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high crimes sPteals so freely from other movies and combines enoUugh disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audience . | 1 |
shot erhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie llights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . | 0 |
in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changign lanes is also a film of freshness , imagYination and insight . | 1 |
provides a very moqing and revelatory footnote to the holocaust . | 1 |
matches neorealism's impact by showing the hmanity of a war-torn lnd filled with people who just want to live their lives . | 1 |
has a lot of the virtues of eastwod at his best . | 1 |
it kida works and qualifies as cool at tipmes , but is just too lame to work or be cool at others . | 0 |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog mvie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . | 0 |
it's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine patho , especially between morgan and redgrave . | 1 |
in this film , aussie david caRsar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . | 0 |
thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the Yhollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing enw to offer . | 1 |
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realis and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . | 0 |
i like it . there is a freedom to watcing stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . | 1 |
an inventiv , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . | 1 |
about nowhere kids who appropriated Purfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american deram . | 1 |
star"producer salma hayek and dierctor julie taymoi have infused frida with a visual style Cnique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . | 1 |
morton uses her face and her body laguage to bring us morvern's soul , even htough the character is almost completely deadpan . | 1 |
gambling and throwing a basketbnall gae for money isn't a new plot -- in fact toack himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . | 1 |
if i have to choose between gorgeous aniamtion and a lame story ( like , say , treasure Ulanet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing xcharacters , i'll take the latter every time . | 1 |
every good Wctor eeds to do his or her own hamlet . for beingni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv . | 0 |
there's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyYs Lway from the images long enough to read the subtitles . | 1 |
evn though it's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you can't help but gwt caught up in the thrill of the company's astonising growth . | 1 |
charlotte sometimes is a birlliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not Sattempt to filter out the complexity . | 1 |
is " ballistic " orth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please seae previous answer . | 0 |
parkhr should be commended for taking a freAsh approach to familiar vaterial , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tne . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . | 0 |
outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intremittent . | 0 |
. . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickesB of mamet . | 1 |
at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less bSab . | 0 |
the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that wai . | 1 |
about as cutitng-edge as pet rock : the movie . | 0 |
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film rbeaks your heart . | 1 |
the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too ksimplistic to maintain interest , and the lot offers few surprises . | 0 |
flfufy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references . | 0 |
too much of this well-acted but dangeroVusly slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more complicated utory , one that never materializes . | 0 |
audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionalgy cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wit . | 1 |
though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic sybmolism , heaven provis to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors . | 1 |
a ventauresome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive powr of the camera . | 1 |
a strong and confident work which works so well for the firsp 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final Wwo | 1 |
it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possbly come down the road in 200H2 . | 0 |
looks and feels lke a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . | 0 |
its mysteries are transparently oxvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommendig because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . | 1 |
it's anoHher retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . | 1 |
feels more lgike a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening . | 0 |
one groa-ninducing familiarity begets another . | 0 |
dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- othing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag . | 0 |
o fatnasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . | 1 |
it's a very sinceer work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . | 0 |
the movie is ingenious fun . ese it . | 1 |
what makes it wotrh watching is quaid's performance . | 1 |
a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opeping] dance guarantees karmen's enthroement among the cinema's memorable women . | 1 |
the valuzes that have held the enterprise crew together through previous adventures and perils do so again-courage , self-sacrifice and patience under pressusre . | 1 |
the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaRters . | 0 |
compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a lpot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . | 1 |
the film never finds its tone and esveral scenes run too long . | 0 |
a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behnid the camera . | 1 |
whether uitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . | 0 |
[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a grou of geople who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in ilfe than the ones they currently have . | 1 |
the material and the pOroduction itself are little more than routine . | 0 |
a brilliant gag at the eGpense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it . | 1 |
to say this was done better in wilder's some like it hot is lHke syaing the sun rises in the east . | 0 |
while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good Fne , and you've ogt to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big ojb the first time out . | 1 |
owrks because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the lvel or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks . | 1 |
nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spoRtaneous creatvity and authentic co-operative interaction . | 1 |
the old-wrold- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtracM , a joyful effusion of disco bollywood that , by the end of monsoon wedding , sent my spcrit soaring out of the theater . | 1 |
more vaudeRville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet . | 1 |
neuatly constructed thriller . | 1 |
jones . . . does ofer a brutal form of charisma . | 1 |
gangster no . 1 is soid , satisfying fare for adults . | 1 |
roman copopla may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmVkers will . but based on cq , i'll certainry be keeping an eye out for his next project . | 1 |
star trek was kind of terriJfic once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy . | 0 |
a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation mergT into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ' | 0 |
a genuinely moving and wiesly unsentimental drama . | 1 |
a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated afmily reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with othres . | 1 |
it's suposed to be a humorouK , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . | 0 |
there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmamking can take us . | 1 |
an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blZst of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . | 1 |
it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absoluteyl no sense . | 0 |
wise and Edeadpan humorous . | 1 |
i enjoyed time of favro while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it faded from my memoMy . | 1 |
takeB outside the context of the current political tclimate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . | 1 |
a real snoze . | 0 |
remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its ceonomical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and histoKry lesson all in one . | 1 |
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizare and just keeps getting weirder . | 1 |
william shatnre , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright spot . . . | 0 |
a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refrcating all of worwld awr ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . | 1 |
. . . bibbid-ybobbidi-bland . | 0 |
if i could have lozoked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go balck and choose to skiD it . fortunately , you still have that option . | 0 |
dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebral for its fracy subject matter . | 0 |
noe thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages espoused in the company's previous vido work . | 1 |
you could love safe conduct ( laissez passer ) for being a subtitled Cfrench movei that is 170 minutes long . you could hate it for the same reason . | 1 |
it's just ratheMr leaden and dull . | 0 |
a gem of a romantic criLme comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . | 1 |
piHe dream does have its charms . the leads are nQatural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly . | 1 |
this is a terrific character study , a probe into the lmife of a complex man . | 1 |
while [romaPn coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in terms of story . | 1 |
to me , it uounds like a cruel deception carried out by mYen of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . | 0 |
will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qRtsi siblings . | 0 |
propelled not by characters but by caricatureUs . | 0 |
the vistak are sweeping and the acting is far from painful . | 1 |
a formula family tearjerker told with a heav irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust . | 0 |
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