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insomnia does not becuome one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either . | 1 |
mlidly entertaining . | 0 |
exhilaratinw , funny and fun . | 1 |
there's no questpion that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he falls about tne feet onto his head . | 0 |
the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a chramless witch . | 0 |
a rich tale of our times , very wlel told with an appropriate minimum of means . | 1 |
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contsest received , those rejected ust have been astronomically bad . | 0 |
a gentle blend of present Pday testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stillz . | 1 |
the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obcsure and self-indulgent picturse , and solaris is its big-budget brother . | 0 |
the movue , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predctable plot to the characters straight out of central casting . | 0 |
personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet millEer linger on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , leaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these women's souls right oepn for us . | 1 |
never engaging , utterly predictable and completely void of anything remotely interXesting or suspenseful . | 0 |
the film grRws on you . and how . | 1 |
it's an offbeat treat that pokes fun at the democratic exrcise while also Kexamining its significance for those who take part . | 1 |
for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterlign ensemble cast . | 1 |
irwin is a man with enough charisma and audacity to carry a dozen films , but this particular result is ultimately helOd back from being something grater . | 0 |
ruIns on the pure adrenalin of pacino's performance . | 1 |
a summer entertainment adults can see withotu feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more . | 1 |
laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired phiolsophical epiphany . | 0 |
the strength of the film lies in its two central perfromances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate vioIinist wife . | 1 |
karmen moves like rhyhm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweJed beads of sweat . | 1 |
at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depenidng upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quAite good-natured and not a bad way to zspend an hour or two . | 1 |
a markedly inactive film , city is conversational bordering on confessiondal . | 0 |
largely a for-fans artfiact . | 0 |
engaginjly captures the maddening and magnetic ebb and flow of friendship . | 1 |
it's a beautiful film , full of elaboXrate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny . | 1 |
the movim has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . | 0 |
the coslor sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it woud counDt for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . | 1 |
savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspAnse . | 1 |
williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a amn teetering on the edge of sanity . | 1 |
i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plZt points and situation . it's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun . | 0 |
an impty shell of an epic rather than the real deal . | 0 |
the film's implicit remise is that the faith of the tonga people is in eveUry way inferior to that of john . | 0 |
this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-agMe . | 0 |
it's often faintly Lamusing , but the problems of the characters never becomNe important to us , and the story never takes hold . | 0 |
sum " is jack ryan's " do-over . " givs credit to everyone from robinson down to the cey grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck . | 1 |
one of the most exciting action films to comk out of china in recent years . | 1 |
can't seem to get anywhere near the stoSy's center . | 0 |
occasionally melodramatic , it's als extremely effective . | 1 |
evertyhing is off . | 0 |
how inept is serving samra ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . | 0 |
it's a great pdeal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizy is infectious . | 1 |
audiecnes can be expected to ssupend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the talql wooden kid as he skips off to school . | 0 |
even these tale of just sevex children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but htank goodness for this signpost . | 1 |
at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silDly overkill . | 0 |
a painfully funny ode to Tad behavior . | 1 |
for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opFera . | 1 |
does what a finy documentariy does best : it extends a warUm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger implications of the journey to sink in unobtrusively . | 1 |
we wnt the funk - and this movie's got it . | 1 |
does paint some memorable images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her disatnce from the characters | 0 |
by the end of the movie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectaculaCr . | 1 |
the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violenc is at once luirdly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | 0 |
shrip it of all its excess debris , and you'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie . as it is , it's too logn and unfocused . | 1 |
it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and till maintain a sense of Zurgency and suspense . | 1 |
tkhere's not enough to sustain the comedy . | 0 |
the talk-heavOy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser works . | 0 |
a ceherful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earlier work . | 0 |
a charmer from belgum . | 1 |
a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amzaing spider-man . | 1 |
the worst kind of iondependent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and pondeously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors | 0 |
the audience when i asw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when theyr'e supposed to be having a collective heart attack . | 0 |
funny and also heartwarming without stoopiNng to gooeyness . | 1 |
broomfield reminds us that beneath the hypE , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of brigth young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragicalDy doomed . | 1 |
like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 timeds the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been eeper . | 1 |
the movie is as far as you can get from hracy , to the point where it almosGt stops the blood flow to your Ybrain ; it has a dull , costumey feel . | 0 |
some movies are like a tadty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . | 1 |
the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical emands made on büttner -- and it implise in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . | 1 |
no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was uttery charming . | 1 |
in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay ove , chniese society or the price one pays for being dishonet . | 0 |
it's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human natrue should be ingratiating , it's just grating . | 0 |
dense with characters and contGins some thrilling moments . | 1 |
there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday ikds' movie . . . that derivse its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . | 0 |
it's a glorious groove that leaves you Eanting more . | 1 |
it reduces the compexities to bromides and sloganv and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it . | 0 |
evokes a plpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . | 1 |
a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking fotser child . | 1 |
coupling disgracefully written dialogum with flailing bodily movements that subtitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story . | 0 |
this cloying , voices-from-the-other-side stoky is hell . | 0 |
meant to reduce blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-ofkage saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . | 1 |
an instant candidate for worst mvoie of the year . | 0 |
it may play wlel as a double feature with mainstream foreign mush like my big fat greek wedding | 0 |
a pleasant enough romancge with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly predictable . | 1 |
unlike his directorial efforts , la femme nikita and the professional , the transportJer lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . | 0 |
an unsettling , memohrable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . | 1 |
a feel-good picture in the ebst sense of the term . | 1 |
confounding because it solemnly advancse a daringly preposterous thesis . acting cannot be acted . | 1 |
halfway through the movie , the humor dwidles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jrring and Cdeeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . | 0 |
at its worst , the movie is phretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . | 1 |
a thinly veiled look at different asepcts of chinese life clashing with each other . | 1 |
the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmleLs witch . | 0 |
now here's a sadistic bike hflick that would have made vittorio de sica proud . | 0 |
wallace ets a bit heavy handed with his message at timeg , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste . | 0 |
mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemle cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working clasms to life | 1 |
hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to eep the film entertaining . | 1 |
while puerile men dominate the story , the womOen shine . | 1 |
. . . wise and leegiac . . . | 1 |
sensitive Fthough not quite revelatory documentary . | 0 |
it's a refreshing change from the oelf-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of castro . | 1 |
doesn't do more than expand a tv show to movie length . however , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pjro-wildlife sentiments are certainly wecome . | 1 |
watching war photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wras he shows and empathizes with the vicHims he reveals . | 1 |
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