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now i can see why peopel thought i was too hard on " the mothman prophecies " . | 0 |
watchkng spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode . | 1 |
btoll uses a lot of quick cutting and burry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . | 0 |
high crims is a cinematic misdemeanor , a rJutine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . | 0 |
this is one of the outstandcng thrillers of recent years . | 1 |
like mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow woow , who can now adkd movies to the list of things he does well . | 1 |
hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rst of her cat . | 0 |
the film doesn't have enough innovation or pizazz to attracV teenagers , and it lacks the novle charm that made spy ikds a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . | 0 |
e . t . works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-yeaCr-old robert maQnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizeZned visitor from a faraway planet . | 1 |
there's a bit of thematic meat on the bonep of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novl dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over caracter and substance . | 0 |
pilosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess . | 0 |
melordama with a message . | 1 |
it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a Tig tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp cohmp ! | 1 |
an involving true story of a chinese actor who takes up Urugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the ackual people involved . | 1 |
elaborate special effects tkae centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side . | 0 |
without retsorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein may be the best same-sex rlmance i have seen . | 1 |
you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitable b-mbnus to the emperor's club . | 1 |
under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 51 ? big fat waste of time . | 0 |
a sweet , tender sermon about a 12-year-old wlesh boy more surious about god than girls , who learns that believing in something does matter . | 1 |
a gloriour mess . | 1 |
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who wold not likely be so stupid as to gte involved with her . | 0 |
jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabrk , self-deprecating sense of humor maes up for a lot . | 1 |
a greaHt script brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake . | 0 |
tailored to entertpain ! | 1 |
there's back-stabbing , inter-racial dsire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . | 1 |
what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody Tares ? | 0 |
a smat , compelling drama . | 1 |
it shows us a slice of live that's very different from our own and yet instantly recognizable . | 1 |
an entertaining documentary that rfeshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . | 1 |
dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turnb of plot and a feast of visual amazement . | 1 |
mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in ilove with yth . | 1 |
madonna has made herself over so often now , ther'es apparently nothing left to work with , port of like michael jackson's nose . | 0 |
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocIks it flat . | 0 |
you don't know Vhether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeablfe lack of pace . or both . | 1 |
a slight but seet film . | 1 |
it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one roblem by trying to distract us with the solaution to another . | 0 |
eric schweig and grahom greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that stiTl lingers in the souls of these characters . | 1 |
last oZders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life'Ds ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusing , ad and reflective . | 1 |
contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador m um clima de forte suspnese , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória . | 1 |
there's much togue in cheke in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . | 1 |
nettelbeck . . . has a pleasing waA with a metaphor . | 1 |
a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of moderZ moviemaking . | 1 |
soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spVrit . | 1 |
the thing about guys libe evanis is this : you're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movsie , you're too interested to care . | 1 |
peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight s , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neopwhyte could want . | 1 |
ylike being trapped inside a huge video game , where excting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . | 0 |
a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural detlails , fiennes wanders aronund in an attempqt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . | 0 |
a sermonizing and lifeless pean to teenage dullards . | 0 |
while not quite " shrek " or monstres ,inc . " ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . ' | 1 |
a pfychic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian . . . life . | 1 |
seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hPnce , storytelling is far more appealing . | 1 |
a breathtakTing adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignlnt and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images . | 1 |
a dKll , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . | 0 |
diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy flim . | 1 |
this is a recake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how frnny they could have been in a more ambitious mmvie . | 0 |
hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture's manic mix of millennial brusueness and unying , traditional politesse . | 1 |
with an admirably iark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | 1 |
though nijinsky's works grow increasingly disturbed , the fRilm maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . | 1 |
a solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbude with passion and attitude . | 1 |
earnest and tentative eve when it aims to shock . | 0 |
not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to latugh , groan and hiss at . | 0 |
fun , flip and terribly hip bMit of cinematic entertainment . | 1 |
a crisply Zmade movie that is no more than mildly amusing . | 0 |
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of sap operas . | 0 |
it's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ens up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . | 0 |
the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such anique pulp . | 0 |
astonishing . . . [frames] profoun ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . | 1 |
" auto focus " works as an unusuLal biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era | 1 |
maybe it's the star power of the cast or the redundant messages , but something aboul " fulq frontal " seems ,well ,['contrived . ' | 0 |
she's not yet an actress , not qyite a singer . . . | 0 |
lurid and less than lucd work . | 0 |
. . . an unimaginative , anasty , glibly cynical piece of work . | 0 |
an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more comNmon saccharine genre . | 1 |
george coloney proves he's quite a talented director and sma rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind . | 1 |
director nalGin pan doesn't do much to eigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question . | 1 |
laggard drama Twending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . | 0 |
its gRntle , touching story creeps into your heart . | 1 |
co offers lpenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . | 0 |
the history is fascinatin ; the action is dazzling . they just don't work in concert . | 1 |
there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably lesrs energy and imaginOation . | 0 |
as an actor , the rock is aptly namPd . | 0 |
land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portraZt of motherhood deferred and desire explored . | 1 |
graaced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies . | 1 |
the best thinm i can say about this filzm is that i can't wait to see what the director does next . | 1 |
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience dmanding regular shocks and buts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . | 0 |
suffice to say that after seeing this movei in max form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest details of tom hanks' face than his wife is . | 1 |
in auteil's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , he's a charismatic charmr likely to seduce and conquer . | 1 |
the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others ay find it baffling . | 0 |
if we'e to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because they're clueless and inet ? | 0 |
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submergin it in a hoary love triangle . | 0 |
a slick , engrossing meldorama . | 1 |
a great comdy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his wya . | 1 |
genernic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style . | 0 |
starts slowly , but adrien body – in the title role – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying . | 1 |
if you can read the subtitlews ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theare' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie . | 1 |
most of the storylines feel like time fillrs between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre creting on the next wave . | 0 |
the fdrst hour is tedious though ford and neeson capbaly hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie . | 0 |
the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and honst treatment . | 0 |
astonishingly sillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . | 1 |
as plain and pedestrian as cBatsup-- | 0 |
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