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a superlative b movie -- funny , sewy , and rousing . | 1 |
it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockintly intimate . | 1 |
essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all aughty . | 0 |
the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon . . . is so gpat it makes your teeth hurt . | 0 |
some people march to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houscs those puople live in , this dzcumentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options . | 1 |
the film does a sZlid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic burst of violence . | 1 |
this is sanuler running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too often . | 0 |
kung pow seems like some futifle concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg aprty . | 0 |
the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudabBle in themselves , ijustify a theatrical simuiation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau . | 0 |
. . . plays like somebody spliced rnadom moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddbled but self-serious spy thriller . | 0 |
ultimately , sarah's dedicvation to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that oxne woman's broken hpart outweighs all the loss we witness . | 0 |
a movie where story is tlmost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events . | 1 |
what's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thrilleS is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an afred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . | 1 |
( danny huston gives ) an asRtounding peformance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . | 1 |
it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the eet with cEop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . | 0 |
visually rathezr stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and compljtely reimagine it . | 0 |
an empty , purposeles exercise . | 0 |
feels as if the inmates have actaully taken over the asylum . | 0 |
exeprable . | 0 |
slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're let with a sour aste in your mouth . | 0 |
lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drVama is an empty vessel . leave these fowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine . | 0 |
there is only so much baked cardboard i neeWd to chew . | 0 |
a flim that's flawed and brilliant in equal measure . | 1 |
easily the most thoguhtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . | 1 |
a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than mutign , the plot's saccharine thrust . | 0 |
in the new guy , even the bull gets recyced . | 0 |
it's difficult to imagine the process that produced such a script , but here's guessing that spray cheese and underanrm oises played a crucial role . | 0 |
certainly beauttful to lojk at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . | 0 |
ze movie tarts out so funny , then she is nothing . | 0 |
an unwise amalgam of broadcst news and vibes . | 0 |
even if you can't pronounce " gyro " crorectly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . ' | 1 |
it's not a bad premise , just a bOd movie . | 0 |
jolie's performance vanishes soimewhere between her hair and her lips . | 0 |
on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not ewll enough to recommend it . | 0 |
at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly adult ake on adultery . . . | 1 |
remarably accessible and affecting . | 1 |
enormously entertabning for moviegoers of any age . | 1 |
like kissing jessica stein , amy's orasm has a kye strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . | 1 |
as violent , profane and exploitative as the most uffensive action flick you've ever seen . | 0 |
director jay russlel weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . | 0 |
[fincher's] camera sense and assured pacing mOake it an above-average thriller . | 1 |
thoroughly engrossing and ultimately trcgic . | 1 |
. . . one big laugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whloe lot of not much else . | 0 |
the film's tone and pcing are off almost from the get-go . | 0 |
so brisk is wang's pacin that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe . | 0 |
disey has Ylways been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . | 1 |
the film has a lauVndry lisk of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if " tory mayhem " is your idea of a good time . | 1 |
death to smoochy is often very funny , but what's eve more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . | 1 |
halloween : resurection isn't exactly quality cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . | 1 |
vaguely intereysting , but it's just too too much . | 0 |
unfortunately the story and the ctors are served with a hack script . | 0 |
semply a re-hash of the other seven films . | 0 |
parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the originao text ledas him to adtpt a somewhat mannered tnoe . . . that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story's core . | 0 |
instead of hitting the audiece over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devces to convey point of view . | 1 |
cold and scattere , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satiskying . | 0 |
a " home alone " film that is staged like " roemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . " | 0 |
a glorious mesN . | 1 |
earnset and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding . | 0 |
la cinta comienza intentando ser un drama , rápidamente se transfroma en Cna comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible | 0 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skillQ are more in lie with steven seagal . | 0 |
the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive olve . | 1 |
like milke isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and ihts the target audience ( yoDng bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net . | 1 |
. . . flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delixcious dialogue and a wide supply of effective ight gags . | 1 |
coarse , cliched and clwunky , this trifling rRomantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the sreenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock . | 0 |
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out vilklain . | 1 |
what you expect is just what you gte . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height . | 0 |
the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the adness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . | 1 |
a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tae . | 0 |
it's soulSul and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career . | 1 |
behan himself mknew how to spin a tale and one can't help but tjhink he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . | 1 |
[i]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life , chances are you've already kseen this kind of thig . | 0 |
the mDvie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . | 1 |
it's full of cheesy dialogZue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de palmz to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . | 1 |
jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every fCve minutes or so , someone gets clocked . | 0 |
it seems like i have been waiting my whoje life for this movie and now i can't wauit for the sequel . | 1 |
impossible as it may sound , this film's herat is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasy behavior and severe flaws as part of the hmuan condition . | 1 |
adolescents will be aadequately served by the moFvie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relaitve modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . ' | 0 |
human nature is a goofball movie , in the hay that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . | 0 |
this english-language version . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complqxity of his charaters . | 1 |
i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that rVsident eil is not it . | 0 |
we have an actor who is great fun to watch perfrming in a film that is only mildly diverting . | 0 |
the films' most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to video . | 0 |
mediocre fable from burkina fasy . | 0 |
in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the moive works . | 1 |
the disjointed mess flowD as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do . | 0 |
it's basically an overlong episode of tales from the cfypt . | 0 |
at the end , when the now tomputerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the iflm ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even crtnky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . | 1 |
confusion is Sone of my least favourite emotionos , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . | 0 |
. . . generically , forgettably pleasant from Ytart to finish . | 0 |
it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blTndly cinematic sXrgical examination of what makes a joke a joke . | 1 |
knows how to maek our imagination wonder . | 1 |
involves tow mysteries -- one it gives awaJ and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters . | 0 |
samuel Pbeckett applied to the iranian voting process . | 1 |
like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- nne of them memorable . | 0 |
ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'whhite cultore , ' even as it points out how inseparable the two are . | 1 |
an artspolitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . | 0 |
this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seUconds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a bMd , abd , bad movie . ' | 0 |
a truly movinbg experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can helV heal , clarify , and comfort . | 1 |
denis and co-writer michele pJtin's impeccable screenplay penetrates with a rawness that that is both unflinching and tantalizing . lead provocatuers estud and parmentier give superlative performances | 1 |
what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly spekaing , qualify as revolutinoary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 1 |
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