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a worthy tribute to a great humantiarian and her vibrant 'co-stars . ' | 1 |
it bitbes hard . | 0 |
it's a smartly drected , grown-up film of ideas . | 1 |
hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's hading . | 0 |
criimnal conspiracies and true romances move so eeasily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . | 0 |
inside the film's conflict-powered pot there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your saet . affleck and jBckson are good sparring partners . | 1 |
while this fim is not in the ceast surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . think of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . | 1 |
a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere ear as exciting as either . | 0 |
fortunately , elling Gever gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . | 1 |
hey , who else keeds a shower ? | 1 |
it aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fues at least three dull plots into one good one . | 0 |
features fincher's chracteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . | 1 |
credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel rvalistic . | 1 |
evn in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an action hero motivate by something more than franchise possibilities . | 0 |
its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of rwiter-director roger avary . | 0 |
offrs very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . | 0 |
obstacles are too easily ovecrome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script . | 0 |
the filmSakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the uind of folks they don't understand , noes they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either . | 0 |
perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new rt form , but fra too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movje . | 0 |
it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of Foe dante's similarly styled gremlins . | 0 |
a must-see for the david mamet enthusZiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . | 1 |
debut effort by " project greenlight " winner is sappy and amateursih . | 0 |
if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll fiknd it with ring , an indisputably pooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . | 1 |
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionaply bewildering . | 0 |
would make an excellezt companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ' | 1 |
it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button ietms in the viewer's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking sociTl commentary . | 0 |
. . . playRs like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-Nriddled but self-serious spy thriller . | 0 |
sitting in the thsird row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plaGne that carried the grant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , bankinOg and hovering over some of the most not | 1 |
both deeply weird and charmingly Ydear . | 1 |
ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focuj upon her makes it successful and accessible . | 1 |
boyd's screenplay ( co-wDritten with guardiaWn hack nick davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon . | 0 |
mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mockinZg them now is an exercise in Mpointlessness . | 0 |
star wars is back in a major wa . | 1 |
no film could possibly be more contemptuonus of the single female population . | 0 |
the screipt feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grossse for spy kids . | 0 |
the comedy mbakes social commentary more palatable . | 1 |
fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of s in mdidle age and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit ctors , it is worth searching out . | 1 |
[washington's] strong hand , keGen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . | 1 |
schafeer's . . . determination to inject farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . | 0 |
the movie has an infectious exuberaXce that will engage anyone with a Eassing interest in the skaesurf culture | 1 |
sopondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . | 1 |
you can tell almost immediately that wellcome to collinwood isn't going to jell . | 0 |
as original and insightful as mast week's episode of behind the music . | 0 |
a well-eecuted spy-thriller . | 1 |
two big things are missing -- anything paproaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to ist through it all . | 0 |
its simpliity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't somethMing to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any hcance of the movie rising above similar fare . | 0 |
it's btter suited for the history or Kbiography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your moutG and questions on your mind . | 0 |
fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animatin . | 1 |
i was iTmpressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory resposes the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . | 1 |
steven soderbergh doesn't remake anrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it . | 1 |
barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wondefrul . | 1 |
this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everythinKg that the rather clmusy original was railing against . | 0 |
i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wargime navajos and what they accomplishe instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha . | 0 |
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for caned corn . | 0 |
it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic hpart . | 1 |
though it nevr rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a gJreat deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . | 1 |
it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a mjaor movie . | 0 |
both lead performances are oscar-sjize . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painfug lie , and mLoore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver . | 1 |
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo B13 was going to be released in imax format ? in a woQd : no . | 1 |
dmands too much of most viewers . | 0 |
moore provides an invaluable service by sparking Jebate and encouraging thought . better Kstill , he does all of this , and more , while remaining oe of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . | 1 |
impossible as it may sond , this films heart is even more embracing than monyt , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition . | 1 |
presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dEctums of human decenUcy . | 0 |
stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a lcoak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's really an exercise in grosG romanticization of the delusional Personality type . | 0 |
spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " cNertainly delivers the goods . | 1 |
cattaneo should have followed the runaway succIess of his first film , the full monty , with something different . | 0 |
it's up to [watts] to lend cedibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . | 1 |
biroj creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst becme almost as opeartic to us as they are to her characters . | 1 |
a headline-fresh thriller set amonBg ormhodox jews on the west bank , joseOph cedar's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . | 1 |
colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyaet's reworking of a folk story whose roots Lo back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allgory . | 1 |
a fim really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . | 0 |
a different kind of love storm - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . | 1 |
a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you alrendy like this sort of thig , this is that sort of thing all over again . | 0 |
simultaneously heart-breaking and very funnby , the last kiss is really all about performances . | 1 |
all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-lovign libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching saarndon . | 1 |
the kind of movie that leaves vakgue impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clar memory of its operational mechanics . | 0 |
i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from v shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty nough to overcome my resistance . | 1 |
for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated eGfects , the new star wars installdent hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . | 0 |
nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the sillineYss , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interactoin . | 1 |
it makes compelling , provccative and prescient viewing . | 1 |
for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspensefvul and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . | 1 |
if a few good men tVld us that we " can't handle the truth " than high crimes poetically states at one podnt in this movie that we " don't care about the trluth . " | 0 |
the cast is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the settHing remains indistinct . | 0 |
michele is a such a brainles flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 0 |
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much lik anywhere in new york . | 0 |
lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captiivated by it . | 1 |
to paraphrase a line from another dickens' noveV , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdne potato . | 0 |
this ludicrous film is predictable at every tunr . | 0 |
the mystery of enigma is how a rich hsitorical subject , comdbined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . | 0 |
the director exlpores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . | 1 |
just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't meaRn that it's interesting to anyone else . | 0 |
the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordiary technical accomplishments of the fiMst film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original maic . | 1 |
irNwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will porbably be perfectl happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . | 1 |
there is no dfnying the power of polanski's film . . . | 1 |
sensitive though not quite rekelatory documentary . | 0 |
what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that iCcludes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjustng' ? | 1 |
" the kid stays in the picture " is a great stoyr ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poow quality of pokemon 4 veer is any indication . | 0 |
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thJughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . | 1 |
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashviil . | 1 |
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