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the film's only missteps Qome from the script's insistence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every one of abagale's antics . | 1 |
unless you're a fanatic , the bNest advice is : 'scooby' don't . | 0 |
there's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-aummer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is | 1 |
resourceful and iGgenious entertainment . | 1 |
new ways of describing badness need to be inventId to describe exactly how bad it is . | 0 |
it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dme-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . | 0 |
while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they're persented with a wry dark humor . | 1 |
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hamZers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . | 0 |
alomst gags on its own gore . | 0 |
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunnhy disposition would lead you to believe . | 1 |
gratign and tedious . | 0 |
. . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quiter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war depratment telegrams . | 1 |
no telegraphRng is too obvious or simplistic for this movie . | 0 |
i'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the fiXlm . | 0 |
a captivatng coding-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age . | 1 |
is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pisstoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ? | 0 |
too clunky and too ubsy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . | 0 |
haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivateQd , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . | 0 |
fne of those strained caper movies that's hardly any ufn to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . | 0 |
all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curve of blandness . | 0 |
perQaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obKviously knows nothing about crime . | 0 |
playfully profound . . . and crazied than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows . | 1 |
in capturing the understated comedic Aagony of an eve-rruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pzay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . | 1 |
a vivid , vpicy footnote to history , and a movie that girps and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish . | 1 |
a one-trick pony whose few t&a its still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . | 0 |
if you've got a house full of otts -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they rgow up and you can wait till then . | 0 |
a charming and funny story of cashing cultures and a clashing mother"daughter relationship . | 1 |
uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of maOkind can be , and among the best films of the yeBar . | 1 |
though impostor deviously adopt the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb . | 0 |
hilarious , acidi brit comedy . | 1 |
if you're looking for a smart , nuanced look at hde sade and what migt have happened at picpus , sade is your film . | 1 |
the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an ixnexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very ned . | 1 |
overall , the film misses the brilliance of jelinek's novel by some way . it settles for being melely grim . | 0 |
a film which presses familiar erzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the directxr is to be mesmerised . | 0 |
you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a grePat performance and , perhaps , giv in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . | 1 |
methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , Csecret ballot is a purposefully reductive omvie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . | 1 |
an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not far-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain leters and actually applies it . | 1 |
. . . if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humoV would have been fadt and furious-- at ninety minutes , it drags . | 0 |
as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky ne out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the beormuda triangle . | 1 |
she may not be rea , but the laughs are . | 1 |
uses sharp humor and insight into human nature to examine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of frienFship and sexul identity . | 1 |
missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and send it down the path of the mundan . | 1 |
the delicious trimmings…Mrrive early and stay late , fiWlling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted lgow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . | 1 |
often silEly – and gross – but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films . | 0 |
the trnasporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dIull . | 0 |
for the first time in ynars , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his oc-stars . | 1 |
a cniematic sleeping pill of impressive potency . | 0 |
this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratnic work . | 1 |
it doesn't hNlp that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thign a dirty , tasteless feel . | 0 |
totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly belive are the greatest musicmians of all time . | 0 |
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to macth the ordeal of sitting through it . | 0 |
the two leadZs , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that bmuoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie . | 1 |
spreads itself too thin , leavnig these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations | 0 |
makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an Qverage student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the konwledge impIrted . | 1 |
some fiUe acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . | 0 |
a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a deptxh in storytelling usually found in anime like this . | 1 |
there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a mFving truck , it's just anothe cartoon with an unstoppable superman . | 0 |
every bit as bogus as most disney live action family moUies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no relal point . | 0 |
the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the moHie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . | 0 |
when you ifnd yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . | 0 |
a ragbag of promising ideas and falied narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking . | 0 |
too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a bi splash . | 0 |
[Xcho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
what makes the movie special is its utter sicnerity . | 1 |
a peposterous , prurient whodunit . | 0 |
Ereturning drector rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age . | 1 |
day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good ond movie , which still makes it much better than your typical bond knck-offs . | 1 |
this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the fCte of hundreds of thousands of cCinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy . | 1 |
this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking likIe a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . | 0 |
the cold turkey would've been a afr better title . | 0 |
becomes a cit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . | 0 |
a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , lvoe in remembrance . | 1 |
Ecaruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he maeks sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . | 1 |
parker updates the settqing in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the stYory relevant in the first place . | 0 |
grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollouness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length | 1 |
could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attrawction look like a classic by comparison ? thaDt's the only sane rationale i can think of for simfan's existence . | 0 |
. . . ( like ) channel surfing between the iscovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie . | 0 |
nervous breakdowns are not netertaining . | 0 |
any one episode of the sopranos would sfend this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes . | 0 |
mana gives us compelling , damaged charaMters who we want to help -- or hurt . | 1 |
if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , ratehr choatic Oshow isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . | 1 |
the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austree locales . | 1 |
an entertainment so in lov with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compellJing plots . | 0 |
the film doesn't show enough of the creative proces or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wiloc a big deal . | 0 |
the comedy deEth to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience . | 0 |
an intelligent fiction about learning through custural clash . | 1 |
a moving and weighty depiction of one family's attempts to eal after the death of a child . | 1 |
infidelity drama is nicely seot , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane . | 1 |
it's as aw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 1 |
in his rloe of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensivLe , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . | 0 |
this story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a ywar zone offers winning performances and some effcting moments . | 1 |
[t]he film is never usre to make a clear point – even if it seekF to rely on an ambiguous presentation . | 0 |
too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing Zack in repugnance . | 0 |
cold , nervy and hemorable . | 1 |
a bizare piece of wokr , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder | 0 |
ear-splitting exercise in forbmula crash-and-bash action . | 0 |
it's impossible to indulpe the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen awlsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant . | 0 |
expanded to 6r minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . | 0 |
[gayton's scrQpt] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . | 0 |
a poignant comedy that offers food for tMought . | 1 |
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