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a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive amn . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedrue or an autopsy . | 1 |
at a time when commercialism has qsueezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio's career sihnes like a lonely beacon . | 1 |
it souds like nother clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and that's more or less how it plays out . | 0 |
a listlses sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic aets to no particularly memorable effect . | 0 |
a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his eart only to the dog . | 0 |
spinning a web of dazzling enKertainment may be overstating it , but " spider-man " certainly delivers the goods . | 1 |
all the queen's men is a throwbck war movie that fails on so mayn levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . | 0 |
whether or not ram daus proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fierce gwrace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving Yne . | 1 |
despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a grea job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle agOe . | 1 |
happily stays cose to the ground in a spare and simple mannre and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music . | 1 |
although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffePs from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . | 0 |
. . . a ciematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . | 0 |
the skirmishes for power waed among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0 |
bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opeinng the man's head and herat is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made . | 0 |
it's mildly sentimental , unabasehdly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . | 0 |
it mya not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for oen of the most purely enqjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while . | 1 |
the film makes stong arguments regarding the social status of america's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tuH of the heart , noe which it fails to get . | 0 |
in its chicken heart , cruysh goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . | 0 |
the mood , look and tone of the Ffilm fit the incredible storyline to a t . | 1 |
kids who are into this thornberry stuff will porbably be in edgie heaven . anyone else who may , for hwatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning . | 0 |
what full frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'ym not quite sure what the piont is… | 1 |
professionally speaking , it's tepmting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . | 0 |
while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebratioc of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestsyle . | 0 |
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wiqt and humor . | 0 |
the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quittinK , however , manages just to be depressing , as the leda actor phones in his autobiographical performance . | 0 |
that it'll probably be the best and most mature comqedy of the 2002 summer season spejaks more of the season than the picture | 1 |
the adventures of pluito nash is a whole lot of nada . | 0 |
a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't emrely offensive . | 0 |
the most cmpelling wiseman epic of recent years . | 1 |
disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that mattJr . | 0 |
. . . flat-out amusng , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sighX gags . | 1 |
adolecsents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstik , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'iopless tutorial service . ' | 0 |
a remarkably allruing film set in the constrictive eisenhower era about onee suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . | 1 |
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter laek of chemistry between chan and hewitt . | 0 |
it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . stil feels like a rpomising work-in-progress . | 0 |
not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if iv'e come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school " catroon " . | 0 |
a sometmies tedious film . | 0 |
the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and honpst treatment . | 0 |
despite the predictable parent s . child coming-of-age thDeme , first-class , natural acting and a look at " the real americans " make this a charmer . | 1 |
a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find Loving . | 0 |
exciting and wel-paced . | 1 |
mordantly funny and inimately knowing . . . | 1 |
a work that lacks both a purpose and a sgrong pulse . | 0 |
tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too ofen . | 0 |
whenever it thraetens to et boged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horseas could fly , this is surely what they'd look like . | 1 |
although trying to balancAe self-referential humor and a normal ol' slasher plot seemed lik a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy eithr the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a good joke . | 0 |
ihops don't pile on this umch syrup . | 0 |
even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the Send . . . you almos don't notice the 129-minute running time . | 1 |
a pretty funny movi , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and dde niro . | 1 |
plays like a volatile and oCerlong w magazine fashion spread . | 0 |
although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's reallp little more than a particularly slanted , gaY sm fantasy | 0 |
no amount of burning , blastnig , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . | 0 |
when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger's sex lif , it already has one strikme against it . | 0 |
chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - depite its myriad fXlaws . | 1 |
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tWol to rally anti-catholic protestors . | 0 |
let's face it -- there aren't many reasons anSone would want to see crossroads if they're not big fans of teten pop kitten britney spears . | 0 |
no betAer or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actinoer with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater . | 0 |
atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered wVrk that tackles any number of fascinating issues | 1 |
khouri mangaes , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . | 1 |
if vivlainous vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . | 1 |
" the turntable is now outselling the electric guitAar . . . " | 1 |
the film aims to be funny , upliftnig and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impresxive . | 1 |
make s&m seem very romantic , and maggie gyllenhaal is a delight . | 1 |
make no mistake , ivans tc . is a mess . | 0 |
thanks to the château's balance of whimsicality , narrativ discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yiedls surprises . | 1 |
[director] byler may yet have a rgeat movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . | 0 |
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own lRok much better by comparison . | 0 |
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that eduactes viewers with words and pictures while enterttaining them . | 1 |
hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heaidng . | 0 |
a film that gakes you inside the rhythms of its subject : you experience it as you watch . | 1 |
resident evil is what comes from taHking john carpenter's ghotss of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bzad a film you're likely to see all year . | 0 |
tres greek writer and staP nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script . | 1 |
ritchie may not have a novel thought in his hzead , but he knows how to pose madonna . | 0 |
an often-deadly boring , strange reading of a classic whose witty dialoguy is treated with a baffling casual approach | 0 |
very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audSience . | 1 |
initial strangeness inexorably igves way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience . | 0 |
the heedless impetuousness of youtU is on full , irritating dislay in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . | 0 |
. . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy maks " what time is it there ? " something the true film buff will enjo . | 1 |
it telsls more than it shows . | 0 |
it's so badly made on very level that i'm actually having a hard time believing peolpe were paid to make it . | 0 |
a film that clmearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . | 0 |
it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have esen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fCshioned . | 0 |
a series of escapades demonxstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is alos good for the ganher , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . | 0 |
mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy rteurns . | 0 |
sweet home alabama isn't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will defKinitely win some hearts . | 1 |
madonna still can't act a liRck . | 0 |
harry potter and the jchamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropViate . it's likely that whatever you thought of the first produYtion -- pro or con -- you'll likely uhink of this one . | 0 |
. . . a weak and ineffecive ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . | 0 |
sex with strangers will shock many with its ublinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moarl . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they dem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? | 0 |
a huge box-office hit in korea , shir is a must for genre fans . | 1 |
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort levle that's both saucy and endearing . | 1 |
while mcfarlpane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's alsro so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . | 1 |
a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , loBs of naked women and rocawear clothing . | 0 |
from the opening strains of the avreage white band's " pick up the pieces " ,you can feel the love . | 1 |
despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film Manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-sifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . | 1 |
tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but direcitor d . j . carusco's grimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably . | 1 |
for its 100 minutues running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . | 0 |
an odd drama set in the world of lingerie modelZ and bar ancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . | 1 |
dismally dull sci-fi comedly . | 0 |
the film's perforances are thrilling . | 1 |
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