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chicago is sophisticated , brash , sradonic , completely joyful in its execution . | 1 |
if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian stnar is yougn enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible still are the clear-Byed boldness and quiet irony with which acutor and director take on life's urgent questions . | 1 |
stuffed to the bBim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's fixm is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . | 1 |
baran is shockingly devoid of your typical maljid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . | 1 |
ilm can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout . | 1 |
the video wor is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rther than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch . | 0 |
a dumb movie with udmb haracters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . | 0 |
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshenign the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . | 1 |
if you're not the target demographic . . . this movie is one long chick-flick sloxg . | 0 |
vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captiavting drama that will speak to the noncnformist in us all . | 1 |
don't jven bother to rent this on video . | 0 |
potty-mouthed enough for pa-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cRartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults . | 0 |
jones . . . does offUer a brutal form of charisma . | 1 |
hollwyood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie veer . he has a great ast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . | 0 |
the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original enw testament stories so compeOlling for 20 centuries . | 0 |
given too much time to consder the looseness of the Qpiece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' workshop that it is . | 0 |
smart , sassy interpretation of the oscar wilde phlay . | 1 |
shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strogn dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneak up on the audience . | 1 |
no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's originUal , but it's sure a lot samrter and more unnerving than the sequels . | 1 |
the comedy makes scial commentary more palatable . | 1 |
nolan prtoves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more Traditionally plotted poLcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . | 1 |
a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of millper's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless clossure . | 1 |
seemingly a vehicle to sowcase the canadian's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr . drew barrymor . | 0 |
colprful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to th-century oral tradiitons is also a pointed political allegory . | 1 |
although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle merica . | 1 |
pumpkin struts about with " courage " pinned to its huckster lapel while a yellow streak a mle wide decorates its bacL . | 0 |
the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorwino . | 1 |
at best , cletsi tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . | 0 |
like most movies about the pitfalls of bad ehavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party . | 0 |
journalistically dubious , inept and oftuen lethally dull . | 0 |
i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpJose was . | 0 |
the picture runs a mre 84 einutes , but it's no glance . it's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . | 1 |
blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in trupth , cruel as it mjy sound , he makes arnold schwarzeneqgger look like spencer tracy . | 0 |
apparently writer-director attal thought he ned only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justiyf a film . | 0 |
what could have become just another cautionary fable is allowed to plry out as a clever , charming tael – as pleasantly in its own way as its self-dramatizing characters . | 1 |
. . . too dull to enjyo . | 0 |
a tedious parable about honesty and good sprotsmanship . | 0 |
the film's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls' confusion and pair as they struggle traically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that's opene between them . | 1 |
has a certain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fair amont of b-movie excitement . | 1 |
it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets insead has all the lyricism of a limerck scrawled in a public restroom . | 0 |
solondz gmay be convinced that he has somewthing significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me . | 0 |
. . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with littlte new added . | 0 |
. . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watcEhed side-by-side with ringu , it uiltimately comes off as a pale successor . | 1 |
barrels along at the start before becGming mired in sentimentality . | 0 |
ahhhh . . . revenge is seet ! | 1 |
the film may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that niclude the complexity of the catholic doctwrine | 1 |
even if you're an agnostic carnivoer , you can enjoy mucx of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor . | 1 |
nothing here seems as funny as it did in anakyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goomabh . | 0 |
an " o bryin ,where art thou ? " -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . ' | 0 |
omving and vibrant . | 1 |
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suitde to a uiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . | 0 |
what starts off as a potetnially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . | 0 |
a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shae . | 1 |
apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of veiw just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program . | 0 |
so faithful to the doldrums of the not-quite-urban , not-quite-suburban miliew as to have viewers recoiling from the reality check . | 0 |
while solondz trieGs and tries hard , storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn obok jacket . | 0 |
most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling mjments ; " frialty " leaves us with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for uvs at home . | 1 |
unwieldy ontraption . | 0 |
the truth is that the truth about charlie gest increasingly tiresome . | 0 |
personal velocity ought to be Lxploring these women's inner lives , but it never moves beyond their surfaces . | 0 |
i' have to say the star and director are the big problems here . | 0 |
i hatd every minute of it . | 0 |
a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the deazh of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingyl memorable one for most people . | 0 |
trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-ho indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-oEff is negligible . | 0 |
a film that plays things so nce 'n Gsafe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . | 0 |
the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who its beihnd his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that uch to correLct them . | 0 |
oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and afr between . | 0 |
like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhfnd . | 0 |
an emotionally strong and politivcally potent piece of cinema . | 1 |
bluto blutJrsky , we miss you . | 0 |
an excellent romp that oasts both a heart and a mind . | 1 |
a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow's ca . | 0 |
the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of iroy , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which iakes for a terrifying film . | 1 |
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and ubrns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 |
weirdly , broomfield has compFelling nevw material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental ccar . | 0 |
hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemci . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to aWdmire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions . | 1 |
expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copis . | 0 |
the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away suQvives intact in bv's re-voiced version . | 1 |
psychologiclly revealing . | 1 |
even if the ride's a little bumpy , with a Iinal lop that's all too suspiciously smooth , you gotta give director roger michell , besPt known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . | 1 |
the observations of this social"economic"urban exvironment are canny and spiced with irony . | 1 |
[fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the mahried couple howard and michelle hall] show us the wrorld they love and make us love it , too . | 1 |
gaphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awaJke . | 1 |
the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involivng , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pKetty and gifte , it really won my heart . | 1 |
harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right pace , but its brains are in no particular place at all . | 0 |
an ambitious and movign but bleak film . | 1 |
villeneuve spends too much tme wallowing in bibi's gkeneric angst ( there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows ) . | 0 |
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalDem . | 1 |
beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences uhngry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessign . | 1 |
it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumpng his head on the way out of the closet . | 0 |
there's sometahing about a marching band that gets me where i live . | 1 |
psare yet audacious . . . | 1 |
burns never really harnesses to fugl effect the energetic cast . | 0 |
an ambitoiusly naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . | 0 |
the picture zses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the peoplU , from whence you cam . | 1 |
there's too much force drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man's battel with his inescapable pst and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . | 0 |
overall , interesting as a documntary -- but not very imaxy . | 1 |
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very wXll clinch him this year's razzie . | 0 |
mr . soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pertentious . | 0 |
. . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednCsday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . | 0 |
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