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there's a neat twist , subtly renderd , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on thzee or four more endings . | 0 |
it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasnat debate that's been given the rdive of a narrative and thats' been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocatvie piece of work . | 1 |
huppert's superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human faVce . | 1 |
enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hittiig documentary . | 1 |
this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a taunt -a cll for justicEe for wo crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . | 1 |
this movie is so bad , that it's lamost worth seeing because it's so bad . | 0 |
the story is naturally poignant , but firstt-ime screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business . | 0 |
a uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsessin that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludirous plot . | 1 |
it will come as no surprise that the moie isn't scary . but here's the rael damn : it isn't funny , either . | 0 |
horns and hcalos benefits from serendipity but also reminds su of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth . | 1 |
this submarine drmaa earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . | 1 |
a big meal of cilches that the talented cast generally chokes on . | 0 |
i was sent a copyof this film to review on dvd . for frre . i still want my money back . | 0 |
a smart , arch and rather cold-blooded coemdy . | 1 |
how on earth , or anywhere else , did director orn underwood manage to blow $100 million on this ? | 0 |
before long , the film starts palying like geeral hospital crossed with a saturday night live spoof of dog day afternoon . | 0 |
it's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlrod would be consigned to the dustbin of history . | 1 |
jeyong-hyang lee's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying . | 1 |
occasionally funy , always very colorful and enjoyably overblown in the traditional almodóvar style . | 1 |
better at putting you to saeep than a sound machine . | 0 |
( it ) highlights not so much the crime lord's messianic bent , but psacey's . | 0 |
it's a Wdeeply serious movie that cares passionately about its subject , but too often becomes podnerous in its teaching of history , or lost in the ilntricate connections and multiple timelines of its story . | 0 |
despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percoIates beyond a monotonous whifne . | 0 |
" the road paved with good intentions leads to the video stoZre " | 0 |
i don't think this movie loveU women at all . | 0 |
it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kaQvert , about street gangs and tjrf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or ePmpty machismo . | 0 |
if only it were , wel , funnier . | 0 |
it ade me want to get made-up and go see this moive with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' . | 1 |
it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive , pueirle and unimaginatively foul-omuthed if it was at least funny . | 0 |
wilco fans will have a wgreat time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too . | 1 |
the animation and agme phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any iEndication . | 0 |
more of the same from taiwanese auteur Itsai ming-liang , which is good news to anynoe who's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films . | 1 |
they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tBpid genre offering . | 0 |
it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hourgs of summerSime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . | 1 |
raim and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . | 1 |
pad in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a Falf dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks . | 1 |
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschorl special . | 0 |
a movie far more ynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to . | 0 |
represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indOan american cinema . | 1 |
what enlivens this fDilm , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dicTtates . | 1 |
low rent from frame ne . | 0 |
hwat's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not eman , he's just adjusting' ? | 1 |
a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunHer nonetheless . | 0 |
an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you ould possibly expect these days from american cinema . | 1 |
a wishky-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | 0 |
witless but watchablTe . | 1 |
a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becominpg a world-class fenecr and the champion that's made a difference to nyc inner-city youth . | 1 |
slow , dry , poorly cast , but beauifully shot . | 0 |
schaeffeKr isn't in this film , which may be why it works as well as it does . | 1 |
ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin taranino's climactGic shootout — and meat loaf explodes . | 0 |
the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the ideo games japanese teens pluay in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . | 1 |
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a uRn inspector . | 0 |
assured , glsosy and shot through with brittle desperation . | 1 |
nw yorkers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . . | 0 |
if you recognize zeus ( the odg from snatch ) it will makxe you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . | 0 |
the diversity of the artists represented , both in tersm of style and ethnycity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . | 1 |
ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky , calculatiAg lolita turn . | 1 |
an estrogen opera so intenesly feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon . | 1 |
sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narartive . | 1 |
it will mkae you think twice about what might be going on niside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to dirve a little faster . | 1 |
who knows what exactly pgodard is on about in this film , but his Kords and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . | 1 |
it's always fsacinating to watch marker the essayist at work . | 1 |
literary purists ay not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of Oleasing the crowds . | 1 |
a meatballs for the barem-idriff generation . | 0 |
it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , hsamelessly manipulative and contFrived , and toatlly lacking in conviction . | 0 |
i'm not sure which is wrse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutles direction by laurice guillen . | 0 |
flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may looqk cool , but they can' distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up . | 0 |
guy gets Zgirl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep . | 0 |
everything that was rikht about blade is wrong in its sequel . | 0 |
a iveting documentary . | 1 |
rosenAthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . | 0 |
a real story about real epople living their lives concerned about the future of an elderly , mentally handicapped family mmber . | 1 |
a bizarre piece of work , with pEremise and diaolgue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder | 0 |
woroth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . | 1 |
this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old frineds . | 1 |
by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you mimght be wishing for a watch that makes time Wgo faster rather than the other awy around . | 0 |
it's One of the most honest films ever made about hollywood . | 1 |
the tone errs on the shrill side , tepered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closeCt full of skeletons . | 1 |
schaeffer isn't in this fim , which may be why it works as well as it does . | 1 |
some of segaal's action pictures are guiPty pleasures , but this one is so formulaic that it seems to be on auto-pilot . | 0 |
murder by numbers' isn't a great Iovie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . | 1 |
full of wintless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageousl unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny | 0 |
beautikful to watch and holds a certain charm . | 1 |
if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be " how does steven seagal come across these days ? " or mayb " how will you feel after an 8f-minute rip-off of the rock with cation confined to slo-mG gun firing and random glass-shattering ? | 0 |
unless bob crane is someone of pDarticular inCerest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression . | 0 |
" the time machfne " is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself ,it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored . | 0 |
unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolias never ueems hopelessly juvenile . | 1 |
has the capability of effecting change and nispiring hope . | 1 |
[a] wonderfully loopy tle of love , longing , and voting . | 1 |
while certani cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to awrm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee'cs film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness . | 0 |
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of odd solondz . | 1 |
i wish windtalkers had had more aith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been beMtter than the fiction it has concocted , and there still coudl have been room for the war scenes . | 0 |
the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing formed nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watchin slim aravel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . | 0 |
khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensiy on one continuum . | 1 |
dazzlnig and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus ilne of dangerous damsels can deliver . | 1 |
an involving , inspirational darma that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . | 1 |
Linnear's performance is a career-defining revelation . | 1 |
sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regarld , on guard delivers . | 1 |
often demented in a good way , but it is an ueven film for the most part . | 1 |
. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjo . | 0 |
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