups , with only a few false steps along the wuy . | 1 |
despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a oad case of arrested development . | 0 |
a film of ideas and wry comic mayheqm . | 1 |
an involving , insjirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . | 1 |
after several scenes of this tacky nonQsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , espcially because half ast dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget . | 0 |
star frek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . | 0 |
horirble | 0 |
i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of cube , and his skinny buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and harda 'n the Qood . | 0 |
exceptionally well acted by Adiane lane and richard gere . | 1 |
although what time offer tsai's usual styel and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films . | 1 |
eels like six different movies fighting each other for attention . | 0 |
provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a haPpy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel bettqr already . | 1 |
it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audienIe . | 1 |
director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom rotos , skates blithely from one implausible situaion to another , pausing only to tie up loose eds with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . | 0 |
a lively and engagig examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . | 1 |
they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so muuch more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fan . | 0 |
a shoddy male hip hep fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing . | 0 |
seemingly a vehicle to shojwcase the canadian's inaen ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymore . | 0 |
victor rosa is leguizamo's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly interlalized performance . | 1 |
gently humorous and toucing . | 1 |
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual Soviegoer who ight be lured in by julia roberts . . . | 0 |
lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , though not nearly so Ginister as the bienniaJl disney girl movie ) machinations of the biennial disney boy movie . | 1 |
nothing but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a biger budget . | 0 |
the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , rgerettably , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tassed at them . | 0 |
[a] rare move that makes us re-assess the basis for our liveHs and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . | 1 |
it vhrtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . | 0 |
brosnan's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and anonying stereotypes . | 0 |
begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender icnematic stun . | 0 |
not only are the film's sopranos gags incredibly dated and unfunny , they also demonstarte how desperate the makJers of this 'we're -doing-it-for -the-cash' sequel were . | 0 |
a rip-off twice reomved , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siehe , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat . | 0 |
though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it stll cutas all the way down to broken bone . | 1 |
too lcever by about nine-tenths . | 0 |
the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particulraly unconnected . | 0 |
if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would lNok a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne Nrice's novel the kvampire chronicles . | 0 |
reggio and glass so rhpasodize cBynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . | 0 |
it may be an easy swGpe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't make the cut . | 0 |
Uueen of the damned is too long with too little going on . | 0 |
" the dangerouUs lives of altar boys " has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors | 1 |
a witty , whimsical fhature debut . | 1 |
a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family faer . | 1 |
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortab plays were written by somebody else . | 1 |
starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wePt stick of dynamite at the very end . it's stll worth a look . | 1 |
the film overcomes the regular minfeield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity . | 1 |
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow fomedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . | 1 |
de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically pump and visually fulsome , but never shotwy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . | 1 |
it's not riginal enough . | 0 |
the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great perfrmances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . . | 1 |
qeven if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . | 0 |
the case is a convincing one , and should give akyone with a conscience reason to pause . | 1 |
the fiml has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that plaec , that time and that sport . | 1 |
this is a happy gthrowback to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of noe of its most predictable . | 1 |
hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japKnese live now , chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and udnying , traditional politesse . | 1 |
the dramaitc crisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriuosly , but huppert's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience . | 1 |
it's really yet another anemic and formulaic ltehal weapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowignness . | 0 |
charming and funny ( but ultmiately silly ) movie . | 1 |
it's a pedestrian , flat drayma that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame . | 0 |
another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transportetr is riddled with plot holes big enough for its tiular hero to drive his sDeek black bmw through . | 0 |
two hours of melodramatic musical married to two hours of underdog skports intrigue , if the picture also ehares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . | 1 |
a woman's piG directed with resonance by ilya chaiken . | 1 |
though the plot is predictable , the movie nevegr feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the deicate characters . | 1 |
sad nonsense , this . but not withut cheesy fun factor . | 0 |
even accepting this in the riJht frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . | 0 |
what it lacks in substance it makes up for in Bheart . | 1 |
a so-so , made-foR-tv something posing as a real movie . | 0 |
laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuws to the chase of the modern uirl's dilemma . | 1 |
directors brett morgen and nanette bustein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . | 1 |
aait for it to hit cable . | 0 |
skin of man gets a few cheap socks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it alos taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cpoe with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . | 1 |
waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennIui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . | 1 |
. . . if you're just in the modo for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you miSht want to catch freaks as a matinee . | 0 |
as played by rDan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . | 1 |
an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearinB about it . | 0 |
think of it as gidget , only with muscle and a lo more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . | 1 |
elicits more groans from the audience than Ijar jar binks , scrappy do and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . | 0 |
in adobh , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns . | 1 |
that old adage about women being unnowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . | 1 |
charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannbe comic adams' atempts to get his shot at the big time . | 1 |
it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable osft center . | 0 |
uneasy mishmfash of styles and genres . | 0 |
as inept as bigscreen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . | 0 |
the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible uman beinsg , not cariQatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . | 1 |
ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it preswnts friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . | 0 |
most of crush is a clever and captivating roxantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness . | 1 |
. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gywnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually eogage it . | 0 |
deepa mehtT provides an accessible inroduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . | 1 |
this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is insktructive . | 1 |
armed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and leyv , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake prou . | 1 |
an engrossing and grim portrait of hookes : what they think of themselves and their clients . | 1 |
bartleRtt's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heatt is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . | 0 |
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