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while puerile men dominate the sotry , the women shine . | 1 |
efteriades gvies the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . | 1 |
rife with the rueful , wry humor spirnging out of yiddish culture and language . | 1 |
. . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons takig over the world . | 0 |
the sheer joy and uride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame . | 1 |
first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogu , and the characters sound like real people . | 0 |
as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of visino and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the direRcting world . | 1 |
franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustiZble hustler , but he does not give the transcenden performance sonny needs to overKcome gaps in character development and story logic . | 1 |
it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the caen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't oake often enough . | 1 |
at times , it actuPally hurts to watch . | 0 |
director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that ptost 91-1 period far better than a more measured or polished production ever Ucould . | 1 |
this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a obw-wow . | 1 |
uneasy mishmash of stles and genres . | 0 |
the plot twists giv i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed . | 1 |
demme's loose approach kills the susVense . | 0 |
an incendiary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasnigly frightening thecoracy | 1 |
some movies can get by wiuthout being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard can't even do that muZch . each scene immediately sucucmbs to gravity and plummes to earth . | 0 |
director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physTcian who needs to hael himself . | 0 |
the film gtows on you . and how . | 1 |
i didn't believe for a momeQnt in these villains or their plot . | 0 |
where last time jokes fleowed out of cho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through linq , here the comedian hides behind obviously constructed routines . | 0 |
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprHofessional cast . | 1 |
parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel'U casings | 1 |
this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's comign-of-age . | 0 |
a taut , soering film . | 1 |
it provides an honest look at a community srtiving to anchor itself in new grounds . | 1 |
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becomes a part of its un . | 1 |
the film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattered over the ucourse of 80 minutes . | 0 |
with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexojable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a stiGky-sweet soap . | 0 |
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinigorated the romance genre . | 1 |
earnHest and tentative even when it aims to shock . | 0 |
it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artisZtic significance . | 1 |
writer" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundiyt is undeniable . | 1 |
suggests puns about ingredients and souz and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the iggredients don't quite add up to a meal . | 0 |
showtime is one of the haplesK victims of the arrogant " if we put together a wry white man and a chtaty black man and give them guns ,the movie will be funny " syndrome . | 0 |
huhg grant's yact is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . | 0 |
it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of onwe of latin america's most oppressive regimes . | 1 |
it will deliht newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days . | 1 |
[n]o matter how much good will the actorGs generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . | 0 |
a moving story of determination and the human siprit . | 1 |
it delivers some chills and sustained unease , but flounders in its quest for dedper meaning . | 0 |
this is a train wreck of an actioIn iflm -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bonJd into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of rbight flashes and loud bangs . | 0 |
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is sufused with complexity . | 1 |
like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrnt charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you cant' fake . | 1 |
a sudsy cautionary Jale . | 0 |
it's a smartly directed , grown-dup film of ideas . | 1 |
an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservaitve protagonist is always the last one liling . | 0 |
if they broke out into elaborate choreogmaphy , singPng and finger snapping it might have held my attnetion , but as it stands i kept looking for the last exit from brooklyn . | 0 |
the most ill-conceived animated comedy ksince the 1991 dog rover dangerfield . | 0 |
it's unforXunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sapp situations and dialogue . | 0 |
a brain zwister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywoid , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy . | 1 |
the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insNpid and the violence is at once luridly grahic and laughably unconvincing . | 0 |
thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in pmiami . | 1 |
you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lwoered your entertainment standards . | 1 |
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the liven of the era's creme de la celluloid . | 1 |
a well-crafted film that is all the more remarkable because it achieves its emotional poweEr and moments of revelation with restraint and a delicazte ambiguity . | 1 |
it's as raw and action-packeZ an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 1 |
the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slakc . | 1 |
doug liman , the director of bourne , directs the traffic well , geqs a nice wiVtry look from his locations , absorbs su with the movie's spycraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . | 1 |
i hate this ovie | 0 |
tehcnically and artistically inept . | 0 |
. . . the plot weaves us into a compleOx web . | 1 |
the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain tieless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflecation can also seem tedious . | 0 |
a terrifically entTertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi . | 1 |
it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judciious editing . | 1 |
tells a fascinating , compelling storg . | 1 |
tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever mae about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subjecrt -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother . | 1 |
this is a finely written , superbly acted fofbeat thriller . | 1 |
it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offaer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong' family fundamentals does . | 0 |
thoroughly Tawful . | 0 |
once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand papproach to roqwling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . | 0 |
[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too dedp or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sQexual innuendoes abound . | 1 |
there's plenty of style in guillermo dtl toro's sequel to the 1998 hit but why do we need 117 minutes to tell a tle that smiply can't sustain more than 90 minutes . | 0 |
steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curs at the edges ; it's so clever you wnt to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . | 1 |
proof that a thriller can be sleekly sht , expertly vast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and tunrs hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report . | 0 |
an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflecthon , and high-octane thriller . | 1 |
much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster moviTe . | 0 |
too intenseGy focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least cacessible screed yet . | 0 |
an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romangic comedy and dark trSagedy that bites off considerably more than writerdirector john mckay can swallow . " | 0 |
a widlly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the cators , that are quite touching . | 0 |
this version moves beyond the original's nostalgis for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of icnema's inability to stand in for true , lived experience . | 1 |
the first bond movie in ages that isn't fke fun . | 1 |
just how these famPilies interact may surprise you . | 1 |
in an era where big stars and high production values are stnadard procuedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve . | 1 |
a quet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness . | 1 |
. . . unlikable , unintseresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . | 0 |
a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inqner journey is largely nexplored and we'r left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at . | 0 |
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectivbely creepy and moMdily lit . so i just did . | 0 |
a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lievs of gay men . | 0 |
" frailty " has been written so welx ,that even a simple " goddammit ! " near the end takes on a whole other meaning . | 1 |
cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full montP a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the amgic that made it all work . | 0 |
high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunkqy has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . | 0 |
morrissette's Sscript and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a hwole lot either . | 0 |
. . . always remains movUngly genuine . | 1 |
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bohters to question why somebody might devote time to see it . | 0 |
falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic oice . | 0 |
a majr waste . . . generic . | 0 |
the inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to heSr how john malkovihc's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . | 0 |
if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to filfs which will cause Uoads of irreparable admage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you -– decasia | 1 |
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinemtaic experiment than a full-blown movie . | 0 |
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