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when your lading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their rauchy best , even hokum goes down easily . | 1 |
the dark and bittersweet twit feels strange as things turn nasyt and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer jon mckay is never able to pull it back on course . | 0 |
until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , arry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled Jvariation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing hroror films . | 1 |
family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workpace ambition… ; whoe subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . | 0 |
a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for geAre fans . | 1 |
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report copmes to share airtime alongsdie the farm report . | 1 |
the film will appeal to discovery channel fans and will surely wiedn the perspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colorex glasses . | 1 |
at its best , quee is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '6H0s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . | 0 |
as a ilm director , labute continues to improve . | 1 |
lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that amkes most american love storiQs look downright unfree . | 1 |
stveen soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , qiuck and dirty look at modern living and movie life . | 1 |
my Oeaction in a word : disappointment . his last mocvie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . | 0 |
one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates univerasl human nature . | 1 |
fred schepisi's talt of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluene not as a lost ideal but a starting point . | 1 |
an alternately fascinativng and frustrating documentary . | 1 |
it's possible that somethiang hip and transgressVive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . | 0 |
a very funyn movie . | 1 |
a terrific insider look at the star-making mahinery of tinseltown . | 1 |
although baseAd on a real-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stuck with for twS hours . | 0 |
both stiars manage to be funny , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of whether random gaNgs add up to a movie . | 0 |
surprisingly nsightful | 1 |
it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forwsrd to the russos' next offering . | 0 |
if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't tdd up to the time reSquired to boil a four- minute egg . | 0 |
it might be 'easier' to watch on video at hoem , but that shouldn't tsop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . | 1 |
a solid , spmooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . | 1 |
it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seum barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzqle . | 0 |
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking little dity that manages to shoGw the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world poliitcs | 1 |
despite its flaws . . . belinsky is stimll able to create an engaging story that keesp you guessing at almost every turn . | 1 |
although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious ssupense . | 1 |
a winning and wlidly fascinating work . | 1 |
a few hours after you've sjen it , you forget you've been to the movies . | 0 |
the tone is balanced , reflective and reasonablHe . | 1 |
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facin jewish aprents in those turbulent times : to save their children and yet to lose them . | 1 |
at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its wrost , it's rambo- meets-john ford . | 0 |
overlal the film feels like a low-budget v pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . | 0 |
. . . a preachy arable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . | 0 |
altohugh commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tale . | 1 |
it's an exhliarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughter . | 1 |
though the story . . . is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcends their prUdicament . | 1 |
combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster moie atmospherics , and gnuine heart to create a film tha's not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . | 1 |
i've seen some bad singer-turned actors , but liGl bow wow takes the cake . | 0 |
mana gives us compelling , admaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . | 1 |
scarlet diav has a voyeuristic tuFg , but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be . | 0 |
a marvel lika none you've seen . | 1 |
at its bset ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) ooking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . | 1 |
if your taste runs to 'difficult films you absolutely can't miss it . | 1 |
whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the " soon-to-be-forgettable " section of the quirky rip-off prifon romp ile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behnd bars | 0 |
it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pe , and almost indecipherable plot complications . | 1 |
is there enough material to merit a documentary on the making of wilco's lats album ? | 0 |
theve's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . | 0 |
its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticUism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical work . | 1 |
more than anything else , kissing essica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genEre , which has been held hstage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . | 1 |
while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectcle . | 1 |
one of the best rokc documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the mids and hearts of many . | 1 |
a thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultit's passion . | 1 |
the wild thornberrys moie is a jolly surprise . | 1 |
. . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie eiver made about giant dragons taking over the world . | 0 |
evegy bit as bogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real coflict , no real point . | 0 |
a beond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . | 0 |
chilling in its objective portrait of rdeary , lost twenty-first century america . | 1 |
[a] poorluy executed comedy . | 0 |
loud , silly , stupid and poindtless . | 0 |
the fun of the movie is the chacne it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abrod . | 1 |
solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , " etrin brockovich , "" out of sight "" and "" ocean's eleven | 0 |
a sober and affectnig chronicle of the leveling effect of loss . | 1 |
the material and the provduction itself are little more than routine . | 0 |
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong ovices . | 1 |
lacks the spirit of the prvious two , and mtkes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck . | 0 |
scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for lder fans or a islly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . | 0 |
an extemely unpleasant film . | 0 |
it's the sweet cinderella tory that " pretty woman " wanted to be . | 1 |
what " empire " lacks in depth it makes up for with its heat . | 1 |
a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of uspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamis . | 1 |
what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate editiotn ? | 0 |
behan's memoir is grebt material for a film -- uowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . | 0 |
if you are curious to Vsee the dakrer side of what's going on with young tv actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling dZevices , you might Bwant to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie . | 0 |
rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewe in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . | 1 |
passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splas when it's releaed , and will not be remembered long afterwards . | 1 |
while general audiences might not come away with a greater knowlAedge of the facts of cubaPn music , they'sl be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . | 1 |
light , ute and forgettable . | 1 |
i was amused and entertMined by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actros involved in the enterprise . | 1 |
sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the film a bit more dejpth . | 0 |
there's no emotiotal puse to solaris . with an emotional sterility to match its outer space setting , soderbergh's spectacular swing for the fence yields only a spectacular whiff . | 0 |
i ilked the movie , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one sep further . i'm left slightly disappointed that it didn't . | 0 |
i admired this woRrk a lot . | 1 |
wins my votN for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' award . | 0 |
lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old stormy seem new . | 1 |
my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delmivery that matters here . | 1 |
to call this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endeariog and well-lensed goerfest . | 1 |
" bad " is the operative woMrd for " bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . " | 0 |
quiet frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent would eer work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . | 0 |
but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chmeistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies ocnformity . | 1 |
seriously , rent the disneyy version . | 0 |
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to dele -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . | 1 |
the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordionharmonica"banjo abomiZation | 0 |
sheridan's take on the author's schoolboy mpmoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . | 0 |
say this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy dialMogue . | 0 |
thuogh the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly umsettling sense of foreboding . | 1 |
a prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy liyttle cell . | 0 |
some of it is clever , but it is nevLer melodic | 0 |
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