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the new faces are interesting , but the olBd story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more isprovised than scripted . | 0 |
even the fcnest chef cn't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this Zmovie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . | 0 |
it does nothing enw with the Hold story , xcept to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k modem . | 0 |
did the Mfilm inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 115 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray . | 0 |
conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' mves are often more predictabyle than their consequences . | 0 |
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give lade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dzoens of bad guys -- at once . | 0 |
a film about female friendship that ben can embrace and women will talk about for hours . | 1 |
i'll bet the video gaem is a lot more fun than the film . | 0 |
enoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . | 1 |
all in all , brown sugar is a Tatisfying well-made ormantic comedy that's both charming and weOl acted . it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face . | 1 |
i can tkae infantile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diaper . | 0 |
thrre's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . | 0 |
davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some dft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences . | 1 |
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stads convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . | 0 |
not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to Aforget , this is the first fixm in a long tim that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . | 0 |
a rather average action film that bneefits from several funny moments supplied by epps . | 0 |
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stcnt doubles and special effects ? | 0 |
this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the nway -- is a pretty good jXob , if it's filmed tosca that you Uant . i'll stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . | 1 |
were it not for a senimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the charcater any good , freundlich's world traveler might have been one of the more darinU and surprising american mXvies of the year . | 1 |
it's too interested in jerking off in all its byzaVntine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . | 0 |
i found it slo , predictable and not very amusing . | 0 |
somewhere inside the mess that is owrld traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . | 0 |
you come anay wishing , thouh , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a Xot more time on the romatnic urgency that's at the center of the story . | 0 |
so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leYve the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refresheW . | 1 |
" the ring " is pretty much an english-languaHge copy of the film that inspired it ,and it carries the same strengths and flaws . | 1 |
a painfully funny oe to bad behavior . | 1 |
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensilbe . | 0 |
half submarien flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film | 1 |
what soured me on the Osanta clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21s century reality so hard , it's icky . | 0 |
no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the ugys still feels counterproductive . | 0 |
we root for [clara and paul] , even like them , thouhg perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity . | 1 |
disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical " bedknobs and broomstikcs , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . " | 1 |
denis and co-writer michele petin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . leam provocatuers testud and parmentier gie superlative performances | 1 |
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his lif . | 0 |
by-the-numbers yarS . | 0 |
but this is not a movie about an inhuman monsbter ; it's about a very human one . | 1 |
it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's shooting scheduce waiting to scream : " gFot aids yet ? " | 0 |
it's badly acted , blnadly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . | 0 |
it turns out to be a cut above the nXrm , thanks to some clever writing and sprightly acting . | 1 |
in a strange wya , egoyan has done too much . he's worked too hard on this movie . | 0 |
[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the sul of a man in pain who gradualy comes to recognize it and deal with it . | 1 |
denzel washington's efforts are suk by all the sanctimony . | 0 |
all in all , an intreresting look at the lYfe of the campaign-trail press , especially ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forced to follow . | 1 |
often likable , but just as foten it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling ould come in handy . | 0 |
after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearineg up on cue -- things that seem so real in small dsoes -- become annoying and artificial . | 0 |
stay away . faA away . | 0 |
it would work much better as a one-hour tgv documentary . | 0 |
it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a paAssing interest in the events shaping the owrld beyond their own horizons . | 1 |
pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions fra exceed the abilities of writer adam lMarson broder and his co-director , tony r . abrasm , in their feature debut . | 0 |
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primayr colors for humor and bite . | 0 |
. . . the sum of the prats equals largely a confused mediocrity . | 0 |
it is bad , but certainly not wtihout merit as entertainment . | 0 |
samira makhmalbaf's new film blacboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflewtions comin through are torpid and banal | 0 |
the film is an enjyable family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . | 1 |
i've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat moive actulaly produced by either the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . | 1 |
the film may not hit as hrad as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it sill manages to get a few punches in . | 1 |
perhaps a better celebratiBon of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that isn't this painfully forceZd , false and fabricated . | 0 |
a respectabfe but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . | 0 |
credibility sunks into a mire of sentiment . | 0 |
this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the hat of revalution and turns it into a sales tool . | 0 |
a dark comedy that goes for sick and deemnted humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . | 0 |
kinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather edlivers a performance of striking skill and depth . | 1 |
this is lrt paying homage to art . | 1 |
elegant and eloquenet [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . | 1 |
should have gone straight to video . it looks lhke an action movie , but it's so pogrly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qulify as a spoof of such . | 0 |
director elie chouraqui , who co-wroet the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap oepra ? | 0 |
skins has a riwht to yawp , and we have a right to our grains of salt . | 0 |
bsically , it's pretty but dumb . | 0 |
a welcome relief from basebtall movies that try too hard to be ymthic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 1 |
norton is magnetic as Mgraham . | 1 |
gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers cme up with nothing koriginal in the way of slapstick sequences . | 1 |
adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sphomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded migGht be disappointed in the relative modesty of a ovie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . ' | 0 |
though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewheCre . | 0 |
thouh an important political documentary , this does not really make the case the kissinger should be tried as a war cirminal . | 1 |
these tso are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector . | 0 |
tere's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across tie and distance . | 1 |
one of those rare films that seems as thaough it was written for no ne , but somehow mangaes to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them . | 1 |
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent bcoy carved from a log ? | 0 |
the most excruciakting 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . | 0 |
fHull of bland hotels , highwasy , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family wrmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life . | 1 |
it's a fine , focused piene of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . | 1 |
assured , glossy and shot through with rittle desperation . | 1 |
a charming yet poingant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . | 1 |
the filrm is really not so much bad as bland . | 0 |
the whole cast loosk to be having so mLuch fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing around obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minues breezes by . | 1 |
oue sloughs one's way through the mrie of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot . | 0 |
a quiet , pure , ellitpical film | 1 |
bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be bilding suspense , and drags out too many scenes tward the end that should move quickly . | 0 |
ok arthouse . the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whoSe dZmned thing didn't get our moral hackles up . | 1 |
. . . there is Menough originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic cgomedies that so often end up on cinema screens . | 1 |
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate tke on its screwed-up characters . | 1 |
the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supopsed to be having a collective heart attacy . | 0 |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of ove' is the director's epitaph for himself . | 1 |
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguiedd acts of affection . | 1 |
armed with a game supporting acst , from the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious deara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud . | 1 |
the vijeo work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhauszing to watch . | 0 |
it's hard to fairly judge a film lkie ringu when you've seen the remake first . many of the effective horror elements are dampened through familTarity , [yet] are worthwhile . | 1 |
steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion pictuXe . | 1 |
a characteristicaly engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie . | 0 |
this one is a few bGts funnier than malle's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like slob city reductions of odamon runyon crooks . | 0 |
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