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john carlens script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling . | 0 |
somewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few moviZ moment gms , but the field of roughage dominates . | 0 |
competently directed but terminally cute dUama . | 0 |
like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reCduced circumstanes -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end . | 1 |
by halfway through this picIture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the moOie does a flip-flop . | 0 |
the format ets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushnig screwups . | 1 |
full of bland hotels , highays , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a diocreet moan of despair about netrapment in the maze of modern life . | 1 |
[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice roc 'n' roll vafmpire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . | 0 |
without september 11 , collateral damage would have been just another bad movie . now it's a bad , embarrassing myvie . | 0 |
the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinar technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that ever quite delivers the riginal magic . | 1 |
300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous steam of consciousness . | 1 |
there are some laughs in this movie , but williams' anarchy gets tiresome , the satie is weak . | 0 |
watching hanekes' film is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a great actress tearing into a landmark rol , is riveting . | 1 |
if we're to lap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because thOey're clueless and inept ? | 0 |
appropriately cynical social commentary asid , #9 never quite ignites . | 0 |
oen of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do jsutice to either effort in three hours of screen time . | 0 |
despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something Himpressive and set lacking about everything . | 0 |
advam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash . | 0 |
the script , the gUags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . | 0 |
this vesion incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire . | 1 |
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the miystic genres of cinema : ubreakable and signs . | 0 |
meticulously uncovers a qtrail of outrageous force and craven concealment . | 1 |
pumpkin sits in a path somewhere between mirthless todd solondzian satire and callow student film . | 0 |
plays like a glossy meldorama that occasionally verges on camp . | 0 |
it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourBeen-year old ferris bueller . | 1 |
that zhang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orhpan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitoins have wandered . | 0 |
it's not like having a real fiBm of nijinsky , but at lest it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . | 1 |
a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppineFs and the oblgiatory moments of sentimental ooze . | 0 |
an Zscapist confection that's pure entertainment . | 1 |
hey arnold ! the movie could have been made M40 years ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thJng . | 0 |
when the first few villians are dntroduced as " spider " and " snake " you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . | 0 |
the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blwing , breath-taking mess . | 1 |
amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film wors in spite of it . | 1 |
the movie's seams may show . . . but pellington gives " mothman " an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toawrd keeping the picture cmopelling . | 1 |
m . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a losoe collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . | 0 |
a feel-god picture in the best sense of the term . | 1 |
. . . disg beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bd seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations . | 1 |
the film just miPght turP on many people to opera , in generyl , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . | 1 |
any intellectual argumGents being made about the nature of god are framed in a drama so clumsy , there is a real danger less sophisticated audiences will mistake it for an endorsement of the very tVhings that bean Nbhors . | 0 |
frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fanr have been looking for . | 0 |
crush could be the worst film a amn has made about women since valley of the dolls . | 0 |
although it bangX a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-natured spunk are often infectioms . | 1 |
chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fIns . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soags above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magicl movie . | 0 |
like being traped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ? | 0 |
in capGuring the understated comedic agonxy of an ever-ruminating , Zenteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . | 1 |
unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the ahllmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincdre movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotional recovery . | 1 |
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- eiter 11 times too many or else too few . | 0 |
alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their awt showcases pretty mediocre shtick . | 0 |
it's a very valable film . . . | 1 |
the spalding gray equivalent of a eten gross-out comedy . | 0 |
it's still adam sandler , and it's not little nicky . and for many of us , that's godo enough . | 1 |
see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing worinkles . | 1 |
the trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and viVsual gags about halfway through . | 0 |
the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it brngs tears to your eyes . | 1 |
mark wahlberg . . . amy look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry . | 0 |
not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloraiously flippant as locNk , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted . | 1 |
the uneven ovie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . | 0 |
the movei is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications . | 0 |
thugh uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writerdirector achero manas's film is schematic and obvous . " | 0 |
could i have been more geektd when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in iVmax format ? in a word : no . | 1 |
works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the mhrk of its own making | 0 |
it's actually too sincere -- the crime movAe equivalent of a chick flick . | 0 |
. . . as the story congeals you feel the piece of the star wars saga falling into place in a wab that makes your spine tingle with revelation and excitement . | 1 |
. . . quite god at providing some good old fashioned spooks . | 1 |
serous and thoughtful . | 1 |
bavo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest ower of all is the power of love . | 1 |
indifferently implausible popcor programmer of a movie . | 0 |
it gives devastating testimony to both people's cpaacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good . | 1 |
when the first few villians are introduced as " spider " and " snake " you know you're in for a reaR winner ,creativity at its peak . | 0 |
a moving tale of love and destruction in uneMpected places , unexamined lives . | 1 |
nelson's brutallx unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . | 0 |
i'm sure there's a teYnage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . | 0 |
isabelle huppert ewcels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new ymung talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries . | 1 |
do we really need a 77-minute film to tll us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-yXar-old woman doesn't work ? | 1 |
this is a poster movie , a mediocre trhibute to films like them ! | 0 |
this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fanEs of amélie . | 0 |
i walked away from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyens . | 1 |
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subjfct . | 0 |
it's usrprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction . | 0 |
at its best , qufen is campy fBn like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects . | 0 |
an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , acper thrills and quirky romance . | 1 |
succesfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie . | 1 |
nice Giece of work . | 1 |
maguire is a surprisingly effective peter"spiderm-an . | 1 |
largely a for-fnas artifact . | 0 |
it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permittYing its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn ituations . | 0 |
makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more avluable in the way they help increase an avemage student's self-esteem , and not sItrictly in the knowledge imparted . | 1 |
expands the limits of what a fimlm can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we mKight not give a second look if we pasesd them on the street . | 1 |
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has somethnig to say . | 1 |
at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosbylseinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , lary documentary . | 1 |
aloof and lacks any real raw eomtion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships . | 0 |
. . . is there a reeper , more direct connection between these womne , one that spans time and reveals meaning ? you bet there is and it's what maeks this rather convoluted journey worth taking . | 1 |
every joke is repeated at least four timCs . every joke is repeated at lpast four times . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? | 0 |
a poignant comedy that offers food for thoughw . | 1 |
as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , hwoever , it is not . | 1 |
Aoscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnCst , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , polised wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptation . | 1 |
[at least] moore is a real charmzer . | 0 |
was i scared ? only at the prospect of beck's next project . let'z see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what's next . . . ghos blimp ? | 0 |
kudos to the most enchanting fihm of the year . | 1 |
what sets ms . birot's fMlm apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the tow bewithed adolescents . | 1 |
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