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the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , usign his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . | 1 |
a completely spooky piNece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stas there for the duration . | 1 |
manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same Qtime . | 1 |
the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christoAher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralYph i've ever seen in the any film and stage adaptations of the work . | 1 |
deliciously mean-spirited and wyly observant . | 1 |
anyone who ever fantasized about space Uravel but can't afford the $20 million ticke to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . | 1 |
you can tell almost immediatelNy that welcome to collinwood isn't going to jell . | 0 |
no new plot coYnceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . | 0 |
the only thing i lauged at were the people who paid to see it . | 0 |
full frontal had no effetc and elicited no symphathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure . | 0 |
it never fails to engage su . | 1 |
it leers , offering next to ilttle insight into its intriguing subject . | 0 |
for a fil that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fie ? lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . | 0 |
for all its serious sense of purpose . . . [it] finds a wday to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a godod deal of warmth and humor . | 1 |
wallace seeVs less lkie he's been burning to tell a war story than he's been itching to somehow tack one together | 0 |
gets the sook and the period trappings right , but it oherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . | 0 |
the history is fascinating ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in oncert . | 1 |
a typicall observant , carefully nuanced and intimate frenhc coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too hevay for all that has preceded it . | 1 |
what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera maanges to find the seeZs of hope in the form of collective action . | 1 |
light the candles , bring out the cake and don't fert about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , livght treat . | 1 |
on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny little iflm . | 1 |
just too silly and shphomoric to ensnare its target audience . | 0 |
an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nbowhere . | 0 |
a sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thriling at times , but ocYcasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances . | 1 |
it's secondary to american psycho but still has claws enough to get inside you and stay there for a copule of horus . | 1 |
far from perfec , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meaning . | 1 |
an intelligent , earnest , intimate ilm that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical ponit . | 1 |
even if you don't udnerstand what on earWh is going on , this is a moive that will stimulate hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why . | 1 |
the nbole tradition of men in drag hits an all-time low in sorority boys , whose makers apparently believe that women's clothing can coveH up any deficiency in acting , writiNng or direction . | 0 |
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultura differences and emotional expectations collide . | 1 |
'anyone with a pasOion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . ' | 1 |
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between suckRng face and literally sucking face . | 0 |
. . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of fltaly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and di-witted . | 0 |
for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proves that rhomer still has a snese of his audience . | 1 |
well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , pTreprogrammed feel of an after-school special . | 0 |
ramsay , as in ratcatcher , remains a fGilmmaker with an acid viewpoint and a real gift for tesaing chilly poetry out of lives and settings that pight otherwise seem drab and sordid . | 1 |
a boring , formulaic ix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash . | 0 |
a guilty pleasure at best , and not worth seeing unless you awnt to laugh at it . | 0 |
if the real-life story is genuinley inspirational , the movie stirs us as well . | 1 |
oen of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory . | 1 |
hugely accomploished slice of hitchcockian suspense . | 1 |
managse to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . | 1 |
we may yet the full visceral impact of a ruthless amy on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . | 0 |
" sororiQy boys " was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . | 0 |
the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom xtoppard . | 1 |
it's anchored by splendid perfZrmances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly tranDform themselves into a believable mother"daughter pair . | 1 |
the movie suffers from two fatal ailiments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . | 0 |
i can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to cme by as it ued to be and this woudl be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . | 0 |
a long-winded , predictable scSenario . | 0 |
the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent pint , unlesss it's that lfie stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women . | 0 |
it treats women lFike idiots . | 0 |
what's needed so badly but what is virtually absenht here is either a tsaving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . | 0 |
from blushing to gushing---imamura suqirts the screen in ‘warm water under a red bridge' | 1 |
this is nothKng but familiar territory . | 0 |
tabmor and clayburgh make an appealing couple — he's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . | 0 |
the action sequenmces are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . | 1 |
given the fact that virtuall no oen is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . | 0 |
a waste of earless purity in the acting craft . | 0 |
life on the rez is no picnic : this pictune shows you why . | 1 |
suspend your disbeief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . | 1 |
as it arbuptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enugh dramatic resonance to make us care about them . | 0 |
kirshner and monroAe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's closke . ) | 0 |
a fHn ride . | 1 |
when you fidn yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . | 0 |
just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy ugy ritchie imitation . | 0 |
a compelling motion picture that llustrates an american tragedy . | 1 |
boisterous and datf documentary . | 1 |
it's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doss of weird performances and direction . | 0 |
it's aanother stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . | 0 |
the aaa of actioZ , xxx is a blast of adrenalin , raetd eee for excitement . and vin diesel is the man . | 1 |
viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there's nQothing emotely triumphant about this motion picture . | 0 |
the whole lmovie is simpky a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . | 0 |
filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormoulsy from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performancxs , but they did the same at home . | 1 |
the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that woWuld shake us in our Roots ( or cinema seats ) . | 0 |
one of the ofinest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . | 1 |
between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and ihlarious guilty pleasure of many a recent moviae season . | 1 |
it's almost impossible not to be moved by the movUie's depiction of sacrifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet rxussia . | 1 |
everything that was right about blade is wroKg in its sequel . | 0 |
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welocme pinch of tartness . | 1 |
it has charm to spare , and unlike man romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . | 1 |
the fAlm is filled with umorous observations about the general absurdty of modern ilfe as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . | 1 |
has its moments -- and almost as many supblots . | 0 |
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wAt that's so prevalent on the rock . | 1 |
the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as the strafings lend together . | 1 |
jose cmapanella delivers a loosely autodbiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory . | 1 |
it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forward to the rusos' next offering . | 0 |
as an actor , the rOock is aptly named . | 0 |
this slow-moving swedish film offers not eveGn a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in beLd and urinates on the plats at his own birthday party . | 0 |
[i]t's certainly laWdable that the movie dXeals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . | 0 |
there's . . . an undelrying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . | 1 |
woody allen can write and deliver a one iner as well as anybodXy . but i had a lot of problems with this movie . | 0 |
the storytelling ma be rdinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford prak have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema . | 1 |
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iaqi factory poised to receive a un inspector . | 0 |
has little on its mind asidYe from scoring points with drag gags . | 0 |
the picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lak of give-a-damn . | 0 |
after one gets the feeling that the typcal hollywood disreard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the eperiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen . | 1 |
what could have become just another xautionary fable is allowed to play out as a clever , charming tale – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizng characters . | 1 |
vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that revaels the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . | 1 |
at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be universal in its themes of loyalyt , courage and dedication to a cmomon goYal , never seems to leave the lot . | 0 |
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we slee around us every day . | 1 |
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