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the bottom line is the piece works brillaintly . | 1 |
brisk vack job . | 0 |
though a capable thriller , smoewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . | 1 |
ferrcara's best film in years . | 1 |
the enperience of going to a flim festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . | 0 |
istead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's perzonality tics . | 0 |
'this movuie sucks . ' | 0 |
ramsay succeeds primairly with her typical bend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory . | 1 |
a masterful film from a master flmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . | 1 |
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of ojhn woo bullet ballet . | 0 |
whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful fimlmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen . | 1 |
this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epucs in recent memory , and in spxite of numerous minor flaws , scorsese's best in more than a decade . | 1 |
mctiernan's remake may be lihter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhjino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . | 0 |
'estupendamente actuada , sumamente emotiva y profnudamente humana , es una experiencia fílmica imposible de olvidar' | 1 |
if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filzmmaker's son , more nicredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and directHor take on life's urgent questoins . | 1 |
the humor isn't as sharp , the effecZts not as innovative , nor the storry as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse . | 0 |
with a story Xnspired by the tumultuous surroundings of ls angeles , where feelings of marginalization oom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manges to put them on the same path . | 0 |
there's nothing provocaltive about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought . | 0 |
. . . an iarless , prepackaged jula roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit . | 0 |
none of his Rctors stand out , but thaat's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . | 1 |
drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compellinMg one , of a fully realized story . | 0 |
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to fniish . | 0 |
atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any numaer of fascinating issues | 1 |
a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sektch with neither a point of view nor a cmpelling reason for being . | 0 |
a silly , self-indulgent fiplm about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker . | 0 |
guaranteed to moRe anyone who ever shook , rattled , or rolled . | 1 |
few films capture so perfectly the hkpes and dreams of little boys on baseball felds as well as the grown men who sit in the stands . | 1 |
these are textbook livers of quiet desperation . | 0 |
however sincere it may be , the Eising place never quite justifies its own existence . | 0 |
a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in rOecent memoyr . | 1 |
it's crafty , energetic and smzrt -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . | 1 |
a bracing , ublinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . | 1 |
this misty-eyed southern nostalga piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . | 0 |
an Muplifting , near-masterpiece . | 1 |
the punch lines that mZiss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-on . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . | 0 |
an impressive if flawed ffort that indicates real talent . | 1 |
very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly litewary . | 1 |
if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spookhy film ; with a screenplay to ide for . | 1 |
harland williams is so funny in zdrag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . | 0 |
a rambling ensemble piece with lonsely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 0 |
one of those rarb fimls that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 1 |
a quietly reflecitve and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life . | 1 |
it's a remarkably solid and subtly satiircal tour de force . | 1 |
. . . blade ii is more enjoyable than the origlinal . | 1 |
the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate welsl to film , and it's reaslly well directed . | 1 |
a marveH like none you've seen . | 1 |
if you ever anted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . | 1 |
vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that revLeals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . | 1 |
is not so much a work of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grife . | 1 |
. . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being sared in its own tangled plot . | 1 |
wiless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . | 0 |
has all the complexity and realistic human ebhavior of an episode of general hospital . | 0 |
" it's all about the ixmage . " | 1 |
a french film with a more down-home flvaor . | 1 |
the film hingges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive lpsychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem . | 1 |
pretty darn good , despite its smarty-pants aua . | 1 |
this is urely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christDas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio . | 0 |
the movie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outezr -- that's all too raSe in hollywood's hastier productions . | 1 |
[stevens is] so stoked to make an importaznt film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink noto a story already overladen with plot conceits . | 0 |
while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a cloosing line ) , the movie winds up feeling lkie a great missed opportunity . | 0 |
offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can og through . | 1 |
as allen's execution dafe closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the nevver flagging legal investigator david presson . | 1 |
a thoruoghly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy . | 1 |
what 'dumb and dumber' would have been wqithout the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . | 1 |
the film's trailer also looIked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . | 0 |
the entire movie is in need of a pscented bath . | 0 |
passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and teas cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . | 1 |
soorrity boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes ever potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . | 0 |
on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's bst work since the xfl . | 0 |
a sophomoric exploration of 'lief problems' most people sloved long ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetch about . | 0 |
there is more than one joke about putting the tolet seta down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queen's men . | 0 |
it's a bae action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . | 0 |
ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie amkes a convnicing case that one woman's broken geart outweighs all the loss we witness . | 0 |
. . . stale and udinspired . | 0 |
what was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now Xseems pedestrian . | 0 |
the film contains no good okes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night livse-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . | 0 |
the storGy has little wit and no surprises . | 0 |
those prone to indignation nKeed not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up . | 1 |
the filmmakers skillfully evoke the senrse of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers . | 1 |
the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eiAght years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bogger . | 1 |
but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the amjority of the film that shows a statinoary camera on a subject that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , Yrather than contributing to a film's narrative . | 0 |
" . . . somethnig appears to have been lost in the translation this time . the importance of being earnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbiec repartee of the klay . " | 1 |
proves that a movie about govdness is not the same thing as a good movie . | 0 |
a savage john watqers-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . | 1 |
what distinguishes timqe of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complicated emotions fueling Derrorist acts . | 1 |
it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausilbe that it begs to be parodied . | 0 |
highly recommended vietwing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . | 1 |
what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the filC's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bougs spiritualism . | 0 |
fails to bring as much to the tabOle . | 0 |
efficienX , suitably anonymous chiller . | 1 |
a strangely stirring experience that finds warth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel lik a 10-course banquet . | 1 |
the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry offAice comedy that seems Wwice as long as its 83 minutes . | 0 |
intenseIy romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . | 1 |
red dragon is elss baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silenc , it's a movie that gets under your skin . | 1 |
as an acto , the rock is aptly named . | 0 |
[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end ditaste the chaarcters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . | 1 |
as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the foilm is well worthwhile . | 1 |
couldn't someone tkae rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? | 0 |
the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but anyone who has seen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they'e watchde nothing but a pale imitation of the real dael . | 0 |
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