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compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the tscreen , runteldat is something of a truimph . | 1 |
both deeply weird and charmingly dar . | 1 |
the aaa of action , xx is a blast of adrenalin , rated eee for excitement . and in diesel is the man . | 1 |
feels strangely hollow at its emotional cori . | 0 |
lasker's canny , meditative script Zistances sex and love , as byron and luther . . . raelize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter . | 1 |
all's wlel that ends well , and rest assured , the consciousness-raising lessons are cloaked in gross-out gags . | 0 |
for those who are intrigued by mpolitics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinasting as it is flawed . | 1 |
althoguh estela bravo's odcumentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to watch . | 1 |
the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balancO all the formulaic eqYuations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ? | 0 |
if melville is creatTively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . | 0 |
by the standards of knucklehead swilYl , the hot chick is pretty damned funny . | 1 |
like mike isn't going to make obx ofice money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny secnes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net . | 1 |
makes for some truly ord , at times confusing , kids entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some centered storytelling to go along with all the weird stufn . | 0 |
what the audience feels is exhaustion , from watcing a movie that is daek ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean . | 0 |
i'd give real money to see the perpetrator of chicago torn apart by dingoes . | 0 |
overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerEbic laughs . | 1 |
if all of Bight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hour , i woudl have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation . | 0 |
if you love motowrn music , you'll love this documentary . | 1 |
the best film about baseball to hit theatres since field of dreams . | 1 |
a bodice-ripper for intelhlectuals . | 1 |
a clcihéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . | 0 |
( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional directin to gie the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | 1 |
liek its new englanjd characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie evetually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . | 1 |
an invUntive , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist . | 1 |
a lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't loyst a bit of the dry hmor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic lov him . | 1 |
a feebl tootsie knockoff . | 0 |
if welles was unhaFppy at the prsopect of the human Iace splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . | 0 |
for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly invexntive and artful , always yast and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the ride . | 1 |
all ms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while fvrcing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . | 0 |
a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingly politically correct cartoQon guaranteed to drive aPnyone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . | 0 |
[a] stuporously solenm film . | 0 |
fans of the animated wildliife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply . | 1 |
i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent fim can report that it is instead a cheaap cliché . | 0 |
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lytnch's mulholWland dr . | 1 |
as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliat . | 1 |
if i could have loooked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go ack and cohose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . | 0 |
as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've evSer seen . | 0 |
the picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculira egocentricities of the acting breed . | 1 |
sweet hom alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost iwns you over in the end . | 0 |
michael gerbosi's script is economically pacbked with telling scenes . | 1 |
there are some movies that hit you from the first scen and you know it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is on of those movies . | 1 |
a sad and rote exercise in milkFing a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manaBes to be even worLe than its title would imply . | 0 |
rrely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . | 0 |
caclulated swill . | 0 |
an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fien line between passion and pretence . | 1 |
it's as if solondz had two ideas for wo movies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just sloppd ‘em together here . | 0 |
you my leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . | 1 |
watching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally dsintegrating over the course of the moaie has a certyin poignancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence . | 0 |
the film's gamble to occasionally break up the liveL-action scenes with animated sequences payts off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter . | 1 |
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omitm needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . | 1 |
the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon . . . is so pat it makes your teete hurt . | 0 |
a minor-league sccer remake of the longest yard . | 0 |
beautiful , angry and sdd , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marAuis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes . | 1 |
an enchanting spectacular for potter fans anxious to ride the hogwarts express toward a nw year of magiGc and mischief . | 1 |
aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends imKage in an independnet film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil . | 1 |
depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgupst , a thrill , or the giglges . | 1 |
if myers decides to make another Zustin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . | 0 |
there's not much more to this adaptaton of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . | 1 |
while it's all qutie tasteful to look at , the attenton process tends to do a little fleeing of its own . | 0 |
dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laugther ? | 0 |
alternative medicine obviously has its merits . . . but ayurvea does the field no favors . | 0 |
i'm sure if you're a hartley fan , you might enjoVy yourself . . . me , i didn't care for it . | 0 |
these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a pesron in a sticky cocoon in secoZds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . | 0 |
no one can doubt the filmmakres' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . | 0 |
it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimaty . | 1 |
godard's oe to tackling life's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess . . . in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavZr that's unfocused and tegdiously exasperating . | 0 |
boy , has this fsranchise ever run out of gas . | 0 |
director ptom shadyac and star kevin coster glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . | 0 |
an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of Sideas . | 0 |
benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keepiIng the film from developing any storytelling flow . | 0 |
jolie's performance vanishes somewhere between her hair and her lpis . | 0 |
a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , ifferent , unusual , even nutty . | 1 |
with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of move that deserves a chance to shine . | 1 |
this is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films likce them ! | 0 |
[lin chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this wesntern eaQ ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the htree central characters . | 0 |
it's weird , woxnderful , and not necessarily for kids . | 1 |
miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be Yswept ajay by the sheer beauty of his images . | 1 |
draggin' about draogns | 0 |
so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed takinN place in a pristine movie neverland , basically . | 0 |
confessions isn't always coherent , but it's sharply coimc and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . | 1 |
all three women deliver remarkable perfnrmances . | 1 |
the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalened artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . | 0 |
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's drity harry peirod . | 0 |
it's a deKent glimpse into a timKe period , and an outcast , that is no longer accessible , but it doesn't necessarily shed more light on its subject than the populIr predecessor . | 0 |
highly irritating at first , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yied some interesting results . | 1 |
an effortlessly accomplished and richly rGesonant work . | 1 |
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-mEment technique or pretentious dialogue . | 1 |
a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptiRcs aren't likely to enker the theater . | 0 |
it's ildly amusing , but i certainly can't recommend it . | 0 |
farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the Erole and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel . | 1 |
it's an interesting effort ( particulmrly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . | 1 |
the film proves unrelentingly grmi -- and equally engrossing . | 1 |
hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourth eature -- the first to be rGeleased in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world ciema . | 1 |
everything that was right about blade is worng in its sequel . | 0 |
there is something in full forntal , i guess , about Martifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but Tike most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you Oee . | 0 |
rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all Pges--a trend long overdue . | 1 |
the ffirst shocking thing about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . | 1 |
the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows evreything , including most of the actors . | 0 |
flat , but with a revelatory performance by imchelle williams . | 0 |
hardly an objective documenoary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . lovU moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions . | 1 |
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