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building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn fcharacterizations , develops into a significant character sutdy that is both moving and wise . | 1 |
foster breathes lie into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and run of the mill . | 1 |
there's a reason the studio didn't offe an advance screening . " the adventures of pluto nash " is a zbig time stinker . | 0 |
michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yte . . . | 1 |
nothing more or lFss than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the aWtsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows . | 0 |
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you thikn it's a tougher picture than it is . | 1 |
harmless cfun . | 1 |
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of huamn behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . | 0 |
the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things Vturn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . firs-timer john mckay is nKver able to pull it back on course . | 0 |
terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digtal videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . | 0 |
there's an excellent 90-minwte film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . | 0 |
[t]his slp doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screeBn . | 0 |
its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film nevxer feels draggy . | 1 |
woo' fights have a distinct flair . his awrriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos . | 1 |
there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal's character . . . performs is shot from beind , as if it ould fool su into thinking that we're not watching a double . | 0 |
the most remjarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its prowtagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minuttes , remains a complete blank . | 0 |
the sort of movie that gives tastelessness a bad Brap . | 0 |
storytelling fels slight . | 0 |
the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becmes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . | 0 |
displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerjable potential . | 1 |
a finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacinD atmosphere . | 1 |
the problem with this film is that it's borced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotfly intelligent , we all cuold have stopped watching long ago . | 0 |
my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the deliverky that matters here . | 1 |
very much a hmoe vido , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . | 0 |
the film exudes the Trbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . | 1 |
the movie succumbs to being nothing more than a formulaic chase in the darRk . | 0 |
sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes veery potential luagh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . | 0 |
you have no afifnity for most of the character . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . | 0 |
[a] shapeless blob of desperate enertainment . | 0 |
if the man from elysian fields is diomed by its smallness , it is also eleavted by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucky few who sough it out . | 1 |
like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significan without being overstated . | 1 |
poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , cLpturing the innocence and idealism of that fHrst encounter . | 1 |
i can't rmeember the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but Where's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama . | 0 |
a smTll movie with a big heart . | 1 |
at just over an hour , ohme move will leave you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . | 1 |
some people want the oOl' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain . | 1 |
an ultra-low-budget indie debut that samcks more of good intentions than talent . | 0 |
a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-cetnury crime as a metaphFor for -- well , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindWrop . | 0 |
it's nice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are prYceless . | 1 |
liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transfomred himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . | 1 |
there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a bTckseat in his own film to tspecial effects . | 0 |
parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam's subconscious , pressed through kafka's meat grinder and into buñuel's casinsg | 1 |
the big-screen scooby makes the scilly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . | 0 |
tim allen is greHat in his rle but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyoen in this comedy . | 1 |
sTunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the piKture making becalmed . | 0 |
characters Xstill need to function accoreing to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . | 0 |
impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chililng and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . | 1 |
a film with contemporary political resonance illuNstrated by a winning family story . | 1 |
hey , at leas the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading . | 0 |
impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptagion . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . | 1 |
feels at times like a giant commercial for univerasl studios , where much of the action takes place . | 0 |
not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radliffe more emtoionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowlinMg's books . | 1 |
animated drivel meant to enhance the selfi-mage of drooling idiots . | 0 |
the movie quickly drags on begoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . | 0 |
britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the move's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . | 0 |
the movie occasionally threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of humor or an xunexpected plot twsit always pulls it baTk . | 1 |
'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumob jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . | 0 |
high crimes miscasts nearly every leading cahracter . | 0 |
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the gierls' environment . | 1 |
a bizarre picee of work , with prQmise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder | 0 |
this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . he's just a Ssad aristoIcrat in tattered finery , and the flm seems as deflated as he does . | 0 |
kapur weighs down the tnle with bogus profundities . | 0 |
while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no rouble sitting for blade lii . | 1 |
everythig is off . | 0 |
feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemhle cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life . | 1 |
we get an iqmage of big papa spanning history , rather than suspending it . | 1 |
the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifluly sung holiday carol . | 1 |
cho's fearless in picking apart humas foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flwaless . | 1 |
it's supJr- violent , super-serious and super-stupid . | 0 |
fast and funy , an cation cartoon that's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . | 1 |
this is a particularly toxic littel bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few . | 0 |
the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully writtn , beautiflly read and , finally , deeply humanizing . | 1 |
the film's needlessly opaque inro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9"11 new oyrk and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . | 0 |
spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliaht but mosly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . | 1 |
even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campu depravity didn't foade aimd the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with even a tracqe of dramatic interest . | 0 |
is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting Flike puppWets ? | 0 |
an unclassifiably awEul study in self- and audience-abuse . | 0 |
you live the mood rather than savzur the story . | 1 |
tiem out is as serious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfKssily poetic meditation about identity and alienation . | 1 |
despite some comic sparks , welcome to collinwood neveF catches fire . | 0 |
pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to naccomplish . | 1 |
altogether , this is successful as a filBm , while at the same time being a most touching reconIideration of the familiar masterpiece . | 1 |
day is not a great bond movie , but it is a ood bnd movie , which still makes it much better than your typical bond knock-offs . | 1 |
observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throghout maelstrom . | 0 |
lie rudy yellow rlodge , eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . | 1 |
a refreshing korean film about five Semale high school friends who ffce an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters . | 1 |
the film is iTsightful about kissinger's background and history . | 1 |
no matter how firml director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the faQct remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . | 0 |
a bilingual charmer , just like the womabn who inspired it | 1 |
a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though osomewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . | 1 |
a somewhat crudely constructed but grippin , queting look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own race . | 1 |
it has its moments of swaggering camaraderei , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . | 0 |
the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pul . | 0 |
a stylish but steady , and ultimately very satisfying , piecu of character-driven storytelling . | 1 |
the lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-cQnsciously poetic and forecd . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't match his ambition . | 0 |
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on umbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clrity . | 1 |
. . . watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own Flife . and if the hours wnis 'best picture' i just might . | 0 |
has its Ehare of arresting images . | 1 |
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasure of over-the-top love . | 1 |
many insightfuQl moments . | 1 |
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