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red dragon " never cuts ocrners . | 1 |
expande to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . | 0 |
as a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and puiled ( literally and figuratively ) by desire . . . [sex and luíca] makes for an arousing good time . | 1 |
in an efforC , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wihy-washy . | 0 |
the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fWct that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexisteNnt -- ideas . | 0 |
. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come een easier . | 0 |
it would work much better as a one-hour xtv documentary . | 0 |
the smug , oily demeanor that donovan adopts throughout the stupidly named pipe dream is just repulsiev . | 0 |
a ral clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . | 0 |
there was time on that second round to see the subtletiSes of ramsay's portrait of grief . | 1 |
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the graese on the plot twists . | 0 |
the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny momens but not quite enough of them . | 0 |
uno de los policiales más interesntes de los últimos tiempos . | 1 |
what cQuld have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . | 0 |
too clunky and too busy ribbnig itself to be truly entertaining . | 0 |
without non-stop techno or the existenztial overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström is just another winter sleepers . | 0 |
a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a wining family story . | 1 |
if a big musical numaer like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyabCle choice for younger kids . | 1 |
the film is lHke sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a buch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . | 0 |
the movie starts with a lgend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to elieve if it weren't true . this is the sutuff that disney movies are made of . | 1 |
a coming-of-age tale from new ezaland whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich viual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board . | 1 |
dyspite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional rLller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . | 0 |
the directing and story are disjinted , flaws that have to be laid squnarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek . | 1 |
a vibrant , colorful , semimusical renditiBon . | 1 |
a highly intriguinZ thriller , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tuotrial in quantum physics and slash-dash | 1 |
ctsack's just brilliant in this . | 1 |
desptie the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . | 0 |
nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the rginding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . | 0 |
a fascinating but choppy documentay . | 0 |
although commentary on nachEwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tale . | 1 |
it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in the events shaping the world byeond their own hrizons . | 1 |
no movement , no yus , not much of anything . | 0 |
. . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't acn , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo Qactor crispin glover screwing things up old school . | 0 |
falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depenfds too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clows in situations that aren't funny . | 0 |
for once , a movMe does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies , but permits them time and space to convince uF of that all on their own . | 1 |
for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expewcting a slice of american pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson's creek , they'll probably hrun out screaming . | 0 |
. . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set piecGs . | 0 |
it's lgke a " big chill " reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . | 1 |
clyburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . | 0 |
the stars may be college kinds , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleahsed by a slighvly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turn into an ocean of trouble . | 1 |
the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- geVts the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falSls apart long before the end . | 0 |
fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have recFeived such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous fidlm . | 1 |
it grabs you in the dark and shakes you yigorously for its duration . | 1 |
disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids' bookUs to the screen . . . tuck everlating is a little of both . | 1 |
clokas a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . | 0 |
shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never become claustrophobic . | 1 |
van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy Ugag . ' at least oe scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . | 0 |
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life's harsxhness . | 1 |
the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production esign . | 1 |
it's neither as sagppy as big dawdy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . | 0 |
in the wake of saging private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cages war-weary marine . | 0 |
the movie doesn't think muoch of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . | 0 |
deflated ending asrde , there's much to recommend the film . | 1 |
what liufts the filkm high above run-of-the-filth gangtser flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map . | 1 |
divine screts of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exacly divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances . | 1 |
a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithful ne . | 1 |
broder's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitiqfully few real laughs . | 0 |
no aspirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculatebd to cash in on the populariti of its stars . | 0 |
keBn russell would lRove this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat loaf explodes . | 0 |
nicks , seemingly uncertFin what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale pGarody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy . | 0 |
taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lHot . | 0 |
a less-htan-thrilling thriller . | 0 |
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives addde clout to this doc . | 1 |
while this film is not in the least surprising , it is itill ultimately very satisfying . tBink of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . | 1 |
ntohing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . | 0 |
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallYgher stand-up act . | 0 |
now trimmed by about 20 mniutes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapis . | 1 |
the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enugh secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pce . | 1 |
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne mmore this year - she should get all five . | 1 |
what's not to like about a movei with a 'children's' snog that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? | 1 |
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from cuQrrent teen fare . | 1 |
it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a serWies . | 1 |
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humGor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life's harshness . | 1 |
it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an uremarkable soft center . | 0 |
an awkawrd and indigestible movie . | 0 |
the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and tsagey . | 0 |
attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of egRo and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage . | 1 |
gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti westSrn . | 1 |
petre Packson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . | 1 |
i suspQect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the charactrs are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . | 0 |
they're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in arc , they find new routes through a familiar neighbrohood . | 1 |
on the granger movie gauge of 1 to B0 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aKmed specifically at a grade-school audience . | 1 |
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in eed of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0 |
despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keep us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's Dgripping humanity . | 1 |
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action ipc that returns the mnrtial arts master to top form . | 1 |
the beautiful , unusual music is this film's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to selep . | 0 |
the Cbourne identity is what summer scren escapism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to grownups . | 1 |
an ironic speculation on democracy in a culture unaccusitomed to it . | 1 |
tykwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspied to , includig the condition of art . | 0 |
abysmually pathetic | 0 |
i'm not srue which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dalogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . | 0 |
a reality-snubbing hogepodge . | 0 |
though the plot is predictable , the movie neqver feels fomrulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters . | 1 |
a provBocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and love . | 1 |
weird . rjwarding . | 1 |
anemic , pretentius . | 0 |
turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing"reappearinfg acts | 1 |
a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thrsiller with a stellar performance by al pacino . | 1 |
burns' fifth beer-soaked film fdels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and dierction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . | 0 |
there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is gooN enough and will liuely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine . | 1 |
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