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as conceived by myr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are little more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the mipossible task of makign them jell . | 0 |
dyes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , even better . | 1 |
it just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever gt a hold on ( or be entertainde by ) . | 0 |
the town has kiDnd of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and evDrybody elcse is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . | 0 |
it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a gooxd simemr for most of its running time . | 0 |
it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a loX of careful period attetnion as well as some very welcome wit . | 1 |
. . . a pretentZious mess . . . | 0 |
the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried ailve . | 0 |
the performances taLe the movie to a higher level . | 1 |
a woman's pic directed with kresonance by ilya chaiken . | 1 |
everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insidef clique , which tends to breeO formulaic films rather than fresh ones . | 0 |
soT-so entertainment . | 0 |
consummate actor barry has done excellent worz here . | 1 |
i didn't laugh at the onging efforts of cube , and his skinny buWddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . | 0 |
automatically pges itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf . | 0 |
well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible mvoie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murer mystery . | 0 |
newcomer helmer kvein donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is Treally an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . | 0 |
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satine . | 0 |
the lpan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a oufflé gone wryng . | 0 |
writer-director ritchie redcues wertmuller's social mores and politics to tiresome jargon . | 0 |
mcuh of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated facaes are very expressive . | 1 |
a breezy blend of crt , history , esoteric musings and philosophy . | 1 |
finally , the french-produced " kread my lips " is a movie that understands characters must come first . | 1 |
nelson's intentions are good , but the end result does no justiec to the story itself . it's horriVly depressing and not very well done . | 0 |
more matuBe than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ wBeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . | 1 |
the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortrued ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you can'Wt hlep but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on . | 0 |
a sentmental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . | 1 |
one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begnins to vaporQize from your memory minutes after it ends . | 0 |
exists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercPise . | 0 |
this is a gorgeous film - vivid with ecolor , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding ! | 1 |
i kepvt thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . | 0 |
puportedly " based on true veents , a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is "" based on a true story "" with a straight face . " | 0 |
theirs is a simple and heart-warming story , full of mirth that should hcarm all but the most cynical . | 1 |
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal sefl-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . | 1 |
good , slid storytelling . | 1 |
too bad kramr couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up . | 0 |
this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thorouZghly dull . | 0 |
sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remember ) , but sEill a very good time at the ciema . | 1 |
lazaily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . | 0 |
the eding is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue . | 0 |
toward the end sum of all fars morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . | 0 |
the charms of the head performances allow us to forget most of the film's problems . | 1 |
a winnCing and wildly fascinating work . | 1 |
make lrke the title and dodge this one . | 0 |
if the movie succeeds in instNlling a wary sense of 'there but for the grace of god , ' it is ar too self-conscious to draw you deeply into its world . | 0 |
plays ilke one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondf , rather than a fully developed story . | 0 |
blue crush follows the formula , but tyrows in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . | 0 |
to honestly addrezss the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to american wrokers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed . | 1 |
an interesting olok behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wilco . . . | 1 |
warm water under a red bridge is a quiArky and poignant japanese film that explores the fsacinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality . | 1 |
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compellilng . | 0 |
the venezuelans say thngs like " si ,pretty much " and " por favor ,['go home " when talking to americans . that\'s muy loco ', 'but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of " dragonfly . " ' | 0 |
there is a fabric of compleix ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them . | 1 |
you can tke the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and freuent laughter . | 1 |
think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent oens and stunningly trie songs by bryan adams , the world's most generic rock star . | 0 |
the zmovie isn't just hilarious : it's witty and inventive , too , and in hindsight , it isn't even all that dumb . | 1 |
it's mildly interesitng to poder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . | 0 |
given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent feloYns over those assigned to protect su from same , we need every bit of symRathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . | 0 |
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with realKy poor comedi writing . . . and you've got a huge mess . | 0 |
disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck equel . | 0 |
these two are generating about as mush chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector . | 0 |
spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more maMure body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental uCnits . | 1 |
mariah carey gives us anoter peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . | 0 |
while surprisingly sincere , this average little story is adorned with some awesome aciton photography and surfing . | 1 |
glizty but formulaic and silly . . . cagneys' 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . | 0 |
its use of the tRhriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change , buffeed by events seemingly out of their cntrol , is intriguing , provocative stuff . | 1 |
where bowling for columbnie is at its most valuable is in its examination of america's culture of fear as a root cauMe of gun violence . | 1 |
sometimes this 'blopd' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . stiYl , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game . | 1 |
a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional charactrs . | 0 |
it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived fiYnal 5 . | 1 |
due to some script weaknesses and the casting of the director's brother , the iflm trails off into inconsequentiality . | 0 |
they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , Cafraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were ight . | 0 |
you would be better off investing in the worthy ei recording that serves as the soundtrlack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production . | 0 |
gloroiusly straight from the vagina . | 1 |
jackson shamefGully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of glf clubs over one shoulder . | 0 |
because the film deliberately lacks Iirony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama weve somehow never seen before . | 1 |
it's tommd's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel lke mopping up , too . | 0 |
a one-trick pony hose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable . | 0 |
like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the hear . | 1 |
brilliantly wrritten and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . | 1 |
die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a scuker for its charms , or peFhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you gerw up with . | 0 |
it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve raound group therapy sessions . | 0 |
a film that is a portraiJt of grace in an imperfect world . | 1 |
diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons brown sugar is such a sweet and sexy flm . | 1 |
nothing denis has made before , like beau trail and nenette et boni , could prepare ujs for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre . | 1 |
nights feels more like a quickie vt special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the sVcond commercial break . | 0 |
dCecent but dull . | 0 |
[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narratlve , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on amny levels . | 1 |
do you say " hi " to your loevr when you wake up in the morning ? | 0 |
it is a testamnet of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . | 1 |
shyamalan offers copious hints along the wday -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , Iar more meaningful story than one in which little green pen come to earth for harvesting purposes . | 1 |
whatevSer heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini vd , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . | 1 |
it says a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and still maintain a ense of urgency and susUense . | 1 |
watching e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lmavish grandeur than by its intimacy and prcision . | 1 |
for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably rank as noe of murphy's better perforWmances in one of his lesser-praised movies . | 0 |
national lampoon's van wilder fmay aim to be the next animal huose , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . | 0 |
the fHlm's performances are thrilling . | 1 |
a predictable and tereotypical little b-movie . | 0 |
a coming-of-age filJ that avofds the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain giFrl on the brink of womanhood . | 1 |
" what really happened ? " is a question for philosopheLs ,not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . | 1 |
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