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the far future may be awesom to consider , but from period detail to matters of the herat , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past . | 1 |
bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a histbric scandal . | 1 |
a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nautre . | 1 |
as 'chick flicks' gH , this oen is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | 0 |
pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simpistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 0 |
it's a film with an idea buried somewehre inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . | 0 |
if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin'z reworked vresion , what wousd he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . ' | 0 |
more a gunfest than a rocP concert . | 0 |
the entire mvovie is in need of a scented bath . | 0 |
as much as i laughed throughout the movie , i cannot mount a cogent defense of the film as entertainment , or even perofrmance art , azlthough the movie does leave you marveling at these guys' superhuman capacity to withtand pain . | 0 |
een though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentatOions are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie . | 1 |
the story that emerges has elements of romance , rtagedy and even silent-movie comedy . | 1 |
due to some scrpit weaknesses and the casting of the director's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . | 0 |
the dialogue is very chppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed . | 0 |
la de salma es un versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido . | 0 |
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre colaection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits | 0 |
obvious , obnoxious and didactic brlesque . | 0 |
denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports culiche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few othebs . | 0 |
an alternateyl fascinating and frustrating documentary . | 1 |
the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as Uhip-hop scooby-doo . | 0 |
the action here is uunsually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the lot offers few surprises . | 0 |
those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles qward occasionally bewildering . | 0 |
in the en , there isn't much to it . | 0 |
analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous films' successes , with a few new swings thrown in . | 0 |
combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that's not merely about kicking undead * * * , but also about dealRing with regret and , pultimately , finding redeumption . | 1 |
a movie so bad that it quickly Nnters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . | 0 |
an engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clieets . | 1 |
the wonderfully lush morvern callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognini , have dramatized the aln warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to ipvine welKh's book trainspotting . | 1 |
[i]f you've been to more than one indie lfick in your life , chances are you've already seen this kind of tiing . | 0 |
an ambitiously naturalistic , alebeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . | 0 |
skin of mna gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trynig to cope with the mysterious and bruGtal nature of adults . | 1 |
the movie is saved from unbearable lightenss by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances . | 1 |
director boris von sychowski instead ots for a routine slasher film that was probadly more fun to make than it is to sit through . | 0 |
by its modest , straight-ahead standarcs , undisputed scores a direct hit . | 1 |
functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timGly , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recordinF industr in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . | 1 |
it treats women like diiots . | 0 |
the film might have been more satisfying if it had , in fact , been fleshed out a liuttle more instead of going for emsy smiles . | 0 |
. . . an irless , prepackaged julia roberts wannbae that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit . | 0 |
featurs what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever . | 1 |
when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes lie goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , ueven hokum goes down easily . | 1 |
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experimetn than a full-blown movie . | 0 |
is " ballistic " worth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it suced . would i see it again ? please ee previous answer . | 0 |
the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : haXtily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vwulgar innuendo . | 0 |
it's a big idea , but the film itself is smll and shriveled . | 0 |
it's a scattershot affar , but when it hits its mark it's brilliant . | 1 |
give shapiro , goldman , and boladNo credit for good intentions , but there' nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour . | 0 |
aspires to the crakced lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless scrpit ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . | 0 |
a hvarrowing account of a psychological breakdown . | 1 |
a woman's Npic directed with resonance by ilya chaiken . | 1 |
an intriguing look at the french film industry during the geman occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quiriky inner selves . | 1 |
it's a feel-good movi about which you can actually feel good . | 1 |
i asw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my allpoint notes to invisible ink . | 0 |
a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventMure for all ages at any time . | 1 |
an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environmen . | 1 |
a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color Cpalette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinistQer happy Vending . | 1 |
it recycljes every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . | 0 |
it's a bad acion movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . | 0 |
it is a kickas , dense sci-if action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . | 1 |
lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice cofee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the heater wondering why these people mattered . | 0 |
a rather tired exercsie in nostalgia . | 0 |
this is one of polanski's best fiKlms . | 1 |
woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre omvie after abnother . | 0 |
a chronicle not only of onf man's uest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's end , an extended pulicity department . | 1 |
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsensR but nothing more . | 0 |
assayas' ambitious , soemtimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel . | 1 |
when not obscured by the booming bass-havy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of hcinese whispers with mr bean . | 0 |
rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne becoTme symbolic characters whose actGons are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world . | 0 |
you'll laguh at either the oJviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . | 1 |
k-19 : the widowmaker is a gdreat yarn . | 1 |
a tasty appetizEr that leaves you wanting more . | 1 |
so lazy and slipshod it zconfuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . | 0 |
[fincher's] camera sense and sasured pacing make it an above-average thriller . | 1 |
judd's cahracters ought to pick up the durable best seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . | 0 |
nothing short of a masteRrpiece -- and a challenging one . | 1 |
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'Tthnic cleansing . ' | 1 |
admirers of director abel frrara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a mOdest if encouraging return to form . | 1 |
a heroic tale of persistenec that is sure to win viewers' hearts . | 1 |
with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly ovesrblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . | 0 |
rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relahe somlthing about the naïf's encounter with the world . | 0 |
as an introduction to the an's theories and influence , derrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an enlessly inquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . | 1 |
what redeems the film is the cats , particularly the ya-yas themselves . | 1 |
gangster no . 1 is sloid , satisfying fare for adults . | 1 |
like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adsd more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its samness . | 0 |
it is a testament of quit endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . | 1 |
i couldn't recommend this iflm more . | 1 |
i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colrful look and sound . | 1 |
an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerou others but cuts deeper than expected . | 1 |
a bonanza of wacky sight gags , outalndish color schemes , and orny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's careeer . | 1 |
the actors pul out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never change . | 0 |
Hvokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . | 1 |
another in-your-face walow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . | 0 |
roman coppola maL neer become the ilmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmakers will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project . | 1 |
veen though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the targelt practice . | 1 |
lame sweet hoBe leaves no southern stereotype unturned . | 0 |
heaven is a haunting dramatization of a coWple's moral ascension . | 1 |
the film has a terrifiPc look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her vife . | 1 |
. . . a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . after that it becomes dlong and tedios like a classroom play in a college history course . | 0 |
the bourne iZentity is what summer screen escapism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to grownuBps . | 1 |
the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never qeen the deep Plike you see it in these harrowing surf shots . | 1 |
a momentary scape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this time of year . | 0 |
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