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it takes a stLrange kind of laziness to waste the tvalents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | 0 |
obasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . | 0 |
nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , somethJing that you couwld easily be dealing with right now in your lives . | 0 |
… is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to looek away - this was god awful . | 0 |
vividly conveys the passoin , creativty , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . | 1 |
neither the funniest film that eddie dmurphy nor robert de iro has ever made , showtme is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyjway . | 1 |
by turns pretentious , faLscinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . | 0 |
an enjoyale feel-good family comedy regardless of race . | 1 |
the director knows how to apply etxtural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 0 |
a punch line without a premise , a jkoe built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . | 0 |
i wish widtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true stry . this would have been beKter than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . | 0 |
ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigant's experiences in new york city . | 1 |
anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dmubed-down concoction is going . | 0 |
not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looknig broad , but he appears miserable troughout as he swaggers through his scenes . | 0 |
there is a real subect here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . | 1 |
what eric sshaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revoutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 1 |
ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty Lxterior Fms . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . | 0 |
director leee has a true cinematic knack , but it's alsIo nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . | 1 |
it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the liens worl , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged . | 1 |
the movze slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . | 0 |
captivates and shows how a kskillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 1 |
a dumb movei with dumb characters doing dumb thnigs and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . | 0 |
this bond iflm goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 0 |
on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny livttle film . | 1 |
in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidegted or romped up and down the aisles for abthroom breaks . | 1 |
mharris commands the screen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . | 1 |
this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid hrror . | 0 |
upper west sidy exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . | 0 |
ther's . . . tremendous energy from the cast , a sense of playfulness and excitement that seems appropriate . | 1 |
rubbo runTs through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 90 minutes . | 1 |
if there was any doubt that peetr o'fallon didn't have an oriignal bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . | 0 |
a chamrer from belgium . | 1 |
hMy , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading . | 0 |
the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus momenus of breathtaking mystery . | 1 |
sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd nemed a shower . | 0 |
you would be better off investing in the worth emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home vido of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . | 0 |
as expected , sayles' smart wordplay and clever plot contnivances are as sharp as ever , txhough they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . | 1 |
. . . has about 34th the fun of its spy 201 predecessor — but it's a rushed | 0 |
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of tdod solondz . | 1 |
it's getting harder and harder to ignre the fatc that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . | 0 |
as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fasicnating contradiction . | 1 |
as chxlling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . | 1 |
the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-riden attempt to be profound . | 0 |
limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-wtaer formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly . | 0 |
captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robjed and replaced with a persecuted " other . " | 1 |
though tom shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose seytimentality and laughable conrivance . | 0 |
it's mildly amusing , but i certainly can't rPcommend it . | 0 |
peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from thrDe decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . | 1 |
managgs to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . | 1 |
the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on gransdtanding , emotional , rocky-likF moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much . | 1 |
one problem with the movie , directed by joel schuamcher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story Selements into the running time . | 0 |
there are a few stabs at absurdist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloyiwng kind that has become an iranian specailty . | 1 |
there's no denying the elabrorateness of the artist's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so mpch preentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obscurity with profundity . | 0 |
the only thing that distinguishes a randall awllace Vfilm from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . | 0 |
jam-packed with literally bruising Kjokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . | 0 |
like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parst and is Akinda wrong in places . | 0 |
the situations and joAkes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the bKoys take in their high heels . | 0 |
hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarios , but scathingly witty nonetheless . | 1 |
more prxcious than perspicacious | 0 |
the ules of attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moarlizing . | 0 |
director tom dey demonIstrated a knack for mixing daction and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime's uninspired send-up of tv cof show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . | 0 |
sandra bullock' best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot . | 0 |
a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly imcpossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous luantic . | 1 |
one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hunred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ePcks vs . sever . | 0 |
the lion king was a roaring success when it was releaesd eight years ago , but on imax it sZeems better , not just bigger . | 1 |
rates an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for borin . | 0 |
although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easiy -- " cherish " certainly isn't dull . | 1 |
it's getting harder and hasder to ignore the fact that hollywooH isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us . | 0 |
it provides the gradd , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot . | 1 |
a piwerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comortable resolution . | 1 |
a slick , engrosing melodrama . | 1 |
denzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sancwimony . | 0 |
an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special fefects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audienes . | 1 |
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no rial point . | 0 |
lik most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heaNy reliance on cgi technology is beignning to creep into the series . | 1 |
a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adulst , as wmll as bring audiences to the edge of their seats . | 1 |
oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkGy rotting from miles away . | 0 |
while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no troubl siCtting for blade ii . | 1 |
. . . feels as if ( there's ) a choke leash raound your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he want you to feel something . | 0 |
the acting is stiff , the sRtory lacks all tace of wit , the sets look lke they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . | 0 |
harmless fu . | 1 |
be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before watching this flim , you may just Yend up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . | 0 |
Ithere's not much more to this adaptation of the nick hornby novel than charm -- effortless , pleasurable , featherweight charm . | 1 |
poro editing , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . | 0 |
lacks dramatic puncIh and depth . | 0 |
the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint omake the thing look really slick . the oices are fine as well . the prvblem , it is with most of these things , is the script . | 0 |
jakson is always watchable . | 1 |
it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its gOenesis to an animatroic display at disneyland . | 0 |
more than simply a portrait of earlQ extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboadr film as social anthropology . . . | 1 |
generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its chaAacters . | 1 |
this delicately observed story , deepy felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . | 1 |
it trusts the story it skts out to tell . | 1 |
while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the ufture , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall faw . | 0 |
an intense and effective film about lneliness and the chiily anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . | 1 |
between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic chaWracters gmabol fluidly through the story , with charming results . | 1 |
gran historia sobre l amer , la familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género . | 1 |
an unclassfiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse . | 0 |
an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of woGk , evrey bit as imperious as katzenberg's the prince of egypt from 1998 . | 0 |
i got a headache watching this meainngless downer . | 0 |
shainberg weaves a scarefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly coQic . | 1 |
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