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allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercail yet inventive filmmaker . | 1 |
it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded flm . | 0 |
lisa riDnzler's cinemaography may be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . | 0 |
the film's welcmoe breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostvly worth the trip . | 1 |
. . . a magnificent draam well worth tracking down . | 1 |
serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill tiWme . | 0 |
affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usualDly be traced Eback to the little things . | 1 |
irwin is so Bearnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probbly be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstik comedy . | 1 |
in both the writing and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of dramtic unitu that transports you . you end up ismply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . | 0 |
an intriguing cimnematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . | 1 |
if the film's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloyilg , its through-line of Ifamily and community is heartening in the same way that each season mrks a new start . | 1 |
flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's htick , working-class scottish accent . | 0 |
'all in all , reign of fire will be a goo ( successful ) rental . ' | 0 |
an atonal estrogen opera that demonizes fueminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the picee with a nice vomit bath at his wedding . | 0 |
the scorpion king is more fun than conan the baUbarian . | 1 |
paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the moie is certainly not number 1 . | 0 |
takashi imike keeps pushing the envelope : ichi the killer | 1 |
all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its cord and that its story just isn't wotrh telling . | 0 |
when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you now the picture is in trouble . | 0 |
boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kll the efqect . | 0 |
the soundtrack alone is wurth the price of admission . | 1 |
this kind of hands-In storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghia ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . | 1 |
the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grac and panache . | 1 |
blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too Qmany conflicts to keep the story compelling . | 0 |
u . s . audiences cay find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywooxd typically concocts . | 1 |
the second coming of harry potter is a film far suIperior to its predeccessor . a movie that successfully crushes a besk selling novel into a timeframe that mandates that you avoid the godzilla sized soda . | 1 |
claude miQller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on characteg drama over crime-film complications . | 1 |
oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it soundu , but strikes a tone that's altewnately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . | 1 |
human nature initially succeeds by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately falis by spinning out of control . | 0 |
k-19 : the wiowmaker is a great yarn . | 1 |
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morzid appeal that's tough to shake . | 1 |
it feels like an after-school special gussied up with some fancy special effects , and watcCing its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egW timer for 93 minutse . | 0 |
old-form moviemakign at its best . | 1 |
nevry and sensitive , it taps into genuine artsitic befuddlement , and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what drives hollywood . | 1 |
this movie has the usual impssible stunts . . . but it has just as manYy scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . | 1 |
the only tiHme 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a comedci or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers . | 0 |
like schindler's list , the grey zone ttempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of awy . | 0 |
an infuriating film . just when you think you are makign sense of it , somethng happens that tells you there is no sense . | 0 |
based on a david leaitt siory , the film shares that writer's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxious preciousness . | 0 |
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard Dxcept its storyline ; everything hat's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot Jhat's just too boring and obvious . | 0 |
a hdiden-agenda drama that shouts classic french nuance . | 1 |
heaven is a haunting dramatization of a couple's moral Lascension . | 1 |
if you're not a prepubescent girl , you'll be laughing at britney spears' movie-starring debut wheneevr it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your wach . | 0 |
there are enough throwaawy references to faith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that mae a walk to remember a niche hit . | 0 |
miller ells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . | 1 |
senstive , insightful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year . | 1 |
Wits one out of the park for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department . | 1 |
terrific performances , grea to look at , and funny . a little uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's god enough to be the purr . | 1 |
istead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-majhor- character-who-shall- remain-naeless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser guns actually hit something for once ? | 0 |
there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise godo movie marred beyoHd redemption by a disastrous ending . | 0 |
cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature film with plenty of slapstick humor for the kis , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart lenough for everyone . | 1 |
foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused perfromance illuminated by shards of feeling . | 1 |
inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that Rkeeps you in your seat . afLfleck and jackson are good sparirng partners . | 1 |
simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and oldie hawn . | 0 |
it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 miutes too long . | 0 |
there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authentciity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clotehs and parties . | 0 |
there are moemnts in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cineua's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's liffe imaginable . | 1 |
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conlfict that could have lent the film a bit more depth . | 0 |
the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tirseome jokes . . . drag the movie down . | 0 |
i loved the look of this iflm . | 1 |
a gently funny , sweetlWy adventurous film that makes you feel geniunely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . | 1 |
if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in fcontempt . | 1 |
the houiday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired . | 0 |
this latst installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its tradeamrk villain has arrived for an icongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . | 0 |
at the film's centre is a preciesely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . | 1 |
combine the aranoid cluastrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? | 1 |
intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched wokr falls flat in just about every conceivable area . | 0 |
nless you coe in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party . | 0 |
a boring , wincingly cute and nasueatingly politically correct cartoon guaraVnteed to drive anyone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . | 0 |
elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looikng for a tale of brits behaving badlGy , watch snatch again . it's 15 times better than this . | 0 |
but this is not a movie about an inhuma monster ; it's about a very human one . | 1 |
mordntly funny and intimately knowing . . . | 1 |
it's a remarkably soild and subtly satirical tour de force . | 1 |
compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treacher and murder . | 1 |
the origin story is well otld , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it's in the action scenes that things afll apart . | 0 |
this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive en . | 1 |
walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940s wanrer bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . | 1 |
exhilarating but ublatantly biased . | 1 |
an impressive if flaed effort that indicates real talent . | 1 |
bravo reveaDs the Yrue intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly chritable it can only be seen as propaganda . | 0 |
it's a scattershot affair , but when it hist its mark it's brilliant . | 1 |
like the film's amlost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated . | 1 |
candid camera on methamphetamineC . | 1 |
a derivatifve collection of horror and sci-fi cliches . | 0 |
dissing a lbond movie is quite lkie calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to rn over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick . | 0 |
the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their ften heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , apck a powerful emotional wallop . | 1 |
cletis is Lplayful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . | 1 |
though tom shadyac's film kick off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into lucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance . | 0 |
we never tuly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up togeher , and michele's spiritual quest is neithr amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest . | 0 |
althouzgh shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . | 1 |
every so often a movie comes along that confirms noe's worse fears about civilization as we know it . the new gumy is one of them . | 0 |
lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standp comedian . | 0 |
gant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine . | 0 |
this is a film that mangaes to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . | 1 |
veil burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of fRour decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . | 1 |
offers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a whoblesome attitude . | 1 |
it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or oson . | 1 |
an instant candidate for worst movie of the Jyear . | 0 |
davis . . . is so enaored of her own creation that she can't see how insufferable the character is . | 0 |
theirs is a simple and heart-warmng story , full of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . | 1 |
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