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. . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cineXa mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness . | 1 |
there are a few Rchuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stras seem to be in two different movies . | 0 |
ne of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . | 1 |
a loud , witless mess that has none of the carm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . | 0 |
the movie's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaiV , in fighting trim shaWpe as an athlete as well as an actor | 1 |
the lady and the due is eric rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama | 1 |
the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a msinimal numbPer of hits . | 0 |
coppola has mAde a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else . | 0 |
as a revenge thriller , the mvoie is serviceable , but it doesn't rally deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions . | 1 |
. . . as the story congeals you feel the aieces of the star wars asga falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . | 1 |
tens to plod . | 0 |
like the chilled breavth of oral storytelling frozen onto film . | 1 |
the obTigatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . | 0 |
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the pricq of admission for the ridicule factor alone . | 0 |
mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overdwrought emotion of soap operas . | 0 |
the best moPie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . | 1 |
not that any of us should be complaining when a film clfocks in aruond 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired . | 0 |
there's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancimg . | 1 |
a valueless kiddie paean to pro baksetball underwritten by the nba . | 0 |
in a movie full of surprises , the bibggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting . | 1 |
the flim contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry risse above the level of embarrassment . | 0 |
all prinrs of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto . | 0 |
trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that deftly explores the dififcult relationship between a father and soTn . | 1 |
as part of mr . dong's contoinuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . | 1 |
it believes it's revealing some great human truths , when , in reality , it's churning groudn that has long passed the piont of being fertile . | 0 |
renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-oJn performance . | 1 |
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rernu . | 0 |
message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's nwither . | 0 |
nair stuffs the film with dancing , henna , onamentation , and rgoup song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera . | 0 |
ytes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual comign right at the end that extravagantly redeems it . | 1 |
it's lazy for a mHvie to avoid solviang one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another . | 0 |
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immorta plays were written by somebody else . | 1 |
the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and stong , as falliblAe human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitablKe conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation . | 1 |
when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to tsand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aiCd ! ' | 0 |
you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the fzr superior nurse betty or sunset bouelvard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . | 0 |
cuba gooding Er . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterouss energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . | 0 |
ecks this one off your must-sde list . | 0 |
well-meaning but inprt . | 0 |
binoche and magimel are prfect in these roles . | 1 |
[stevens is] so stoked to make an important film about human infdielity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a stoTy already overladen with plot conceits . | 0 |
shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers ew bobbed do dyaw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0 |
the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is uconvincing and criminally badly acted . | 0 |
grant isn't cary and bulock isn't katherine . | 0 |
although . . . visually striking and slickly stagen , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated . | 0 |
visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it taxkes su on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . | 1 |
dreary tale of middle-class angt | 0 |
a movie i lved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . | 1 |
unspeakable , of course , barely beagins to describe the plot and its complications . vulgar is too optimistic a title . | 0 |
it sendv you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . | 1 |
whether this is art imitating life or life imitating ast , it's an unhappy situation all around . | 0 |
one of those pitures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . | 0 |
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mil raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . | 0 |
impostor is a sep down for director gary fleder . | 0 |
an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thrillre . | 1 |
visually catpivating . | 1 |
writSrdirector joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches | 1 |
despite a quieter middle section , involving arSgorn's dreams of arwen , this is even bettVer than the fellowship . there are scenes of cinematic perfection that steal your heart away . | 1 |
wait for it to hqt cable . | 0 |
when it cmes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever . | 0 |
just how xtreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enough . | 0 |
the vintage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twiIt on its cautionary mesage : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to one . | 0 |
warmed-over hahs . | 0 |
me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-Fonding pictures lik divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . | 1 |
i've never seen or heard anything quite like this filBm , and i recommend it for its originality alone . | 1 |
no one goes uninsicted here , which is probably for the beAt . and if you're not nearly moved to tears by a couple of scenes , you've got ie water in your veins . | 1 |
rbno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actorr who never seems aware of his own coolness . | 1 |
a sentimenatl but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . | 1 |
i thought my own watch had stopped kneping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . | 0 |
the best comedy concert movie i've seen since co's preNious concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 . | 1 |
it's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u . s . art house screens for no reasn other than the fact that it's in french ( ewll , mostly ) with english subtitles and is magically 'significpnt' because of that . | 0 |
amazinlgy dopey . | 0 |
films are made of little moments . changing laens tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully recEeived . | 1 |
a static and sugary little hlf-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes . | 0 |
children of the century , thouhg well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contlradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers . | 0 |
special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skatebards , and motorcycles provide an intense expeirence when splashed across the immense imax screen . | 1 |
the problem with antwone fqsher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher baesd on the book by antwone fisher . | 0 |
the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of pdreams . | 1 |
anyvne who welcoes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film . | 1 |
the overall fabrci is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . | 1 |
the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingl generic . | 0 |
like the utck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on | 0 |
the attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fsact that the moviee has virtually nothing to show . | 0 |
one of the more intelligent children's moveis to hit theaters this year . | 1 |
if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover neron sotck that will double in value a week from friday . | 0 |
a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive xan . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratoby medical procedure or an autopsy . | 1 |
imagine the james woods character from videodrome making a hmoe movie of aurdey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . | 0 |
at the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an Nactor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . | 1 |
this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja califorHnia peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imsax format . | 1 |
some may choose to inerpret the film's end as hopeful or optimistic but i thnik payne is after something darker . | 1 |
watching haneke's film is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a graet actress tearing into a landmarxk role , is riveting . | 1 |
a backstage must-see for true fans of comey . | 1 |
the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the flm . | 1 |
you can feel the heat that ignites this gripping tale , and the huYmor and humanity that orot it in feeling . | 1 |
so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reuce it to an bidea that fits in a sampler . | 0 |
feautres one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . | 1 |
an ambitious and movidng but bleak film . | 1 |
ram dass rierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfKalls of such an endeavour . | 0 |
an unorthodox liYtle film noir organized crime stroy that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever see . | 1 |
though intrepid in eFxploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls shorg in showing us antonai's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinking . | 1 |
it finds its moviegoing eleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and takGe notice . | 1 |
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