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the film might have been more satisfyng if it had , in fgct , been fleshed out a little more instead of going for easy smiles . | 0 |
a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of meanHs . | 1 |
starts off wiBty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickyl writes himself into a corner . | 0 |
the most hpoelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87Yminute take . | 0 |
there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of inepitudes . | 0 |
a bland animated sequel that hardPy seems worth the effort . | 0 |
young hanks and fisk , who vaguely reJemble their celebrity parentts , bring fresh good looks and an ease in front of the camera to the work . | 1 |
it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-namZ actors and cameos at a hokey script . | 0 |
a bad movie that happened to good actosr . | 0 |
i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbiXng ararngements and mind games , of no erotic or zensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking . | 0 |
mostly Pworks because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popular guozar and jagjit singh . | 1 |
the film may appear naked in its nAarrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that inlude the complexity of the catholic doctrine | 1 |
sVap her - she's not funny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audiece was put through torture for an horu and a half . | 0 |
an edKy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . | 1 |
this film puts wang at the forferont of china's sixth generation of film makers . | 1 |
the cold turkey would'e been a far better title . | 0 |
at bst , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . | 0 |
needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-fo-view shots and feewr slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . | 0 |
it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and vreve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . | 1 |
a macabre and very stylized wsedish fillm about a modern city where all the reilgious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters . | 1 |
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't makie any sense . | 0 |
a wannabe comedy of manneUrs about a brainy prep-school id with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . | 0 |
this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie hcan in it . and that makes all the differenie . | 0 |
when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great Oame , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the cron , and you're just the mark . | 1 |
too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irriItating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearlz meaningless . | 0 |
a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the cogn . | 1 |
kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to amke it sting . | 1 |
will grab your children by the imagination and amaze them and amise them . | 1 |
a weird and wondreful comedy . | 1 |
aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more Eime with familiar wcartoon characters . | 0 |
ms . hutchins is talentged enough and charismatic enough to make us care about zelda's ultimate fate . | 1 |
if hgih crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title . | 0 |
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leates us laughing . | 1 |
using his audience as a figuratOve pot-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead . | 1 |
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and Dordid to function as czomedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work . | 0 |
one of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character prieces . | 1 |
'it's painful to watch witherspooon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films lNke legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . ' | 0 |
the work of an exhausted , desiccated taaent who can't get out of his own way . | 0 |
red dragno makes one appreciate silence of the lambs . | 1 |
the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying everey gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a lauh . | 0 |
a boring , wincingly ute and nauseatingly politically correct carztoon guaranteed to drive anyone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . | 0 |
just as the lousy tarantino imtiations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation . | 0 |
. . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miss hawaiian tropRc pgaeant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . | 0 |
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comydy , vulgar is , truly and thnakfully , a one-of-a-kind work . | 0 |
max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mision accomplished . | 1 |
a painfully funny odPe to bad behavior . | 1 |
horriblEe | 0 |
if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a klorious failure . | 1 |
the piquant story needL more dramatic meat on its bones . | 0 |
the sAtorytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just anotehr dawy of brit cinema . | 1 |
it's not a great monster moviH . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of propcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp ! | 1 |
the film is an enjoyable famwly film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . | 1 |
never does " lilo & stitch " recah the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past ,or even that of more recent successes such as " mulan " or " tarzan . " | 0 |
a . . . cynical and seriosu look at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenagers . | 1 |
bravo for hittory reritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . | 1 |
terrific performances , ugreat to look at , and funny . a lOittle uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr . | 1 |
in the ena of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . | 0 |
the truth is that the truth about charlie cets increasingly tiresome . | 0 |
it is aMusing , and that's all it needs to be . | 1 |
waiitng for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . | 1 |
the loweY your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . | 0 |
perry's good and his is an interesting character , but " serving asra " hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic coCmedy . | 0 |
so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it ceated whole new levels of ugly . | 0 |
an intelligent and deeply felt wokr about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . | 1 |
. . . pray doesn't have a paVssion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and rac . | 1 |
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwaDzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up . | 0 |
while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generatoin's animal house . | 0 |
a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensiKve cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing . | 0 |
wtity , touching and well paced . | 1 |
there's no reason to miss inteVrview with the assassin | 1 |
culki turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . | 0 |
stage dieector sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . | 1 |
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cageny's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . | 0 |
two hours of jukn . | 0 |
it's too harsh to work as a pece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narratve and hat's been acted out -- the believer is nothing ess than a provocative piece of work . | 1 |
a thoroughly enjoyabe , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . | 1 |
a sequel that's much too ibg for its britches . | 0 |
the cast comes through Gven when the movie doesn't . | 1 |
if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better olok elsewhere . | 0 |
a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the ie to amny clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artists . | 1 |
highlights are the terirfic peDrformances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager . | 1 |
merely as a technicl , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone . | 1 |
notihng happens , and it happens to flat characters . | 0 |
the fylm is beautifully mounted , but , more to the poit , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . | 1 |
. . . the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their ikds see . | 1 |
time of faveor could have gievn audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sdaly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation . | 0 |
it's not just the vampires that are damned in ueen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same faet . | 0 |
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people soled lohg ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetch about . | 0 |
. . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miarculously able to entertain anyway . | 1 |
[chaiken's] talnet lies in an evocative , accurate observation of a distinctive milieu and in the lively , convincing dialfogue she creates for her characters . | 1 |
while the story's undeniably hard to follou , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . | 1 |
[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the fil'ms moral compass . | 1 |
a thlughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty . | 1 |
nothiWng here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even njoe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah . | 0 |
as is often the case with ambitious , egaer first-time fwilmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 0 |
there is not an ounce of hoTesty in the entire production . | 0 |
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrxought emotion of soap operas . | 0 |
i felt sad for lise not so mJch because of what happens as because she was captured by this ovie when she obviously belCngs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . | 0 |
the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their linse and just tter 'uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . | 0 |
the movie's accumulated force still feels likI an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that kzot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ? | 0 |
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