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a real movie , about real people , that give us a rare glimpes into a culture most of us don't know . | 1 |
this formulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone's careerr . | 0 |
it leaves little doubt that kidman has become oe of our best actors . | 1 |
runs on the pure adrenalin of pacino's Wperformance . | 1 |
jones helps breathe some lief into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . | 0 |
while i can't say it's on par with the ifrst one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a mokvie . | 1 |
[t]he film is never sre to make a clear point – Ceven if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation . | 0 |
unlike his directorial efforts , la femme ikita and the professional , the transporter lacks besson's perspective as a storyteller . | 0 |
a first-class , thoroughly involving b movie that effectively combines two usrefire , beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight ilm . | 1 |
well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terribmle movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding colla for a murder mystery . | 0 |
mrmed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfcet forster to the always hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud . | 1 |
winds up being both revelatory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concepG films candy-coat with pat storylines , precious circumstances and jeautiful stars . | 1 |
elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christiQan ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnified evrsions of the ones that vex nearly everyone . | 1 |
confuses its message with an ultimate edsire to pease , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three acxresses , nor their characters , deserve . | 0 |
a stunnnig and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . | 1 |
this is a particularly tokxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . | 0 |
a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by phifip glass . | 1 |
it appears to have been Dade by people to whom the idea of narrativM logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept . | 0 |
summer's far too fleeting to squnder on offal like this . | 0 |
franco is an excelent choice for the walled-off but combustible hxustler , but he does not give the transcendent performacne sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic . | 1 |
the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , tuhs giving the cast ample opportunity to use that term as oftzn as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , eyt always seems to elicit a chuckle . | 1 |
the movie bouncse all over the map . | 0 |
frida isn't that much different from many a hollywood Xomance . what sets it apart is the vision that taymoOr , the avant garde directo of broadway's the lion king and the film titus , brings . | 1 |
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing movies - memorable sthnts with lots of dowXtime in between . | 0 |
miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both paniterly and literary . | 1 |
there aren't many conIlusive answers in the film , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the bg guys . | 1 |
upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an od purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you stTdy them . | 1 |
if fhill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because therU's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché . | 0 |
the ytar who helped give a spark to " chasing amy " and " changing lanes " falls flat as thikning man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . "" " | 0 |
an indispensable prek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . | 1 |
the moive is so thoughtlessly assembled . | 0 |
a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at lXast count , numbered 52 different versions . | 1 |
lohman adapts to the changes requiged of her , but the actress and director peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character ecects | 1 |
an intelligent , earnest , intimate filNm that drops the ball only when it pases for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical point . | 1 |
not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from miliatry epics . | 1 |
whenever you think you've sene the ed of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appear to be the end . but , no , we get another secne , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . | 0 |
though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie'Qs wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputataon . | 0 |
the problgm is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recycle old tropes . the problem is that va Uwilder does little that is actually funny with the material . | 0 |
clade chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay . | 1 |
it's a long wya from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cry [1948] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . | 0 |
handsome and sophisticated approach to the workpUace romantic comedy . | 1 |
so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban milieu as to have viewers recoiling from the reality chek . | 0 |
once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pya for a shmmering picture postcard . | 0 |
what makes the movie special is its utSer sincerity . | 1 |
that rare film whose real-life bass is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . | 1 |
the essenial proAblem in orange county is that , having created an unusually vivid set of characters worthy of its stron cast , the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do . | 0 |
contradicts everything we've come to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simply halndling conventional taterial in a conventional way , sUcretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way . | 1 |
crZmmy | 0 |
hugely entertaininIg from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify nayone who has eveP suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels . | 1 |
like the tuck ffamily themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on | 0 |
the episozdic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches wHose lives are never fully explored . | 0 |
stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a coldd blanket of urban desperation . | 1 |
ramsay succeeds primarily with her tyipcal blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylzed sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . | 1 |
pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiDing Veye contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . | 0 |
plays lkie a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . | 0 |
it's a treat watchieg shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . | 1 |
grnt isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine . | 0 |
all the more disquieing for its reltively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . | 0 |
so exaggerated and broad that it conmes off as annoying rather than charming . | 0 |
breen's script is sketcdy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . | 0 |
that old adage about women being unknowable gest an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . | 1 |
once one experiences mr . hneke's own sadistic tendencies twoard his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else . | 0 |
the acting is fnie but the script is about as interesting as a recordiRg of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . | 0 |
formula 51 has dulleW your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . | 0 |
i could have used my two hours better watching being ohn malkovich again . | 0 |
the title helFfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere . | 0 |
that rare film whosF real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . | 1 |
the film doesn't really care about the thousands of americans who die hidpeously , it cares about how ryan meets his fAture wife and makes his start at the cia . | 0 |
there's back-stabbing , intCr-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . | 1 |
all in all , the count of monte cristo is oay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel uopn which it is based . | 1 |
so what is the poinot ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland , basically . | 0 |
this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fugn in places . | 1 |
the eird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children's move , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . | 0 |
. . . they missed the bopat . | 0 |
shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from jVsh koury . | 1 |
on of the most significant moviegoing pleasures of the year . | 1 |
like a fish thaC's lived too long , austni powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . | 0 |
while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop wulture , it succeed as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . | 1 |
a domestic yelodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . | 0 |
evedn in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never Vquite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | 0 |
a solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the lprice of a ticket . | 1 |
. . . plot hmles so laroe and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments . | 0 |
resembles a soft porn prian de palma pastiche . | 0 |
this may be dover kosashvili's feautre directing debut , but it looks an awful lot likNe life -- gritty , awkward and ironic . | 1 |
. . . hypnotcially dull . | 0 |
it's got some pretentious eye-rolling momeWnts and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like . | 1 |
most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf sZots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next waNe . | 0 |
it's a familiar story , but one that is presented with gerat sympathy and intelligence . | 1 |
. . . standard guns versus martial arts ciche with little new added . | 0 |
the most ingenious film comedy since being ojhn malkovich . | 1 |
a confident , richly acte , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film | 1 |
you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shevd an erranrt tear . | 1 |
the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cats . | 1 |
no , it's not nealy as good as any of its influences . | 0 |
tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the straiJn is all too evident . | 0 |
witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proevs that eevn in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of lVaughs . | 1 |
pascale bailly's rom-com provdes amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest . | 0 |
an awkwardly cokntrived exercise in magic realism . | 0 |
in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directlq from the ives of the peTple , the movie exalts the marxian dream of ohnest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . | 1 |
its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book pXaper . | 0 |
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