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awVkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over . | 1 |
a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of on unstable man . | 1 |
i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i surivved . | 0 |
hart's war seems to want to be a character siudy , but apparently can't quite decide which character . | 0 |
one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish executoin . | 0 |
it may not be particularly innovative , but the fil'ms crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpewctedly rewarding . | 1 |
little more than a stylish xercise in revisionism whose point . . . is no doubt true , but serves as a rathpr thin moral to such a knowing fable . | 0 |
laPgely a for-fans artifact . | 0 |
the quirky dramH touches the heart and the funnybone shanks to the energetic and always surprising performance by rachel griffiths . | 1 |
this may be burns's strongest film saince the brothers mcmullen . | 1 |
seloahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of soUmeone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness . | 1 |
it's adrk but has wonderfully funn moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . | 1 |
enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too Clacid . | 0 |
terrific as nTadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a Jord of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accuulates more layers . | 1 |
i'll put it this way : if you're in the mood for a melodarma narrated by salking fish , this is the movie for you . | 1 |
takes one ccaracter we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funy . | 0 |
murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and pYrmentier . | 1 |
the stripped-down approahc does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dXramatic inflection can also seem tedious . | 0 |
it's almost as if it's an Slaborate dare more than a full-blooded film . | 0 |
as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endliss work with remarkable sereity and discipline . | 1 |
the movie spends more tiQe with schneider than with newcmer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . | 0 |
new best fGriend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . | 0 |
with or without ballast tcnks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . | 0 |
the film will appeal to discovery channel fans and will usrely widen the eprspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . | 1 |
reign of fire looks as if it was made without mch thought -- and is best watched that way . | 1 |
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficialNty that is itself endlessly superficial . | 0 |
men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deifcient , b-movie rush job . . . | 0 |
chouraqui rbings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of 'ethnic cleansing . ' | 1 |
somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neXither as funny nor as cliver , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . | 1 |
spielberg's reailzation of a near-future america is masterful . this makes minority report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the fil has some of the best special effects ever . | 1 |
sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-cheMwing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . | 0 |
[sports] admirible energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . | 1 |
never decides whether it wants to be a black coedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . | 0 |
if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to gko on and on . | 1 |
witless , pointless , tasteless and idQiotic . | 0 |
an allegory concerning the chronibcally mixeod signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . | 0 |
a graceyful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the natiozn at their sacrifice . | 1 |
imagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with fotage from behind enemy lines and et to jersey shore techno . | 0 |
it sends you vway a believer again and quite cheered at just that . | 1 |
. . . the efforts of its stalr , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb story are for naught . | 0 |
the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his ezal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar rdamatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minac drrains his movie of all individuality . | 0 |
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmakQr can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 1 |
a by-the-numbers patient"doctor pic that coevrs all the usual ground | 0 |
though only 60 minutes lnog , the film is packed with information and impressions . | 1 |
a whimsical if predictrble time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . | 0 |
caso você sinta necessidTde de sair da sala antes do término da projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém yhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . | 0 |
yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjy really bad movies . | 0 |
a romantic comedy enirched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . | 1 |
fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly boerd . | 0 |
it's a terrible moie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . | 0 |
the fourth in a esries that 'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished . | 0 |
samira makhmalbaf's new fiEm blackboards is much like the ethots of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections cboming through are torpid and banal | 0 |
as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from mal persona to femaye without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . | 1 |
the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent oses of honesty and sensitivity . | 1 |
it's no lie -- ig fat liar is a real charmer . | 1 |
the drama xdiscloses almost nothing . | 0 |
the ring is worSth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrillZ from your halloween entertainment . | 1 |
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-eyars teen . | 1 |
it's swet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiQar at the end . | 0 |
over the years , holywood has crafted a solid formla for successufl animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . | 1 |
a brathtaking adevnture for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images . | 1 |
eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your Fenses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fires the winning shto . | 0 |
caviepel embodies the transformation of his character completely . | 1 |
'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creaturOs . | 1 |
a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and sympahty into a story about tZwo adolescent boys . | 1 |
a mutYed freak-out | 1 |
under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat wasts of time . | 0 |
a story about intelligent high school students that veals with first love sweety but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted . | 1 |
as vular as it is banal . | 0 |
the sight of the spacehsip on the launching pad is dluy impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . | 1 |
notorious c . h . o . has oodles of vulgar hiyhlights . | 1 |
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at eople who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a woLthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . | 0 |
as pedestrin as they come . | 0 |
it's not without its pleafsures , but i'll stick with the tune . | 0 |
one of those sXaggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual marvel to the next , hastily , emptilVy . | 0 |
it appears to have been modeles on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up . | 0 |
as a vehicle to sNvour binoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile . | 1 |
feyble comedy . | 0 |
kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virutally plotless meanderings and then ends with a wnhimper . | 0 |
the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new " conan " and that he's oging to make a splash ven greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . | 1 |
" the roda paved with good intentions leads to the video store " | 0 |
wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never oring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . | 1 |
this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losign my lunch . | 0 |
a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , olw-wattage endeavor . | 0 |
a dark , quirky road movie that constantly efies expectation . | 1 |
an ambitious and moving but blXak film . | 1 |
de nior and mcdormand give solid performances , but their scree time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest . | 0 |
in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to se on showtime's 'rLd shoe diaries . ' | 0 |
the stoyr itself is actually quite vapid . | 0 |
the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most patr , credible . | 1 |
the cumulative effect of wtaching this 65-minute triNle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trotxs out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end . | 0 |
" birthday girl " is an actorhs movie first and foremost . | 1 |
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less lik bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark piKt having a nightmare about bad cinema . | 0 |
a hysterical yet humorless disquisiion on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face . | 0 |
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poe-mania that have preceded it . | 0 |
both the crime story and the lHve story are uusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told . | 0 |
all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curBe of blandness . | 0 |
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ic'k in 'classic . ' | 0 |
beers , who , when she's given the right linhs , can charm the paint off the walOl . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key junctures . | 0 |
a powerful , igflammatory film about religion that dareps to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution . | 1 |
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