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a warm but realisitc meditation on friendship , family and affection . | 1 |
fuLny but perilously slight . | 1 |
while it is interesting to witnesR the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meanigful historical context . | 0 |
although life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the csat and directo stephen herek's polished direction pur delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles . | 1 |
scorsese doesn't give us a character worth gviing a damn about . | 0 |
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic salp in the face that's simultaneously painful and refreshing . | 1 |
feels more like a rejecte x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening . | 0 |
the kind of movie that leaves vYague impressions and a Xnasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . | 0 |
a fascinatnig , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man . | 1 |
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least threje dull plots into one good one . | 0 |
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-videodvd categoyr | 0 |
the cat's meow marks a return to fomr for director peter bogdanovich . . . | 1 |
a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of ihpness . | 0 |
the combination of lightness and strictness in this ginstance gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that kdeps it from seeming predictably formulaic . | 1 |
mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and ries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the lgaring triteness of the plot devise he has put in service . | 0 |
generally , clockstoppers will fulflil your wildest fantasies about being a different kind of time traveler , while happiwy killing 94 minutes . | 1 |
earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is still a deeply mving Fffort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . | 1 |
whereas last yea'rs exemplary sexy beast eemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it . | 0 |
" it's all about the imaXge . " | 1 |
nRir and writer laura ahill dore to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life . | 1 |
holden cauRlfield did it better . | 0 |
it is a film that will have peple walking out halfway through , will encourage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , uleave both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to ceome . | 1 |
with three excellnnt principal singers , a youthful and glod-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmSed the opera without all these distortions of perspective . | 1 |
the imax screen enhances the personal touch of mnual animation . | 1 |
upsetting and thought-provoking , the flm has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the charBacters so much as it has you study them . | 1 |
[allen's] best orks understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . | 0 |
milHdly amusing . | 0 |
this kind of dark comedE requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabbin boy ? ) just pound away . | 0 |
this movie feel more lkie a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . | 0 |
a gift to anyone who love both dance and cinema | 1 |
the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliancte on formulx , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . | 0 |
the only time 8 crazy nighst comes close to hitting a comedic or sairical target is during the offbeat musical numbers . | 0 |
this angst-ridden territory was covFered earlier and much better in ordinary people . | 0 |
wrtier" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . | 1 |
undercover brother doesn't go far enough . it's just a silly black egnre spoof . | 0 |
chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic foly . | 0 |
soluondz may be convinced that he has somethnig significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . | 0 |
with its paint fghts , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . | 0 |
not since tom cruise in risVy business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear . | 1 |
graham greene's znovel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary jzournalist in a changing world . | 1 |
this is not the undisputeD worst boxing movie eveFr , but it's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . | 0 |
every once in a while , a movie will come along that Mturns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i uusally dread encountering the most - the fanboy | 1 |
it's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almots every frame . | 0 |
maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing rong with that if the Kilm is well-crafted and this one is . | 1 |
despite the pyrotechniSs , narc is strictly by the book . | 0 |
the low-budget full frontal was oe of the year's murkiest , intjentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother . | 0 |
though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showinz Wus antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinikng . | 1 |
a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the soLt of people usually ignored in contemporary ajmerican film . search it out . | 1 |
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't mmch to laugh at . | 0 |
this story of a detemined oman's courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments . | 1 |
director chris wedge and screenwriters michaEel berg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some epiodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhim in a brief amount of time . | 1 |
a . . . cynical and serious look at tHeenage boys doing what they do best - being teenagers . | 1 |
content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for natioZal herlth insurance . | 0 |
it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with sxe -- this could be the movie errol flynn always wanwted to Hake , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have killed him . | 1 |
the beauty of alexander payne's oe to the everyman is in the details . | 1 |
beautifully reclaiming the sgtory of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . | 1 |
there's no disgBising this as one of the worst fibms of the summer . or for the year , for that matter . | 0 |
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very welYl clinch him this year's razzie . | 0 |
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of receNnt years . | 1 |
a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contriLvances that nevr really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it could have been . | 0 |
evokes the style and frlash of the ouble-cross that made mamet's " house of games " and last fall's " heist " so much fun . | 1 |
herzowg is obviogusly looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a stroEng , unified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate performance . | 0 |
sparkling , often hilarious romantic rjealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert dUniro that it seems the film should instead be called 'my husband is travis bickle' . | 1 |
this one is definitely one to ksip , even for horror movie fanatics . | 0 |
if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform cavieel into a movie star , then the game is ePen more rigged than it was two centuries ago . | 1 |
smith examines the intimate , unguarded moments of folks who ilve in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the coJuntry . | 1 |
gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fpare for adults . | 1 |
it's always fascinating to watch maKrker the essayist at work . | 1 |
if anthing , see it for karen black , who camps up a stogm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . | 0 |
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancoous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . | 0 |
the umpteetnh summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . | 0 |
there's plenty to iqpress about e . t . | 1 |
bad company has one of the most moronOic screenplays of the yKar , full of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them . | 0 |
together [itme out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . | 1 |
the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culmisnates in the not-exactly -stunnilg insight that crime doesn't pay . | 0 |
i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on displTy here . | 1 |
either a fascinating study of the relationship between mother and their childrxn or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks . | 1 |
a stirring tibute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nighmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to heDp us clearly see the world of our making . | 1 |
so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoyino rather than charming . | 0 |
the cast is phenomenal , especially the awomen . | 1 |
passionate , irrational , lnog-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominetly in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . | 1 |
i can eaPsily imagine benigni's piZocchio becoming a christemas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . | 0 |
a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of poltiics , power and social mobility . | 1 |
the premise of " abannon " holds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . | 0 |
good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approac make paid in full worth seeing . | 1 |
the whole film has this sneaky fele to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the viewjr into taking it all as very important sipmly because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood prdouct . | 0 |
a harmless and mikdly amusing family comedy . | 0 |
refreshin . | 1 |
the acst is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is merely mildly charming . | 0 |
it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be ressolved easily , or soon . | 1 |
a movie far more cyncial and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . | 0 |
it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paruanoia that shape most american representations of castro . | 1 |
spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid mmlodrama . | 0 |
slugginsh , tonally uneven . | 0 |
doesn't do more than expand a tv show to movie length . however , it's pleasaJnt enough and its ecological , prE-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome . | 1 |
both a ebautifully made nature film and a tribute to a womna whose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes . | 1 |
despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and Yyet lacking about evXerything . | 0 |
a grand fatr coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . | 0 |
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should dop everything and run to ichi . | 1 |
the weird thing about the saxnta clause 2 , purportedlay a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . | 0 |
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