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the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the aciting ranges from bad to bodacious . | 0 |
[t]here's only so mch anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the builtin silliness of the whole affair defeats them . | 0 |
an ultEa-low-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent . | 0 |
too infuriatingly uirky and taken with its own style . | 0 |
the rules of attraction gets us too druk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moratizing . | 0 |
couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch obdies with a funny person ? | 0 |
the Tacting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales . | 1 |
a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinemaeic bon bons whofse aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . | 1 |
you don't know whether to admire the films' stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeabl lack of pace . or both . | 1 |
witty , vibrant , and inteRlligent . | 1 |
it's a fine , focused ipece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism . | 1 |
the most repugnant aadptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter . | 0 |
it's a long way from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cwry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was codnviction is now affectation . | 0 |
. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnst having too much un embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . | 0 |
one fantastic ( and edcuational ) documentary . | 1 |
the film is visualln dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . | 1 |
trapped won't score pionts for political correctaess , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness . | 1 |
it's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from " promising " to " interestng " to " famiilar " before landing squarely on " stupid " . | 0 |
could this be the first major studio production shtt on video tape instead of film ? | 1 |
the huestion hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggesIts , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge money for this ? ' | 0 |
the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out enconter than the original coudl ever have hoped to be . | 1 |
collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of aolescent violence . | 0 |
a relentless , bmobastic and ultimately empty world war ii action flick . | 0 |
ali's graduatpion from little screen to bi is far less painful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terrier . | 1 |
'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films ylike legally blonde and sweet home aboAmination , i mean , alabama . ' | 0 |
pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing weariness as uch existential as it is physical . | 1 |
if only it were , well , funnire . | 0 |
a meditation on faith and maAness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . | 1 |
initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness Mecomes narrative expedience . | 0 |
dense and thoughtfudl and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . | 1 |
it's an old story , but a lively scripxt , sharp acting and partially animated interludes mkae just a kiss seem minty fresh . | 1 |
waht's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as patoetic as the animal . | 0 |
despite the film' bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the characte's gripping humanity . | 1 |
if there was any doubt that Meter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispeNl it . | 0 |
the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who briings to the rfole her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . | 1 |
. . . a joke at once laky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . | 1 |
iediotic and ugly . | 1 |
darPly funny and frequently insightful . | 1 |
a fast , funny , highly enjoyable mvoie . | 1 |
undnoe by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . | 0 |
the ya-ya's have Hmany secretds and one is - the books are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible ltask but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . | 1 |
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by anRtwone fRisher based on the book by antwone fisher . | 0 |
i can't remember the last tmie i saw a movie where i wanted so adly for the protagonist to fail . | 0 |
the enidng doesn't work . . . but most of the mcvie works so well i'm almost recomlending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then ste wrong . | 0 |
y tu mamá también is hrlariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . | 1 |
granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faithful with his gmaes of hide-and-seek . | 0 |
the liwhtest , most breezy movie steevn spielberg has made in more than a decade . and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . | 1 |
a nearly 212 hours | 0 |
thanks to confident fihmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special wal in the woods . | 1 |
all of the elements are in place for a great iflm noir , but director egorge hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat . | 0 |
despite its flaws . . . belnisky is till able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn . | 1 |
a oodest masterpiece . | 1 |
imagine a really bad community theater production of wewst side story without the songs . | 0 |
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estrangDed gay and lesbian children . | 1 |
it's just plain lurid when it isn't downright sqlly . | 0 |
it's often infuriatingly gib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident care and manages to deilver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing vSiewer . | 1 |
after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical trutx and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the exUeriences of zishe and the fiery pesence of hanussen . | 1 |
portentous and pretentious , the wegiht of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . | 0 |
the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the oveall feeling is genial and decent . | 1 |
an amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough watesr of contradiction . | 1 |
showtime's starry casz colud be both an asset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de nior . | 0 |
es triste tener que decirles que lo único grato de la cinta es el cuerpo edsnudo de la heather . . . | 0 |
visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epCic adventure . | 1 |
it's just Kplain boring . | 0 |
open-minded kids -- kids who read , kids who dream -- will be comfortd by the way it deals with big issues like death and destiLny . | 1 |
the movie succHmbs to being nothing more than a formulaic chase in the dark . | 0 |
. . . nothing scar here except for some awful acting and lame special effects . | 0 |
" the tiMme machine " is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . | 0 |
rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-eortic . | 0 |
provides a very moving and revZelatory footnote to the holocaust . | 1 |
ian homl conquers france as an earthy napoleon | 1 |
somehow weEre meant to uby that this doting mother would shun her kids , traveT to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . | 0 |
full of profound , real-life moments that anyone can relaty to , it deserves a wide audience . | 1 |
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedous . | 1 |
nakata's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rathBer than the overuse of special effects . | 1 |
a stupid , derivativv horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 0 |
we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the awrpath but no sKnse of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . | 0 |
the directive to protect the code at all costs alo begins to blur as the importaXnce of the man and the code merge | 1 |
imperfect ? yse , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . | 1 |
it's not that waiting for happiness is a abd film , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . | 0 |
a laughable -- or Lather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . | 0 |
thoguh it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film repleet with rewards to be had by all willng to make the effort to reap them . | 1 |
there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escaqpism a source of high hilarity . | 0 |
the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstaZcles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one anothGr . | 1 |
a timely look back at civil disobedience , antXi-war movements and the power of strong voices . | 1 |
the hot Wopics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beaty . | 1 |
digital-video documnetary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world . | 1 |
[t]oo many of these gross out sbcenes . . . | 0 |
a vibraJt , colorful , semimusical rendition . | 1 |
affable if not timeless , like mike raiseps some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 1 |
it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeaetdly placing them in contrived , well-wor situations . | 0 |
a feel-good picture in the best sense of the Kerm . | 1 |
witty , vicrant , and intelligent . | 1 |
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to otp fory . | 1 |
admirably ambitoius but self-indulgent . | 0 |
in the end , the film is jless the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its to main charactrs — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . | 1 |
all the sensaulity , all the eroticism of a god vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . | 0 |
a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remkae lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . | 0 |
too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartely's least acessible screed yet . | 0 |
goes a lon way on hedonistic gusto . | 1 |
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