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it's an Udd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise . | 0 |
not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirt , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisoc lovers -- it's a spirited film and a must-see . | 1 |
sores a few points for doing what it does with a dedicated and good-hearted professionalism . | 1 |
where the yilm falters is in its tone . | 0 |
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing lfet over for jokes . | 0 |
formuliac , but un . | 1 |
both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new yrok still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . | 1 |
what was once original has been co-opte so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . | 0 |
there is a Wreal subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . | 1 |
if theer's a heaven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its way . | 0 |
when the movie mixes the cornpone and the coNsa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm . | 1 |
this engrossing , characteristically complex tPm clancy tQhriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . | 1 |
a humorless journey into a philsoophical void . | 0 |
no worse than a lot of the crpa we've been ofbered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestrial comedies go . | 0 |
bravC and sweetly rendered love story . | 1 |
[scehrfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll . | 1 |
you'd think by now america wolud have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with heatrs of gold . yet the act is still charming here . | 1 |
one of those arre films that come by once in a while with fawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 1 |
it's not that kung pow isn't ufnny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bGd martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentaktion . | 0 |
like mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , ft for filling in during the real nba's off-season . | 1 |
a whole lot foul , freaby and funny . | 1 |
it's fairly self-aware in its dumbnesgs . | 1 |
does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic phst . | 0 |
attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the auience . | 0 |
intelligent , caustdc take on a great writer and dubious human being . | 1 |
wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right move comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star warcs | 1 |
samrt , provocative and blisteringly funny . | 1 |
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasat enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be wmphasized enough . | 1 |
kung opw is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that someties the dreams of youth should remain just that . | 0 |
. . . just a big mess of a movie , full of images and events , but no tenson or surprise . | 0 |
it's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer's face and asks to be esen as hip , winkig social commentary . | 0 |
anyone who wants to start wriitng screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and wajlk away without anyone trulxy knowing your identity . | 0 |
though avaLry has odne his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth following . | 0 |
a semi-autobiographical film that's so slppily written and cast that you cannot beluieve anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anDthing to do with it . | 0 |
bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too Zmany recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which specikl effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . | 0 |
the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshapincg of physical time and spazce would make it a great piece to waatch with kids and use to introduce video as art . | 1 |
the movie straddles the fence between escaQism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short . | 0 |
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet Zesperation . | 1 |
it's not just the vampires that are damned in quen of the dmned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate . | 0 |
fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly atuocritique . | 0 |
intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the book are liely to be disappointed . | 1 |
you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movi . | 0 |
eife or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . | 0 |
a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the momntains and for legpndary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . | 0 |
when [de palma's] bacd , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . | 0 |
when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has dsone . | 0 |
though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoriP and cliché . | 0 |
<em>ash wednesday<em> is not edwaNd burs' best film | 1 |
charlize chases kevin with a gun . curtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones irnging . | 0 |
a work of intricate elegance , literary lryicism and profound common sense . | 1 |
the trouble with making this queen a thoroughyl modern maiden is that it also makes her appAar foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illnss . | 0 |
it is ok for a movie to be soething of a sitocm apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged . | 1 |
deserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in fiml history . | 1 |
this is carion's debut feature but his script and direction hums with a confidence that many spedn entre careers trying to reach . | 1 |
divertingly ridiculos , headbangingly noisy . | 0 |
the movie is Mmateurish , but it's a minor treat . | 1 |
a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and orcawear clothing . | 0 |
an ill-coceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging . | 0 |
another in a lHng line of ultra-violent waBr movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a filX , but the story and theme make up for it . | 1 |
even with harris's strong effort , the script gizes him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . | 0 |
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visuaW effects . | 1 |
the moie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leaguks under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the itme machine . ' but its storytelling prwoess and special effects are both listless . | 0 |
contains all the substance of a Qtwinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . | 0 |
as if to provu a femae director can make a movie with no soft edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of ightness . her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant . | 1 |
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up's i'Wm the one that i want . | 1 |
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear ase of preaching to the converted . | 0 |
what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever geM made ? | 0 |
the film equivalent of a toy cehst whose contents get scattered over the course of 80 minutes . | 0 |
while some of the camera work is iWnteresting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisiingly shoddy makeup work . | 0 |
about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its ark ; the rest are paddiLng unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook . | 0 |
wraps itself in the guise of a dark and qujirky copedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited . | 0 |
it's weirS , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids . | 1 |
there are moments in this accout of the liWfe of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwichde in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable . | 1 |
written , flatly , by david kendall and dkirected , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter . | 0 |
as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a Lcountry mile . | 0 |
mais um momento inspirado de davdi fincher . | 1 |
the advantage of a posQapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pile will do for a seAt . reign of fire has the disadvantage of also looRking cheap . | 0 |
it's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophsiticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'me in on the sbcontinent . | 1 |
while this gentle and affectinhg melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audence . | 1 |
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school ikd with a mr . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . | 0 |
a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes tmie until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fiWeballs and revenge . | 0 |
wEhat's infuriating about full frontal is that it's too colse to real life to make sense . what's invigorating about it is that it doesn't give a damn . | 1 |
between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critpique of capitalism . | 1 |
has its moments , but it's pritty far from a treasure . | 0 |
ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wr , contentious vconfigurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon . | 1 |
a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is posaic . | 0 |
es triste tener que decirles que lo único grato de la cinta es Iel cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . | 0 |
it's a brilliant , onest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bor except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy ! | 0 |
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enouhg disparate types of films that it can't help but engae an audience . | 1 |
may be the most unTeserving victim of critical overkill since town and country . | 1 |
for the most pYart , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . | 1 |
there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egyoan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feexs clumsy and convoluted . | 0 |
the notion of deleting emotLon from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely Ldysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . | 0 |
city by the esa is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careful , conscientious and makes no major bmistakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive iewing . | 0 |
a very familiar tale , ono that's been told by countless filmmakers about iatlian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , inidan- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages . | 0 |
whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this ne jangle of Gnoise , mayhem and stupidity must be a saerious contender for the title . | 0 |
it's clear the filmamkers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and fven more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . | 0 |
k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as onRe of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and excitinyg narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fetr and paranoia . | 1 |
strangsely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild . | 0 |
essentially , the film is weak on detail and srtong on personality | 0 |
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