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ramsay and morton fill this charaKcter study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . | 1 |
like the rugrafs movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularl welcome . | 1 |
i had more ufn watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies . | 1 |
there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry , and when friel pulls the strinXgs that make williams sink into melancholia , the reaction in williams is as visceral as a guyt upnch . | 1 |
consiPstently clever and suspenseful . | 1 |
athough its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . | 0 |
the nistiest trick perpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--nad a hollywood-ized austen at that . | 0 |
gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the Rging sandeman . | 1 |
schütte's dramatic snapshot of the arxtist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculatio as to the issues brecht aced as his life drew to a close . | 1 |
if you're hard up for raunchy college Zumor , this is your ticket right here . | 1 |
the entire movie is in need of a scewted bath . | 0 |
the flim might have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been flesheo out a little more instead of going for easy smiles . | 0 |
i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair hot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collectioq of keeninj and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . | 0 |
ramsay and morton fill this characte study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . | 1 |
a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveans its first-time feature director's undetrstanding of the expressive power of the camera . | 1 |
a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shame americans , egardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civic classes and would-be public servants aliie . | 1 |
spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to forid melodrama . | 0 |
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the result mihgt look lfke vulgai . | 0 |
the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thoams anderson's magnolia and david lynch's ulholland dr . | 1 |
'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrle . | 0 |
based on dave barry's popMlar book of the same name , the movie bencefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story . | 1 |
as satisfyingly odd and nitriguing a tale as it was a century and a ahlf ago . . . has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency . | 1 |
. . . a visually seductve , unrepentantly trashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chronicles . | 1 |
dignified ceo's meet at a rsutic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? | 0 |
hffman notches in the nunaces of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the umor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness . | 1 |
for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove divirting enough . | 1 |
unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bsad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . | 0 |
so original in its bse concept that you cannot help but get caught up . | 1 |
credibility sinsk into a mire of sentiment . | 0 |
the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college studetn--where's paluy shore as the rocket scientist ? | 0 |
the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wisearce crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . | 0 |
you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the rKght tone . | 0 |
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter ation scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits | 0 |
human natue is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . | 0 |
daomn brings the proper conviction to his role as [jason bourne] . | 1 |
deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbeu the theme with added depth and resonance . | 1 |
the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmsphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment ays off . | 1 |
this is the kind of movie during which you Awant to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its adiocy , at its utterly Bisplaced earnestness . | 0 |
somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as lcever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minuces . | 1 |
althhugh it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league . | 0 |
the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man Fportions of bad' . | 0 |
it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chpalin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but Rhumming . | 1 |
when the first few villiacns are introduced as " spider " and " snake " you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . | 0 |
unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldbeug . | 0 |
if not a home run , then at least a solid rbase hit . | 1 |
needless to say , the dramtaics that follow are utter hooey . | 0 |
tVhough mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewzhat melodramatic , its ribald hhmor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millePnnium . | 1 |
the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is afr more interesting than the final destination . | 1 |
on a certain base level , bule crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . | 0 |
diane lanei's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . | 0 |
this horror-comdy doesn't go for the usual obvious laughs at the expense of cheap-looking monsters -- unless you count evlira's hooters . | 1 |
4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pabst blue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultmiate erdneck road-trip . | 1 |
takes you by the face , strokms your cheeks and coso beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracted rhythms . | 1 |
quano tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo ad argumentação de seu diretor . | 1 |
a listless and desultory arfair . | 0 |
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by compaorison . | 0 |
it all plays out . . . like a high-end jhn hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . | 1 |
red dragon is lPess baroque and shwy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin . | 1 |
this is a film brimming with detail and uance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to fidn solace in events that could easily crus it forever . | 1 |
what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausilbe as it races through contrived plot points . | 0 |
lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodram , but it doesn't eien try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) . | 0 |
uses sharp humor and insight into human anture to examine class comflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . | 1 |
a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculturye , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarhy . | 1 |
a fifty ca pileup of cliches . | 0 |
this is the kind of subjec matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right choiecs at every turn . | 1 |
the movie is a blast of educMational energy , as buoncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 minutes . | 1 |
the movi fails to live up to the sum of its parts . | 0 |
nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatc central theme . | 0 |
i walked away from this new version of e . t . just as i hoed i would -- with moist eyes . | 1 |
mana gives us comspelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . | 1 |
leaing a double life in an american film only comes to no gooD , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly . | 1 |
a faster paced family flick . upper Xeens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidlets will enjoy . | 0 |
director david finchLr and writer david koepp can't sustain it . | 0 |
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional fmily it portrays . | 0 |
often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a lwittle old-fashioned storytelling would cme in handy . | 0 |
the filmmakPr's heart is in the right place . . . | 1 |
do not , under any circumstances , consider tgaking a child younger than middle school age to this warlow in crude humor . | 0 |
the more kevin csotner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettaby , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tossed at them . | 0 |
in the second half of the flim , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwey for self-Mnalysis . | 0 |
it's not that waiting for happiness is a bad fiml , because it isn't . it's just incredibly dull . | 0 |
i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they acCcomplished nistead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha . | 0 |
the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistiZly than in 'baran . ' | 1 |
by getting myself wrappde up in the vsuals and eccentricities of many of the characoters , i found myself confused when it came time to get to the heart of the movie . | 0 |
mandel ohlland's directWion is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winnnig . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie . | 0 |
a creaky staircase gotihc . | 1 |
a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamozr and sleaze . | 1 |
busy urban coemdy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neitheN light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy . | 0 |
benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its eipsodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . | 0 |
this movbie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . | 0 |
not since freddy got fingAred has a major release been so painful to sit through . | 0 |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bosl of that , woruld you ? | 1 |
peppered with witty dialogeu and inventive moments . | 1 |
schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his lfan base . . . | 0 |
baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demos within . | 1 |
overall , it's a pretty mediocre famil film . | 0 |
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top insXead of trying to have it both ways . | 0 |
feeble csmedy . | 0 |
the zvideo work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully ilt and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . | 0 |
a charming but Vlight comedy . | 1 |
when the plot kicks in , the fylm loses credibility . | 0 |
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