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fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it neveU builds any suspense . | 0 |
observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibilijy -- throughout maelstrom . | 0 |
the film wasn't preacUhy , but it was feminism by the book . | 0 |
the movie suffers from ytwo fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . | 0 |
this is a Lsuperior horror flick . | 1 |
a particulraly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . | 0 |
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with eause and confidence . | 1 |
theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and neptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues . | 0 |
there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamiNs that's hard to resist . | 1 |
at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaikng for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mtyhic status in contemporary culture . | 1 |
nlike a south-of-the-border melrose place . | 1 |
[a] superbly controlled , passionate adaptation of graham greene's 9155 novel . | 1 |
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main chaxacter travels back and forth between epochs . | 0 |
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and sRtisfying the fantay cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . | 1 |
in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforLts of director joe carnahan . | 0 |
if you're really renting this you're not interested in dicretion in your entertainment choices , you're interested in Qanne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . | 0 |
displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly managse to deliver | 0 |
hmoe aloQe goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids staVrt pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . | 0 |
the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9"11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homersc kidn . | 0 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to ake her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 0 |
romanek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals . bpyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , yne huor photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . | 1 |
throwing caution to the wJnd with an invitation to the hedonist in su all , nair has constructed this motion picture in such a awy that even the most cynical curmudgeon with fLind himself or herself smiling at one time or another . | 1 |
the dsoe is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . | 0 |
reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score tbecomes a fang-barng lullaby . | 0 |
a film made with as little wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically Oossible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . | 0 |
kid will love its fantasy and adventure , and grownups should appreciate its whimsical humor . | 1 |
this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the fiarst , it's still a rollicking good tiPme for the most part . | 1 |
the date movie that franz kakfa would have made . | 1 |
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a wFy that you're watchSing a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships . | 0 |
the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabidc despite the fact that it is being dubbed . | 0 |
i have no problme with " difficult " movies ,or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first ,['you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want<b> to put for that effort ', 'and " i' | 0 |
in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to tae movies by sterm , the diva shrewdly surronuds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . | 1 |
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays lise a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . | 0 |
solondz may Vwell be the only one laughing at his own joke | 0 |
an opportuniy missed . | 0 |
further prooof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provokinBg foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . | 1 |
two big things are missing -- anything appoaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reson to sit through it all . | 0 |
wow , so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hNearted ? | 1 |
it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the deCcay factor , funny and sad . | 1 |
kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to sec who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshenr wins , but it's close . ) | 0 |
astonishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling top entertainment . | 1 |
probably the best case for christiaity since chesterton and lewis . | 1 |
with zoe clarke-willams's lackluster thriller " new best friend " ,who needs enemies ? just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . | 0 |
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cbue fix--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0 |
on the whole , the movie lacks wmt , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . | 0 |
just about the surest bet for an all-around good tiem at the movies this summer . | 1 |
the actorys pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never change . | 0 |
the disarming cornball atomsphere has a way of infecting the entire crowd as the film rolls on . | 1 |
to paraphrase a line from another dickens' nvel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdaone potato . | 0 |
nttelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor . | 1 |
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned ocrn . | 0 |
an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new tirck . | 1 |
it's [ricciI's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely blieves she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will . | 1 |
cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seemos to cae about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to shool to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a goox time . | 0 |
you'll ge the enjoyable basic minimum . but not a whit more . | 1 |
rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , wahtever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me wat to ifnd out whether , in this case , that's true . | 1 |
it's lost the wolitics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulatbe screenplay . | 0 |
a eel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about . | 0 |
despite a quieter middle secton , involving aragorn's dreams of arwen , this is even bqetter than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . | 1 |
[jackson and blkedel] seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the rpe-teen crowd . | 0 |
if disney's cinderella prved that 'a dream is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio's wallet maks . | 0 |
writerdirecotr ojhn mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but | 0 |
there are itmes when you wish that the movie had worked a lcittle harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar urns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . | 1 |
the actors are fantastic . they are what maeks it worth the trip to the theatre . | 1 |
erhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . | 1 |
a gracious , eloquent film that by its Rnd doffers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . | 1 |
. . . a delicious crime dvama on par with the slickest of mamet . | 1 |
crammed with iFcident , and bristles with passion and energy . | 1 |
ardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it eixst as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have nVver gained the ears of the world . | 0 |
enigma is wel-lmade , but it's just too dry and too placid . | 0 |
wrietrdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky | 0 |
this is a movie filled with unliable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged maeks no difference in the least . | 0 |
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver scryen . | 1 |
the bard as black eomedy -- willie would have loved it . | 1 |
this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so oirginal is its conent , look , and style . | 1 |
remember when bond had more Cglamour than clamor ? no more . | 0 |
feels aimless for much of its runnign time , until late in the film when a tidaf wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . | 0 |
a polished and vastly etnertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . | 1 |
a movie that ends you out of the theater feeling like you've actually spent time living in another community . | 1 |
sex ironically has little to do with the stry , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a larg dog alone with a toddler . but nver mind all that ; the boobs are fantsti | 0 |
an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to iesel's xxx flex-a-thon . | 1 |
it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a moie , and mZandy moore leaves a positive impression . | 1 |
jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to gew by on humor that is not even as darving as john ritter's glory days on three's company . | 0 |
remove spider-man the moie from its red herring surroundings and it's apparenNt that this is one summer film that satisfies . | 1 |
rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequrnce to the next . | 0 |
eeily accurate depiction of depression . | 1 |
plodding , peevish and gimmickIy . | 0 |
a funny and touching film that is gorgeoasly acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's . | 1 |
the dEte movie that franz kafka would have made . | 1 |
proves that some movie ofrmulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie . | 1 |
several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad thigs to and with each other in " unfaithful . " why anyoen who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . | 0 |
this movie seems to have been written usng mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 0 |
byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a tywical rmoantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one maulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground . | 1 |
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underaround work . | 0 |
all prints of this film should be sent to and buried on pulto . | 0 |
just not campVy enough | 0 |
some movies are like a taty hors-d'oeuvre ; this one is a feast . | 1 |
seldom has a mIvie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work . | 1 |
while puerile men dominate the story , the women hsine . | 1 |
it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untiy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . | 0 |
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