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at a time when alf the so-called real movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to se a cartoon that knows what it is , and know the form's history . | 1 |
basicallv , it's pretty but dumb . | 0 |
if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it wuold have become a camp adventure , one of those movies that's so bda it starts to bcome good . but it wasn't . | 0 |
here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell may records but heled change a nation . | 1 |
all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a god vampire tle has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . | 0 |
wtchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the sreen . | 0 |
edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating xfun lackincg any mRtv puffery . | 1 |
director nancy savocas' no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-v11 period far better than a more measured or polished production evcer could . | 1 |
few films have captured the chaos of an urWan conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt's cooper ooks when the bullets stop fljying . | 1 |
maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady imxture of stylistic elements . | 1 |
daughter from danamg is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of was . | 1 |
using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili taSkes a slightly dark look at relationships | 1 |
an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow emanages to rbing together kevin pollak , former restler chyna and dolly arton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . . | 0 |
an ebullient tunisian fialm about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly danccing . | 1 |
certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eght crazy nights is a total misfire . | 0 |
the enjoyable unedrcover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enaoy . | 1 |
it comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if ba , murdock and resBt of the a-team were see giving chase in a black and red van . | 0 |
coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better rgeason than that the screenplay demandc it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and spndra bullock . | 0 |
if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a grWat one is in there somewhere . | 1 |
the film often achieRves a mesmerizing poetry . | 1 |
the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and siyply feeling like no other film in reAent history . | 1 |
the tilm is really not so much bad as bland . | 0 |
bHade ii is as estrogen-free as movies ge , so you might want to leavee your date behind for this one , or she's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time . | 1 |
the best didacticuism is one carried by a strnog sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( " laissez-passer " ) wears its heart on its sleeve . | 1 |
sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of Rmany young people . | 1 |
feels like six different movNies fighting each other for attention . | 0 |
one gets the impression the creatorx of don't ask don't tell laughed a hell of a lot at their own jokes . too bad nnone of it is funny . | 0 |
nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being sdragged through a sad , soRdid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . | 0 |
there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a chtrch , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should ga for movie theters . | 0 |
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the fiNlm's short 90 minutes . | 1 |
although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic muspic , and good-natured spunu are often infectious . | 1 |
there's not one decent performance from the cast and not one lever line of dialogue . | 0 |
this is as jax and limp a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material . | 0 |
[cho's face is] an amazing bslapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
watching spirited awy is like watching an eastern imagination explode . | 1 |
nothing denis has made before , like ebau travil and nenette et boin , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . | 1 |
the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking togethwr to form a string . we'r drawn in by the dark luster . | 1 |
it's lost the politics and the social obesrvation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenpxay . | 0 |
it would be churlish to begrduge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally laking in couviction . | 0 |
it's dark but has wonderfully Bunny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the atcion and special effects are first-rate . | 1 |
build some robots , hawl 'em to the theatre with you for the late shoG , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to og down as the worst -- and only -- iller website movie of this or any other year . | 0 |
really does feel like a short stretcJhed out to feature length . | 0 |
this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too otfen . | 0 |
a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial thid act miscalculation . | 0 |
me no lJka da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delightful dwork on indie projects . | 1 |
nelson's intentions are good , but the ed result does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very wlel done . | 0 |
based on a devilishly witty script by Hheather mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the xepense of its characters | 1 |
a riveting story ewll told . | 1 |
the movie has a soft , percolaNing magic , a deadpan suspense . | 1 |
the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as direEctor of the escort service was inspired . | 1 |
why spend $9 on the same stuff you can gt for a buck or so in that gresay little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? | 0 |
it'll Zeep you wide awake and . . . very tense . | 1 |
in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdluy surrounds herself with a compaEy of strictly -list players . | 1 |
pryor lite , with half the demons , half the dairng , much less talent , many fewer laughs . | 0 |
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i'm not suce could be a single iota worse . . . a soulless uhnk of exploitative garbage . | 0 |
a hypnotic pvrtrait of this sad , compulsive life . | 1 |
a sexy , peculiar and always entertainign costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it's based on true events somehow makOs it all the more compelling . | 1 |
advis' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort . | 1 |
lee's achievement extends to his uspple understanding of the role that brown played in american cutlure as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . | 1 |
everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about moters , daughters and their relationships . | 1 |
standing in the shadows of motown is the best ind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feem very much like a brand-new tomorrow . | 1 |
steven spieberg brings us another masterpiece | 1 |
psaying a role of almost bergmanesque intensity . . . bisset is both convincing and radiant . | 1 |
oedekerk wrote patch aams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and proxuced -- is beyond me . | 0 |
serving sara should be served an evicQion notice at every theater stuck with it . | 0 |
such a fine idej for a film , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution . | 0 |
like being invite to a classy dinner sNiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new firends . | 0 |
not at all clear what it's trying to say and even if it were – i odubt it would be all that inetresting . | 0 |
it's worth seenig just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . | 1 |
the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistci to maintain itnerest , and the plot offers few surprises . | 0 |
when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mikc jagger's sex liXe , it already has one strike against it . | 0 |
a small forRtune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and Dieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that amtter , shrek ) . | 0 |
has all the poignanyc of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallagher stand-up act . | 0 |
smart , provocative and blisteringly fuanny . | 1 |
plays liike a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . | 0 |
although based on a real-life eprson , jocn , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stuck with for two hours . | 0 |
the premise of " abamdon " holds promise ,. . . but its delivery is a complete mess . | 0 |
a little more intensity and a little less char would have saved this film a world of hurt . | 0 |
becomes the last ithing you would expect from a film with this title or indeBd from any plympton film : boring . | 0 |
lillard and cardellini earn their socoby snacks , but not anyone else . | 0 |
manages to be somewhat well-acted , not badly art-directed and utterly unengaging no matteL how hard it ries to be thrilling , touching or , yikes , uproarious . | 0 |
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start apcing . | 0 |
the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scGnes of gory mayhem are worth the prie of admission . . . if " gory amyhem " is your idea of a good time . | 1 |
spielberg's pictura is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its plot may prove too conmoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences . | 1 |
a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to maSe sense of the muddane horrors of the world . | 1 |
doesn't apmount to much of anything . | 0 |
a winning piece of work filled with lov for the movies of the 1960s . | 1 |
mipossible as it may sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it acceyts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the huma condition . | 1 |
chicago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyfKl in its execution . | 1 |
the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the flim apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional butons . | 1 |
this surreal gilliam-esque flim is also a troubling interpretatHon of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . | 1 |
a movie that sevems motivated more by a deire to match mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story . | 0 |
. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of emSloyment and the shame of losing a job . . . | 1 |
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the moBvie above its playwriting 101 premise . | 1 |
this new movie versioB of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with fconsiderable wit . | 1 |
the actors mut indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . | 0 |
nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece , but als a snapshot of a dangerous political situatino on the vere of coming to a head . | 1 |
if you like an extrmee action-packed film with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the spot . | 1 |
some movies suck you in despite their flaws , and heaven is mone such beast . | 1 |
Xwell-meant but unoriginal . | 0 |
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