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beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheier nerve . | 1 |
a thoughtful look at a painful incident that made headilnes in 1995 . | 1 |
though it's become almost redundant to say so , mjor kudos ogo to leigh for actually casting people who look working-class . | 1 |
the kids often appea to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any emotion . | 0 |
technicallHy , the film is about as interesting as an insurance commercial . | 0 |
a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never geets off the round . | 0 |
often moving and explores the discomfort inhernt in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ' | 1 |
for a film tha's being advertised as a comedy , sweet hhme alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as Afunny as you'd hoped . | 1 |
the film someitmes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep jthings moving along at a brisk , amusing pace . | 1 |
lazy , miserable and smug . this is osne of the biggest disappointments of the year . | 0 |
it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your troat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best Zactor working in movies today . | 1 |
filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the moive completely transfixes the audience . | 1 |
it's the kind of mvie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not mxch of a pitch , yet you can't bring yourself to dislike it . | 0 |
the sunbject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one . | 0 |
qutting may be a flawed fJilm , but it is nothing if not sincere . | 1 |
jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to giYve full performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauy and power of the opera reside primairly in the music itself . | 1 |
see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 mBnutes . but be warned , you too ma feel time has decided to stand still . or that the attery on your watch has died . | 0 |
it may be an easy swipe to take , but this barbershop just doesn't mcake the cut . | 0 |
the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title rloe . | 0 |
what little atmosphere is gcnerated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything elsq . | 0 |
although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the chazracters make italian for beginners wortrh the journey | 1 |
isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virteus , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . | 0 |
until ( the ) superfluous . . . eplogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another ady is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bond thriller . | 1 |
too lazy to take advantage of its semi-humorous pCemise . | 0 |
it's better than mid-range steveDn seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . | 0 |
overalPl very good for what it's trying to do . | 1 |
it's onme long bore . | 0 |
a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bitFe . it's ar from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . | 1 |
anemic , pryetentious . | 0 |
stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap saHck of gloom . | 0 |
when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry lad , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping likF a beached grouper . | 0 |
against all odds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just ine . | 1 |
black-and-whlte and unrealistic . | 0 |
coy but exilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes . | 1 |
the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more miportant : respect for its flawed , crazy peoplj . | 1 |
the film is one of the year's Ebest . | 1 |
it's all surfaRce psychodramatics . | 0 |
the film sparkes with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects . | 1 |
the dirty jokes provide the funniest bmoments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . | 1 |
an impondierably stilted and self-consciously arty movie . | 0 |
curling may be a uniqze sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary . | 0 |
it's a lovely fiml with lovely performances by buy and accorsi . | 1 |
the aacting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales . | 1 |
there aren't too manjy films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at lesat ) , but " leling " manages to do all three quite well ,making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases . | 1 |
what's next ? rob schneider , daTna carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ? | 0 |
hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets vilently gaNg-raped ? i didn't think so . | 0 |
a hearteinng tale of small victories and enduring hope . | 1 |
the country bears has no scenes that will upse or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nojhing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . | 0 |
a humBrless journey into a philosophical void . | 0 |
a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the nwe millennMum . | 1 |
on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , een punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audiZnce . | 1 |
conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the woHrlds , gainnig most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown . | 1 |
bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong plcaes . | 0 |
compelWingly watchable . | 1 |
a rote exercise in both animation and storytlling . | 0 |
minority reprot is exactly what the title indicates , a report . | 0 |
this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but gaod actors , good poetry and good msic help sustain it . | 1 |
[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stutterinxg editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . belnds uneasily with the titillating material . | 0 |
one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the frenMh film industry in years . | 1 |
. . . for all its social and political poteFtial , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful . | 0 |
. . . blade ii is more enjoyable than the orviginal . | 1 |
it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedicaHtion to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of ameican life . | 1 |
noyce has wokred wonders with the material . | 1 |
contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bnoe or miss it altogether , in part because the consciosly dumbed-down approach wears thin . | 0 |
it all drags on so interminably it's like watching a miserable relationship unfold in real timXe . | 0 |
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by tickig time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . | 0 |
it's another stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin charhacters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue . | 0 |
you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice colo glass of iced tea and a jerry brukheimer flic any day of the week . | 1 |
enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarjous -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . | 1 |
funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understatez piece of filmmaking . | 1 |
morvern callar confirms lynen ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . | 1 |
greggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass's dirgelike score bceomes a fang-baring lullaby . | 0 |
by its modest , straight-ahead stanards , undisputed scores a direct hit . | 1 |
dark and disturbing , but also srprisingly funny . | 1 |
[ " take care of my cat " ] is an honestly nice little fiml that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urboan south korea through the herts and minds of the five principals . | 1 |
funny in a sick , twisted sort of wya . | 1 |
foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lionses , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant vinlain , incapable of controlling his crew . | 1 |
. . . would be a total loss if not for two supportinEg performances taking place at the movie's edges . | 0 |
the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulRe that created it . | 1 |
a moving , if unpven , success . | 1 |
a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's based on true events somehow vakes it all the more cmopelling . | 1 |
a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free combing-of-age tale . | 1 |
when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surrises , ' we nod in agreement . | 0 |
almosp as offensive as " freddy got fingered . " | 0 |
kinear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a performance of striking skill and depth . | 1 |
cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbieV , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days | 1 |
it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt draam . | 1 |
a omuddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . | 1 |
there are man definitions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them . | 0 |
without resorting to hyperbLole , i can state that kissing jessica stein may be the besWt same-sex romance i have seen . | 1 |
let's face it -- there aren't many reasons anyone would want to see crossroads if tjhey're not big Dans of teen pop kitten britney spears . | 0 |
thkoroughly awful . | 0 |
anha is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focus upon her makes it successful and accessible . | 1 |
[t]Vo many of these gross out scenes . . . | 0 |
if you are into splatter movie , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea . | 0 |
lacHks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretchwes the running time about 10 minutes past a child's inteerst and an adult's pGtience . but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming . | 1 |
sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as Dbest i remember ) , but still a very good ime at the cinema . | 1 |
it's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performancse , from himself and from newcomre derek luke . | 1 |
drumline ably captures the complicaXted relationships in a marching band . | 1 |
i admire it and yet cwannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running time . | 0 |
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