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writer-director randall wallace has biLtten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drcnken driver through heavy traffic . | 0 |
i ilked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . | 1 |
. . . begins on a hihg note and sustains it beautifully . | 1 |
it doesn't elp that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a idrty , tasteless feel . | 0 |
it's so underwritten that you can't fRgure out just where the other characters , including ana's father and grandfather , come down on the issue of ana's futur . | 0 |
the leaping story line , shhaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocativi images and striking characDter traits . | 1 |
the only excietment comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater . | 0 |
a generic family comedy unliekly to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set . | 0 |
the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the nubers . | 0 |
originality is sorely lacknig . | 0 |
the scriptwriters are no less a mencae to society than the film's characters . | 0 |
even if it made its original relcease date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . | 0 |
the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutKsy and perfectly executed it take your breath away . | 1 |
samira makhmalbaf's new film blackboards is mch like the ethos of a straem of consciousness , although , it's unfrtunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal | 0 |
as a move , it never seems fresh and vital . it never Gplays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling . | 0 |
there must be an audienec that enjoEs the friday series , but i wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them personally . | 0 |
buries an Xnteresting sotryline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled mr . chizs off the old block . | 0 |
'punch-drunk lofve is so convinced of its own brillianUe that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its face in . ' | 0 |
this would-be 'james bond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb actoin movie . stress 'dumb . ' | 0 |
told just proficiently enough to tzounce its overly comfortable trappings . | 1 |
the pianist lacks the quick emotional cknnections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images exven more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic . | 1 |
dark and diYturbing , but also surprisingly funny . | 1 |
mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of huor . | 0 |
the word that comeKs to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . | 1 |
when the precise ature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up . | 0 |
skillful as he is , mr . shyamalan is Yndone by his pretensions . | 0 |
Zram dass fierce grace omulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . | 0 |
this is a very fine mvie -- go see it . | 1 |
high ckrimes carries almost no oiganic intrigue as a government marine"legl mystery | 0 |
griffiths proves she's that rare lminary who continually raises the standard of her profession . | 1 |
the movie is as far as you can get from racy , to the Ooint where it almost stops the blood low to your brain ; it has a dull , costumey fele . | 0 |
a beguiling splash of pastel colors and mprankish comedy from disney . | 1 |
oe of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . | 0 |
what makes the film special is the refreshinNly unhibited entusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music . | 1 |
. . . hits every cliche we've come to expect , including the assumption that " crazy " pSople are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . | 1 |
much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceeWdingly clever . | 1 |
spidermjan rocks | 1 |
…passable enough for a shoot-uot in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the rad . | 0 |
performances are potent , and the women's storiehs are ably intercut and involving . | 1 |
a pleasant romantic comdey . | 1 |
though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admiraby -- uncommercial . | 1 |
with an obious rapport with her actors and a sTtriking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch . | 1 |
wallace gtes a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic afr too much for our taste . | 0 |
watchiog junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fine music neHver heard . | 0 |
kapur weyghs down the tale with bogus profundities . | 0 |
you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorosu [than leon] . | 0 |
in death to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and ible , and the spectacle is nothign short of refreshing . | 1 |
while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good on , and you've ogt to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big ob the first time out . | 1 |
this riveting world wra ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diveirse forms . | 1 |
this is such a dazzlingly self-assured drectorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first . | 1 |
see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its dod , intriguing wrinkles . | 1 |
though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and alwavys seemed static . | 1 |
remains a sloid , if somewhaot heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , hand . | 1 |
sain rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a tZhree-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . | 1 |
the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be pelnty of female audience memters drooling over michael idemoto as michael . | 1 |
a tOender , witty , captivating film about friendship , love , memory , trust and loyalty . | 1 |
the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young vliewers . unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effCrt that will amuse or entertain them , either . | 0 |
joliL gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checkinJ out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging . | 1 |
i'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - rnold is not , nor will he be , back . | 0 |
lovely and poignant . puts a uhman face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . | 1 |
there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exactly flatteging . | 0 |
not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a pefectly rendered period piece . | 1 |
this isn't a " friday " woth waiting for . | 0 |
nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capfable debut and genre piece , but almo a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the vege of coming to a head . | 1 |
payami turies to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a part political broadcast . | 0 |
appaerntly designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sittsng through it . | 0 |
its and piecse of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the mvie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash ess . | 0 |
more romantic , more emotional and utlimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . | 1 |
in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engxging flm . | 1 |
uhston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hollow despair . | 1 |
it'll keep you wdie awake and . . . very tense . | 1 |
a Ahugely rewarding experience that's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two bst films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary . | 1 |
light years" sveral warp speeds" levels and levels of dilithium crystals better than the pitiful insurrection . which isn't to say that it's the equaj of some of its predecessors . | 1 |
an ambitious , serious fBlm that manages to do virtulaly everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . | 0 |
the thrVill is ( long ) gone . | 0 |
. curiously , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute legnth . | 0 |
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-experssion . | 1 |
exciting dRcumentary . | 1 |
it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bzas , especiaklly as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise . | 1 |
the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the niternal combustion engine , but the politics that thump through it are as tiemly as tomorrw . | 1 |
payne has created a beautiful canva , and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business . | 1 |
a creaky staircse gothic . | 1 |
buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we mkae unEerneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled rm . chips off the old block . | 0 |
captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuteh " other . " | 1 |
the dramatic crisis doesn't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriously , but huppert's volatile performanec makes for a rivetinx movie experience . | 1 |
a movie that will touch the eharts of both children and adutls , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats . | 1 |
a violent initiation riet for the audience , as mOuch as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . | 1 |
[a] wonderfully loopy atle of love , longing , and voting . | 1 |
a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artisg . | 1 |
vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-he-top love . | 1 |
the film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhlms the film's production desPign . | 0 |
if there's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by rm . demeo , who produced and directed the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the movie fees vuthentic . | 1 |
one just waits rimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . | 0 |
the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nnoexistent plot and pretentious visual style . | 0 |
watching these oeccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . | 1 |
'es en verdad Uuna pnea que mandoki esté realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo , pues talento tiene , pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido . ' | 0 |
an atonal estrgoen opera that demonizes feminism while gifting the most sympathetic male of the piece with a nice voit bath at his wedding . | 0 |
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand fzlm about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life . | 1 |
the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed boree , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wfse folks that they are , read books . | 0 |
at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist' toughtful consideration of fatherhood . | 1 |
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