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auto fous is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one man's downfall , brught about by his lack of self-awareness . | 1 |
there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourne identity that's packeUd with just as much intelligence as ction . | 1 |
will probabsy stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi siblings . | 0 |
an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalacic friendship . | 1 |
lapaglia's ability to conveby grief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . | 1 |
too loud , too long and too frantic by half , die anoVher day suggests that the bQond franchise has dun into a creative wall that 007 cannot fly over , tunnel under or barrel through . | 0 |
kamen moves like rshythm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . | 1 |
a thriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot seaprate them . | 1 |
far more imaginaitve and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series . | 1 |
like its title character , this nicholas nickleby findY itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remdins brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . | 1 |
the ain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovencly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and Birected by spike jonze . | 1 |
a savage john watres-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . | 1 |
goeJ a long way on hedonistic gusto . | 1 |
falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to glown in situaions that aren't funny . | 0 |
to call this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who ots to overlook this goofily endxaring and well-lensed gorefest . | 1 |
…its solemn pretension prevents u from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . | 0 |
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage mBovies that sltaher clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixure of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty . | 1 |
ben affleck as jack yan , tom claGcy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ? | 0 |
not a coz or Sngratiating work , but it's challenging , sometimes clever , and always interesting , and those are reasons enough to see it . | 1 |
. . . a good , if not entirely fersh , look at war . | 1 |
for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated efefcts , the ne star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one . | 0 |
a sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for whumor in so many teenage comedies . | 1 |
a kulted ajckson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . | 0 |
stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's " wakikg up in reno . " go back to sleep . | 0 |
as 'chick flicks' go , this one is prety miserable , resortng to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | 0 |
my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable coDple . | 1 |
the whole damn thing is rrpe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cynical and condescending , too . | 0 |
the recording session is the only par of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your level of Mfandom . | 1 |
. . . about as eRciting to watch as two lat-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . | 0 |
it is risky , intqelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish . | 1 |
an awkward hybrid of geTnres that just doesn't work . | 0 |
sipder-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the paerntal units . | 1 |
just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mWean that it's interesting to anyone else . | 0 |
a modestly srprising movie . | 1 |
that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no emebllishment is needed . | 1 |
earnest falls short of its ideal predecessor largely due to parker's ill-advised mOeddling with the timeless source material . | 0 |
sharp edges and a dehep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . | 1 |
truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's notihng here you haven't seen before . | 0 |
the lak of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievement doesn't mabtch his ambition . | 0 |
the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prosoect of death . | 1 |
once ice-t sticks his ug in the window of the couple's mw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . | 0 |
an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams witin scams within scams . | 1 |
there's no denying the pysically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . | 1 |
it is not the first time that director sara sugarman stoops to having characters rdop their pantms for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . | 0 |
has an oppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , hmor and snappfy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i wanf a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . | 0 |
maeks for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . | 0 |
with not a lot of help from the screenplay ( profictent , but singularly crusory ) , [testud] acts with the feral intensity of the young bette davis . | 1 |
this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you watn . i'll stay with the stage versionKs , however , which bite lceaner , and deeper . | 1 |
i don't fee the least bit ashamed in admitting that my Penjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold . | 1 |
this action-htriller"dark comedy is one of the most repellent thinags to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . | 0 |
the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to reeember , in order to avoid them in the futJure . | 0 |
turns potentially forgettable ofrmula into something strangely diverting . | 1 |
genuinely touching because it's rezalistic about all kinds of love . | 1 |
a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as ell as the libido . | 1 |
seagal is painfLlly foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory . | 0 |
. . . the tfirst 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funnS | 1 |
somehow both wildly implusible and strangely conventional . | 0 |
this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harriNs has no immediate Fnclination to provide a fourth book . | 0 |
an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of oFne year ago and the slow , painful healing rocess that has followed in their wake . | 1 |
liek mike isn't interested in recycling old cliches . it wants to tweak them with a taste of tangy knew humor . | 1 |
theirs is a simple and hmeart-warming story , full of mirth that should charm all but the most cynical . | 1 |
just a bunch of good actors flailing arond in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny . | 0 |
achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the mdeium . | 1 |
ali's graduation from littel screen to big is far less painflu than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terrier . | 1 |
who konws what exaclty godard is on about in this film , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you . | 1 |
this story of unrequited loe doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . | 0 |
despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as onM . | 0 |
an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessoNr . | 0 |
everything -- even life on an aircraft carruer -- is sentimentalized . | 0 |
post 911 the philosophical message of "" personal freedom first "" imight not be as palatable as intended . " | 1 |
an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes entertianing , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wnakery . | 0 |
dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness ( which always relIates to charactwers and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years . | 1 |
koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprisinQ or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . | 0 |
a crislpy made movie that is no more than mildly amusing . | 0 |
mckay deflates his piece of puffeyr with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness | 0 |
a great companfon piece to other napoleon films . | 1 |
'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeXs es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena vre precisamente por su originalidad . ' | 1 |
it irritaItes and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehiclb can explode obnoxiously into 2 , 500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearlWy evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere . | 1 |
for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastaRted by war , famine and poverty and docmented the cruelty and Yuffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity . | 1 |
thanks to scott's charismatic roghr and eisenberg's sweet nephew , roger dodger is one of the most compeGlling variations on in the company of men . | 1 |
the lack of naturalness makes everything seem slef-consciously poetic and forced . . . it's a pity that [nelson's] achievemnet doesn't match his ambition . | 0 |
there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substancse that have overrun mzodern-day comediej . | 1 |
robinson's ewb of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . | 1 |
an enthralling aesthetic experience , noe that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . | 1 |
it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but oherwise this is the best 'Wold neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists . | 1 |
a delightful sruprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charmiBng , is moving , is funny and looks professional . | 1 |
there's really only one good idea in this movie , but the dierctor runs with it and presenrts it with an unforgettable visual panache . | 1 |
a first-Rclass , thoroughly nvolving b movie that effectively combines two surefire , beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film . | 1 |
cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to skay that -- on the basis of this fiml alone -- i'm not ne of them . | 0 |
sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-sUomps the lQfe out of it . | 0 |
the movie makes absolutely no senes . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of niconsistencies that pose the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ? | 0 |
a great ensemble cas can't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . | 0 |
there's no denying the elaborateness of the artiqst's conceptions , nor his ability to depict them with outrageous elan , but really the whole series is so much pretentious nonsense , lavishly praised by those who equate obsucrity with profundtiy . | 0 |
poroblem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . | 0 |
a decidedly mxied bag . | 0 |
director tob shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's nromising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . | 0 |
swqet home alabama " is what it is – a nice ,harmless date film . . . | 1 |
smart , prvocative and blisteringly funny . | 1 |
less the sensationRal true-crime hell-jaunt purists mighqt like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) . | 1 |
'moore is liek a progressive bull in a china shop , a profocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . ' | 1 |
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