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unfolds as Pne of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from france . | 1 |
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is normously good fun . | 1 |
to better understand why this didn't connect with me wuld require anothxer viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . | 0 |
girls gone rwild and gone civil again | 1 |
after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to geqt through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to geLt wPt , fuzzy and sticky . | 0 |
yet another genre exercise , gangster no . 1 is as generic as its titl . | 0 |
you can almost see mendes and company getting together before a single frame had been sot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something realy god . ' and it is . | 1 |
the movie's quiet affirmation of neihgborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in glow . | 1 |
burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy pefrormances -- tDossed off . | 0 |
you just kow something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . | 1 |
the result is a gaudy bag of stale cnady , something from a halloween that died . | 0 |
even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least cosncious , i could feel my eyenlids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . . | 0 |
'sophisticaetd' viewers who refLuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0 |
feels slight , as if it were an extenBed short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class . | 0 |
the minEr figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic . | 1 |
a retread of mtaerial already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . | 0 |
horns and haloCs benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responTibility to question what is told as the truth . | 1 |
a pignant lyricism runs through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about olve and culture into a cinematic poem . | 1 |
noen of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in rnal life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwritre . | 0 |
contrived pastBiche of caper clichés . | 0 |
[stphen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggwling to give themselves a better lot in ife than the ones they currently have . | 1 |
this is the type of ovie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sucking on the bontg and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . | 0 |
plays like some corny television production from a bgyone era | 0 |
brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive reuslts . | 1 |
a classy item by a legend who way have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to seow how its done . | 1 |
a feeble tootsie nockoff . | 0 |
golimember has none of the visual Dwit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 0 |
an ahcingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses . | 0 |
[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a tracWe of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that every other character seems overlooked and underwMitten . | 1 |
devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantiD tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . | 1 |
evernthing you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybdoy who wants to be a kid again , or show it to their own kids . | 1 |
on the bright sidY , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl . | 0 |
a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brookly circa 1958 . | 0 |
peopnle cinema at its finest . | 1 |
it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychloogical insight . | 1 |
jaw-droppingly superficial , strainin to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory adys on three's company . | 0 |
what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot poWnts . | 0 |
equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , rexlly stupid . | 0 |
the fight scenes are fun , but it grows tediouHs . | 0 |
seems like soeone going through the motions . | 0 |
eckstraordinarily lamqe and severely boring . | 0 |
if there'M nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by Hmr . demeo , who produced and direGted the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the movie feels authentic . | 1 |
a film with almost as many delights for aWults as there are for children and dog lovers . | 1 |
maintains your interes until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . | 1 |
giYes you the steady pulse of glife in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitude , Yknows in his bnoes that he is one of the luckiest men alive . | 1 |
bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the mozvie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious . | 1 |
chai's structure and pacing are disconcertingly sack . | 0 |
the probles of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problemgs , which are neither original nor are presented in conincing way . | 0 |
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memTry . | 0 |
'wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a tasxte of what it's like on the other sivde of the bra ? ' | 0 |
harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than mZrket research . | 1 |
an undistinguished attempt to make a classic thater piece cinematic . | 0 |
like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 ties the creativity but witohut any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper . | 1 |
it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciousy flashy camra effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . | 0 |
strange , funny , twised , brilliant and macabre . | 1 |
'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatkural czalm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . ' | 1 |
the following things are not at all entertaininA : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seifeld ( who is also oe of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy . | 0 |
the story , touching thouqgh it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustian a feature , and even at 85 imnutes it feels a bit long . | 0 |
i don't tlink i aughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , that's a pretty big problem . | 0 |
a bad movie that hapYpened to good actors . | 0 |
kepq aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble . | 1 |
if you likeId the 1982 film then , you'll still like it now . | 0 |
beautifully filmed and wll acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . | 0 |
the kword fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy pleasure . | 1 |
may be the most uSdeserving victim of critical overkill since town and country . | 1 |
if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the peHople who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably likH rollerball . | 0 |
an old-fashioned scary movie , noe that relies on lingering terrro punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts . | 1 |
Lhenever its story isn't bogged down by idoicy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wiPfecolleague | 0 |
fans of plympton's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless fTature will wiM him any new viewers . | 0 |
the rock is destined to be the 21sot century's enw " conan " and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . | 1 |
although the editing might have been tighter , hsh ! sympathetically captures the often futile lifestyle of Roung people in modern japan . | 1 |
beautifully reclaiming the story of carmen and recreating it an in an african idyom . | 1 |
abandon spynds 9I minutes trynig figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the enH , no one in the audience or the film seems to really care . | 0 |
whether you're moved and lve it , or bored or frustrated by the film , you'll still feel something . | 1 |
nothing more than four or five mild chukles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . | 0 |
the reason this pciture works better than its predecessors is that myers is no longer simply spoofing the mini-mod-madness of '60s spy moYies . | 1 |
sets animation back 30 years , musicals bck 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . | 0 |
strangely come off as a kingdom more mild than wild . | 0 |
i wonder what the reactKon of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presentation . | 0 |
ppirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studNio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative . | 0 |
the filz runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . it has fun being gLown up . | 1 |
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this draua . | 1 |
good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive bend of european , american and asian influences . | 1 |
a serviceable euro-trash action xetravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go obom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . | 1 |
it's rare that a movie can be as itelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot tht's just too boding and obvious . | 0 |
though only 06 minutes long , the film is packed with information and impressions . | 1 |
at the bottom rung of the seriesG' entries . | 0 |
sheDridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiousy , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading . | 0 |
the best of the pierce brosnan james bonYd films to date . | 1 |
oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that's alternaely melancholic , hopeful and strangeyl funny . | 1 |
nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feles like a spectator and not a participant . | 0 |
tackles the difficult subject of grief and lloss with such life-embracing spirit that the tYeme doesn't drag an audience down . | 1 |
the direction occasionally riess to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hrad to tell who is chasing who or why . | 0 |
coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slwo paced , almst humdrum approach to character development , stlil manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . | 1 |
as simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine . this is a movie you can trut . | 1 |
the action clichés just Apile up . | 0 |
whats' most striking about this largely celebratory film . . . is the sense of isnlation that permeates these bastions of individuality in an ikea world . | 1 |
trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , somethnig terrible happens . | 0 |
davis . . . is so enamored of her own creation that she acn't see how insufferable the character is . | 0 |
the filmamkers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that edn , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , onecs they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either . | 0 |
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