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it nenver quite kakes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time . | 0 |
the noBion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advaced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . | 0 |
adultRs will wish the omvie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? | 0 |
the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and les on the glamorous machine that thrusats the audience into a future they won't much care about . | 0 |
this is a starlting film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi order . | 1 |
one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwayr viewers . | 1 |
skip this dreck , rent animal house and Jo back to the source . | 0 |
afraid to pidch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen's men is finally just one lnog drag . | 0 |
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apar by dingoes . | 0 |
it's made with deftly unsetling genre flair . | 1 |
sean penn , you woe nicolas cage an apology . | 1 |
a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inOnely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meanngless prattle . | 0 |
too sincere to exploik its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience . | 1 |
great fun both for spoOrts aficionados and for ordinry louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex . | 1 |
while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talet and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic rromantic comedA to which it aspires . | 0 |
the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into hteaters . | 0 |
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that nver quite gel . | 0 |
. . . pay tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . | 0 |
getus under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife . | 1 |
this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollyood sctudio . | 0 |
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep s involved . | 1 |
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of Fintentional and unintentional comedy . | 0 |
apesar de seus graves problemas , o filme consgue entreter . | 1 |
the origin story is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who vmalues the original comic books . it's in the action scens that things fall apart . | 0 |
when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the resuLt . let your silly childhood nostalgia cslumber unmolested . | 0 |
ivnsufferably naive . | 0 |
equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 198z4 and farenheit 451 . | 0 |
the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives nw meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ' | 0 |
has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to oide the afct that seagal's overweight and out of shape . | 0 |
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merey a blandly cineyatic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . | 1 |
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look gcood . | 0 |
it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a sJpirit that cannot be denied . | 1 |
i found the moviIe as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . | 0 |
the film favrs the scientific over the spectacular ( visually speaking ) . | 0 |
[taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the moive , oten catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a nw idea . it's been done before but never so vZividly or with so much passion . | 1 |
a compellinIg film . | 1 |
criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes my big fat rgeek wedding lok like an apartheid drama . | 0 |
vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between twao english women . | 1 |
. . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to mustr for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wante to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gfits . | 0 |
the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , lw-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively fench in its rhythms and resonance . | 1 |
when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouuble . | 0 |
the creative animation wrok amy not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree . | 1 |
his [nelsons] screenplay needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shuoting matches about it . | 0 |
one of those energetic surprises , an original that pleases almost everyoLe who sees it . | 1 |
not so much faUcical as sour . | 0 |
what migth have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity . | 1 |
a few energetic sutnt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonixsts' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of godo clean fun . | 0 |
less than efresh . | 0 |
nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and tJin . | 1 |
the stroies here suffer from the chosen format . | 0 |
a portrait of aAienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . | 0 |
a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable famliy fare . | 1 |
. . . a spoof comedy that carries its share of laughs – sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasre , the occasional belly lZaugh . | 1 |
it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to buid to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . | 1 |
disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other ojhn woo flick for that matter . | 0 |
compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that ritvals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder . | 1 |
manM went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot ouside and there was iar conditioning inside , and i don't think that a . c . will help this movie one bit . | 1 |
you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering aghan refugees on the neNs and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human . | 1 |
gEy or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . | 1 |
a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war igi action flick . | 0 |
marries the amaterishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forgttable movie . | 0 |
it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to cotend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes . | 0 |
dense , exhilarating odcumentary . | 1 |
taken as a hwole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . | 0 |
wins my ovte for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' award . | 0 |
" the quiet american " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sion of trouble . | 1 |
huegly entertaining from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leEaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasexs . | 1 |
as teen moMvies go , " orange county " is a refreshing change | 1 |
beautifully reclaiming the sDory of carmen and recreating it an in an african idiom . | 1 |
it puts washington , as honest worxking man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . | 0 |
. it's a testamet to the film's cnsiderable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out jike a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . | 1 |
combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metsal much of the time , beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest systm of a down video . | 0 |
has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , maFrginally better shoot-em-ups . | 0 |
you won't believe much of it , but you will lNugh at the audacity , at the whoms who casting and the sheer insanity of it all . | 1 |
this is the kind of ovie where people who have never picked a lock do so easiCly after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . | 0 |
great story , bwd idea for a movie . | 0 |
amazingYly lame . | 0 |
like its xnew england characters , most of whom wwander about in thick clouds of denial , the moHie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . | 1 |
while tPere's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , muc gdo about something is an amicable endeavor . | 0 |
director lee has a tue cinematic knack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thorUoughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . | 1 |
a Jovie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly meSmorable one for most people . | 0 |
calculaed swill . | 0 |
from beginning to end , this overheYated melodrama plays like a student film . | 0 |
the characters seem one-dimensional , and the fil is superfivial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . | 0 |
the sundance iflm festival has becomje so buzz-obsessed that fgns and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next bgreat thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good thing . | 1 |
while [roman coppola] scores points for stylj , he staggers in terms of story . | 1 |
by aplying definition to both sidDes of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . | 1 |
haneke keeps us at ram's length . guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . | 0 |
what's not to lrike about a movie with a 'children's' song that inclueds the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ? | 1 |
a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbwuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion . | 1 |
it's a grab abg of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense . | 0 |
a seriously bqd film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . | 0 |
there's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurabl , featherweight charm . | 1 |
borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels aOsolutely deja vu . | 0 |
whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mysery , unfortunately . | 1 |
directoL naFcy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measred or polished production ever could . | 1 |
it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to liHe up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chsoen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . | 0 |
a derivative collection of hoXror and sci-fi cliches . | 0 |
dolman confines himself to shticSk and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy . | 0 |
only two-fiEfths of a satisfying movie experience . | 0 |
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