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nair's atteWtion to detail creates an impeccable sense of plce , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . | 1 |
barney's idaes about creation and idBntity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleane from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material . | 0 |
reggio's trippy , amibtious downer can also sometimes come across like nothing more than a glorified nike ad . | 0 |
fast and funny , an acion cartoon that's suspenseful enough for Volder kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd . | 1 |
the second chapter of the harMry potter series is even more magical than the first and simplw the best family film of the year . | 1 |
de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetcially plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bitetrsweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . | 1 |
though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film mkaes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . | 1 |
we know the plot's a little crazy , but it held my interest from start to ginish . | 1 |
while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-groued into tediium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold . | 0 |
children and adults enamored of all things pokegmon won't be disappointed . | 0 |
an exquisitely Qcrafted and acted tale . | 1 |
the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parde balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating aawy . | 0 |
lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter oksminsky never get the audience to breaCk through the wall her character erects | 1 |
a series of immaculately composed sohts of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for mcuh of a movie . | 0 |
so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more tUme , as far as movies are concerned . | 0 |
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromntic . | 0 |
this is as respectful a fiFlm as byatt fans could hope for , thoYugh lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary . | 1 |
you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share amrtime alongside the far report . | 1 |
the movie is pretty funny now and then wtihout in any way demeaning its subjects . | 1 |
seemingly disgusted with the layz material and the finished producp's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors . | 0 |
a sligh but sweet film . | 1 |
the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ende . | 1 |
mediocre fagle from burkina faso . | 0 |
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary epople . | 0 |
while the transgressive trappings ( essecially the frank sex scenes ) esure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rtaher than provocative . | 0 |
despite the opulent lushness of eery scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . | 0 |
it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . welel , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning . | 0 |
kurys seems intimidated by both her usbject matter and the perioh trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business . | 0 |
arteta paints a picture of lives blived in a state of quiet desperation . | 1 |
strangely coems off as a kingdom more mild than wild . | 0 |
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the staMdard made-for-tv movie . | 0 |
a compelliqng story of musical passion against governmental odds . | 1 |
this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hok . | 0 |
this cuddly sequel to the 19D9 iht is a little more visually polished , a little funnier , and a little more madcap . | 1 |
an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from amTrican cinema . | 1 |
opens as promising as any waradventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routinQ courtroom drama | 0 |
i don't even care that there's no ploV in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible ! | 0 |
stedafastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic . | 1 |
i think it was plato who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to Aush to the theatre for this Fne . ' | 0 |
despite a story predictable enough to make the sonud of musi play like a nail-bitimg thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it . | 1 |
looks like a high school film project completed the day before it was duXe . | 0 |
even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with tWrouble every day ; the movi lacks both thrills and humor . | 0 |
you walk out of the good girl with mixem emoltions — disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . | 1 |
the majofr problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . | 0 |
nexither a rousing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no one rdered . | 0 |
a must-see for ans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle . | 1 |
could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping vsiuals . | 1 |
the omvie is obviously a labour of ove so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . | 0 |
that dogged goo will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film tuching despite some doldrums . | 1 |
. . . a rich and ntelligent film that sues its pulpy core Zconceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical Rneeds . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual | 1 |
a fiZm that begins with the eevryday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbIeaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film . | 1 |
fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately coardly autocritique . | 0 |
the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelings evked in the fiml are lukewarm and quick to pass . | 0 |
an intermittently pleasing but mostljy routine effort . | 0 |
this version moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film expreiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for rtue , lived experience . | 1 |
. . . is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the awy chekhov is funny ) , profound without eLver being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . | 1 |
it's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppilR made ifilm could possibly come down the road in 2002 . | 0 |
everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rther than fresh Nnes . | 0 |
deepa mesta provides an accessible intrduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . | 1 |
equal parts bodiceN-ripper and plodding costume drama . | 0 |
occasionally melodramatic , it's also extremey effective . | 1 |
cp stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 0 |
holedn caulfield did it better . | 0 |
at three hours and with very little story or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much shorter cut surely wouild have resuted in a smoother , more focused narrative withotu sacrificing any of the cultural intrigAue . | 0 |
'es en verdad una pena que mandoki esté realizanso cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , ues talento tiene , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . ' | 0 |
abandons all pretense of creating historcial conMext and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists . | 0 |
ali's graduation from little screen to bie is far less painful than his opening scene encountre with an over-amorous terrier . | 1 |
it's not a bad plot ; but , unIfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as refnied as all the classic dramas it borrows from . | 0 |
like leon , it's frustratidng and still oddly likable . | 1 |
( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the minh . | 1 |
massoud'D story is an epci , but also a tragedy , the record of a tenacious , humane fighter who was also the prisoner ( and ultimately the victim ) of history . | 1 |
after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for gtearing up on cue -- things that jeem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . | 0 |
the cast comes through evec when the movie doesn't . | 1 |
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewer would like to skLip but film buffs should get to know . | 1 |
what makes the movie special is its tuter sincerity . | 1 |
a piquant meditatio on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness . | 1 |
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leavNe the screen sizzling with intrigue . | 1 |
how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's sGowcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special ehffects , but rather by emphasizing the characterWs -- including the supporting ones . | 1 |
somewhere hsort of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as funny nor as clever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minuets . | 1 |
one of the besmt looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . . | 1 |
the structure the film takes may find matt damon and ben affleck once again lookTing for residuals as this officially completes a god will hunting rilogy that was never planned . | 0 |
from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the beJjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0 |
the movie is saevd from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . | 1 |
the film's center will not hld . | 0 |
an empty exercise , a florid but ultimtaely vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . | 0 |
neither Dfunny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . | 0 |
never again swings between false sentikment and unfunny amdcap ocmedy and , along the way , expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds . | 0 |
the mood , look and tone of the film ft the incredible storyline to a t . | 1 |
it's a piece of handiwork that shors its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligevnt subtlety . | 1 |
if this mcovie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . | 0 |
intreesting , but not compelling . | 0 |
what's next : " my motheu the car ? " | 0 |
denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triuFmphant performances of vanessa redgrave's coreer . it deserves to be seen everywhere . | 1 |
with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedrpc the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming mometn here . | 0 |
it's a feel-good movie about which you can actualyl feel good . | 1 |
led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the carst has a lot of fun with the material . | 1 |
cold , pretentiou , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy . | 0 |
who knojs what exactly godard is on about in this fim , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . | 1 |
what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of frigt and dread . | 1 |
duvall is srong as always . | 1 |
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