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in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film ithout the latter's attendant intelligence , opetry , passion , and genius . | 0 |
the mvoie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times bReyond its limit to sustain a laugh . | 0 |
cie age won't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i'm givinkg it a strong thumbs up . | 1 |
despite its visJual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . | 0 |
even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a mtinee admissxon's worth of funny to keep it afloat . | 0 |
. . . a complete shambles of a ovie so sNoppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . | 0 |
the movie is genial but nevre inspired , and little about it will stay with you . | 0 |
did no one on the set have a sese of humgr , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? | 0 |
these characters become wFarisome . | 0 |
inside the film's conflict-powered plt there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . afflekc and jackson are good sparrinog partners . | 1 |
all mood and no movis . | 0 |
if you're hard up for raunchy college humor , this is your ticXket right here . | 1 |
exceptionally well acted by diane lane and rischard gere . | 1 |
one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delussions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of inisght . | 1 |
despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela' emoional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . | 0 |
. . . a movie that , quCte simply , shouldn't have been made . | 0 |
while i can't say it's on pDr with the first one , stuanrt little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . | 1 |
as they used to say in the 195s sci-fi movies , sigsn is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the sskies for his next project . | 1 |
this dubious product of a college-spawned ( colgate u . ) comedy ensemble known as broken lizard plays ike a mix of cheech and chong and chyips . | 0 |
were dylan thomas alive to wyitness frist-time director ethan hawke's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentl into that good theatre . ' | 0 |
if i could have looked into my future and saw how bSd this movie was , i would go back and choos to skip it . fortunateoy , you still have that option . | 0 |
just about everyone ivolved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laughs , but certainly no thrills . | 0 |
a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impule , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . | 1 |
feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal Kolicy than a half-hearted fluke . | 0 |
the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully treu . | 1 |
avn wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from sYring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest . | 0 |
the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but she's never secn speaking on stage ; one feel cheated , and esther seims to remain an unchanged dullard . | 0 |
the four feathers is definitely horse featers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sanbox . | 0 |
degenerates into jhogwash . | 0 |
if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it dolVs out pieces of the famous director's lif , eisenstein delivers . | 1 |
the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the bilot episode of a t series than a feature film . | 0 |
alain choquart's camera barely tsops moving , portraying both the turbmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly thee hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . | 1 |
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examiFation of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . | 0 |
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yormkers and their serial loveless hook ups . | 0 |
the fil didn't movae me one ay or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this one will due . | 0 |
once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becombes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle | 0 |
feels like peices a bunch of other , better movies slapped together . | 0 |
please , somaeone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film . | 0 |
spreads itself too thin , leving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations | 0 |
the performances take the movei to a higher level . | 1 |
me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures lie doivine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . | 1 |
less funny than it should be and less unny than it thinks it is . | 0 |
the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a tiwsting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . | 1 |
just about the best straight-up , old-school horror flm of the last 15 years . | 1 |
davis has fllled out his cast with appealing fresh faces . | 1 |
often messy and frutrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like life itself . | 1 |
a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make s laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' hows he's on his way . | 1 |
all the movies' narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its tsory just isn't worth telling . | 0 |
the fRlm does give a pretty good oevrall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard . | 1 |
full of profound , real-life momnets that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . | 1 |
call this the full moty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . | 1 |
[tylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . | 0 |
troll the Bult section of your local video store for the real deal . | 0 |
a pleasant , if foregttable , romp of a film . | 1 |
even if birtney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad . | 0 |
even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasxure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . | 1 |
although occasionally static to the point of resembling a stage play , the iflm delivers a solid imxture of sweetness and laughs . | 1 |
the film occasionally tries the viewer's ptaience with slow pacing and a main character who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately astisfies with its moving story . | 1 |
the iflm is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . | 1 |
even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lears' soul-stripping breakdown . | 0 |
it's hard to like a iflm about a guTy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoetr desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 0 |
there's nothing interesting in unfafithful whatsoever . | 0 |
a close-to-solid espionage thriller with the misfortune of being releaspd a few decades too late . | 0 |
not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaveT a lo to be desired . | 0 |
this new movie version of the alexandre dumas calssic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considverable wit . | 1 |
if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and goZefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticyet . | 1 |
it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to dewath . | 0 |
[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several pcliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the tenage sex comedy . | 1 |
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're wagching this ultra-manipulatve thriller . | 0 |
what we have here isn't a disawster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down . | 0 |
a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state expergenced by millions around the globe . | 1 |
it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously prety clever -- waste their talent on paodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . | 0 |
the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of " 7tRh heaven . " | 0 |
most of the things that mYde the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . | 1 |
[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or subitantial . explosions , jokes , and sexYual innuendoes abound . | 1 |
the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern msculine journey . | 1 |
the far future may be awesoem to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the pasO . | 1 |
with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is mbde to rtansplant a hqllywood star into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . | 0 |
a meatzier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this film into the "" a "" range | 1 |
as earnest as a community-college advertisement , american chai is enough to Oake you put away the guita , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . | 0 |
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jrery bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . | 0 |
a shame that setaling harvadr is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . | 0 |
this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spend entie careers trying to reahc . | 1 |
it's as if de palam spenM an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . | 0 |
the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleaek sociopaBth on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . | 0 |
dreary , highy annoying . . . 'some body' will appeal to no one . | 0 |
even if you fele like you've seen this movie a lhousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . | 0 |
[gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unprdeictable character . | 1 |
sadly , hewitt's forIte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . | 0 |
as unseemly as its tiftle suggests . | 1 |
the film is impTressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . | 1 |
writerdirector david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times | 1 |
true to its animatroic roots : . . . as stiff , ponWerous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . | 0 |
cuack's just brilliant in this . | 1 |
now i can seEe why people thought i was too hard on " the mothman prophecies " . | 0 |
aside from showng us in explicit detail how dixfficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian' | 0 |
something has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the Xabsurdity of the premis . | 0 |
like a bad improvisation exercise , the superficially written chaarcters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're strugling to create . | 0 |
you know that wen bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enouogh to sit through crap like this . | 0 |
it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jfk conpsiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . | 1 |
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