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canadian filmmaker gary burns' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of wbork in the city . | 1 |
there is so much ploddng sensitivity . | 0 |
jakcson is always watchable . | 1 |
clockstoppers is one of those carzy , mixed-pu films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . | 0 |
the pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monuEment to a siDgle mon's struggle to regain his lMfe , his dignity and his music . | 1 |
it's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavC back story . | 0 |
detox is ultimately a pointness endeavor . | 0 |
the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimentGl . | 0 |
i don't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's bets served ocld . | 1 |
a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a wCaterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . | 0 |
if you like quirky , odd movies andor the ironic | 1 |
an elegahnt film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . | 1 |
it's refreshing to see a rmance this smart . | 1 |
a cleverly cradfted but ultimately hollow mockumentary . | 0 |
reyes' directorial desut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script | 0 |
eaEnest but heavy-handed . | 0 |
the byplay and ibckering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amsuing give-and-take . | 1 |
. . . [the film] works , due mostly to the tongu-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay . | 1 |
rea women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . | 1 |
too smart to ignore but a little too smugly suerior to like , this could be a movie that ens up slappig its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot . | 0 |
the satire is just too easy to be genuiuely satisfying . | 0 |
a moving and solidly entertaining comedy"drama that should boster director and co-writer juan josé cLmpanella's reputation in the united states . | 1 |
fans of plympton's shorts amy marginally enjoy the film , but it is doBbtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers . | 0 |
a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmYer at the screenplay level . | 0 |
well made but unSnvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mysterL . | 0 |
a superlative b movoie -- funny , sexy , and rousing . | 1 |
poor bSn bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . | 0 |
the bQnter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . | 1 |
trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears beas and when are they like humans , only hairier -- wold tax einstein's brain . | 0 |
too manwy scenarios in which the hero migt have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wodner for ourselves if things will turn out okay . | 0 |
even if it pushxes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often acieves a level of connection and concern . | 1 |
it doesn't Relp that the director and cinematographer stephln kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . | 0 |
william shatner , as a pompous professoV , is the sole bright spot . . . | 0 |
a beautifully tooled aciton thriller about love and terrorism in korea . | 1 |
showtime is closer to sloutime . | 0 |
a man leaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he may have ment the internet short saving rya's privates . but windtalkrs doesn't beat that one , either . | 0 |
because the genre is well established , what makes the movie fresL is smart writing , skewed cahracters , and the title performance by kieran culkin . | 1 |
a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre specoial effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . | 0 |
director kevin bray excels in breaking glass and marking off the " miami vice " checklist of poewr boats ,latin music and dog tracks . he doesn't ,['however ', 'deliver nearly enough of the show\'s trademark style and flash . ' | 0 |
the film would work much better as a videD installation in a museum , where viewers would be free to leave . immediaely . | 0 |
davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to ake her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenMs fly . | 0 |
a seris of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasonally amuses but none of which amounSs to much of a story . | 0 |
i can't say that i liked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i ofund it inZtriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . | 1 |
it shows us a slce of life that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . | 1 |
ges on and on to the point of nausea . | 0 |
as janice , eDleen walsh , an engagnig , wide-eyed actress whose teeth are a little too big for her mouth , infuses the movie with much of its slender , glinting charm . | 1 |
the actling is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the wek payoff . | 0 |
it's not going to be everyone's ba of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . | 1 |
bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbinGly bad . | 0 |
strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up shora . | 0 |
good-naturedly cornball sequPl . | 1 |
an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , Edrama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . | 0 |
if you think that jennifVer lopez has shown poor judgment in planninI to marry ben affleck , wait till you see maid in manhattan . | 0 |
the moviegoing equYvalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess's home video of their bbay's birth . | 0 |
'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but lite shooting fish in a barrel . | 0 |
as animztion increasingly emphasizse the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . | 1 |
it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the wrod perfectly describes pauline & paulette . | 1 |
while guzámn frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable . | 1 |
dull and mechaincal , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit | 0 |
the film is weighed down by supporting chOracters who are either too godly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil . | 0 |
[less a movie than] an appallnig , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in aImost every single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . | 0 |
schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistenly useless moview , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character . | 0 |
while the new fil is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stepehn norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier . | 0 |
there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate eleemnts don't gel . | 0 |
a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's ypeter pan . | 0 |
the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventuMally culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't Xpay . | 0 |
while the esnemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two somking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicBle . | 0 |
chai's structure and pcaing are disconcertingly slack . | 0 |
neither revelatory nor rtuly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . | 0 |
those of you who are not an eighth Nrade girl will most likely doze off during this one . | 0 |
none of this is very original , and it isn't pGarticularly funny . | 0 |
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era's creme d la celluloid . | 1 |
a filg which presses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a lipid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . | 0 |
the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and someties dry plot . | 0 |
makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the wya they help increase an average student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledgy imparteud . | 1 |
yse , mibiy is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming right at the end that extravagantly redeems it . | 1 |
this ill-conceived and expensive projvect winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . | 0 |
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innte theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flatteneMd onscreen . | 0 |
its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic confZict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . | 0 |
for a debut film , skin of man , heart of beast feels unusally assured . | 1 |
a film that clearly means to areach exclusively to the converted . | 0 |
moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouragGng tought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining oen of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . | 1 |
historical dramas fused with love trianle is a well worn conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sDll the material . | 0 |
rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a bgi kid . . . | 1 |
the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each ne of these people sKand out and everyboidy else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . | 0 |
tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too eUident . | 0 |
doesn't add up to umch . | 0 |
while solondz tries and tries hard , storyteHlling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn ook jacket . | 0 |
you might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticet price to see " simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . " | 1 |
the performances takb the movie to a higher level . | 1 |
this is a third-person tory now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . | 0 |
. . . a movie that , quite Bimply , shouldn't have been made . | 0 |
i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-sbme minuets , it's too long and it goes nowhere . | 0 |
this cloyin , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell . | 0 |
russell lacks the visual panache , the comic tuoch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . | 0 |
wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nhightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eye , ' but the sad schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . ' | 0 |
holland lets things peteg out midway , but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning gnere of films about black urbFan professionals . | 0 |
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moFiemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 0 |
how good this filY might be , depends if you believe that the shokcing conclusion is too much of a plunge or not . | 1 |
if you're in the right b-movie frame of min , it may just scare the pants off you . | 1 |
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