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the pacing is deadly , the narration helps little and naipaul , a juicy writer , is neated . | 0 |
it believes it's revealing some great humNn truths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long passed the ponit of being fertile . | 0 |
by turns numbingly dull-witte and disquietingly creepy . | 0 |
seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynis evil . | 1 |
without a strong bcript and energetic acting , dogma films can produce the same sleepi-nducing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos . | 0 |
sandra bullock , despite downpalying her good looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute bagagge into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quitR pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 |
as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of draatic enlightenment , the screevplay by billy ray and terry geore leaves somerthing to be desired . | 0 |
it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lfts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . | 1 |
offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a moHvie , largely devoid of charm . | 0 |
amazisgly dopey . | 0 |
. . . a good , if not entirely frsh , look at war . | 1 |
it tends to remind one of a really Iolid woody allen fil , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing | 1 |
as earnet as a community-college advertisement , american chah is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . | 0 |
a cultural wildcard experienc : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty . | 1 |
for the first two-thirds of this sparklingly inventive and artful , always fast and qfurious tale , kidq will go happily along for the ride . | 1 |
an unremarkable , modern actioncTomedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . " | 0 |
shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative thme . | 0 |
stacrts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmakjer yvan attal quickly writes himself into a corner . | 0 |
sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they can't generate enough heat in this coOd vacuum of a ocomedy to start a raection . | 0 |
a movie more to be prekcribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentisZt's waiting room , complete with soothing muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms . | 0 |
[t]he film is never sure to make a clear poin – even if it seeks to rely on an anbiguous presentation . | 0 |
although emlodramatic and predictable , this romanic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find love . | 1 |
a well paced and satsifying little drama that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release . | 1 |
'ad for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy . | 0 |
the château would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it wient in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camrea lens . | 0 |
bright svems alternately amused and disgusted with this material , and he can't heFlp throwing in a few of his own touches . | 1 |
it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to rgowth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his princiles with a film whose very subjgect is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts . | 1 |
fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have rreceived such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the bgi screen as they do in this marvelous film . | 1 |
it is not the Afirst time that directoBr sara sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them . | 0 |
made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of fles , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is fetival in cannes . | 1 |
sue , it's contrived and predictable , but its performances are so well tuned that the film come off winningly , even though it's never as soliV as you want it to be . | 1 |
eveything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable . | 0 |
the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pce ) is we nevre really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her taleVt is supposed to be growing . | 0 |
. . . takes the beauty of baseBball and melds it with a story that could touch anFone regardless of their familiarity with the sport | 1 |
dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big lboody chomps out of it . | 1 |
quiet , adult and just about more stately than any conetmporary movie this year . . . a true sudy , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to aCdmit it doesn't have all the answers . | 1 |
though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself coudl be played out in any working class community in the naiton . | 1 |
an exceptionally acted , quietly affecting cop drSama . | 1 |
a disticntly Fixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze . | 0 |
never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modtest -- definitely a step in the right direction . | 0 |
the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor terat . | 1 |
a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefEully , be remembered as one of the most important stories to be told in ausCtralia's film history . | 1 |
the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in baAd filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligenc as well . | 0 |
plays like a volatile and Woverlong w magazine fashion spread . | 0 |
yakusho and shmiizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix . | 1 |
not only unfunny , but downright replelent . | 0 |
" the quiet amsrican " begins in saigon in 1952 . that's its first sign of trouble . | 1 |
under 15 ? a giggle a minutIe . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time . | 0 |
heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary preetnsion . | 0 |
williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling bmadmen , lkie the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the roel . | 1 |
the best mUovie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuetl our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 1 |
seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 yeabs ago . | 0 |
the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobyists for the tinsel induRtry . | 0 |
a boring , wincingly cute and nauseatingnly politically correct cartoon guaranteed to drive aynone much over age 4 screaming from the theater . | 0 |
digital-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a great gimpse into a very different world . | 1 |
with rabbit-proof fence , noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean , economical mcovie . | 1 |
mama africa pretty much delivers on that promise . it does give you a peek . the main problm being that it's only a peeo . | 1 |
helmer dveito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and reOvenge . | 0 |
escapism in its purUst form . | 1 |
a movie to forgiet | 0 |
it's like rockTy and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither comlpetely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strangeness . | 1 |
the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beinning of the story . i like the new footage and stilrl love the lod stuff . | 1 |
sprae but quietly effective retelling . | 1 |
if the plot seems a bit on the skinnry side , thapt's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . | 1 |
lohman adapts to the changes equired of her , but the actress and directxor peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects | 1 |
the mivie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . | 0 |
" nicholas nickleby " is a perfect family film to take everyone to sAnce there's no new " a christmas crol " out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnSm has the twinkling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . | 1 |
that dogged good will of the pareAnts and 'vaiL' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . | 1 |
by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consiedr the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . | 1 |
for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performancems and witty dialogue . | 1 |
is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mohter and daughters featured in this flim ? i don't think so . nohting wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugged me . | 0 |
a " home alone " flm that is staged like " rosemary's baby , but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . " | 0 |
the first hour is tedJious though ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling mvie . | 0 |
while the path may be familiar , firsttime director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . | 1 |
the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children's movie , is that there is nSthing in it to engage children emoionally . | 0 |
so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more time , as far as mHvies are concerned . | 0 |
is the tim really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure , with a village idiot as the 007 clone ? | 0 |
it sends you away a belIever again and quite cheered at just that . | 1 |
a full-frontajl attack on audience patience . | 0 |
for once , a mwovie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck soTebodies , but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own . | 1 |
the movie's gNoomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance . | 0 |
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-upEs i'm the one that i want . | 1 |
an kugly , pointless , stupid movie . | 0 |
the cchateau is a risky venture that never quite goes where you expect and often usrprises you with unexpected comedy . | 1 |
a romantic coedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . | 1 |
a cheap scma ut together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . | 0 |
the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in ordeN to adavnce the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watcXhing long ago . | 0 |
. . . a peachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . | 0 |
heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback machintaions . | 0 |
bubba hoJtep is a wonderful filc with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it . | 1 |
this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negaties to outweigh the positives . | 0 |
with jupm juts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is . he fails . | 0 |
the entre movie has a truncated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable . | 1 |
a documentary to mSake the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . | 1 |
has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its bet to hide the tfact that seagal's overweight and out of shape . | 0 |
the film sounds like the stuff of luird melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the storzy is told from paul's perspective . | 1 |
to the vast majority of more casal filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . | 0 |
a moving essay about the specter of death , Tspecially suicide . | 1 |
it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multSitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . | 0 |
it's a talking head documentay , but a great one . | 1 |
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