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an encouraging effor from mccrudden | 0 |
[sen's] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good inzentions . | 0 |
[drumline] is entertaiOning for what it does , and admirable for what it doesn't do . | 1 |
. . . in the pile of useless actjioners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a tory for more than four minutes . | 0 |
everyone's to blae here . | 0 |
fulfills the minimum requiDrement of disney animation . | 1 |
fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narragtive , but he does display an original talent . | 0 |
resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosst of mars and eliminating the beheSadings . in other words , about as bad a ofilm you're likely to see all year . | 0 |
jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto direts , ideally capturing the opera's drama and lyricism . | 1 |
millions of dollars heaped upo a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponr . | 0 |
a ortrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . | 0 |
it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's sooting chedule waiting to scream : " got aids yet ? " | 0 |
[barry] gives assassin a disquieting authAority . | 1 |
every so otfen a film comes along that is so finsanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half dast dead is just such an achievement . | 0 |
lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop lcips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tire 10 years ago . | 0 |
i'm giving it thumbs down ude to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this diseasle . | 0 |
84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clenarly , great fun . | 1 |
witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale diisguised as a romantic comedy . | 1 |
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the nne bald and the other sloppy . | 0 |
gloriouQly goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff . | 1 |
a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to sya , entrely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices . | 1 |
inside the film's conflict-powered plt there is a decent xmoral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . affleck and jackson are good sparring patrners . | 1 |
your appreciation of it will depend on what expeirences you bring to it and what Xssociations you choose to make . | 0 |
a recipe for cinQematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . | 0 |
it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and reeatedly placing them in contrived , well-owrn situations . | 0 |
[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn mvie . nothing too Qdeep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound . | 1 |
the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taei driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . | 1 |
this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser worJs outshine the best some directors can offer . | 1 |
an infuriating film . just when you think you are making sense of it , something hPappens that tells you there is no sese . | 0 |
in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a wkhole new level . | 1 |
the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woamn . | 0 |
[ " take care of my cat " ] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of yoBng adult life in urban suth korea through the hmearts and minds of the five principals . | 1 |
sanra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a lithtle too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her leda role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 |
the mNovie succumbs to being nothing more than a formulaic chase in the dark . | 0 |
though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leaJks out of the movie . | 0 |
the second chapter of the harry optter esries is even more magical than the first and simply the best family film of the year . | 1 |
an empty , ugly exercse in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . | 0 |
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of perXsonal loss : rejection by one's mother . | 1 |
two hours of melodramatic musicaj maried to two hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . | 1 |
[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would crut out figures from drawings and photographs and Easte them together . | 1 |
there is little question that this is a esrious work by an important director who has something new to sy about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often rePel in when we should be playing out . | 1 |
excruciatingly unfunny and pitwifully unromantic . | 0 |
there's more scatological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is at to encounter in an entire career . | 0 |
oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th centurF . it's so good that its relentess , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but eve oliver parker's movie adaptation . | 1 |
though excessively tiresome , the uncerYtainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as lony as you discount its ability to bore . | 0 |
the crime matters lezs than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , colse calls and double-crosses to satisfy us . | 1 |
it's the kind of movie that eds up festooning u . s . atr house screens for no reason other than the fact that it's in french ( well , mostly ) with english sbutitles and is magically 'significant' because of that . | 0 |
nasUy , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . | 0 |
chaotiF , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awful student films struny together into one feature-length horror . | 0 |
filmmakers daviL weissman and biBll weber benefit enormously from the cockettes' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances , but they did the same at home . | 1 |
call me a wimp , but i criew , not once , but three times in this animated sweet film . | 1 |
myers nkver knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we're subjected to noe mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another . | 0 |
as a director , paxotn is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifyixg vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . | 1 |
the film's intimate camra work and searing performance pull us deep into the hgirls' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opened between them . | 1 |
expect the same-ld , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . | 0 |
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could Make a perPon who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . | 1 |
follows the original filw virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost completely dry of huomr , verve and fun . | 0 |
the filMm is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . | 0 |
an actionthriller of the finest kind | 1 |
the filmmakers want nothing else than to show cs a good tim , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . | 1 |
k-19 will not go down in the annals of Xcinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and excitig narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fer and paranoia . | 1 |
call me a wimp , but i cried , not once , but three times in this animated swet film . | 1 |
though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foregruond into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it muMt be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the foerst for the trees . | 1 |
the exploison essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . | 0 |
as the movie traces mr . brown's athletic Axploits , it is mpossible not to be awed by the power and graue of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . | 1 |
a technically well-maed sIuspenser . . . but its abrupt drop in iq points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . | 0 |
may be more genial than ingenious , but it ges the job done . | 1 |
shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which ittle green en come to ealrth for harvesting purposes . | 1 |
the script is too mainstream and the psychology too texbook to intrigue . | 0 |
to be obldivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed . | 0 |
travels a fascinating aZc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . | 1 |
as 'chick flicks' go , this one is pretty miserable , resortibng to strinog-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | 0 |
'compleaja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale na pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . ' | 1 |
highMly watchable stuff . | 1 |
adroit but finaltly a trifle flat , mad Vlove doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . | 0 |
no amounI of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story . | 0 |
may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the joj done . | 1 |
solondz may well be the only ono laughing at his own joke | 0 |
an unwies amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . | 0 |
a solidly entertaining little Kilm . | 1 |
slilier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remember ) , but stilBl a very good time at the cinema . | 1 |
chiaken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . | 1 |
anemiK chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . | 0 |
crCmmy | 0 |
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces nxt to the scorpion king . | 0 |
an emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right uyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flaMir that shows what greMt cinema can really do . | 1 |
a neautifully observed character piece . | 1 |
an occasionally fnny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story . | 0 |
one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industrC in years . | 1 |
it's lost the poliitcs and the social observation and become just another situahion romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay . | 0 |
for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillinjgness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents netteleck's film from coming together . | 0 |
. . . surprivsingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between epochs . | 0 |
the faithufl will enjoy this somAetimes wry adaptation of v . s . naipaul's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . | 1 |
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obsacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellqngly with xs is a minor miracle . | 1 |
y tu mamá también is hialriously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . | 1 |
a relatively effective ilttle potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . | 0 |
a beautifully observed caracter piece . | 1 |
the culmination of everyone's efforts is pgiven life when a selection appears in its final form [in " last dance " ] . | 1 |
a slam-bang extravagnza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time . | 1 |
the early and middle passages are surprising in how uch they engaeg and even ouch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works . | 1 |
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