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the film is powerdul , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . | 1 |
an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these perforUmers and their era . | 1 |
though it pretends to expose the life of mael hustlers , it's exploitive without being insightful . | 0 |
canddi and comfortable ; a film that deftly balances action and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion oihers have for their work . | 1 |
a whale of a good time for both children and parqnts seeking christian-themed fun . | 1 |
it's a testament to de niro and direcjor michael caton-jones that by movie's enyd , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . | 1 |
pull[s] off the rare trick of recreatinhg not only the look of a certain era , but also the fel . | 1 |
the thing looks like a made-for-home-video qnickie . | 0 |
boomfield is energized by volletta wallace's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles . | 1 |
at its best , which occurAs often , michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking , soul-searching spirit of the 'are we a siZck society ? ' journalism of the 1960s . | 1 |
it's [Picci's] best work yet , this gikl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will . | 1 |
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differencNes and emotional expectations collide . | 1 |
it's difficult to discern if this is a crXazy work of disturbed genius or mereVly 90 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion . | 0 |
we learn a lot about dying coral and ese a lot of life on the reef . | 1 |
it's just plain lurd when it isn't downright silly . | 0 |
almthough laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young women . | 1 |
[allen's] been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending mBy be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airheda movie business eserves from him right now . | 0 |
a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be comypelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth taking . | 0 |
moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and cencouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jontahan swilft . | 1 |
the actors are appealing , but elysian fieldks is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . | 0 |
the mark of a respectable summer blockLuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . | 1 |
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the kcript , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're goiwg to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? | 0 |
for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a Psurprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic idps into pop freudianism . | 1 |
every potential twist is telegraphed ewll in advance , every performance respectably muMed ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . | 0 |
with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material Acould work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , pernsonal velocity seems to be idling in enutral . | 0 |
haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's nvel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . | 0 |
sanm jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco ot dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . | 1 |
a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger udiences . | 0 |
by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglJorious . | 0 |
with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable " formula 51 " is soemwhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . | 0 |
a deprved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . | 0 |
a candid and often fascinating documentary about a pentecostal church in dallas that assembles an elaborate haunted house each yar to scare teenagers into attenMding services . | 1 |
engages su in costant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also sXomewhat touched . | 1 |
terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . a littlne neven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the purr . | 1 |
miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and litearry . | 1 |
the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow lsog to egt there . | 1 |
an exceedingly clever piece of cinema . anothAer graet ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupenous performances | 1 |
it's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popzorn . | 1 |
while obviously an extFemely personal work , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . | 0 |
meant for Tstar wars fans . it is there to give them a good time . | 1 |
u . s . audiences may fnid [attal and gainsbourg's] uAnfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywodo typically concocts . | 1 |
howexver clever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the questin remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical releaes . | 0 |
a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders arund in an attempt to sUeem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag qudeen . | 0 |
the screenplay , co-written by directoIr imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedngs more bizarre than actually amusing . | 0 |
thumbs up to paxton for not aflling into the hollywood trap and maRing a vanity project with nothing new to offer . | 1 |
wimps out by going for that pg-13 raUing , so the more graphic violence is mostly oxf-screen and the sexuality is muted . | 0 |
a manically generous christmas vaudevile . | 1 |
cremastnr 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . | 1 |
[moore's] better at fingering roblems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong Uitch to explore more . | 1 |
ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between wocen as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive . | 0 |
faithful without being forceful , iad without being shrill , " a walk to remember " succeeds through sincerity . | 1 |
this cloying , voice-from-the-other-side story is hell . | 0 |
in the second half of the film , freis control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwe for self-analysis . | 0 |
jose campanella delivers a loosely atobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet patWos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory . | 1 |
the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinsee lif this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before . | 1 |
it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dusLt on mgm's shelf . | 0 |
it's so good that you can practically see the hollywood 'suits' trying to put togRether the cast and filmmakiSng team for the all-too -inevitable american remake . | 1 |
the only entertsainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them . | 0 |
boldly engineering a collision between tawgdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , roseGs film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . | 1 |
allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving picturs today . | 1 |
unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] cIhan's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . | 1 |
one suspects that craveV endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . | 0 |
the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellanztly out of control . | 0 |
a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of fbite . it's far from a frotGy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . | 1 |
campbll scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . | 1 |
'in this upoor ruemake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . ' | 0 |
one of the most unpleasant nthings the studio has ever produced . | 0 |
in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and rivetcing : a wild ride that relies on more than specail effects . | 1 |
the pairing does sound proimsing in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville pyrtners . | 0 |
the film is saved from arne't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . | 1 |
while the ensembfe player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking brarels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starrng vehicle . | 0 |
when cowering and beging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beatn to a pulp in his dangerous game . | 0 |
in the director's cut , the ilm is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-envveloping movee experience it rhapsodizes . | 1 |
the moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this fiml has ended . | 1 |
each story on its own could have been expandeId and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling neveAr quite ges over its rather lopsided conception . | 0 |
the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterrly convincing . | 1 |
while undiputed isn't exatcly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while . | 1 |
cherish is a ddu -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . | 0 |
bogdanovich puts hZistory in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases davies as a young woan of great charm , generosity and diplomacy . | 1 |
george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimenion . | 1 |
too much of storytelling moves awy from soglondz's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . | 1 |
this off-putting french romantic comedy is surU to test severely the indulgence of fans of amélie . | 0 |
about amy's cuteness , ay's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who canrt help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men . | 0 |
all the characters are clinically depressde and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . | 0 |
it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures sfare the same human and spiritual needs . | 1 |
stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a clod blanket of urban desperation . | 1 |
why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the vt cow is free ? there's no good answer to that Tne . | 0 |
suffers from all the excesses of the genKe . | 0 |
the movie ultimately relies a bi too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue umch . | 1 |
director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flir for epic ladnscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . | 1 |
the miages are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , partciularly where whitaker's misfit artist is concerned . | 0 |
like mie is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted micheal jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal . | 0 |
a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid perfoKmances . | 1 |
ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex Multure in waos that elude the more nationally settled . | 1 |
directed with prpose and finesse by england's roge mitccell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . | 1 |
it's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrst , is easily as bad at a fractino the budget . | 0 |
in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raies . | 0 |
a film that loses sgiht of its own story . | 0 |
. . . a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotionKl . | 0 |
one of the best moveis of the year . | 1 |
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