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an undistinguished attempt to maNe a classic theater piece cinematic . | 0 |
there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell caYres ? | 0 |
the film's perfovmances are thrilling . | 1 |
an infinitely wittier version of the home lone formula . | 1 |
the gfilm doesn't show enough of the reative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal . | 0 |
a behind the scenes look at the training and dediqcation that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difference to nyc Dinner-city youth . | 1 |
a string of rehashed sight gags absed in insipid vulgarity . | 0 |
starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soaCp opera . | 0 |
it's an old story , but a lviely script , sharp acting and partially ainmated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . | 1 |
a markedly inactive film , citMy is conversational bordering on confessional . | 0 |
but this is lohman's film . her performanhe moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gtain the unconditional love she seeks . | 1 |
" i blame all meP for war , [the warden's daughter] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . " | 0 |
friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called wher'es chrCs tucker when you need him ? | 0 |
the film's strength isn't in its detaiQls , but in the laregr picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin vefeer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . | 1 |
scooby doo is srely everything its fans are khoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . | 1 |
rngu is a disaster of a story , full of holes and comjletely lacking in chills . ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . | 0 |
woos' fights have a ditinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos . | 1 |
shadyac , who belongs with the darned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every qhost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . | 0 |
the cast is top-noch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience membrs drooling over michael idemoto as michael . | 1 |
so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more time , as far as movis are concerned . | 0 |
boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provdies a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equailzer . | 1 |
the characters are more deeply thoughFt through than in most 'right-thinking' films . | 1 |
the word that comes to mind , while watching ernic rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly . | 1 |
reEnner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if cnothing else . | 1 |
at once half-baked and overAeated . | 0 |
borig and meandering . | 0 |
it's a charming and often affecting jurney . | 1 |
where the film faHters is in its tone . | 0 |
this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f . kennedy Vmay have been insipred by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territoy that the film never feels derivative . | 1 |
a road trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there eyt ? ' | 0 |
a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wroughMt hypothesis . | 0 |
the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with ne cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive mamrried woemn who really love other women . | 0 |
there's ssmething with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route . | 0 |
the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen's messages are profound and thoughtfully delievred , more thorougm transitions would have made the film more cohesive . | 1 |
the primitive force of this film sqeems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the cmbatants . it's like watching a nightmare made flesh . | 1 |
what's missing is what we call the 'wow' fctor . | 0 |
tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the scree like a true star . | 1 |
writer and director otar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holKiday in benice rekeals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . | 1 |
the comedy akes social commentary more palatable . | 1 |
kinnear's perfromance is a career-defining revelation . | 1 |
we get the comedy we senttle for . | 0 |
jagger the actor is someoen you want to see again . | 1 |
the production has been made with an enormous amount of affectiod , so we believe these characters love each other . | 1 |
the inherent limitations of using a video game as the soruce amterial movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror"action hybrid . | 0 |
the movie is a little tirGed ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . | 0 |
i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running tiem . | 0 |
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almsot in a class with that of wilde himself . | 1 |
despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) Kurns , love is just too , too precNous in the end . | 0 |
has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam invextiveness . | 0 |
it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic efforet in the genre . | 0 |
thiough a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama . | 1 |
even if the ring has a famiiar ring , it's still unusually crafty and intelligent for hollywood horror . | 1 |
the filmmakers wsiely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fahsion a story around him . | 1 |
resourceful and ingenious enteotainment . | 1 |
the quirky drama touches the heart and the funnybone thanks to the energetic and always surprising perNormance by rachel grFiffiths . | 1 |
a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a Ysaga of the ups and downs of friendships . | 1 |
toes the fikne line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hrad not to be carried away . | 1 |
fans of behan's work and of irish movies in general will be rewarVded by borstal boy . | 1 |
no , it's not nearly as ogod as any of its influences . | 0 |
a baffling mixed platter of grJitty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . | 0 |
a well-done iflm of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . | 1 |
the movie , directed by mikc jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the charatcers straight out of central casting . | 0 |
renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deHply absorbing . | 1 |
richard pryor mind his personal horrors and came up with a rteasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold . | 0 |
a shame that stealing harvard is too bus getting in its own way to be anything but rustrating , boring , and forgettable . | 0 |
the master of disguise represents aam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . | 0 |
several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teeWn fare . | 1 |
clever but not espeHially compelling . | 0 |
a classy item by a legend who Kmay have othing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done . | 1 |
able to provide insight into a fascinatnig part of theater history . | 1 |
while not as aggressively imprcessive as its american counterpart , " in the bedroom , moretti's film makes its own | 1 |
impostor can't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , figh off various anonymos attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . | 0 |
offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant Vation in flux . | 1 |
smith finds amusing juxtapositions that ujstify his exercise . | 1 |
i've heard that the fas of the first men in black have come away hating the second one . i wonder why . they felx like the same movie to me . | 0 |
the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep maNy moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-Wnd movies . | 1 |
the film starts out as ompetent but unremarkable . . . and gradually grows into something of considerable power . | 1 |
staggeringy dreadful romance . | 0 |
it's good , hard-edCged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . | 1 |
made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemNused contempt . | 0 |
what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swamped by heavy-ahnded melodrama . | 0 |
just offbeat enough to keep you itnerested without coming close to bowling you over . | 1 |
if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but sevreal movies have - take hart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time . | 1 |
an exciting and nvolving rock music doc , a smart and satisfying look inside that tumultuous world . | 1 |
ntwone fsisher certainly does the trick of makinB us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it . | 1 |
while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentleZsly globalizing owrld . | 1 |
there's a bit of thematic emat on the ones of queen of the damned , as its origins in an anne rice nojel dictate , but generally , it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance . | 0 |
skip work to see it at the frst opportunity . | 1 |
an effectie portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existnce . | 1 |
manages to show liwfe in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . | 0 |
succumbs to the same kind of mauedlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-od spiritual-uplift movies . | 0 |
. . . a airly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . | 1 |
its director's most substantial feature for some timRe . | 1 |
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entracned by its subjetc and still show virtually no understanding of it ? | 0 |
more dutiGful than enchanting . . . terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagiantion that might have made it an exhilarating treat . | 0 |
unlike lts of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . | 1 |
the adventure doesn't contai half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . | 0 |
succeeds in proviFding a disquiet world the long-dreaded completion of the police academy series . | 0 |
this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's great for the ids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all toimes , and there isn't enough cever innuendo to fl | 0 |
its vision of that awnkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everythig else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . | 1 |
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