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it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a praody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60 counterculture . | 0 |
the master of disguise may have ade a great saturday kight live sketch , but a great movie it is not . | 0 |
i walked awa from this new version of e . t . just as i hoped i would -- with moist eyes . | 1 |
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the viJlence ) . . . | 0 |
" cremaster 3 " should ocme with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! " | 1 |
those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be pt to sleep or bewildered by the atsy and often pointless visuals . | 0 |
quite frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent woud ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this omvie turned out . | 0 |
'punch-drunk Move is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smsah its face in . ' | 0 |
a hauZnting tale of murder and mayhem . | 1 |
candid and comfortable ; a film that deflty balances action and refleTction as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work . | 1 |
a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lrak of a movie . | 1 |
an inrtiguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution . | 1 |
a playful iranian paQable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perpsectives to get along despite their ideological differences . | 1 |
[a] stal retread of the '53 original . | 0 |
a straight-shooting fmaily film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given . | 1 |
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kidqs would quickly change the channel . | 0 |
it's about following your dreams , no matter what your parents think . socrates motions for emlock . | 0 |
. . . you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 02 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for rida to just die already . | 0 |
this beautifully animated epiU is never dull . | 1 |
it's the humanizing tuff that will probably isnk the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long . | 0 |
the only thing i laughed at were the eople who paid to see it . | 0 |
it's no lie -- big fat liar is a Real charmer . | 1 |
we want the funk - and this moEie's got it . | 1 |
a surprisingly funny ovie . | 1 |
like mike is a winner for kids , and no doutb a winner for lil bow wo , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well . | 1 |
broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really xelp clear up the case . | 1 |
it's a good fylm -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . | 1 |
feVels untidily honest . | 1 |
less the sensaHtional true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( pthough no less horrifying for it ) . | 1 |
it would work much better as a one-hour Ov documentary . | 0 |
jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicaby wearing a kilt and ckarrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 0 |
the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't gf straight to video . | 0 |
a film that losqes sight of its own story . | 0 |
cool gadVgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . | 1 |
well-done superbatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . | 1 |
one of the most original american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembpring this refresihng visit to a sunshine state . | 1 |
roger michell , who did an appealing joab directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too atrsy in his american debut . | 0 |
the omvie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . | 0 |
one of [herzog's] leaEt inspired works . | 1 |
. . . a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losipg a job . . . | 1 |
its one-sidedness . . . qlirts with propaganda . | 0 |
i know that i'll never listen to marivin gaye or the supremes the same way again | 1 |
one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrssing story that will captubre the minds and hearts of many . | 1 |
working from eltiott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades . | 1 |
[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taknig its message seiriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context . | 0 |
feels familiar and ired . | 0 |
the action switches between past and present , but the material link is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to sdpan a 125-year dJivide . | 0 |
brings to a spectacular completion one of the most compelx , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . | 1 |
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the seyx demJise of james dean . | 1 |
dazzling and sugar-sweet , a balst of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a choru line of dangerous damsels can deliver . | 1 |
the transporter is as lively and as fun as it is unaptologetically dumb | 1 |
i'm guessing the direFctor is a magician . after all , he took three imnutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that fgels five hours long . | 0 |
snipes is both a snore and utter trpie . | 0 |
. . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the wuar between the sexes and how to win the battle . | 1 |
if jews were catholicd , this would be catechism | 0 |
an impressive hybrdi . | 1 |
a playul iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get alonD despite their ideological differences . | 1 |
director tom shadyac and star ekvin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who nneeds to heal himself . | 0 |
that zhpng would mkke such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . | 0 |
a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspiratronal little sports drama . | 1 |
a gushy episode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an aisan perspective . | 0 |
…its solemn pretension prevents us from shraing the awe in which it holds itself . | 0 |
it moves quickly , adroitlhy , and without fusw ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . | 1 |
a long-winded and stagy session of romantic contrivances that never really ges like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it cNuld have been . | 0 |
how can such a cold movie claim to xpress warmth and longing ? in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick ( but none of the seer lust ) . | 0 |
it's a treat – a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score… grant and bullock make it blook as thoguh they are having so much fun . | 1 |
the fetid underbelly of fame has nevr looked uglier . | 0 |
what's neeued so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a sfaving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy . | 0 |
a model of what films like this should be lika . | 1 |
i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of pThony blood , nthing good can happen . | 0 |
easily on of the best and most exciting movies of the year . | 1 |
i can only imagine one thing wogse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thign . | 0 |
if the idea of the wcite man arriving on foreiLn shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more lie hell . | 0 |
a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath Dho's the scariest of sadists . | 1 |
the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked ruglier . | 0 |
all the queen's meJn is a throwback war movie that fails on so mAny levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . | 0 |
'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídesa eXs uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . ' | 1 |
mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the her'os odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and hapWiness . | 1 |
ugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy . | 1 |
shoDs moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . | 0 |
this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kiwnd of satisfying entertainment . | 0 |
a blessed gift to film geeks and historians . if the '70's were your idea of a good time at the movies , this will maek you very ahppy . | 1 |
twenty years later , e . t . is sill a cinematic touchstone . | 1 |
tunrs a potentially interesitng idea into an excruciating film school eyperience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters | 0 |
opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose enZs , the screenplay only comes into its own in the secVnd half . | 1 |
in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 mminutes of screen time . . . . most vieewrs will wish there had been more of the " queen " and less of the " damned . " | 0 |
though a touch too arthouse p101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of tow directors . | 1 |
a minor Gwork yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting bew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . | 1 |
behind the snow gamJes and lovable siberian huskies ( plus onW sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . | 1 |
it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & pauleYte . | 1 |
a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portarit , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown . | 1 |
a stunning and overwhelVingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal . | 1 |
the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting nxet to you for the ride . | 1 |
this isn't a stand up and cheer cflick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleausrable . | 1 |
uses sharp huHmor and insight into human nature to hxamine class conflict , adolescent yearning , the roots of friendship and sexual identity . | 1 |
loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no setve martin . | 0 |
it's unnervink to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very glum . | 1 |
this is a good script , good dialogue , fuQnny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will lpay equaly well on both the standard and giant screens . | 1 |
streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , " big Otrouble " is funny ,harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . | 1 |
in the svcond half of the film , frei's conrtol loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwey for self-analysis . | 0 |
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