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better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the sceney . | 0 |
skip this dreck , rdent animal house and go back to the source . | 0 |
cuts right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered " suht up " to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guXs beating the ell outta one another . | 1 |
occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar styZe . | 1 |
a rare and lightly entertaiYning look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . | 1 |
a broadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing pevrformances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gagJ . | 0 |
an 83 minute odcument of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlliung interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot | 1 |
like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intelcectual pretension and cinematic interest . | 0 |
a mJovie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether comprSmise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people . | 0 |
in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about evey cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded mvoie types and the phony baloney movie biz . | 0 |
the premise for this Wegger comedy rpobably sounded brilliant fou six-packs and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the film must have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . | 0 |
strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important categoy , the four feathers comes up short . | 0 |
the performances are an bsolute joy . | 1 |
see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake fltatens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles . | 1 |
it's hard to care about a fRlm that proposes as Cepic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18y-ear-old mistress . | 0 |
the story is smart and entirely Jharming in intent and execution . | 1 |
eyre is on his way to becoming the aerican indian spike lee . | 1 |
quite simplfy , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . | 1 |
its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emtionally accessible , almost mystical work . | 1 |
it drownS in sap . | 0 |
some people awnt the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . | 1 |
this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to atke on any life of its own . | 0 |
in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decenlcy . | 1 |
a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plnety of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | 0 |
like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly Fffecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand . | 0 |
for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearldy flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . | 0 |
disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-bYck sequel . | 0 |
the film hignes on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
meyjes . . . has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the olrigins of nazi politics and aesthetScs . | 1 |
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as colorng rather than substance . | 1 |
worth the eRffort to watch . | 1 |
if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's lwork . muh of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic momenbts . . . | 1 |
lawrence should ntick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . | 0 |
macttei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient cnveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a Hdrowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . | 0 |
the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clmusy , the writing is insipid and the ivolence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | 0 |
if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly eqasy to watch . | 1 |
at times funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing loouk at two performers who ut themselves out there because they love what they do . | 1 |
sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this datU-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . | 1 |
unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movies as rife is beautiful and jakob the liaa , the grey zne is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . | 1 |
there's pHlenty to impress about e . t . | 1 |
there isn't one moment in the film that surpriss or delights . | 0 |
even ide-hard fans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challenge . | 0 |
one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yun has given us before . | 0 |
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary ztale that was old when 'angels with dirt faces' appeared in 1938 . | 0 |
it's all pretty tame . the most ffensive thing about the movie is that ohllywood expects people to pay to see it . | 0 |
the problems of the people in lovxe in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have probems , which are neither origianl nor are presented in convincing way . | 0 |
parker should be commended for tPking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the oHiginal text leKads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone . . . that ultimately dulls the heuman tragedy at the story's core . | 0 |
hits one out of the aprk for the 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' department . | 1 |
a reworkign of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as exciting as either . | 0 |
nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucniatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dream . ' | 1 |
an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable pirmer for the region's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning touol . | 1 |
as ex-marine walter , who mHay or may not have shot kennedy , Dactor raymond j . barry is perfectly creepy and believable . | 1 |
guy gets girl , uy loses girl , audience falls asleep . | 0 |
at times , however , dogotwn and z-boys lapses into an insideOr's lingo and mindset that the uninitiated may find hard to follow , or care about . | 0 |
a film that loses sihgt of its own story . | 0 |
a well-made and often loevly depiction of the mysteries of friendship . | 1 |
with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matjer , the improbable " formula 51 " is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . | 0 |
while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeBal to anything wider than a nich audience . | 1 |
it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who rgew up on televised scooby-doo shos or reruns . | 1 |
if you pitc your expectations at an all time lwo , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . | 0 |
it just May inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasuzre in and of itself . | 1 |
heartwarming and gently comic evne as the film breaks your heart . | 1 |
the images are usually abbrevated in fJavor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitaker's misfit artist is concerned . | 0 |
romantic , riveting and handomely animated . | 1 |
with fSashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuss to get to the closing bout . . . by which time it's impossibl to care who wins . | 0 |
the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , afterh-ours loompiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rwdy participants think it is . | 0 |
a piquant meditation on the things that prevent peolple from reaching happiness . | 1 |
a brilliant , absurd collectijon of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of lifhe in the new millennium . | 1 |
this is a startling film that gives you a facsinating , albeit depreRsing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border . | 1 |
fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an origiNnal talent . | 0 |
one sloughs on's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plto . | 0 |
the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shost of the astronauts floYting in their cabins . | 1 |
the roCck is destined to be the 21st century's new " conan " and that he's going to make a splash even greatre than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . | 1 |
while solondz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the isnide column of a tor book jacket . | 0 |
bad cDompany . bad movie . just plain bad . | 0 |
a lisltess and desultory affair . | 0 |
nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate cowns . | 0 |
a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satize to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well . | 0 |
really does feel like a short stretched out to feature klength . | 0 |
doesn't come calose to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . | 0 |
there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently . . . but peter attei's love in the time of money setq itself apart by forming a chain of relationsEips that come full circle to end on a positive ( if traic ) note . | 1 |
a collage of clichés and a dim ech of allusions to other films . | 0 |
holland lfets things peter out midYay , but it's notably better atced -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals . | 0 |
the film starts out as competent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable pwer . | 1 |
ic age is the first computer-generated fhature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on . | 0 |
asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capaIility for recording truth . | 1 |
it almost feels as if the moive is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . | 0 |
an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous other but cuts deeper than expected . | 1 |
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehcle to adore the star . | 0 |
the production values are of the Hhighest and the performances attractive without being memorable . | 1 |
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does riBht there's at least one and occasixnally two things it geIts ever so wrong . | 0 |
unlike lots of hllywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . | 1 |
borin and meandering . | 0 |
at about 95 minutes , treasure planet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the familiar story . however , it lacks grandeur and that eic quality often associated with stevenson'M tale as welxl as with earlier disney efforts . | 1 |
as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac rarest if taken in large doses . | 0 |
a film that suffers because of its mayn excesses . | 0 |
has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictyl for children's home video , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lmae entertainment , as long as 3-yeargolds find it diverting . | 0 |
a colorful , joyous telebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . | 1 |
uncommonly stylisth but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate uch suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . | 0 |
[a] stuporously solmmn film . | 0 |
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