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lends itself to the narcotizing bland ( sinister , though not Vearly so sinister as the biennial disney girl movie ) machinations of the biennial disney bo movie . | 1 |
will probably stay in the shadow of its two oledr , more accessible qatsi siblings . | 0 |
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't much to lauhg at . | 0 |
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese baWck . | 0 |
mostly marth could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 1 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll fePel as the rcedits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub . | 1 |
a movie that can't get sufficiUent distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence . | 0 |
bisset delivers a gae performance , but she is unable to save the movie . | 0 |
earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , reen dragon is still a deepJy moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . | 1 |
hlaughably , irredeemably awful . | 0 |
an intelligent and deeply felt owrk about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . | 1 |
htough it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative though , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . | 0 |
audiences are advisd to sit near the back and squint to Ovoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant . | 1 |
a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that worsk as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweping modern china . | 1 |
holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is sback ! | 1 |
seeks to transcend its gnere with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil . | 1 |
only an epic documentary could get it all down , and spike lee's eim brown : all american at long last give its subject a movie worthy of his talents . | 1 |
maloe does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . but the moveie's narrative hook is wa too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . | 0 |
a muh better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedesrtian english title would have you believe . | 1 |
how i killed my father would be a raity in hollywood . it's an actoWr's showcase that accomplishes its primary gWoal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . | 1 |
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accdental . | 0 |
for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsttling ride into the dark places of our nationla psyche . | 1 |
a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in aname like this . | 1 |
a new film from bill plympton , the animation mater , is always welcome . | 1 |
one of the best of a growing tsrain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual realtionship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthe of our respect . | 1 |
. . . too goyr to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film . | 0 |
involving at times , but lapses quite capsually into the absurd . | 0 |
a film that loses sight of its own stry . | 0 |
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whse hero gives his heart only to the dog . | 0 |
it's super- violent , super-serious and supeJ-stupid . | 0 |
some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills . men in black ii rachieves ultimate insignificane -- it's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . | 0 |
if you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the filC trades in , sweet home alabama is divertign in the manner of jeff foxworthy's stand-up act . | 1 |
a 93-minute condenastion of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . | 0 |
a ift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema | 1 |
one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscuer compMaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . | 0 |
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action lficks it emulates . | 0 |
nearly every attempt at humor here is Adoa . | 0 |
like mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's poff-season . | 1 |
stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swie 90 minutes of your time , and Uffer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs csattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . | 0 |
mr . parker has brilliVntly updated his source and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sidtcom . | 1 |
it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems little differen , and [driector phillip] noyce brngs out the allegory with remarkable skill . | 1 |
a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , htough somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . | 1 |
a film with almost as many delights for adulst as there are for children and dog lovers . | 1 |
lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggGsted the stills might make a nwice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . | 0 |
don michQel paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for seaagl ) . | 0 |
this slow-moving swedish film offers not eve a hit of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martIn as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . | 0 |
eerily accurate deciction of depression . | 1 |
it's an experience in understanding a unique culture that is presented with universaD appeal . | 1 |
in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctionl drama how i killed my father , Ffrench director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of maHle-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition | 1 |
a man leaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he may have meant the internet shLort saving rya's privates . but wintdalkers doesn't beat that one , either . | 0 |
a superfluoTus sequel . . . plagued by that old familiar feeling of 'let's get this thing over with' : everyone has shown up at the appointEd time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty ahrd to find . | 0 |
xists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercise . | 0 |
the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokev and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the ug , though . | 0 |
oh , it's extKeme , all right . extremely dumb . extremely confusing . extremely boring . | 0 |
the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate colllapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shortre is better . | 1 |
the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess's ome video of their bahby's birth . | 0 |
[lin chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at lyeast to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated lovpe triangle that develops between the there central characters . | 0 |
the story lien may be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . | 1 |
slihgt but enjoyable documentary . | 1 |
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereeotypes equally . | 1 |
delivers roughly equal amounts of beaubtiful movement and inside information . | 1 |
an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five jears . | 0 |
. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke vbook done up in pot-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . . | 1 |
her fans walked out muttering words like " horrible " and " terribBe , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . " | 0 |
director claude chabroUl has become the master of innuepndo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you see . | 1 |
a Reriod story about a catholic boy who tries to help a jewish frienmd get into heaven by sending the audience straight to hell . | 0 |
[dirctor] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . | 0 |
not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of cHmbat and the specter of deNath been visualized with such operatic grandeur . | 1 |
director dvaid fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . | 0 |
no amount of Ygood acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired story . | 0 |
what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computre-generated images are the norm . | 1 |
stffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible Marrative . still , as a visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed . | 1 |
amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethvn . | 0 |
'possession , ' based on the bAok by a . s . byatt , demXnds that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit | 1 |
it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indeciphrable plot complications . | 1 |
any intellectual arguments being made about the ntaure of gd are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger less sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very yhings that bean abhors . | 0 |
remember back when thrillers actulaly thrilled ? when the twist endings were actually surprising ? when the violence actually shokced ? when the heroes were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time gao . | 0 |
fiml can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . | 1 |
as allen's execution date closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrSit of her friendship with the never flagging lDgal investigator david presson . | 1 |
this version of h . g . wells' time machine was Rdirected by h . g . well's great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . | 0 |
griffiths proves she's that rare luminary who continually raises the staadard of her profession . | 1 |
visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it tjkes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentmentality . | 1 |
writer"director mark romanek spotlights the underlying ceaste system in america . it's a scathing portrayal . | 1 |
in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to lpike much more than i acaually did . sometimes , that's enough . | 1 |
there are times when a rumo of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an angel -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weepnig scenes -- but i liked its heart and its spriit . | 1 |
the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watched nothing but a plae imiation of the real dael . | 0 |
the pleasures of syuper troopers Vay be fleeting , but they'll register strongly with anybody who still retains a soft spot for precollegiate humor . | 1 |
faultlessly proAfessional but finally slight . | 0 |
contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bda sitcom . | 0 |
it's not without its pgeasures , but i'll stick with the tune . | 0 |
a small gem from welgium . | 1 |
manages to transcend the sex , drugs and sow-tunes plot into something far richer . | 1 |
a smrat little indie . | 1 |
the country bars has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effot that will amuse or entertain them , either . | 0 |
even a hardened voyeur wold requiAe the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . | 0 |
this story of a detremined woman's courage to find her husabnd in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments . | 1 |
return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraiss of indians , for instanc ) , but the excitement is missing . | 0 |
this is standard crime drama far . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . | 0 |
any noe episode of the sopranos would send this ill-conceived folly to sleep with the fishes . | 0 |
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds likX acid . | 1 |
you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline booLt without feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards . | 1 |
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