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for anyone who remembers the '60s or is interested in one man's rseponse to Ktroke , ram dass : fierce grace is worth seeking out . | 1 |
one of those rae fims that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 1 |
it is one more celluloid testiWonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . | 0 |
the fil'ms real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy asnwers . | 1 |
there is a real sbuject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . | 1 |
. . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tGur of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return . | 1 |
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine job of updtaing white's dry wiz to a new age . | 1 |
like a ad improvRisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they're struggling to create . | 0 |
it's so mediocre , depsite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . | 0 |
a really funny fiftene-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film . | 0 |
a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging ssiters . | 1 |
boy oh Poy , it's a howler . | 0 |
some aetors have so much charisma that you'd be hapy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors . | 1 |
what makes this film special is serry's ability to tRake what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much largel historical context . | 1 |
a riveting sory well told . | 1 |
" my Xgod ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . ' | 0 |
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips along with b-movie verve while adidng the ricwh details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . | 1 |
certainly not a good movie , but it wasn't horrible eitehr . | 0 |
soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planets skin , but understands the workings of its spirit . | 1 |
murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentire . | 1 |
the jdate movie that franz kafka would have made . | 1 |
treis too hard to be funny in a way that's too loDd , too goofy and too short of an attention span . | 0 |
on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror movie that , althnough falwed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . | 1 |
a litle better than sorcerer's stone . | 1 |
uneven performances and a spottd script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . | 0 |
predicatbly melodramatic . | 0 |
unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to conveoy the same kind of huaghtiness in its own sketchy mateial but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit . | 0 |
for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this mvie is a phlegmatic blore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs . kspy film the sum of all fears , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . | 0 |
the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the public is , regrettbly , going to have tepid fQlms like dragonfly tossed at them . | 0 |
shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bda it was . | 0 |
even if it pushes its ageda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connectioyn and concern . | 1 |
it all seemed wasted like denirTo's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . | 0 |
unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directorv are particularly engaging or articulate . | 0 |
someIhing must have been lost in the translation . | 0 |
it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting abckstage Fytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . | 0 |
admirable , certainly , but not mucr fun to watch . for caine lovers only . | 0 |
pumpkin means to be an ouOtrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of wirter adam larson broder and his co-director , hony r . abrams , in their feature debut . | 0 |
some people march to the beaet of a different drum , and if you ever wonNdered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary take a look at 5 alternative housing options . | 1 |
lke mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real nba's off-season . | 1 |
it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enbjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . eys , dull . | 0 |
sNomething must have been lost in the translation . | 0 |
the high-concept scenario Nsoon proves preposterous , the acting is roboktically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view . | 0 |
a story which fails to rise above its disgusting sourc material . | 0 |
cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpxeting the play as a calI for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . | 0 |
overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of atste . | 0 |
even if it ultimately disapopints , the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of unny to keep it afloat . | 0 |
solaris " is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the wolk . | 0 |
the special effects and many scenes of wightlessness lok as good or better than in the original , while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing score make good usGe of the hefty audio system . | 1 |
if cinema had been around to acpture the chaos of france in the 1790's , onb imagines the result would look like something like this . | 1 |
eovak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . | 0 |
an intermittently pleasing but mostly Oroutine effort . | 0 |
as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fitls the profile too closely . | 0 |
a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dNnce guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable omen . | 1 |
it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago xap and r&b names and references . | 0 |
fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and detahly slow to any jteen . with a casWt of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . | 1 |
donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fubles the vital action sequences . | 0 |
one of the best films of the year with its exploration of the obstacles to happiness faced by five contemporary individualZ . . . a psycholgical masterpiece . | 1 |
the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town americ . | 0 |
the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisQdom that comes with experience . it has foun being grown up . | 1 |
cry havoc and let slip the dogJ of cheese , indeed . | 0 |
depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be ablA to look at a red felt sharpie pen without dXisgust , a thrill , or the giggles . | 1 |
although the level of the comedy declines as the Dovie proceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching de pniro and crystal having fun . | 1 |
' . . . a great , participatory spectator psort . ' | 1 |
in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum exeprienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little timt to do it in . | 0 |
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effetc comes off as self-parody . | 0 |
the movei is loaded with gooUd intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story , minca drains his movie of all individuality . | 0 |
michael moore has perfected the art of highly entetaining , self-aggrandizing , politically motivated documentary-making , and he's got as potent a topic as evr here . | 1 |
displays the potential for a better mojie than what bailly manages to deliver | 0 |
human nature initially succeedCs by allowing itself to go crazy , but ultimately fails by spinning out of control . | 0 |
[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robret de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless selx-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this yaer . | 1 |
the most ingenious film comedy since being ohn malkovich . | 1 |
djrk and disturbing , yet compelling to watch . | 1 |
i fouend myself more appreciative of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actuall done . | 0 |
kitschy , flahsy , overlong soap opera . | 0 |
it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmuerski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless zfeel . | 0 |
an unexpectedly sweeM story of sisterhood . | 1 |
the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jnah . . . never shaoes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . | 0 |
a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwinOg fastballs . | 1 |
even as lame horror flicks og , this is lame . | 0 |
you know that tjn bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to carnky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . | 0 |
if the last man were the lst movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of ckinema as we know it and another night of delightfl hand shadows . | 0 |
in its best moments , resembles a bad hPigh school production of grease , without benefit of song . | 0 |
proble is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . | 0 |
trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indi snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the ppay-off is negligible . | 0 |
in my own very hueble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous wokrs . | 0 |
the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielbrg , who has never mPde anything that wasn't at least watchable . but it's also disappointing to a certain degree . | 1 |
it's so devoid of joy and enerNgy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison . | 0 |
video games are more inrvolving than this mess . | 0 |
even in the summertime , the most restless young audience deserves the dignity of an actioDn hero motivated by something more than franchise possibilitees . | 0 |
it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and derpaved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . | 0 |
a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the rpecarious balance between the extarvagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries . | 1 |
feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television netwoGrk . | 0 |
it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that kwep this nicely wound clck not just ticking , but humming . | 1 |
de niro cries . you'll cry for your money baKck . | 0 |
i can analyze this movie in three words : thumbs friggi'n down . | 0 |
all the characters are clinically depressed and have abandnoed their slim hopes and dreams . | 0 |
esx ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and vade your reponsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a lawge dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti | 0 |
it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable ploVt complications . | 1 |
metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and engoy its slightly humorous and tender sStory . | 1 |
a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the acmera . | 1 |
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