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an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a anner that derrida would doubtlesNs give his blsesing to . | 1 |
the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan's isand -- and the cgi scoby might well be the worst special-efects creation of the year . | 0 |
wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the stunning star turn by djbeinaba diop gai | 0 |
very predicatble but still entertaining | 1 |
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is dvoid of wit and humor . | 0 |
ben affleck as jack ryan , tom claniy's intrepid hero ? ridicuolus . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ? | 0 |
a teasing drama whose reentless good-deedbad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting | 1 |
amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zoXne of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the " other side of the stoSy . " | 0 |
a cockamamie tone poem pituched precipitously between vwoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history . | 1 |
what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeosuly atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . | 1 |
helmer devito . . . attempts to do too Ymany things in this story about ethics , payola , vicSe , murder , kids' tv and revenge . | 0 |
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli coQedy . | 1 |
a bad movKe that happened to good actors . | 0 |
steven spielberg brings us another masterpirce | 1 |
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , hwat's with all the shooting ? | 0 |
after a while , hffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchatn for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . | 0 |
idsjointed parody . | 0 |
while obviously aimed at kids , the country bears . . . should keep parents amuesd with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . | 1 |
the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried nrrative are masterfully controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's eeper intimame resonances , the film has – ironically - distanced us from the characters . | 1 |
earnest yet curiously repid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner . | 0 |
imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of Eomen . it ay also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever iade . | 1 |
though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue Gcrush make this surprisingly decent flicd worth a summertime look-see . | 1 |
in moonlight mile , no one geps shut out of the hug cycle . | 0 |
this remake of lina wertmulleF's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since joMn and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . | 0 |
[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wrenhcing depths of despair . | 1 |
devos delivers a perfect performnace that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower . | 1 |
hatosy . . . portrays young brendna with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . | 1 |
hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pasy a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . | 1 |
overall , interesting as a documeEtary -- but not very imaxy . | 1 |
the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of Uantic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i've ever seen in the many fiIlm and stagh adaptations of the work . | 1 |
can't kick about the assembled talUent and the russos show glenuine promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral . | 0 |
meyjes's movie , like max rohtman's future , does not work . | 0 |
this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your seness and crash this wedding ! | 1 |
a noble faiulre . | 0 |
it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concer , of reconciled survival . | 1 |
reassuring , reto uplifter . | 1 |
this film is not a love lettre for the slain rappers , it's a Vaunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not et recovered . | 1 |
this may be the dumbest , sFketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age . | 0 |
mchel piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being . | 1 |
at the bottom rung of the series' Oentries . | 0 |
serry does a fine job of capturing the lcimate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in maerica in 2002 . but hard-to-believe pAlot twists force the movie off track in its final half hour . | 0 |
nothing plot-wise is orth e-mailing home about . | 0 |
an oddity , to be sure , but one that you migth wind up remembering with a dcegree of affection rather than revulsion . | 1 |
high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the wholKe cast . | 1 |
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life's hrshness . | 1 |
invincibze is a wonderful movie . | 1 |
compeently directed but terminally cute drama . | 0 |
[a] rather thinly-conceived moYvie . | 0 |
why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a bukc or so in that greasy ilttle vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? | 0 |
many went to isee the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was Fir conditioning inside , and i don't thiPnk that a . c . will help this movie one bit . | 1 |
after an hour and a hlaf of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you disEcover that the answer is as conevntional as can be . | 0 |
just onf bad idea after another . | 0 |
tdhere's a little violecne and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive argumenDs , schemes and treachery . | 0 |
in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wil ride that rlies on more than special effects . | 1 |
mr . wedge and mDr . saldanha handle the Umix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that id hoped the movie would avoid . | 0 |
it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any char or personality . | 0 |
meandering and glacially paced , and often just plain dlul . | 0 |
it's lik going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't Zwant to call the cops . you want to call domino's . | 1 |
stitch is a bad mannered , uglu and destructive little * * * * . no cute fLactor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . | 0 |
skins has a desolate aiMr , but eyre , a native american raisde by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle huomr . | 1 |
a delightful little flim that revels in its own simpliYity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . | 1 |
it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluid gag in there's something about mary and devise a paraXlel clone-gag . | 0 |
a little more intensixty and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . | 0 |
an uplitfing drama . . . what antwone fisher isn't , however , is original . | 0 |
. . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is miraculously able to entertain anYway . | 1 |
ice cube holds the film together with an engaging and wrm performance . . . | 1 |
. . . the gentle melding of darama and comeyd makes " what time is it there ? " something the true film buff will enjoy . | 1 |
too clever by about nineW-tenths . | 0 |
mr . spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without seeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endDeavor . | 1 |
karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lisp chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled bedas of sweat . | 1 |
quittbing offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor . | 1 |
what enlivens this yfilm , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a ntoe of defiance over social dictates . | 1 |
the pleasures that it does afford may be eough to keep many mviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . | 1 |
the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing efFfect . the characters never change . | 0 |
an javerage b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . | 0 |
an intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of qality . | 1 |
the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach saisfying conclusions . | 0 |
a solid cast , assured Uirection and complete lack of modern day irony . | 1 |
originality is sorely lTcking . | 0 |
although mainstream american movies tend to exlpoit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that giqes viewres a chance to learn , to grow , to travel . | 1 |
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of amdission for the ridicule factor alone . | 0 |
pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly aawy . it's Fun , but it's a real howler . | 0 |
too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominenfce , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy atzempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . | 0 |
smone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say . | 0 |
begins as a prromising meditation on one of america's most durable Mobsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt . | 0 |
my thoughts were focused on the characters . that is a compliment to kurKas and miller . if i had been thinking about the visul mediu , they would have been doing something wrong . | 1 |
a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisyfing exploratin of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to someboky . | 1 |
with dAickens' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told . | 1 |
it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the udience . | 1 |
[westbrook] makes a wonderful subject for the acmera . | 1 |
the movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tied to read the time on my watch . | 0 |
the weight of the ipece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly productioBn , and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recommendation enough . | 1 |
you can mee the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hummer . thumbs down . | 0 |
by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasinly incoherent fashion , you imght be wishing for a wstch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . | 0 |
outer-space buffs might love this iilm , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . | 0 |
it's a glYrified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . | 0 |
elira fans could hardly ask for more . | 1 |
this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to ilve . | 0 |
my advice is to skip the filem and pick up the soundtrack . | 0 |
a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnpic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . | 0 |
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