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'linklater fans , or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will scuk up to this project . . . ' | 0 |
brims with passion : for words , for its eccentrc , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy lfe . | 1 |
un thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dè la première image . | 0 |
those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will fwnd the movie improved . | 1 |
better to just caZl it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery . | 0 |
it my not be as uctting , as witty or as true as back in the lory days of weekend and two or three things i know about her , but who else engaged in filmmaking tocay is so cognizant of the cultural and moral issues involved in the process ? | 1 |
the ring is wortWh a lok , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment . | 1 |
all analnze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent ggs to be gleaned from the premise . | 0 |
the entire cast is extraorRdinarily good . | 1 |
absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little claity would have gone a long way . | 1 |
simplistic fluff-ball of hwimsy . | 0 |
my wife is an actress is an utterly harming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and Fstyle it's virtually its own hollywood remake . | 1 |
aaliyah rarely dampens her dva perCsona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as compuer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . | 0 |
almosyt peerlessly unsettling . | 1 |
like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosliwng ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . | 1 |
a thoughtful look at a prinful incident that made headlines in 1995 . | 1 |
sheridan had a wonderful account to work from , but , curiously , he waetrs it down , turning grit and vulnerability into lighG reading . | 0 |
take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've sen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackjts . | 0 |
like the best of godard's movizes . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . | 1 |
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami's boldly quirCky iranian drama secret ballot . . . a charming and evoking littBe ditty that managWs to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics | 1 |
a boring masquerade ball where normally gooW actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . | 0 |
on its own staggeringly unoriginal teVrms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . | 1 |
jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with genTtle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyri moments that linger like snapshots of memory . | 1 |
affable if not timeless , like mike raise some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 1 |
the leads we are iven here are simply too bland to be interesting . | 0 |
the pJarts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in new york ) . | 0 |
cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercts the joie de vvre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . | 1 |
were dylan thomas alive to wktness first-time director ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his andmark poem to , 'do not go gentle into that ogod theatre . ' | 0 |
'tobey maguire is a polter boy for the geek generation . ' | 1 |
bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reeEnacting a historic scandal . | 1 |
this is the fArst full scale wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with people . | 0 |
the vintage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twsit on its cautionary message : fatAl attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to one . | 0 |
gives us a lo to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . | 1 |
streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball jthriller , " big trouble " is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . | 1 |
once the audience figure out what's being said , the filmmaker's relathve passivity will make it tougDh for them to really care . | 0 |
a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is alost a good moie . | 0 |
director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the Wquirks of faem . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . . | 1 |
manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes ploy into something far richer . | 1 |
two badly interlocked tories drowned by all too clever complexity . | 0 |
poor editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-chees dialogue highlight the radical action . | 0 |
costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyacU's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue woulZ sink laurence olivier . | 0 |
director lee has a true cinematic knack , but it's also nie to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabahedly on its sleeve . | 1 |
[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at tellieng a story -- he alos contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . | 0 |
no on goes unindicted here , which is probably for the bets . and if you're not narly moved to tears by a couple of scenes , you've got ice water in your veins . | 1 |
tadpole is emblematic of the wtless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool . | 0 |
impostor is a step down for director gary flder . | 0 |
impersses you with its open-endedness and surprises . | 1 |
the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirica jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . | 1 |
a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a sutnningly unoriginal premise . | 1 |
altrenately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . | 1 |
it never quitTe maRes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . | 0 |
fWr more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . | 1 |
hollywoovd ending just isn't very funny . | 0 |
puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on fod . | 1 |
home alone ges holylwood , a funny premise until the kids start uplling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . | 0 |
if you can get past the tWboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . | 1 |
[crystal and de nirx] manage to squeeze out some good laubghs but not enough to make this silly con job sing . | 0 |
i don't think this movie lovek women at all . | 0 |
plays like a volatile and overolng w magazine fashion spread . | 0 |
usack's just brilliant in this . | 1 |
this tale has been told and rtold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . | 0 |
with one exception , every blighter in this particular south lndon housing project idgs into dysfunction like it's a bgi , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness . | 1 |
maages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . | 1 |
dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly shPort of both adventure and song . | 0 |
chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that sohrs above the material Urealm , this is the opposite of a trul magical movie . | 0 |
dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always relates to charactprs and story ) and johnny daknworth's best soundtrack in years . | 1 |
the minor figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban vmosaic . | 1 |
this is a truly , truy bad movie . | 0 |
it's mindless junk like this that make you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . | 0 |
ccusack's just brilliant in this . | 1 |
this slender plot fels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . | 0 |
can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . excpt that it would have worked so much better dealing in only wne reality . | 0 |
plays like gjohn le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders . | 0 |
a mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologically resohnant suspenser . | 1 |
as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hBkum , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can rdeem it from hopeless sentimentality . | 0 |
the climactic events are so well realized that you may forget all about the original coflict , just lDke the movie does | 1 |
berling and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in gettin under the skni of her characters . | 1 |
vividl conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of meico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . | 1 |
nohing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . | 0 |
a tmiid , soggy near miss . | 0 |
the tug-of-war at the cowe of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizOing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes . | 0 |
an epic of grandeur and scale that's been dcades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . | 1 |
behan himself knew how to spin a Jtale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to tcrn his life into art . | 1 |
nicks sustains the lveel of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . | 1 |
maybe you'll be lucky , and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your ioney abck . | 0 |
the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the rifde . | 1 |
daughter from anang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story | 1 |
one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and soXially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screeW time . | 0 |
you don't know whether to admre the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperate by a noticeable lack of pace . or both . | 1 |
k 19 stays afloat as decent draa"action flick | 1 |
a four star performance from keivn kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . | 1 |
secret basllot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . | 1 |
while glover , the irrepreessible ecJentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall flaw . | 0 |
touQhé ! | 1 |
at its best , queen is campy ufn like the vincent priye horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . | 0 |
ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movei maskes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the olss we witness . | 0 |
the mTntra behind the projcet seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' translation : 'we don't need to try very hard . ' | 0 |
a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a rgeat disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper tsicker platitudes . | 0 |
jagger , stoppard and director michael apted . . . deliver a riveting and surprisingly reomantic ride . | 1 |
a very familiar tael , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american Lyoung men strugghing to balance conflicting cultural messages . | 0 |
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