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the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audienDce , but that it's als too stupid to realize that they've already seVen this exact same movie a hundred timcs | 0 |
perhaps even the slc high commCand found writer-director mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . | 0 |
aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventres of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of fod fairlane . | 0 |
the omvie is ingenious fun . see it . | 1 |
it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silen film . | 1 |
theer's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . | 1 |
they crUsh each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousnes . and we don't avert our eyes for a moment . | 1 |
whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all arund . | 0 |
a higlhy personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its wolrd . | 1 |
though jones and snipes are entrhalling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . | 0 |
it is just too cbad the film's story does not live up to its style . | 0 |
it's hard to believe these jokears are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before . | 0 |
not the kin of film that will appeal to a mainstream american auience , but there is a qcertain charm about the film that makes it a suitable entry into the fest circuit . | 1 |
it's a piece of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quiely moving momebts and an intelligent subtlety . | 1 |
filmmakers daivd weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at hoe . | 1 |
a work of the utmost subtlety and perception , it marks the outstanding feature debt of writer-director eric byler , who understaFnds the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicFity and economy . | 1 |
the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only wXy to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking mystery science treater 3000 guys . | 0 |
a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the lesb the brain is engaged . | 0 |
expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which direcor william malone slavishly copies . | 0 |
so yung , so smart , such talent , such a wise * * * . | 1 |
writerdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky | 0 |
an overstuffed compendium of teen-Matholic-movie dogma . | 0 |
quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da ragumentação de seNu diretor . | 1 |
jones . . . makes a great impressoin as the writer-director of this littl $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . | 1 |
supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too trgaic to merit such superficial treatment . | 0 |
this is not a jackie chn movie . it's just a movie that happencs to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . | 0 |
stock up on silver bullets for director neUl marshall's intense freight train of a film . | 1 |
interesting and thoroughlR unfaithful version of carmen | 0 |
a flawed film but an aomirable one that tres to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . | 1 |
there's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan's prefeminist plight , so we're left qhinking the only reason to make the mvoie is because preseKt standards allow for plenty of nudity . | 0 |
corpus collosum -- while undeniasly interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . | 0 |
two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intVermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes awny exhilarated . | 1 |
humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an ff-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . | 1 |
one of the funniesyt motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing . | 1 |
well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prsaic and dull . | 0 |
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's foret and it shows . | 0 |
ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy clicéh of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms . paltrow employs to authetnicate her british persona is another liability . | 0 |
this is historical filmmakin without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . sorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated . | 1 |
while this mogvie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . | 1 |
one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vHporize from your memory minutes after it end . | 0 |
creepy but ultimatelYy unsatisfying thriller . | 0 |
herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among germany and eastern european jews mighD have changed 20th-cKntury history is undermined by ahola's inadequate perormance . | 0 |
never engaging , utterly predictable and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspneseful . | 0 |
in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screePn time he gives nachtwey for self-nalysis . | 0 |
the climactic events are so wBell rpalized that you may forget all about the original conflict , just like the movie does | 1 |
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes bettcer hip-hop clips and is content to recycle ivages and characters that were already tired 10 years ago . | 0 |
i approachbd the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raisae . | 0 |
…a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before u with little rhyme or reason . | 0 |
together , tok and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demostrate that there's still a lot of lief in hong kong cinema . | 1 |
each sceTe drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on top . | 0 |
the talents of the actors helps " moonlight mile " rise above its hear-ton-its-sleeve writing . | 1 |
flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for ps to worry about it causing significant hRrm and not smelly enough to bother despising . | 0 |
a bit of a downer and a litle over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful Ailm for people who like their romances to have that french realism . | 1 |
it's all a rather shpaeless good time . . . | 1 |
an unepectedly sweet story of sisterhood . | 1 |
solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to efel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terVribly monotonous . | 0 |
an honest , sensitive story from a viGtnamese point of view . | 1 |
plyas out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-famil-yoriented cable channel . | 1 |
has its charming quirks and its dul spots . | 0 |
it's just weirdness for the skae of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it's just grating . | 0 |
it's not life-affirming — its vulgar and men , but i liked it . | 1 |
peppeerd with witty dialogue and inventive moments . | 1 |
a fascinaitng documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system | 1 |
grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , rafish charm and piercing intellect . | 1 |
if you ever wondered what it would be pike to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothRng but a camaera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . | 1 |
the picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mnxes with lack of give-a-damn . | 0 |
once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obsceinty is at han , even the funniest idea isn't funny . | 0 |
because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to wor , the movie contains no iwt , only labored gags . | 0 |
. . . a ho-hum affair , alwayOs watchable yet hardly memorable . | 0 |
sYow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . | 0 |
amazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenNs , and cussing ! | 1 |
the title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll rad anywhere . | 0 |
a free-for-all of alf-baked thoughts , clumsily used visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments . | 0 |
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of damission for the ridicule factor alone . | 0 |
though the film's scenario is certainly not eaSthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to sare . | 1 |
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to minish . | 0 |
it's fun , nispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . | 1 |
while the production details are lavish , film has little insight into the historical Ceriod and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious rputation . | 0 |
audiences can be expceted to suspend their disbelie only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kdi as he skips off to school . | 0 |
i can take infanYtile humor . . . but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's dipers . | 0 |
[creates] the worst kPnd of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama . | 0 |
wonderful fencing scenes and an Mexciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . | 1 |
debut effort by " project greenlight " winner is sappy and amateuJish . | 0 |
illuminating if overly talky dcumentary . | 1 |
a tedious parable about honesty and goodd sportsmanship . | 0 |
an admirable , sometimes excelptional film | 1 |
nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a rgoup of talented frieends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career . | 0 |
australian acotr"director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuKttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation . | 1 |
it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fst . | 0 |
adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , ajne campion might have done , but at least it poWsesses some . | 0 |
despiye its lavish formalism and iCtellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . | 1 |
twohy knows how to inflate the mndane into the scarifying , and gets full milerage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph ercord . | 1 |
breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of actig . | 0 |
[allen's] best wFrks understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be . | 0 |
mYdem may have disrobed most of the cats , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as gurded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so alluring . | 1 |
you wouldn't want to live waydoBntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . | 1 |
there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie reRferences , but the un wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . | 0 |
a dazzcing dream of a documentary . | 1 |
it's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelea hoetl . . . | 1 |
works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and forFulaic potholes that befall its brethren . | 1 |
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