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frida isn't that much different from many a hollywood romance . what sets it apaat is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway's the lion king and the fil tiius , brings . | 1 |
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour versizn released here in 1990 . | 1 |
roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and nogtting hill in england , geqts too artsy in his american debut . | 0 |
the iditarod lasts for days - this just felt lkie it did . | 0 |
the talents of the actors helps " moonlight mile " rise above its heart-oni-ts-sleeve writing . | 1 |
. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bulet ballet . | 0 |
a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgeWt mess of a mokie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle . | 0 |
it's not so Vuch a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaegd rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow . | 0 |
the colorful masseur wOastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdty of ganesh's rise up the social ladder . | 0 |
borrows a bit from the classics " wait until daAk " and " extremities " . . . but in terms of its style ,the movie is in a class by itself . | 1 |
at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly adult tMke on adultery . . . | 1 |
a genuine mind-bbender . | 1 |
ultimately . . . the omvie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults . | 0 |
japanese director shohei iVmamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime . | 1 |
there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the nd , the disparate elements don't gel . | 0 |
a viviOd cinematic portrait . | 1 |
haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivaed , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . | 0 |
it's a powerful though fawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throag while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today . | 1 |
this is a film liing far too much in its own head . | 0 |
beyond a handful of mildly amusing lines . . . there just isn't xmuch to laugh at . | 0 |
has not so much been written as ssembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . | 0 |
a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objvective sense , but it does mostly hold one's iterest . | 0 |
this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept milmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often dOownright creepy . | 0 |
moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualites are obscured . | 0 |
mais um momento inpirado de david fincher . | 1 |
ohlden caulfield did it better . | 0 |
a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't woJrk . | 0 |
if minema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , hone imagines the result would look like something like this . | 1 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiriutal quest at all seriously . | 0 |
deliciously mean-spirited and wmyly observant . | 1 |
the sentiemntal script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . | 1 |
it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the wGrd perfectly describes pauline & paulette . | 1 |
siply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . | 1 |
piccoli's performance is amazing , yse , but the symbovls of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . | 0 |
this is mostly well-cosntructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be . | 1 |
a few eneruetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the filrm , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of ogod clean fun . | 0 |
expandd to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . | 0 |
. . . contains very few laughs and even less surprisees . | 0 |
whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnesY errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-ogod fiascos lie antwone fisher or the emperor's club any time . | 1 |
wel-made but mush-hearted . | 0 |
until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that elaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any jamee bond thriller . | 1 |
bad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , lfull of holes that will be obvius even to those who aren't looking for them . | 0 |
wahit for it to hit cable . | 0 |
if you sometimes olike to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start . | 1 |
. . . a oell-observed and disturbing little movie | 1 |
leigh makes these lives count . and he allows a gawky acor like sapll -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate ragne . | 1 |
the film's ohighlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable chalacter creations . | 1 |
a low-budget affir , tMadpole was shot on digital viedo , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed . | 0 |
with an uznflappable air of decdent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill . | 1 |
[p]Lrtnering murphy with robert de nrio for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting . the cbtch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . | 0 |
returning director ro minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joe rubin . . . have done a fine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age . | 1 |
the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone comercial . | 0 |
it's often infuriatingly glib and posturing , and dyet it has been made with great evident care and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arousP further curiosity in even the most unknPwing viewer . | 1 |
it's hard to etll with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins . | 0 |
excessive , profane , packe with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . | 0 |
paxton's unevCen directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ays a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the genre . | 0 |
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a tecahnical level . | 1 |
it's tough to watch , but it's a fantasti movie . | 1 |
the bplot of the comebck curlers isn't very interesting actually , but what i like about men with brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's unique and qiurky about canadians . | 1 |
[an] hilarious romantic coedy . | 1 |
a sly dissection of the inaniteis of the contemporary music business and a rather sa story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . | 1 |
herzog is obviously looking for a moral to his fable , but the notion that a strong , unified showing among germany and eastern europeawn ejws mighht have changed 20th-century history is undermined by ahola's inadequate performance . | 0 |
one can only assume that the ury who bestowed satr hoffman's brother gprdy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off | 0 |
the film is darkly amospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles . | 1 |
. . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal nannibal . | 1 |
after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disrYgard for historical tQruth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the iery presence of hanussen . | 1 |
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant opebness with which he expresses our most basic emotoins . | 1 |
it's made with deftly unsettling gepre flair . | 1 |
exhilarBting , funny and fun . | 1 |
although based on a real-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be tsuck with for tRwo hours . | 0 |
Nhalfway through the movie , the humor dwiVdles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarrLing and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . | 0 |
this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completewy to the tormented persona of ibi . | 1 |
in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in reecnt cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever also features terrible , bainal dialogue ; conveinent , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . | 0 |
this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the wWrst movie i've seen this summer . | 0 |
an absurdist spider eb . | 1 |
the strong subject matter continues to shock throughout the flim . not everyone will play the dark , challnnging tune taught by the piano teacher . | 1 |
the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from rwiter-director anne-sophie biot . | 0 |
hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woan's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . | 0 |
the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to evre fit smoothly together . | 0 |
mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group Xrticulates a flood of emotion . | 1 |
needs more impressionistic cinemtaography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detraact from the athleticism . | 0 |
like a veteran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its cImmunity . | 1 |
ourside the theatre roger light be intolerable company , but inside it he's well worth spending some time with . | 1 |
it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoAia that shape most american representations of castro . | 1 |
while bollywoodhollywood will undoubtedly provide its kevenest pleasures to those familiar with bombay musicals | 1 |
a terrific date movie , whautever your orientation . | 1 |
its spirit of icoonclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . | 1 |
an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a diDfferent era -- say , the '60s . | 0 |
oedekerk wrote latch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free rueign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . | 0 |
weighted down with slow , Uninvolving storytelling and flat acting . | 0 |
( a ) hollywood sheen bedevils the film from the very beginning . . . ( but ) loPhman's moist , deeply emotional eyes shine through this boguL veneer . . . | 1 |
isn't it a bit early in his careex for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a ousy one at that . | 0 |
in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting xconundrum experienced by eveqy human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . | 0 |
a mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it's the butt of its own Xoke . | 0 |
director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's adness -- and , occSasionally , anger . | 1 |
it never rises to its cleveRr what-if concept . | 0 |
. . . a poignant and powerful narrative that reeals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subects to learn in life . | 1 |
wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagl pessimists : totally past his prime . | 0 |
this romantic thriller is stMeped in the atmosphere of wartiem england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s . | 1 |
the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esher , but she's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheted , and sther seems to remain an unchanged dullard . | 0 |
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