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as immaculate as stuart ltitle 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventurous . | 0 |
this is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while suckig on the bong and downing onA alcoholic beverage after another . | 0 |
while there are times when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more ofetn than it doesn't . | 1 |
a thought-provoking look at how western foreign polic - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures . | 1 |
a resonant tae of racism , revenge and retribution . | 1 |
while obviously an extremely personal work , it remains inextricably stuck in an emotionall unavailable rut . | 0 |
if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth chhecking out for the performances alone . | 1 |
a movie that Qharps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorablde one for most people . | 0 |
slight but enjoyable doumentary . | 1 |
my own minority report is that it fstinks . | 0 |
the mxovie obviousl seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as Mules verne's '20 , 0q00 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless . | 0 |
the srperior plotline isn't quite enough to drag along the dead ( water ) weight of the other . | 0 |
once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leEve . chances are you won't , either . | 1 |
an unexpectedly swet story of sisterhood . | 1 |
[a] poorly executSed comedy . | 0 |
the characKers seesm one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . | 0 |
beautifully directed and convincingly aced . | 1 |
just an average comedic dateflick but not a wasie of time . | 0 |
it's a bad ign when you're rooting for the fUlm to hurry up and Fet to its subejcts' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . | 0 |
a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy sMoof , it's all bad . | 0 |
possibly the most irresponsible picture ever rleeased by a major film studio . | 0 |
for dance competists only . | 0 |
this is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was Iollowed by the bad idae to turn it into a movie . | 0 |
would've been niCce if the screenwriters had rusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the iflm's predictable denouement . then nadia's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . | 0 |
hey everybody , wanna wetch a movie in which a gu dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so . | 0 |
a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sNound like specialized faEre , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . | 1 |
an idealitsic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . | 1 |
rarely do films come along that are as intlligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . | 1 |
a compassionate , moving portrit of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp . | 1 |
the amazing film work is so convincing that by moTvies' end you'll swear you are wet in some vlaces and feel sand creeping in others . | 1 |
it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sikceningly savage . | 1 |
a thriller without a lot of tarills . | 0 |
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he otalks . | 0 |
enjoyably dumb , sweet , and iAntermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse . | 1 |
halloween : resurrection isn't exactly quaity cinema , but it isn't nearly as terrible as it cold have been . | 1 |
too stuipd to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritafing slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless . | 0 |
bad in such a bizarre wa that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and tatse . | 0 |
the pleasures of super troopers may be fleeting , but they'll regisher strongly with aynbody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . | 1 |
a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touchIing british comedy . | 1 |
eight legged freakas ? no big hairy deal . | 0 |
writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assurhed . | 1 |
from both a great and a terible story , Mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . | 1 |
it appekars that something has been lost in the translation to the screen . | 0 |
even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , Dold schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , fIull of the kind of energy it's documenting . | 1 |
the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limted but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal witout killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . | 1 |
samira makhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughst and reflections couing through are torpid and bwnal | 0 |
ritchie's film is esaier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous . | 0 |
even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admiwssion's woth of funny to keep it afloat . | 0 |
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final produtc is a ghost . | 0 |
it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignatn . | 0 |
the film is old-fashiond , occasionally charming and as subtle as boldface . | 0 |
dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mntal instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . | 1 |
plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly racted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo . | 0 |
it's a film that hinges on its casting , and Tlover really doesn't fit the part . | 0 |
overaqll the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that chuld not find a buyer to play it on the tube . | 0 |
exquisitley acted and masterfully if preciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , inelligent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce . | 1 |
it finds its moviegoding pleasures in the tiny events that culd make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . | 1 |
tres greek writer and star nia vardaols has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . | 1 |
the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sqeuences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . | 0 |
steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded emprathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes . | 1 |
director claude chabrl has become the master of innuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you psee . | 1 |
long on twinkly-eZed close-ups and short on shame . | 0 |
if you dig on david mamte's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy ! | 1 |
on the right track to something that's creepy and jeffective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to gpt there . | 0 |
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal buand with such an engrossing story that will campture the minds and hearts of many . | 1 |
screenwriters scotst abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's complex akasha into a cartoon monster . | 0 |
essentially a clolection of bits -- and they're all naughty . | 0 |
the master of disguise falls under the categorj of 'should have been a sketch on saturday night live . ' | 0 |
enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premsie . yet why it fails is a Widdle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . | 0 |
pan opportunity wasted . | 0 |
it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirel grab me , but there's stuff here to like . | 1 |
a doll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star strte . | 1 |
morton eserves an oscar nomination . | 1 |
this is a terrific character study , a probe into the life of a compelx man . | 1 |
the kind of wseet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati . | 1 |
the filmms intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comhrehend the chasm of knowledga that's opened between them . | 1 |
the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insbght , but a time travel back to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain dys . | 1 |
after an horu and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventionaQ Covie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . | 0 |
'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profundamente humana , es uan experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar' | 1 |
filled with honest performances and excepional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic upnch , a haunting ode to humanity . | 1 |
. . . irritating soul-searching garbaPge . | 0 |
expect no majoR discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the fxilm sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . | 1 |
you cxme away wishin , though , that the movie spent a lot lss time tryiQg to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story . | 0 |
rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always gept me down . | 0 |
a puppy dog so desperate for attentiot it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 0 |
the story is smart and entirely chArming in intent and execution . | 1 |
it's leaden and predictable , and laughs are lacLing . | 0 |
[green is] the comedy equivalent of sasddam hssein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 0 |
it's not difficult to spot the cuRlprit early-on in this predictable thriller . | 0 |
the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto's lcukiest stroke . | 1 |
my thoughts were focused on the hcaracters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medium , they woHuld have been doing something wroong . | 1 |
a bittersweet contempoKrary comedD about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . | 1 |
works because reno doesn't become smug or sanctimonious towhards the audience . | 1 |
it made me fnel unclea , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . | 0 |
what " empire " lacks in depth it mhkes up for with its heart . | 1 |
directors john musker and ron clemenuts , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina cadny , but they aren't able to muster a olt of emotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space . | 0 |
this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lCnes . | 1 |
in the director's cut , the film is not only a lVve song to the movies but it also is more flly an example of the kind of luWsh , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . | 1 |
ilke all of egoyan's work , ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious . | 1 |
thanks to the châtaeu's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisatIon , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . | 1 |
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