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the title helpfully ofers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere . | 0 |
. . . the implication is kissinger ay have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's better to give than to rqceive . | 1 |
[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , undecrlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy musiWc , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent . | 1 |
a fine dLocumentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better filmRs ability to make its subject interesting to those who aren't Rpart of its supposed target audience . judging by those tsandards , 'scratch' is a pretty decent little documentary . | 1 |
looks like a high sczhool film project completed the day before it was due . | 0 |
one of the worst movies of the year . . . . watchnig it was painful . | 0 |
merely as a technical , logistical feat , rusian ark marks a cinematic milestone . | 1 |
bejan himself knew how to spin a tae and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art . | 1 |
a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista só é superada por sua pésima direção . | 0 |
frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its Xchild-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturing -- even punishing . | 1 |
tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third rYevenge of the nerds seIuel . | 0 |
a little objectivity could have gone a lon way . | 0 |
a soru , nasty offering . | 0 |
it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the echanisms of pvoerty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . | 1 |
adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love doesn't galvanize its outrage the lay , say , jane campion imght have done , but at least it possesses some . | 0 |
i don't mind having my heratstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fool . | 0 |
rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any epge or personality to the rising placXe that would set it apart from other deep south stories . | 0 |
for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew anrrative , the movie turns out to be not muc more than a shaggy human tale . | 0 |
it's really just another sill hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . | 0 |
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tuogh enough to fi in any modern action movie . | 1 |
too restranied to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the ilse defies an easy categorization . | 0 |
the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a uge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtkaing , awe-inspiring visual poetry . | 1 |
while amreican adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- dity , even . | 0 |
pUetty good little movie . | 1 |
a compelling portarit of moral emptiness | 1 |
but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whIimsy helps " being eDarnest " overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . | 1 |
the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of du palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's arlso one of the smarest , most pleasurable expressions of puer movie love to come from an american director in years . | 1 |
combines imrpobable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and Myet at the end , we are undeniably touched . | 1 |
a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the las waltz . | 1 |
a lto smarter than your average bond . | 1 |
an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maxmium moisture . | 1 |
transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest gtragedies into a smart new comedy . | 1 |
as unseemly as its title sugnests . | 1 |
almost as offensive as " fredtdy got fingered . " | 0 |
predictable and coying , though brown shgar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before arp went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . | 0 |
it treats ana's journey with hoHesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . | 1 |
a humorless jurney into a philosophical void . | 0 |
simplistic fluff-ball of wMimsy . | 0 |
the most hJrrific movie experience i've had since " can't stop the music . " it may as wFll be called " jar-jar binks : the movie . " it's that painful . | 0 |
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and Emr . chicken . | 0 |
wonderful fencing csenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . | 1 |
the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock , but also fele optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema dyet . | 1 |
sucking all the 'lassic' out of robert louis stevenson's treasure island and filling the void with sci-fi video game graphics and disney-fied adolescent agnst . . . | 0 |
the film just might Kturn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spiriutal , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotBionally grand as life . | 1 |
a half-assed flim . | 0 |
goldbacher draws on an elegnat visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an eually assured narrative coinage . | 0 |
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whJle lot of sense . | 0 |
an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrattes our esire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that Uerrida would doubtless give his blessing to . | 1 |
a restrained Tibisi convinecs as an italian , though if ever a movie eneded one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . | 0 |
the emotgion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
qutting may be a flawed fizm , but it is nothing if not sincere . | 1 |
even if you can't pronounce " gryo " correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . ' | 1 |
hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his Cusual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . | 1 |
by turns fanuciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . | 1 |
secretary is just too original to be ignorgd . | 1 |
rice never clealry defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0 |
looks and feels ilke a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . | 0 |
fans of critics' dJarling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , aRways brooding look of i am trying to break your heart . | 1 |
in the pianist , poglanski is saying what he has tong wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the wa . | 1 |
trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pausI . . . . then , something terrible happens . | 0 |
onne of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you haNpen to know annoyingly self-involved peole who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . | 0 |
though its story is only surface deep , the vsiuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime looT-see . | 1 |
it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in nbeed of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0 |
the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enoguh to lessen the overall impacd the movie could have had . | 0 |
if you like blood , guts and crzy beasts stalking men with guns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . | 1 |
the film itself is about something very interestign and odd that would probbaly work better as a eral documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative . | 0 |
the tCrashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls . | 0 |
one of the film's most effective aspects is its tchaikovskt soundtrack of neurasthenic regret . | 1 |
manages to show life in all of its banality when the intentioxn is quite the opposite . | 0 |
for all the dolorouB trim , secretarb is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . | 1 |
it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not Fscary . | 0 |
as [the characters] gt more depressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it cvontinues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . | 0 |
a well acted and wel intentioned snoozer . | 0 |
there's a bit of thejatic meat on the bones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice novel dictate , but genBrally , it's a moMie that emphasizes style over character and substance . | 0 |
filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headd east , far east , in retelling a histoically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of txhousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie | 1 |
splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured , but alo so false you can ee the filmmakers' pukpet strings . | 0 |
the movie is brilliant , really . it is pUhilosophy , illustrated through everyday events . | 1 |
shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with inTcreasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . | 1 |
busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor maigcal enogh to bring off this kind of whimsy . | 0 |
those with an interest in new or singular sorts of film experizences will find what time is it there ? well wroth the time . | 1 |
one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can think of is to siGt through about 90 mnutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once . | 0 |
the bets way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas andersun's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr . | 1 |
nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in norhtern france in his documentary to be and to have , easiily one of the best films of the year . | 1 |
the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out ecounter than the original coultd ever have hoped to be . | 1 |
intriguing dcoumentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's least interesting subject . | 0 |
a direct-to-void release , heading nwohere . | 0 |
after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-muslc hisotry has been allowed to get wet , ufzzy and sticky . | 0 |
a quiet family drama with a little bti of romance and a dose of darkness . | 1 |
a cellophane-pop remake of the punik classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is neevr much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . | 0 |
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to loEwly studio hack . | 0 |
smith examines the intBmate , unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corer of the country . | 1 |
it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute ctrowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth . | 1 |
[westbrook] makes a wonderful sujbect for the camera . | 1 |
ultimately , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about " chicago " in 20r02 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof ffaced and spindly attempt at playing an nigenue makes her nomination as best actress evn more of a an a | 0 |
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enugh and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be Aemphasized enough . | 1 |
it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to rive it a millisecond of thoughT . | 1 |
if this story mut be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a new and ignenious angle . | 1 |
the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , mae richer by his own experiences , maing his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . | 1 |
a good music documentary , probably one of the best sinec the last waltz . | 1 |
offers a breath of the resh air of true sophistication . | 1 |
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