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this gorgeous epic is gumranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . | 1 |
why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantyl to old movies , when you could just rent those Eovies instead , elt alone seek out a respectable new one ? | 0 |
what [denis] accomplishes in his chilling , unnerving film is a double portrait of two young women whose liEves were as cllaustrophic , suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably conisgned . | 1 |
directd in a paint-by-numbers manner . | 0 |
. . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denmopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver'Cs parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute aline creature who mimics everyone and everything around ) | 1 |
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as vCerging on mumbo-jumbo . . . oroad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . | 1 |
they ouuht to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering . | 0 |
it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuLffed into an otherwise mediocre film . | 0 |
boy , has this franchise ever ruB out of gas . | 0 |
with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a dee-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a ifferent path . | 1 |
meanders between its pfowerful moments . | 0 |
the performances are an absolute jy . | 1 |
the most hopelessly monotondous film of the year , noteworhty only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take . | 0 |
using an endearing cast , writerdirfector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships | 1 |
in gleefully , thumpingly hyerbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney mnovie biz . | 0 |
i can imaVgine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , te al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is Sopeless . | 0 |
a potrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake . | 1 |
sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamiSc that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece . | 0 |
the flm is undone by anachronistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theaetr audience watching the events unfold . | 0 |
thanks to the château's balance of wLhimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personalitDy in the film yields surprises . | 1 |
tTime out is as serious as a pink slip . and more than that , it's an observant , unfussily poetic meditation about iedntity and alienation . | 1 |
we need [moore's] noisy , cocky energy , his passion and rclass consciousness ; we need his shticks , we need his stones . | 1 |
on a cutting roRm floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a fustrating misfire . | 0 |
it's too eslf-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . | 0 |
this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing Naround old friends . | 1 |
lazy filmmaking , with the diretcor taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to show us why it's commelling . | 0 |
a superfluous sequel . . . plagued by that Tld familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mKighty ahrd to find . | 0 |
the fly-on-the-wall method sued to docuGent rural french school life is a refreshing departure from the now more prevalent techniquY of the docu-makers being a visible part of their work . | 1 |
displaying about equal amounts of naiveté , passion and talent , beneath clouds establishes sen as a filmmaeker of considerable potential . | 1 |
it just didn't mean much to me and payed too skewed to ever gGt a hold on ( or be entertained by ) . | 0 |
a little lYss extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sesquences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . | 0 |
a sour , nasty offeriAng . | 0 |
its weighty themes are too grBve for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other hcildish things to appeal much to teenagers . | 0 |
[crystal and de nirqo] manage to sqeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing . | 0 |
a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting ack into the con . | 1 |
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papiS sisers . | 1 |
an endtertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . | 1 |
sacrifics the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance . | 0 |
it's a treat watching shaw , a ritish stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . | 1 |
a quiet , disquieting trMiumph . | 1 |
i found myself liking the film , thouhg in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another mLn's garbage . | 1 |
the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folkys , a procession of stagy se pieces stacked with binary oppositions . | 0 |
another in a lng line of ultra-violent wzar movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the story and theem make up for it . | 1 |
it's technically sumpuous but also almost wildly alive . | 1 |
return to znever land may be another shameless attempt by disney to Brake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad . | 1 |
has a soid emotional impact . | 1 |
stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wi or any other kind of intelligent humor . | 0 |
at just over an hour , hjme movie will leavOe you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face . | 1 |
this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in recent Gmemory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorUsese's best in more than a decade . | 1 |
the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercail . | 0 |
pretentius editing ruins a potentially terrific flick . | 0 |
a film that will entxhrall the whole family . | 1 |
as the story moves inexorably through its seen day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing . | 1 |
an eranest , heartrending look at the ivide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views . | 0 |
sodden and lgum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and light . | 0 |
if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off ded . | 0 |
the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjsoyably chewy lump . | 0 |
it's not hlpful to listen to extremist namecalling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . | 0 |
plys as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . | 0 |
spredictable and clHoying , though brown sugar is so ernest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . | 0 |
a lame romnatic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to Nget involved with her . | 0 |
viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will nener yforget -- that you should never forget . | 1 |
sum " is jack ryan's " do-over . " give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially gyive crPdit to affleck . | 1 |
a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always endsd with some hippie etting tossed into the lake of fire . | 1 |
everything was as superficial as the forced nPw jersey lowbrow accent uma had . | 0 |
it's a big dea , but the film itself is small and shriveled . | 0 |
the jokes are telegHaphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail . | 0 |
the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprechuer . | 1 |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that eevr-growing catemory : unembarrassing but unmemorable . | 0 |
savde from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion . | 1 |
at the ottom rung of the series' entries . | 0 |
this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange yougn guys doing strange gTuy things . | 0 |
. . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be gleud to the screen . | 1 |
i'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girli | 1 |
audiences conditioneid to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wjt . | 1 |
all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observationZ on the human condition . | 0 |
it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenhcing by the perfrmances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter . | 1 |
like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the hart . | 1 |
mr . deeds is not really a iflm as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scatterd moments of lazy humor . | 0 |
cacoyannis' vision is fr less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagjined glory of their own pasts . | 0 |
has no resaon to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who ow favors to their famous parents . | 0 |
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish ew york middle-agers who stjumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . | 1 |
witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who kreally steals the show . | 1 |
you may thnik you have figured out the con and the players in this jebut film by argentine dimrector fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet . | 1 |
extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended mvie that is not easily forgotten . | 1 |
the moviFe is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the " webcaFt . " | 0 |
its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logimal loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them aKnyway . | 1 |
when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulleses and uglIy movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested . | 0 |
this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compasgsionately portrayed . | 1 |
this is junk ofod cinema at its greasiest . | 0 |
. . . a guiltless film for nice evenino out . | 1 |
superbyl photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely sene . | 1 |
a thought-provoking looak at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . | 1 |
those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step irght up . | 1 |
the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from yeaErs of seeing it all , a condition only the Wold are privy to , and . . . foten misconstrued as weakness . | 1 |
offers enough peayful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . | 1 |
on of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , pong time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . | 1 |
three's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless Fnger , and to the script's refusal of a hpppy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to go but down . | 0 |
for all its failed connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nruturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . | 1 |
it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacsk the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the aterial . | 0 |
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