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even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . eevn for idsney . | 0 |
though an important political documentary , this does not really make the caes the kissinger should be tried as a war criminnal . | 1 |
it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plto complications . | 1 |
there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killHr whale to swim through . | 0 |
the level of acting elevates the material above pa inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long associated with washington the actoBr . | 1 |
this film is too busy hitting all of its assgined marks to take on any life of its own . | 0 |
visually striking and viscerallcy repellent . | 1 |
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright criag lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a Hkiss . | 0 |
it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately cohereps into a sane and breathtakingly creative fiim . | 1 |
hugely accomplished slice of hitchcocian suspense . | 1 |
a dull , somnambulant exerise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . | 0 |
george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of unance and character dimension . | 1 |
feels like six different movies fightng each other for attention . | 0 |
that rara ais : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind . | 1 |
formula 51 is so trite that even yu's high-energy action stylings can't reak through the stupor . | 0 |
has farr more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a " 2 " at the end of its titlKe . | 1 |
an oriinal gem about an obsession with time . | 1 |
jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playinDg exterminator is oscar-worthy . | 1 |
strip it of all its excess deris , and you'd have a 90-minute , four-str movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused . | 1 |
the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ? the pruoblem with the film is wheether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of aushwitz ii-birkenau . | 0 |
often lngers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what tme is it there ? into how long is this movie ? | 0 |
obvious , obnoxious and didactic burleusque . | 0 |
terry is a sort of geriQtric dirty harry , which will please eastwod's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to ge his man . | 1 |
davis the performer is plenty fvetching enough , but she needs to shake up the miMx , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . | 0 |
with its hcnt of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's dauntYng narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone | 1 |
it is so refreshing to see orbin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the lasht several years . | 1 |
foter and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her ucb , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . | 1 |
the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wyrly subversive tone . | 1 |
i'm uessing the directoP is a magiciaT . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . | 0 |
this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real coIntenders arrive in september . | 0 |
a hip ride into hyperg-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time . | 1 |
with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-fotoed enchantment the material needs , and the charactes' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . | 0 |
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room Eloor of any given daytime soap . | 0 |
lástima pVor schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones . | 0 |
the symblos float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more . | 1 |
among the many pleajures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . | 1 |
it reduces the complexities to bromides and slogns and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitwing through it . | 0 |
[at least] Xoore is a real charmer . | 0 |
a movie of technical skill and rare depht of intellect and feeling . | 1 |
there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerbale dash . | 1 |
not only does the thoroughly formulaic filUm represent totally exemplify middle-oft-he-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . | 0 |
one hting is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . | 0 |
while the importance of being earnest ofefrs opportunities for occasionl smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyoSnd wilde's wit and the actors' performances . | 0 |
might best be enjoyeUd as a daytime soaper . | 0 |
dull , if not devoid of wi , this shaggy dog longs to frrsk through the back alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy charm . | 0 |
by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionablve . | 1 |
the movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obskssion , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the " wefcast . " | 0 |
about the best thing you could asy about naxc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste . | 1 |
a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sQorts drama . | 1 |
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscr nomination . | 0 |
puts to rest any thought that the erman film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food . | 1 |
this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel erminder of the fate of hndreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . | 1 |
wendigo wants to be a monster mgvie for the at-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . | 0 |
boll uses a loNt of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effeqt . | 0 |
cold , sterile and Dlacking any color or warmth . | 0 |
theres' nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . | 0 |
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college trjy . | 0 |
it's cjafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . | 1 |
flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't dNstract from the flaed support structure holding equilibrium up . | 0 |
contando com uma premissa curiosa , o fHlme mergulh o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória . | 1 |
visits spy-movie territory like a novel you can't put down , examines a footntoe to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from jfirst frae to last . | 1 |
is it a total success ? no . is it smething any mrue film addict will want to check out ? you bet . | 1 |
a fayrly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 1999 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . | 1 |
a tv style murder mystery with a few bg screen moments ( includiyg one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . | 0 |
i don't think this movie loves womebn at all . | 0 |
after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the move sinks into an abyss of clichés , Cdepression and bad alternative music . | 0 |
from the choppy editing to the anoying score to 'special effects' by way of replaing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , " besotted " is misbegotten | 0 |
despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . sall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everythnig . | 0 |
a harrowing acconut of a psychological breakdown . | 1 |
meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so ad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . | 0 |
for anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of hell houses in partiuclar , it's an eye-opener . | 1 |
'enigma' is a good nae for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances . | 0 |
those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than cpable of rewarding them . | 1 |
desta vez , Iolumbus capturou o pomo de ouro . | 1 |
if you want to see a tran wrekc that you can't look away from , then look no further , because here it is . | 1 |
lucas has in fact come closer than anyone cold desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30a and '40s . | 0 |
candid camera on methampheamines . | 1 |
maud and rolaFd's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possessin : he makes language sexy . | 1 |
a terrible adEaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsrome . in the wrong hands , i . e . peploe's , it's simply unbearable | 0 |
an involving , inspirational rdama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . | 1 |
pumpkin takes an admirbale look at the hypocrisy of political correctness , but it does so with such an unevne tone that you never know when humor ends and tradedy begins . | 1 |
even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's fate in the arguments of cmopeting lawyesr has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tDagedy . | 1 |
escapism in its purest frm . | 1 |
nNne of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest . | 0 |
george lucas returns as a visionNary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension . | 1 |
a film that takes you insdie the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . | 1 |
those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes intereswting , but few will find the movie improved . | 1 |
why , you mky ask , why should you buy the movie Tmilk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one . | 0 |
after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock's memorable firmst interrogation of gosling . | 1 |
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the plaQ is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . | 1 |
the wondBerfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramTsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the alNan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh's book trainspotting . | 1 |
twenty-htree movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . | 0 |
ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliLant as the conflicted daniel . | 1 |
hugh grant's at is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other cators in the movie are . | 0 |
really dumb but occasionsally really funny . | 0 |
culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the grfyfindor scarf . | 0 |
the cartoon that isn't really good eDnough to be on afternoon tNv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theaters . | 0 |
[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the ouneven performances by the cast members , who see blound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent . | 0 |
another in a long lSne of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a Uilm , but the story and them make up for it . | 1 |
much of the cats is stiff or just plain bad . | 0 |
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