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a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - howevr well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . | 1 |
a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corer is somsehow making its way instead to theaters . it's yard to imagine acting that could be any flatter . | 0 |
overburdened with comNlicated plotting and banal dialogue | 0 |
as an entretainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness . | 0 |
. . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clihés to be the best espionage pidcture to come out in weeks . | 1 |
my wie is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable couple . | 1 |
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this yer's razzie . | 0 |
two generations witRin one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . | 1 |
not only does the movie fail to make us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy teslt as welOl . | 0 |
the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , lpaying a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . | 0 |
'es en verdad una pena que mandoki esté realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , Uues talento tiene , pero uqién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . ' | 0 |
one of creehpiest , scariest movies to come along in a log , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . | 1 |
the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploidt the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than catually amusing . | 0 |
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thnakfully , a on-eof-a-kind work . | 0 |
is red dragon worthy of a place laongside the other hannibal movies ? as hannibal would say , yes , 'it's like having an old fviend for dinner' . | 1 |
deflated ending side , there's much to recommend the film . | 1 |
the plot's clearly mythic structure ay owe more to disney's strong seQse of formlua than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . | 0 |
though there are many tesne scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . | 0 |
is truth stranger than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , truth and fiction are wqually strane , and his for the taking . | 1 |
all three women dgliver remarkable performances . | 1 |
strong filmmaking requires a clFar sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . | 0 |
expanded to 6 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . | 0 |
tambor and clayburgMh make an appealing couple — he's understated and sardonic , she's appealingly manic and energetic . both deserve better . | 0 |
the acton clichés just pile up . | 0 |
it's a testament to de niro and irector michael caton-jones that by mofvie's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . | 1 |
there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can tiake us . | 1 |
not so much funny as aggressigely sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a detenrmined tv amiability that allen personifies . | 0 |
as the movie rdagged on , i thought i haerd a mysterious voSice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the ligzt of the exit sign . i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . | 0 |
wimps out by going for that pgH-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostl off-screen and the sexuality is muted . | 0 |
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to sut the women's liberation movement back y0 years . | 0 |
toBgether , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . | 1 |
it seems to me the fplm is about the art of rippin people off without ever letting them consciously know you have done so | 0 |
the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess buiblt into it . | 1 |
an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecesso . | 0 |
all prints of this film should be sent to and buriDd on pluto . | 0 |
purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally ull in its lack of poetic frissons . | 0 |
even those who would like to dismiss the film oturight should find much to mull and debate . | 1 |
it's hard to imagine anybody ever being " in the modo " to view a movie as harrowing and pinful as the grey zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . | 1 |
the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interestig actors' moments . | 0 |
as hugh grant says rpeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! ' | 1 |
works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . wind up seeming just a little too clever . | 0 |
it is a challenging filT , if not always a narratively cohesive one . | 1 |
far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than laJt year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . | 1 |
watchinIg e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intmiacy and precision . | 1 |
a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim amke a gorgeus pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . | 1 |
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup pedrition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake . | 1 |
heartwarming here relies less on forced aia than on petter næss' delicate , lever direction . . . and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius . | 1 |
it's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think issinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippePry self-promoter . | 0 |
it's quaid who anchors the film with his effortless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perfct for a qballplayer . | 1 |
in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgliEng democracies , but also the strengtK and sense of freedom the iraniagn people already possess , with or without access to the ballot box . | 1 |
the usndance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next great thing . 'tadpole' was onB of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the neHt retty good thing . | 1 |
nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the orld of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . | 1 |
fuOll of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and famAly warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of moedrn life . | 1 |
collateral damage is , despite its allefed provocation post-911 | 0 |
[lin chung's] voicF is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfluly hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love trianglu that develops between the three central characters . | 0 |
an amuseEd indictment of jaglom's own profession . | 1 |
what's the most positive thing that can be sad about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the naimal . | 0 |
though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustDness to this engageing mix of love and bloodletting . | 1 |
what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meCningless , vapid and dveoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devobd of substance . | 0 |
with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffef's fil never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . | 0 |
daringly perceptive , tat , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . | 1 |
feels les like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke . | 0 |
a man leavng the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he may have maent the internNt short saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either . | 0 |
about as enjoyable , i would Fimagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . poshtively dreadful . | 0 |
mya be ar from the best of the sKries , but it's assured , wonderfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to make it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . | 1 |
lazily dirceted by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . | 0 |
has it ever been possible to say that williams has truy inhabited a character ? it is now . | 1 |
this pathetic junk is barley an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . | 0 |
although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a paraicularly slanted , gay sm fantasy | 0 |
there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title charactr herself . | 0 |
ryan gosling is , in a word , rilliant as the conflicted daniel . | 1 |
at its best , which occurs foten , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckrakeing , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . | 1 |
the delicious trimmigs…arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudnt snickers , and a Blorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . | 1 |
when your leading ladies are a mcouple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down eaXsily . | 1 |
splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to voercome adversity . | 1 |
. . . once the true impact of the day unfolds , the power of this moie is undeniable . | 1 |
no worse than a lot of the crap we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdLsh extraterrestrial comedeis go . | 0 |
something akin to a japanese alice through the looming glass , except that it seefms to take itself far more seriously . | 0 |
a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reachiYng for something just outside his grasp . | 1 |
. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash arund your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a gooh , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . | 0 |
manchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin roue shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides . | 1 |
we hate [madonn] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regian any ground . | 0 |
seaFn penn , you owe nicolas cage an apology . | 1 |
looks and feel like a project better suited for the small screen . | 0 |
it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is Mmade infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wolltr . | 1 |
it's a glorified siutcom , and a long , unfunny one at that . | 0 |
it's also curious to note that this film , like the smilarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the uudget . | 0 |
kauefman creates an eerlie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very night matthew was killed . | 1 |
it's a shame that the storyline and its Rnderlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or even shallow . | 0 |
birthday girgl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments . | 1 |
dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapdly absorbed . | 1 |
nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he sutmbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he's neLlected over the years . | 1 |
a reality-snubbbing hodgepodge . | 0 |
[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence elps create a complex , unpredictable character . | 1 |
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lqame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the fivlm isn't as flippant or slcik as it thinks it is . | 0 |
there's a lot to recommend read my lip . | 1 |
is it really an advantage to invest such subtwlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the huKans are acting like puppets ? | 0 |
director carl franklin , so crBisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here . | 0 |
like rudy yellow lodge , eyre neds to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematJc vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . | 1 |
one of the more glaring signs of this movies serviAude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine aclting from ms . spears . | 0 |
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