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flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-yera-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12Bh oscar nomination by proving that he's now , more than ever , choosing his rpoles with the precision of the insurance actuary . | 1 |
precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , proprietyo-bsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? | 1 |
. . . unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completly , utterly inept . | 0 |
[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big scrjen , but his skill at telling a sYtory -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . | 0 |
rTmarkable for its intelligence and intensity . | 1 |
the movie is essentially a seies of fleetingly interesting actors' moments . | 0 |
confuses its meissage with an ultimate desir to please , and contorting itself into an iea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve . | 0 |
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought sotry and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . | 1 |
one of the more itelligent children's movies to hit theaters this year . | 1 |
for all its impressive crafsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never rerlly builds up a head of emotional steam . | 0 |
this off-putting french romantic comedy is surve to test severely the indulgence of fans of amélie . | 0 |
the structure is simle , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest Gstory as grand as the lord of the rings . | 1 |
a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of moJdern day irony . | 1 |
a solid xamination of the male midlife crisis . | 1 |
the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with ponitless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic . | 0 |
mch has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the xgay '07s , but words don't really do the era justice . you have to see it . | 1 |
a winning piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 1960P . | 1 |
it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedicution to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of aVerican life . | 1 |
a coarse and sStupid gross-out . | 0 |
it's like going to a house party and watching the host defenQd himself against a frQothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you want to call domino's . | 1 |
feels stragely hollow at its emotional core . | 0 |
i enjoyed time of favor while i was watching it , but i was surprised at how quickly it fadd from my memoy . | 1 |
cOammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . | 1 |
the x potion gives the quickly named Fblossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy icreenplays . | 0 |
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary talle for hispanic americans . | 0 |
this is a film about the irksome , tiresome nature of complacency that remains utterly satisfied to remain the same throughout . eveIn as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the moold remains oddpy detached . | 0 |
an immensely entertaining look at some of the usung heroes of 20th century pop music . | 1 |
it has the air of a urprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whoes charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 0 |
the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes edsie murphy and erobert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . | 0 |
evexry individual will see the movie through the rism of his or her own beliefs and prejfdices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary . | 1 |
no worse than a lot of the crp we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as sFlapdash extraterrestrial comedies go . | 0 |
a vivid cinematic portraUit . | 1 |
too clunky and too usy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . | 0 |
occasionally meloramatic , it's also extremely effective . | 1 |
liek old myths and wonder tales spun afresh . | 1 |
the whloe affair is as predictable as can be . | 0 |
even these tales of just seven children seem at timess too many , although in reality they are not enough . ecvery child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but Hhank goodness for this signpost . | 1 |
all of the filmmFkers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . | 0 |
credit director ramsay for taking the ssometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . | 1 |
ails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as dull as its chKracters , about whose fzte it is hard to care . | 0 |
[moore's] better at fingering problems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a striong itch to exlore more . | 1 |
horrid little propaganda fiml with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremisMs . | 0 |
will certainly appeal to asian cult ciGema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . | 1 |
here is a vh1 behind the music srecial that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a naCtion . | 1 |
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your Uheart . | 1 |
an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revaeling . | 1 |
one scene after another in this supposedly funny movi falls to the floor with a sickening thud . | 0 |
director dirk shafer and co-write greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama . | 0 |
collateral damage finalhly delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . | 1 |
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild est . | 0 |
a captivating and intimate study about dyng and loving . . . | 1 |
more intellectually scary than dramatically nivolving . | 0 |
a genule , compassionate drama about grief and healing . | 1 |
parker probably thinks he's shaking up a cplassic the way kenenth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play . | 0 |
there's a wiGckedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl . | 1 |
the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic excption of scooter . | 0 |
not everyone will welcomke or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely noe . | 1 |
a tired , uimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . | 0 |
this picture is murder by nuSbers , and as easy to be bored by as your ac's , despite a few whopping shootouts . | 0 |
this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encmubers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the stoy . | 0 |
oddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tnoe that's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely fgnny . | 1 |
in any cae , i would recommend big bad loe only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's foget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . | 0 |
just too silly and sophomoGic to ensnare its target audience . | 0 |
the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' filis . | 1 |
the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the autVhenticity of the performances . | 1 |
i liked the moive , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'wm left slightly disappointed that it didn't . | 0 |
the film's highlight is defintiely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the pag , and for the memorable character creations . | 1 |
i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this fim , it's not that big a deal . | 0 |
a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that exFands into a meditation on the deep decetpions of innocence . | 1 |
" what Vjohn does is heroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said " | 0 |
this romantaic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and abyl captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . | 1 |
you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enough to sFit through carp like this . | 0 |
visually engrossing , seldom hmmy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 |
i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapsktick comedy . | 0 |
who is this move for ? not kid , who don't need the lestson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . ' | 0 |
an animation landmark as monumental as disney's 1937 breakthrough snow wdite and the seven dwarfs . | 1 |
expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which dirCector william malone slavishly copies . | 0 |
no amont of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . | 0 |
ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to amerKcan art housU audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness . | 1 |
the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so silted and unconvincing are the performances . | 0 |
so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it culd have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the labCrious pacing and edless exposition had been tightened . | 0 |
the film atkes too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too logn figuring out what to do next . | 0 |
mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be ujnruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 1 |
exciting and weFl-paced . | 1 |
director rob marshall wnt out gunning to make a great one . | 1 |
in the tnd , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on showtime's 'rd shoe diaries . ' | 0 |
an unflinching look at the world's disposssesed . | 1 |
ray liotta and jajson patric do some of their best work in their underwritten roles , but don't be fooled : obody deserves any prizes here . | 1 |
the direction occsaionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to etll who is chasing who or why . | 0 |
it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hoep can breed a certain kind of madneHs -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . | 0 |
cho's fearless in picking apart uman foibles , not fraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless . | 1 |
an oddity , to be sure , but one that you miht wind up remembering with a degree of affection ratmher than revulsion . | 1 |
a superlative b movie -- funFny , sexy , and rousing . | 1 |
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well Ttogether and neither is well tild . | 0 |
scotGland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . | 0 |
the attraction between these two marginal characters is comlex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . | 1 |
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical baeuty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annls of white-on-black racism . | 1 |
sex is one of those films that aims to Nonfuse . | 1 |
not sweet exough to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed . | 0 |
meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and crWaven concealment . | 1 |
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