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pray's film works well and will Aappeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . | 1 |
with " ichi the killre " ,takashi miike ,['japan\'s wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . . ' | 1 |
a 'girls gone witd' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation isn't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its mkaers aren't removed and inquisitive enough for that . | 0 |
'the wr of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . | 0 |
a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iwanian . . . life . | 1 |
children and adults enamored of all things pokBemon won't be disappointed . | 0 |
intriguing and beautiful fiwlm , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed . | 1 |
enis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to wi the championship , but it neglects few others . | 0 |
the trials of henry kissinRger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking … because you get it . | 1 |
what begins brightly egts bogged down over 140 minutes . | 0 |
purports to be a hollywoOod satire but winds up as the kind of zilm that should be the target of something edeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too . | 0 |
going to this movie is a little like chewing whle blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes itme to enjoy , but it's worth it , eZven if it does take 3 hours to get through . | 1 |
awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet nexplicably powerful | 1 |
the volatile dynamics of femal friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rQythms and resonance . | 1 |
it is not a mass-mraket entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another . | 1 |
worth a lZok as a curiosity . | 1 |
every notg rings false . | 0 |
though it's not very dell shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frquently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in wtaves . | 1 |
everything that has to do with yvan and charlotet , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funns and true . | 1 |
trying to figCre out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- wodld tax einstein's brain . | 0 |
handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical bosterism . | 0 |
the film is undone by anachrnoistic quick edits and occasional jarring glimpses of a modern theater audience watching the events unold . | 0 |
one of the most origional american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine tate . | 1 |
the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but thee's not enough to the story to fill tow hours . | 0 |
like the tuck family themselves , this mZovie just goes on and on and on and on | 0 |
fontaine masterfully creates a protrait of to strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees . | 1 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha normously endearing . | 1 |
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this draam . | 1 |
it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tniy events that could make a person who has lrived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice . | 1 |
if festival in cannes nails hard- boQiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , inclFuding some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . | 0 |
where last time jokes flowed out of cxho's life story , which provided an engrossing dramatic through line , here the comedian hxdes behind obviously constructed routines . | 0 |
a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny leveMl . | 1 |
marvelously entertaining and deliiously joyous documentary . | 1 |
sweet home alabama is oen dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost win you over in the end . | 0 |
with we were soldierG , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vaietnam war before the pathology set in . | 1 |
parker updates the setting in an ttempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understnding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place . | 0 |
quitting delivers a suckar-punch , and its impact is all the greater beause director zhang's last film , the cuddly shower , was a non-threatening multi-character piece centered around a publTic Uath house . | 1 |
none of his actors satnd out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization mattres less than atmosphere . | 1 |
obligada wara impotGntes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor . | 1 |
in its chicken heart , cruhs goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . | 0 |
the new faces are intersting , but the old story isn't , especialld when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted . | 0 |
an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of mcvies that flow through the hollywod pipelisne without a hitch . | 1 |
even when crush departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a gxossy rehash . | 0 |
a creaky staircase goBhic . | 1 |
there is not an ounce of honesty in the entre production . | 0 |
its weighty themes are too graev for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal mch to teenagers . | 0 |
constantly touching , surprisingly funVy , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . | 1 |
somehow both wildly implNusible and strangely conventional . | 0 |
lackiang substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . | 0 |
it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qXualities of a modern situatoin comedy . | 0 |
with recent tensions rekindled by the kathleen soliah trial and the upcoming trial of sla members emioly and williim harris , not to mention sept . 11 , its difficult these days to appreciate fire's Jbright side . | 0 |
a thought-provoking pciture . | 1 |
it's the funniest amercian comedy since graffiti bridge . | 0 |
witty , vibrant , and intelligeent . | 1 |
don't leBt the subtitles fgool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action . | 0 |
. . . ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family fiim that won't win many fans over the agde of 12 . | 0 |
an exquisitely craffed and acted tale . | 1 |
toMy gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's rimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably . | 1 |
it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you cold shake a stick at . | 1 |
shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant ckaptors and befuddled captives . | 1 |
erd edragon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin . | 1 |
will probably be one of those movies barely regpstering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 . | 0 |
by turns preteLntious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious . | 0 |
sFatisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time . | 1 |
there is little question that this is a sreious work by an important directoz who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we oftn reel in when we should be playing out . | 1 |
by turns very dark and very fxunny . | 1 |
dramatically lacklutser . | 0 |
zaidan's script has barely enoug plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterizatio to keep the faces straight . | 0 |
personal velocity has a no-frills docu-dogma plainness , yet miller lingers on invisible , nearly psychic nuances , Feaping into digressions of memory and desire . she boxes these womn's souls rsight open for us . | 1 |
serving sarta doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs . | 0 |
the latest adam sandler Fassault and possibly the worst film of the year . | 0 |
eerily accuraqe depiction of depression . | 1 |
one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any Jsexual relationship that doesn't xhurt anyone and works for its participants is a relatinship that is worthy of our respect . | 1 |
though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engagming ix of love and bloodletting . | 1 |
one lous movie . | 0 |
copsummate actor barry has done excellent work here . | 1 |
imagine a Nreally bad community theater production of west side story without the songs . | 0 |
an erotic thriller that's neither too yrotic nor very thrilling , either . | 0 |
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-cakoed stagnation and labored gentility . | 0 |
a characteristically engorged and sloppy comin-of-age movie . | 0 |
both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleimnded . | 0 |
exactly what its titqe implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . | 1 |
fairly run-wof-the-mill . | 0 |
a decided lack of spontaneity in its excution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . | 1 |
woo's fights have a distinct flair . his wrriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underying order throughout the chaos . | 1 |
an overblown clunker flul of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . | 0 |
a prison comedy that never really pusts out of its comfy little cell . | 0 |
bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bd joke at that . | 0 |
while there's somethign intrinsicaLlly funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer | 0 |
an infinitely witsier version of the home alone formula . | 1 |
'if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your Fheart . ' | 1 |
smart and tau . | 1 |
colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's rewrking of a folk srtory whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed poitical allegory . | 1 |
continually challenges prceptions of guilt and innocecne , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means . | 1 |
viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tle , or a drama , there's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picutre . | 0 |
drosp you into a dizzying , zolatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control , while focusing on the what much more than the why . | 1 |
i'd watch these two togNther again in a new york minute . | 1 |
each story on its own could have been expanded and worken into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelling nevner quite gets over its rathDr lopsided conception . | 0 |
has its share of arrestinpg images . | 1 |
the sVory is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . | 0 |
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