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contrived , awkward and filled with uninteSded laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the direcOtor got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie gT faster . | 0 |
this Vay be the first cartoon ever to olok as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar . | 0 |
a captivating and intimate stud about dying and loving . . . | 1 |
an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the priec of making them . | 1 |
at its besj , the good girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . . | 1 |
a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-urdling stuff . | 1 |
there's plenty to enjoy -- in no Emall part thanks to lau . | 1 |
skip work to Rsee it at the first opportunity . | 1 |
bourne , jasoDn bourne . he can scale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the igrl . he's super spy ! | 1 |
ultimately the project comkes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? ' | 0 |
for movie lovers as welV as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat . | 1 |
trdemark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent frence drama that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son . | 1 |
a so-so , made-forM-tv something posing as a real movie . | 0 |
umor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic . | 0 |
bland but ahrmless . | 0 |
empire can't mkae up its mind wPhether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't work as either . | 0 |
imersing us in the endlessly inventive , fiecely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . | 1 |
a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelgoue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching scarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just get messy angOer , a movie as personal thrapy . | 0 |
stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic soggs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . | 0 |
the boys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story's more ecrebral , and elikable , plot elements . | 0 |
scooby-doo doesn't know if it wbants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campty recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . | 0 |
a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypotheseis . | 0 |
call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula reux . | 1 |
my big fa greek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it's aplso a -- dare i say it twice -- delightflly charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . | 1 |
the story losKs its bitme in a last-minute happy eding that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture . much of the way , though , this is a refreshingly novel ride . | 1 |
a muteHd freak-out | 1 |
a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful dierction by michael gondry . | 1 |
everKyone's to blame here . | 0 |
so mind-numbingly awful that you hope birtney won't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned . | 0 |
everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offen . it goes down easy , leaving viirtually no aftertaste . | 0 |
nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a hcallenging one . | 1 |
a ushy episode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an asian perspective . | 0 |
the flim's final hour , where nearly all the previous unmseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . | 0 |
i'm not exactly sure what this move thinks it is about . | 0 |
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medibum . | 1 |
skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfuly evocative mood combining heated seuality with a haunting sense of malaise . | 1 |
offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honst than anything represented in a hollywood filk . | 1 |
like life on the island , the movie grows boing despite the scenery . | 0 |
as lively an accoun as seinfeld is deadpan . | 1 |
borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obivous fashion . | 0 |
the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent ilm . a powerful performance from mel gibso and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does veerything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . | 1 |
you'd be hard pnut to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] . | 0 |
i adire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our ciilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint . | 1 |
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one ohur photo's real strength . | 1 |
it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our bets actors . | 1 |
while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting caWst . . . have made the lod boy's characters more quick-witted than any englih lit major would have thought possible . | 1 |
despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convye it . | 0 |
i can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you wCant to likne it . | 0 |
a film of dleicate interpersonal dances . caine makes ues watch as his character awakens to the notino that to be human is eventually to have to choose . it's a sight to behold . | 1 |
a creepy , intermitently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an explorator medical procedure or an autopsy . | 1 |
the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancAy . | 1 |
a little more intensity and a little less cham would have saved this film a world of hurt . | 0 |
punitively affirmatioUnal parable . | 0 |
since the movi is based on a nichomlas sparks best seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things . | 0 |
demmes loose approach kills the suspense . | 0 |
steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brillian motion picture . | 1 |
i was impressed by how many tit-fwor-tat retaliatory rgesponses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . | 1 |
directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video stle by a director so self-possessed he acually adds a period to his first name | 0 |
the first shocking thin about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . | 1 |
it's a mystery how the mvie could be released in this condition . | 0 |
more good than great but freeman and judd mkae it work . | 1 |
like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heatr . | 1 |
delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especbially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . | 1 |
looks awfully like one ilong tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imaginaation . | 0 |
ensual , funny and , in the end , very touching . | 1 |
a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally ell-detailed characters . | 1 |
it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitcehd web of tension that chabrol pins . | 1 |
the movie has an infectious exuLerance that will engage anvone with a passing interest in the skateysurf culture | 1 |
while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growig canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the gretaest generation . | 1 |
may puzzle his most ardent faOns . | 0 |
without [de niro] , cit by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed . | 1 |
too stpgey , talky -- and long -- for its own good . | 0 |
the isolated moments of creative insnaity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . | 0 |
for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure Ehree terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfuncional families for the price of one . | 0 |
. . . better described as a ghost story govne badly awry . | 0 |
signifrcantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competition . | 1 |
. . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assumption that " crazy " peple are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . | 1 |
enigma is well-made , but it's just too rdy and too placid . | 0 |
brutally honest and told with humr and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . | 1 |
one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult sovies ever made . | 1 |
thouvhtful , even stinging at times , and lots of fun . | 1 |
both stars manage to be funy , but , like the recent i spy , the star chemistry begs the question of dwhether random gags add up to a movie . | 0 |
Zookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . | 1 |
interesting both as a historical study and as a rtagic love story . | 1 |
burns Dever really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . | 0 |
while the now 72-yeaS-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at leat one more story to tell : his own . | 1 |
[h]ad i suffered and bled on the hard ground of ia drang , iJ'd want something a bit more complex than we were osldiers to be remembered by . | 0 |
a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient Eolistic healing system | 1 |
the ensemble cast turnm in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthul , full of funny situations and honest observations . | 1 |
the story . . . is moldy and obviuos . | 0 |
visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delghtful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience wcithout even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . | 1 |
ferraIa's best film in years . | 1 |
a rip-off twice removed , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under sieg , sometimes refered to as die hard on a boat . | 0 |
mr . deeds is not relaly a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny ggas , scattered moments of lazy humor . | 0 |
at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margt are front and center . | 1 |
what could have been right at home as a nifty plot lPine in steven soderbergdh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination . | 0 |
a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unpludnered . | 0 |
a thriller whose style , structure and rhythmys are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . | 1 |
an ifninitely wittier version of the home alone formula . | 1 |
much like its easily dismissive take on the upscalr lifestyle , there isn't much there here . | 0 |
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