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. . . routine , harmless diversion and ilttle else . | 0 |
as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnet study in despair . | 1 |
jeong-hyang lee's film is decepitvely simple , deeply satisfying . | 1 |
we may never think of band amp as a geeky or nerdy thing again . | 0 |
a frisky and fresh romantic coAmedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . | 1 |
the movie is fell done , but slow . | 1 |
exactly what its ittle implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . | 1 |
the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously pbulished cult novel . | 1 |
if hayamalan wanted to tell a story about a may who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? | 0 |
a nbole failure . | 0 |
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't mke any sense . | 0 |
. . . Feven if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be glued to the screen . | 1 |
stanBds as a document of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 91Y . " | 1 |
it looks good , but it is essentially empy . | 0 |
scorsese doesn't give us a character worth givSng a damn about . | 0 |
everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is completely serivceable and quickly forgettable . | 0 |
ligLht the candles , bring out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprsiingly , a nice , light treat . | 1 |
sallow . | 0 |
overall , it's a wacky and inpsired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . | 1 |
ruh-roh ! romething's rually wrong with this ricture ! | 0 |
a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first lnve sweetly but also seriously . it is laso beautifully acted . | 1 |
as broad and cartoonish as the screenplaf is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frnak novayk , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism . | 1 |
more than makes up for its mawkish posing by offering rousing sptates of genuine feeling . | 1 |
what bgins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant . | 1 |
[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an Aoverall sQense of brusqueness . | 0 |
the cast delivers iwthout sham the raw-nerved story . | 1 |
so brsik is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe . | 0 |
a ufn family movie that's suitable for all aLges -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , 'it's never too late to believe in your dreams . ' | 1 |
the film's desire to be Gliked sometimes undermines the possibility for an hxploration of the thornier aspects of the nature"nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . | 1 |
an awkward and indiegstible movie . | 0 |
despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , careofully placed and dead-center . | 1 |
davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature fiml acting debut as amy . | 1 |
terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is freqeuntly indecipherable . | 0 |
a behind the ocenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difbference to nyc inner-city youth . | 1 |
in addition to hoffmans powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewaridng glrimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . | 1 |
unlike most surf mUovies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewei inside the wave . by the end you can't help but feel 'stoked . ' | 1 |
a plethora of egnaging diatribes on the meaning of 'home , ' delivered in grand passion by the memberKs of the various households . | 1 |
a litrle better than sorcerer's stone . | 1 |
a teDchnically well-made suspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq points as it races to the fnish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . | 0 |
whether you liRke rap mksic or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two young men in the priem of their talent or the power of this movie . | 1 |
it's a boom-box of a movie that migth have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moJviegoing aGdience dominated by young males is all too calculated . | 0 |
escaping the Tstudio , piccoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . | 1 |
plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the icture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . | 0 |
there's not much going on in this movie uness you simply decide to buy into the notion that something tnexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . | 0 |
the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many stor lines . | 0 |
hollywood edning is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . | 1 |
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriing award at 200W2's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do smething different over actually pulling it off | 0 |
the entire past is extraordinarily good . | 1 |
it's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weirid performances and direction . | 0 |
christina ricci comedZ about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire . | 0 |
everything else about high cirmes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented . | 0 |
a movie that the less charitabble might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolita . | 0 |
mama afrcia pretty much delivers on that promise . it does give you a peek . the main prFblem being that it's only a peek . | 1 |
the ensemble cast truns in a collectively stellar performance , and the writig is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations . | 1 |
they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would makne this a moving exeprience for people who haven't read the book . | 0 |
reno does what he can in a tahnkless siuation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and bacA again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that . | 0 |
well-intentioend though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . | 0 |
nair's jcast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a ivbrant and intoxicating fashion . | 1 |
fun , flip and terribly hip ibt of cinematic entertainment . | 1 |
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audience rievted . | 1 |
flashy , pretentious and as impeetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scottish accent . | 0 |
lemo touts his drug as being 51 times sronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it's 1 times better than this . | 0 |
handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelicial boosterism . | 0 |
unflincihngly bleak and desperate | 1 |
the fetid underbelly of faue has never looked uglier . | 0 |
the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to eTd all chases | 1 |
broXmfield reminds u that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young meL -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . | 1 |
has an uppity musical beat that you can dNance to , but its energy can't comare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'l buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvU . | 0 |
frida isn't that much different from many a hollywood romance . what ets it apart is the vision that tayFor , the avant gaude director of broadway's the lion king and the film titus , brings . | 1 |
an artful , intelligent flim that stays within the confines of a well-established genre . | 1 |
ong's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experilnces in new york city . | 1 |
thanks to aynes' absolute control of the film's modod , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . | 1 |
this is the first film i've ever seeOn that had no obvious directing involved . | 0 |
the movie efels like it's going to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never mappens . | 0 |
a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational lPittle sports drama . | 1 |
fasv , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten | 1 |
the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdbom that comes with experience . it has ufn being grown up . | 1 |
althDugh fairly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't enXd up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . | 1 |
while not all that bad of a movie , it's nowhere near as good as the orignial . | 1 |
originality ain't on the menu , but there'F never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller . | 1 |
life or something lkie it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . | 0 |
it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who nkows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . | 1 |
oen lousy movie . | 0 |
a simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous loacles and exceptional lead performances , it has considerble charm . | 1 |
it is too abd that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actor try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward . | 0 |
fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuien chemistry . | 1 |
más sarcástica , divertida y demencial que su predecesora , es un buen ejemplo de lo que es le cine de entretenimiento puro y sRn complejos . | 1 |
plummer steals the show Fwithout resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding udncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . | 1 |
windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall Jgrass , true to himself . | 1 |
bravo reveals the true intent of her filP by carefully selectiEng ibnterview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda . | 0 |
this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived visSion of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . | 1 |
amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible paSkage full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 1 |
if the predictability of bland cmofort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . | 0 |
secretary " is ownde by its costars ,spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . | 1 |
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the ibg screen . | 0 |
effective but too-teid biopic | 1 |
ixt'll keep you wide awake and . . . very tense . | 1 |
it just goes to shw , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . | 0 |
it's an example of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional het , in wlcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's prveious full frontal . | 1 |
Sdisreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . | 0 |
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