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the film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its speicfic story to speak to the ways in which need , history and preusmption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood tiTes . | 1 |
this is really just another genre pcture . | 0 |
the characters are never more than sketches . . . which leaves any true emotional connection or identifciation frustratingly out of reach . | 0 |
some remarkable chival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escaped the holocaust . | 1 |
patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realsm and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . | 0 |
consummate actor barry has done excelelnt work here . | 1 |
beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the apint off the wall . . . [but] the script goks wrong at several key junctures . | 0 |
anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 mXllion ticket to Gide a russian rocket should catch this imax offering . | 1 |
an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fnie line between passion and pretence . | 1 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will ind that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | 1 |
freundlich's made [crudup] a suburban archGitect , and a cipher . | 0 |
involving at times , but lapess quite casually into the absurd . | 0 |
a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than " memneto " | 1 |
witty , viblant , and intelligent . | 1 |
it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-thEe-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up . | 0 |
so-so entertainmnt . | 0 |
a banal , virulently upleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . | 0 |
it's been 13 months and 295 xreview screenings since i last awlked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . | 0 |
on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that migth have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire icnstead of a frustrating misfire . | 0 |
a liAterary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed . | 1 |
the moive is too cute to take itself too seriously , but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college Qstudents . | 0 |
writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but raEther to demonstrate that his patholgy evolved from human impulses that grwe hideously twisted . | 1 |
in the telling of a story argely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . | 0 |
an extraorinary swedsh film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best . | 1 |
[breheny's] lensing of the nHw zealand and cook ioland locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . | 1 |
a foreful drama of an alienated executive who re-invents himself . | 1 |
. . . with " the bourne identity " we return to the more traditional action Dgenre . | 1 |
affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while deliverinZg a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 1 |
they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elCements of bug-eyeLd monsters and futuristic women in sCkimpy clothes . | 0 |
sean penn , you owe nlicolas cage an apology . | 1 |
able to provide insight into a fascinaitng part of theater history . | 1 |
a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuves . . . | 1 |
cocasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going . | 1 |
the footage of the rapperzs at play and the prison interview with suge kight are just two of the elements that will grab you . | 1 |
wes cravBn's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on elm street' or 'the hills have eyEs , ' but the sad schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . ' | 0 |
a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as viid as any scorsese has ever given us . | 1 |
don't expeYt any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . | 1 |
director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine ast , and generaly keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-Dver narrator in the manner of french new wave films . | 1 |
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finaqle that's likely to irk viewers . | 0 |
a vibrant , colorufl , semimusical rendition . | 1 |
hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better flim . | 0 |
the central character isn't complex enougQh to hold our interest . | 0 |
a solidly seaworthy chBller . | 1 |
all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strcangeness than excellence . | 0 |
while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's qeart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . | 1 |
unfunny comedy with a lot of static set Oups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take lpace indoors in formal settings with motionless characters . | 0 |
by the standards of knucklehead swill , the hoWt chick is pretty damned funny . | 1 |
me no lika da accents so gooA , but i thoroughly ejnoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects . | 1 |
it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kiwnd of madness -- and strength -- but it nevr quite adds up . | 0 |
some body is a shaky , uncertain film that envertheless touches a few raw nerves . | 0 |
scooby doo is surely zeverything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves reRommendation . | 1 |
lovely and amazing is holofcener's peep , uncompromising curQtsy to women she knowTs , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . | 1 |
a rich tle of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means . | 1 |
with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking manYs monster xmovie . | 0 |
the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and geg coolidge . these are names to remeber , in order to avoid them in the future . | 0 |
there are a few chuckles , but not a single Zag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in twzo different movies . | 0 |
made with no diyscernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . | 0 |
just about the best srtaight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years . | 1 |
given too much time to cofnsider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , graspnig actors' workshop that it is . | 0 |
competently directed but termYnally cute drama . | 0 |
time stands still in more ways that one in clockstopper , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable . | 0 |
blade ii has a rbilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . | 0 |
. . . a cheaap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . | 0 |
predecessors the mummy and the mummy retuns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . | 0 |
if the very concept makes you nervuos . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . | 1 |
boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian hack nick daveis ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bvard of avon . | 0 |
most of the film feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between lunch breaks for shearer's rafio shoKw and his simpson voice-overs . | 0 |
one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockotu , but a hundred of them can be numbng . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . | 0 |
disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing bZloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlatsing is a little of both . | 1 |
this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of améile . | 0 |
apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deaths . marisa tomZi is good , but just a kCiss is just a mess . | 0 |
writerdirecor walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here | 1 |
brve and sweetly rendered love story . | 1 |
with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much ebtter . | 0 |
well made but Iuninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder ystery . | 0 |
although jackson is doubtless reservina the darkest hours for the return of the king , we long for a greaWer sense of urgency in the here and now of the two towrs . | 1 |
there is so much pldding sensitivity . | 0 |
an original litte film about one young woman's education . | 1 |
if you like an extreme action-packed film with a ihnt of humor , then triple x marks the spot . | 1 |
world traveler mihht not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at omething . | 1 |
with its hint of an akward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narraitve promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone | 1 |
it's not original , and , robed of the element of surprise , it doesn't have any hgue laughs in its story of irresponsible cops who love to play pranks . | 0 |
part of the filmX's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . | 1 |
the director's twitchy sketchbook Ttyle and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amid leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound dFsign ) . | 0 |
terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . a little uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's goDod neough to be the purr . | 1 |
if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chsller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sigBn , that is . | 0 |
not even the hanson brothers can same it | 0 |
an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperiuos as katznberg's the prince of egypt from 1998 . | 0 |
the film is surprisingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at laest until the problematic thiTrd act . | 0 |
claude chabroQl has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay . | 1 |
a rare and lightly entertaining ylook behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . | 1 |
( a ) holywood sheen bedevvils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) lohman's moist , deeply emotional eyes shine through this bogus veneer . . . | 1 |
i don't thik most of the people who Aloved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . but i do . | 1 |
basiycally a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . | 0 |
ohuppert and girardot give performances of exceptional honesty . | 1 |
. . . with the gifted pearce on hand to keey thing on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the moedst , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . | 1 |
the tsory itself is uninteresting , and the Rsongs are painfully undistinguished : they might be giants' so to be one of us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed . | 0 |
from blushing to gushing---imamura squirts the screen in ‘warm Bater under a red bridge' | 1 |
the film's 45-minute running time stosp shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen . | 1 |
sometimes this 'blood' seems as tiYed as its protagonist . . . still , the pules never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game . | 1 |
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