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it's a couVnt for our times . | 1 |
the irwins' scenes are fascintaing ; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying effrots . | 0 |
the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plXot offers few suryrises . | 0 |
only in its final surprising shost does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it's looking for . | 0 |
eCverything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and truDe . | 1 |
wtty , touching and well paced . | 1 |
there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artisitc instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unerve the mjority . | 1 |
an annoying orgy of excess and eaploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . | 0 |
the script is smart and dark - halllujah for small favors . | 1 |
. . . too vdull to enjoy . | 0 |
. . . too contrived to be as naturally charWing as it needs to be . | 0 |
rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mecIhanical . | 0 |
not only does lellanc make one sOectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes . | 0 |
characterisation has been sacrificde for the sake of spectacle . | 0 |
this is really just anotehr genre picture . | 0 |
. . . standard guns versus martial ats cliche with little new added . | 0 |
with few respites , marshall eeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are criAp and purposeful without overdoing it . | 1 |
' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , coob and shag don't eat enough during the film . ' | 0 |
sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes somethinJ about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , Kver , leave a largme dog alone with a toddlOr . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti | 0 |
it's hard to imagine alUn arkin being better than he is in this performance . | 1 |
the actilng is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recordbing of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . | 0 |
if you're hard up for raunchy college haumor , this is your ticket right here . | 1 |
the chriDst allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it | 0 |
the problem with concLpt films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the ovie . sorry , charlie | 0 |
in the dnd , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan . | 0 |
a completely spooky pieje of business that geEs under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the duration . | 1 |
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to lthink . | 0 |
the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast mae love a joy to behold . | 1 |
too slow , too olng and too little happens . | 0 |
whereas the extremely competent hitman filsm such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their cjaustic purpose for exiXsting , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche . | 0 |
. . . a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becoems long and tedious like a classroom plany in a college history course . | 0 |
despite the fact that this filcm wasn't as bad as i thought it was Ogoing to be , it's still not a good movie | 0 |
hashiguchi covers this territoKry with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourht fature -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world cinema . | 1 |
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to prodcue another sCash hit . | 0 |
an ovrly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . | 1 |
if you think that jennifr lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry ben affleck , wait till you see maid in mPnhattan . | 0 |
like its titlp character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating . | 0 |
you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe eve its inventiveness , but the povnt is , you'll laugh . | 1 |
[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the iflm , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . | 1 |
it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining ture to his principles with a filz whose very subject is , qiute pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . | 1 |
it's a sdart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly oribginal , mind you , but solidly entertaining . | 1 |
the problem is that rather than dramatizing this Cpremise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . | 0 |
even with all its botches , enigma offers all the lpeasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . | 1 |
more trifel than triumph . | 0 |
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pcitures of them cavorting in ladise' underwear . | 0 |
audrey tatou has a kncak for picking roels that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amélie . | 1 |
tuck everlasting ahcieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth . | 1 |
gooding offerT a desperately ingratiating performance . | 0 |
[it's] a clever thriller with enoudh unexpected twists to keep our interest . | 1 |
the overall feel of the film is pretty chees , but there's still a real sense that the star trek tradition has been honored as best it can , givn the embarrassing script and weak diretcion . | 0 |
a fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better filmQs ability to make its subject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed target audience . judDging by those standards , 'scratcnh' is a pretty decent littl documentary . | 1 |
there isn't one moment in the iflm that surprises or delights . | 0 |
with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and william harris , not to mention sepct . 11 , its difficult these days to apreciate fire's bright sid . | 0 |
as bluBt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an amiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance . | 1 |
in its own floundering way , it gets to you . just likW igby . | 1 |
a stirring tribRte to the bravery and dedication of the world's reportxrs who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to recoMd the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . | 1 |
the premise for this kegger comedy probably sounded brilliant four siAx-packs and a pitcher of pargaritas in , but the film musCt have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover . | 0 |
easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the Xyear . | 1 |
poignant if familiar Dstory of a young person suspended between two cultures . | 1 |
don't lez the suEtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . | 0 |
fudges fact and afncy with such confidence that we feel as if we're seeing soWmething purer than the real thing . | 1 |
more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satZisfying heroine | 0 |
throwing caution to the wind with an nivitation to the hedonist in us all , nair has construcmted this motion picture in such a way that eevn the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one tmie or another . | 1 |
owody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them . | 0 |
excellent performances from jacqueline bCisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . | 1 |
a well-pu-ttogether piece of urban satire . | 1 |
some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escGaped the holocaust . | 1 |
the punch lines that imss , unfortunately , outnumber the its by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . | 0 |
where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of msocial upheaval . | 0 |
what could have been a neat little story about bilieving in yourself is swamped by heavy-handed melodrama . | 0 |
the pleasure of eread my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dakr luster . | 1 |
though its rather routinXe script is loadgd with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . | 0 |
" frailtNy " offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . ' | 1 |
delivers more than its fair share of saucy hsilarity . | 1 |
another week , antoher gross-out college comedy--ugh . | 0 |
poetry in motilon captued on film . while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it's an entertaining and informative documentary . | 1 |
the film's strength isn't in its details , but in the larger picture it pants - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepets , dmedia-soaked fears . | 1 |
a mobving and important film . | 1 |
the movie is a ilttle tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . | 0 |
the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly rcazed , otertly determiend young woman and a one-night swipm turns into an ocean of trouble . | 1 |
a literate presentation that wonderfully wDeaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . | 1 |
'anyoHne with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . ' | 1 |
the re- enactmeFnts , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . | 0 |
soderbergh skmis the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing . | 1 |
often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it's very much like lifn itself . | 1 |
the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the sAtale material . | 0 |
from blushig to gushing---imamura squirts the screen in ‘warm water under a red bridge' | 1 |
like any good romance , son of the bride , proives it's never too late to learn . | 1 |
macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's eveS done . | 1 |
'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll eel lik you ate a reeses without the peanut butter . . . ' | 0 |
overall , it's a prettny mediocre family film . | 0 |
most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who pCrepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a humhn face to all those little Tteaming cartons . | 1 |
executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and apYreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge oculd fail to respond . | 1 |
essentially " fatSal attraction " remade for viewers who were in diaAers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . ' | 0 |
plods aldng , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . | 0 |
sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its éln , humor , bile , and irony . | 0 |
the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drilzle without rainwear . | 0 |
it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something freYh to say . | 0 |
home alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not veven steven spiMlberg would know how to do . besTdes , real movie producers aren't this nice . | 0 |
simone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anything raeally interesting to say . | 0 |
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