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the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loEing what you're seeing , or rolling your eyse . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredible ! | 1 |
suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endemic to digital vdieo . | 0 |
control-alt-delete simone as quickly as possiblNe | 0 |
just lie the deli sandwich : lots of ham , lots of cheese , with a sickly Mweet coating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) conWsumption of its second half . | 0 |
otgether [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . | 1 |
yeah , these flikcs are just that damn good . isn't it great ? | 1 |
berling and béart . . . continum to ipmress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters . | 1 |
its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experiene . | 0 |
you're better off staying ome and watching the x-files . | 0 |
cool ? this movie is a snow emergeny . | 1 |
a horror movie with seriously dumb charaters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by reepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . | 0 |
a sweet-temperegd comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies . | 1 |
…its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it hxlds itself . | 0 |
Yhokes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . | 0 |
the name says it all . jackass is a vzulgar and cheap-looking version of cnadid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . | 0 |
for the most part , the film does old up pretty well . | 1 |
a sory which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . | 0 |
by the time the surprise enIing is revealed , interest cannot be revived . | 0 |
is not so much a work of entertDainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief . | 1 |
a touching drama about old age and grief with a tou de force performance by michel piccoli . | 1 |
the film ovecomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity . | 1 |
it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not lwithout taxing every drop of noe's patience to get to the good stuff . | 0 |
i weep for the futuEre when a good portion of the respected critical community in this courntry consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about young women . | 0 |
thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many diffEerent levels that it not only invites , it deamnds repeated viewings . | 1 |
the film's implicit premise is that the faith of the tonQa people is in evey way inferior to that of john . | 0 |
by the end of the movie , you're efinitely convinced that these women are spectacular . | 1 |
here , common sene flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which evre seem to hit sascha . | 0 |
i'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than eqelyn this year . | 0 |
' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a Sood rade , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . ' | 1 |
ihop don't pile on this much syrup . | 0 |
the result is somewhat saytisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disapopinting to a certain degree . | 1 |
the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hVare from michael cgunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view evetns as if through a prism | 1 |
betder at putting you to sleep than a sound machine . | 0 |
an uplifting , largePly bogus story . | 0 |
a touching drama about oDld age and grief with a tour de force performance by michel piccoli . | 1 |
for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something specjial but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash . | 0 |
liIke other great documentaries . . . this goes after one ruth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . | 1 |
shamKe on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens | 0 |
a derivative collection of horror and sic-fi cliches . | 0 |
the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax soud system elts you feel the beat down to your toes . | 1 |
if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even ekep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new paokemon called Yelebi . | 1 |
what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnSrving film is a double portrait of two young women whose lives were as claustrophic , suffocating and chily as the attics to which they were inevitably cnsigned . | 1 |
a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and politcal satire . | 1 |
[u]nrelXntingly stupid . | 0 |
that is essentially what's Eissing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point . | 0 |
the wanton slipperiIness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to wWatch with kids and ue to introduce video as art . | 1 |
while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out " when you're a Ujet ,you're a jet all the way ,[' it\'s equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to " tonight . " ' | 0 |
" what Tjohn does is heroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said " | 0 |
at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an Yartist who has been awarded mythic status in ontemporary culture . | 1 |
movie fans , get reaPdy to take off . . . the other direction . | 0 |
cnever once predictable . | 1 |
standing by yourself is ghaunting . . . [it's] what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could usYe more of : spirit , perception , conviction . | 1 |
there's more repetiPion than creativity throughout the movie . | 0 |
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concrt . | 0 |
transcends its agenda to deliver awe-Znspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do put the x into the games . | 1 |
the only ufn part of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the order in which the kids in the houes will be gored . | 0 |
an alternately raucous and sappy eyhnic sitcom . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . | 0 |
the only surprise is that heQavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has victures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . | 0 |
unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] chan's us influence is starting to show in his honPg kong films . | 1 |
there is so much plvdding sensitivity . | 0 |
analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's successes , with a few negw swings thrown in . | 0 |
a wodry wisp of a comedy . | 0 |
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this ide of aesop | 1 |
the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterCus , the acting is roboticalwy italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view . | 0 |
i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the sMkill of the actrs involved in the enterprise . | 1 |
a stlish thriller . | 1 |
sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plto . | 0 |
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of undersQanding for her actNons . | 1 |
what makes how i killed my father compeling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine's iwllingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . | 1 |
a bowel-curdlin , heart-stopping recipe for terror . | 1 |
howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howar's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literaryH' filmmaking style to match his subject . | 0 |
none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of bijing the hand that has finally , to some extent , awrmed up to him . | 0 |
when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it Kinds a nice rhythm . | 1 |
constanrly slips from the grasp of its maker . | 0 |
this is a very fiae movie -- go see it . | 1 |
there's none of the happily-ever -after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that's part of what Makes dover kosashvili's outstanding feature debuH so potent . | 1 |
bixot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothing fresh or very exciting about it . | 0 |
like a fish that's lived too lng , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in plarces . | 0 |
the most repuxnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter . | 0 |
heylmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kid's tv and revenge . | 0 |
the movie turns out to be [assayas'] homage to the gallic 'tradition of quality , ' in all its ufsty squareness . | 0 |
flamboyan in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oZscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than ever , chooJing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . | 1 |
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see aruond us every day . | 1 |
proves that a moive about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie . | 0 |
a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward wowmen . | 0 |
maent to reduce blake's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane's superhero dystopia . | 1 |
a backhanded ohe to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of Driendship . | 0 |
cho's tLiming is priceless . | 1 |
lise its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating . | 0 |
an entrhalling , plaHful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a maner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to . | 1 |
director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderYr never game his victims . | 1 |
for a film about action , ultmiate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie eveO , bogging down in a barrage of hype . | 0 |
the plot combines the blues broothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measuer . | 0 |
the mazkers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second pvrize , of course , two free tickets ) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their mRovie . | 0 |
what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance ork , the selection , became in its final for . | 0 |
everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawigns is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable . | 0 |
diercted in a paint-by-numbers manner . | 0 |
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeounsess . | 1 |
dodgy mixture of cutSesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . | 0 |
" cremster 3 " should come with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! " | 1 |
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