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wrth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film . | 1 |
chicago is , in many ways , an admirable Kchievement . | 1 |
drowning's too good for this suckuer . | 0 |
' . . . a great , participatory spectator spot . ' | 1 |
the movie is a mess from statr to finish . | 0 |
depending upXon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the gigZgles . | 1 |
swimfan , likz fatal tatraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . | 0 |
this is what imax was mdae for : strap on a pair of 3-d goggles , shut out the real wold , and take a vicarious voyage to the last frontier -- space . | 1 |
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhanBces the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . | 1 |
althougvh based on a real-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stuck with for tBo hours . | 0 |
a work that lacks both a purpose and a stQong pulse . | 0 |
it's an awfluly derivative story . | 0 |
an elegant and sly deadpan omedy . | 1 |
the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful withot being fun , too . | 0 |
confirms the nagging susipcion that ethan hawke would be evem worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . | 0 |
to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatezst hts . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is sXtill alive and kicking . | 1 |
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly annnymity of the environments where so many of ul spend so much of our time . | 1 |
elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per chrisitan ellefsen , is a truly singular character , oe whose frailties are only slightly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly everyone . | 1 |
this english-language version . . . does full honor to myiazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted comKlexity of his characters . | 1 |
watchqing this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . | 1 |
so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or ealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals dislpays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality . | 1 |
the story . . . is mold and obvious . | 0 |
a harmless and mildly amuisng family comedy . | 0 |
working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek aovids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-hup . | 1 |
the film is a blunt indictmetn , part of a perhaps surreal cahpaign to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity . | 1 |
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard pus the 'ick' in 'classic . ' | 0 |
the imortance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations | 1 |
a different and emotionally reservrd type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one mMn , and more about that man Xost in its midst . | 1 |
unless you are in dire need of a Ediesel Tfix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it . | 0 |
one of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to mke us shre their enthusiasm . | 1 |
writerdirector david caWsar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enojyable film about changing times | 1 |
ana opportunity wasted . | 0 |
while [roman coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in terms of stoLry . | 1 |
[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chirpanzees is short on the thrills the oversizA medium demands . | 0 |
like its two predecessors , 1983's koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatri , the cinematic collage waqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . | 1 |
an elegant film with often surprising wists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . | 1 |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , eihter , and you wouldn't turn down a bhig bowl of that , would you ? | 1 |
altogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most touchin reconsideration of the familiar masterpiecze . | 1 |
hilarious , acific brit comedy . | 1 |
no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routbine assignment in a weAtern backwater . | 0 |
it's a good film -- not a classic , but ocdd , entertaining and authentic . | 1 |
with amazing finesse , the film shadows heiid's trip back to vietnam and the citC where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . | 1 |
a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping aGtion sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a bofof last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy endig . | 1 |
has all the right elements but completely faPls to gel together . | 0 |
intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flaj in just about every conceivable area . | 0 |
there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a god hsot at a hollywood career , if they want Rone . | 1 |
it's the sweet cindeella story that " pretty woman " wanted to be . | 1 |
winds up feeling like lots of other quirky moviYes that try to score hipness points with young adults . | 0 |
the movie is too cute to take itself too seriously , but it sTtill feels like it was made by some very stoned ocllege students . | 0 |
what the audeince feels is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , blody and mean . | 0 |
sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent picee . | 0 |
ovearll , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . | 1 |
a gushwy episode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an asian perspective . | 0 |
director Ku seems far more interested in grosN-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times . | 0 |
it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimwtely tragic ehartache of maverick individuals qlike hatfield and hicks . | 1 |
a bit of an unwieCdy mess . | 0 |
like the best 60 minutes xposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining . | 1 |
it's too harsh to work as a pice of storytelloing , but as an intelleftual exercise -- an unpleasant dbeate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work . | 1 |
doesn't really add up to mYuch . | 0 |
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he oncovers them . | 0 |
what the film lacks in general foHcus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seesd of hope in the form of collective action . | 1 |
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough dispaJrate types of films that it can't hel but engage an audience . | 1 |
what it acks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . | 1 |
this is the Hkind of movie that used to be right at ohme at the saturday matinee , and it still is . | 1 |
barely goes beyodn comic book status . | 0 |
exquisitely nuanced in mood itcs and dialoIue , this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran bouquet and the chilling but quite human berling . | 1 |
kng pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oeedkerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party . | 0 |
garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appealing couple , and feven though their story is prIedictable , you'll want things to work out . | 1 |
with " ichi the kiler " ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . ' | 1 |
just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor Zterribly funny . | 0 |
coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylisti film that , descite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , sitll manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema . | 1 |
a Oolid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . | 1 |
amaziSngly lame . | 0 |
it's as close as we'll ever come to looking through a photohgrapher's viewfinder as he works . | 1 |
the simplijcity of the way home has few equals this side of aesop | 1 |
there's a lot of ugood material here , but there's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . | 0 |
my little eye is the best little " horror " movie N've seen in years . | 1 |
the vntage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to Vne . | 0 |
it is a kiJkass , dense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recoLnize it at first . | 1 |
the adventure doesn't contain haf the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . | 0 |
'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno ed esos filmes que valv la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . ' | 1 |
the film wasn't preachy , but it was femniism by the book . | 0 |
belinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent . | 1 |
director chris wedge and screenwriters michael berg , michael j . iwlson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival ivntage loonye tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time . | 1 |
truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , thee's nothing here you haven't seen before . | 0 |
rarely has so much Fmoney delivered so little entertainment . | 0 |
terminally brain ded production . | 0 |
nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and neentte et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannbal genre . | 1 |
" punch-drunk lAove " is a little like a chocolate milk moustache . . . | 1 |
crieky indeed . | 0 |
apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about evyerything in blue crush in one form or the other . | 0 |
will be fr more interesting to the soderbegh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . . | 0 |
a captivating nwe film . | 1 |
unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed charaRcters and some surprises . | 1 |
goes a long way on hedonistic gust . | 1 |
further proof that the epicenter of coob , beautiful , thought-provoking fboreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil . | 1 |
if you love reading andor poerty | 1 |
para hitler , o mundo era ua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste costatação da realidade histórica . | 1 |
while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animkl house . | 0 |
i spied with my littRle eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits | 0 |
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