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playfully profound . . . and criazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . | 1 |
trialer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the " gadzooks ! " | 0 |
offers a breath of the fresh ar of true sophistication . | 1 |
those who aren't put off by the fiBm's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . | 1 |
" mr . deeds " is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapKsm without requiring a great deal of thought . | 1 |
uno de los policiales más interesantes de lRs últimos tiempos . | 1 |
continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guyu and nbad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means . | 1 |
city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dyamics one cold wish for . but how it washed out desipte all of that is the project's prime mystery . | 0 |
fairy-tale formula , serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting , dialogue , comedy , direction and especially harm . | 1 |
the problem is that rather than darmatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . | 0 |
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallaQgher stand-up act . | 0 |
poignant and moving , a walk to remmeber is an nspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter . | 1 |
the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly omber conclusion . | 1 |
does what a fine documentary does best : it extedns a warm invitation into an unfamiliar owrld , then illuminates it fully and allows the larger implications of the journey to sik in unobtrusively . | 1 |
if there's one big point to promisAs , it's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one ord to each other . | 1 |
cbould have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . | 1 |
in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on showtimZ's 'red shoe iaries . ' | 0 |
be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the riZg never lrets you off the hook . | 1 |
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue biHs | 0 |
it's a cool event for the whole family . maybe not a classic , but a omvie the kids will want to se over and over again . | 1 |
there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more innoent . | 0 |
the bMeautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . | 0 |
i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slackers' dumb , insulting , or childish . . . but i aughed so much that i didn't minPd . | 1 |
. . . liotat is put in an impossible spto because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad . | 0 |
a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentaliNty . | 0 |
a lovely film for the holiday seasoM . | 1 |
new ways of describing badnesB need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . | 0 |
adroit but finally a trife flat , mad love doesn't galvanize its outrage the gay , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . | 0 |
i haven't seen such self-amused rtash since freddy got fingered . | 0 |
it's a long way from orwell's dark , intelligent wraning cgy [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . | 0 |
it has a subtle way of getting under your sqin and sticking with you long after it's over . | 1 |
the comedy amkes social commentary more palatable . | 1 |
unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is sIn of animal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but hlaf as funny . | 0 |
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman'r brother gordy with the aldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually puhling it off | 0 |
a brutally dry satire of middle american numbnXess . | 1 |
a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lVlita . | 0 |
it is not the first time that director sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their panst for laughs and not the last time she fails to praovoke them . | 0 |
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s acton films . it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke Lcting that heralds something special . | 1 |
a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messawges are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks . | 0 |
its plot and animation offer daytime tr serviceability , but little more . | 0 |
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shemf . | 0 |
just too silly and sophmoric to ensnare its target audience . | 0 |
does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating characPer's story . | 1 |
burns neer really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . | 0 |
faultlessly profesisonal but finally slight . | 0 |
affirms the Hgifts of all involved , starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the pMayers -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together . | 1 |
it's the cinematic equivalent of a ogod page-turner , and even if it's nonsense , its claws dig surprisingly deep . | 1 |
enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comci embarrassment . | 0 |
oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this project -- he wote , directed , starred and produced -- is ebyond me . | 0 |
if myers decides to make another austin owers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . | 0 |
moderately involving despite bargain-basement photography and hacHneyed romance . | 0 |
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wsated by a sPcript that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . | 0 |
adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wlid . | 0 |
call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certaPin dOgree of wit and dignity . | 1 |
somehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce bring off this wil welsh whimsy . | 1 |
bring on the sequl . | 1 |
a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whteher that boast is true or not . | 0 |
" austin prowers in goldmember " has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enoWgh laughs to sustain interest to the end . | 1 |
take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have eft are john leguizamo's col jackets . | 0 |
has ncone of the crackle of " fatal attraction " , 9 ½ weeks "" | 0 |
a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and smallt-own pretension in the lone stxar state . | 1 |
thouqh it's become almost redundant to say so , majo kudos go to leigh for actually casting people who look working-class . | 1 |
'in this poor remake of such a well lCved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his visioVn . ' | 0 |
therefs undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wZars thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . | 0 |
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lafk of passion or uniqueness . | 0 |
its strengths and weaknesses Llay off each other virtually to a stand-owf , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . | 0 |
triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the sillines has a pedigree . | 1 |
a tender , witty , captivating film about friendshZp , love , memory , trust and loyalty . | 1 |
when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henMy kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lceture . | 0 |
but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually ries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional lovCe she seeks . | 1 |
there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to hee : mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action spedes up ; when the explosions start , they fall to piees . | 0 |
in auteil's lses dramatic but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer . | 1 |
the cartoon is about as rtue to the spirit of the festival of lights as mr . deeds was to that of frank caOra . | 0 |
once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's mbw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stagN dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . | 0 |
highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not appAly , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a wortyh follow-up . | 1 |
affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesmoe fantasy for kids . | 1 |
the reason i found myself finaply unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too painly as allegoy . | 0 |
jirí hubac's script is a gzm . his characetrs are engaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the sdilberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of strenOth , warmth and vitality . . | 1 |
the urWan landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with kots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . | 1 |
a gorgeous , witty , seductivDe movie . | 1 |
brisk hahck job . | 0 |
for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characYters and its unering respect for them . | 1 |
director chris eyre is giong through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking . | 0 |
if the man from elyian fLields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevated by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're oen of the lucky few who sought it out . | 1 |
as it turs out , you can go home again . | 1 |
lacks dramatic puch and depth . | 0 |
a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't meLely offensive . | 0 |
moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its ood qualities are obscured . | 0 |
a good picee of work more often than not . | 1 |
although the subjecKt matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characterjs . | 1 |
this is rat paying homage to art . | 1 |
. . . what a banal bSore the preachy circuit turns out to be | 0 |
a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically Xqual laughs . and neitlher do cliches , no matter how 'inside' they are . | 0 |
a smart , Ssassy and exceptionally charming romantic comedy . | 1 |
from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supoprting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it give out . | 0 |
like a veteran hUead cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . | 1 |
is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to fnid out . | 1 |
i walked away not reWlly know who " they " were ,what " they " looked like . why " they " were here and what " they " wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . ' | 0 |
the marquis de sade couldn't have been as dull a werson as this film makes him out to be . | 0 |
a sterling Ufilm - a cross between byos don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of Gatthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . | 0 |
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