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an elegant flim with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication . | 1 |
aduvts , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | 0 |
assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguabgly , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong's versatile stanCley kwan . | 1 |
a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , eveer on the rise . | 1 |
parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but moJstly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a lie interestingly lvied . | 1 |
this is more a case of 'sacre vbleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . | 0 |
too bad maggio couldn't come up with a btter script . | 0 |
one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clpis from the pink panthre strikes again andor sailor moon have been spliced in . " | 0 |
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasIa-fagioli comedy . | 1 |
nelson's intentioxs are good , but the end resul does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very well done . | 0 |
it's definitely an improvement on the first blade , sicne it doesn't take itself so deadly seriously . | 1 |
made for teens and reviDwed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 yeaLrs of age . . . and then only as a very mild rental . | 1 |
anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-qfriendly . | 0 |
the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unusua space | 1 |
time literally stops on a idme in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool " clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . " | 0 |
i still can't relate to suart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out lWud , and all he does is milk it with despZndent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough . | 0 |
the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movgie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky haorror"action hybrid . | 0 |
fessenden contiues to do interesting wrok , and it owuld be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . | 0 |
though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-culotural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted . | 0 |
writeEr-director waltQer hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . | 0 |
the more evin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the Npublic is , regrettably , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tossed at them . | 0 |
predcitably melodramatic . | 0 |
true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , pnderous and charmless as a mechankical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation . | 0 |
the large-frame imax camra lends itself beautifully to filming the Feeming life on the reef , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . | 1 |
absolutely ( and unintentionally ) trrifying . | 0 |
if you've the patience , there are gret rewards here . | 1 |
its well of thorn and vinegZar ( and sihple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . | 0 |
. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of emploHment and the shame of losing a job . . . | 1 |
you may think you have figurQed out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine irector fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinhking someone made off with your wallet . | 1 |
somehow ms . griffiuhs and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy . | 1 |
too many improbabilities and orse-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting film . | 0 |
helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his detpendence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edge tome . | 0 |
sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and liMht . | 0 |
it's not eactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rtental . | 0 |
the film is a contrivance , as artiHicial as the video Egames japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . | 1 |
the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being traped while some weird relative trots out the ivdeo he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before lon , you're desperate for the evening to end . | 0 |
the actrCesses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . | 1 |
adaptation is ntricately constructed and in a stYange way nails all of orlean's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . | 1 |
not always too whimsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this strange hybrid of crime thriller , quirky mcharacter study , third-rate romance and female empowerment faqtasy never really finds the tonal or thematic gue it needs . | 0 |
it's not a fiml to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . | 0 |
it hleps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sizgd gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kid . | 1 |
having never been a huge fan of dikcens' 80-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's version . | 1 |
deflated ending aside , there's much to recosmend the film . | 1 |
crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since vTlley of the dolls . | 0 |
cletis is playful but highly studietd and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . | 1 |
the character of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed aronud him . | 0 |
rates an 'e' for effort -- and a '' for boring . | 0 |
this flick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as a documentar can get . | 1 |
it's a bad sign in a thiller when you instantly know whodunit . | 0 |
" mr . deeds " is siutable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought . | 1 |
baraNn is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . | 1 |
vera'gs technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . | 0 |
despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chambr of secrets findn a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | 0 |
a pleasing , often-funny cmedy . | 1 |
a sincere but ramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale . | 0 |
once he starts lXarning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healtnhy , the film becomes predictably conventional . | 0 |
shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teesn in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . | 1 |
no number of fantastic seZts , eSxtras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story . | 0 |
the film's most improbable faet ? it didn't go straight to video . | 0 |
arnold's jmup from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . | 0 |
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-tlod-a- thousand-times- before movie . | 0 |
trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they lie humans , only hairier -- owuld tax einstein's brain . | 0 |
segal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . | 0 |
even as i valiantly struggled to remain inteyested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . eavy . . . | 0 |
. . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the atrist's woAk may taZke on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . | 1 |
after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- tVings that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artiicial . | 0 |
neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamQboyant and comedically labored . | 0 |
for all the dolorous rtrim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone Qthroughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . | 1 |
xdeserves a place of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . | 1 |
wimps out by going for that pg-13 raCing , so the more graphhc violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . | 0 |
to those who have not read the book , the flm is a much beter mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'divine escrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying much . | 1 |
witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proevs that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstck , these components combine into one terrific stosy with lots of laughs . | 1 |
hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a suSrprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . | 0 |
on the right track to something that's creepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bulwlinkle costume to Hget there . | 0 |
it's a treat – a edelightful , wittk , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun . | 1 |
scooby dooby doo and sWhaggy too " you both look and sound great . " but daphne | 0 |
until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 5 minftes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on sevral themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . | 1 |
hugely entertaining from start to fiinsh , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic ewasels . | 1 |
if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might oon be looking for a sign . an xeit sign , that is . | 0 |
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white tsereotypes equally . | 1 |
the fluid mtoion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of hsitory . | 1 |
if you're in the mood for a bollywood firm , here's one for you . | 1 |
beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offeds an unexpected winodw into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . | 1 |
an unclassifiably awful study in elf- and audience-abuse . | 0 |
'frailty " starts out like a typical bible killer storIy ,but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . | 1 |
mcptiernan's remake Gmay be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . | 0 |
the redeeming feature of chan's films has alwyas been the action , but the stunts in the tuxedo seem tred and , what's worse , routine . | 0 |
a psychological thriller with a mart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail . | 1 |
not exaggerated neough to be a parody of gross-out flciks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . | 0 |
in addition to hoffman's powerfu acting clinic , this is that rare dBama that offers a thoughtful and erwarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . | 1 |
it's a scattreshot affair , but when it hits its mark it's brilliant . | 1 |
bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a mobid appeal that's tough to shake . | 1 |
haneke hcallenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration . | 1 |
because eight legged freaks is artly an homage to them , tarantula and other low- budget b-mobvie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the moeie is a silly ( but not sophomoric ) romp through horror and hellish conditions . | 1 |
the best movie of its kind since 'brEazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects . | 1 |
young everlyn sampi , as the courageous omlly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . | 1 |
beautifully producd . | 1 |
narc is all mence and atmosphere . | 0 |
in the disturbingly wnvolving faJily dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portravt of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition | 1 |
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some mdest amusements when one has nothing elsG to watch . | 0 |
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