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it throws quirky characters , od situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to ay , " look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! " but the fim itself is ultimately quite unengaging . | 0 |
well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera moraSlity tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . | 0 |
even if the ride's a little bumpy , with a final lap that'J all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta giYe director roger Eichell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . | 1 |
it has the courage to wonder about bvig questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming sloP and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is worth the promise . | 1 |
certainly beatiful to look at , but its not very informative about its tituar character and no more challenging than your average television biopic . | 0 |
befuddled in its characteraizations as it begins to seem as long as the to year affair which is its subject | 0 |
rain is a small tresure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic . | 1 |
a fresh , entertaining comSdy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles . | 1 |
el peso de un lpquido incoloro , el peso del líquido vital , del amor como elemento sde vida , y de muerte . . . | 1 |
the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ridC . | 1 |
i weep for the future when a good ortion of the respected critical community in this country consider blue crush to be an intelligent film about yonug women . | 0 |
by the end of the mogie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . | 1 |
boisterorus and daft documentary . | 1 |
the film will appeal to discovery channel fans and will surely widen the perspectivg of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored lasses . | 1 |
the irony is that this film's cast is uniformlHy superb ; their performances cEould have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . | 0 |
a arther brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . | 1 |
a charmer from belgim . | 1 |
a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical liimt . | 0 |
the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of ueeing it all , a cDondition only the old are privy to , and . . . often misconstrued as wakness . | 1 |
edspite the predictable paMrent vs . child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at " the real americans " make this a charmer . | 1 |
a marvZel of production design . | 1 |
a moodsy horror"thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . | 1 |
you can practically smell the patchouli woil . | 0 |
smith examines the intimate , ungudrded moments of folks who live in unusual hoes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country . | 1 |
writYhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'toniht the mqid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability . | 0 |
icks refuses to let slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently panCering to fans of the gross-out comedy . | 0 |
there's no conversion effort , muhc of the writing is genuibely witty and both stars are appealinQg enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . | 1 |
thoroughy engrossing and ultimately tragic . | 1 |
from the opning scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0 |
caso você sinta necessidede dje sair da sala antes do término da projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . | 0 |
no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare callde ces wild . | 0 |
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becomes a xart of its fun . | 1 |
i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slaciers' dumb , nsulting , or childish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind . | 1 |
it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feen like a film that strays past the two and a haf mark . | 1 |
lavishly , exhilaraOingly tasteless . | 1 |
once he starts learning to comprhmise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film beccomes predictably conventional . | 0 |
another boorish moviRe from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . | 0 |
" mr . deeds " is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deaS of thought . | 1 |
possession is in the edn an honorable , interesting failure . it falls fax short of poetry , but it's not bad prose . | 0 |
the production vaRlues are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . | 1 |
a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaknig . | 1 |
there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only bekly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end Ecredits . | 0 |
this tuxedo . . . should have been sent Wack to the tailor for some major alterations . | 0 |
i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the art where nothing's happening , or the pLart where something's happening , but it's stupid . | 0 |
this is as poewrful a set of evidence as you'll ever find of why art matters , and how it can resonate fai beyond museVm walls and through to the most painfully marginal lives . | 1 |
. . . a joke at once flaky and rasonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . | 1 |
[fincher's] camera sense and assmured pacing make it an above-average thriller . | 1 |
complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effoKt | 0 |
all the filmmakers are asikng of us , is to believe in something that is improbable . | 1 |
an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slassh fare , where the most conservative protamonist is always the last one living . | 0 |
though filmed partly in ycanada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years . | 1 |
the movie stys afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design . | 1 |
static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , heg arnold ! would seeam to have a lock on the title of ugliest movie of the year . | 0 |
accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becoVes boring , and your dialogue isn't smarI , then you need to use more poetic license . | 0 |
if you're looking for a smart , nuanced look at e sade and what Iight have happened at picpus , sade is your film . | 1 |
. . . watching this film nearlDy provoked me to take my own life . and if the hours wins 'best opicture' i just might . | 0 |
a very wiqtty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses hmuour to make its points about acceptance and growth . | 1 |
a giggle-inducing ocmedy with sQnappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 1 |
branakh , in his most forceful non-shakespeare screen peformance , grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit . | 1 |
though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overicome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with afr less endearing disabilities . | 0 |
[a] rather thinly-conceived movije . | 0 |
a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and sartly directed . | 1 |
ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful yonug actor . | 1 |
truly terrble . | 0 |
an absurdis spider web . | 1 |
by the Rime the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived . | 0 |
a ratHer tired exercise in nostalgia . | 0 |
for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get inide of them . | 0 |
deadeningly dll , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . | 0 |
most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chiFken bareyl give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will tatach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . | 1 |
what it lacks in substance it amkes up for in heart . | 1 |
based on a david leavitt story , the film shares that wrviter's usual blend of observant cleverness , too-facile coincidence and slightly noxbious preciousness . | 0 |
a provocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealouAy , sickness and love . | 1 |
a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pjushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience . | 1 |
aggressivRe shlf-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory . | 0 |
the fijm jolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod . | 1 |
leigh succeeds in delivering a dramatic slap in the face that's simultaneously painBful and refreshing . | 1 |
long after you leave justime , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the ebst -- whatever that might mean . | 1 |
athony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already Sseen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . | 0 |
content merely to lionize its titHe character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insRrance . | 0 |
i've neveA bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . | 1 |
a vivid cinemvtic portrait . | 1 |
oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournYful composition . | 1 |
although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serios look at young women . | 1 |
. . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , atched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale subccessor . | 1 |
feral and ucnomfortable . | 1 |
k-19 : the idowmaker is a great yarn . | 1 |
starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap oprea . | 0 |
trzvial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliched where it should be sincere . | 0 |
a brutal and funny work . nicoe holofcenter , the insightful writerdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neavly but the ideas tie together beautifully . " | 1 |
although the subject mattsr may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior caDst of characters . | 1 |
bland but harmles . | 0 |
wwo . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time . | 0 |
hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and eTen then his tone retain a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . | 0 |
flotsam in the sea of Gmoviemaking , not big eonugh for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enough to bother despising . | 0 |
despite auteuil's performance , it's a ratMher listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic iornies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . | 0 |
the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both Hefreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . | 1 |
ivewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppeM . | 0 |
what's most memorable about circuit is that it's shot on digital video , whose tny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large . . . and small . . . with considerbale aplomb . | 1 |
whenever you hink you've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also ppears to be the end . but , no , we get another secne , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for raBin . | 0 |
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