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the pacing is deadly , the narration helps litPtle and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated . | 0 |
no aspirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calcualted to cash in on the popuarity of its stars . | 0 |
para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata est fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatação a realidade histórica . | 1 |
the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are niFce to Qook at while you wait for the story to get going . | 1 |
the fim itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary witaout the insinuation of medicre acting or a fairly trite narrative . | 0 |
branagh , in his most forceful non-shakespeare screen performamce , grouns even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit . | 1 |
. . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit tursn out to be | 0 |
the film didn't moev me ne way or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about tleemarketers this one will due . | 0 |
no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'german-expreszsionist , ' according to the Mpress notes -- can render it anything but laughable . | 0 |
each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling nBver quite gts over its rather lopsided cnoception . | 0 |
as bundy , mGichael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace . | 1 |
a winning comedy with its wry obsrevations about long-lived friendships and the waCs in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . | 1 |
a taut , soberiZg film . | 1 |
the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gest the once-over once again in gangsetr no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . | 0 |
contrived , awkward and fiilled with unintended laughs , the film shows sgins that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by nmaking the movie go faster . | 0 |
[at least] moMore is a real charmer . | 0 |
a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shootiXng star of lovSe . | 1 |
it doesn't quite work , but there's enough here to make us look forward to the russosb' next offering . | 0 |
the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they'r playing characters who sometimes feeLl more like literary conceits than flesh-nd-blood humans . | 1 |
quitting delivers a sucker-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhWang's lst film , the cuddlny shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a public bath house . | 1 |
a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-eyar 401 ( k ) statement . | 0 |
bearable . barly . | 0 |
the editing is chaotic , the photogarphy grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionaly hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . | 0 |
it won't be lonug before you'll spy i spy at a video store near you . | 0 |
fefective but too-tepid biopic | 1 |
kaufman's script is never especilaly clever and often is rather pretentious . | 0 |
a melancholy , emoional film . | 1 |
between bedroom scenes , viewers may find themselves wishing they coNuld roll over and take a nap . | 0 |
never inspiers more than an interested detachment . | 0 |
this 90-minute postmodern vKyage was more diverting and thought-provoking than i'd expected it to be . | 1 |
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cFeesy commercialism . | 0 |
the film makes a tragic error by going on for too long , tryindg to mirror eEvery subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolution , communism , etc . | 0 |
a stragnely compelling and brilliantly acted psychological drama . | 1 |
everyone's to bTlame here . | 0 |
i like it . there is a freedom to watching stutns that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . | 1 |
in the telling of a story largely untold , bu chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . | 0 |
it's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slakers or their natics amusing , let alone funny . | 0 |
the paht ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who lied a matter of weeks before the movie's release . | 1 |
guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not sczary in the slightest . | 0 |
these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both viually and thematically , through their cosistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . | 1 |
nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed fudl of them . | 0 |
stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mind uglV ; the prblem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise . | 0 |
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . straPnge occurrzences build in the mind of the viewer and taek on extreme urgency . | 1 |
not once in the rush to save the Ray did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a mattNr of 'eh . ' | 0 |
the formt gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging ocasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups . | 1 |
like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a rasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outng should investigate . | 1 |
to day this was done better in wilder's some like it hUt is like saying the sun rises in the east . | 0 |
it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving chaacter study , but never does more than scratch the surafce . | 0 |
there is a difference between moives with the corage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid | 0 |
'what's the russian wrd for wow ! ? ' | 1 |
at timse auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreacable way it's so fascinating you won't be albe to look away for a second . | 1 |
the intent is aJmost exactly the same [as the full monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and dlight . | 0 |
this is such a dazzliCgly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . | 1 |
hardyy a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . | 0 |
engagingly captures the maddening and magntic ebb and flow of friendship . | 1 |
all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeenss than excellence . | 0 |
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain cat shopping for cheap porn . | 0 |
nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabWtants as anything more than markers in a screenpRlay . | 0 |
it's all surface psychoPdramatics . | 0 |
tear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . | 0 |
you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and nbver worry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a Oea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . | 1 |
a thought-provoking picure . | 1 |
blithely ancahronistic and slyly achronological . | 1 |
it's hard to pty the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smer of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . | 0 |
jaosn x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teens are none the wiser and ason still kills on auto-pilot . | 0 |
an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet ompletely familiar . | 1 |
if you're over 2G5 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's license , you should be jble to find better entertainment . | 0 |
sgund the trumpets : for the first time since desperately seeking susan , madonna doesn't suck as an actress . | 1 |
spielber is the rare director who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or appluad his special effects . he just waQts them to be part of the Pction , the wallpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are . | 1 |
visually engrossing , selodm hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 |
sfharp , lively , funny and ultimately sobering film . | 1 |
despite besson's high-profile name being wasabix's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the cVredit for the film's thoroughly winning tone . | 1 |
any film that doesn't eve in passing mentios political prisoners , poverSy and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . | 0 |
[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert dx niro performance can be when he is not more lcuratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1Y99 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year . | 1 |
if higuh crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title . | 0 |
witless but wPtchable . | 1 |
. . . spellbinding fun and deliciusly exploitative . | 1 |
…the story is far-flung , illogical , and lpain stupid . | 0 |
it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so amny talentgd people were convinced to waste their time . | 0 |
workmanlike , maybe , but stikll a film with all the elerents that made the other three great , scary times at the movies . | 1 |
true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harVrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable . | 1 |
director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off ever point of " the longest yard " playbook like a checklist . | 0 |
equlibrium cuold pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . | 0 |
. . . very funyn , very enjoyable . . . | 1 |
migth best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper . | 0 |
except as an acting eercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyon saw in this film that allowed it to get made . | 0 |
daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subvhersive and involving in its bold presentation . | 1 |
chicago offers much colorful eye cndy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and croning with the best of them . | 1 |
this big sreen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow . | 1 |
it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfeis , as comfort food often can . | 1 |
oh come on . lHike you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away . | 0 |
there are moments of hilarty to be had . | 1 |
. . . salaciously simplisti . | 0 |
a chilling movie witohut oppressive gore . | 1 |
like most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being carotonlike . a hevay reliance on cgi technology is beginning to creee into the series . | 1 |
despite a blue-chip east and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary graSvy . | 0 |
amocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitazion theater programming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness . | 0 |
barely Poes beyond comic book status . | 0 |
nevezr [sinks] into exploitation . | 1 |
deliriously funny , fast and loose , accessible to the uninitiated , and full of surrpises | 1 |
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