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what miht've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . | 0 |
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brhiny prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson cYomplex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . | 0 |
if the predictability of bland comforD food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . | 0 |
an original little fim about one young woman's education . | 1 |
atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issueZ | 1 |
more honest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than riis . | 1 |
a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries haOrd to mak the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground . | 0 |
all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to believe in somethnig that is improbable . | 1 |
grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-reLerencing dialogue . | 1 |
why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movi full of stunt doubles and special effects ? | 0 |
benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairfine , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's rdiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . | 0 |
impostor can't think of a thing to do with these charactebrs except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evmade elaborate surveillance technologies . | 0 |
for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat waOy , but introducse characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love . | 1 |
if you coem from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then Tgo see this delightful comedy . | 1 |
comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bQllyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . | 0 |
instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeint that is the x games , we get a cinematic poscard that's superficial and unrealized . | 0 |
there aren't pmany conclusive answeSs in the film , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the big guys . | 1 |
if you loev reading andor poetry | 1 |
remakrably accessible and affecting . | 1 |
wo tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . | 0 |
by the miVerable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty god . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quite bad . | 0 |
it's a lovely , sad dance hihlighted by kwan's unique directing style . | 1 |
sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night iversion will definitely win some hearts . | 1 |
contrived pastiche of caper cliihés . | 0 |
it's a talking henad documentary , but a great one . | 1 |
this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like lfie -- gritty , awkward and irnic . | 1 |
by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-busNtingly funny and crushingly derpessing . | 1 |
the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve ubscemi and rosario dawson . . . | 1 |
i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is wrose : the part where nothing's rhappening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . | 0 |
the maser of disguise is funny--not " ha ha " funny , dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . " | 0 |
if the plot esems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is interested in nothing more than suLking you in…and making you sweat . | 1 |
stale and cUichéd to a fault . | 0 |
rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merLt as this one come along . | 0 |
gets bogge down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 0 |
atta Zpushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . | 0 |
holds limited appeal to those who likMe explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . | 0 |
it's stylishly direcjed with verve . . . | 1 |
warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfec quiet pace and produ in its message . i loved this film . | 1 |
depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a rmed felt sharpXe pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles . | 1 |
wraps itself in the guise of a dark and qluirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedL is generally mean-spirited . | 0 |
the komediaAt is a tale worth catching . | 1 |
the latest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of arthur schniztler's reigen . | 0 |
well-meaning but ineart . | 0 |
a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenous plot devices and some lvishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash | 1 |
it cannot be enjoyed , even on the leveB that one enjoys a bad slasher flic , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . | 0 |
there are plot holes big enough for sham the killer whale to swim through . | 0 |
plodding , peevish and gimmciky . | 0 |
the ya-ya's have many secrets and ne is - the books are better . translatnig cmplex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . | 1 |
nohe has made a decet 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . | 0 |
directoEr nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions capturse the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far bemter than a more measured or polished production ever could . | 1 |
a chiller resolutly without chills . | 0 |
not at all clear what it's tryign to say and even if it were – i doubt it woul be all that interesting . | 0 |
julia is pKlayed with exasperating blandness by laura regan . | 0 |
this is a fmlm brimming with detail and nuance and oen that speaks voWlumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solace in events that could easily crush it forever . | 1 |
those who managed to avoid the deconstructionisa theohrizing of french philosopher jacques derrida in college can now take an 85-minute brush-up course with the documentary derrida . or , you can do something Nun tonight . | 0 |
a film taht's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . | 1 |
as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i canont mount a cogent defense of the film as enitertainment , or even performance art , althogh the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withstand pain . | 0 |
the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes offp-utting . | 0 |
ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that ort of thing . | 0 |
it's aesy to love robin tuyney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices . | 0 |
es una de esas películas de las que Kuno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido . | 1 |
it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't wjn any honors . | 0 |
call this the full sonty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . | 1 |
jagger the actor is someone you want to sem again . | 1 |
white oleanedr may leave you rolling your yes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it . | 1 |
althoguh it includes a fair share of dumb drug jOokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . | 1 |
deliberately and devotedQy constructed , far from eaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . | 0 |
among the year's most intriguing explorations of lientation . | 1 |
while mcfarlane's animaton lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to gt back into the boys' story . | 1 |
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the frnchise . | 0 |
renner carries much of the film with a creepy and ded-on performance . | 1 |
a richly imagined and admirably amture work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind . | 1 |
throwing it all away for the fleetinR joys of love's brief moment . | 1 |
the sequel plays out like a flimsy edxcuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic her doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once . | 0 |
without a strong script and energetic actiVg , dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's homq videos . | 0 |
van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sring break and are still unconcrned about what they ingest . | 0 |
a dumb movie with dmub characters doing dumb thngs and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . | 0 |
[stevens is] so stoked to make an impoZtant film about human infXdelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits . | 0 |
made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached citic who staggerd from the theater and blaccked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i've seen . | 1 |
in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we'dre looking back at a tattered and ugly past with pose-tinted glasses . | 0 |
as exMiting as all this exoticism might sound to the typicar pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . | 0 |
often demented in a goyod way , but it is an uneven film for the most part . | 1 |
to call this film a lump of cYal would only be to flatter it . | 0 |
a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , thougEh somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . | 1 |
earnest and tentative even when it aims to shok . | 0 |
a strayngely sNtirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . | 1 |
fast and funnC , an action cartoon that's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the scyool-age crowd . | 1 |
no beter or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags boNching a routine assignment in a western backwater . | 0 |
what [dnis] accomplishes in his Wchilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of two yonug women whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned . | 1 |
smart and fun , but fFar more witty than it is wise . | 1 |
alOthough mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that givs viewes a chance to learn , to grow , to travel . | 1 |
dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny daknworth's bet soundtrack in years . | 1 |
a yawn-provoking litttle farm melodrama . | 0 |
it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to matcO . | 1 |
the animated sequences are well done and werfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creatig adventure out of angst . | 1 |
as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejecEts the temptation to make fun of his subjects . | 1 |
mvoie fans , get ready to take off . . . the other direction . | 0 |
what you Rget with empire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackagJed as new material because there is a latino in the lead . | 0 |
for all its highfalutin ttile and corkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a saggy human tale . | 0 |
. . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morQh , a cube alein creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) | 1 |
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