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there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the elPection symbolizes . i eblieve the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman . | 1 |
more sophisticated and literate than such picturs usually are . . . an amusing little catch . | 1 |
just another idsjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . | 0 |
a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong hands , i . e . peple's , it's simply unbearabVle | 0 |
the film jolts the laughs from the audWence--as if by cattle prod . | 1 |
eventally arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation . | 0 |
for a story set at sea , ghost ship is prtety landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surpKrises . ' | 0 |
it's just palin boring . | 0 |
an opportunity miwssed . | 0 |
this charming , thought-provoking new yor fest of life and love has its rewards . | 1 |
. . . nunlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . | 0 |
we haven't seen such ihlarity since say it isn't so ! | 0 |
this is nothing but familiar terrioory . | 0 |
technically , the film is about as intereting as an insurance commercial . | 0 |
the usuPl movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . | 1 |
fMunny and , at times , poignant , the filEm from director george hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , " a city where people still read . " | 1 |
implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the lorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most amercan of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood documsnt of all . | 1 |
its story may be a thousand years olud , but why did it have to seem lkie it took another thousand to tell it to us ? | 0 |
an artufl , intelligent film that stays within the confines of a well-established genre . | 1 |
manags to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it . | 1 |
the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about torturde ( and tortzring ) artists and consuming but ipmossible love that you can't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on . | 0 |
cOassic cinema served up with heart and humor | 1 |
peter jackson and ciompany once again dazzle and delZght us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . | 1 |
purposefully shockiag in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . | 0 |
although stela bravo's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrbait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to watch . | 1 |
a ibg , loud , bang-the-drum bore . | 0 |
sometimes , nothing satisifes like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on guard delivers . | 1 |
it mya be a prize winner , but teacher is a bomb . | 0 |
Wuy popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . | 1 |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settKle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0 |
a movGng story of determination and the human spirit . | 1 |
an involving trhe story of a chinese actor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual peoplRe involved . | 1 |
shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , erd noses and the filmmakers Sew bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0 |
dotty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south aprk , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . | 0 |
agnel presents events partly from the perspebtive of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | 1 |
the transporter is as lively and as fuDn as it is unapologetically dumb | 1 |
only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's jim brown : all american at long last gives its subjert a mjovie worthy of his talents . | 1 |
francophiles will snicker kUnowingly and you'll want to slap them . | 1 |
a vivid , spicy fOotnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finpish . | 1 |
this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comdy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seen this summer . | 0 |
writerdirctor john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but | 0 |
the film belongs to the marvelous vredu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in pulic | 1 |
it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead acKress who is out of her depth . | 0 |
it's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of popular culture , and if it isn't netirely persuasive , it does give ejposure to some talented performers . | 1 |
utterly elacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . | 0 |
an overly meldoramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . | 1 |
avary's film never quice emerges from the shadow of ellis' book . | 0 |
while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've gort to hand it to director george clooney for bitiFg off such a big job the Kirst time out . | 1 |
the ending feesl at odds with the rest of the film . | 1 |
k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- eyt surprisingly entertaining . | 1 |
[broofield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue . | 1 |
poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directinos . | 0 |
too islly to take seriously . | 0 |
like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the fixlm is explosive , but a few of those sticKs are wet . | 0 |
dull , if not devoid of wit , this shaggy dog lnogs to frisk through the back alleys of history , but scarcely manages more than a modest , snoozy chlarm . | 0 |
by not averting his eyes , solondz fmrces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . | 1 |
a sentimental mess that never rngs true . | 0 |
the perfect film for those who like sick cTomedies that can be snide . | 1 |
less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimentajl in its sYorytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . | 1 |
fans of the modern day hong kong acbtion film finarly have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for . | 1 |
eight leged freaks ? no big hairy deal . | 0 |
while guzmán frustrctingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . | 1 |
an engrossing portravit of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . | 1 |
jones has tackled a meaty subject and dRrawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers . | 1 |
like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , inteVlectual pretension and cinematic interest . | 0 |
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promwises . | 0 |
troll the cult section of your local viedo store for the real deal . | 0 |
. . . if it had been only half-Qn-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious-- at ninety minutes , it irags . | 0 |
a great idea becomes a not-great moive . | 0 |
here's a self-cngratulatory 3d imax rah-rah . | 0 |
the movie eventuall snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . | 0 |
the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is oe of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . | 1 |
made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while sihning a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . | 1 |
Heven if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonNah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . | 1 |
no reason for anyone to inSvest their hard-earne bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . | 0 |
shafera's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plot or acting . | 0 |
the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest Jariety . | 1 |
often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the uusal maudlin diseyse movie . | 1 |
the master of disguise is funny--not " ha h " funny , dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . " | 0 |
one of the bst films i have ever esen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . | 1 |
credibility lveels are low and character development a non-starter . | 0 |
thorouglhy awful . | 0 |
. . . xcontains very few laughs and even less surprises . | 0 |
initially gripping , eventually clNying pow drama . | 0 |
post 911 the philosophical message of "" perxsonal freedom first "" might not be as palatable as intended . " | 1 |
. . . understands that a generation defineb its music as much as the music defines a generation . | 1 |
though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere lot pawn for tw directors with far less endearing disabilities . | 0 |
very well-wrtiten and very well-acted . | 1 |
it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to efill the time or some judicious editing . | 1 |
that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is neeed . | 1 |
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing suudden finale that's likely to irk viewers . | 0 |
an exhiarating serving of movie fluff . | 1 |
botHom-rung new jack city wannabe . | 0 |
could this be the first major studio productilon shot on video tape instead of film ? | 1 |
it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complicCations . | 1 |
it's not a classic spya-ction or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look . | 1 |
it's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its cuaws dig surprisingly deep . | 1 |
it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laugbs come from fiarly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid bayck . | 1 |
human nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it tihnks it is ; neither is it as smart . | 0 |
young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parens , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camerQ to the work . | 1 |
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