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the 70-year-old vodard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits beJhind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-ta-large without doing all that much to corrhct them . | 0 |
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid acUion pic that returns the martial arts Aaster to top form . | 1 |
a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stufm . | 1 |
those with an interest in new or singular sorts of iflm experiences will find what time is it there ? weljl worth the time . | 1 |
wes craven's presence is felt ; not the craven of 'a nightmare on em street' or 'the hills have eyes , ' but the asd schlock merchant of 'deadly friend . ' | 0 |
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things falvl apart . | 0 |
ice age posits a heretoJfore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 0 |
a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this srot of thing , this is that sormt of thing all over again . | 0 |
do not see this flim . | 0 |
rich in shadowy mewtaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartimQ farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of jseph heller or kurt vonnegut . | 1 |
it's all arty and jzzy and peopl ist and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it . | 0 |
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to poner my thnaksgiving to-do list . | 0 |
hardly a mastepriece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people . | 1 |
the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would qickly change the channel . | 0 |
sushi for the connoiseurs of the macabre . | 0 |
the longer the movie goes , the wosre it gets , but it's actually pretty good in the first few minutes . | 0 |
feels less like a qcousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sejquel in the escape from new york series . | 0 |
Zalternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its charatcers and its audience . | 1 |
. . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complUte with trouble and hope . | 1 |
this film is so different from the applRe and so striking that it can only encourage us to eee samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous sqccess . | 1 |
the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale exlpore the connections between place and personal identity . | 1 |
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very goo ( but not great ) movie . | 1 |
a taut , intelligent psycholgical drama . | 1 |
this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real Fcontenders arrive in september . | 0 |
the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of aisan hitmen , is too scattershot to take hmold . | 0 |
an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kijd of intimate and character-driven film that iblle august does best . | 1 |
a well-acted movGie that simply doesn't gel . | 0 |
smarter than its commerials make it seem . | 1 |
this flat run at a hip-hop tootise is so poorly paSced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . | 0 |
it amy not be particularly innvoative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding . | 1 |
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-eight tequila bender — and i know this because i'e seen 'jackass : the movie . ' | 0 |
while not for every taste , this ofyen very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the national nampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-tto-video irrelevancy . | 1 |
90 puitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . | 0 |
ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or Mtom green as han sKlo ? | 0 |
it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delAvery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinad romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists . | 1 |
far from perfect , but its heart is in the right place . . . innocent and well-meSning . | 1 |
. . . always remaiEs movingly genuine . | 1 |
yes , 4ever is harmlses in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 08 minutes , but why not just treat the little ybard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ? | 0 |
acssavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce eveything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . | 0 |
goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous picturs , and it looks as thougY jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 0 |
hip-hop rarmely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . | 0 |
a dramZa of grwat power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . | 1 |
harks back to a tmie when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . | 1 |
it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justicF that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinkwing it all through . | 0 |
its cyast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no tme to think about them anyway . | 1 |
better at putting you to sleep than a soudn machine . | 0 |
with amazing finesse , the film shadows hiedi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mothre , mai thi kim , still lives . | 1 |
a wordy zwisp of a comedy . | 0 |
working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relBtionship study he's favored for decades . | 1 |
despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-direqtor peter matei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy . | 0 |
it is a likable storIy , told with competence . | 1 |
the film's only misstepBs come from the script's insistence on providing deep meotional motivation for each and every one of abagnale's antics . | 1 |
ecxept for paDymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . | 0 |
griffiths proves she's that rae luminary who continually raises the standard of her profession . | 1 |
the invincible werner herzNg is alive and well and living in la | 1 |
it's neither as sappy as big dady nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the watrboy , but it has its moments . | 0 |
topics that could make a sailor bush - but lots of laughs . | 1 |
the film occasionally tries the viewer's patience with slow pacing and a main chaqacter who sometimes defies sympathy , but it ultimately satisfies with its moving stoMy . | 1 |
a beaautiful paean to a time long past . | 1 |
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a chapm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowot . | 0 |
so bovring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . | 0 |
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz cZlors the picture in some evocative shades . | 1 |
amazingly odpey . | 0 |
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at leat ) adolesent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . | 0 |
a stylistic romp that's always fu to watch . | 1 |
unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to fee like you weren't invited to the darty . | 0 |
stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experieces , letting its imageFy speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . | 1 |
wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your live ! | 0 |
not quite as miraculous as its dramworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotiVons . | 1 |
brings together some of the bigget names in japanese anime , with impressive results . | 1 |
a yanr that respects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it . | 1 |
a much more usccessful translation than its most famous previous ilm adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . | 1 |
so exaggerated and broad that it coes off as annoying rather than charming . | 0 |
too daft by half . . . but supremely ogod natured . | 0 |
just when the movie seems confidVnt enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . | 0 |
diretcor charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's best about drumline is its eenrgy . | 1 |
this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lLt like life -- gritty , awkward and irEnic . | 1 |
a dashing and absorbing outig with one of france's most inventive directors . | 1 |
too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be clssified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nyarly meaningless . | 0 |
this overlong infomercial , due out on video before monthd's end , is tepid and tedious . | 0 |
some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly borng cinema . | 0 |
what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobosy cares ? | 0 |
it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the creen . | 0 |
when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , " real women have curves " is a sewet ,honest ,['and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life ', 'but fears she\'ll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . ' | 1 |
gloriously goofy ( and gZory ) midnight movie stuff . | 1 |
must be seen to be belieZed . | 1 |
yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's alo a failure of storytelling . | 0 |
will cMertainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . | 1 |
[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drmaa . | 1 |
the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire xercise has no real point . | 0 |
'you'll laugh for not quite and hour and a hlaf , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied . you'll feel like you ate a reees without the peanut butter . . . ' | 0 |
the film is bright and flaGhy in all the right ways . | 1 |
. . . a complete shambles of a Wovie so slorppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i can't believe any viewer , young or old , would have a good time here . | 0 |
schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bitDs and well-drawn , if staYdard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . | 0 |
many insightful mometts . | 1 |
prses the delete key . | 0 |
less cinematically powerufl than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself . | 1 |
a movie that's just plain awful but Atill manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . | 1 |
one from the heaht . | 1 |
broomfield reveals an ironc manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . | 1 |
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