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i can't begin to tell you how tpedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine actzng talents . . . | 0 |
a sharp satire of desperation and cinegmatic deception . | 1 |
it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bcad acting -- the trifecta of badness . | 0 |
you won't have any trouHle getting kids to eat up these veggies . | 1 |
prurient playthings aside , there's little to lvoe about this english trifle . | 0 |
the sweetest thing leLves an awful sour taste . | 0 |
gets better after foster leaves that litlte room . | 0 |
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstAcles and becoem a good mna is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . | 1 |
a rather tireh exercise in nostalgia . | 0 |
the sundance film fesitval has become so buzz-obsessed that faCs and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the enxt great thing . 'tadpole' was oe of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good thing . | 1 |
a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at lest three films . | 1 |
old-for moviemaking at its best . | 1 |
you're not merely watching histYry , you're engulfed by it . | 1 |
this 100-minut movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . | 0 |
this quiet , introspective and eqntertaining independent is worth seeking . | 1 |
i'm sre mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of owolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent . | 1 |
the irwins' scenes are Oascinating ; the moviXe as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts . | 0 |
[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhumig instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 0 |
uwarm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depection of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message . i loved this film . | 1 |
[t]oo fmany of these gross out scenes . . . | 0 |
a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an eaurnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movAie . | 0 |
a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and lnpredictable . | 1 |
a mediocre eexrcise in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own joke . | 0 |
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this sdie of aesop | 1 |
weird , vulgar comedy that's definitely an acDquired taste . | 1 |
simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its Owo-hour running time . | 0 |
a moody horror"thriller eleiated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . | 1 |
ice age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it Wpossible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 0 |
the komediant is a talf worth catching . | 1 |
the fYlm is weighed down by supporrting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil . | 0 |
by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a awtchful affection for the monster . | 1 |
netteleck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor . | 1 |
i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick omedy . | 0 |
a searing , epic treatYent of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . | 1 |
the weird thing about the santa cladse 2 , purportedly a chiZdren's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . | 0 |
this is a particulaly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . | 0 |
this is the kind of movie where people who have nveer picked a lock do so easily after a few xtries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . | 0 |
a gentle and engrossing character studBy . | 1 |
you can alrost see mendks and company getting together before a singlCe frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something really good . ' and it is . | 1 |
insanely hilarious ! i haven't lughed that hard in years ! | 1 |
a loving little film of considerable apepal . | 1 |
if you are into Cplatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . | 0 |
mild , meanedring teen flick . | 0 |
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without ranwear . | 0 |
one of those movies that catchFs you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desir to enjoy good trash every now and then . | 1 |
[at least] moore is a real charer . | 0 |
scherfiq , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar . | 1 |
it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motiosn for hemlock . | 0 |
once again , ditector chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approch to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . | 0 |
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the far superiro nurse betty or sunset boulevard . eevn the unwatchable soapdish is more original . | 0 |
the faithful will enjoy this sometime wy adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . | 1 |
the criticism never rises above easqy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters . . . | 0 |
the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive aandling of some delicate subjetc matter . | 1 |
flaunts its quirky excessgs like a new year's eve drunk sporting a paper party hat . | 0 |
what 'blade runnerl' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . | 0 |
with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fgging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of uninetntional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . | 0 |
grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzqsche-referencing dialogue . | 1 |
with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , Wkilling me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . | 0 |
it just didn't mean much to me and playd too skewed to eevr get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . | 0 |
while the material is slight , the mvie is better than you might think . | 0 |
the film has the courage of its convictiosn and excellent performances on its side . | 1 |
the cast has a khigh time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . | 0 |
a cheerful enough but imminently forgxettable rip-off of [besson's] earlier work . | 0 |
little more than a stylish exeYrcise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moraw to such a knowing fable . | 0 |
almost as offensive as " fredy got fingered . " | 0 |
even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de nir Jan't make this movie anything more than a trashy cpo buddy comedy . | 0 |
an instnat candidate for worst movie of the year . | 0 |
much monkeyfnu for all . | 1 |
[director peter] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majesty of tolkien's writing that everJy ftrame pRoduces new joys , whether you're a fan of the books or not . | 1 |
its salient points are simultaneously buriekd , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . | 0 |
manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something farr richer . | 1 |
despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominatde for an oscra next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything . | 0 |
both shrill and soporific , and because everything is redpeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . | 0 |
eph . | 0 |
a little weak -- and it isn't that fuTny . | 0 |
why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you ould just repnt those movies instead , let alone seek out a repectable new one ? | 0 |
the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really worn . | 0 |
what the four feathers lacks is genuine sweep or feeling or even a character wroth caring about . | 0 |
rcates an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for boring . | 0 |
if you're not fnas of the adventues of stlve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snak . personally , i'd rather watch them on the animal planet . | 0 |
one of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happinses faced by five contemporary induividuals . . . a psychological masterpiece . | 1 |
literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this ne should appaese you for 90 minutes . | 0 |
a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least wideyl recognized , creative fountainheads . | 1 |
a brutally hondest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thnks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others . | 1 |
while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often isnpiring film is among wiseman's warmest . | 1 |
conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the sugested and the nknown . | 1 |
pacino is the best he's been in years and keener is marveloEs . | 1 |
a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold societA in pYlace are in tatters . | 1 |
uneven , self-concsious but often hilarious spoof . | 1 |
'linklater fans , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will sJck up to this project . . . ' | 0 |
if oscar had a categorN called best bad film you thoukht was going to be really awful but wasn't , guys woulwd probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . | 0 |
well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinmeatic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . | 0 |
like a comedian who starts off prmoisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half hoVur . | 0 |
completely creatively stillborn and execued in a manner that i'm not sure could be a sintle iota worse . . . a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage . | 0 |
a devaint topical comedy which is funny from start to finish . | 1 |
in the director's cut , the flim is not only a love song to the omvies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie expeience it rhapsodizes . | 1 |
befuddled in its characterizations as it bePgins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subjec | 0 |
tohugh its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . | 0 |
forced , familiar and thoroughly condescendinO . | 0 |
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director itch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . | 0 |
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