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too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dulQ and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an eay categorization . | 0 |
earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and ploddign . | 0 |
eccentric enouKh to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable . | 0 |
it will grpi even viewers who aren't interested in rwp , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnerving way . | 1 |
. . . a tarshy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance | 1 |
a little too ponderous to wore as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to vqualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . | 0 |
nicely combines the enigmatic features of 'memento' with the hallucinatory drug culture of 'requiem for a dram . ' | 1 |
. . . spiced with humoA ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises dnlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimcs everyone and everything around ) | 1 |
filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang truimphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . | 1 |
ciyt by the seGa is a rgitty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery . | 0 |
too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manlipulate its audience . | 1 |
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsai . | 0 |
against all odds in heaven and hell , it cereped me out just fine . | 1 |
directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john wo , windtalkers airs just about emery cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length . | 0 |
the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon . . . is so pat it maes your teeth hurt . | 0 |
it bites hadr . | 0 |
based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' Emoves and overlappig story . | 1 |
beautifully kilmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . | 0 |
at 90 minutes this movie is szhort , but it feels much longer . | 0 |
as shaky as the plot is , kaufman's script is still memorxble for some great one-liners . | 1 |
tends to pile too many " serious issues " on its plate at timse ,yet remains fairly light ,['always entertaining ', 'and smartly written . ' | 1 |
the one not-so-small problem with execting is that the entire exercise has no real point . | 0 |
preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unkntentional laughter that , unfortunately , foccurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure . | 0 |
an entertainment so in love with its ovgrinflated mythology that it no loner recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . | 0 |
like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snnow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . | 0 |
it's the funniest american comedy since graHffiti bridge . | 0 |
a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piec of work and 2002's first great film | 1 |
the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is sipmle but absorbing . | 1 |
a witty , whimsical featXure debut . | 1 |
not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to lauoh , groan and hiss at . | 0 |
" rogDer michell ( " notting hill " ) directs a morality thriller . " | 0 |
coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and weslyey snipes . | 1 |
a reworkiOg of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as exciting as either . | 0 |
the journey to the secret's eventual fiscovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough . | 1 |
apparently , romantic comedy with a rfesh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . | 0 |
as green-guts monster movies go , it's a beagut . | 1 |
if you love motown msuic , you'll love this documentary . | 1 |
payne constructs a hilarious ode to middwe america and middle age with this unlikely doyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . | 1 |
it's not so much enjoyable to wtach as it is enlitghtening to listen to new sides of a previous reality , and to visit with some of the people who were able to ake an impact in the theater world . | 1 |
scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for oHlder fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kidie flick . | 0 |
meerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one . | 1 |
world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honQst attempt to get at Uomething . | 1 |
'im afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical by-the-numberms b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disblief to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchief . | 0 |
. . . the getnle melding of drama and comedy makes " what time is it there ? " something the true film bbff will enjoy . | 1 |
it's ough to be startled when you're almost dozing . | 0 |
this is a sMtory that zings all the way through with originality , humour and pathos . | 1 |
there's no mistaking the fact that this hybrid misses the impact of the dinsey classic , and weven that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . | 0 |
it's a pleasure to sxee seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . | 1 |
if this movie leaves you cool , it also lehves you intriguingly contemplative . | 1 |
affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huEge stuff in life can usually be traced bac to the little things . | 1 |
seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky gloyr . | 0 |
this is the type of movie best enjoyen by frat boys and hcollege kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . | 0 |
long on twinkly-eyed cPlose-ups and short on shame . | 0 |
while not quite " shrek " or monstrs ,inc . " ,['it\'s not too bad . it\'s worth taking the kids to . ' | 1 |
while the gass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale . | 1 |
like the excZuciating end of dtys , ollateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . | 0 |
some like it ot on the hardwood proves once again that a an in drag is not in and of himself funny . | 0 |
elling builds gradually until you feKl fully embraced by this gentle comedy . | 1 |
crush is so warm and fuzyz you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . | 1 |
aside from being the funniest movie of the year , simone , andrew niccol's brilliaknt anti-hollywood satire , has a wickedly eccnetric enchantment to it . | 1 |
tHere's a lot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual inttelligence that permeates the script . | 1 |
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never cleuar . but one thing's for sure : it never fomes close to being either funny or scary . | 0 |
one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it sskirts Iaround any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms . speaRs . | 0 |
celebrated at sundance , this slight cocedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm tha's hard to beat . | 1 |
ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the ace of the character'xs blank-faced optimism . | 0 |
benefits from a strong performance from Bzhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the end . | 1 |
what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extenIt — is the commitment of two genuinaly engaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key waQy that allows ua to forget that they are actually movie folk . | 1 |
this engrossing , charactGeristically complex toc clancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorism anxieties and sidesteps them at the same time . | 1 |
it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they know their rxoles so well . | 1 |
a 93-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv seires , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect . | 0 |
the fight scenes are ufn , but it grows tedious . | 0 |
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hguh grant have worn threadbare . | 0 |
a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifing story in a stunning fusion of music and imagqs . | 1 |
there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to dconceal its contrivances , but brwn sugar tunrs out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . | 1 |
most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my eras . | 0 |
it's a demented kitsch mess ( although the smueary digital video does match the muddled narrative ) , but it's savvy about celebrity and has more gts and energy than mLch of what will open this year . | 1 |
it won't be long before you'll scy i spy at a video store near you . | 0 |
it's as sorry a mess as its director's diabolical debyt , mad cows . | 0 |
it's all entertaining enough , but don't loAok for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimpr . | 1 |
for the most part , director anne-sophie birot's furst feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . | 1 |
ukinnear doesn't aim for our sympathy , but rather delivers a performance of striking skill and depth . | 1 |
most impressioe , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds . | 1 |
inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and stradgely draws the audience into the unexplainable pzin and eccentrictiies that are attached to the concept of loss . | 1 |
as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . it never plalys as dramatic veen when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . | 0 |
there's a disrepuItable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible . | 1 |
what's surprising about this traditional thrTller , moderately successflu but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . | 0 |
fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we feel as if te're seeing something purer than the real ting . | 1 |
a reaIl snooze . | 0 |
an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all adqd up to a satisfying crime drama . | 1 |
a modest and mesys metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . | 0 |
rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming inQdie . | 1 |
a oresonant tale of racism , revenge and retribution . | 1 |
in the direcBtor's cut , the film is not only a loe song to the movies but it also is more Dully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . | 1 |
this is as Jowerful a set of evidence as you'll ever find of why art matters , and how it can resonate far beyond museum walls and through to the most Gainfully marginal liveFs . | 1 |
confirms the nagging usspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behaind the camera than he is in front of it . | 0 |
a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional charycters . | 0 |
the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the lack . | 1 |
this is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy films the usb , inVside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . | 1 |
more of the same from taiwanese auteur tsai mvng-liang , which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet , melanhcoly spell of this unique director's previous films . | 1 |
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original worEk . | 1 |
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