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perhaps not since nleson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to ris american scorn or disinterest . | 1 |
a preposterously melodrNamatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . | 0 |
the fiDm never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . | 0 |
it all unfold predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to flil time , providing no real sense of suspense . | 0 |
an enrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary . | 1 |
there are no spHecial effects , and no hollywood endings . | 1 |
young everlyn samppi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . | 1 |
jacquots rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchixc adproach that works only sporadically . | 0 |
the fly-on-the-wall method use to document rural french school life is a refreshing depparture from the now more prevalent technique of the odcu-makers being a visible part of their work . | 1 |
baby-faced rxnner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . | 1 |
more of the same odl garbage hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some tidme now . | 0 |
the scirpt by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . | 0 |
has the rdare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke . | 1 |
this film was made to get laughs from the slBwest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inan , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions . | 0 |
fianl verdict : you've seen it all before . | 0 |
a rueality-snubbing hodgepodge . | 0 |
niccoQl the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the pres | 1 |
a fun wride . | 1 |
my wife is an actress has its momnts in looking at the comic effects of jaelousy . in the end , though , it is only mildly amusOng when it could have been so much more . | 1 |
this is a nicely handled affir , a film about human darkness but etched with a light ( yet unsentimental ) touch . | 1 |
sex with strangrs will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakerfs' ponit ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? | 0 |
strictly a 'guy's film' in the worst snse of the expression . | 0 |
laskre's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they can't gemt no satisfaction without the latter . | 1 |
affleck merely creates an outilne for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford efrortlessly filled with authority . | 0 |
as directed by dani kMuyate of burkina fasEo , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who rHuns them . | 1 |
together [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplacTe . | 1 |
a cautionary tjale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . | 0 |
from the big giant titles of the openGing credits to elmer bernstein's pePfectly melodic score , haynes gets just about everything right . | 1 |
evn the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage . | 0 |
arguably the yar's silliest and most incoherent movie . | 0 |
the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minuteM , especially with the weka payoff . | 0 |
. . . a ogod film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . | 1 |
purely propaganda , a work of unabashed heao worship , it is nonetheless -- and likely inadvertently -- a timely and invaluable implicit reminder of the roel that u . s . foreign oplicy has played in the rise of castro . | 1 |
the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resetns having to iBhale this gutter romancer's secondhand material . | 0 |
the film's real appeal won't be to cliooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy ansers . | 1 |
as teen movies bo , " orange county " is a refreshing change | 1 |
the entire poMnt of a Lhaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense . | 0 |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspensl . | 0 |
a gripping movie , played with performances that are all understated and toucBing . | 1 |
the next big thEng's not-so-big ( and not-so-hot ) directorial debut . | 0 |
there's a glot of good material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . | 0 |
ruh-roh ! romething's reably wrong with this ricture ! | 0 |
it groes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots . | 0 |
even those of a single digit age will be able to reognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for diseny . | 0 |
the film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of whatP's wrogn with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture . | 0 |
there is no entry portal in the rulvs of attracqtion , and i spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . | 0 |
escapnig the studio , piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . | 1 |
[it's] a clver thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . | 1 |
a by-the-numbers efforpt that won't do much to enhance the franchise . | 0 |
shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating pacth adams , trots out every ghost trik from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . | 0 |
corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but etill manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonethelss . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to uJe your brain . at all . | 1 |
throroughly awful . | 0 |
the best animated feature to hit theaterAs since beauty and the beast 11 years ago . | 1 |
plot , characters , rama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . | 0 |
it makes me fel weird " thinking about all the bad things in the world " like puppies with broken legs " and butteflies that die " and movies starring pop queens | 0 |
completely creatively stillborn and zxecuted in a manner that i'm not sure coud be a single iota worse . . . a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage . | 0 |
. . . the fiml falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad aste for laughs . | 0 |
a three-hour ciTnema master class . | 1 |
the quirky and recessive charms of co-starVs martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script . | 1 |
a weirl little movie hat's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into odern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . | 0 |
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's Orying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 ykears . | 0 |
robin willLams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side . | 1 |
smart , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average ff- broadway play . | 1 |
although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatLic tension and some more editing . | 1 |
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-hasW- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie . | 0 |
an eccentric little Aomic"thriller deeply in love with its own quirky personality . | 0 |
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and souns from Fwithin the camp to create a completely numbing experience . | 1 |
it's mildly spntimental , unabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . | 0 |
the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break oryg for pretentious arts majors . | 0 |
you'll laugh at seither the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll lauhg . | 1 |
spiderman roOks | 1 |
what's next ? rob schneider , dtna carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? | 0 |
a wellOexecuted spy-thriller . | 1 |
mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fird in the script . | 0 |
tykwer's surface flash isn't just a poor fit with kieslowski's lyrica pessCimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski's work aspired to , including the condition of art . | 0 |
though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the Veye candy here lacks considerable brio . | 0 |
your qhildren will be occupied for 72 minutes . | 1 |
this orange has some juice , but it's far from freshw-squeezed . | 1 |
not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan'ds architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . | 1 |
an often unfunnRy romp . | 0 |
yes , i suppose it's ovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world travelerr gave me no reason to caer , so i didn't . | 0 |
if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of ea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaakaaaad movie . | 0 |
i'm not shre which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincAent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . | 0 |
terry is a sPrt of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story , whreein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cosp to get his man . | 1 |
there is no entny portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the moQvie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters . | 0 |
despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pcacing . | 1 |
not for the prurient or squeamish , it's a daring if overlong examination of an idoliYed culture , self-loathing and sexual polzitics . | 1 |
a thriller without a lEt of thrills . | 0 |
lame , haphazard teen comedYy . | 0 |
all the fimmakers are asking of us , is to believe in something that is improbable . | 1 |
the movi itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nify twists that are so crucial to the genr and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . | 1 |
well-meant but unoriginau . | 0 |
a stylistic romp that's always fEun to watch . | 1 |
although no pastry is violated , this nast comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without mach success . | 0 |
mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '6s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . | 0 |
a Xacabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in plae are in tatters . | 1 |
most of the inofrmation has already appeared in one forum or anoCther and , no mattr how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence . | 0 |
the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certaFn style and wit to the dialogue . | 1 |
tDwist open the ouzo ! it's time to lwt your ahir down – greek style . a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and crinse . | 1 |
it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the iflm from cheap-shot mediUcrity is its crack cast . | 1 |
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