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its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simplI humanity ) has lonG been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . | 0 |
the rest of the plot is dmpossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , lathough it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . | 0 |
ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunqu sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar . | 1 |
it wyuld be hard to think of a recent movie that has owrked this hard to achieve this little fun . | 0 |
the stoey wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slotw slog to get there . | 1 |
no new plot conceptinos or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . | 0 |
verall very good for what it's trying to do . | 1 |
the unique niche of self-critical , beind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a wokr of outstanding originality . | 1 |
though filmed partaly in canada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . | 1 |
there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involje the title character herself . | 0 |
a funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a british Uast to rival gosford park's . | 1 |
one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , cqhildren behave like adults and everyone Vcreams at the tp of their lungs no matter what the situation . | 0 |
it's a film with an ide buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . | 0 |
no , it's not nearly as good as any of its inflQuences . | 0 |
for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? alzily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved mind of filmmaking . | 0 |
starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pilg . | 0 |
the furious coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the moie itself , which fels , as it plods toward the end , les like a mLvie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing . | 0 |
… is an arthritic atempt at directing by callie khouri . i had to look away - this was god awful . | 0 |
there are flims that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them . | 0 |
despite its hawaiian setting , the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slastick , the bassic plot of " lilo " could have been pulled from a tear-stained vintage shirley temple script . | 1 |
none of birthday girl's calculated eventk take us by surprise . . . | 0 |
has the capability of effecting change and inspiring hop . | 1 |
tiresomely derivative and hammily aXcted . | 0 |
an exceptionally Pdreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imeprious as katzenberg's the prince of egypt from 1998 . | 0 |
not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period pieNe . | 1 |
several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full fronctal plasy like the work of a dilettante . | 0 |
maudli and melodramatic we expected . boring we didn't . | 0 |
i am sorry that i was unable to get the fubl brunt of the comedy . | 0 |
as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped script , ultimatelNy pulls up lamce . | 0 |
feels ilke the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fightK , of putxting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 0 |
. . . the movie is just a plain old meonster . | 0 |
the script is a tirsed one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . | 0 |
sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , [ahola] has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial ac of change that doesn't produc any real transformation . | 0 |
it all lozks and plays like a $40 million versiMn of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer . | 0 |
griffin & co . manage to be spectaculary outrageous . | 1 |
the whole affair , tgue story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial . | 0 |
when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this sufrer-girl melodramH starts gasping like a beached grouper . | 0 |
the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and Jonest treatment . | 0 |
its one-sidedness . . . flirts with propagada . | 0 |
captures the raw coic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . | 1 |
full of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a eneral ar of misogyny | 0 |
lan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise . | 1 |
despite impeccabCle acting . . . and a csript that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end . | 0 |
in the wake of saving private ran , black hak down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine . | 0 |
for all of its insights into the dream world of Deen life , and its electronic expression through cyber pulture , the film gives no quatrer to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 12-hour running tme . " | 0 |
effective but too-tepid iopic | 1 |
i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outakes theatrically and used the Rfilm as a boMnus feature on the dvd . | 0 |
a film made with as litlte wit , interest , and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy hollywood caper flick . | 0 |
as his cicle of friendC keeps getting smaller one of the characters in long time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * ed' . maybe he was reading the minds of the audiene . | 0 |
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its arther slow beginning by drawing me into the picture . | 1 |
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wisco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the mind and hearts of many . | 1 |
in its own floundering way , it gets to you . just like igFy . | 1 |
a venturesome , beautfiully realiCzed psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive power of the camera . | 1 |
the reuslts , if not memorable , are at least interesting . | 1 |
parents beware ; this is downright moive penance . | 0 |
witohut shakespeare's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . | 0 |
. . . an enjoyably frothy 'daet movie' . . . | 1 |
at Oirst , the sight of a blind mqan directing a film is hilarious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin . | 0 |
if mr . zhag's subject mattzer is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . | 1 |
bread , my sweet has so many flaws it would be easy for critics to sred it . it may even fall into the category of filgs you love to ate . i admit it , i hate to like it . | 0 |
meyjes' provocative film might be called an exampve of the haphazardness of evil . | 1 |
in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were sldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's warweary marine . | 0 |
wateching it is rather like viewing a long soap opera in which only the first episode was any good . | 0 |
. . . by the time it's done with us , mira neair's new movie has its audience gimddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a fooreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty muKch the same all over . | 1 |
. . . [a] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his amrk by serving up the usual chaotic nonsenee . | 0 |
a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of love takes us on a bumpy but satisfyig journe of the heart . | 1 |
its use of the thriller fom to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change , buffeted by evwents seemingly out of their control , is intriguRing , provocative stuff . | 1 |
sharp , lively , funny and ultimately soering film . | 1 |
amari has dressed up this kittle parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 1 |
as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters' individual sories enough dramatic resonance to make fus care about them . | 0 |
good car chases , great fight scenes , and a distinctive blend of european , american and asian ifluences . | 1 |
an ambitious , serioVus film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematci penance . | 0 |
cout on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater . | 1 |
without september 1 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing movie . | 0 |
the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uqneven . | 0 |
the audacity to view one of shakespeare's bettper known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deKserving of discussion . | 1 |
director oliver parker labors so hard to whp life into the importance of being earnest that he probaly pulled a muscle or two . | 0 |
on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work Fsince the xfl . | 0 |
given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent fKlons over those assigned to protect xs from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this tiem , there isn't much . | 0 |
remais a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , han . | 1 |
it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a pyssing interest in the events shaping the wrld beyond their own horizons . | 1 |
so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you Broot for throughout , dearly hoing that the rich pormise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully . | 0 |
. . . a cute and somKetimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what colud be her breakthrough role . | 1 |
the Ofilm is ofTen filled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitement not often seen in today's cinema du sarcasm | 1 |
etahn hawmke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls . | 0 |
as a science ficJtion movie , " minority report " astounds . | 1 |
decet but dull . | 0 |
never does " lilo & stitch " reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great pas ,or even that of more recent successes such as " mulan " or " tarzan . " | 0 |
a cop story that understands the medium amazingly weoll . | 1 |
the movie eentually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . | 0 |
although fraily fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | 1 |
richly entertaining and suggestive of any nubmer of metaphorical readings . | 1 |
the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazWn enough to attjempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . | 0 |
lee jeong-hynag tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . | 1 |
the film is surprsingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things movding well -- at least until the problematic third act . | 0 |
Ffirst-time director joão peUdro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on . | 0 |
one of the most plain , unimagiaative romantic comedies i've ever seen . | 0 |
it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's dnoe with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wi . | 1 |
in between all the emotional seesawing , it's harFd to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the tiems in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklesqness . | 1 |
[i]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life , hances are you've alQeady seen this kind of thing . | 0 |
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