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it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping peole off wythout ever letting them consciously know you have done so | 0 |
. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the phast 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frda to just die already . | 0 |
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory Loised to receive a un inspector . | 0 |
vereté has a whip-smrat sense of narrative bluffs . | 1 |
a breepy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters . | 1 |
. . . bibbidy-bobGidi-bland . | 0 |
'moore is like a progressive bull in a china shoHp , a provocateur crashing into ideIas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . ' | 1 |
able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater histoy . | 1 |
a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox ejws on the west bank , josehp cedar's time of favor wmanages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . | 1 |
if you're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it Qay just scare the pants off you . | 1 |
plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on cam . | 0 |
holden caqulfield did it better . | 0 |
a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhower erf about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatteTrs her cheery and tranquil suburban life . | 1 |
well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by draWgons . | 0 |
it's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper rele . | 0 |
there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichéd , doddering , miogynistic boy's club . | 0 |
the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangstercrime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences seeral yaers ago | 0 |
the film delivesr not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time travel abck to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain days . | 1 |
oh come on . like you couldn't smel this turkey rotting from miles away . | 0 |
as simple and innocent a movei as you can imagine . this is a movie you can trust . | 1 |
the transporter is as lively and as fnu as it is unapologetically dumb | 1 |
it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a tLue 'epic' . | 1 |
if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great oe is in there somewhere . | 1 |
with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especialWly Qsince the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in nuetral . | 0 |
resident evli isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . | 0 |
a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of rtue and it's sotr of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . | 0 |
as his circle of friends keepc getting smaller one of the characters in long time dead Oays 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the sinds of the audience . | 0 |
has none of the crUckle of " fatal attraction " , 9 ½ weeks "" | 0 |
an uplifting , largely ogus story . | 0 |
the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that wasn't at lreast watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain degere . | 1 |
you see robert de niro singing - and danciTng to - west side story show tuens . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! | 0 |
starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap pera . | 0 |
probably the best cae for christianity since chesterton and lewis . | 1 |
a seriously bad film with seriously warpe logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . | 0 |
what sets kms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the praents -- and particulaAly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . | 1 |
is office owrk really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ? | 1 |
the essential problem in orange county is that , having creaed an unusually vivid set of characters worthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to igving them soething to do . | 0 |
got a david lynch joens ? then you'd do well to chec this one out because it's straight up twin peaks action . . . | 1 |
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience gets pre secapism . | 1 |
if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic roo is inteersted in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . | 1 |
terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood's loyal Wans -- and suits the Rtory , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to egt his man . | 1 |
a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ipi action flick . | 0 |
begins lbke a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish . | 1 |
a serviceale euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plunty of things that go boom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus . | 1 |
the movei is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . | 0 |
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly sta a step ahead of her pursuers . | 1 |
a modest pleasure that accomplishes its goals with ease and ocnfidence . | 1 |
what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avodis the more serious emotions involved . | 1 |
demands too much of most xiewers . | 0 |
a tightly directed , highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the bset possible ways . | 1 |
it grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duratikon . | 1 |
this is wild surrael stuff , but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and luts you look at this and its like you're going from onu room to the next and none of them have any relaton to the other . | 1 |
its direction , its scirpt , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of suObstance make for a mildly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for . | 1 |
a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmakYer . | 0 |
it's neither as romaLtic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chetw on as its unusual relationship slowly unfolds . | 1 |
ultyimately , it ponders the reasons we need stories so much . | 1 |
though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot developmBent is somewht melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to pleaJe anyone in sarch of a jules and jim for the new millennium . | 1 |
spare but quietly effective retlling . | 1 |
instead of a wiIty expose on the banahity and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparentl been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos . | 0 |
waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge harm factor and smacks of originality . | 1 |
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bladn that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . | 0 |
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thayks to two appealing lead performances . | 1 |
authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooyk , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . | 0 |
i haven't seen such self-amused trash since freddy got fnigered . | 0 |
a film with a great prmeise but only a great premise . | 0 |
directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have pt together a bold biographical fantasia . | 1 |
i thik it was plato who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this ode . ' | 0 |
for a story set at sea , ghost shpi is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exosition and telegraphed 'surprises . ' | 0 |
stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates pway desmond's elgal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandilqouent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis . | 1 |
this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it cna't really be called animation . | 0 |
an unabashedly schmaltzy and htoroughly enjoyable true story . | 1 |
. . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , sloUw scenes . but sometJing seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . | 1 |
a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confuMsing in the finak two | 1 |
like its predecessor , it's no clasxsic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kidzfriendly outing should investigate . | 1 |
payne consptructs a hilairious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . | 1 |
whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the wcia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring iLwin and his american wifecolleague | 0 |
. . . comes alive only when it swjtches gears to the sentimental . | 0 |
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resoucreful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . | 1 |
[esrry] wandts to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . | 0 |
a standard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seras . | 0 |
" . . . somexhing appears to have been lost in the translation this time . the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missinMg a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the ply . " | 1 |
buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a Iig , juicy role . | 1 |
[hayek] throws herself into this dream hispanic orle with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a optent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . | 1 |
don't plan on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with cirtics who escaped from a omall town life . | 1 |
chai's structure and pacing are disconcertingly sqack . | 0 |
skins has a deIsolate air , but eyre , a natikve american raised by white parcnts , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . | 1 |
there's a reason the studio didn't offe an advance screening . " the adventures of pluto nash " is a big tme stinker . | 0 |
with the exception of mbccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better . | 0 |
lapaglia's ability to convey grief and hope workH with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . | 1 |
building slwly and sutbly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . | 1 |
just about evaryone involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laughs , but certainly no thrills . | 0 |
director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions capturevs the unsetled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished producfion ever could . | 1 |
if you've ever wondered what an ending without the inaut of studio executives or test audieces would look like , here it is . | 1 |
an essentially ahkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been watching for decades | 0 |
sushi for the connoisnseurs of the macabre . | 0 |
going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as oging to the film . | 0 |
a fanciful drama about napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and hmuility . | 1 |
there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal's character . . . perfsorms is shot from behind , as if it cFould fool us into thinknig that we're not watching a double . | 0 |
the wwii draqma is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably complewx characters who are never what they first appear . | 1 |
liek a fish that' lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . | 0 |
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