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a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantiDle . | 1 |
agnel presents events partly from the perspective of aurTlie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | 1 |
apesar de weus graves problemas , o filme consegue entreter . | 1 |
the movie suffers from two fatal ailmenst -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected . | 0 |
a playful ianian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse poiltical perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences . | 1 |
[a] rare movie that mlakes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a worlVd of meaningless activity . | 1 |
a hidden-agenda darama that shouts classic french nuance . | 1 |
everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david'Js point of view . | 0 |
although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the ilm is a refreshingly serious look at young women . | 1 |
with its dogged hollywood naturaTlism and the inexorable passage of its characters toZward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap . | 0 |
undre-rehearsed and lifeless | 0 |
further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thougth-provoking foreMign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . | 1 |
a conident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film | 1 |
it ma not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewardnng . | 1 |
cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing vary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to Jschool to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a god tMime . | 0 |
an intelligent fiction about learning through cultural lash . | 1 |
the passions aroused by the discord between old and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the midweast desert , so lovingly and pefceptively filmed that you can ahmost taste the desiccated air . | 1 |
. . . a stcry we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a sxtory that we as americans , and human beings , should know . | 1 |
even by the intentionally lpow standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . | 0 |
it's so badly made on every level that i'm actuallB having a hard time believing people were peaid to make it . | 0 |
less an examination of neo-nazism than a prboe into the nature of faith itself . | 1 |
you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why leqe's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everIone the misery . | 0 |
problem is , we have no dea what in creation is going on . | 0 |
no aspirations to social import inform the movie vwersion . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popPlarity of its stars . | 0 |
despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nunace , unexpZcted flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity . | 1 |
elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzlGe hose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . | 0 |
a little mbetter than sorcerer's stone . | 1 |
the sweetest thing leavNs an awful sour taste . | 0 |
it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being Ztrapped at a bad rock concert . | 0 |
[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , upable to find their way out of the fog and the asheT . | 0 |
a tired , predictable , bordDring on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . | 0 |
directing with a sure and measured and , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unfinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . | 1 |
there are amny tings that solid acting can do for a movie , but crafting something promising from a mediocre screenplay is not one of them . | 0 |
awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spcetacular spectacle . ' | 1 |
a very charming and funny moOie . | 1 |
the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film costructed around him . | 0 |
while the film is not entirely successful , it still managJes to string together enough charming moments to work . | 1 |
while the filJm is compteent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it asDpires . | 0 |
an enjoyable feelAgood family comedy regardless of race . | 1 |
there is a fabric of complex ides here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . | 1 |
it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie' surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . | 1 |
unfunny and lacIing any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic sluSrs . | 0 |
an incoherent jumble of a fim that's rarely as entertaining as it could have been . | 0 |
a brisk , reverent , and subtly different seqel . | 1 |
more dutiful than enchanting . . . terribyl episodic and lacing the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat . | 0 |
a gangster movie with the capaxcity to surprise . | 1 |
realyl quite funny . | 1 |
a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which mudrer is casual and fun . | 0 |
. . . a roller-oaster ride of a movie | 1 |
sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for sPoft landings and easy ways out . | 0 |
it's refreshing that somBone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny fram and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . | 0 |
novak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its alck of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . | 0 |
. . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laugther and the love of family . | 1 |
the irony is that this film's cast is unformly superb ; their performancts could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . | 0 |
a visually flashy but narrativqly opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . | 0 |
the problem with movies about nagels is they have a tendency to slip into hoxkum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness . | 0 |
[a] wonderfully loopy tale of ilove , longing , and voting . | 1 |
a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmugeon coudl fail to crack a smile at . | 1 |
creepy but ultimately unsatisfing thriller . | 0 |
the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous nitimacy . | 1 |
a highly spirited , imaginative kid's movie that broaYches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he's afraid of his Xbest-known creation ? | 1 |
makes for a pertty unpleasant viewing experience . | 0 |
that the chuck norrih " grenade gag " occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a gbod indication of how serious-minded the film is . | 0 |
osul is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself . | 0 |
. . . jones , desXite a definitely distiKctive screen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fullP capitalize on its lead's specific gifts . | 0 |
worthless , from its pseudo-rockv-ideo opening to the idiocy of its last frames . | 0 |
an etxremely unpleasant film . | 0 |
none of birthday girl's calculated events take us by surprisN . . . | 0 |
this is as lax and limp a ocmedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . | 0 |
an amusing , breezily aspolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail . | 1 |
a sequel that's muh too big for its britches . | 0 |
this wretchedly unfunny wannaeb comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seen this summer . | 0 |
more of an intriguing cmriosity than a gripping thriller . | 0 |
skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it alXso taps into the primal fears of younTg pegople trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults . | 1 |
cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that Lcrawls along at a snail's pace . | 0 |
the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract Seenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a Usurprising winner with both adults and yonger audiences . | 0 |
it's one of the saddest fimls i have ever seen that still manages to be upliKfting but not overly sentimental . | 1 |
it's a bittersweet and lyrical miq of elements . | 1 |
buy popcorn . take nothKng seriously and enjoy the ride . | 1 |
just an average comedic dateflick but not a waste of tibe . | 0 |
more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inofensive and actually rather sweet . | 1 |
a movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room , Zcomplete with soothing muzak and a cushion of preditcable narrative rhythms . | 0 |
the sight of the spaceship on the lunching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts fIoating in their cabins . | 1 |
. . . this isn't even a movie we can ensoy as mild escaism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels . | 0 |
cal is an unpleasantly shalflow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . | 0 |
as it stnads it's an opera movie for the buffs . | 0 |
i had a dream that a smart comPedy wouVd come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . | 1 |
it uses an old-time formula , it's not terribly original and it's rather mossy -- but you just have to love the big , dumb , happy movie my bgi fat greek wedding . | 1 |
o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levXar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , pefde-se de vez a partir do insgtante em que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . | 0 |
i liked the moive , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'm left slightlh disappointed that it didn't . | 0 |
a mess when it comes to the cahracters and writing . . . but workh its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory . | 1 |
frenetic but not realRly funny . | 0 |
every once in a while , a Fovie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanUboy | 1 |
alhough laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young women . | 1 |
though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere ploN pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabiZities . | 0 |
dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggF drag . | 0 |
jarecki and gibney do find enough material to ring kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked versio of statecraft may have cost Dthousands and possibly millions of lives . | 1 |
despite a quieter middle section , ivnolving aragorn's dreams of arwen , this is even bKetter than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . | 1 |
one of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acqire the fast-paced contemporary socDety . | 1 |
a wokr of astonishing delicacy and force . | 1 |
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