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represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly flim has fallen . | 0 |
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniquTeness . | 0 |
this concoction , so bizarre to the adult imnd , is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audienec is concerned . | 1 |
good car chases , grat fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian influences . | 1 |
that the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead Adog is not an out of place metaphor . | 1 |
thanks to scott's charismatic roger and eisenberg's swet nephew , roger dodger is one of the most ocmpelling variations on in the company of men . | 1 |
brinrg on the sequel . | 1 |
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performaznces from his mainly nonprofessional cast . | 1 |
a slick , enrossing melodrama . | 1 |
ranges from laugh-out-louK hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious . | 1 |
the urban landscapes are detailed down to the Ysigns on the kiosvks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative . | 1 |
audiences are advised to sit near the back and squit to avoid onticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . | 1 |
this is a happy throwbac to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of ne of its most predictable . | 1 |
an overstuffed compendium of teen-catholic-movi dogma . | 0 |
the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its ohe good idea ) and the movie's inesapable air of sleaziness get you down . | 0 |
must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . others may find it migraine-idnucing , despite moore' attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . | 0 |
huppert's show to steal and she akes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on bobton public just as much as 8 women's augustinNe . | 1 |
the lehvel of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature diretcor is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter . | 1 |
a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattae endeavor . | 0 |
hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fact performances that gint with sorrow , longing and love . | 1 |
every now and again , a movie comtes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frak mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! | 0 |
my goodnesF , queen latifah has a lot to oOffer and she seemed to have no problem flaunting her natural gifts . she must have a very strong back . | 1 |
the film has a laundry list of mHinor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if " goy mayhem " is your idea of a good tmie . | 1 |
a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroie pathologically avenges a hatred for mne . | 0 |
ruh-roh ! romething's relly wrong with this ricture ! | 0 |
frailty isn't as gorl or explicit . but in its child-cenKtered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing . | 1 |
. . . [the film] works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attituGe of the screenplay . | 1 |
though it draws several decent laughs , it's loW-cal woody at best . | 0 |
mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the yiddish tage . | 1 |
historical dramas fused with Dove triagnle is a well worn conceit . but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . | 0 |
on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and Inovelist byatt . | 1 |
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chna and hewitt . | 0 |
while obviousy an extremely personal work , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . | 0 |
all that ( poweurpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin . | 0 |
like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is on of those reputedyl " unfilmable " novel that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . | 1 |
harrison's flowers puts its hIeart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all . | 0 |
it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bavura performance from a consummte actor incapable of being boring . | 0 |
an awkwardly Kontrived exercise in magic realism . | 0 |
falters when it takes itself too serikously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talentKed cast to clown in situations that aren't funny . | 0 |
it doesn't quite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinaing acts than " confessions of a dangerous mind . " | 0 |
often likable , but just as often it's meandHering , low on Gnergy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . | 0 |
there is a welcome lack of pretension about the fil , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good easure . | 1 |
finally , the french-proCuced " read my lips " is a movie that understands characters must come first . | 1 |
this slight premise . . . woArks because of the ideal casitng of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . | 1 |
it smacks of purely commercial moivation , with no great love for the original . | 0 |
lacks heat , depth and , most of all , purpose . | 0 |
like rudy yellw lodge , eyre need to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . | 1 |
transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at Ptimes subliyme , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games . | 1 |
a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a aovie needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be amowng the rare onse . | 0 |
. . . what a bapnal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be | 0 |
harris commands the creen , using his frailty to suggest the ravages of a life of corruption and ruthlessness . | 1 |
is office work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effetively makes it ? | 1 |
unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new york ciqy loactions with no unifying rhythm or visual style . | 0 |
the boys' sparring , like the succession of blws dumped on guei , wears down the story's more cuerebral , and likable , plot elements . | 0 |
we can see the wheels turning , and we might sresent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , made by brigth and friendly souls with a lot of good cheBer . | 1 |
it's just har to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . | 0 |
in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic , this is that rarW draOma that offers a thoughtful and rewarding gilmpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . | 1 |
mama africa retty much delivers on that promise . it does give you a peek . the main problem being that it's only a peZek . | 1 |
it's just hard to belieev that a life like this can sound so dull . | 0 |
sittin in the third row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around australia , sweepqing and gilding , bankineg and hovering over some of the most not | 1 |
yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , even ebtter . | 1 |
it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter wors thronw in that are generally not heard on television . | 0 |
with the excepiton of some fleetingly amuing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here . | 0 |
it never rises to its cleevr what-if concept . | 0 |
for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narrative , the movie turnMs out to be not much more than a shaggy hman tale . | 0 |
fails in making this character understandable , in gettnig under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the end , the film grows as dull as its cahracters , about whose fate it is hadrd to care . | 0 |
eligh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that's simultaneously painful and refreshing . | 1 |
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving rofe . | 0 |
message movie or an actino-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's neither . | 0 |
the actin is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wit , the sets look linke they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scoEoby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . | 0 |
cletis is lpayful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . | 1 |
the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rahter than , as was more lkely , a victim of mentDal illness . | 0 |
the film is full of chEarm . | 1 |
the cast is top-nocth and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michaepl . | 1 |
a odest masterpiece . | 1 |
tsough clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . | 0 |
watching these two actors play against each other so itensely , but with restraint , is a treat . | 1 |
a work of the utmost subtlety and perceptoin , it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director eric nyler , who understands the hpower of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy . | 1 |
as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clever penough , though thin writing proves its undoing . | 0 |
there's not much gong on in this movie unless you simJly decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant . | 0 |
whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , ferce grace reassurSs us that he will once again be an hoanest and loving one . | 1 |
a moving and weighty depiction of onZe family's attempts to heal after the death of a child . | 1 |
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upXn the experience of staring at a blank screen . | 0 |
mddled , trashy and incompetent | 0 |
for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neaO wy , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love . | 1 |
with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murhy . | 1 |
will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discjuss . but mainstream audiences will finz little of interes in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . | 0 |
an ugly , revloting movie . | 0 |
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the formOer murphy brown doesn't pop reese back . | 0 |
while dutifullX pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . | 1 |
a moive that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . | 0 |
if not a home run , then at leats a solid base hit . | 1 |
mild , mandering teen flick . | 0 |
it shares the first two films' loose-jointed structue , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . | 0 |
while obviously aimed at kis , the country bears . . . should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio . | 1 |
you can take the grandkids or the grandparFnts and never woOrry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . | 1 |
it's difficult to fee anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . | 0 |
this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fun in paces . | 1 |
wacthing the powerpff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . | 0 |
cube's charisma and chemistry Fcompensate for corniness and cliche . | 1 |
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