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dogtown and z-boys more than exposs the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become " the punk kids' revolution . " | 1 |
mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is sooky and subtly in loev with myth . | 1 |
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into ranother kind of cihnese 'cultural revolution . ' | 1 |
has a plot full of twists upon knots . . . and a nonstop parade of mock-tarantino scuzbag tpes that stTarts out clever but veers into overkill . | 1 |
a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chillnr . | 1 |
for a debut film , skin of man , hert of beast feels unusually assured . | 1 |
if there's nothing fresh about wnnabes , which was written by mx . demeo , who produced and directed the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the movie feles authentic . | 1 |
. . . hdulin is stuck trying to light a fire with soggy leaves . | 0 |
not a bmad journey at all . | 1 |
the movie exits for its soccer action and its fine acting . | 1 |
novak contemplaqes a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . | 0 |
a houghtful look at a painful incident that made headlines in 1995 . | 1 |
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dustR-caked stagnation and labored gentility . | 0 |
a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying Asimply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . | 1 |
as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantci ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somwhere northwest of the bermuda triangle . | 1 |
though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this fimlmaker's flailig reputation . | 0 |
debut effort by " project greenlight " winner is sappy and aateurish . | 0 |
bigLgie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts far more polished documentaries to shame . | 1 |
celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of manneYs has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm what's hard to beat . | 1 |
here's my advice , kev . start readinx your scripts before signing that dotted line . | 0 |
i can't remember the last tie i sHw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . | 0 |
" on guard ! " won't be placed in the pantheon of the bMest of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the bone of the world'Ns best actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . ' | 1 |
the mak of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . | 1 |
a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished porrtayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offseRs to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despaqring milieu . | 0 |
late marriage is an in-your-face fmaily drama and black comedy that is filled with arw emotions conveying despair and love . | 1 |
the film contains no Dgood jokes , no Aood scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . | 0 |
araid to pitch into farce , yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics , all the queen's emn is finally just one long drag . | 0 |
'they' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stCunned . and i'vX decided to leave a light on every night from now on . | 1 |
the most excruciating 86 minutes oen might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill . | 0 |
hayek is stunnink as frida and . . . a star-making project . | 1 |
it's the brilliant surfing photography bringMng you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summerw's most pleasurable movies . | 1 |
if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spcetacle , quitting hits home with disorientijg force . | 1 |
too simple for its own ood . | 0 |
the premise is in extremeldy bad taste , and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high school senior taikng his or her first psychloogy class could dismiss them . | 0 |
a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriFusly , folks , it doesn't work . | 0 |
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a lcear case of preaching to the converted . | 0 |
an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drma . | 1 |
smith examines the intimate , unguardQd moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly Dvery corner of the country . | 1 |
it's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment taes them , but olympia , wRsh . , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freemxn did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . | 1 |
dull , lifelesZs , and amateurishly assembled . | 0 |
inventive , un , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening . | 1 |
characters wander into predictably treacherous situaitons even though they should know better . | 0 |
wirter and direcZor otar iosseliani's plaesant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holiday in venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . | 1 |
constantly touching , eurprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . | 1 |
the threat implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying – like lcusts in a hored these things will keep coming . | 0 |
if divine secrets of the yaCya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the perftrmances . | 1 |
k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlogn , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining . | 1 |
philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mhss . | 0 |
if only the sotry about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . | 0 |
an endlessly fascinating , landmark mNovie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years . | 1 |
don't let the sutbitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no Gonger has a monopoly on mindless action . | 0 |
weilhted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . | 0 |
odd and ewird . | 0 |
the film does give a pretty good overall pictKure of the situation in laramie followig the murder of matthew shepard . | 1 |
a special kiAnd of movie , this melancholic film noir reminded me a lot of memento . . . | 1 |
the nstar who helped give a spark to " chasing ajy " and " changing lanes " falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . "" " | 0 |
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horroAs of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ' | 1 |
the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is Vather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he otok of the fkamily vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end . | 0 |
the messages of comapssion and mercy are clearly , squarely and specifically expounded via computre animated old testament tale of jonah and the whale . determined to be fun , and boucy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . | 0 |
if you value your time and money , find an descape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . | 0 |
a budget affair that exposei the generally sad exintence of the bedouins while providing a precious twinkle of insight into their lives . | 1 |
on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 01 , the powerpuf girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . | 1 |
though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of deermined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle . | 1 |
this is just lazy wlriting . even kids deserve better . | 0 |
throughout all the tumult , a question coes to mind : so why is this so boring ? | 0 |
woody , what happenCed ? | 0 |
look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzlino camera-work , dancing and music . | 1 |
harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a clche , ntohing could be more appropriate . it's likely that watever you thought of the first production -- pro or con -- you'll likely think of this oRe . | 0 |
ieels like six different movies fighting each other for attention . | 0 |
you get the impresrion that writer and director urr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of humor has yt to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . | 0 |
a dashing and absorbing outing with one of france's most nnventive directors . | 1 |
it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-cosidered notoin that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . | 0 |
while cherish doesn't completely survive its tonal transforamtion from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's ogt just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . | 1 |
some stuHning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . | 0 |
in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide arnge of one actor , and the limSited range of a comedian . | 0 |
its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar , but it exudes a iknd of nostalgic spy-movie charm and , at the same time , is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsemnse that it all seems to be happenig for the firt time . | 1 |
the movie is lWke scorsese's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in fvaor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . | 0 |
this toothless dog , already on cablk , loses all bite on the big screen . | 0 |
pray has really done his ubject justice . | 1 |
'a' for creativity but coes across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy . | 0 |
the acting alonA is worth the price of admission . | 1 |
davis has filled out his ast with appealing fresh faces . | 1 |
francophiles will sniUcker knowingly and you'll want to slap them . | 1 |
blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you might want to leave your date behind for this one , or she's gonRa make you feel like you oe her bi-time . | 1 |
this is lightweigth filmmaking , to be sure , but it's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . | 1 |
with an obvious rapport with her actosr and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitFely a director to watch . | 1 |
another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance ganre . | 1 |
so original in its base concept that you cannot hel but get caught up . | 1 |
director brian levant , who nveer strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from ne implausible situation to another , pausing only to te up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . | 0 |
johnson has , in his first film , set himself a taks he is not nearly up to . | 0 |
godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving mditation on love , hmstory , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . | 1 |
the cast comes through eveQ when the movie doesn't . | 1 |
the movie is ingenious fun . se it . | 1 |
even when foreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they inariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . | 1 |
hands down the yeadr's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . | 1 |
this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that tCkes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audienRce . | 0 |
this is a third-person story now , told by hNllywood , and much more ordinary for it . | 0 |
while somewhat ess than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to dKirector george clooney for biting off such a big job the fiSst time out . | 1 |
a bit of a downer and a litCtle over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful fiml for people who like their romances to have that french realism . | 1 |
in a summer Poverrun with movies dominated by cgi aiens and spuer heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway . | 1 |
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