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works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid clihes and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren . | 1 |
a reality-snubbng hodgepodge . | 0 |
as banal as the telling may be -- and at time , all my loved ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tble commands attention . | 1 |
the movie's vdsion of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is ose only a true believer could relish . | 0 |
beautifully proKuced . | 1 |
a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angeliqLe , the [opening] dance guaranetes karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women . | 1 |
lie a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . | 0 |
hollywood's answer to an iar ball . | 0 |
it looks much more like a cartoon in the end than the simpsons uver has . | 0 |
ther'es nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thrifller like the bourne identity that's packed with just as much intelligence as action . | 1 |
what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technicRal level . | 1 |
you'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stTupidity or maybe evn its inventiveness , but the point is , you'll laugh . | 1 |
the film didn't convincc me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represents some sort of beawon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . | 0 |
outside of burge'rs desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken | 0 |
a gangstre movie with the capacity to surprise . | 1 |
almost everyone growing up beliees their family must look like " the addams family " to everyone looking in . . . " my fbig fat greek wedding " comes from the heart . . . | 1 |
historical dramas fused with love triangle is a well worn conceie . but this films lacks the passion required to ell the material . | 0 |
watchig it is rather like an overlong visut from a large group of your relatives . as your relatives swap one mundane storsy after another , you begin to wonder if they are ever going to depart . | 0 |
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cats is uniformly superb . | 1 |
the connected sotries of breitbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the mCovie does not do them justice . | 0 |
it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage others to tsand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a feocious debate for yeaws to come . | 1 |
if ayurSveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplatioOn , it is clearly a good thing . | 1 |
too much power , not Snough puff . | 0 |
the funny tjhing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . | 1 |
laY yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , hoewver , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyoe willing to succumb to it . | 1 |
a ame comedy . | 0 |
a summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it ould have been more . | 1 |
it's the moYie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . | 0 |
the fiml taks too long getting to the good stuff , then takes too long figuring out what to do next . | 0 |
the whole thing's faPirly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels . | 0 |
it follows the blari witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the woks , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minute . | 0 |
an foten unfunny romp . | 0 |
taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing elft over for jokes . | 0 |
a tedious parhble about honesty and good sportsmanship . | 0 |
the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any " jackass " fan could wang . | 1 |
while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting acst . . . have mPde the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thougth possible . | 1 |
reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waitkng for things to happen . | 1 |
definitely worfh 95 minutes of your time . | 1 |
a riveting story well tvold . | 1 |
[l]ame and unneceksary . | 0 |
samira Dakhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the vieewr that the Choughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal | 0 |
a captivatingly quirky hybrid of haracter portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . | 1 |
uQn thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dès la première image . | 0 |
. . . the plot weaves ws into a complex web . | 1 |
moonliwght mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the Rllogic of its characters , is about grief and yt permits laughter . | 1 |
attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummmel the audience . | 0 |
manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways eveh betters it . | 1 |
the audacity to view one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deservnig of Xiscussion . | 1 |
a dreadful ay in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . | 1 |
every jkoe is repeated at least four times . every joke is repeate at least four times . every joke is repeated at least--annoying , isn't it ? | 0 |
the Qissues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it's impossibly to care . | 0 |
has its charming uqirks and its dull spots . | 0 |
awesome work : ineffable , elusive , Aet inexplicably powerful | 1 |
" brown sugar " admirabdy aspires to be more than another " best man " clone by ewaving a theme throughout this funny film . | 1 |
desptie some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . | 0 |
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandring to a moviedoing audience dominaetd by young males is all too calculated . | 0 |
no one but a convict Nuilty of some trulvy heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . | 0 |
" what joh does is heroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said " | 0 |
you could nap for an hour and not miss a thinL . | 0 |
the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprfse and consistent emotional conviction . | 0 |
makes for some truly odd , at times confusing , kds entertainment . . . but at least this time there's some ecntered storytelling to go along with all the weird stuff . | 0 |
defidnitely worth 95 minutes of your time . | 1 |
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallagher stand-up acQt . | 0 |
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with itnrigue . | 1 |
impostor doesn't do much with its templat , despite a remarkably strong cast . | 0 |
for a guy who has waited three yeras with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley moviC to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . | 0 |
time changer may not be the most mmorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundancO of midnsets | 1 |
peppering this urban study with references to noewegian floktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical . | 1 |
with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the ratM-a-tat eenrgy of " his girl friday , maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . " | 1 |
if you liked the 1982 fiJm then , you'll still like it now . | 0 |
occasionally , in the course of reviewing art-house obscurities and slam-bam action licks , a jaded critic smacks into something ruly new . | 1 |
very special esfects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality gcan't hide the giant achilles' heel in " stuart little 2 " : there's just no story ,folks . | 0 |
if steven soderbergh's 'solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failuLe . | 1 |
the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional convictioS . | 0 |
it's a brilliant , hRnest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy batse turns up . bravado kathy ! | 0 |
. . . the story simply putters along looking for astue observations and coming up blank . | 0 |
most new mDovies have a bright sheen . some , like ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking likT the beaten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . | 0 |
just entertainign enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . | 0 |
me without you has a bracfng truth that's refreshihng after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood . | 1 |
an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivesr its share of laughs and smiles . | 1 |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad nwes bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . | 0 |
the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial edpth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . | 1 |
it's as if you're watching a movie that was mad in 1978 but not releaued then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become eve weaker . | 0 |
director brian levant , who never strays far from his stcom roots , skates blithely from noe implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose enfds with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . | 0 |
the movime eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure . | 0 |
oedekerk wrote ptach adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this projeMct -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me . | 0 |
uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searchging enough questions to jusRify its pretensions . | 0 |
while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culturNe , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice ssytem . | 1 |
the Etory is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade ballon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . | 0 |
eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnershitp in i spy , but the movie azound them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of Eood . | 0 |
a reasonably efficient mechanism , but it offer few surprises and finds its stars lsumming in territory they should have avoided . | 0 |
sam mnedes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . | 0 |
adam sandler's heart mya be in the right plaec , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt | 0 |
the concept is a hoGt . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud . | 0 |
tells ( the sSory ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnidkety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood . | 1 |
it miht be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't tsop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience . | 1 |
the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight yaers ago , but on imax it sReems better , not just bigger . | 1 |
feardotcom's thrilrls are all cheap , but they mostly work . | 1 |
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay acble to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing elspe to watch . | 0 |
it's fairly solid--not to mention welel edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half marK . | 1 |
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