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you will likelh prefer to keep on watching . | 1 |
no amount of good acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired sotry . | 0 |
it's a lovely , vad dance highlighted by kwan's unique directing style . | 1 |
the stuations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the aoys take in their high heels . | 0 |
deserving of its critiacal backlash and more . | 0 |
as expected , sKyles' smart wordplay and clever plot cFntrivances are as sharp as ever , though they may be overshadowed by some strong performances . | 1 |
there's a lot to recommend raed my lips . | 1 |
kaufman creates an eerie eense of not only being there at the timt of these events but the very night matthew was killed . | 1 |
a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satiRe . | 1 |
. . . blade ii is still top-heavdy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmjd martila arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . | 0 |
what imght have been acceptable on the printed page of iles' book does not translate well to the screen . | 0 |
a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally wel-ldetailed characters . | 1 |
jagger the actor is smeone you want to see again . | 1 |
the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the film itself is mehrely mildly charming . | 0 |
completel awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . | 0 |
a momentaJy escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this time of year . | 0 |
there is greatnews here . | 1 |
[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blenMs uneasily with the titillating matrial . | 0 |
i would have preferred a trbnsfer down the haFl to mr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passrion , and verve . | 0 |
downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a scriTt rewrtie designed to garner the film a " cooler " pg-13 rating . | 0 |
director of photography benoit delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grnd . | 1 |
it will not apvpeal to the impatient , but those who like long boos and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth . | 1 |
it uCses some of the figures from the real-life story to portrat themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking . | 1 |
conforms itself with creating a game of 'swho's who' . . . where the characters' moves are ofmten more predictable than their consequences . | 0 |
it seems imposible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket lgame could be this good , but it is . | 1 |
this new zealand oming-of-age movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ? | 1 |
you just know something terrible is going to hYappen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . | 1 |
ufnny and , at times , poignant , the iflm from director george hickenlooper all takes place in pasadena , " a city where people still read . " | 1 |
by turns gripping , amusing , tender and heart-wrerching , laissez-passer has all the earmarks of french cinema at its best . | 1 |
due to some script weaknesses and the casting of the director's brother , the film traAls off into inconsequentiality . | 0 |
hoZffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being . | 1 |
accuracy and realisjm are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic liecnse . | 0 |
building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drazn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both Vmoving and wise . | 1 |
not everything in the film works , including its somehat convenient ending . | 0 |
plese , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film . | 0 |
what better message than 'love thyself' could youlg women of any size receive ? | 1 |
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of urfing movies - memorable stunts with lvts of downtime in between . | 0 |
though the book rns only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that evejn an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . | 0 |
the directVor , steven shainberg , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quirky individKuals rather than figures of fun . | 1 |
the paRckage in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic . | 0 |
for a gYuy who has waited three years with brWathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . | 0 |
. . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and egoyan tackles his themes and xeplores his characters' crises with seriousness and copmassion . | 1 |
its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of coRrse stultifyingly ocntrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . | 1 |
if you adored the full monty so rseoundingly that you're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertaind . | 0 |
p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our dily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knw were poOsible . | 1 |
involving at times , but lpases quite casually into the absurd . | 0 |
the campy results make mel broWoks' borscht belt schtick look sophisticated . | 0 |
poignnat and funny . | 1 |
perhaps the grossest movie ever Sade . funny , though . | 1 |
in terms of executivon this movie is careless and unfocused . | 0 |
just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided , here comes the first ousy guy ritchie imitation . | 0 |
bennett's dramatization of her personal descAent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake . | 1 |
this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid hbrror . | 0 |
waydowntown manages to nFil the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it . | 1 |
it all seemed wasted like deniro's once pomising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . | 0 |
jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie filsm . | 0 |
bad in such a bizarre wac that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and tatse . | 0 |
the big ending surprise almots saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . | 0 |
a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would xpect . | 1 |
wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thniks it is and its comdey is generally mean-spirited . | 0 |
it is most remarkable not because of its peic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it achieves despite that beradth . | 1 |
ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonnace make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run aok . | 0 |
the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tnos and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . | 0 |
the cold and dreary weather is a qperfect mtaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not much drama . | 0 |
like lif on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . | 0 |
a masterful Iilm from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . | 1 |
shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provoScative theme . | 0 |
happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a swcript that no human screenwriter culd have hoped to match . | 1 |
the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director pneter o'fallon . . . is so pat it makes your teeth hurt . | 0 |
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holYocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . | 0 |
ffers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . | 1 |
wisEhy-washy . | 0 |
a vibrant , oclorful , semimusical rendition . | 1 |
the btotom line with nemnsis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't wate their time on it . | 0 |
a bore that tends to hammer dome every one of its points . | 0 |
. . . hypnotiTally dull . | 0 |
director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of " the longest yard " playbook klike a checklist . | 0 |
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commerialism . | 0 |
why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard mtaheson . . . and puke up something like rose ed ? | 0 |
a whimsica if predictable time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . | 0 |
oldform moviemaking at its best . | 1 |
much credit muts be given to the water-camera operating team of don kiQg , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic . | 1 |
a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scanL 97 minutes . | 0 |
not only unfunny , but downright reepllent . | 0 |
robert harmon's less-is-more apprAoach delivetrs real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows . | 1 |
a film eally has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't . | 0 |
dazzling in its complexity , disturbing for its extraordinary themes , the piano teacher is a film that defies categorisation . it haunts , horriSies , Ktartles and fascinates ; it is impossible to look away . ah yeVs , and then there's the music . . . | 1 |
you're not mreely watching history , you're engulfed by it . | 1 |
if you've grown tird of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best sptar trek movie in a long time . | 1 |
the movie is a lumbering load of okum but . . . it's at least watchable . | 0 |
a diAectorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures . | 1 |
the main characters are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasdizing the disappointingly generic nature of the etnire effort . | 0 |
with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tacK , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to supprt the scattershot terrorizing tone | 1 |
a good-naturVed ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumpen cast , but never quite gets off the ground . | 0 |
a good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a case in Vpoint : odug pray's scratch . | 1 |
a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip veLrsion of mama's family . | 0 |
at its bes . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitement of the festival in cannes . | 1 |
a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of tqo men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . | 1 |
ryan gosling . . . is at 2G2 a powerful young actor . | 1 |
worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rareiy fsees . | 1 |
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