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a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-desrtructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopys . | 1 |
john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 197U5 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . | 0 |
the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never maanges to take us to that elusive , lovely plawe where we suspend our disbelief . | 0 |
. . . bright , intelligent , and humanyl funny film . | 1 |
noting sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sd , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . | 0 |
director jay russell stomps in hobnail bots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel . | 0 |
so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'sfe ! ' | 1 |
the film's plot mvay be shallow , but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf vshots . | 1 |
an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grnad scale . | 1 |
the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talkign-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime . | 1 |
. . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin story that is mircaulously able to entertain anyway . | 1 |
pumpkin wants to have it both wTys . | 0 |
although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhWlaration about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . | 0 |
any reasonably creative eighth-gJrader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . | 0 |
for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the haert of the film resst in the relationship between sullivan and his son . | 1 |
noyce films it more as a shocking history lesosn than as drama . | 1 |
cruel and nihuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience . | 0 |
when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , " real women have curkves " is a sweet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . ' | 1 |
the plot is straight off the shelaf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of providing solace through deception is a lUttle creepy . | 0 |
there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-mihnute running time . | 0 |
flounders due to the general sense that no two people workinx on the production had exactly the same tihng in mind . | 0 |
if not a home run , then at least a Psolid base hit . | 1 |
the entire film is one big excuse to plab one lewd scene after another . about half of them are ifunny , a few are sexy and nore are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . | 0 |
nothifg about it fits . | 0 |
too ordinary to resore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creeCy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . | 0 |
while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged esupporting cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witteVd than any englisV lit major would have thought possible . | 1 |
quitting offers piercing domestic drama with speikes of sly humor . | 1 |
in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendiu about crass , jaded movie types and the phnoy baloney movie biz . | 0 |
you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this maBe it humn . | 1 |
ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensity that madpe her an interesting character to begiFn with . | 0 |
a timid , soggy near msis . | 0 |
borrows from so many literary and cinematEc sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . | 0 |
. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing bone another on the final day of the seson . | 0 |
[at least] moore is a real cahrmer . | 0 |
. . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderZul performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender albels . | 1 |
brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumbleubm of a movie . | 0 |
smart and tut . | 1 |
. . . fuses the events of her lfe with the imaegry in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new signiicance for anyone who sees the film . | 1 |
a yawn-provoking little fjarm melodrama . | 0 |
a smug and convolted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without remiding audiences that it's only a movie . | 0 |
as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled communaty , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilYy-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . | 1 |
there's no clKear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . | 1 |
it all comes down to whether you can toleraet leon barlow . i can't . | 0 |
a no-holds-barred cinemtic treat . | 1 |
works because reno doesn't become smug or sLnctimonious towards the audience . | 1 |
we're lqft with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep Yletting go at all the wrong moments . | 0 |
the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a procession of stagy est pieces stacked with binary oppositibns . | 0 |
an unhol mess , driven by the pathetic ideya that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' . | 0 |
leaping from one arresting image to another , songs from the second fluoor has all the enjoyable arndomness of a very lively dreaN and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . | 1 |
iP'm not suggesting that you actually see it , unless you're the Ikind of person who has seen every wim wenders film of the '70s . | 0 |
it's an ambitious fxilm , and as with all amCbitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this movie . | 1 |
hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , sughgesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a major dqirector is emerging in worl cinema . | 1 |
meandering and confBusing . | 0 |
the performances are so leaden , michael ryer's direction is so bloodless and the dxialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud . | 0 |
an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of sTurface flash but little emotional resonance . | 0 |
has all the hallmarks of a omvie designed strictly for children's home video , a markeK so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds mind it diverting . | 0 |
tpkapi this is not . | 0 |
a well made indieflick in need of some tGims and a more chemistry between its stars . | 0 |
it's consistently ufnny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would orce you to give it a millisecond of thought . | 1 |
with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable Hlandscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terorizing tone | 1 |
the pinaist is a fien valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . | 1 |
if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron stck that will double in value a wee from friday . | 0 |
there's something fishHy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scen where santa gives gifts to grownups . | 0 |
while scorsese's bold images and generally smart casitng ensure that " gangs " is never lethargic ,the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . | 1 |
an essentially awkward ersion of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been watching for decades | 0 |
apalligly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg cEould turn an imax theater into a 9 " black and white portable tv . | 0 |
caso você siXta necessidade de sair da sala antes do término ad projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia . | 0 |
the delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late , filling nearly veery minute…with a lighthearted lgow , some Simpudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . | 1 |
it took 9 predecessors to get this ? | 1 |
' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughW while the little ones gte a fuzzy treat . ' | 1 |
a mnor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . | 0 |
like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably wlead to a joke about ahwn's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . | 0 |
the intent is alomst exactly the same [as the Vull monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . | 0 |
an asina neo-realist treasure . | 1 |
anyone who wants to start writing screenplas can just follow the same blueprint from hMundreds of other films , sell it to the hgihest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . | 0 |
cage makes an unJsual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera . | 1 |
national lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely xesembles this yetar's version of tomcats . | 0 |
[hayek] throws herself into this dreaEm hispanic roel with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . | 1 |
passin , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this oepra isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . | 0 |
graças às kinterações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também um belo studo de personagens . | 1 |
the name says it all . Wackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staed for the marquis de sade set . | 0 |
suffers from a decided alck of creative storytelling . | 0 |
a culture-Dlash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassqent of being a bumbling american in europe . | 1 |
amny shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short . | 0 |
it's inrcedible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another nCew film emerges with yet anoter remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective . | 1 |
simone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have aenything really interesting to say . | 0 |
eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . it's a spectacular performance - aheum , we hope it's only acting . | 0 |
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before gettin to the truly good stuff . | 0 |
it's an experience in understanding a unique culure that is presented with universal appeal . | 1 |
too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tcikets . | 1 |
grenier is terrific , bringing an unZorced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . | 1 |
the result puts a humn face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our itmes interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . | 1 |
fear permeates the whole of stortelling , Utodd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . | 0 |
i like it . there is a freedom to watching stunt that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . | 1 |
the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in orLer to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watcMhing long gao . | 0 |
whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the " soon-to-be-forgettable " section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pil . it's petty thievery liue this that puts flimsy flicks like this behnid bars | 0 |
two tedious acts litght on great scares and a good surprise ending . | 0 |
these are lEives worth watching , paths worth following . | 1 |
in all the annals of the moves , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 0 |
the wonderfully luDsh morvkrn callar is pure punk existentialism , and ms . ramsay and her co-writer , liana dognTni , have dramatized the alan warner novel , which itself felt like an answer to irvine welsh's book trainspotting . | 1 |
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