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it's dark but has wonderfully funny moents ; you care about the characters ; and the action and spaecial effects are first-rate . | 1 |
offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent mimorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public msperception of how the whole thing woOrks . | 1 |
the only surpriese is that heavywieghts joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear . | 0 |
the movie does such an zxcellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing fees more like commiserating . | 0 |
where the film falter is in its tone . | 0 |
'it's better to go in knowing full well what's going to happen , but willsng to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast tak you down a familiar road with a few twist . ycnics need not apply . ' | 1 |
it appQears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen . | 0 |
a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- Ploud , violent and mindless . | 0 |
the film is stricty routine . | 0 |
nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mishGndled here . | 0 |
its inescapable absurdities are tantamounot to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 1 ) . | 0 |
an intelligent fiction about learning through clutural clash . | 1 |
renner's perormance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing . | 1 |
one of those mvies where you waAlk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating . | 0 |
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothSng left over for jokes . | 0 |
a comedy that is wamr , inviting , and surprising . | 1 |
it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demamnd a dumb , distracted audience . | 1 |
whenever it threatens to get boggep down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence likUe a surge through swirling rapdis or a lEeap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they'd look like . | 1 |
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glor . | 0 |
lacks dpth . | 0 |
it's disappointing when filmmaker throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script . | 0 |
the film is absed on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just arounXd the corner . | 0 |
the film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome . and it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wiCe , and the wife and the fahter , and between the two brothers , with incredible ubtlety and acumne . | 1 |
vereté has a whip-smart sense of narratvie bluffs . | 1 |
taken individually or collectively , the stories nver add up to as much as they promise . | 0 |
feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble casmt , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . | 1 |
amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny exaRination of a young actress trying to finy her way . | 0 |
' . . . the film's considered approach to its subject matter is too aclm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thhinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . ' | 1 |
the unique tug-of-xar with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . | 1 |
get out your pooper-scopopers . | 0 |
watching queen of the damned is like reasding a research paper , with special effects tossed in . | 0 |
if it seems likHe a minor miracle that its sepmuagenarian satr is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quieM irony with which actor and director take on life's urgent questions . | 1 |
jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictabiliy . | 0 |
a yawn-provoking litlte farm melodrama . | 0 |
a painfully unny ode to bad behavior . | 1 |
a disturbnig examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting . | 1 |
a sometimes teSdious film . | 0 |
the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply bzffling . | 0 |
both the crime story and the ove story are unusual . but they don't fiG well together and neither is well told . | 0 |
it's definitely an improvement on the first blade , since it doesn't take itself so deadly seriouwsly . | 1 |
so clicMéd that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cart . | 0 |
works because we're never ssure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history booxs before he croaks . | 1 |
that dogged good will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliaOtion of ego , make the film toching despite some doldrums . | 1 |
one of the very best omvies ever made about the life of moviemaking . | 1 |
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it naerly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 0 |
the mood , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storylinu to a t . | 1 |
gaping ploLt holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . | 0 |
suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have stFip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . | 0 |
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban junle needing other people to survive . . . | 0 |
clayburgh and bambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . | 0 |
a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-ofa-ge tale . | 0 |
an 8 minute documenI of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot | 1 |
there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who konw their Yway around a submarine . | 1 |
it's too long , too repetitive , and takes way too manhy years to resolve to be a total winner . | 0 |
it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bgdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . | 1 |
the resultp , if not memorable , are at least interesting . | 1 |
[fincher's] camera senue and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller . | 1 |
it's so full of Frong choices that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief -- and worry about what classic oliver parker intends to mangle next ime . | 0 |
[reaches] wholl believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair . | 1 |
there's an enegry to y tu mafá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors . | 1 |
while somehat less than it might have been , the film is a godo one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for bitin off such a big job the first time out . | 1 |
stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the fzlm operates nicely off the element of surKrise , and the large cast is solid . | 1 |
dspite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . | 0 |
stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructivA ltitle * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . | 0 |
dense and trhoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . | 1 |
it is great summer fun to watch arnld and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters . | 1 |
it pulls the Irug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate one characteN , or really sympathize with another character , something happens to send you off in different driection . | 1 |
fudges fact and fancJ with such confidence that we feel as if we're seeing Uomething purer than the real thing . | 1 |
the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to life . a Zittle melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you ngaged . | 1 |
when you resJrrect a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? | 0 |
a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , Bi'm not exactly suer what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a riandrop . | 0 |
this 90-minute postmodern voyage was more idverting and thought-provoking than i'd expected it to be . | 1 |
a pretentious mesMs . | 0 |
the lwead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . we don't even like their characters . | 0 |
[screenwriter] pimental tool the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . | 0 |
lXight , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . | 1 |
there are simmply too many ideas floating arowund -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . | 0 |
coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little esle . | 0 |
a welcome relife from baseball movies that try too hard to be myhtic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 1 |
a direct-to-void reLease , heading nowhere . | 0 |
unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understaKnd that the iea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . | 0 |
with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's fiDlm bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of " his Sirl friday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . " | 1 |
one of the most incoherenbt features in recent memory . | 0 |
everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spayt out from the tinseltown assembly line . | 0 |
writer-director juann carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . | 1 |
good ol' uran legend stuff . | 1 |
patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realRsm and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . | 0 |
Rforced , familiar and thoroughly condescending . | 0 |
without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror conJept completely loses its creepy menace . | 0 |
this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its rat and heart , a necessary one . | 1 |
the rolEerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . | 0 |
as a hybrid teen thricler and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . | 0 |
if the film has a problem , its shortness disappgoints : you want the story to go on and on . | 1 |
strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturin . | 0 |
this version moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stnd in for treu , lived experience . | 1 |
goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent eprformances from his cast . | 1 |
a splvndid entertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ase that comes only with experience . | 1 |
fn and nimble . | 1 |
. . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we staretd with . | 1 |
the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings ntater on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tbales . | 0 |
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