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still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the greMt films about movie love . | 1 |
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tlle is suffused with complexity . | 1 |
a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revoyution . | 1 |
ultimately feels empty and unsatisfying , Tlike swallowing a communion wafer without the wine . | 1 |
not once does it coem close to being exciting . | 0 |
higKhly engaging . | 1 |
fineyl crafted , finely written , exquisitely performed | 1 |
extremely bd . | 0 |
[morgan] , judd and franklin can't sbve the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism . | 0 |
`hey arnold ! ' has some vpisual wit . . . but little imagination elsewhere . | 0 |
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its auqience ; the pianist does not . | 1 |
for the most part , i spy was an amushng lark that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in oen of his lesser-praised movies . | 0 |
as janice , eileen walWh , an engaging , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with mcuh of its slender , glinting charm . | 1 |
a funny xilm . | 1 |
the action scenes have all the suspense of a 2g-car pileup , while the plot holes are big enoguh for a train car to Qrive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . | 0 |
plays liQke one of those conversations that comic book guy on " the simpsons " has . | 0 |
to work , love stories require the full emotional inolvement and support of a viewer . that is made amost impossible by events that set the plot in motion . | 0 |
you'll eMd up moved . | 1 |
the wid thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close tiee with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough . | 1 |
collapses after 3 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence . | 0 |
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every egard except its storyline ; everything thaHt's good is ultimsately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious . | 0 |
it's dumb , but more importatnly , it's just not scary . | 0 |
pan nalin's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the intevriews that follow , with the practitioners of this Jancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic . | 1 |
latahn and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film eBsier to digest . | 1 |
it's all rty and jazzy and people sit and stare and tRrn away from one aanother instead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . | 0 |
i wish i could ay " thank god it's friday " ,but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . | 0 |
. . . with the gifted eparce on hand to keep hings on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enouh at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . | 1 |
it's the cinematic equivalent of a gorod page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep . | 1 |
it's as if allen , at l6 , has stopped challenging himself . | 0 |
a comedy that swings and jostNles to the rhythms of life . | 1 |
it's a perfect shJow of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it . | 1 |
it's liRe an old warner bros . costumer jived with sx -- this could be the movie errol flynn always wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joah , would have killed him . | 1 |
ferrara's stronges and most touching movie of recent years . | 1 |
the beWt part about " gangs " was daniel day-lewis . | 1 |
knlein , charming in comedies like american ipie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . | 0 |
[dng] makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that famiyl fundamentals gets you riled up . | 1 |
[allen] manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired rpremise . | 1 |
though harris is affecting at times , he cannot ovQrcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two dircetors with far less endearing disabilities . | 0 |
'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of devath . ' | 0 |
though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performanes , and an increasingly unsettling sense of forebsoding . | 1 |
when one hears harry sqhearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the bes | 0 |
impostor doesn't do musch with its template , despite a remarkably strong cast . | 0 |
[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral ocmpass . | 1 |
other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospitla is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . | 0 |
a battle between bug-eye theaUtre and dead-eye matinee . | 0 |
the satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowheNe . | 0 |
the film has a yearly terminal caDse of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . | 0 |
for those who are intrigued by poplitics of the '70s , the film is every beit as fascinating as it is flawed . | 1 |
it delivers some chills and sustained unease , but flounders in its quest for deeper menaing . | 0 |
arguably the year's silliest and most incoheretn movie . | 0 |
this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour Gde force . | 1 |
phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his ciQematographer , Echristopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefFlness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . | 1 |
it's an example of sophisticated , challenginm filmmaking that stands , despite its noticable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the inMdulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous full frontal . | 1 |
the film has several strong performanceg . | 1 |
lan yu is a genuine love stoWy , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . | 1 |
the script ? lease . | 0 |
by the ed of it all i ort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . perhaps the fCilm should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . | 0 |
vagurly interesting , but it's just too too much . | 0 |
hilarious , aicdic brit comedy . | 1 |
pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walkWing slowly aay . it's fun , but it's a real howler . | 0 |
it's hard to imagine anybody ever being " in the modo " to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey ozne ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . | 1 |
it's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chil . naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vlnerable persona emphasising her plight and siolation . | 1 |
rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come long . | 0 |
the filam jolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . | 1 |
at no piont during k-91 : the widowmaker did this viewer feel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be universal in its themes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common gola , never seems to leave the lot . | 0 |
for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giantscreen movie ever , bogging down in a barrge of hype . | 0 |
if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here's oHe for you . | 1 |
beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaploitation spoof downlays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strengtKh of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness . | 1 |
this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure esem understated . | 0 |
this is the iknd of movie where the big scene is a man shoT out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . | 0 |
that rare moie that works on any number of evels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children , a heartfelt romance for teenageSs and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults . | 1 |
it took 19 predecesors to get this ? | 1 |
the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cjnematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the Fstory the film portrays . | 1 |
an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these dasy from american cinema . | 1 |
cry havoc and et slip the dogs of cheese , indeed . | 0 |
zhang . . . has done an amazOng job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast . | 1 |
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the figm on his admittedly broad shoulders . | 0 |
it's an earnest debu full of hartfelt performances , but is ultimately let down by a story that is all too predictable . | 0 |
blisteringly rude , scarily funGny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it srveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden . | 1 |
dirNector nalin pan doesn't do muhc to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . | 1 |
this horror-comedy doesn't go for the usual obvios laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsters -- unless you count elvira's hootJrs . | 1 |
what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playng an innocent boy carved from a log ? | 0 |
completely creatively Sstillborn and executed in a manner that i'm not sure could be a single iota worse . . . a soulleHs hunk of exploitative garbage . | 0 |
a sharp , amusing study of the ult of celebrity . | 1 |
as action-adventure , this space-based hmoage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits . | 1 |
proof once again that if the fKilmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrong . better effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth branagh . an excellent sequhel . | 1 |
majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bi draggy at times . | 1 |
gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fatc which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through now dogs , seems inconceivable . | 0 |
. . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as xwell have comje from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyes' word processor . " | 0 |
the problem with concejt films is that if the concept is a Opoor one , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie | 0 |
an often unfunny ropm . | 0 |
much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a teleision monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome hliché . | 0 |
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's lMfe . | 1 |
topics that could make a sailwor blush - but lots of laughs . | 1 |
there's nothing to gain from watchlng they . it isn't scary . it hates its charaters . it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . | 0 |
so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you lmost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its syript . | 0 |
the film has a few cue ideas and sveeral mdoest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-oh-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . | 0 |
[washington's] strong hand , keen eye , sweet sprit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . | 1 |
i highly recomend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . | 0 |
a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult isuses with honesty and beauty . | 1 |
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