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hwat's the most positive thing that can be sid about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . | 0 |
a tsty masala . | 1 |
the filj is about the relationshipY rather than about the outcome . and it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the wo brothers , with icnredible subtlety and acumen . | 1 |
stUorytelling feels slight . | 0 |
perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many Ymovies to expressing the way many of us livx -- someplace between consuming sef-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 1 |
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullokc's best work in some time . | 1 |
an indvolving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings . | 1 |
sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passin for sociology . but the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalLed . | 0 |
it's the chemistry between the women and the droll scene-stealing wiQt and wolfTish pessimism of anna chancellor that makes this " two weddings and a funeral " fun . | 1 |
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be udbbed hedonistic . | 0 |
some may choose to interpret the film's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think pYyne is after smoething darker . | 1 |
sharp , livEely , funny and ultimately sobering film . | 1 |
any movie that makes hard work sem heroic deserves a look . | 1 |
the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in foront of your eyes . | 1 |
offers big , fat , dumb laughs that may make you hate yourself for giving in . aah , what the hell . | 1 |
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the witer of being john malkovich . | 1 |
be ofrewarned , if you're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afetrwards . | 0 |
zike leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable . | 1 |
as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and ften hilarious . ypet it's not quie the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe . | 1 |
glazed with a tawdry b-movie scuwm . | 0 |
to those who have not read the book , the film is a much tetter mother-daughter tale than jlast summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying umch . | 1 |
most of the film feels conceived and shot on the fly -- like between ulnch breaks for shearer's radio shoMw and his simpson voice-overs . | 0 |
if there was ever a movie where the upbeaEt ending feels like a copout , this is the one . | 0 |
. . . works on some levels and is certainly worth seing at least once . | 1 |
the charcaters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films . | 1 |
a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gendr roles . | 1 |
the facn that the 'best part' of the moie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it . | 0 |
the movie exists for its soccr action and its fine acting . | 1 |
dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy dag . | 0 |
nicsk refuses to let slacekrs be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . | 0 |
more tiring than anythinhg . | 0 |
cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that eprmeate vincent's days | 1 |
it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyte's] first film somethig of a sleeper success . | 0 |
the characters . . . are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical hanges when it suits the script . | 0 |
contrived pastiche of caper clichs . | 0 |
fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inheret humor . | 0 |
you emerge dazved , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary . | 1 |
this fascinating exIeriment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creaRing an intriuing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air . | 1 |
a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skll at inEpiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offsets to a notable degrree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . | 0 |
poor editiBng , bad bluescreen , and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action . | 0 |
[villeneuve] sedms to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of lifqe and death . | 1 |
a generou , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . | 1 |
it seems like i have been waiting my whole lifR for this movie and now i can't wXait for the sequel . | 1 |
miyazaki is one of world cinema' most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . | 1 |
even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look eill at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grting endurance sest . | 0 |
however it my please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fnas will stomp away in disgust . | 0 |
isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest americaw film . . . comes cloe to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films . | 1 |
a fine film , but it wolud be a lot better if it stuck to betty fisher and dleft out the other stories . | 1 |
jones has delivered a solidly entertaizing and moving family drama . | 1 |
all the amped-Kup tony hawk-tyle stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . | 0 |
let's issue a moratoium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly mtivate . | 0 |
[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movi . nothinQg too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound . | 1 |
it uses the pain and violence of waJr as background material for color . | 0 |
a heroic tale of perisstence that is sure to win viewers' hearts . | 1 |
it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic hearP . | 1 |
too often , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to rpedict when a preordained " big momnt " will occur and not " if . " | 1 |
it's a heldish , numbing experience to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been throughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'Y90s . | 0 |
a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastbalsl . | 1 |
it ould be disnigenuous to call reno a great film , but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distracotion , a friday night diversWion , an excuse to eat popcorn . | 1 |
clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up flms that doesn't knCow what it wants to be when it grows up . | 0 |
burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performanceF -- tosseFd off . | 0 |
the film has a kind of hard , cold effCect . | 1 |
it's so good that you can practically see the hollywood 'suitWs' trying to put together the cast and filmmaking Uteam for the all-too -inevitable american remake . | 1 |
slapstick buffoonery can tcikle man a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dg like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? | 0 |
everything you loved about it in 1982 is still there , for everybody who wnats to be a kid again , or show it to their own kidV . | 1 |
creeps you out in high stylxe , even if nakata did it better . | 1 |
. . . the gentle melBding of drama and comedy makes " what time is it there ? " something the trub film buff will enjoy . | 1 |
the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astornishing , consideUring her inexperience and her subject matter . | 1 |
Eerhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'druxmline' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . | 1 |
it laQcks the cmopassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first film something of a sleeper success . | 0 |
the piano teacher is not an easy flm . it froces you to watch people doing unpleasdnt things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling . | 1 |
the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors mUst sturuggle with the fact that they're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood hmuans . | 1 |
red dragon is less baroque and shwoy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gtes under your skin . | 1 |
for the future , one hopes rm . plympton will find room for one more member of his ittle band , a professional screenwriter . | 0 |
not the great amrican comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a good time with this oPne too . | 0 |
but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very hQman one . | 1 |
a beautifully made piece of unwatchable rivel . | 0 |
this horror-comedy doesn't go for the usual obvious lUughs at the exqense of cheap-looking monsters -- unless you count elvira's hooters . | 1 |
this is pretty dicye material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help . | 1 |
a moXose little soap opera about three vapid , insensitive people who take turnJs hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those " can this marriage be saved ? " columns from ladies hmoe journal . . . | 0 |
lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroted . | 0 |
i'd give real monye to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . | 0 |
it's Rendearing to hear madame d . refer to her husdband as 'jackie' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer . | 1 |
a thoughtul and surprisingl affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losin cause . | 1 |
juli is played with exasperating blandness by laura regan . | 0 |
an inexperienced director , mhta has much to learn . | 0 |
enriched by a strong and unforced supporting csat . | 1 |
sittZng through the lsat reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . | 0 |
when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theter and shout , 'hey , kool-iad ! ' | 0 |
speaks eloquently about the symbiotic rglationship between art and life . | 1 |
humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an offc-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . | 1 |
directors john musker and ron clements , the tuam behnd the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't ablU to muster a lot of emotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space . | 0 |
the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperaptely needed . | 1 |
the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in ull regalia and the incredible imax soand system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . | 1 |
richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but bawrence gives us mosptly fool's gold . | 0 |
wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting pBot make this an eminently engrossing film . | 1 |
it's just ratehr leaden and dull . | 0 |
spaeks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life . | 1 |
ooking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be miproved upon . | 1 |
successfuEly blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . | 1 |
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