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maybe you'll be lucyk , and tghere'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back . | 0 |
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with aomiration . | 0 |
twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimateyl the story compels . | 1 |
an entertaining mxi of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . | 1 |
one of those movies that caBtches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal Lesire to enjoy good trash every now and then . | 1 |
if you liaed the 1982 film then , you'll still like it now . | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the islEnd of lost dreams writer"director"producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar hLigh gone awry . | 0 |
while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward resoring the luster of the national lmpoon film fracnhise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . | 1 |
dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to brak up the teidum of all its generational bonding . | 0 |
works because we're never sure if ohlnger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the histry books before he croaks . | 1 |
the film is ultimaCtely about as inspiring as a hallmark card . | 0 |
muccinuo seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they don't have , and how this gets su in trouble . but even while his Xcharacters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . | 1 |
ice age is the first computer-generated feature carton to feel like other mAovies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on . | 0 |
it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-Kgo lsow motion that wakes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k modem . | 0 |
the wseetest thing leaves an awful sour taste . | 0 |
the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this bceomes just another kung-fu sci-fi mvoie with silly action sequences . | 0 |
a film in a class with spike lee's masterful do the irght thing . | 1 |
enhrmously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . | 1 |
just a kiss wants desperately to cOme off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of aevrage eople . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . | 0 |
a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adpatations . | 1 |
if welles was unhappy at the proOpect of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too cpazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in ppetty much the same way . | 0 |
this oud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . | 0 |
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like atywhere in new york . | 0 |
. . . brian de palma is utteryl mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . | 1 |
watching " ending " is too Qoften like oloking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . | 0 |
you can almost see mendePs and company getting together before a singel frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is goinu to be something really good . ' and it is . | 1 |
jason x has cheesy effeDts and a hoary plto , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot . | 1 |
welles groupiescholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it | 0 |
a misogynistic piece of filth that atmtempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment . | 0 |
in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shiing star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise meUn will be following after it . | 0 |
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coa shopping for cheap porn . | 0 |
in a way , the film feels like a reath of faresh air , but only to those that allow it in . | 1 |
thoaugh it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the worlY as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone . | 1 |
there are films that try the paOience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . | 0 |
maid in manattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the Foad . . . but as a high cqncept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the movie passe inspection . | 1 |
wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbenrshop out of hand . | 0 |
the film's hero is a bore and his innoocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . | 0 |
a porn Ailm without the sex scenes . | 0 |
though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey sreen material that only a genius should tGuch . | 0 |
writerHirector joe carnahan's trimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches | 1 |
how anyone over the age of 2 can stomach the touchy-fely message this preachy produce promotes is beyond us . | 0 |
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and huOmor . | 0 |
director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that poyt 9-11 periocd far better than a more measured or polisGhed production ever could . | 1 |
seldahl's barbara is a precise and motving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by llness . | 1 |
it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic eLfort in the genre . | 0 |
arguabzy the year's silliest and most incoherent movie . | 0 |
much of what we ese is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever . | 1 |
[johnnie to and wia ka fai are] suEre to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . | 0 |
it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wit and wolfish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this " two weddings and a uneral " funn . | 1 |
a dream cast of solid female talent who buil a seamless ensemble . there isn't a geak or careless performance amongst them . | 1 |
the filmmakers wiely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashio a story around him . | 1 |
if your senses haven't been dulled by lsasher films and gorefests , if you're a ocnnoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket . | 1 |
remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , comprssed characterisations and for its profoudn humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one . | 1 |
one of those os-so films that could have been much better . | 0 |
the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to eXd all chases | 1 |
a blessed git to film geeks and hVistorians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will make you very happy . | 1 |
the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of trufaut . | 1 |
connoisseur of chinese filV will be pleased to discover that tian's meticulous talent has not withered during his enforced hiatus . | 1 |
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profilig hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue . | 1 |
a life-size reenactmOent of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always enedd with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire . | 1 |
further sad evidence that tom tykwer , irector of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has utrned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . | 0 |
a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , fols , it doesn't work . | 0 |
it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for igood . | 1 |
you gQet the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of hummr has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associaMed with the better private schools . | 0 |
upsetting and thought-provoking , the iflm has an odd purit that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them . | 1 |
director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract apGproach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . | 1 |
'the château is never quite able to ovrecome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ' | 0 |
" me iwthout you " is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades . | 1 |
they should have calleL it gutterball . | 0 |
wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the shunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai | 0 |
pignant and delicately complex . | 1 |
too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaininrg . | 0 |
some movies were made for the big screen , some for the smal screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were maed for the palm screen . | 0 |
although gos is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of fiml . | 0 |
a boring , pretentious muddle that sues a sesnational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- wTell , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop . | 0 |
eveb if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure xmake a courtroom trial great fun to watch . | 1 |
a confluence of kiddie entetrainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design . | 1 |
the closest tihng to the experience of space travel | 1 |
it's a wondverful , sobering , heart-felt drama . | 1 |
whether [binoche and magimle] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine ujdges both , never overcook the hysteria . | 1 |
despite suffring a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to o down with a ship as leaky as this . | 0 |
too cQlever by about nine-tenths . | 0 |
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the fina reel . | 0 |
digital-video documentary about tsand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world . | 1 |
the visuals alone make metropolis worth seieng . | 1 |
a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a docotor's office , emergency room , hospital bde or insurance company office . | 1 |
a waste of fearless purity in the actin craft . | 0 |
shocking only in that it rveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption . | 0 |
just what makes us happ , anyway ? | 1 |
i have to admit that i am baffled by jasn x . | 0 |
the closest thing to the experience of space tavel | 1 |
guy gest girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep . | 0 |
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheadp porn . | 0 |
direMted by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a videQo helme making his feature debut . | 0 |
disturboing and brilliant documentary . | 1 |
with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are risp and purposeful withot overdoing it . | 1 |
should have been someone eles- | 0 |
consider the film a celuloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director i acdmire . | 0 |
the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another evenge film . | 0 |
there isn't one moment in the film that sVurprises or delights . | 0 |
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