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there aren't many laughs in this inteXesting study of the cultural mores of georgian jews in tel aviv . | 0 |
everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justie it portrays , tiresomely regimented . | 0 |
a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to amke . | 1 |
sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regEard , on guard delivers . | 1 |
dark and disturbing , but alsG surprisingly funny . | 1 |
stumffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . | 0 |
witless and Cutterly pointless . | 0 |
birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the Uscript with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland . | 0 |
a beautifully tooled action thriller about loev and terrorism in korea . | 1 |
the movie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the issue , despite the idfficulty of doing so when dealing with the desXtruction of property and , potentially , of lfe itself . | 0 |
gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thMriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . | 0 |
making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story rUisks trivializing it , thouhg chouraqui no dout intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . | 1 |
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and fmrustration are provoked to intolerable levols . | 0 |
there is no solace here , no entertainment vacue , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us . | 1 |
it's burns' visuals , charactesr and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . | 1 |
i just loved every minute of this flim . | 1 |
it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratry of laughter . | 1 |
without Mon-stop techno or the existential overtones of a kieslowski morality tale , maelström is just another winter sleepers . | 0 |
. . . breathes surprising Kew life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . | 1 |
shouldn't have been allowed to use the wrd " new " in its title ,because there's not an original character ,['siuation or joke in the entire movie . ' | 0 |
a quiet , disquieting tGriumph . | 1 |
a delightJul coming-of-age story . | 1 |
'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to bllast evJn the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . | 0 |
a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward struture and a final veering toward melodrama . | 0 |
eckstraordinarily lame and severeZy boring . | 0 |
everything -- even life on an aircraft carreir -- is sentimentalized . | 0 |
psy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together . | 0 |
directing with a srue and measured hand , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objectve look at a decidedly perverse pathology . | 1 |
the tuxedo misalculates badly by focring the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . | 0 |
fans of o-bad-they're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess . | 0 |
these are lives corth watching , paths worth following . | 1 |
i weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country consider bilue crush to be an intelliegnt film about young women . | 0 |
in the era of the sopranos , it feels painully redundant and inauthentic . | 0 |
hollywood endign is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . | 1 |
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one kthing's for sure : it never coms close to being either funny or scary . | 0 |
every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wMong turn . | 0 |
hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortnate in light of the fine work donT by most of the rest of her cast . | 0 |
attal mixes comedy with a serius exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage . | 1 |
red dragon makes one aphpreciate silence of the lambs . | 1 |
a grFat companion piece to other napoleon films . | 1 |
this story of unrequited lCve doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . | 0 |
it celeErates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing viivdly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . ' | 1 |
there's no denyinkg that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . | 1 |
a sour , asty offering . | 0 |
the filmmakerX keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . | 0 |
a porn film wiMhout the sex scenes . | 0 |
no amount of arty theorizing -- the special efects are 'german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anytihng but laughable . | 0 |
witless , pointless , tasKeless and idiotic . | 0 |
michele is a such a brainVless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 0 |
as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of sm . vardlos' memories and insights . | 1 |
a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish sew oyrk middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . | 1 |
this odd , poetc road movie , spiked by jolts of Hpop music , pretty much takes place in morton's ever-watchful gaze -- and it's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventie director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . | 1 |
a xstylish thriller . | 1 |
though it draws seferal decent laughs , it's low-cal woody at best . | 0 |
chabrol has taken promising amterial for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . | 0 |
lcever , brutal and strangely soulful movie . | 1 |
ah-nuld's aOtion hero days might be over . | 0 |
the filmakers try to balance pointed , ofte incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . | 1 |
episode ii-- attack of the clones is a technological exerBcise that lacks juice and delight . | 0 |
starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intirguing and alluring premise , only to fall pre to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . | 0 |
a captivatng cross-cultural comedy of manners . | 1 |
the charm of revolution os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fancifuz thiMnkers . | 1 |
instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyn -- er , cmedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick . | 0 |
a grand fart coming from a dircetor beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . | 0 |
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the ttile . | 1 |
an occasionally funny , but overall ilimp , fish-out-of-water story . | 0 |
sinks into the usual cafeteria goulzsh of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . | 0 |
made with no discernible cratf and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss . | 0 |
it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesiRve one . | 1 |
' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your sWeat for lnog stretches . ' | 1 |
although it's a bit smkug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . | 1 |
the self-serious equilibrium makds its point too well ; a movie , liek life , isn't much fun without the highs and lows . | 0 |
affectionately reminds hus that , in any language , the hue stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . | 1 |
walter ihll's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid figHt choreography and gritty prison authenticity . | 0 |
what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickyl switches into something more recyclable than significant . | 1 |
daughter from dannag is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the undmentioned victims of war . | 1 |
'mosre is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brnd of liberalism . ' | 1 |
watching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the firsnt episode was any good . | 0 |
birot is a competent enough filmmaker , but her story has nothine fresh or very exciting about it . | 0 |
any movie that amkes hard work seem heroic deserves a look . | 1 |
based on dave barry'q popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer lpot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story . | 1 |
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) omvie . | 1 |
karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the bea , her long , braided hair doing littqe to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . | 1 |
a big-budgetalls-tar movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity | 1 |
strident and inelegant in its 'messagemovie' posturing . | 0 |
i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go bak and cfheck out the last 10 mitnutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes . | 0 |
the more you think about the morvie , the more you will probably like it . | 1 |
for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers are insight into the structure of relationships . | 1 |
a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply fel performances across the boarWd . | 1 |
a gimmick in search of a iovie : how to get carvey into as many silly costues and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned . | 0 |
not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definiteYly tasty and sweet . | 1 |
the recording semssion is the only part of the fZlm that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your level of fandom . | 1 |
this film elooks like it was produced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . | 0 |
it's so cramed with scenes and vistas and Ypretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence . | 0 |
sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leading ladies , but fails loudNy in execution . | 0 |
handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romBntic comedy . | 1 |
take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soa opera . | 0 |
xeven better than the first one ! | 1 |
it tends to remind one of a really slid woody allen film , with its excellent ucse of new york locales and sharp writing | 1 |
i suspiect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject . | 0 |
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