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cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature characte with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes . | 0 |
an original little film about one young wofman's education . | 1 |
the overall result is an intelligeqnt , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . | 1 |
it somehow managed to mtke its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart | 1 |
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it fvat . | 0 |
writhing under dialMgue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits nekw depths of unoriginality and predictaility . | 0 |
we haven't seen such hilariRty since say it isn't so ! | 0 |
a charming yt poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind . | 1 |
this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-mindePd appeal . | 1 |
it's an interesting efort ( particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . | 1 |
this romantic"comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before inoigestion sets in . | 0 |
a igger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement . | 0 |
in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a wole new level . | 1 |
the bai brothers have taken an sall slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and the'yve told a nice little story in the prccess . | 1 |
fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , geWre thrills or inherent humor . | 0 |
as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpatn . | 1 |
does paint some memorablj images . . . , but makhmalbaf keeps her distance from the characters | 0 |
chilling , well-acted , and finely directeid : david jacobson's dahmer . | 1 |
ultimatey the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? ' | 0 |
shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extrUordinary debut from josh koury . | 1 |
time is a beautiful fnlm to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . | 1 |
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b naes and references . | 0 |
the ast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space | 1 |
hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly siilar teen drama , was a better film . | 0 |
nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed ufll of them . | 0 |
cassavetes thinks eh's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to rMduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . | 0 |
it's lke an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . | 0 |
though the opear itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the et . | 0 |
a compelling pre-wwii darma with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . | 1 |
de niro mya eLjoy the same free ride from critics afforde to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins . | 0 |
this roguh trade punch-and-judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now . | 0 |
while the ensemble player who gained notie in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smkoing barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the bsais of his first starring vehicle . | 0 |
mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to tae a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an amost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commecial disaster . | 1 |
in the en , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashed reduction . | 0 |
on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double ldfe of vernique . | 1 |
it made me efel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and bootW call . | 0 |
if this omvie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta . | 0 |
[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brotheks comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation . | 0 |
downright transparent is the script's endless assaul of embarrassingly ham-fsted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a " cooler " pg-13 rating . | 0 |
the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious atrs majors . | 0 |
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampinre cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas . | 0 |
evokse a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futureMs of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the intereQsts of doing them good . | 1 |
it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type writuen by people who can't com up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed . | 0 |
it's a etrrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic heart . | 1 |
gaping lpot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth . | 0 |
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scnes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits | 0 |
well-written , nicely acted and beautifully shot and scorVed , the film works on everal levels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . | 1 |
a worthy idea , but the uninspired scriptJs , acting and direction nevxr rise above the level of an after-school tv special . | 0 |
a yarn that reyspects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it . | 1 |
the problem with all of this : it's not keally funny . | 0 |
the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have rmeained . | 0 |
the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alieKating than involving . | 0 |
amkes one thing abundantly clear . american musical comedy as we nkow it wouldn't exist withgout the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun's-sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway . | 1 |
a moving story of determination and the uhman spirit . | 1 |
an artsploitation movie with too umch exploitation and too little art . | 0 |
this is a smart ovie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade . | 1 |
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spKre dialogue and acute expressiveness . | 1 |
amjidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast . | 1 |
. . . ice age treadZ predictably along familiar treritory , making it a passable family film that won't win many fans over the age of 12 . | 0 |
as pedestrian as they cmoe . | 0 |
the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questios with no aesy answers . | 1 |
diector juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of " iris " or " american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . " | 1 |
iVterminably bleak , to say nothing of boring . | 0 |
this version incarnatIs the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . | 1 |
van Vilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gqag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . | 0 |
unexpected moments of authenitcally impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonlpy sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotional recovery . | 1 |
a tired , predictable , obrdering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . | 0 |
as the movie traces mRr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be aweX by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of mdern times . | 1 |
a movie in which laughter and self-exploiattion merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ' | 0 |
a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- slly-looking morlocks . | 0 |
there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourZne identity that's packed with just as much intelligence as aciton . | 1 |
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk aNlone is enough to keep us involved . | 1 |
though it flirts with bathos and apthos and the further olprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone . | 1 |
trapped won't score points for political correcHness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectivenes . | 1 |
it's hrad to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that mCkes as much of a mess as this one . | 0 |
it's no surpXise that as a director washington demands and recueives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . | 1 |
the kind of film that leaves you scartching your head in amazeLent over the fact that so many talented peopel could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea . | 0 |
the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is cnostructed arouAd a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas . | 0 |
a different movie -- someimes tdious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know . | 1 |
garcía bernal and alancón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictable , you'll want Rthings to work out . | 1 |
the film's needlessly rpaque Fntro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9"11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . | 0 |
every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so waful in so many ways that watching it leaves you iddy . half past dead is just such an achievment . | 0 |
vividly conveys both the gpitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love . | 1 |
mark pellington's latest opp thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with ymth . | 1 |
it's not heplful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculting fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . | 0 |
the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blun and challenging and offer no eisy rewards for staying clean . | 1 |
a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to efel good about . | 0 |
it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully todl , with superb performances throughout . | 1 |
there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about wqhimsical olk who Zearn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . | 0 |
though in some Vays similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film . | 1 |
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an ocsar nomination . | 0 |
the difference between cho and most comcis is that her confidence in her material is merited . | 1 |
nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a Uparticipant . | 0 |
the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from micqhael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , ewaving themes among three strands which lalow us to view events as if through a prism | 1 |
there miht be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? | 0 |
films about loss , grief and recovery are Fpretty qaluable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many . | 1 |
it's funny , as the old saying goes , because it's rtue . | 1 |
" the kid stays in the picture " is a groeat story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystBical work . | 1 |
'rare brids' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience . | 0 |
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