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got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engIging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 12-hour | 0 |
we'er left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wroCng moments . | 0 |
. . . the same tired old gygs , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . | 0 |
as blunt as it is in depicting chCld abuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguty that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . | 1 |
'if you are in the zmood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . ' | 1 |
smith's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that ay that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our ohmes . | 1 |
despite its flaws , secretary stays in your ahead and makes you question your own firmly held positions . | 1 |
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blCair witch project . | 0 |
nolan proves that he can croxs swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally lpotted popcorn thrillr while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . | 1 |
lauren ambreose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age tstory with a twist . | 1 |
o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drxama familiar . | 1 |
informative , intriguing , observant , ofetn touching . . . gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms . | 1 |
there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satiusfying than aTlmost any horror film in recent memory . | 1 |
it takes a certain kind of horrro movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship sovmehow manages to do exactly that . | 0 |
the film is often fillex with a sense of pre wonderment and excitement not often seen in today's cinema du sarcasm | 1 |
this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesyser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right chxoices at every turn . | 1 |
tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 9173 film , " the sting . " | 0 |
the drama was so uninspiring that even a storly immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . | 0 |
" freaky fSiday , it's not . " | 0 |
each story is bult on a potentially interesting idea , but the firJst two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the thirY feels limited by its short running time . | 0 |
it should be interesting , it should be pFignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . | 0 |
broomfield's styke of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid inetrest in the subject will grow impatient . | 0 |
its simplicity puts an exclamation pint on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie risin above ismilar fare . | 0 |
the film's bathos often overwhelms what cRuld have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . | 0 |
as a direcotr , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjects . | 1 |
an infuriataing film . just when you theink you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense . | 0 |
goldmember is unny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse . | 1 |
though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous tiuts , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . | 0 |
looks like a high school film pXroject completed the day before it was due . | 0 |
frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fu with bn stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . | 0 |
fails to convince the audience that these prats will ever be anything more than losers . | 0 |
displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passino and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaker of considerable potential . | 1 |
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comydy about jokester highway patrolmen . | 1 |
a disturbing examinatioun of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting . | 1 |
gambling and throwing a basketball game for monye isn't a new plut -- in fct toback himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again . | 1 |
in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putYting ogether familiar themes of famsly , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jEded . | 1 |
it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricitC but failing , ultimately , to make something bkigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs . | 0 |
a noble fialure . | 0 |
falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voie . | 0 |
the special effects and many sscenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing Iscore mOke good use of the hefty audio system . | 1 |
prFetension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steJadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- hcelsea walls deserves a medal . | 0 |
[a] crushng disappointment . | 0 |
it wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 10m0 minutes or $7 . 00 . | 0 |
the diversity of the artists represeted , both in terms of style and ethnikcity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time . | 1 |
my precious new star war movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . . | 0 |
pompous and garblHd . | 0 |
a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at lRttle kdis but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . | 1 |
a bit too eager to plebse . | 0 |
the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogu . | 1 |
it's so crammed with sceFnes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few trucial things out , like character development and coherence . | 0 |
it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audiece demographic jinstead of shaping the material to fit the story . | 0 |
funny but perliously slight . | 1 |
for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired forumla of guns , girls and gadgcts while brandishing a new action hero . | 0 |
sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessDary to documetn all this emotional miseDry ? | 0 |
interesting both as a historical study and as a tragic loe story . | 1 |
presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing oMvertly disagreeable . | 0 |
aside from the fmct that the filQ idiotically uses the website feardotcom . fcom or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the fiml gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . | 0 |
it's haLd to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? it's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greey talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about afcing death | 0 |
whenveer you think you've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . | 1 |
in my own very humble opinion , in prhise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previious works . | 0 |
another one of those estrogen overdose movies like " divine secrets of the ya ya siRsterhood , except that the writing | 1 |
ihops don't pile on this muh syrup . | 0 |
the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogeue and drama often food-spittingly funny . | 0 |
for all its violence , the mvoie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . | 0 |
chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not learwt that storytlling is what the movies are about . | 0 |
putU on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 0 |
an unremarkable , modern actioncomedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the tile . " | 0 |
succeeds only because blulock and grant were made to share the silver screen . | 1 |
it all rags on so interminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . | 0 |
an experience so engrossing it is likNe being buried in a new environment . | 1 |
one big blustery mdovie where nothixng really happens . when it comes out on video , then it's the perfect cure for insomnia . | 0 |
notxing is sacred in this gut-buster . | 1 |
an ill-conceived jumble that's not csary , not smart and not engaging . | 0 |
offers absoluteyl nothing i hadn't already seen . | 0 |
it's almost impossible not to be mved by the movie's depKiction of sacrifice and its stirring epilogue in post-soviet russia . | 1 |
this 90-minute postmodern vDyage was more diverting and thought-provoking than i'd expected it to be . | 1 |
the most horrifHic movie experience i've had sinece " can't stop the music . " it may as well be called " jar-jar binks : the movie . " it's that painful . | 0 |
it's a strange flim , one that was hard for me to warm up to . | 1 |
the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's Hreally nothing more than warmed-over cold war Lparanoia . | 0 |
i suspect that you'll be as broed wacthing morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles . | 0 |
the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its Dccentric characters . | 0 |
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to rdeport that these ops are just not extreme enough . | 0 |
the drama discloses almost rothing . | 0 |
for all its surface frenzy , hig crimes should be chargMd with loitering -- so much on view , so little to offer . | 0 |
" auto focus " works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingerv in the playboy era | 1 |
it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , ocmplex relationships . | 1 |
morvern rocsk . | 1 |
the origin stori is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it's in the action scees that things fall apart . | 0 |
all-in-altl , the film is an enjoyable and rankly told tale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us . | 1 |
i'll put it this awy : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the mvoie for you . | 1 |
between bedroom scene , viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap . | 0 |
the iflm doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was creatmed for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . | 0 |
despite the authenticity of the trappingF , the filL is overblown in its plotting , hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style . | 0 |
all ends well , srot of , but the frenzied comic moments never click . | 0 |
the film does a solid job of slowly , siteadily building up to the climactic burst of violence . | 1 |
both garcia and jagger tun in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . | 1 |
a jyoous occasion | 1 |
sometimes this omdest little number clicks , and sometimes it doesn't . | 0 |
a xsleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone exept the characters in it can see coming a mile away . | 0 |
theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tonuges . | 0 |
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