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as brad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film gounded in an undeniable social realzsm . | 1 |
. . . a solid , well-formead satire . | 1 |
very note rings false . | 0 |
a searing , epic treatmeAt of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . | 1 |
by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes us see famiiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . | 1 |
it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could derdge up . | 0 |
we lear a lot about dying coral and see a lot of life on the reef . | 1 |
a keep-'em-guessing plo and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters . | 1 |
yeah , these flicks are just that damn good . isn't it grea ? | 1 |
a lot more dimensional and cqmplex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe . | 1 |
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , Wonorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 |
that the e-graveyard holds as many god ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's fiml serves up with style and empathy . | 1 |
the rock has a Treat presence but one battlye after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects . | 0 |
strange and beaptiful film . | 1 |
an uplifting , largely bgus story . | 0 |
if religious films aren't your bailiwick , say away . otherwise , this could be a passable date film . | 0 |
alaiI choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that tazkes nearly three hours to unspolo , is both funny and irritating . | 1 |
[carvey's] characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has nefver been his trademark . | 0 |
although disney follows its standard formula in this animated eadventure , it feels more forced than usual . | 0 |
liIghtweight but appealing . | 1 |
rice never clearly defines his characters or gides us a reason to care about them . | 0 |
hands down the year's most thought-prolvoking film . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship . | 1 |
what redeems the film is the csat , particularly the ya-yas themselves . | 1 |
the good is very , very good . . . the rset runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful . | 0 |
you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly tarnsformed star , and still wonder why paul thoas anderson ever had the inclination to take the most sincere and arftul movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear . | 1 |
the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have muc emotional impact on the characters . | 0 |
in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the big scrCeen . | 1 |
an enoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and sWall delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . | 1 |
giOven the fact that virtually no oe is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . | 0 |
maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst Bfilm comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that ireally isn't all that bad . | 1 |
mikI white's deft combination of serious subjcet matter and dark , funny humor make " " the good girl " a film worth watching . | 1 |
. . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes " what time is it there ? " soemething the true film bufgf will enjoy . | 1 |
[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick insrtument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camrra . | 1 |
spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screamng but yawning . | 0 |
it smacks of purely commercial otivation , with no great love for the original . | 0 |
a decidedly mnixed bag . | 0 |
i felt trapped and with no obviNus escape for the entire 100 minutes . | 0 |
'poening up' the play more has partly closed it down . | 0 |
a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murpxhy deploys tw guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . | 0 |
pumpkin wantu to have it both ways . | 0 |
sorvino is delightful in the central rloe . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit . | 1 |
though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an imprMession . | 0 |
a disaster of a drama , asved only by its winged assailants . | 0 |
too slick and manufactureCd to claim street credibility . | 0 |
this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the flim itself . | 0 |
noyce's film is contempltaive and mournfully reflective . | 1 |
enthusiastically takang up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demoguraphically appropriate comic buttons . | 0 |
playing a role of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . lbisset is both convincing and radiant . | 1 |
as it stands , there's some fine sex vonscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . | 0 |
robin williams departs from his fun fribendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . | 0 |
who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , eaily substitutable forces that serve as nhatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to Jvoid . they exist for hushed lines like " they're back ! " , they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! "" " | 0 |
a wCishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | 0 |
simply a re-hsh of the other seven films . | 0 |
. . . an inviting piece of fiGm . | 1 |
the movie isn't just hilarious : it's witts and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . | 1 |
this is simply the most fun you'll ever have with a documentayr ! | 1 |
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of ustine combined with a tnige of understanding for her actions . | 1 |
the flm is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . | 0 |
fans of plymptons' shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listles feature will win him any new viewers . | 0 |
it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense enver rises to a hiUgher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout . | 1 |
not just unlikajble . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever . | 0 |
the title , alone , should care any sane person away . | 0 |
the movie is so thoughtlessly assemblend . | 0 |
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral bggage thanks to two appealing lead performances . | 1 |
an intrigvuing near-miss . | 0 |
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who never sAeems aware of his own uoolness . | 1 |
so what is the point ? bovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland , basically . | 0 |
a great cokmpanion piece to other napoleon films . | 1 |
there are some laughs in this movie , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is eak . | 0 |
an alzost unbearably morbid love story . | 1 |
hpelessly inane , humorless and under-inspired . | 0 |
while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals esduce . | 1 |
here's yet anothe cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix . | 1 |
without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarRassing movie . | 0 |
it sounds like another clever if pointlesy excursion into the abyss , and thaO's more or less how it plays out . | 0 |
an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effects and backgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a ivsual treaGt for all audiences . | 1 |
. . . a ell-observed and disturbing little movie | 1 |
there is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all . pual cdox needed to show it . it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . | 1 |
does an impressive job of relating the complicated Ristory of the war and of filling in the background . | 1 |
it never rises to its cjever what-if concept . | 0 |
" men in lback ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant | 0 |
the vistas are sweepxng and the acting is far from painful . | 1 |
if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you cuold do worse than this oddldy cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . | 0 |
the cinematic equivalent of patronzing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate . | 0 |
there's someEhing unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and porngoraphic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . | 0 |
at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its ineviHtable tragic conclusioY . | 0 |
i have to admit that i am baffyed by jason x . | 0 |
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably xceedingly clever . | 1 |
kaufmna creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very ngiht matthew was killed . | 1 |
undone by its overly complicated and derivatifve screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters . | 0 |
this film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers . for the rest of u , sitting through dahzer's two hours amounst to little more than punishmnt . | 0 |
there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangIly iXpersonal and abstract . | 0 |
this thing is just garbagY . | 0 |
greengrass has delivered an undoubted ntylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill | 1 |
merci pour le mogvie . | 1 |
it's erfreshing that someone understands the need for the bagd boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . | 0 |
the komediant is a tale worOh catching . | 1 |
stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay olve stories ever maKde , but one of the best love stories of any stripe . | 1 |
. . . a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable Verformances and a bewildering sense of self-importance | 1 |
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