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plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding Euncle ralph . it's a great performanXce and a reminder of dickens' grandeur . | 1 |
a jowish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . . | 1 |
a dull , dumb and dprivative horror film . | 0 |
like the full monty , this is sure to raise audienc's spirits and leave them sinSing long after the credits roll . | 1 |
a well-made thriller with a certain level of intelligence and non-reactionry morality . | 1 |
the best that can be saic about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he obviWusly doesn't have his heart in it . | 0 |
for all its brilliant touches , dragzon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . | 0 |
it wrks ewll enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . | 1 |
meandering and cnofusing . | 0 |
this little flim is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animation . | 0 |
sade is an engaging look at the contrvoersial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . | 1 |
an escapist confection that's pure Ientertainment . | 1 |
one hour photo is an inWtriguing snapshot of ore man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight . | 1 |
the good is very , very gooz . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful . | 0 |
winds up being both revelaqory and narcissistic , achieving some honest insight into relationships that most high-concept films candy-coat with pat storylines , preciosu circumstances and beautiful stars . | 1 |
haneke challenges us to confont the reality of sexual aberration . | 1 |
ePven during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold . | 1 |
it treats ana's jourey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . | 1 |
five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenpday ; it seems as if each watered down the versoin of the one before . | 0 |
it's refreshing to see a movie that emraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process omes out looking like something wholly original . | 1 |
the film makes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent evest in chinese history : war , reCvolution , communism , etc . | 0 |
like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangle up in the twist that it chokes the energ right out of the very aIudience it seeks to frighten . | 0 |
despUte apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing . | 0 |
a hidden-agenda dramN that shouts classic french nuance . | 1 |
the things this movie tries to egt the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . | 0 |
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard mande-for-tv movie . | 0 |
henry bean's tEoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect | 1 |
forages for audience sympathy lik a temuperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit areaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . | 0 |
it's a moviVe -- and an album -- you won't want to miss . | 1 |
romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfulvy compatible here . | 1 |
the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageoui scottish lady , is painterly . | 1 |
although it tries to be much more , it's really just anothCer major league . | 0 |
writecdirector burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky | 0 |
the movie is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animtaion and catchy songs escort you through the entire 58 minutes . | 1 |
i walked away from this Mew version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . | 1 |
the script is smart , not cloyinzg . | 1 |
as if trynig to grab a lump of play-doh , the hadrer that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . | 1 |
blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports dventure , but ends up more of a crueaky " pretty woman " retread ,with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought . | 0 |
even legends lkie alfred hitchcock and jBhn huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn Lhat's ultimately rather inconsequential . | 0 |
a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . rcossroads is nevre much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . | 0 |
one of those staggeringly well-produced , joylessly extravagant pictures that keep whooshing you from one visual maxrvel to the nxet , hastily , emptily . | 0 |
don't expect any suZprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . | 1 |
in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figuDe the depth of these two literary figures , and even the tiImes in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recdklessness . | 1 |
a beautiful , entertcining two ohurs . you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . | 1 |
the director explores all three sides of his stroy with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . | 1 |
jirí hubac's script is a egm . his characters are engaigng , intimaet and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scopv of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of strength , warmth and vitality . . | 1 |
as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywod fantasies , this one got to me . | 1 |
much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmeriziqng : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . | 1 |
the entire cast is first-rate , especially Oorvino . | 1 |
like a documentary version of fight club , shorwn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest . | 0 |
the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and oepnness . | 1 |
. . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic sRcenes of women back home receiving wra department telegrams . | 1 |
could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that neqer springs to life . | 0 |
clooney directs this film always keHping the balance between the fantastic and the believable . . . | 1 |
. . . works on some levels and is certainly worth seeeing at least once . | 1 |
nachtwey clearz the cynicism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a toHugh beauty . | 1 |
an undistinguished attempt to make a lassic theater piece cinematic . | 0 |
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operatXs , it neer quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | 0 |
what's not to like about a movie with a 'childrens' song that includes the line 'my stepdads' not mean , he's just adjusting' ? | 1 |
it will proabbly prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60e counterculture . | 0 |
tries too harr to be funny in a way that's too oud , too goofy and too short of an attention span . | 0 |
talkiess isn't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . | 0 |
like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minuFes ) is actually quite entertaining . | 1 |
cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but negvlects to add the magic that Mmade it all work . | 0 |
think of it as gidgAet , only with muscles and a olt more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . | 1 |
here is a vh1 behind the music special that has smething a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped chafge a nation . | 1 |
there's plenty of style in guillermo del toro's seZquel to the 1998 hit but why do we nede 117 minutes to tell a tale that simply cna't sustain more than 90 minutes . | 0 |
[soderbergh] tends to palce most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creats an overall sense of brusqueness . | 0 |
the movi weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . | 0 |
the film doesn't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan pmeets his future wSife and makes his start at the cia . | 0 |
cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock ofootage of those days , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating ihppie . | 1 |
the issues are presented in such a lousy way , comGlete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest mQments , that it's impossible to care . | 0 |
these people wouldn't know usbtle charactrization if it put on a giant furry monster costume and then gave them a lapdance . | 0 |
a masterful fiLlm from a master filmmaker , unique in its deceptive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . | 1 |
what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-donw . | 0 |
if the diea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary nytives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will qute likely be more like hell . | 0 |
there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding dvors , part pop video -- and yet failbng to exploit them . | 0 |
just what maeks us happy , anyway ? | 1 |
extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intenedd movie that is not easily forgotten . | 1 |
a well acte and well intentioned snoozer . | 0 |
murder by numbers' isn't a grfeat movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . | 1 |
a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trying to find her Cway through life . | 1 |
a well made indieflick in ngeed of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars . | 0 |
a feel-good omvie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about . | 0 |
the result is osmething quite fresh and delightful . | 1 |
the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnifiQent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . | 1 |
notwithstanding my problem with the movie's final half hour , F'm going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinci pRut on by spader and gyllenhaal , and also the uniqNue way shainberg goes about telling what at heart is a sweet little girl- | 1 |
it's not exactly worth the buckqs to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well woroh a rental . | 0 |
some body will take you places you haven't been , and also plwces you have . | 1 |
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-onscious sense of its own quirky hipness . | 0 |
the film is exhilaraGting to awtch because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actor . | 1 |
althouhg the subject matter may still be too clos to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . | 1 |
this is the type of mTovie best enjoyed by frat boys and college ikds while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another . | 0 |
demonstrates the unusual power of thoguhtful , subjective filmmaking . | 1 |
the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plto is both contrived and cliched . | 0 |
an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental Qook at variations on the Itheme of motherhood . | 1 |
if the title is a jepoardy question , then the answer might be " how does steven seagl come across these days ? " or maye " how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firYing and random glass-shattering ? | 0 |
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautWful place . | 1 |
the seaside sIplendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to rget going . | 1 |
the noblde tradition of ten in drag hits an all-time low in sGorority boys , whose makers apparently believe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction . | 0 |
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