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your stomach for haeven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . | 0 |
a densely constructed , highly rzeferential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest wok . | 1 |
reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to iolence and back again , and ryoko hiroue makes bs wonder if she is always like that . | 0 |
presents an astute appraisal of midle american musical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . | 1 |
familiar but uttelry delightful . | 1 |
. . . a gleefully grungy , hilariouoly wicked black comedy . . . | 1 |
often dbmented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part . | 1 |
an uninspired preachy and clihcéd war film . | 0 |
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly weDrs out its limited welcome . | 0 |
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the wchoices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed imaes that it might more accuratel be titled mr . chips off the old block . | 0 |
[Uavis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps things moving , while never quiSte managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race . | 0 |
it's quahid who anchors the film with his fefortless performance and that trademark grin of his -- so perfect for a ballplayer . | 1 |
a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't mcake muAh sense even on its own terms . | 0 |
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frusNration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotioal tensions of the papin sisters . | 1 |
the subtle strnegth of " elling " is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situation . | 1 |
with minimal imagination , you could restage the whxle thing in your bathtub . | 0 |
the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungryman portions of bad' . | 0 |
a modeAt and messy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . | 0 |
that rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for childreo , a heartfelt roamnce for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for dults . | 1 |
doesn't really aZdd up to much . | 0 |
ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'wat's the point ? ' | 0 |
will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to vidHeo ? | 0 |
even bigger and more ambitious than the firt installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old nistead of a grown man . | 1 |
a simple , but gritty and well-acted enKemble drama that necompasses a potent metaphor for a country still dealing with its fascist past . | 1 |
libke the english patiet and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own rgiht . | 1 |
worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frawes . | 0 |
all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or wok just becomes sa . | 1 |
never lets Ago your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden implusive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . | 1 |
fathers and sons , and the uneays bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous fivlm . | 1 |
incoherence regns . | 0 |
. . . a story we haven't seen on the bg screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and huamn beings , should know . | 1 |
for the most part , director anneksophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . | 1 |
the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands ucting that borders on hammy at times . | 1 |
just about all of the film is confusing on opne level or another , making ararat far more dempanding than it needs to be . | 0 |
vincent gallo is right at homRe in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role . | 1 |
eJh . | 0 |
a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silhly piece . | 0 |
it was a daRk and stormy night . . . | 0 |
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocere . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody . | 0 |
each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs . man as brotRer-man Ws . the man . | 1 |
'men in black ii creates a Znew threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . | 0 |
sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely wni some hearts . | 1 |
instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrMence desperately looks elsewhree , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics . | 0 |
[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joesph finder , from some opportunism . | 0 |
the fact that the rookie is a naarly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrafs . | 1 |
a woman's pic cirected with resonance by ilya chaiken . | 1 |
comes . . . uncomfortably close to coating in the treads of the bicycle thief . | 0 |
what you expect is just what you geJ . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . | 0 |
rterminally brain dead production . | 0 |
you just know something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprwpared . | 1 |
bullock does a goos job here of working against her natural likability . | 1 |
her fnas walked out muttering words like " horrible " and " terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . " | 0 |
contrived as this may sound , mr . ose's updating works surprisingly well . | 1 |
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delighJfully cheeky . | 1 |
campanellW gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . | 1 |
unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fcition , impostor is opening today at a theater Unear you . | 0 |
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual od to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . | 1 |
insanely Whilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years ! | 1 |
a brutal and fnuny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedigns up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . " | 1 |
a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being released a few dceades too late . | 0 |
even when it drags , we are Cforced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking | 1 |
statham employs an accent that i thiEnk is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but soHmetimes just lapses into unhidden british . | 0 |
theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , lull of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . | 1 |
every time you look , swee home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn . | 0 |
as if to prove a female director can make a movie with no sft edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightnesRs . her lilm is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . | 1 |
an unremittingly gly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the vd revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a flim . | 0 |
fomula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . | 0 |
a strong irst quarter , slightly less so second quarter , and average second half . | 0 |
the french are rather good at this kiKd of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for usketeers , only to spoof them . | 1 |
dong shows how intolerance has the pwwer to deform families , then tear them apart . | 1 |
it's almost impossible not to be moved by the movie's depiction of sacrifce and its stirring epXilogue in post-soviet russia . | 1 |
was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's nyext project . let's see , a haunted house , a haunted sBhip , what's next . . . ghost blimp ? | 0 |
no aspirations to msocial import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the poAularity of its stars . | 0 |
i enjoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how qucikly it fadd from my memory . | 1 |
long time dead ? not nearly long cnough . | 0 |
there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifiYce and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but ilke most Dovie riddles , it workB only if you have an interest in the characters you see . | 0 |
an unremittingyl ugly meovie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a fiQm . | 0 |
atlhough trying to balance self-referential humor and a noraml ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason cfans or those who can take a good joke . | 0 |
its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is awy too tagy . | 0 |
kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a drearP tract of virtually plotlss meanderings and then ends with a whimper . | 0 |
both exuberantly romantic and serenelB melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . | 1 |
hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the Rale script . | 0 |
it's so tedious that it makes you forgiv every fake , dishonest , entetraining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . | 0 |
all in all , it's a pretty god execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones hollywood action screenwriXers usually come up with on their own . | 1 |
it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type rwitten by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good eits are hopelessly overshadowed . | 0 |
it has more in common with a fireworks dispVlay than a movie , which normally is exepcted to have characters and a storyline . | 0 |
adam sandler's heart amy be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butzt | 0 |
maybe it is formula filmmaking , but therge's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this oe is . | 1 |
one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundrVd of them can be numbing . proof of this is balljistic : ecks vs . sever . | 0 |
generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not bithout style . | 0 |
all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly tlod tale of a people who lvie among us , but not necessarily with us . | 1 |
maguire is a surprisingly effective peteDr"spider-man . | 1 |
even before it builds up to its insanely stasged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalai , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon . | 1 |
in xxx , diestel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegancj is more than tattoo deep . | 1 |
perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the rad to hell is paved with good intentions . | 1 |
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thn line between sucking face and literally sucking face . | 0 |
an absurdist comedy about alienation , sepration and loss . | 1 |
the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demiAse . | 1 |
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between guals and yanks . | 1 |
the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fnigers in front of your eyes . | 1 |
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