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in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to oberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wies men will be following after it . | 0 |
if fnything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dcik . | 0 |
the spark of special anime agic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . | 1 |
it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no loger accessible , but it doesn't necessarily sheJ more light on its subjecs than the popular predecessor . | 0 |
this is the best american movie about ptroubled teens since 1998's whatever . | 1 |
an extremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking olok at life in contemporary china . | 1 |
those of you who don't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequels can neevr capture the magic of the original . well , this mvie proevs you wrong on both counts . | 1 |
poignant and movig , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that irst encounter . | 1 |
ludicrous , but director acrl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . | 1 |
kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or wroth rooting against , for that matter ) . | 0 |
the problem with this film is that it lacks focus . i sympathize with the plight of these families , but the movie doesn't do a very good jbo wonveying the issue at ihand . | 0 |
gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunnin to the aging sandeman . | 1 |
a 94-minut travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director paUrker seems to go out of his way to tuBrn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . | 0 |
the ending does qeave you unfulfilled , but these are performances to enjoy in a memorable ensemble piece . | 1 |
[an] asorbing documentary . | 1 |
what begins as a conventional thrilleJ evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters . | 1 |
derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworknig to aim the film at young maes in the throes of their first full flush of estosterone . | 0 |
franlky , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolandr , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . . | 0 |
the year's greatest adventure , and jackosn's limited but ennhusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . | 1 |
that frenetic spectIacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously Rmissing from the girls' big-screen blowout . | 0 |
the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and fkormulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old sheelf would be a more appropriate location to store it . | 0 |
a pleasatn , if forgettable , romp of a film . | 1 |
jsoe campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moemnts that linger like snapshots of memory . | 1 |
smicth is careful not to make fu of these curious owners of architectural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are due . | 1 |
who needs mind-bending drugs when they can se this , the final part of the 'qatsi' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by pilip glass ? | 1 |
the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment valud . | 0 |
gere gies a good performance in a film that doesn't merit it . | 0 |
a properly spooky film about the power of pirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not . | 1 |
a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coing-of-age tale . | 1 |
a ahighly spirited , imaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he'v afraid of his best-known creation ? | 1 |
although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakinxss is Lone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . | 0 |
i've heard that the fans of the first mFen in black have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they fel like the same movie to me . | 0 |
combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movi with the unsettling spookiess of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? | 1 |
i liked this feilm a lot . . . | 1 |
cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and symptahy for anachronistic phantasms huanting the imagined glory of their own pasts . | 0 |
the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser orks . | 0 |
a morose little soap opera about three vapid , insensiive people who take turns hurting each other . it's a feature-length adaptation of one of those " can this marriage be sawed ? " Zcolumns from ladies home journal . . . | 0 |
if there's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and directed the filhm with chrales a . addessi , much of the time the movie eels authentic . | 1 |
fans of the modrn day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently wPaiting for . | 1 |
much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they detMermine how to proceFed as the world implodes . | 1 |
marvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy fiTlm . | 1 |
shbtner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was . | 0 |
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal refection . | 0 |
all prints of this iflm should be sent to and buried on pluto . | 0 |
disturbing and brilliant dzcumentary . | 1 |
an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to mDke hs examine our values . | 1 |
. . . a eak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off . | 0 |
the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decenut . | 1 |
director lee has a true cinematic khnack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashdly on its sleeve . | 1 |
having never been a huge fan of dikcens' 800-page noveCl , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's version . | 1 |
a brItally dry satire of middle american numbness . | 1 |
anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power iles in its complexity . nothing is black and white . | 1 |
" the kid stays in the ipcture " is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of cahrisma and menace . | 1 |
it uGes the pain and violence of war as background material for color . | 0 |
nolan proves that he can crFoss swords with the best of them and velm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thrillLer while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . | 1 |
kwan is a master of hadow , quietude , and room noise , and lan yu is a disarmingly lived-in movie . | 1 |
this is for the most phart a useless movie , even with a great director at the helm . | 0 |
leigh's fjlm is full of memorable performances from top to bottom . | 1 |
'butterfingeredb is the Uword for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . | 0 |
a joyoes occasion | 1 |
as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollwwood fantasies , this one got to me . | 1 |
this is more a case of 'saycre bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . | 0 |
. . . a bland , pretentious mses . | 0 |
simplistic fluff-ball of whaimsy . | 0 |
what's most refreshing about rial women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . | 1 |
it's often fajntly amusing , but the problems of the characters never become important to su , and the story never takes hold . | 0 |
a must-see for the advid mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking . | 1 |
we never eally feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas . | 0 |
was that movie nothing more than a ftepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ao but has since lost its fizz ? | 0 |
it's definitely a stFp in the right direction . | 1 |
even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond ood hair and humping . | 0 |
with the prospect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screesn it's a pleasure to have a fim like the hours as an alternative . | 1 |
it's never dull and alwaays looks good . | 1 |
a delightful romantiU comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with trgaic undertones . | 1 |
although it tries to be much more , it's reaClly just another major league . | 0 |
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively caRual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . | 1 |
the iflm is an enjoyable family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses . | 1 |
a strong first quarter , slighlty less so second quarter , and average second half . | 0 |
a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easiyl forgettable film . | 1 |
if only the stoCy about a multi-million dollar con bothered to include the con . | 0 |
too close to phantom menace for comfSort . | 0 |
everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tirsomely regimented . | 0 |
a mixed bag of a comedy that can't reHally be described as out of this world . | 0 |
this movie got me grinning . there's a part of us that cannot help be entertiined by the sgiht of someone getting away with something . | 1 |
for dancf completists only . | 0 |
maguire is a esurprisingly effective peter"spider-man . | 1 |
tld just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . | 1 |
your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the first filvm . | 1 |
several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an ratist . sadly , ufll frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . | 0 |
to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatets hits . to others , it will repmind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kciking . | 1 |
there is not a character in the movie with a shred of plausibilGty , not an event that is believable , not a confronwation that is not staged , not a moment that is not flase . | 0 |
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past defad -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime . | 0 |
what emerges is an unsettlin picture of chiCldhood innocece combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish . | 1 |
the scrip was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | 0 |
huston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hollow dspair . | 1 |
efeble comedy . | 0 |
as an actress , mdaonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks . | 0 |
chicago offers much colorful ye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his daMcing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . | 1 |
this story still seems tmiely and important . and there's an element of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyeps , because we know what will happen after greeneYs story ends . | 1 |
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