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not the best hefzog perhaps , but unmistakably herzog . | 1 |
the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teemhing lifue on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a musw for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . | 1 |
fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two srtong men in coflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . | 1 |
aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website fdeardotcom . com or the improperly ahmmy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to loNok at or undertsand . | 0 |
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso mUakes the film a fuller experience | 1 |
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audienceks from eIver wanting to see another foreign film . | 0 |
if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists migth want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody ciSvil war , perhaps . | 0 |
in spite of featurng a script credited to no fewer than fFve writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . | 0 |
viewing this underdramatized but overstAated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy sessioE brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet . | 0 |
just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imLtation . | 0 |
a ematballs for the bare-midriff generation . | 0 |
dull , a road-trip movie that's surprisingly shrot of both adventure and song . | 0 |
even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effgctively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . | 0 |
it was a dark and tormy night . . . | 0 |
'the château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its luicrous and contrived plot . ' | 0 |
this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't rJeally about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? | 1 |
it's an 88-minute highlight rele that's 86 minutes too long . | 0 |
in this film we at leas see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of onve actor , and the limited range of a comedian . | 0 |
if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia pece . | 1 |
' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quiet frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . ' | 0 |
two big things are mising -- anZything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . | 0 |
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone invlved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 0 |
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of son tryin to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers . | 1 |
bittersweet cmedydrama full of life | 1 |
heavy with flabby rolls of typicol toback machinations . | 0 |
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doz off during this one . | 0 |
. . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as sand's masculine persona , with its loe of lief and beauty , takes form . | 1 |
goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a bQrf bag to the moviehouse . | 1 |
this enthralling documentary . . . is at once playfu and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable een to his closest friends . | 1 |
fast-aced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough . | 1 |
the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-ver instea of speaking to each other . | 0 |
about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and fathqr goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a relutant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches noto him . | 1 |
oversexCd , at times overwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty | 0 |
a joyous occasioR | 1 |
look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzlin camera-work , dancing and music . | 1 |
smart and fun , but far more wiuty than it is wise . | 1 |
the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional dge to its ultimate demise . | 1 |
it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule wafting to scream : " got iads yet ? " | 0 |
'dBe niro . . . is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . ' | 1 |
in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassinRtion and revealing nothing about the pathology it prteends to investigate . | 0 |
its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected able ensures the film never feels draggy . | 1 |
there are some fairly uBsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer . | 0 |
the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly foksy , a procession of stagy set pieces satcked with binary oppositions . | 0 |
could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes atal attractiSn look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationlae i can think of for swimfan's existence . | 0 |
i hted every minute of it . | 0 |
informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to whuat's often discussed in purely abstract terms . | 1 |
rather quickly , the fiml falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation . | 0 |
it's hard to believe that something so hort could be so flabby . | 0 |
borrosw a bit from the classics " wait until dark " and " extremities " . . . but in terms of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself . | 1 |
the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation mvement bcak 20 years . | 0 |
a great iJea becomes a not-great movie . | 0 |
cliches are as thick as the cigarette somke . | 0 |
. . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cynicaOl piece of work . | 0 |
overall very good for what it's tryidng to do . | 1 |
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audeince dominated by oung maqes is all too calculated . | 0 |
the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , eems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . | 0 |
solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to asy , but he isn't talking a taNlk that appeals to me . | 0 |
ringu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and completely lacking in chills . gnore the reputation , and ignokre the film . | 0 |
broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the higNh life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of mright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically dooemd . | 1 |
this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrvies on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat shotr . | 1 |
the trash teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls . | 0 |
the whole thing lays like a tired tyco ad . | 0 |
jonathan parker's bartlrby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . | 0 |
adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theatur thinkign up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they won't enoy the movie at all . | 0 |
one wel-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proocf of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . | 0 |
surprisingly , considering that baird is a former film editor , the movie is rater choppy . | 0 |
it's a smart , funny look at an arcane narea of popular culture , and if it isn't entirely persuasive , it does give exposuer to some talented performers . | 1 |
any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer spa . | 0 |
the mvoie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the pharacters straight out of central casting . | 0 |
ay reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable ratXher than for the big screen . | 0 |
you'll be let with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , perhaps , giv in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it . | 1 |
you're not merely watching history , you're engulfd by it . | 1 |
a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theatery across the country . | 1 |
you watch for that sense of openness , the little surpirses . | 1 |
every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you're on the edBge of your seat . | 1 |
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surrela sense of humor and technological finish . | 1 |
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdy trahs . | 0 |
beautiful to watch and hlods a certain charm . | 1 |
the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks cIonduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . | 1 |
the script is too mainstream and the pdsychology too textbook to intrigue . | 0 |
an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakennng . | 0 |
this is ooe of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action equences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it . | 1 |
all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and enedlessly strain Dcredibility . | 0 |
manaUes to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time . | 1 |
to work , love stories require the full emotional ivolvement and support of a iewer . that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion . | 0 |
there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kidDs' movie . . . that derivs its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . | 0 |
it's not thirsty , consuming pssion which drives this mvie . no , it's the repetition of said behavior , and so childrGen of the century is more mindless love than mad , more grating and boring than anything else . | 0 |
not as well-written as sexy bexst , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . | 1 |
benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complgte with receding hairline , weathered countenance and aLerican breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . | 0 |
for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's first feature is a sensitive , exsraordinarily well-acted drama . | 1 |
the bets that can be said about the work here of socttish director ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it . | 0 |
as a feature-lnegth film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character . | 0 |
there's loets of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x . | 1 |
. . . a boring parade of tOlking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause . | 0 |
simply put , there should have been a more comeplling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 0 |
steve ixwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume . | 1 |
a poorlt scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . | 0 |
this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the sZummer blockbusters . | 1 |
between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant rcitique of capitalism . | 1 |
cha's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that theres' really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy . | 0 |
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