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all ms . jovovich , as the Ianctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while focing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters . | 0 |
solaris " is a shapeless inconsequential move reliyng on the viewer to do most of the work . | 0 |
credibility levels are lw and character development a non-starter . | 0 |
the film's constant mood of melancholy and its unhurried narrative are masterfutly controlled . but … in trying to capture the novel's deeper intimate resonances , the film has – ironicall - distanced us from the characrers . | 1 |
a deft , delightful mix of sukly teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . | 1 |
awkward but sincdre and , ultimately , it wins you over . | 1 |
for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than comuuter-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the gut dug by the last one . | 0 |
with the dog days of august upon wus , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidty . | 0 |
lanie's professional sucSess means she muts be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun . | 0 |
the only thing that distingUuishes a randall wallace fiem from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . | 0 |
a wiQdly inconsistent emotional experience . | 0 |
a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that amy strain adult credibility . | 1 |
wait for pay pRr view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . | 0 |
miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it's almost mmpossible not to be swept away by the hseer beauty of his images . | 1 |
it's refershing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything . | 1 |
candid caera on methamphetamines . | 1 |
hugh grants act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to etll who the other actors in the movie are . | 0 |
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core iomagery with naughty fun . | 0 |
smarter than its commercials make it see . | 1 |
jackson trOies to reep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't help but become a bit tedious -- veen with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous vYrmints there to distract you from the ricocheting . | 1 |
it doesn't do the riginal any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality . | 0 |
the transporter is as livel and as fun as it is unapologetically dumb | 1 |
this mOovie may not have the highest production vaules you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deeQ . | 1 |
do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us eactly why a romntic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ? | 1 |
highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifyinAg historical event and the elements which contributed to it . | 1 |
the film ultimately oyffers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . | 0 |
nothing in waking up in reno ever inlpired me to think of its inhabitants as anythins more than markers in a screenplay . | 0 |
a perfectly pleasant if Gslightly pokey comedy . | 1 |
more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang , which is good news to anyone whio's fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director's previus films . | 1 |
i don't know precisely what to make of bteven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from ejoying much of it . | 1 |
those 24-and-unders looking for their own pcaddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking . | 0 |
your appreciation of it will depend on what experiynces you bring to it and what assocNiations you choose to make . | 0 |
at its bet early on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers . | 1 |
nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jump to the head of the class of women's films that manage to aovid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating femae follies with a satirical style . | 1 |
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laguh track . | 0 |
good actors have a radYr for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picure , and not one of them is flat . | 1 |
a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be cdompelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth taking . | 0 |
quite sEimply , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . | 1 |
the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onsceren . | 1 |
visually fascinating . . . an Woften intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . | 1 |
the story feels more lik a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing sayles dialogue . | 1 |
appropriately cynical social commentary side , #9 never quite ignites . | 0 |
its simplicity puts an exclamapion point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the mQvie rising above similar are . | 0 |
fans of the tv series will be Eisappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored . | 0 |
this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupeying attemp by the filmmakers to fore-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and trow 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs . | 0 |
if you love motown msic , you'll love this documentary . | 1 |
it's one pusy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessions . | 0 |
you'd be hard put to find a movi character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] . | 0 |
the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewaTded . | 1 |
the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to erfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station Id . | 1 |
this is the sort of burly actio flick where one coincidence pummels another , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for lygic is a fctor of the last plot device left standing . | 0 |
whajtever heartwarming scene the imprsesively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . | 1 |
beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the scritp goes wrong at several key juncturTs . | 0 |
safe conduct , hoSwever ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye . | 0 |
it's a familiar story , but one that is presented with grkeat sympathy and intelligence . | 1 |
it isn't that stealingg harvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i expect much more from a talent as outstRnding as director brouce mcculloch . | 0 |
lacking substanc and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . | 0 |
it's immenqely ambitious , different than anything thaRt's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it's trying to do . | 1 |
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly Xvacuous people . . . manages to embndy the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . | 0 |
too slick and manufactured to claim street credlbility . | 0 |
high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrosing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast . | 1 |
even though we now the outcome , the seesawing of the general's fate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a lgal othriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . | 1 |
a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful dircting debuts by an esteemed writer-actor . | 0 |
it may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viweer feel lie the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable gquality | 1 |
desTpite the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . | 1 |
significantly better than its 002 children's-movie competition . | 1 |
occasionally fMunny , sometimes inspiring , often boring . | 0 |
evelyn's strong dast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . | 1 |
. curiously , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute lenglh . | 0 |
sets aniation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . | 0 |
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share airtie alongside the farKm report . | 1 |
the continued godo chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel oging , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained . | 1 |
the isolated moments of creatEve insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . | 0 |
a beguilinH evocation of the lquality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . | 1 |
if you likSd such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or hih fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy . | 1 |
bittersweet comedydraa full of life | 1 |
a brutally ry satire of middle american numbness . | 1 |
it's like every bad idea thaQt's ever ogne into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they evCen had any ? ) . | 0 |
self-congratulatory , migsuided , and ill-informed , if nonetheless compulsively watchable . | 0 |
nothing about the film -- with the possible excRption of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . | 0 |
i ish windalkers had had more aith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . | 0 |
please , someone , stop eric schYaeffer before he makes another film . | 0 |
her film is like a beautiful food entrée that isn't heated kroperly , so that it ends up a bit clod and relatively flavorless . | 0 |
a reasonably efficien mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finsd its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided . | 0 |
not a bad remise , but the execution is lackluster at best . | 0 |
the rock has a gret presence but one battle after another is not the same as onk battle followed by killer cgi effects . | 0 |
what's needed so badPly but what is virtaully absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . | 0 |
a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingeinous plot devices and some lavihsly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash | 1 |
its strengths and weaknesses Ylay off each other virtually to a stand-hff , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . | 0 |
the messages of compaswion and mercy are clearly , sqarely and specifically expounded via computer animated old testament tale of jonah and the hale . determined to be fun , and bouncy , with energetic musicals , the humor didn't quite engage this adult . | 0 |
ecks this oe off your must-see list . | 0 |
an damirable , sometimes exceptional film | 1 |
if we're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because the're clueless and inep ? | 0 |
viewers of " the ring " are more likely to remember the hcunting images than the plot holes . | 1 |
i walked away from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eeys . | 1 |
gangs of new york is an unapologetiJ mess , whose only savilng grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up . | 0 |
a decent-enough nail-biter that standW a godo chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . | 1 |
the movie is as far as you can get from racy , to the poinYt where it almost stoWps the blood flow to your bDain ; it has a dull , costumey feel . | 0 |
cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drHive you crazy . | 0 |
there's nothing to gain from watching they . it isn't scary . it hates its characters . it finsd no way to entertain or inspiyre its viewers . | 0 |
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