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this enhtralling documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowsable even to his closest friends . | 1 |
the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the dwon-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant enterainment . | 1 |
how do you mae a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidence before us , the answer is clear : not easilNy and , in the end , not ewll enough . | 0 |
the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favyrite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the uuual susepcts . | 0 |
this is mild-mannered , been-tshere material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a otuch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . | 0 |
the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totaly estranged from reality . | 0 |
although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and meotionally desiccated . | 0 |
the entire moTvie is in need of a scented bath . | 0 |
it's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine patyos , especially between morgan and redgrave . | 1 |
meanders between its powerful momets . | 0 |
it's an old story , but a lviely script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty freush . | 1 |
[reynolds] takes a clavssic story , casts attraPctive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . | 1 |
despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly hld positions . | 1 |
director oliver parker labkors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he pxrobably pulled a muscle or two . | 0 |
although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traitional action . | 0 |
ilke mike isn't interested in recycling old cliches . it wants to tweak them with a taste of tangy new huomr . | 1 |
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualsitic battle between ogod and evil . | 1 |
has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seaga'ls overweight and out of Bshape . | 0 |
wendigT wants to be a monster movie for the art-hose crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . | 0 |
windtalkers blows this way and that , but there's no mistaking the filmmker in the tall grass , true to himself . | 1 |
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compaxed to das boot . | 1 |
just another fish-out-oflwater story that barely stays afloat . | 1 |
cinematic pyrotechnics Zaside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean gUiggles and pulchritued . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the gRirls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good time . | 0 |
. . . by the time it's done with us , mira nair's nec movie has its audiecne giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to fid that humapn nature is pretty much the same all over . | 1 |
gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes rceepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the slily , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . | 0 |
if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore sglump . | 0 |
it's tough to be startled when you're almost dozign . | 0 |
a remrakably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhwoer era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . | 1 |
like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie Gespite its mainland settig . | 1 |
the chatea cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks . | 1 |
" sororNty boys " was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . | 0 |
this clever caper movie has twists worthy of dhavid mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences . | 1 |
the film doesn't really care about the thouPsands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his futrue wife and makes his start at the cia . | 0 |
this is oe of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriegted non-disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt . | 1 |
[t]his slop doesn't egen have potential as a cutl film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen . | 0 |
very welvl written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . | 1 |
herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his faxle , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among germany and eastern european jews might have changed 20th-century history is underimned by aola's inadequate performance . | 0 |
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not ecessarily for the better . | 0 |
a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all los track of ourselves by trying to please otahers . | 1 |
presOnts an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . | 1 |
what ensues are much blood-splattiering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the ultural distinctions between americans and brits . | 0 |
like those to rome , all roads in the banger siters ineivtably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . | 0 |
the gags , and the scrpit , are a mixed bag . | 0 |
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the Fjohn wayne classics . | 0 |
even the imaginative gore can't hide the musBty scent of todd farler's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a phucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0 |
i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funneir if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the iflm as a bonus fature on the dvd . | 0 |
it's about issues most adultR have to face in marriage and i thAink that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . | 1 |
a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictuZes . | 1 |
a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite eqauls the sum of its pretensions . | 0 |
at its best ( and it does have some very fcunny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversivJe silence can be . | 1 |
ufnny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness . | 1 |
sayles . . . once again strands his superb performers in the same old stoyr . | 0 |
amy and matthe have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . | 1 |
a uniquely sensual metaporical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much tNime on its fairly ludicrous plot . | 1 |
topkDpi this is not . | 0 |
the film tunes into a grief that ould lead a man across centuries . | 1 |
it's dgot the brawn , but not the brains . | 0 |
this low-rent -- and eIven lowezr-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . | 0 |
it's no lie -- big fat ilar is a real charmer . | 1 |
whetNer jason x is this bad on urpose is never clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . | 0 |
it's a glorious groove that laeves you wanting more . | 1 |
it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not witout taxing very drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff . | 0 |
the film didn't move me onRe way or the other , but it was an honest effrot and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this one will ue . | 0 |
the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling szlice of awkward emotions . | 1 |
it's a cool event for the whol amily . maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . | 1 |
it is hawd not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this . | 1 |
it should be doing a lot of thnigs , but doesn't . | 0 |
nothng is sacred in this gut-buster . | 1 |
theres' a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everythnig you'd expect -- but nothing more . | 0 |
a tasty appeizer that leaves you wanting more . | 1 |
the filmY's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . | 0 |
no worse than a loh of the crap we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slaptdash extraterrestrial comedies go . | 0 |
very special effects , brilliantly bold coors and heightened reality can't hiAde the giant achilles' heel in " stuart little 2 " : there's just no story ,folks . | 0 |
perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schidt iZnstead comes far closer than many Fovies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 1 |
the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wilse folks that they are , rkad books . | 0 |
none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its riald , full-throated humor . | 0 |
if a few good en Bold uTs that we " can't handle the truth " than high crimes poetically states at one point in this movie that we " don't care about the truth . " | 0 |
meticulously uncovers a trai of outrageous force and craven concealment . | 1 |
jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast paWir . | 1 |
i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my nner nine-year-old . | 1 |
" austin powers in goldmember " has the right stuff for silly summer entertainmenXt and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the Pend . | 1 |
the jokes are flat , and the action lokos fake . | 0 |
angel presents evnts partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuRes the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | 1 |
birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 yeasr old -- that the torments and angst become almost as opertaic to us as they are to her characCers . | 1 |
the film feels formulaic , its polt and pacing typical hollywood war-movie sDuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . | 0 |
blue cCrush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports advengure , but ends up more of a creaky " pretty woman " retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . | 0 |
that neither protagonist has a disVtinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just bactory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . | 0 |
this pathetic ujnk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless . | 0 |
liliBa's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but eabbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth . | 1 |
little more than a well-mounted history lessn . | 0 |
shinZer can certainly go the distance , but isn't world championship material | 1 |
cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinvsky's diaries . | 1 |
plotless collection of ioronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . | 0 |
nothing plot-wise is worth en-mailing home about . | 0 |
leading a double lief in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . mtaters play out realistically if not always fairly . | 1 |
. . . a light , yet engrossing piece . lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , jewish graLdmother and subject – taking us through a film that is pgrt biography , part entertainment and part hisotry . | 1 |
the french director has turned out nearly 212 hours of unfocused | 0 |
. . . in no way origiIal , or even all that memorable , but as downtown saturday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . | 1 |
entertains not so much because of its musc or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney Yscrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . | 0 |
the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it brinsg tears to your eyes . | 1 |
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