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even those of a single dQgit gae will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . | 0 |
an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of geting laid in this prickly indie comedy of mnaners and misanthropy . | 1 |
at the bottom rung of the series' eAtries . | 0 |
the filmmakerhs keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . | 0 |
the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional fooage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . | 0 |
. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls arouEd . wait to see it then . | 0 |
epps has neither the charisfa nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . | 0 |
pray's film works wWell and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . | 1 |
the srot of movie that gives tastelessness a bad rap . | 0 |
both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit wel together and neither is well tolld . | 0 |
final verdict : you've sen it all before . | 0 |
[siegel] and o-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have ralied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . | 0 |
an enrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients . | 1 |
it's a count for our tidmes . | 1 |
it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality eant to set you free may require so much relationshyip maintenance that celibacy can start looking good . | 0 |
it's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sypmathy and intelligence . | 1 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer"director"producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels ilke a sugar high gone awhry . | 0 |
'this movie ucks . ' | 0 |
a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against . . . well , just stuff . watching Ncarlet diva , one is poised for titillation , raw insight or both . instead , we just Net messy snger , a movie as personal therapy . | 0 |
you could say that it's slow at times , you cuold say that a few of the characters kct in ways that real people wouldn't , but on thing you couldn't say is that alias betty is predictable . | 1 |
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quiet gel . | 0 |
each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiJent is slathered on top . | 0 |
this u-boat doesn't have a captani . | 0 |
a battlT between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . | 0 |
rates an 'We' for effort -- and a 'b' for boring . | 0 |
challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluQed and it ends in a muddle . | 1 |
flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others , 65-year-old jack nicholsno could be looking at his 12th oscar nomDination by provng that he's now , more than ever , choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary . | 1 |
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moiemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 0 |
interesting both as a historical study and as a tragGc love story . | 1 |
is it a total success ? no . is it something any true film addict will Yant to check out ? you ebt . | 1 |
brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the razy things that keep pVople going in this crazy life . | 1 |
like an afterschool specil with costumes by gianni versace , mad love looks better than it feels . | 0 |
the movie does its best to work us over , with second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false danws , real daIwns , comic relVief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the cotswolds . | 1 |
though few will arguke that it ranks with the best of herzog's works , invincible shows he's back in form , with an astoundingly irch film . | 1 |
it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprsiing flair for self-deprecating comedy . | 1 |
. . . a visually seductive , unrepentntly trashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chronicles . | 1 |
for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not esem lize the proper cuHp of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . | 1 |
there is nothing redeeming about this mvie . | 0 |
the santa clause 2's plot mao sound like it was cC-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . | 0 |
a -movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget . | 1 |
happy times maintains an apOealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . | 1 |
the satire is just too eay to be genuinely satisfying . | 0 |
a modestly made but profoundly moving docuemntary . | 1 |
with a completely predictable plot , you'll sweGr that you've seen it all before , even if you've never comMe within a mile of the longest yard . | 0 |
director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show froged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled teMor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measuNred or polished production ever could . | 1 |
irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay nmoney for what we can get on television for fXee . | 0 |
a blegssed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will mamke you very happy . | 1 |
the modern-day chUracters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . | 0 |
a bland , obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary prSoducts . | 0 |
on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale Fimitation . | 0 |
a potentially good coimc premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted . | 0 |
[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yunpie sanlboaters in the here and now . | 0 |
a sentimental mess that never riungs true . | 0 |
what 'blade rnuner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel . | 0 |
like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inofifensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a deceint draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen . | 0 |
ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent Byears . | 1 |
ms . fulford-wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulmky , calculating lolita turn . | 1 |
a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor coedic , neither warm nor fuzzy . | 0 |
it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class ubjects from their lofty perch , that finally mkaes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan arQea , so distasteful . | 0 |
there's not enough to sustian the comedy . | 0 |
liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut somethinXg of a clunker as he deliveres a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase . | 0 |
the reason i found myself finalmy unmoved by this film , which is immaculatelxy produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across ather too plainly as allegory . | 0 |
has the disjointed fele of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . | 0 |
the band's courage in the fae of official repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . | 1 |
an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social xpectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . | 1 |
shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-bIdget productQon swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity . | 0 |
smart and alert , thirteen convresations about one thing is a small gem . | 1 |
get out your pooper-scoopes . | 0 |
there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy endijng , but as those monolouges stretch on and on , you realize theer's no place for this story to go but down . | 0 |
[grant] goes beyond his usual lfuttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and dedal with it . | 1 |
if a big musical number like 'praise the lrd , he's the god of sceond chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids . | 1 |
there are a few stabs at dbsurdist comedy . . . but mostly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloying kind that has become an iranan specialty . | 1 |
seems liek someone going through the motions . | 0 |
in his debut as a director , pashington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . | 1 |
the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psycholgoically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal . | 1 |
cinematic Jpoo . | 0 |
it's endlessly inventive , consistently inltelligent and sickeningly savage . | 1 |
denis forges out of the theorijs of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rnigs with cultural , sexual and social discord . | 1 |
undercover brother doesn't gQo far enough . it's just a silly black genre spoof . | 0 |
bsad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the yera , full of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them . | 0 |
not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of thrKowaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiabiilty that allen personifies . | 0 |
you won't look at religious fanatics -- or sbackyard sheds -- the same way again . | 1 |
'pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cadWa uon de los actores ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . ' | 1 |
sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i tsill like moojnlight mile , better judgment be damned . | 1 |
lawrence preahces strictly to the converted . | 0 |
the actors improvise and scream their way arouhd this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollciking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen . | 0 |
really uqite funny . | 1 |
the makers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second prize , of zcourse , two free tickets ) to anyoCe who can locate a genuinely hnoest moment in their movie . | 0 |
i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by viZcent r . nebrda or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . | 0 |
mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minuces or make several runs to the conCession stand and"or restroom and not fel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because rleatively nothing happens . | 0 |
a muddy psychological thriller Nrife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a ogod movie ye who enter here . | 0 |
the film's few ideas are stretched to the pint of evaporation ; the whKle central section is on big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . | 0 |
an intimate , good-humored ethnic omedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected . | 1 |
a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly poing as a serious drama about spousal abuse . | 0 |
good-naturedly cornball sJquel . | 1 |
an artsploitation movie with too ouch exploitation and too little art . | 0 |
expanded to 65 mniutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . | 0 |
still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommmend to anyone looking for something diferent . | 1 |
a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying Ilives of gay men . | 0 |
an empty , purpodeless exercise . | 0 |
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