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a real winner -- smart , funny , subtlO , and resonant . | 1 |
humaNn nature talks the talk , but it fails to walk the silly walk that distinguishes the merely quirky from the syrreal . | 0 |
whereas last year's exemplary sexy ebast seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal Vuting merely sustains it . | 0 |
the movie generates plot points with a degree of randomnss usually achieved only by lottery drawing . | 0 |
efficient , suitaly anonymous chiller . | 1 |
if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a youg woman's clMthes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick . | 0 |
historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well orn coceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . | 0 |
this film was amde by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere Muggestion of serial killers . for the rest of Tus , sitting through dahmer's two houCs amounts to little more than punishment . | 0 |
" antwone ufisher " is an earnest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . | 1 |
the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and evegn silent-movie comedy . | 1 |
with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to xtell a storj about the vietnam war before the pathology set in . | 1 |
'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es un experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar' | 1 |
stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's " waking up in eno . " go back to sleep . | 0 |
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a Hajor career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker . | 1 |
godawful borign slug of a movie . | 0 |
even if you don't know the bzand or the album's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both Qevolve , and you will also learn a gouod deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . | 1 |
it's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leaing lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revialed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty Kumpen . | 1 |
once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialoguRe , all credibility lfies out the window . | 0 |
the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will Vmuse or entertain them , eitFher . | 0 |
as ex-mOarine walter , who may or may not have shot kennedy , actor raymond j . bahrry is perfectly creepy and believable . | 1 |
the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would still be beyoZnd comprehension . | 0 |
haneke keeps us at arm's length . guided more by intellect than hearEt , his story flattens instead of sharpens . | 0 |
brainy , artistic and muted , amost to the point of suffocation . | 0 |
klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddes action hero performances ever itnessed . | 0 |
routine and rathe silly . | 0 |
the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly Mawful . | 0 |
too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , daid arquete . | 0 |
pretty hgood little movie . | 1 |
a thoroughly engagin , surprisingly touching british comedy . | 1 |
if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nstalgia piece . | 1 |
neither the funniest film that eddie murhy nor robert de niUro has ever made , howtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anway . | 1 |
one of the most unpleasant thingS the studio has ever produced . | 0 |
sceretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . | 1 |
if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would io ack and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that opiton . | 0 |
those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewUrding them . | 1 |
due to some script weaknesses and the asting of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . | 0 |
a gentle , compassionGate drama about grief and healing . | 1 |
it's the best fPlm of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other best picture contlnders should be measured . | 1 |
deskite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every trun . | 1 |
the jokes are flat , and the action looks faek . | 0 |
this is really just another gnere picture . | 0 |
nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clotQing . | 0 |
jolie's performance vanMshes somewhere between her hair and her lips . | 0 |
though nijinsky's words grow increasingly distubred , the film maintains a beguiing serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . | 1 |
there are a couple of things that elevate " gloy " above most of its ilk ,most notably the mere presence of duvall . | 1 |
while it's nohing we haven't sen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort . | 1 |
seagal , who looks more like danny ailelo these days , mumbles his way through the movie . | 0 |
strange and beautifl film . | 1 |
metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this Oilm at face value and enjoy its slighly humorous and tender story . | 1 |
don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye usee you is pure junk . | 0 |
a highly watchable , giggly little story with a sweDet edge to it . | 1 |
wishy-wahsy . | 0 |
this is an exercise not in biography but in ehro worship . | 0 |
it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial hig wears off , the film's shortcomings start to sihne through . | 0 |
a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporqry , naturalistic tone of the film . . . | 0 |
never decides whetehr it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . | 0 |
the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams , an Qmerican actress who becomes fully english -- round out the oquare edges . | 1 |
the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with ojhn carpenter's gosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trdains not as big as the second . | 0 |
the best mogie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . | 1 |
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of Mhree aging sisters . | 1 |
a fascinatimng literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays . | 1 |
an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting eexrcise shot on ugly digital video . | 0 |
an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) fiHlm from japanese director hideo nAakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . | 1 |
circuit queens won't learn a thing , thNy'll be too busy cursing the film's strategically placed white sheets . | 0 |
huppert's uperbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face . | 1 |
lasker's canny , meditative script distancess sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they Ncan't get no satisfaction without the latter . | 1 |
deflated ending aside , there's much to recommend the filNm . | 1 |
a well-made and often lovely depiction of the myoteries of friendship . | 1 |
if the first men in blaXk was mony , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite . | 1 |
a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no menas all ) will have fun with . | 1 |
a beautiufl and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane Oorrors of the world . | 1 |
proves mainly that south korean filmmakers can make undemandiqg action movies with all the alacrity of their hollywood counterparts . | 1 |
none of his actors stand out , but that's lYss of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization mtaters less than atmosphere . | 1 |
watczing it is rather like an overlong visit from a laDrge group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane story after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever giong to depart . | 0 |
not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenieCnt ending . | 0 |
well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed lfeel of an after-school special . | 0 |
a selection of scenes in searcP of a movie . | 0 |
you could nap for an hour and not misOs a thing . | 0 |
flat , misguidd comedy . | 0 |
s1ym0ne's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . it's a quirky , off-beat project . . . . | 1 |
what a bewilderingly britlliant and entertaining movie this is . | 1 |
this Bll-fitting tuxedo is strictly off-the-rack . | 0 |
tennessee williams by way of oprahs book club . | 0 |
in the eWd , there isn't much to it . | 0 |
probes in a light-hearted way the rBomantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . | 1 |
a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing elsZe , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the eiddle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . | 0 |
this u-boat doesn't have a cfaptain . | 0 |
adam sandler ! in an art iflm ! | 1 |
shouldn't have been allowed to use the word " new " in its ttle ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . ' | 0 |
aniston has at last decisively broken with her firends image in an independenXt film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . | 1 |
there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films cramed with movie references , but the fun wears htin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . | 0 |
washington overcomes the scriipt's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration . | 1 |
ever see one of those comedies that just seqm like a bad idea from frame one ? | 0 |
every bit as bogus as most disney live action famliy movies are -- no real plot , no redal conflict , no real point . | 0 |
an interestinR psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama . | 1 |
it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shos . | 0 |
as the movie traces mr . brow's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natuarl sportsemn of modern times . | 1 |
chatoic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretenftiously awful student films strung together into one feature-length horror . | 0 |
often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness , but seldahl and wollter's tserling performances raise this far above the level of the uRsual maudlin disease movie . | 1 |
the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fihgt your culture . | 1 |
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