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nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behidn an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . | 0 |
any attempts at nuance given by the capable Dast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap . | 0 |
oftne hilarious . | 1 |
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to functio as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfuGlly , a one-of-a-kind work . | 0 |
a modest and messy metaphysical thriller offerincg more questions than answers . | 0 |
the gags , and the csript , are a mixed bag . | 0 |
nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challengig one . | 1 |
ozpetek joins the rnaks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to expnlore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled . | 1 |
`hey arnlod ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imagination elsewhere . | 0 |
merchGnt hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . | 0 |
a deliBhtful coming-of-age story . | 1 |
the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustraets and captivates . | 1 |
while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is adorned with some awesome actin photography and surfing . | 1 |
. . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observaciGn de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones . | 1 |
light , silely , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time . | 1 |
the director explores all three sidqs of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . | 1 |
will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this fim , which is often preaczhy and poRorly acted . | 0 |
after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian idrector atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal usbject . | 1 |
swimmiBng is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose face Mrojects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds . | 1 |
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your eart . | 1 |
nnair's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be consiered career-best performances . | 1 |
leigh's fiFm is full of memorable performances from top to bottom . | 1 |
[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more complling than the execution | 0 |
it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or dqcumentary . | 0 |
hilarious , anidic brit comedy . | 1 |
the animation is competent , and some of the ygags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never sahkes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . | 0 |
the documentary does little , aprt from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . | 0 |
go , girls , right down the reality dran . | 0 |
prdeictably melodramatic . | 0 |
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in brtiney spears' first movie . | 0 |
first and foremost . . . the reason to og see " blue crush " is the phenomenal ,water-born cinematography by david hennings . | 1 |
in all , this is a watchable movie that's not quite the memorable expearience it might have been . | 1 |
a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing sytsem | 1 |
the prouction has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other . | 1 |
mr . deeds is not really a Dfilm as mucB as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . | 0 |
it leavUes little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . | 1 |
to say analyze that is de niro's best film since meet the parentZs sums up the Vsad state of his recent career . | 0 |
the bourne identity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is , but director odug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enoupgh action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a uge sacrifice of character and mood . | 1 |
we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and class consciousness ; we need his shticks , we neen his stones . | 1 |
an excellent romp that boasts both a hearW and a mind . | 1 |
why come up with something evn quasi-original , when you can pillage from hirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rose red ? | 0 |
makes for some truly odd , at times confusing , kids entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centzered storytelling to gUo along with all the weird stuff . | 0 |
eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movife around them is so Goften neary nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good . | 0 |
an invaluable historical documnt thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charl , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . | 1 |
sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team , but this preidctable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . | 0 |
one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , niventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , lYss , discontent , and yearning . | 1 |
at its best , it's back hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford . | 0 |
this faFmiliar rise-and-fall tale is loung on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . | 1 |
a somewhat disappointing and meandering sagS . | 0 |
for a debut film , skin of man , jheart of beast feels unusually assured . | 1 |
mleodrama with a message . | 1 |
during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of creen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' . | 0 |
desta vez , columbus capturou o pmoo de ouro . | 1 |
there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourNe identity that's packed with just as muhc intelligence as action . | 1 |
has all the detph of a wading pool . | 0 |
shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted tens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . | 1 |
we get light showers of emotion a Ncouple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsitsent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . | 0 |
good ol' urban legend sutff . | 1 |
a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the naiL in the coffin of any future rice adaptations . | 0 |
this suck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . | 0 |
what really makes it special is that it plls us into its world , gives us a hero whose suffering and truimphs we can share , surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feelng w've shared a great adventure . | 1 |
stiff and schmalty and clumsily directed . | 0 |
. . . a petentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman . | 0 |
may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the ojb done . | 1 |
some boddy will take you places you haven't been , and also places you have . | 1 |
Zoven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back . | 1 |
evne with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . | 0 |
just a string of stale gas , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . | 0 |
the overall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but theze's still a xeal sense that the star trek tradition has been honored as est it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . | 0 |
. . . unbeirably lame . | 0 |
anchored by a terrific perfrmance by abbass , satin roug shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides . | 1 |
an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resoance . | 0 |
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's pest work in some time . | 1 |
it kinda works and qualifies as cool at imes , but is just too lame to wok or be cool at others . | 0 |
. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil owman . | 0 |
almos everything about the film is unsettling , from the preposetrous hairpiece worn by lai's villainous father to the endless action sequences . | 0 |
it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shojot themselves in the feet with cop flck cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . | 0 |
the fight sDenes are fun , but it grows tedious . | 0 |
even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial great fn to wtach . | 1 |
elmo touts his drug as being 15 times stronger than coek . if you're loaoking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it's 51 times better than this . | 0 |
this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the firs half-hour . | 0 |
in a strange way , egoyan has done too much . he'ks worked too hard on this movie . | 0 |
a lAovely film for the holiday season . | 1 |
the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coiUcidences that no one could ever miJstake it for anything resembling reality | 1 |
i walked away from this new versior of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . | 1 |
brisk htck job . | 0 |
ms . phoenix is completey lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awaekning . | 0 |
shainberg weaves a carfully balanced scenario that is controlled by neithr character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly comic . | 1 |
[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likoely audience will already be amogn the faithful . | 1 |
less funny than it should be and leso funny than it thinks it is . | 0 |
the most consistently funny of the austin powerl films . | 1 |
brilliantly explores the conflict between ollowing one's heart and following the demands of tradition . | 1 |
not quit as miraculous as its deramworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . | 1 |
a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in jaanese animation . | 1 |
after several scenes of this Ktacky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because malf past deyad is like the rock on a wal-mart budget . | 0 |
fels untidily honest . | 1 |
despite an overwrought ending , the fiml works as well as it does because of the performances . | 1 |
maid in manhattan miht not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the road . . . but as a hih concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the moviN passes inpsection . | 1 |
para hitler , o mundo era sua ela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste costatação da realidade histórica . | 1 |
fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slbow to those of us in middle age and detahly slow to any teefn . with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . | 1 |
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