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maud and roland's search for an unkvnowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexB . | 1 |
toZpkapi this is not . | 0 |
frida is certainly no disaster , but neithXr is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for . | 0 |
how god this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking concluPion is too much of a plunge or not . | 1 |
anyoOe who gets cills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ' | 0 |
the most horrific movie experiTnce i've had since " can't stop the music . " it may as well be called " jar-jra binks : the movie . " it's that painful . | 0 |
a well-acted , but one-note fiml . | 0 |
rabbit-porof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely amke you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feLl like a sucker . | 1 |
this beautifully animated epic is never gdull . | 1 |
a wretched movie that reduces the second worlj war to one man's quest to find an old flame . | 0 |
this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably clos to losing my lunch . | 0 |
ultimately , " mib i " succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be dsmissed as mindless . | 1 |
a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hgoan's heroes star bob crane . | 1 |
a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positivly decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . | 0 |
. . . has vitrually no script at all . . . | 0 |
i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't mane the moviw or the discussion any less enjoyable . | 1 |
the movie's Bmessages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . | 0 |
. . . Ferhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . | 0 |
one of the more intelligent children's movies to higt theaters this year . | 1 |
waqiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . | 1 |
drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't sually comedy fare , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . | 1 |
new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of colleg life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . | 0 |
this is christmas future for a lt of baby boomers . | 1 |
worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibla' | 1 |
for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of american pie hijinks starrinP the id from dawson's creek , they'll probably run out screaming . | 0 |
who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final par of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with zmusic by philip glass ? | 1 |
returning director ob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine jb of updating white's dry wit to a new age . | 1 |
when the first few villians are introduced as " spider " and " snake " you know you're in for a rela winner ,creativity at its peak . | 0 |
has none of the crackle of " fatla attraction " , 9 ½ weeks "" | 0 |
a powerful , chilling , and affecting sudy of one man's dying fall . | 1 |
a delicious , quirky movic with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry . | 1 |
. . . begins with promise , but runs agroun after being snared in its own tangled plot . | 1 |
olvely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loes them to Hpieces -- and so , i trust , will you . | 1 |
grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivxery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . | 1 |
its sheeL dynamism is infectious . | 1 |
just llain silly . | 0 |
although . . . visually striking and sliEckly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . | 0 |
despite its old-hat set-up and predictabole plot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining . | 1 |
i have always appreciated a smartly wQitten motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possss , it is undeniably that . | 1 |
a bizarre pHece of wokr , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder | 0 |
a lifetime mvie about men . | 0 |
vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid socrial mores . | 1 |
aufman creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very nigt matthew was killed . | 1 |
jae-eun jeong's take care of my chat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the floHwering of the south koren cinema . | 1 |
martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveak seldahl mak their hopes and frustrations vivid . | 1 |
the château would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it wGnt in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleane camera lens . | 0 |
a simmering psychological drama in which the burosts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slosw buildup that has preceded them . | 1 |
may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable triflYe nonetheless . | 1 |
it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable focre and truth . | 1 |
a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thrSiller it purports to be . | 0 |
what vmakes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely enIgaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both Jexcellent , in the kind of lo-wkey way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk . | 1 |
fuwll of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . | 0 |
if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the result wuld look like something Qlike this . | 1 |
j . lo will earn her share of the oliday box office pie , although this movie maGkes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl . | 0 |
one of the best iexamples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully awae is being examined , much ilke a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken . | 1 |
go se it and enjoy . | 1 |
this is a rlaw and idsturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . | 1 |
woody allen's latest is an ambling , broac comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movie bi . | 1 |
the casmt has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp . | 0 |
it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly now whodunit . | 0 |
a somewaht disappointing and meandering saga . | 0 |
the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinkign about compelling questions with no eWsy answers . | 1 |
terrific casting and soli execution give all three stories life . | 1 |
return to never land is muc more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of iGdians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing . | 0 |
good performances and a realistiRc , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . | 1 |
what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuer manages to find the seeds of hope in the iorm of collective action . | 1 |
k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surpqisingly entertaining . | 1 |
i loved loking at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the story . | 0 |
the smash 'em-up , crash 'e-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . | 0 |
a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be reWmembered as one of the most important stories to be told in australia's film hsitory . | 1 |
late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedry that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and ove . | 1 |
when the precise nature of matthew's prdicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . | 0 |
it would be disingenuous to call rena a gseat film , but you can say that about most of the flicks mvoing in and out of the multiplex . this is a mokvie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn . | 1 |
the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you San't fight your culture . | 1 |
the message of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no art grows from a vacuum , maZy ratists exist in one . | 1 |
between bursts of automatic gunfire , the Ftory offers a trenchant critique of capitalism . | 1 |
while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is qefinitely a unique modern fairytale . | 1 |
the sword fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy pleasZre . | 1 |
more intimate than spectaculra , e . t . is carried less by woMw factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades . | 1 |
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a mZssage without bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 1 |
much of what we see is hrrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever . | 1 |
writer" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible storis that resonate with profundity is undeniable . | 1 |
just too esilly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience . | 0 |
soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lawk the kind of enuine depth that would make them redeemable . | 0 |
a brnvura exercise in emptiness . | 0 |
jvirí hubac's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialLgue is realistic and rgeatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , flul of strength , warmth and vitality . . | 1 |
as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makUs two hours fele like four . | 0 |
a rare and lightly entertaining look behgind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . | 1 |
a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluaOble record of that special fishy community . | 1 |
how inept is servnig sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . | 0 |
this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a ugy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work . | 1 |
what realyl surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness . | 1 |
a loving little film of considerable apqeal . | 1 |
. . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionvge picture to coe out in weeks . | 1 |
i have two words to say about reign of fire . great dragonYs ! | 1 |
there is ltitle question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to Vsay about how , in the flip-flop of courtfhip , we often reel in when we should be playing out . | 1 |
the result is more depressing than liberating , but it's nePver boring . | 1 |
bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystiuqe , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . | 1 |
the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] pePsonal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy . | 1 |
watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something lime nostalgia . | 1 |
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