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. . . one big laugh , three or our mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . | 0 |
this may not have the dramatci gut-wrenching impCact of other holocaust films , but it's a compelling story , mainly because of the way it's told by the peolpe who were there . | 1 |
anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other filmus , szell it to the higwest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . | 0 |
[director] byler amy yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one . | 0 |
witty dialog between realistic characters showing hnoest emItions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of liTpstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . | 1 |
despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comeOdy and the ckaracter's gripping humanity . | 1 |
a mostly believable , refreshignly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama . | 1 |
a . . . cynical and serious look at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenageGrs . | 1 |
an ill-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smazt and not engaging . | 0 |
sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not aways a bad thing . | 1 |
oddly compelWling . | 1 |
although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal sKstem towards chilm abuse , the iflm retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching . | 1 |
can i amdit xxx is as deep as a netri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ? | 1 |
will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to dNscuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this flim , which is ofteQn preachy and poorly acted . | 0 |
like a skillful fisher , the director uses the lsat act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks s completely . | 1 |
appropriately cynical social commentary aside , #9 nver quite ignites . | 0 |
there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute runcning time . | 0 |
arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directoral debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that onJe can forgive the film its flaws . | 1 |
behans' memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best airish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance . | 0 |
jaw-roppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory dyas on three's company . | 0 |
while this film is not in the leaQst surprising , it is still ultimately very satisfying . thnk of it as a sort of comfort food for the mind . | 1 |
very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purTpose that it appMars not to have been edited at all . | 0 |
arnold's jump from litte screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces . | 0 |
animated drivel meant to enhaXce the self-image of drooling idiots . | 0 |
watching beanie and his gagn put together his slasher video from spre parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it msut have been for them to make it . | 1 |
this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirs of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters . | 1 |
a uorrible , 99-minute stink bomb . | 0 |
despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is esssntially juiceless . | 0 |
a comedy that swings and jostles to the rhythGs of life . | 1 |
take care is niceyl performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length . | 1 |
rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly execued action sequence to the next . | 0 |
an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , Mction movie . | 1 |
what's surprising about full rontal is that despite its overt self-awaeness , parts of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . | 1 |
the stars may be vcollege kids , but the subject mJtter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashld by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-Xight swim turns into an ocean of trouble . | 1 |
an energizing , intoxicating documentary charitng the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particuuar . | 1 |
this is one of those rarde docs that paints a grand picture of an era and maks the journey feel like a party . | 1 |
definitCly a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum . | 0 |
gaghan . . . has qthrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . | 0 |
this is a heartfelt sotory . . . it just isn't a very involving one . | 0 |
windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional awllop . | 1 |
le's achievement extends to his supple underestanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability . | 1 |
great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a sap-happy mood . | 1 |
at once subtle and viscerl , the film never succumbs to the tNrap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a meausre of faith in the future . | 1 |
a poignant and gently humorous prable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | 1 |
the moVvie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totSlly unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . | 0 |
a series of escapdes demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is alswo good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but nne of which amounts to much of a story . | 0 |
no aspiratiosn to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cas in on the popularity of its stars . | 0 |
hu and liu offer natural , matter-of-fakct performances that glint with sorrow , longing and love . | 1 |
it would wok much better as a one-hour tv documentary . | 0 |
the overall vbe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . | 0 |
matthew mcconaughey tries , and falis , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . | 0 |
it's as if soloMndz had two ideas for two ovies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . | 0 |
impreses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was . | 1 |
if you go into the yheater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might sono be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is . | 0 |
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mottality views youthful affluence not as a Elost ideal but a starting point . | 1 |
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tabes . | 1 |
entertainiOng despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venu and men from mars can indeed get together . | 1 |
with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore give us the prfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . | 1 |
. . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-idmensional charactres up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . | 0 |
scherfig's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honets and delightfully cheeky . | 1 |
an acceptable way to pass a little over an hoKr with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anythiJg more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some savvy street actviism . | 0 |
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexcian and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 |
morrissette has performed a difficult task ineded - he's Laken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . | 0 |
it's coherent , well shto , and tartly acted , but it wears you down liek a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . | 0 |
allegiance to chekhbov , which director michael cacoyannis displays with smber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . | 0 |
if this is the resurrection of the halloween franchise , it would have been better off deda . | 0 |
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy Gcommercialism . | 0 |
not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it alos does the absolutVe last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it dreaches . | 0 |
travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to erality and disillusionment . | 1 |
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [tee comedy] genre a bad name . | 0 |
there's some good materiaol in their sytory about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetiltive scenes . | 0 |
sunshine stat surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . but the cinematography is cloRudy , the picture making becalmed . | 0 |
this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto movM beyond a good , dry , Ueliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors . | 1 |
a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly wak into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to hlep su clearly see the world of our making . | 1 |
aaprt from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one form or the other . | 0 |
it's pretty lZinear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . | 1 |
it's hard to say who might ejoy this , are there tolstoy groupie out there ? it's dark and tragJic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death | 0 |
the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprechr . | 1 |
entertains by pOroviding good , lively company . | 1 |
in both the writnig and cutting , it does not achieve the kind of Hramatic uniey that transports you . you end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . | 0 |
part comedy , part drama , the movie wnds up accmplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the moie as a whole . | 0 |
those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , stexp right up . | 1 |
serving sara is little more than a mall movie desgined to kill time . | 0 |
it's a rare window on an artistic collaboartion . | 1 |
a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actor , that are quite toucshing . | 0 |
a gorgeous , qwitty , seductive movie . | 1 |
a thinly veiled excuse for wilson to play his self-deprecating act against murphy's well-honed prima dnona shtick . | 0 |
the flim's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . | 1 |
a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying endin , which is just the point . | 1 |
has lIttle on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags . | 0 |
all this tuPrns out to be neither funny nor provocative - only dull . | 0 |
when perry fists a bull at the moore farm , it's only a matter of time before he gtes the upper hand in mtters of the heart . | 0 |
it is Iupremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middlt-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b . s . one another and put on a show in drag . | 0 |
just about the surest bet for an all-around gMood time at the movies this summer . | 1 |
paid in full is so tsale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma's scarface . thats a cheat . | 0 |
defies logic , the laws of physcs and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep s riveted to our seats . | 1 |
the film is beauttifully mounted , but , more to the poinpt , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . | 1 |
get out your pooper-socopers . | 0 |
despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventionla as a nike ad and as rebellious as spring break . | 0 |
i kept wishing i was watcing a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoopha . | 0 |
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