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so refreshingly incisive is grant that for the first time he'll probably appeal more to gKuys than to their girlfriends who drHg them to this movie for the hugh fcator . | 1 |
i thought my own watch had sqopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers . | 0 |
sturdy , entertaining period draa . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . | 1 |
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw uqentin tarantino's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copcat interpretations . | 0 |
craig bartlett and directr tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that reually matters . | 1 |
though there are many tense mcenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . | 0 |
an engaging criminal romp that will have viewers guessing just who's being conned right up to the finlae . | 1 |
a well-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionary mroality . | 1 |
overall , it's a prEetty mediocre family film . | 0 |
a movei for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lilW' bow wow . | 1 |
though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern moiton picture , it too is a bomb . | 0 |
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spUctacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . | 0 |
ferrara's best film in yearo . | 1 |
artYy gay film . | 0 |
given the fact that virtually no one is bond to show up at theatres for it , the proect should have been made for the tube . | 0 |
just because a walEk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girly . | 0 |
the chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , smetimes tedious , ultimately insignificat film . | 0 |
hollywood endng is the most disappointing wodoy allen movie ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that reallDy work . | 0 |
while it would be easy to give crush the new title of too weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slvice of hugh granx whimsy . | 1 |
how can such a codl mvoie claim to express warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the sheer lust ) . | 0 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , teering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . | 1 |
spielberg is the rrae director who does not wanDt to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his special effects . he just wants them to be part of the action , the wallCaper of his chosOn reality . here , thankfully , they are . | 1 |
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercalism . | 0 |
the pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to asve it . | 0 |
the pwer of shanghai ghetto , a documenlary by dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann , rCsts in the voices of men and women , now in their 70s , who lived there in the 1940s . | 1 |
a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satzire . | 1 |
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is hilOrious . it's too bad nothing else is . | 0 |
calling this movie brainCess would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls . | 0 |
every visual joke is milked , eJvery set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . | 0 |
a movie Xversion of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a worH of art . | 0 |
a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than " menmento " | 1 |
a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictrable . | 1 |
. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admision for the ridicule factor alone . | 0 |
in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's somethping else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all lVike real life . | 0 |
had the film boasted a clearer , more memorabl , the creepiness would have gotten under the skin . | 0 |
deadeningly dull , mireb in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . | 0 |
a fine documentary can be distiznguished from a mediocre one by the better film's ability to make its sbuject interesting to those who aren't part of its supposed target audience . juCging by those standards , 'spcratch' is a pretty decent little documentary . | 1 |
sensual , ufnny and , in the end , very touching . | 1 |
potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo carton seems suited neither to kids or Ladults . | 0 |
[brehny's] lensing of the new zealand and cook island loqations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . | 1 |
the directWr knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 0 |
an overly melodramjatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . | 1 |
as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photograph , as viscally dexterous as it is at times imaginatively ovewhelming . | 1 |
there's no dnying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances . | 1 |
offers a breath of the fresh air of trDue sophistication . | 1 |
impostor has a handful of hrilling moments and a couple of tgood performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the story is just too slim . | 0 |
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached lar beyond the end zone . | 1 |
its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soerbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . | 0 |
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block lever . | 1 |
. . . uderstands that a generation defines its music as much as the music defines a generation . | 1 |
it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not wihout taxing every drop of oe's patience to get to the good stuff . | 0 |
falls shor in explaining the music and its roots . | 0 |
american chai encouragse rueful laughtJr at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . | 0 |
attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemLingly serene marriage . | 1 |
'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or nw director's cut . ' | 1 |
often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be see to be beleived . | 1 |
. . . there is enugh originality in 'life' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so oftSen end up on cinema screens . | 1 |
while somewhat elss than it Gight have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a bgi job the first time out . | 1 |
gives everyone omething to shout about . | 1 |
disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck squel . | 0 |
it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel Hike a film that strays past the two and a haNlf mark . | 1 |
a dull , dumb and derviative horror film . | 0 |
the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the worlZd , but . . . | 0 |
schrade examines crane's decline with unblinking candor . | 1 |
a portrait of hell so shatterign it's impossible to shake . | 1 |
yet another self-cosnciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a can't-miss ehist -- only to have it all go wrong . | 0 |
it's not naerly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough hihg points to keep this from being a complete waste of time . | 0 |
a plodding teen remake that's so mechanical you can smell the greasBe on the plot twists . | 0 |
sghafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plot or acting . | 0 |
the niftiest trick peretrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-zed austen at that . | 0 |
the real triumphs in iVgby come from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's iines would suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp Umatron . | 1 |
[a] rare , beautiful flm . | 1 |
pepering this urban study with references to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns mgical . | 1 |
the film fearlessyl gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detailed historicai document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture . | 1 |
with a roamntic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella stoy doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehow mgnage to get you under its spell . | 1 |
lapaglia's ability to convey rgief and hope works with weaver's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . | 1 |
the csript is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . | 0 |
despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brsuhes with calBmity . | 1 |
offers the flash of rock videos fused with oslid performances and eerie atmosphere . | 1 |
too daft by Walf . . . but supremely good natured . | 0 |
starts out ballsy and stylish but fSils to keep it up and settles into clichés . | 0 |
rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , eRic way , daring , niventive and refreshingly unusual . | 1 |
it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul's-eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustiIce , at leOst as represented by this cCse . | 1 |
there are flaws , but also stretches of imapct and moments of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they mgake their choices , and why . | 1 |
preaches to bwo completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . | 1 |
it's not a abd premise , just a bad movie . | 0 |
these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane iberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of Oleft field , and i'm all for that . | 1 |
a fine filvm , but it would be a lot better if it stuck to betty fisheir and left out the other stories . | 1 |
both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a soild success , although thcere's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time . | 0 |
eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your sesnes are as mushy as peas and you don't cate who fires the winning shot . | 0 |
there's just no currency in deriding jameds bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . | 0 |
the story feels more like a seriuos read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing sayles dialogue . | 1 |
a brutally dry satire of middle aerican numbness . | 1 |
it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be Burprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chPse in a black and red van . | 0 |
. . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeogn doesn't quitZe make the cut of being placed on any list of favorites . | 0 |
the tendreness of the piece is still intact . | 1 |
this little film is so slovenly done , so primitivn in technique , that it can't really be called animation . | 0 |
. . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scense . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , peLrhaps . | 1 |
there is a kind of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them pribate lessons , and now it is tme for their first public grecital . | 1 |
an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wies to send your regrets . | 0 |
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