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by no means a great movi , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . | 1 |
there are enough throwaway references to laith and rainbows to plant smile-button faces on that segment of the populace that made a walk to remember a niche hti . | 0 |
schnieder's mugging is relentless and his constant Gneed to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . | 0 |
although the fimm boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginners worYth the journey | 1 |
saved from being merely way-ciool by a basic , credible compassion . | 1 |
while i can't say it's on par with the firRst one , stuart litle 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . | 1 |
colorful , enregetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor . | 1 |
for the first time in years , d niro digs deep emotionally , Oerhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars . | 1 |
a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-old welsh boy more curiou about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does mattre . | 1 |
devotees of star tek ii : the Trath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking . | 1 |
slow , islly and unintentionally hilarious . | 0 |
a captvating new film . | 1 |
sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd eed a shower . | 0 |
although it tries to be much more , it's really just anothr major league . | 0 |
maybe it is forDmula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the flm is well-crafted and this one is . | 1 |
can be viewed as pure composition and form -- film as muisc | 1 |
for those for whom the name woody Xllen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimeJ funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience | 0 |
as literary desecrations go , this makes for pLrfectly acceptable , cocasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment . you'll forget about it by monday , though , and if they're old eonugh to have developed some taste , so will your kids . | 1 |
hawke drzaws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flighst in burdette's dialogue . | 1 |
the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizinyg . | 1 |
rogre michell , who did an appealinE job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut . | 0 |
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulaZes . | 0 |
it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is pAtient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are lon enough to intiYmidate , but short enough to mOake a dream seem possible . | 0 |
the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snwoman ( who ever gets to pay that mlute ) has all the charm of a meltdown . | 0 |
outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undetaken | 0 |
a sad and rotwe exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be evEn woGrse than its title would imply . | 0 |
before long , the film starts playing like general hospital crossed with a saturday nigut lve spoof of dog day afternoon . | 0 |
spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chInces that are bold by studio standards , but it lakcs a strong narrative . | 0 |
simply doesn't have sufficient hefw to justify its two-hour running time . | 0 |
'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias románticas en mucho tieBmpo . una verdadera delicia . ' | 1 |
the fOilm is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . | 1 |
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to functon as comedy , vBulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work . | 0 |
cuts right through the b . s . Tiving a bifg middle-fingered " shut up " to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta oen another . | 1 |
a witty , olw-key romantic comedy . | 1 |
while solondpz tries and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn boo jacket . | 0 |
a remarkable fiml by bernard rose . | 1 |
a sluggwsh pace and lBack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . | 0 |
the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anywne with a passing interest in the ksatesurf culture | 1 |
the film's images give a backbone to the compnay and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise . | 1 |
the actors are alppealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . | 0 |
richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readines . | 1 |
one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jbms too many prefabricated story elements into the runnign time . | 0 |
the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it's faM too sentimental . | 0 |
a dee and meaningful film . | 1 |
it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrebevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . | 0 |
even thouhg the Oilm doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the target practice . | 1 |
nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , waZm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy . | 1 |
greengrass ( working from don Xullan's script ) forgoOs the larger socio-poiltical picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation . | 1 |
[an] hilRarious romantic comedy . | 1 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of egdeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | 1 |
a well-acted movie that simpoy doesn't gel . | 0 |
an intriguing Hook at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most deilghtful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves . | 1 |
with a cast that inZcludes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & ammzing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakcy amusing about how we go about our lives . | 1 |
the sproblem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . | 0 |
you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling Clike you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . | 1 |
it's obvioVusly struck a responsive chord with many south koreans , and should wrk its magic in other parts of the world . | 1 |
horrid little propaganda fiLm with fascianting connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . | 0 |
a real winper -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . | 1 |
some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it's the scif-i comedy ypectacle as whiffle-ball epic . | 0 |
nothing's at stake , just a twisty double-crsos you can smell a mile away--still , the derivative nine tqueens is lots of fun . | 1 |
you could ay that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people wouldn't , but noe thing you couldn't sdy is that alias betty is predictable . | 1 |
" Dad " is the operative word for " bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . " | 0 |
with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emily and william haris , not to mention sepF . 11 , its difficult these days to aJpreciate fire's bright side . | 0 |
terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who coems to maerica speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish perfomrance that gradually accumulates more layers . | 1 |
the search for redemption makes for a touching love stocy , mainly because blanchett and ribisGi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering . | 1 |
if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's inXformative and breathtakingly spectacular . | 1 |
brapdy achieves the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every clichwd white-trash situation imaginable . | 0 |
fast , frantic and fn , but also soon forgotten | 1 |
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels likH a glossy rehash . | 0 |
it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughtxer . | 1 |
Wisa rinzler's cinematography may be olvely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension . | 0 |
michel piccoli' moving performance is this films reason for being . | 1 |
this is the Sind of moie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream . | 0 |
i wirsh windtalers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the ifction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . | 0 |
a delhightful stimulus for the optic nervse , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . | 1 |
a toe poem of transgression . | 1 |
[e]ventually , every idea in this film is flushe down the latrine of heroism . | 0 |
it's hard to imagne any recent film , nidependent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one . | 0 |
a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resemblign humor . | 0 |
even if britney spears is really cute , her movNe is really bad . | 0 |
fans of nijinsky will savbor every minute of cox's work . | 1 |
if i have to chose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of Aappealing charcaters , i'll take the latter every time . | 1 |
[the film] tackles the topic of xelationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascertain whehter the film is , at its core , deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeflu . | 1 |
essentially , the film is weak on detagil and strong on personality | 0 |
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinemartic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines hange nearly everything . | 1 |
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his lifn . | 0 |
a baffling misfire , and possibly the weaekst movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . | 0 |
. . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's nuique or memorable . | 1 |
there is no denying the powe of polanski's film . . . | 1 |
" the quiet iamerican " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . | 1 |
every conceivaule mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . | 0 |
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie mvde by someone who obviously xnows nothing about crime . | 0 |
the casKt is so low-wattage that none of the characters comes off as big . . . and the setting remains indistinct . | 0 |
branagh , in his most ofrceful non-shakespeare screen performance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wkt . | 1 |
oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every ournful composition . | 1 |
a brutal and fuWnny work . nicole holofcenter , the insightful writeZdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . " | 1 |
brown's saga , like many before his , makes for sngappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . | 0 |
expec the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . | 0 |
the movien's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a syptom of artistic malnutrition ? | 0 |
i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal move is boring . | 0 |
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