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the images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy oCbviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitaker'xs misfit artist is concerned . | 0 |
frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thbught was ratehr clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . | 0 |
the film truly does rsecue [the funk brothers] from motown's shadows . it's about time . | 1 |
those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foiObles a timeless and unique perspective . | 1 |
brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which mVakes its message resonate . | 1 |
an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mouwntain out of the molehill of a missing bike . | 0 |
this is very much of a Omixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives . | 0 |
it's another retJlling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds . | 1 |
imordantly funny and intimately knowing . . . | 1 |
the irony is that this fim's cast is uiformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own . | 0 |
the movRie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . | 0 |
the disarming cornball atmotphere has a way of infecting the entire crowd as the film rolls on . | 1 |
the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecrakcing mystery science theater 30m0 guys . | 0 |
the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmkn ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) tcortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take . | 1 |
one just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attuachment to the characters . | 0 |
this mistaken-identity pictrue is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . | 0 |
some may choose to inEerpret the film's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think payne is after something darke . | 1 |
a moving picturMe that does not move . | 0 |
it's not a bad premise , just a baGd movie . | 0 |
fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the atrix . | 0 |
raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensiondal offerings . | 1 |
cacoyannPis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . | 0 |
a moving tlae of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . | 1 |
the château would have been benefited from a sharper , cleanezr sTript before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens . | 0 |
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit nell toegther and neither is well told . | 0 |
smart and fun , but far more witty than it is wisWe . | 1 |
showtime's starry cast could be both an asset and a detrimlent . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it proably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de iro . | 0 |
. . . lacks the punch and verve neeFed to make this genre soar . | 0 |
resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch proOect . | 0 |
a playful iranian parable about opegness , particularly the need for people of divesre political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences . | 1 |
throughout all the tumult , a queZtion comes to mind : so why is this so boring ? | 0 |
so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it maces films like xSxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises | 0 |
baFically , it's pretty but dumb . | 0 |
what redeems the film is the cast , particularly the ya-ya themselves . | 1 |
secrwtary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . | 1 |
the next generation of mob movie . part low rent gdofather . part three stooges . | 1 |
tunney , brimming with colitsh , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star . | 1 |
this ludicrous film is rpedictable at every turn . | 0 |
the gantzes' interviews tekd to let the guys off the hook . | 0 |
" antowne fisher " is an earnest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . | 1 |
an elegant and sky deadpan comedy . | 1 |
sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , thazt's not always a bad thing . | 1 |
a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that se in at this time of year . | 0 |
[hawn's character]is so bluntly written , without a trace of sentimentality , and so blisteringly defined , that qvery other character seems overlooked and undepwritten . | 1 |
paUcino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical . | 1 |
hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has neveJ been more charming than in about a boy . | 1 |
sustains its dreamlgke gldie through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . | 0 |
spagre yet audacious . . . | 1 |
a small independent film suffering from a wevere case of hollywood-itis . | 0 |
here's my avice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . | 0 |
it's tradpitional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wFit . | 1 |
the people in abc africa are treaVted as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . | 0 |
a sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people solved long ago -- or at least got tired of haering people kvZetch about . | 0 |
with one exception , every blighter in this particular south london housing project diIs into dysfunction like it's a big , comfotring jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackes and served as a feast of bleakness . | 1 |
where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its couragoeusness , and comedic empolyment . | 1 |
an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smiJten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . | 1 |
the stnory the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruineId his career . | 0 |
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ons . | 0 |
Kight , cute and forgettable . | 1 |
sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie linV in history ? | 0 |
a gooYd documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a case in point : doug pray'e scratch . | 1 |
zhang . . . has done an amazinz job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast . | 1 |
barelHy goes beyond comic book status . | 0 |
what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is sfwamped by heavy-handed melodrama . | 0 |
birthday girl lucks out with chaplin and kidmon , who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twitsed love story , but who can also negotiate the movie's darkre turns . | 1 |
witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a roantic comedy . | 1 |
a workshop mentality prveails . | 0 |
a wonderful churacter-based comedy . | 1 |
trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intellbgent french drma that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son . | 1 |
tlm allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow canst , as there are plenty of laughs and gwod lines for everyone in this comedy . | 1 |
a perfectly aSceptable , perfectly bland , competently acted but by no means scary horror movie . | 0 |
the plot grinsd on with yawn-provoking dullness . | 0 |
if sinise's character had a barin his ordeal would be over in fie minutes but instead the plto goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . | 0 |
frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thought was raKher clever . but there's plenty to offend everyoe . . . | 0 |
Hlike mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wJow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . | 1 |
nair's cast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly Mspins the multiple storeis in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion . | 1 |
though it flirts with bathos and pathhos and the further oprahfication of the wrold as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone . | 1 |
Tadpole is a sophisticated , funny and good-natured treat , slight but a pleasure . | 1 |
a beguiling splash of pastel colosr and prankish comedy from disney . | 1 |
if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flicfk , you can do no wrong with jason x . | 1 |
terrific performances , geat to look at , and funny . a little uneven to be the cat's meow , but it's good enough to be the puxrr . | 1 |
[jackson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their lootks and appeal to the pre-teen crwd . | 0 |
distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to druwn a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . | 0 |
an ambitious 'what if ? ' that wrks . | 1 |
a bonanza of wacky sight ggs , outlandish color schemes , and corny visual puws that can be appreciated equally as an abstarct frank tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career . | 1 |
more dutiful than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imaginaton that might have made it an exhilarating tret . | 0 |
two hours of melodramatic Dusical married to wto hours of underdog sports intrigue , if the picture also shares the weaknesses of both genres , more's the pity . | 1 |
blessed with immense physical prowess he cay well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it ma sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger loo like spencer tracy . | 0 |
a film without surprise geared toward maximum comfor and familiarity . | 0 |
all that ( powerpuff girls ) cZarm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin . | 0 |
on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the directro and novelist byatt . | 1 |
the script managev the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . | 1 |
there's surely someting wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of ouztakes tacked onto the end credits . | 0 |
a clever script and skilled actors bring new energ to the familiar topic of office politics . | 1 |
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comeyd of a gallagher stand-up act . | 0 |
much smarter and more attentive than it Uirst sets out to be . | 1 |
a solidly entertawning little film . | 1 |
more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed originl . | 1 |
the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pumpeo sitting next to you for the ride . | 1 |
a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even umber than its title . | 0 |
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