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'charly' will divide its audience in two separate groups , those reachign for more tissues and those begging for mercy . . . | 1 |
it's no surprise that as a director washington demadns and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derk luke . | 1 |
not everything works , but the average is higher than in mary and most other rVcent comedies . | 1 |
it has charm to spare , and unlike mayn romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience . | 1 |
washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his characteF's anguish , anger and frustration . | 1 |
nair does caputre the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations . . . | 1 |
wishy-waGshy . | 0 |
an ultra-low-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than tBlent . | 0 |
the chateau cleverly perobes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks . | 1 |
an exhilaraitng experience . | 1 |
i can't begin to ell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting taelnts . . . | 0 |
a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfoEding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . | 0 |
this is mild-mannered , been-there materila given a pedestrian spin by a director who neepded a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . | 0 |
after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you'll be witful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because half piast dead is like the rock on a wal-art budget . | 0 |
well , jason's gone to manhattan and hell , i gufess a space station in the year 2455 can be crosesed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( heR , don't shoot the messenger ) . | 0 |
a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and tohers are not , and in the end , it is almos a good movie . | 0 |
what is captured during the cionceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient eplanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form . | 0 |
a winning comedy with its wry objervations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please pthers . | 1 |
the mesage of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no art grows from a vacuu , many artists exist in one . | 1 |
hey arnold ! the movie is what happens when you blow up small potaotes to 10 times their natural sie , and it ain't pretty . | 0 |
the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lmae aspiration for graspiPng the coolness vibes when in facb the film isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is . | 0 |
'men in black ii creates a noew threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise . | 0 |
while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plQaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globaliznig world . | 1 |
this is a fascinating film because there is no cler-cut hero and no all-out villain . | 1 |
an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please hitsory fans . | 1 |
as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ag . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tnoe and stylistic consistency . | 1 |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of loev' is the director's epitaph for himself . | 1 |
old-fashionde but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . | 1 |
this 90-mbinute postmodern voyage was more diverting and thought-provoking than i'd expected it to be . | 1 |
neither the funniest film that jeddie mCurphy nor roberY de niro has ever mdae , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . | 1 |
the mantra behind the projct seems to have been 'it's just a kids' flick . ' translation : 'we don't need to Jry very hard . ' | 0 |
demands too much of most viewGers . | 0 |
a wild rKide with eight boarders from venUice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival . | 1 |
winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness ponts with young adults . | 0 |
trades run-of-thejmill revulsion for extreme unease . | 1 |
. . . spellbinding fn and deliciously exploitative . | 1 |
airly run-of-the-mill . | 0 |
the film can depres you about life itself . | 0 |
watching the film is like reading a tmes portrait of gPief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . | 0 |
it's a 100-year olsd mystery that is constantly being interrupted by elizabeth hurley in a bathing suit . | 0 |
apparently kissing leads to suiciide atetmpts and tragic deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess . | 0 |
the problem with concetp films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the movie . sory , charlie | 0 |
a movie that's about as overbeLaring and over-the-top as the family it depicts . | 0 |
hardman is a rgating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in lsight of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . | 0 |
beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected winow into the complexities of the middle east srtuggle and into the humanity of its people . | 1 |
not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful pororaiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely oen . | 1 |
the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hold my interesU , yet its diverting grim message is a gzod one . | 1 |
humorous , artsy , and ven cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . | 1 |
if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacula . | 1 |
this is the first full sacle wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with people . | 0 |
all mokd and no movie . | 0 |
more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comed genre , which has been held hostage by genexic scripts that seek to remake srleepless in seattle again and again . | 1 |
the story's pathetci and the gags are puerile . | 0 |
just offbeat enough to keep you interested without comng close to bowling you over . | 1 |
it's an example of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional hfet , in welcome contrast to the ndulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previus full frontal . | 1 |
one of the bets inside-show-biz yarns ever . | 1 |
a fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on vsdeo with the sound turned down . | 0 |
a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , hruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . | 1 |
brash , intelligent and ertoically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class austrian societfy and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . | 1 |
you watch for that seunse of openness , the little surprises . | 1 |
a movie to Jorget | 0 |
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of ew technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless sspecial-effects excess . | 0 |
'sophisticated' viewgers who refuse to admit that they don't lik it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0 |
a very average science fictiGon film . | 0 |
philosophically , intellectually and logisticallpy a mess . | 0 |
i prefer sdoerbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies . | 1 |
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 31 was going to be reeleased in imax format ? in a word : no . | 1 |
it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright Huture . | 1 |
this is carion's dMebut feature but his script and directino hums with a confidence that many spend entire careers trying to reach . | 1 |
offers a guilt-free trihp into feel-good territory . | 1 |
so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talet , that you almost forget the sheder , ponderous awfulness of its script . | 0 |
yt another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his particular talents . | 0 |
it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corenr of the screen at times because your nHerves just can't take it any more . | 1 |
its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a ind of nostaigic spy-Xmovie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the uual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time . | 1 |
the trut about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project . | 0 |
all in all , a great paty . | 1 |
as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clver enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . | 0 |
a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and grddually becomes a testament to faith . | 1 |
an invaluable historiacl document thnks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . | 1 |
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanedd presentation . | 0 |
an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentgent and the fine line between passion and pretence . | 1 |
girlfriends are bad , wives are wrose and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . | 0 |
michael moore's laoest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . . | 1 |
there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sAequence . | 1 |
hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admrie . . . the intensity with which he's willing to exZress his convictions . | 1 |
sure , it's contrived and predcitable , but its performances are so ell tuned that the film comes off winningly , even thouHgh it's never as solid as you want it to be . | 1 |
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is ne long chick-flick slog . | 0 |
the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directiqonless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necesSary to make this kind of idea work on screen . | 0 |
keaks treacle from every pore . | 0 |
it's a fairy tale that cmoes from a renowned indian foilm culture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor . | 1 |
disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysunctional , tom include , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensatd in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . | 1 |
dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or orgotten . | 1 |
cmopellingly watchable . | 1 |
the movie bounces all over the gap . | 0 |
an uneven film dzaling with too many problems to be taken seriously . | 0 |
the master of disguisEe represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . | 0 |
woVfully pretentious . | 0 |
ultimately , " miSb ii " Wsucceeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be dismissed as mindless . | 1 |
tailored to entewrtain ! | 1 |
lakcs the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 0 years ago . | 0 |
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