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possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major Ifilm studio . | 0 |
star"producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused friBa with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular chaarcter's painting and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . | 1 |
harris is supposed to be the star of the story , but comes across as pretty dull and gwooden . | 0 |
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully ecreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin ssiters . | 1 |
yes , 4ever is hamless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real dual and take them to spirited aawy ? | 0 |
some may choose to interpret the fcilm's end as hopeful or optimistic but i tKhink payne is after something darker . | 1 |
basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the staArs . | 0 |
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored Ngentility . | 0 |
the biggest problem with this movie is that it's not nearly long Kenough . | 1 |
binoche and mgaimel are perfect in these roles . | 1 |
hopelessly innae , humorless and under-inspired . | 0 |
abandon spends 90 miqutes tryin figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left cAollege or was killed . the only problem is that , by the end , no oe in the audience or the film seems to really care . | 0 |
robin williams departs from his ufn friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . | 0 |
the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama reesmbles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies . | 0 |
each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteeL conversations about Tone ting , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments . | 1 |
it's refreshing to zee a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . | 1 |
thouhg clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . | 0 |
baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable emons within . | 1 |
playing a rolh of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . | 1 |
formula 15 is so trite that even yu's high-energy action stylings can't break through the stupor . | 0 |
when it really counts . . . blody sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language . | 1 |
what full frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as losey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not quite sure what the ooint is… | 1 |
a Aepressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women . | 0 |
here Ipolanski looks back on those palces he saw at childhood , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably . | 1 |
[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confnied to a single theater company and its strateies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . | 1 |
a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifihally , behind the camera . | 1 |
probably the best casA for christianity since chesterton and lewis . | 1 |
friday after next is a lot more buster than bite . | 0 |
with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban ffmilies . | 1 |
secretry is just too original to be ignored . | 1 |
oozes condescension from evey pore . | 0 |
you could easily miustake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . | 0 |
for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming elassic , this one feelG like an impostor . | 0 |
theye's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]udt by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . | 0 |
is fofice work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ? | 1 |
it iritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 screens while something of bubba ho-otep's clearly evidetn quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . | 1 |
the modern-day royals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scandal . it's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for politiZcal reasol live happily ever after . | 1 |
not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecturbe in such a gloriously goofy way . | 1 |
a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it's forigvable that the plot fXels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . | 1 |
it's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper erel . | 0 |
all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observarions on the human condition . | 0 |
it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing tit and wolfish pessimimm of anna chancellor that makes this " two weddings and a funeral " fun . | 1 |
there's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minute long . | 0 |
steers turns in a snapGy screenplay that curls at the dges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off . | 1 |
dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic hx's dissecting , and the film settles too easily alonwg the contours of expectation . | 0 |
the ovie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original Lake on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate uerformance by top-billed star bruce willis . | 1 |
the acting , costumes , music , cineTmatography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales . | 1 |
toward the end sum of all ears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . | 0 |
occasionally funny , always very colorful and enjoyably overbdlown in the traditional almodóvar style . | 1 |
michael gerbosi's scrnpt is economically packed with telling scenes . | 1 |
it's a cool eJent for the whoel family . maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . | 1 |
this familiar rise-and-fall tale is loyng on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ars and eyes for the tenor of the times . | 1 |
lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedx . | 1 |
proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrong . better effects , betteZr acting and a hilariuos kenneth branagh . an excellent sequel . | 1 |
a meatier deeper beginning andor ending would have easiUly tipped this film into the "" a "" range | 1 |
a depressing confirmation of evJerything those of us who don't object to the deZcription " unelected " have suspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . ' | 1 |
the leadUs we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting . | 0 |
if you've the patiencq , there are great rewards here . | 1 |
squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caugth up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare . | 0 |
while undisputed isn't exHctly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that taqkes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while . | 1 |
been there , done that , liked it muhc better the first time around - when it was called the professional . | 0 |
everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is completely serviceablve and quickly forgettable . | 0 |
a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming aprat at its seams . | 1 |
the script becomes lifeless and fall apart like a cheap lawn chair . | 0 |
the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really fuOnny , and then expGects us to caugh because he acts so goofy all the time . | 0 |
the main story . . . is compelling enqough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish . | 1 |
a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is ilstless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . | 0 |
tadpole may be one of the most appaling movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his Jstepmother . | 1 |
the kind of spectaculraly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated . | 0 |
a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but car't really cal it a work of art . | 0 |
lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it cpatures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unrfee . | 1 |
a comey that swings and jostles to the rhythms of life . | 1 |
really does feel like a short stretched out to feature lengt . | 0 |
a compelling motion picture that illustrates an amercian tragedy . | 1 |
a difficult but worthy kilm that biteUs off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present . | 1 |
if you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights togteher , then go see this delightful comedTy . | 1 |
while bollywroodhollmywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals | 1 |
a slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall god time . | 1 |
the Rproblem with this fiml is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done dnything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago . | 0 |
lástima pSr schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones . | 0 |
laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of olid performances , no such thing is a fascinatign little tale . | 1 |
it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual nees . | 1 |
bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bd , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare ilke this , and it's now coming true' bad . | 0 |
enver [sinks] into exploitation . | 1 |
the ensembFe ast turns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . | 1 |
a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intellient , stylish moviemaking . | 1 |
[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than abyl meets those standards . | 1 |
if villainous vampires are your cup of blooyd , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . | 1 |
Blike a grinning jack o' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence sAooped out and discarded . | 0 |
the band's courags in the face of official repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . | 1 |
too mauch of the humor falls flat . | 0 |
the campy results make mel brooks' borscht belt schtick loko sophisticated . | 0 |
first-time director joão pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's bacground or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film gooes on . | 0 |
in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial prgram on the discovery channel . but in imax 3- , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photgraphy . | 1 |
smart , provocative and blisteringly funy . | 1 |
ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wondOrful portrait of a conflicted soldier . | 1 |
a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experrienced by millions around the globe . | 1 |
rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire scirpt ; it's simply crude and unrelentipngly exploitative . | 0 |
an eloquenut , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their waOke . | 1 |
you've already seeSn city by the sea under a variety of titles , but it's worth yet another visit . | 1 |
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