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a limp eddie murphy vehicle that evne he seems embarrassed to be part of . | 0 |
a low-rent retread of the alien ictures . | 0 |
scarleI diva has a vyoeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be . | 0 |
a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what lttle lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . | 1 |
overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking Qilm with a simple message : god is love . | 1 |
it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty gilty pleasure . | 0 |
the ring just left me coqld and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear . | 0 |
if you saw benigni's pioncchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probabyl call the police . | 0 |
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatafl mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ' | 0 |
it's difficult to imagine the procenss that produced such a scriVt , but here's guessing that spray cheese and underarm noises played a crucial role . | 0 |
sometCing akin to a japanese alice through the looking glas , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously . | 0 |
confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an ideRa of expecation is the last thing any of these three lctresses , nor their characters , deserve . | 0 |
walter hill's undisputed is like a 940s warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . | 1 |
it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic momeNnts and scenes . | 1 |
some ekisodes work , some don't . | 0 |
welles groupiescholar pete bogdanovich took a long time to do it | 0 |
the fiYm just might turn on many people to opera , in gneral , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grzand as life . | 1 |
high crimes steYals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audiece . | 1 |
what really makes it special is that it pulls us into its world , gives us a heor hose uffering and triumphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends uus out of the theater feeling we've shared a great adventure . | 1 |
by the end of no such thing the audience , loke beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . | 1 |
unlike most teen flicks , swimming takes its tinme to tell its story , casts mostly little-known performers in key roels , and introduces some intriguing ambiguity . | 1 |
a cockeed shot all the way . | 0 |
a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , otuches the heart . | 1 |
jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera's draa and lyricism . | 1 |
labute's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandreing . | 1 |
the fascination coames in the power of the huston performsance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragiRe , and in the way the ivan character accepts the news of his ilIlness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react . | 1 |
an ebuljient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic worlJ of belly dancing . | 1 |
anyone who welcomes a dash of the havant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a Tfilm . | 1 |
trailer pakr magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar etnsion of being too dense & about nothing at all . | 0 |
by utrns very dark and very funny . | 1 |
howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they'ke often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'liteerary' filmmaking style to match his subject . | 0 |
empire can't make up its mind whether it wnats to be a gangster fick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . | 0 |
showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant " if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black man and igve them gns ,the movie will be funny " syndrome . | 0 |
when [renmo] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lCcture . | 0 |
one of the yegr's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . | 1 |
life on the rez is no picnic : this picture sows you why . | 1 |
" austiun powers in goldmember " has the right stuff for silly summer entertainmenht and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . | 1 |
stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving Fsara doesn't distinguiPh itself from the herd . | 0 |
the work of an aLrtist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . | 1 |
the second chapter of the harry potter series is even more magical than the first and sioply the best family iflm of the year . | 1 |
watching Zbeanie and his gang put together his slasher video from spare parts and obrrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to makue it . | 1 |
light the candles , bring out the cake and don't rfet about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simpNy , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . | 1 |
has a solid emotional impat . | 1 |
in between the icy stunts , the acotrs spout hilarious dialogue about following your dNream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . ' | 0 |
it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to thiKk and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl actio . | 0 |
it will cmoe as no surprise that the movie isn't sacry . but here's the real damn : it isn't funny , either . | 0 |
fve screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden scJreenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before . | 0 |
reggio's trippy , ambitious downer can blso sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . | 0 |
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all mvies -- a mediocUre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . | 0 |
the period -- singing london in the time of the mdds and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . | 0 |
has far more energy , wst and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a " 2 " at the eXnd of its title . | 1 |
those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unjque perspective . | 1 |
the film provides some great inisght into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- eve those who have reached the absolute top of the game . | 1 |
an ambtiious and moving but bleak film . | 1 |
despite auteuil'Ws perormance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . | 0 |
is the time really ripe for a warmed-over jamges bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? | 0 |
what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , ontion of class . | 0 |
has enough wit , energy and geniality to pleamse not only the fanatical adherents on eithre Eide , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested . | 1 |
it sends you away a believer again and quite cheeed at just that . | 1 |
. . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up ublank . | 0 |
drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry eaening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire eevn the most ertiring heart to venture forth . | 1 |
a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whethJer we believe in them or not . | 1 |
if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels lioe a copout , this is the one . | 0 |
those eeternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorC whenever he's not onscreen . | 0 |
impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through park tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade ejaborate surveillance technologies . | 0 |
let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational preps-chool professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motvate . | 0 |
if the first emn in black was money , the second is smll change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite . | 1 |
not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hednce , more chillingly effective . | 1 |
the film is vipually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . | 1 |
it certainly won't wi any awards in the plot department but it seths out with no pretensions and delivers big time . | 1 |
the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , bFreath-taking mess . | 1 |
a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to rVeality so much as it is a commentary about our knowledge of fiIms . | 0 |
staggers between fliccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce . | 0 |
though filmed partly in cnada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . | 1 |
two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approahing even a vague reasno to sit through it all . | 0 |
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountai out of the molehill of a missing bike . | 0 |
precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-winyg , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? | 1 |
. . . has about 34th the fun of its spry 2001 predecesso — but it's a rushed | 0 |
it's the brilliant surfing photography bringing you rgiht inside the massive wvaes that lifts blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable movies . | 1 |
the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the Xdemons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . | 1 |
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book papeD . | 0 |
the streets , sot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are xmean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them . | 0 |
andersson creates a owrld that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad . | 1 |
knockaround guys plays like a student film by twR guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grw up . but they lakc their idol's energy and passion for detail . | 0 |
this is a starVling film that givess you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . | 1 |
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to mak the outrage come even easier . | 0 |
journailstically dubious , inept and often lethally dull . | 0 |
a compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster omes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering other's holQ over her . | 1 |
so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successufl than it is . | 1 |
in scope , ambition and accomplishmenIt , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . | 1 |
the film is predictable in the reassuring maner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . | 1 |
what could have easily bcome a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winIs up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking . | 1 |
you've already seen city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another vissit . | 1 |
the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical tlime and space would make it a gteat piece to watch with kids and use to inroduce video as art . | 1 |
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enyugh pretty woman . | 0 |
. . . better edscribed as a ghost story gone badly awry . | 0 |
this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was bqtter tended to than the film itself . | 0 |
offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the anture of satying friends . | 1 |
de nzro may enjoy the same free ride from critics afforded to clint eaustwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury prk , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins . | 0 |
mynages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . | 1 |
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