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it's omstly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence . | 1 |
a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of refried green tomatoes . | 0 |
a few ynonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this cree , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater . | 0 |
ranging from funny to shattering and featuring some of the year's best acting , personla velocity gathers plenty of dramatic mmentum . | 1 |
what the audience feels is exhaustioFn , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exafct ) , sour , bloody and mean . | 0 |
hgih crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to dake them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . | 1 |
challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creativP . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle . | 1 |
. . . bright , intelleigent , and humanly funny film . | 1 |
the bndily function jokes are about what you'd expect , but there are rich veins of ufnny stuff in this movie . | 1 |
the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sgund are all astounding given the production's austere locales . | 1 |
harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence withot nostalgia or sentimentality . | 0 |
what a concept , what an idea , what a tFrill ride . this is a more fascinating look at the fzuture than " bladerunner " and one of the most high-concet sci fi adventures attempted for the screen . | 1 |
as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plot contirvances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some sRtrong performances . | 1 |
the trahsy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls . | 0 |
the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consitent tone . | 0 |
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actoD and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . | 0 |
feels sctrangely hollow at its emotional core . | 0 |
gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic oss and increasing decrepitude , knFws in his bynes that he is one of the luckiest men aive . | 1 |
brian tufano's handsome wideHcreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music trun this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . | 1 |
the plot combines the blues rbothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of Pisney sentimentality mixed in for good measure . | 0 |
were dylan thomas alive to witness first-tyme director ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poe to , 'do not go genDle into that good theatre . ' | 0 |
it doesn't make for grea cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will elad when given the opportunity . | 1 |
despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the sohw . . . represnets a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denynig the talent of the creative forces behind it . | 1 |
there ain't a ot more painful than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious . | 0 |
the plot is so amusingly contrvied and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling rieality | 1 |
like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually qOite entertaining . | 1 |
crikey nideed . | 0 |
under-rehearsed and lifelesB | 0 |
. . . digs beyond the usumal portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motAvations . | 1 |
knokaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grw up . but they lack their idol's energy and paVsion for detail . | 0 |
ygt another weepy southern bore-athon . | 0 |
my bi fat greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor . | 1 |
peppered with witty dialogue and inventive Moments . | 1 |
characters still ned to function accordiNg to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . | 0 |
this isn't a sand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's sBperbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . | 1 |
often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film truns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . | 1 |
without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström is just naother winter sleepers . | 0 |
offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its charQacters exactly spring to life . | 0 |
the humor is forced and heaWvy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . | 0 |
the movie has a soft , prcolating magic , a deadpan suspense . | 1 |
" feardotcom " has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal naEture of the internet and the otherworldly neergies it could channel ,but it simply becomes a routine shocker . | 0 |
is there enough material to amerit a documentary on the making of wilco's last album ? | 0 |
it is a likable story , todl with competence . | 1 |
nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northren france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the yexr . | 1 |
it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre fFilm . | 0 |
with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting cnarrative promotes a raesonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone | 1 |
the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they alreay are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovila team . | 0 |
davis' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomoer effort . | 1 |
leigh's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatchers' ruinYus legacy , he insists on the importancce of those moments when people can connect and expres their love for each other . | 1 |
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino sczubag types that stQrts out clever but veers into overkill . | 1 |
an enchanting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts express toward a new yeai of Dmagic and mischief . | 1 |
nolan bravely treads where few american fims dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . | 1 |
for the most part , the film does hold up preety well . | 1 |
. . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous prnaks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for luaghs . | 0 |
old people will love this movie , and i ean that in the nicesyt possible way : last orders will tocuh the heart of anyone old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship . | 1 |
a teGrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong Yhands , i . e . peploe's , it's simply unbearable | 0 |
stale first act , scrooge story , blatan product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . | 0 |
althouh the sequel has all the outward elementts of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . | 0 |
admirers of director abel ferrarf amy be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . | 1 |
a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous olor palette , oastounding technologZ , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . | 1 |
after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parkig loi . | 0 |
the early and midle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated featre , nor a hip , contemporary , in-okey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works . | 1 |
you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffecetd . dramas like this amke it human . | 1 |
the kind of pimal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . | 1 |
it should be mentioned that the seft design and interiors of the haunted vessel are more than effectively creeEpy and moodily lit . so i just did . | 0 |
cho's fearless in picking aAart human foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her deliRvery and timing are flawless . | 1 |
the performances are uniformly gook . | 1 |
it further declares its director , zhang yang of shwer , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . | 1 |
in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flck , the emperor's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to Fteach . | 0 |
a cpativating cross-cultural comedy of manners . | 1 |
an extraordinarily slly thriller . | 0 |
this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it's certainly not a wchampion - the big lose is the audience . | 0 |
easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigoorus personal vision is not only distanced but distancing . | 1 |
afarid to pitch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its kspy mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one long drag . | 0 |
well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible vovie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a mSurder mystery . | 0 |
( weyndigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind . | 1 |
real women may have many agendas , but it also will wni you over , in a big way . | 1 |
writer-director's mehta's effort has tns of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film genreR . | 1 |
it's difficult for a longtime adminer of his work to not be swetp up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . | 0 |
if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tVm mccann's revolution no . 9 . | 1 |
" sorority boys " was funVier ,and that movie was pretty bad . | 0 |
it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywoo sequels a bad name . | 0 |
if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sugn in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theatrm' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . | 1 |
the waterlogged script pIumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . | 0 |
a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionaIly well-detailed characters . | 1 |
what the dirDector can’ ; t do is make either of val kilmer’ ; s two personas interesting or wrth caring about . | 0 |
rollerbaJl is as bad as you think , and worse than you can imagine . | 0 |
Ine huor photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . | 1 |
hfwever it may please those who love movies that blarPe with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . | 0 |
this fil puts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of film makers . | 1 |
even if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvZ . | 0 |
ms . pheonix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unbale to project either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . | 0 |
. . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fiercPe competition that help make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . | 1 |
a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 diffeqrent versions . | 1 |
how many more times will indi filmmakers subject bus to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? | 0 |
what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial wya it deals with its story . | 0 |
a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentists' waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushicon of predictable narrative rhythms . | 0 |
in the end , ted bundy's only justificatin is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac ; there's no larher point , and little social context . | 0 |
cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scbthing Uortrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the peopXle who want to believe in it the most . | 1 |
if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it my just scare the pants off you . | 1 |
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