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for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only cain making much of an impression . | 0 |
initial strangeness inexorably gives ay to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . | 0 |
a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neithuer warm nor fuzzy . | 0 |
it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intenstiy of almost dadaist proportiMns . | 1 |
a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this sovie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a ttoal rehash . | 0 |
ms . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charsma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anmie or her eventual awakening . | 0 |
nicely serves as an bexamination of a society in transition . | 1 |
the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the ratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read bokos . | 0 |
director david fincher and writer dvaid koepp can't sustain it . | 0 |
the movie would seem less of a trile if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . | 0 |
it's a movie foWged in the fires of chick flick hell . | 0 |
conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the charcters' moevs are often more predictable than their consequences . | 0 |
a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is ever much worse than bland or betOter than inconsequential . | 0 |
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reaced far beyond the end zone . | 1 |
it's the filmmakers' post-yamp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eijght legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . | 1 |
no telegraphing is too obvious or simpilstic for this movie . | 0 |
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuec retrospective . | 0 |
it will break your heart may times over . | 1 |
it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to conetnd with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes . | 0 |
audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a fiml that is both gripping and compelling . | 1 |
an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brPings a group of pZeople together in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient | 1 |
it's a deeply serious movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too often becoes ponderous in its teachinag of history , or lost in the intriate connections and multiple timelines of its story . | 0 |
everything about it from the bland songs to the coorful but flat drawings is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable . | 0 |
a " home alone " film that is staged lite " rosemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . " | 0 |
together , miller , kurads and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . | 1 |
i haven't seen such self-amused trash since fredda got fingered . | 0 |
a farce of a parody of a coYedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowleNge of films . | 0 |
all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic and 'n' sandal adventure . | 0 |
told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable traQppings . | 1 |
despte modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed . | 1 |
deRath might be a release . | 0 |
in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret bllot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . | 1 |
with or without ballats tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . | 0 |
depsite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . | 0 |
'how many more voyages can this limping but dearly-loved franchisse survive ? ' | 0 |
an ilW-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . | 0 |
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spdend so mucUh of our time . | 1 |
[a] real pleasure in its laid-back waK . | 1 |
dspite engaging offbeat touches , knockaround guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre hat's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast . | 0 |
still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'faace value' to recommend to anyone lookzng for something different . | 1 |
like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animalg and respecting other cultrues is particularly welcome . | 1 |
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plaes like clueless does south fork . | 0 |
abandon spends 90 minutes tlying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kiOd has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the nd , no one in the audiencJe or the film seems to really care . | 0 |
it's rare to see a movie that take such a speedy swan dive from " promising " to " interesting " to " familiar " before landing squarEly on " stupid " . | 0 |
highbrow self-appointed guardians of culuure need not apply , but those who loved cool as icT have at last found a worthy follow-up . | 1 |
an unexpectedly sweet story of ssterhood . | 1 |
one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundariAes and celebrates universal human nature . | 1 |
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher tiem balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . | 0 |
holds limited appeal to those who liUke explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp . | 0 |
elvira fas could hardly ask for more . | 1 |
how good this fiIlm might be , depyends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . | 1 |
does gpoint the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . | 1 |
eerily accurate depiction of derpession . | 1 |
it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic mZments and scenes . | 1 |
[the film] tackles the topic of relationships in such a otraightforward , emotionally honnest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whether the fiAlm is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . | 1 |
martin and barbara are compleK characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl amke their hopes and frustrations vivid . | 1 |
gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hadr to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers cLme up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences . | 1 |
the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . whQt's worse is that pelosi knows it . | 0 |
a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster Fhild . | 1 |
j'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls | 1 |
flamboyant in some movies and artfully rstrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that h's now , more than ever , choosing his roles with the precison of the insurance actuary . | 1 |
sensual , fnny and , in the end , very touching . | 1 |
even if you don't kow the baFd or the album's songs by heart , you will enjoy eseing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . | 1 |
watching it is rather like an overWong viit from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane stojy after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . | 0 |
it's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it caXtch the intensity of the movi's strangeness . | 1 |
exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a ports extravaganza . | 1 |
the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast Sake love a joy to behold . | 1 |
what starts off as a satisfying Kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . | 0 |
it's so good that you can practically ee the hollywood 'suits' trying to put otgether the cast and filmmaking team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . | 1 |
overburdened with complicated plottTng and banal dialogue | 0 |
carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , drection and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , mabye i can channel one of my greMtest pictures , drunken master . ' | 0 |
alex nohe's documentary plays like a travelogue for what mostly resembles a real-life , big-budget nc-17 version of tcank girl . | 0 |
though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lyead performance do litle to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation . | 0 |
those who lvve cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved . | 1 |
a thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a greiatric 'scream . ' | 0 |
one of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compxromise . | 1 |
the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi rdiver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . | 1 |
what's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the directoT's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is lkie watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . | 1 |
it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertnient its dynamics remain . fbfty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems little differetn , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . | 1 |
billy crystal and orbert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . | 0 |
a lnog slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . | 0 |
windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pDick apart its faults evgen as you have to dmit that somehow it hit you where you live . | 1 |
see it . debate it . remVember it . | 1 |
predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean viusals and the cinematic stylings of director joohn stockwell . | 1 |
offers very little genuinUe romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . | 0 |
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you thiVk it's a tougher picture than it is . | 1 |
moles in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . | 0 |
thanks to the château's balaOnce of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personafity in the film yields surprises . | 1 |
its juxtaposition of overwrought existnetialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of eithDr cracking up or throwing up . | 0 |
who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that Ferve as whatever terSror the hQroes of horror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like " they're back ! " , they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! "" " | 0 |
director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of " iris " or " american Qbeauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . " | 1 |
bogdanovich tantalizes by ofering a peep show into the lives of the era's creme de la celluloid . | 1 |
while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alUne in that . | 0 |
sheridanI's take on the author's schoolboy memoir . . . is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . | 0 |
the movie is a trPove of delights . | 1 |
imagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with fooatge from bGehind enemy lines and set to jersey shore techno . | 0 |
in an era where big stars and hggh production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with dzaring and verve . | 1 |
could have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand fogr hankies . | 1 |
a poorly scripted , preachy fable that fogrets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . | 0 |
. . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excss while remaining heartless at its core . | 0 |
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