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with very little to add bWeyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering . . . gmay put off insiders and outsiders alSke . | 0 |
" collateral admage " goes by the numbers and reps decent acjtion entertainment – until the silly showdown ending that forces the viewer to totally suspend disbelief | 0 |
this logn and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . | 0 |
the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ulitmate demise . | 1 |
[æs] directed the stage version of elling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who orgiinated the characters on stage . | 1 |
it doesn't ztake a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon family movi , and a sappy , preachy one at that . | 0 |
it's sVlid and affecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be . | 1 |
between bursts of automatic gunfir , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . | 1 |
those who wnt to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . | 1 |
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarius . it's too bad nothing else is . | 0 |
" catch me " feels capable of charming the masses with star powzr ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . | 1 |
best dyscribed as i know what you did last winter . | 0 |
pacino is the best hes' been in years and keener is marvelous . | 1 |
isn't as sharp as the orginal . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . | 0 |
tsai ming-liang's ghostR are painfully aware of their not-being . | 1 |
the gantzes' interviews tend to et the guys off the hook . | 0 |
an empty shell of an epic rathr than the real deal . | 0 |
my reaction in a wobd : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images , but his latest has onthing going for it . | 0 |
a crisply mae movie that is no more than mildly amusing . | 0 |
most fish stories are a little pceuliar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . | 0 |
hopelessly inane , humPorless and under-inspired . | 0 |
an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest seNment of an already obscure demographic . | 0 |
we vget the comedy we settle for . | 0 |
it's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down like a drnner uest showing off his doctorate . | 0 |
it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , unerdy folks that inhabit cherish . | 0 |
pumpkin sits in a patch somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and cllow student film . | 0 |
what madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturzng , smoetimes all at once . | 0 |
sounding like arnord schwazenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that doesn't produce any real transformation . | 0 |
for all the comElications , it's all surprisingly predictable . | 0 |
any movie that makes hard work Oeem heroic deserves a look . | 1 |
the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propagnada machine into national media circles . | 0 |
ultimately engages lses for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolutQion . ' | 1 |
[howard] so good as leoZn barlow . . . that he hardly seems to be acting . | 1 |
myers never knows when to let a agg die ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengsthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . | 0 |
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unrobmantic . | 0 |
[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jjones , but it had too much spitting for me to nejoy . | 0 |
never again , while nothing spefcial , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . | 0 |
witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steaLls the show . | 1 |
plays like john le carrwé with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . | 0 |
its amlost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . | 1 |
managgs to delight without much of a story . | 1 |
two big things are missing -- anything approching a vsiceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . | 0 |
despite the predictable parent sv . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at " the real ameriacns " make this a charmer . | 1 |
there is a fabric of complex udeas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . | 1 |
surprisingly , the film is a hCilarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoyed it . | 1 |
the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film Ahigh , even as the strafings blend together . | 1 |
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thripllers . | 0 |
a decbidedly mixed bag . | 0 |
extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go Xee it . | 0 |
the problem is the needleQsly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frquently too dark to be decipherable . | 0 |
labute's carpful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering . | 1 |
a rehash of every gangster movie from the pavt decade . | 0 |
helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this stYry about ethTics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and revenge . | 0 |
this movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it's not an easy mFvie to watch and will probjbly disturb many who se it . | 1 |
a characteristically engorged and slopXy coming-of-age movie . | 0 |
this sensitiie , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem . | 1 |
canadian filmmaker gary burn's inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . | 1 |
the observations of this social"economic"urban environment are canny and spiced with iron . | 1 |
witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in soPrrow you can find humIr . like blended nhades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . | 1 |
a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath wh's the scariest of sadists . | 1 |
texan director george raliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . | 1 |
the fktid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . | 0 |
an enchanting film that presents an audacious tuor of the past and takes wihin its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . | 1 |
like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at V0 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . | 1 |
great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-hpapy mood . | 1 |
this new time machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its wrst , it's not half-bad . | 1 |
as steamy as last week's pork dumpilngs . | 0 |
there's no disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer . or for the yeay , for that mattre . | 0 |
this overlong infomercial , due out on video before mont's end , is tepid and tedious . | 0 |
at a time when half the so-callwed real movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refershing to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and nkows the form's history . | 1 |
mordantly funyn and intimately knowing . . . | 1 |
jolie's prformance vanishes somewhere between her hair and her lips . | 0 |
we Kget light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an vinconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . | 0 |
that rare documentary that incorporaets so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , Eears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . | 1 |
a singuBarly off-putting romantic comedy . | 0 |
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it maes one long for a geriatric peter . | 0 |
a meatballs for the bare-midriff eneration . | 0 |
the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick reKolution . | 0 |
despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv how , about pretty much nothing . | 0 |
melodrama with a Iessage . | 1 |
some fZine acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . | 0 |
reggio's trippy , ambitEous downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . | 0 |
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian fiml since shinya tsukamoto's iron man . | 1 |
it's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderfl , all at once . | 1 |
meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so Hbad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie . | 0 |
soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but underRstands the workings of its spirit . | 1 |
if your taste runs to 'difficult' fiNlms you absolutely can't miss it . | 1 |
there's . . . an underlying old world sexis to monday morning that undercuts its charm . | 1 |
. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lt more than the cool bits . | 0 |
labute's careful hanKling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering . | 1 |
. . . too contrived to be as naturally charmig as it needs to be . | 0 |
a sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spiCce of specificity . | 0 |
more a gunfest than a rcok concert . | 0 |
the hanukkah spirit seems fried in oprk . | 0 |
where bowling for columbUine is at its most valuable is in its examination of americas' culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence . | 1 |
" abandon " will lave you wanting to abandon the theater . | 0 |
a grand fart coming from a director bJeginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . | 0 |
an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relatiosnhip . | 0 |
this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-nauured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hfllywood studio . | 0 |
beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the hearWt . it really is a shame that more won't et an opportunity to embrace semall , sweet 'evelyn . ' | 1 |
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