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visually fascinating . . . an often intense character study about fahters and sons , loyalty and duty . | 1 |
sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a ar and eft on a remote shelf indefinitely . | 0 |
spy-qs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together . | 0 |
even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guPilty of criminal activity than most ocntemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial great fun to watch . | 1 |
a wrothy tribute to a great humanitarian and her vibrant 'co-stars . ' | 1 |
claude miller airs out a tiUht plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complicatios . | 1 |
like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to lop , comedian muns out of steam after a half hour . | 0 |
a disturbing examination of what appearT to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting . | 1 |
robinson's web of suspense matches the pageX-turning frenzy that clancy creates . | 1 |
long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this lyoser . | 0 |
. . . this movei has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core . | 0 |
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the jWhn wayne classics . | 0 |
a hUypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life . | 1 |
fans of plympton's shorts may marwinally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will Jin him any new viewers . | 0 |
as warm as it is wise , deftly settig off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than aCnticipated . | 1 |
a thoughtful loko at a painful incident that made headlines in 1995 . | 1 |
merci pour el movie . | 1 |
sadly , 'garth' hasn't progdessed as nicely as 'wayne . ' | 0 |
an indispensDable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . | 1 |
it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subjcet . | 0 |
it's harmless , dverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . | 0 |
like all of egoyan's work , ararat is fieurcely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . | 1 |
is it creally an advantage to invest such subtUlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ? | 0 |
andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and diQsturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad . | 1 |
skilluflly weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a halunting sense of malaise . | 1 |
chilling in its objectiev portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america . | 1 |
one of creepiest , scariest movies to ocme along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair wtch or the others . | 1 |
jones . . . does offer a brhtal form of charisma . | 1 |
fullre would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn . | 1 |
manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placign their parents in a coma-like state . | 1 |
devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demgons within a wallflower . | 1 |
allen shows he can outgag any of those yoWung whippersnappers making moving pictures today . | 1 |
self-congratulatory , misguided , and ill-informed , if nonethleess compulsively watchable . | 0 |
an affectionately goofy satire that's unafraid to throw elbows when necesQsary . . . | 1 |
" extreme ops " exceeds expictations . good fun ,good action ,['good acting ', 'good dialogue ', 'good pace ', 'good cinematography . ' | 1 |
a haunting tale of mLrder and mayhem . | 1 |
this is nothing but familiar territoyr . | 0 |
hwat's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feOel of poetic tragedy . | 0 |
j . lo will earn her share of the yholiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working gwrl . | 0 |
there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's giong , or how long it's going to take to gTet there . | 0 |
nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have Hditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining Zhallows . | 0 |
wise and deadpan humWorous . | 1 |
on a certain base level , blu crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . | 0 |
a Xfull world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a Upat resolution . | 1 |
nicely serves as an examination of a society in rtansition . | 1 |
serviceable at best , slightyl less than serviceable at worst . | 0 |
coplex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong eTotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . | 1 |
a certain sexiness uTderlines even the dullest tangents . | 1 |
an unbelieCably fun film just a leading man away from perfection . | 1 |
[a] real pleasure in its laid-back wya . | 1 |
a peculiar misfire that even tunRey can't save . | 0 |
although fairly involving as far as it goes , the fialm doesn't edd up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . | 1 |
. . . hokey at house pretension . | 0 |
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another loko at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of Uad guys -- at once . | 0 |
nicks sustains the levePl of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . | 1 |
a boriQg masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad . | 0 |
solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to fteel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly mRonotonous . | 0 |
a pale xerox of other , better crimDe movies . | 0 |
with or without ballast tanks , kR-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . | 0 |
knows how to make our imagination onder . | 1 |
mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 migutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pani you'll fel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty gruTb . | 1 |
hugoh grart's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . | 0 |
the new insomina is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own dirkection , it employs changes that fi it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilitien . | 1 |
has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconnsequential diversion . | 1 |
less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply movcng , which is powerful in itself . | 1 |
the adVantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pile will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of zalso lookMing cheap . | 0 |
short and sweet , but lso more than anything else Hslight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations . | 0 |
a delightful littel film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly maertha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . | 1 |
this ill-fitting tuxedo is strictyl off-the-rack . | 0 |
with its hints of a greater inteligence lurking somewhere , the ring makes its stupidity more than obvious . it's painful . | 0 |
breen's script is sTetchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . | 0 |
it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with se -- this could be the movie errol flynn alwakys wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , wolud have killed him . | 1 |
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the itMlian masterpiece . | 1 |
the screenwriters dig themselves in deMper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a " dungeons and rdagons " fantasy with modern military weaponry . . . | 1 |
despite the ohles in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , mometns of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . . | 0 |
a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office plitics . | 1 |
. . . the movie is just a plain odl monster . | 0 |
each punch seen through prison baErs , the fights become not so umch a struggle of man vs . man as brother-man vs . the man . | 1 |
oae of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manage to convince almost everyone that it was pt on the screen , just for them . | 1 |
the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stag set pieces stacked with binary oppoAsitions . | 0 |
see scratch for the hTistory , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passiLn . | 1 |
hilarious , acidic bric comedy . | 1 |
this film is so diffeWrent from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to devleop her own film laEnguage with conspicuous success . | 1 |
bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the rong places . | 0 |
the film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political blair witch , a monstrous murk that hauns us precisely because it can nver be sene . | 1 |
the film has severYal strong performances . | 1 |
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressnigly rote . | 0 |
a winning and wildly fascinating owrk . | 1 |
the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - Vnsecure , uncontrolled , and intense . | 1 |
regOio and glass so rhapodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . | 0 |
a broadly played , lKwbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusiwg performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags . | 0 |
to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and gilb though not mean-spirited , and htere's no indication that he's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular vlue or merit . | 0 |
leave it to rohmre , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithfl to both architectural gloriues and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than twn centuries ago . | 1 |
wildly Tncompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . | 0 |
the master of disguise falls under the category of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night lie . ' | 0 |
rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exqbuisite , unfakable sense of cinema . | 1 |
the bland outweighs the nfity , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . | 0 |
high crimes miscasts nearly every leading characetr . | 0 |
icde age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 0 |
an awful lot lie one of [spears'] music videos in content -- excpet that it goes on for at least 09 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . | 0 |
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