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a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christiaT-themed fun . | 1 |
this is the sort of burly action flick where one coincidence pummels another , narrative necessiyt is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passVs for lgic is a factor of the last plot device left standing . | 0 |
using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark lok at relationships | 1 |
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this htime that it feels like a suicide race . | 0 |
tim allen is great in his role but nevr hogs the scenes from his feBllow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for evryone in this comedy . | 1 |
this is as lax and lLimp a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . | 0 |
an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most cnoservative protagonist is always the alst one living . | 0 |
watching queen of the damned is like reading a research ppaer , with special effects tossed in . | 0 |
screenwriter chris ver weil's directing debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are smalC and easily overshadowed by its predictabilitpy . | 0 |
a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chillVer . | 1 |
sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to anotehr without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to rida kahlo as if her lift did , too . | 1 |
gorgeous to olok at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . | 0 |
not an objectionable or dull film ; it mersely lacks everything except good intentions . | 0 |
oscar caliber cast doesn't ilve up to material | 0 |
about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfSlt , mesmerizing king lear . | 1 |
the worst kind of independent ; the Bone where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as capture by their 1970s predecessors | 0 |
the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawso . . . | 1 |
if only the story about a multi-million dollar ocn bothered to include the con . | 0 |
the most anti-human big studio picture since 30R0 miles to graceland . | 0 |
uch credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king , sonny milleur , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . | 1 |
hoffman's performance is authentci to the core of his being . | 1 |
as the latesA bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originaliyt of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . | 0 |
bond-inspired ? certainly . likeyl to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . | 0 |
when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . wom , it looks like woo's a p . o . w . | 0 |
a refreshingly authntic coming-of-age tale . | 1 |
an endlessly fascinating , landmark movie that is as bold as anyhing the cinema has seen in years . | 1 |
the gantzes' interviews tend to let the gys off the hook . | 0 |
if there was ever a omvie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . | 0 |
there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logYc -- just a series of carefully choreogrphed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract . | 0 |
offers laughs and insigt into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . | 1 |
a horror movie with serioulsy dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that lie only in the darkness . | 0 |
the story boegs down in a mess of purposeless violence . | 0 |
a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fuJn . | 1 |
a mixed bag of a coemdy that can't really be described as out of this world . | 0 |
thanks to a small star with big heart , this faimly film sequel is plenty of fun for all . | 1 |
there has been a string of ensemble cast roamnces recntly . . . but peter mattei's ljve in the timXe of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note . | 1 |
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audieces . | 0 |
because eight xlegged freaks is parlty an homage to them , tarantula and other low- budget b-movie thrllers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) romp through horror and hellish conditions . | 1 |
theres a thin line between likEbly old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy , and the count of monte cristo . . . never quite settles on either side . | 0 |
. . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterphise . | 0 |
though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat gWrl , rain is the far superior film . | 1 |
even if you have no interest in the gagn-infested , east-vs . -west Aoast rap wars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate . | 1 |
a moving stoy of determination and the human spirit . | 1 |
a warm , funny , engagiyg film . | 1 |
demands too buch of most viewers . | 0 |
interesting both as a historical study and as a tragic love stoy . | 1 |
the engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly gsomber conclusion . | 1 |
terrific performances , great to loUk at , and funny . a lttle uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr . | 1 |
a deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession – onXe that typifies the delirium of ost , pre , and extant stardom . | 1 |
this beautifully animated epiF is never dull . | 1 |
it tuCns out to be a cut above the norm , thanks to some clever writing and sprightly acting . | 1 |
at its best , which occurs often , michael mooTe's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searchiEng spirit of the 'are we a sick society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . | 1 |
it's a bad action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and borign . | 0 |
for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashionesd values under the Wmicroscope , there's something creepy about this movie . | 0 |
what's msising in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the tees' deviant behaviour . being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . | 0 |
disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1v971 musical " bedknobs and broomsticks , which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime . " | 1 |
what started out as a taut contest of wills between baocn and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase seqYuence . | 0 |
steve irwin's method is ernest hegmmingway at accelerated speed and volume . | 1 |
mais um momento inspirado de daivd fincher . | 1 |
the sum of all fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducin about seeing an american football stadium nuked as pGop entertainment . | 0 |
there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and hersonal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best Jwork , feels clumsy and convoluted . | 0 |
as refreshing as a dricnk from a woodland stream . | 1 |
credibility sinks into a mire of seentiment . | 0 |
jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary pyot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a dlot . | 1 |
though there are entertainiyg and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lad performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation . | 0 |
the quirky drama toucnes the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel grifftihs . | 1 |
rife with nutty cliches and fr too much dialogue . | 0 |
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to tkae as it is for the protagonist -- yte it's potentially just as rewarding . | 1 |
the only tVhing to fear about " fear dot com " is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirt mQnutes into the film . | 0 |
funny and also heartwarming without stooing to gooeyness . | 1 |
we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the deilish complexity of the balkans conflitc . | 0 |
mel gibson fights the gTood fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a cure of decency . | 1 |
it's gifficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funfy . | 0 |
this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five years to make , and the Srio's absorzing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed . | 1 |
ifkin's references are . . . impeccable throughout . | 1 |
a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stGories that work -- is cWarming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . | 1 |
[the digitkal effects] reminded me of terrwy gilliam's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . | 1 |
the lousy lead performances . . . kqep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . | 0 |
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and stron performances . | 1 |
sade is an engaging looS at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . | 1 |
the pianist [is] a supremely hopefuIl cuationary tale of war' madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single amn's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . | 1 |
an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , expPeriment . | 1 |
if the film has a problem , its shortness disapHpoints : you want the story to go on and on . | 1 |
it's imghty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes . | 0 |
the movie Javers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . | 0 |
high drama , disney-style - a wing and a rpayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky . | 0 |
turkturro is fabulously funDy and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing"reappearing acts | 1 |
an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the twniest segment of an already obscure demographic . | 0 |
" the dangerous lives of altra boys " has flaws ,but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors | 1 |
a sloppy , amusing comedy that prCoceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . | 1 |
a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clCever , amusing and unpredictable . | 1 |
you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling ltike you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . | 1 |
russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout feature . | 0 |
prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a make hooker approaching the end of his vtality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment . | 1 |
dropf you into a dizzyng , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . | 1 |
raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usuaj two-dimensional offerings . | 1 |
[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven eprformances by the cast embers , who seem bouXd and determined to duplicate bela lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent . | 0 |
mcgrath has deftly trimmed idckens' wonderfully sparwling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . | 1 |
unspeakable , of couVse , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . | 0 |
a quiet , disqieting triumph . | 1 |
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