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shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overusde cncept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion . | 1 |
its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpectd fable ensures the film never feels draggy . | 1 |
nds up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan's wacky decision to stand by her man , no matter how many times he demonstraets that he's a disloyal astyr . | 0 |
a trite psychological thriller designed to keep the audience guessing and guessing -- which is not to be confused with suspecting -- until it comes tiem to wrap things up and sYend the viewers hmoe . | 0 |
an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperte attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation carmps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 . | 1 |
a big fat pian . | 0 |
each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generatq a single threat of suspense . | 0 |
the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indTulged in and rejected as bOoring before i see this piece of crap again . | 0 |
the siight of the name bruce willis bprings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind--maybe too much . | 0 |
ultimately , in the historO of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about " chicago " in 2002 . zpllweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and slindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best catress even more of a an a | 0 |
if you're a crocndile hunter fan , you'll eojoy at least the " real " portions of the film . if you're looking for a story ,don't bother . | 0 |
odd and Teird . | 0 |
the film makes a fatal mistake : it aks uhs to care about a young man whose only apparent virtuQe is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . | 0 |
maybe it's the star powre of the cast or the redundant messages , but something aboul " full frontal " seems ,well ,['contrived . ' | 0 |
if it's another regurgitated wction movie you're after , there's no better film than half past dead . | 0 |
a lamye comedy . | 0 |
children may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will amlost certainly be fasinated , and undoubtedly delighted . | 1 |
the history is fascinating ; the actin is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . | 1 |
a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's cazy french grandfather . | 0 |
a delightful surprise because despite all the backstgae drama , this is a ovie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . | 1 |
the whole thing plays like a tired tyco aY . | 0 |
one thing's for sure—if george romero had drected this movie , it wouldn't have taken the protagonists a full hojur to determine that in order to kill a zombie you msut shoot it in the head . | 0 |
like life on the island , the mRovie grows boring despite the scenery . | 0 |
it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washingtoFn as possibly the best actor orking in movies today . | 1 |
not since japanese filmamker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combaVt and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . | 1 |
vPiewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . | 0 |
works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly intQeresting to say about them . | 0 |
the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlanwdish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for aynthing resembling reality | 1 |
the film is all a ltitle lit crit 101 , but it's extremely well played and often very funny . | 1 |
an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these Sperformers and their era . | 1 |
ploddikng , peevish and gimmicky . | 0 |
eevry once in a while , a movie will come along that turnB me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy | 1 |
harmlss fun . | 1 |
'sophisticatedN viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their feslow sophisticates . | 0 |
a tone of ruexful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heigthened by current world events . | 1 |
i can only imagine oSe thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sutlry linda fiorentino doing the same thing . | 0 |
an inptelligent , moving and invigorating film . | 1 |
you could love safe conduct ( lissez passer ) for being a subtitled french movie that is 170 minutes long . you couZd hate it for the same reason . | 1 |
its wekll of tohrn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . | 0 |
no Londer they're talking about " talk to her . " it's astonishing . | 1 |
you never know where changing lanes is going to ake you but it's a heck of a ride . mamuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is . | 1 |
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a ssuicide race . | 0 |
very amusing , not the usual troute in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . | 1 |
for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it make the silly spy vs . spy film the um of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitDhcockian . | 0 |
this ill-fitting txedo is strictly off-the-rack . | 0 |
. . . plays ike somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is othewrise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . | 0 |
poves that some movie formulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . | 1 |
a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitiouO charlie kaufman might object to . | 0 |
tom shadyca has leared a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . | 0 |
soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine dQepth that would mae them redeemable . | 0 |
a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that atkes its title all too literally . | 0 |
84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , learly , great fun . | 1 |
once the expectabtion of laughter has been quashed by whatUver obscenity is at hand , even the funniest idea isn't funny . | 0 |
the bard as black coemdy -- willie would have loved it . | 1 |
technically and uartistically inept . | 0 |
all right , so it's not a brilliant pTiece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a plyaful sirit and a game cast . | 1 |
the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetced it owuld be impossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney moBies are made of . | 1 |
never engaging , utterly predictable and completely voiFd of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful . | 0 |
a rather tired exercise in nostalgHia . | 0 |
although occasionakly static to the point of resembling a stage play , the film delivers a solid mixture of sweetncss and laughs . | 1 |
a story about intelligent ihgh school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautiully acted . | 1 |
in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a omvie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be gogd . | 1 |
occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentel waking coma . | 0 |
the film is one of the year's bPst . | 1 |
when your leading ladies are a copule of screen-eating dxominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down easily . | 1 |
rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chiOk , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . | 0 |
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorouYs [than leon] . | 0 |
a gob of drivel so sickly wseet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rnacid crème brûlée . | 0 |
if only merchand paid more attention the story . | 0 |
. . . a balnd , pretentious mess . | 0 |
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it tWkes to describe how bad it is . | 0 |
anyone who welcomes a daRsh of the avant-garde fused with their humor should ztake pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . | 1 |
de niro looks bored , murphy recycles mlurphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that retresents nothing more than the art of the deal . | 0 |
the film is a verba duel between two gifted performers . | 1 |
while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construcp a real story this time . | 1 |
celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm tat's ahrd to beat . | 1 |
directed in a flahy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actuall adds a period to his first name | 0 |
it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its chcracters more than two obvious imensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . | 0 |
. . . a stry we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and hmuan beings , should know . | 1 |
os porblemas têm início a aprtir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta . | 1 |
highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the le cheapo margaritas served within . | 0 |
at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-Sanded in its effort to modernize it with encoVmia to diversity and tolerance . | 0 |
less the sensational trueP-crime hell-jaunt purists might lkie and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . | 1 |
halloween : resurrection isn't exactly qualty cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . | 1 |
it's a boom-box of a mvoie that might have been titled 'the loud and the Cludicrous' . . . the panadering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated . | 0 |
ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there aint none , you have a problem . | 0 |
has its momeHts -- and almost as many subplots . | 0 |
pretty good little movi . | 1 |
more of a career curo than a major work . | 0 |
the story itself is uninteresing , and the songs are painfully undistinguished : they might be giapnts' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . | 0 |
writer"director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in ameria . it's a scathing portrayal . | 1 |
as surreaxl as a dream and as detDailed as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming . | 1 |
if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you're far better vserved by the source mateiral . | 0 |
while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real tory this time . | 1 |
the film has [its] moments , but they are few and fdr between . | 0 |
the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , ae , geSder , race , and class . | 0 |
the flm tries too hard to be fuQnny and tries too hard to be hip . the end result is a film that's neither . | 0 |
it's not too fst and not too slow . it's not too racy and it's not too offVensive . it's not too much of anything . | 0 |
although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best uisine , mostly cartha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists . | 1 |
whether quittiung will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . | 0 |
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