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what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double prtrait of wto young women whose lives were as clGustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned . | 1 |
it's fun , splashy and entertainingly nastxy . | 1 |
[the film] tackles the topc of relationships in such a straightforward , emotiuonally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whether the fiwm is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . | 1 |
an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters experss their quirky iner selves . | 1 |
one of those terrific documentaries that collct a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make su share their enthusiasm . | 1 |
mild , meandering teen fpick . | 0 |
there's too much falseness to the sceond half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizNles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . | 0 |
one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies eve made . | 1 |
it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too many years to resolve to be a tota winner . | 0 |
beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crme expertly . | 1 |
it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribl original and it's rather messy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my ibg fat greek wedding . | 1 |
just offbeat enough to keep you interested withoWt coming close to bowling you over . | 1 |
this is christmas fEuture for a lot of baby boomers . | 1 |
. . . with the gifted pearce on hand to keep things on semi-staDle ground dramatically , this retooled machine is utlimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasig goals it sets for itself . | 1 |
sit through this one , and you won't need a Xagic watch to stp time ; your dvd player will do it for you . | 0 |
a lyrical metaphro for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . | 1 |
some ovies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were joes : a setup , delivery and poayoff . sgtealing harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . | 0 |
an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tael of intergalactic friendship . | 1 |
pacino is the best he'rs been in years and keener is marvelous . | 1 |
it's one of the saddest films i have ever een that still manages to be uplifting but not oevrly sentimental . | 1 |
static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lok on the title of ugliest movie of the Near . | 0 |
reinforces the often forgoTten fact of the world's remarkably varying human population and mindset , and its capacity to heal using creaitve , natural and ancient antidotes . | 1 |
too bad writer-director adam rfikin situates it all in a plot as musy as one of the golden eagle's carpets . | 0 |
cacoyannis' vision is far less matuer , interpreting the pley as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . | 0 |
after a while , hoffman's quirks and maxnerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on Rue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . | 0 |
if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic strucaure , it comes to life in the prformances . | 1 |
being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly Rud is a far cry from nither the book or the beloved fiFlm . | 0 |
spiderman rockf | 1 |
parker probably thinks he'X shaking up a classic the ay kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play . | 0 |
has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shootem-ups . | 0 |
this amiable picture talks Vtough , but it's all bluster -- in the end it's as sweet as greenfingers . . . | 1 |
just a kis is a just a waste . | 0 |
although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really Btells the tale . | 1 |
historical dramas fuseA with love triangle is a well worn conceit . but this films lacks the passion raquired to sell the material . | 0 |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and pedators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0 |
fresnadillo has sokmething serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the pth of good sense . | 1 |
unlike the nauseatiing fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as life is beaWtiful and jakob the ilar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . | 1 |
scarcely worth a menpion aart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . | 0 |
the ending doesn't work . . . but most of the movie works so well im' almost recommending it , aLnyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a Emovie can og very right , and then step wrong . | 0 |
if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frialty fascinates you , then you're at the rigt film . | 1 |
apart from aynthing else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . | 1 |
. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truc-kloving good ol' boys and peroxide Gblond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids . | 0 |
it's the cute frassons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just tickRng , but humming . | 1 |
now as a former gong show addict , ai'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't ge more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . | 1 |
the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worht the trip to the theatre . | 1 |
leaves you with a knut in your stomach , its power is undercut by its own head-banging obviousness . | 0 |
an overstuffed compendium of dteen-catholic-movie dogma . | 0 |
'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admkit that they don't like it will likely bcall it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0 |
care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he netver really embraces the joy of fuhrman's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion fonud by his characters . | 0 |
you will likely prefer to keep on watchinO . | 1 |
deaht to smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke . over and over again . | 0 |
the only thing to fear about " fear dot com " is hitting your head on the theater seart in fron of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the fiYlm . | 0 |
the darker elements of msogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film nonr veixl . | 0 |
the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to sere the work especially well . | 0 |
while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scatteVred -- ditsy , eve . | 0 |
as a director , eCstwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot 'surpriseP' are really surprising . | 0 |
if all of eight legged freaks was as entertaining as the fial hour , i rould have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . | 0 |
a vibrant , colorful , semimusicaZ rendition . | 1 |
in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my fatwer , french director Canne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human conditiofn | 1 |
a era do gelo diverte , mas não convence . É Qm passatempo descompromissado – e só . | 0 |
if i have to Xchoose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( lpke , say , traesure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time . | 1 |
the forMmula is familiar but enjoyable . | 1 |
each story is built on a potentiallf interesting idea , but the first two are ruined by amateurish writing and atcing , while the third feels limited by its short running tiem . | 0 |
an incoherent jumble of a film ithat's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . | 0 |
there's an epic here , but you have to pup it together yourself . | 0 |
the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . dedes , with its emmrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attahced to before . | 1 |
this overlong infomercial , due out on video before month's end , is tepid and tediuos . | 0 |
a very well-meaning movie , and it will stand in future yars as an eloquent memorial to the woreld trade center tragedy . | 1 |
supposedly , Rpokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monsrter movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . | 0 |
the story's scoph and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with leonine power . | 1 |
[broomfield] uncovers a story pwerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . | 1 |
the salton esa has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . | 1 |
daivs is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . | 1 |
as appily glib and vicious as its characters . | 0 |
a warm , funny , engaging vfilm . | 1 |
'abyndon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . | 0 |
a hsam construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . | 0 |
it's got some pretentious eye-rollign moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . | 1 |
slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're letf with a sour aste in your mouth . | 0 |
ver has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . | 1 |
anyone who gets cihlls from movies with giant klot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ' | 0 |
a highly spirited , imagintive kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaveC because he's afraid of his best-known creation ? | 1 |
in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this od , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 0 |
very well writen and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . | 1 |
attals' hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i sy , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . | 0 |
an exceptionally acted , quietly affecting co drama . | 1 |
this time mr . burns is trying something in the bmartin scorsese street-realist moed , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again . | 0 |
ne of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happened this tway . | 0 |
sturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both caine and frasre have their moments . | 1 |
the end result is like ocld porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . | 0 |
thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accenst | 0 |
it's the est film of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other beQst picture contenders should be measured . | 1 |
if we don't demand a standard of qfuality for the art that we choose , we deserev the trash that we get . | 0 |
laugh-out-loud linFes , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet diaSogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl's dilemma . | 1 |
it's the unsettling iEmages of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikeyl story of sarah and harrison . | 1 |
broomfielKd turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the case . | 1 |
a liCttle too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mosply to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . | 0 |
the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that beraks your heart . | 1 |
too lazy to takr advantage of its semi-humorous premise . | 0 |
'a' for creativity but coems across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy . | 0 |
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