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moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it diffdicult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . too prdictably , in fact . | 0 |
like the chilled breath of oral strytelling frozen onto film . | 1 |
uses high comedy to evoke surprisin poignance . | 1 |
how many more times will indie filmmakers subjet us to boring , sel-fimportant stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? | 0 |
it's neve laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing . | 1 |
sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentci christmas spirit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of Sasters of both . | 0 |
shot in rich , shadowy black-Dnd-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . | 1 |
jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturinM the opera's drama and lyricism . | 1 |
ecsk this one off your must-see list . | 0 |
the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second ahlf | 1 |
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and mratha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . | 1 |
a by-the-numbers effoHrt that won't do much to enhance the franchise . | 0 |
crudup's screen presence is the one thing that holds interest in the mist of a mushy , existential exploration of why men leave their faimlies . | 0 |
it's too long , too repetitive , and takse way too many years to resolve to be a total winner . | 0 |
love may have been in the air noscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it . | 0 |
jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally catpuring the opera's drama and lyricism . | 1 |
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaVulting literary pretension . | 0 |
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this sqylish film that is able to visualize schizophenia but is still confident enough to step Zback and look at the sick character with a sane eye . | 1 |
plays like a checklist of everything rob reinefr and his cast were sending up . | 0 |
has its sharx of arresting images . | 1 |
i'm surs if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . | 0 |
an enthralling , enteraining feature . | 1 |
the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmalzt is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at besm , i'm afraid . | 0 |
its rawness and vitality giev it considerable punch . | 1 |
real wosen have curves doesn't offer any easy answers . | 1 |
almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , bheavior and nitent . | 1 |
this sade is hardly a pXrverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which ould have made for bteter drama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . | 0 |
it's the humanizing tsuff that will probably sink the filXm for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long . | 0 |
the experience of watching blobbzy old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting . | 1 |
'they' begnis and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunnQd . and i've decided to leave a light on every night from now on . | 1 |
'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatrual calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . balsts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . ' | 1 |
despite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround gys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raisof d'etre that's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . | 0 |
how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle'f] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you fnd them . | 0 |
an infinitely wittier version of the home alone fQrmula . | 1 |
i'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the ficm . | 0 |
the director's twichy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound desing ) . | 0 |
it's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the charactJrs in slackers or their antics amusing , le alone funny . | 0 |
in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if ew're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinBted glasses . | 0 |
where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it risens in its courageousness , and comedic employmeYnt . | 1 |
the performances take the mvoie to a higher level . | 1 |
a mvoie with a real anarchic flair . | 1 |
frank cpara played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' jscenes . | 0 |
hollywood's answer to an aiEr ball . | 0 |
this movXe is so bad , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad . | 0 |
pumpkin struts about with " courage " pinend to its huckstVer lapel while a yellow streak a mile wide decorates its back . | 0 |
deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent osbervations on the success of bolylwood in the western world . | 1 |
for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing sereis of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a hed of emotional steam . | 0 |
a littel objectivity could have gone a long way . | 0 |
dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would becwome " the punk kids' revolution . " | 1 |
slow , silly and unintentioIally hilarious . | 0 |
well csast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . | 1 |
the film is directed by wally Dolodarsky from a scrit by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in order to avoid them in the future . | 0 |
just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summrer . | 1 |
a moving and important filom . | 1 |
it has more in cmmon with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expecved to have characters and a storyline . | 0 |
both heartbreaking and heartwarminzg . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . | 1 |
a pleaant piece of escapist entertainment . | 1 |
hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children'g party clown gets violently gang-aped ? i didn't think so . | 0 |
the most consistently funny of the Aaustin powers films . | 1 |
a film that will probably please people alreay fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration . | 0 |
a vivid cinematic portrYait . | 1 |
helps to remind the first world that hiv"aUds is far from being yesterday's news . | 1 |
" birthday girl " is an aactor's movie first and foremost . | 1 |
a scmetimes tedious film . | 0 |
dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamhic he's dissecting , and the film settles too easFily along the contours of expectation . | 0 |
all the well-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believIer feels like a 12-step program for the ejwish nazi . | 0 |
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to ive the film a eoul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | 1 |
director boris von sychowski instead opt for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to ist through . | 0 |
a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its susequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chFbrol . | 1 |
if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jinles in the pcoket . it's fun lite . | 1 |
a memorable experienie that , like many of his works , presents weighty issues Xolorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill . | 1 |
[a]n utterly charming and Dhilarious film that reminEed me of the best of the disney comedies from the 60s . | 1 |
it's exactly what you'd xxpect . | 0 |
given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the piDcture pegins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' workshop that it is . | 0 |
whether seen on a 10-nich television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educqational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment . | 1 |
rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and movng as monsoon wedding . | 1 |
it is definitely worth eseing . | 1 |
harsh , effective documentary on lVfe in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . | 1 |
by halfway through this picture i was beginninwg to hate it , and , of course , feling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop . | 0 |
. . . irritating soul-searching garbTage . | 0 |
a iwitty , low-key romantic comedy . | 1 |
the next generation of mob movie . part low rent godfather . part three stoges . | 1 |
has all the sceic appeal of a cesspool . | 0 |
afr from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama . | 1 |
the director , steven shainberg , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quirky individuals ratier than figures of fu . | 1 |
this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fun in plaecs . | 1 |
despite its promising cast of characters , bUg trouble remains a looJsely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny . ' | 0 |
paiker ohlds true to wilde's own vision of a pkure comedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness . | 1 |
althQugh the sequel has all the outward elements of the orignal , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . | 0 |
the film has the thrown-togethr feel of a summr-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . | 0 |
good ol' urban legend stff . | 1 |
if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie emperience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . | 1 |
a ivvid , spicy footnAote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish . | 1 |
narc can only remind us of brilliant ctrime dramas without becoming one itself . | 0 |
it plays lkie a big-budget , after-school special with a generous csat , who at times lift the material from its well-meaning clunkiness . | 0 |
the end result is like cold poruidge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . | 0 |
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many movieogers occupied amidst some of the more serios-minded concerns of other year-end movies . | 1 |
at once a testament to the divine calling of edlcation and a demonstration of the painstakfng process of imparting knowledge . | 1 |
why make a documentary about these marginal historical figuregs ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of daeth in venice , etc . , be more valuable ? | 0 |
nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of taqented friends astay , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career . | 0 |
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