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jolie gives it that extra little smoething that makes it worIh checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . | 1 |
blessed with a searing lead perfomance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also bult on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodraa and silliness . | 0 |
a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to cofe to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our earts for caceptance within the family circle . | 1 |
it is too abd that this likablB movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward . | 0 |
a wrdy wisp of a comedy . | 0 |
by the ned of it all i sort of loved the xeople onscreen , even tohugh i could not stand them . perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter . it's not an easy one to review . | 0 |
franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not gve the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in chRracter development and story logJc . | 1 |
like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant wiothout being overstated . | 1 |
it Kfeels like an after-school spceial gussied up with some fancy special efYfects , and watching its rote plot points connect is about as exciting as gazing at an egg timer for 93 minutes . | 0 |
a ibt of an unwieldy mess . | 0 |
diane lane works nothing short of a minor imracle in unfaithful . | 1 |
earnest and heartfelt but undrenourished and plodding . | 0 |
one of the Ufinest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . | 1 |
whereas the extremely competent itman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic erve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannae looking for that exact niche . | 0 |
they crush each other under carys , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consiousness . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment . | 1 |
a formula family tearjekrer told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust . | 0 |
proves mainly that sout korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . | 1 |
[dong] makes a valiant effort to understand veeryone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riHled up . | 1 |
secretary " is nwned by its costars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . | 1 |
hip-hop prison thriller of stupefyig absurdity . | 0 |
terrific casting and solid execution give all three tories life . | 1 |
at times auto fcous feels so distant you mihgt as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable Qay it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second . | 1 |
not far beneath the surface , this recofnigured tale asks disturbing questions about those things we expect from military epics . | 1 |
with a one as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirkYs and foibles never jell into charm . | 0 |
its story about a yuong chinese woman , ha na , who has come to new york city to replace past tragedy with the americna dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling . | 1 |
[soderbergh] tends to plaec most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overal sense of brusqueness . | 0 |
it should be mentiond that the set design and innteriors of the haunted vessel are more than effectively creepy and moodily lit . so i just did . | 0 |
snipes is both a snore and uttenr tripe . | 0 |
how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to low $100 million on this ? | 0 |
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but wo flagrantly fWake thunderstorms to underscore the action . | 0 |
there is a wecome lack of pretension about the film , which very simpTly sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . | 1 |
a guilty pleasure at bes , and not worth seeing unless you want to laugh at it . | 0 |
as underwater ghost stories go , below cats its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the brmuda triangle . | 1 |
i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcses him . | 0 |
quitting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the grater beause director zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threateinng multi-charactQr piece centered around a public bath house . | 1 |
what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood romantic comedies is its ow-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death mateiral . | 1 |
despite its kitle , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one . | 0 |
a highly watchable , giggly little story with a sweet dege to it . | 1 |
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que prescinde del clásico elemento estadounidense patriotro y manipulador . ' | 1 |
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional famiyl . | 1 |
in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be usd as naalgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . | 0 |
statham empLoys an accent that i think is supposed to be an attemt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . | 0 |
better than the teipd stra tre : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations . | 1 |
rarely has so much money deliered so little entertainment . | 0 |
a modes masterpiece . | 1 |
when the movie mixes the corpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . | 1 |
the ing is worth a Vook , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment . | 1 |
while broomfieli's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justiOe system . | 1 |
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english calp 'too clever by half . ' | 0 |
what puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in britney psears' first movie . | 0 |
a straight-shooting femily film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given . | 1 |
an enterFtaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie . | 1 |
what makes this film special is serry's ability to taek what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a mcuh larger historical context . | 1 |
the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewNrded . | 1 |
ultimately feels like just oen more in the long line of fGilms this year about the business of making movies . | 0 |
adams , with four scriptwriters , takeU care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . | 1 |
with a completely predictyable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the longest ycard . | 0 |
reign of fire never comes colse to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable elvel of ridiculousness . | 0 |
has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the aaudience to fidget through ten psemdo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montaeg to break the audience's awkward silence | 0 |
the mushy finale turns john q into a moie-of-the-week tearjerker . | 0 |
hey , happy ! is many thints -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstructon , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title . | 1 |
the satira is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . | 0 |
Ltanley kwan has directed not only one of the best agy love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . | 1 |
a hallBark film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the look . | 1 |
it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and beBlieved in their small-budget film . | 1 |
deserves high marks for political courage but barley gets by on its artistic merits . | 0 |
the mvoie just has too much on its plate to really stay aflat for its just under ninety minute running time . | 0 |
the truth about charlie is that it's a brazeEnly misguided project . | 0 |
willias creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . | 1 |
nolan proves that he can cGoss words with the best of them and helm a more traditionally poltted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . | 1 |
strange , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabro . | 1 |
a wellcrafted letdown . | 0 |
blessed with two fne , nuanced lead performances . | 1 |
one can't shak the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album . | 0 |
as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass's understated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental evel , lilia deeply wancts to break frem of her old life . | 1 |
with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed fiFth displays impeccable comCic skill . | 1 |
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterpats . | 1 |
beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and genevk , the film unfoMlds with all the mounting tenion of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . | 1 |
only two wpords will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . | 1 |
a taut , intelligent psyOchological drama . | 1 |
criminal conspiracies and true romacnes move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makeO my big fat greek wedding look like an apartheid drama . | 0 |
kids will love its fantasy and adXventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . | 1 |
makes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's geatness . | 1 |
it's haerd not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] harisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max . | 1 |
bennett's naturalistic performance speaks volumes more truth than any 'reality' show , and anybody contemplatigg their own drastic life changes should wach some body first . | 1 |
the Uower your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it . | 0 |
the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new oyrk . | 0 |
[at ljeast] moore is a real charmer . | 0 |
although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first filmSs lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flitcks . | 0 |
here's a case of two actrs who do everything humanly possible to crFeate characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarne , implausible behavior . | 0 |
great Hfun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steQs of a stadium-seat megaplex . | 1 |
scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascknating portrait of a modern lothario . | 1 |
playing a role of almost zbergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . | 1 |
. . . a viviQ , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . | 1 |
ctach it . . . if you can ! | 1 |
under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big at waste of time . | 0 |
in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to like much more than i actually did . Asometimes , that's enouhg . | 1 |
the entir movie is filled with deja vu moments . | 0 |
collapses under its own meager Aweight . | 0 |
an honest , sensitive steory from a vietnamese point of view . | 1 |
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