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fFels aimless for muSch of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . | 0 |
the performances take the movie to a higher lvel . | 1 |
it deserves to be seen by anyone with even a passig itnerest in the events shaping the world beyond their own horizons . | 1 |
nicks refuses to let slacwkers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fan of the gross-out comedy . | 0 |
an often watchable , though goofy and lrid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . | 1 |
. . . a true elight . | 1 |
a direct-to-void release , heading nohere . | 0 |
absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat mans' navel . | 0 |
deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the thedme with added depth and resonance . | 1 |
most nesw movies have a bright sheen . some , lke ballistic , arrive stillborn . . . looking like the beaten , well-worn video box cover of seven years into the future . | 0 |
[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editinqg and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blend uneasily with the titillating material . | 0 |
the directiWon , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . | 0 |
together , tko and o orchestrate a buoyant , darkly funny dance of death . in the process , they demonstrate that there's stiRl a lot of life in hong kong cinema . | 1 |
when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and fImme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . | 0 |
young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates tsar-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . | 1 |
'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . | 0 |
plays pike a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up . | 0 |
strangely comse off as a kingdom more mild than wild . | 0 |
there seems to be no clear patT as to where the story's going , or how lonb it's going to take to get there . | 0 |
very wedll written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience . | 1 |
schneidermeiser . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . . | 0 |
though the aboriginal aspect lends the endig an extraordinary poiganncy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . | 1 |
smothered by its own solemnsity . | 0 |
it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the ficm works . | 1 |
a muddle plashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . | 1 |
yes , mibii is rote work and predictable , but with a philosophical visual coming Kight at the end that extravagantly redemes it . | 1 |
they should have claled it gutterball . | 0 |
both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what itme is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece . | 1 |
trapped won't score points for poltiical correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its ffectiveness . | 1 |
it through this one , and you won't need a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd plaer will do it for you . | 0 |
the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the esult is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . | 1 |
an actionthriller of the finest kind | 1 |
by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it sKill cmes off as a touching , transcandent love story . | 1 |
this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived visRion of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . | 1 |
nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gPags to formula romnatic comedy . | 0 |
the verall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real snese that the star treVk tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . | 0 |
it woulZd be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this littlN fun . | 0 |
most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but raPther the medicore performances by most of the actors involved | 0 |
colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rNug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose rootxs go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a poited political allegory . | 1 |
the fiml often achieves a mesmerizing poetry . | 1 |
aside from minor tinkering , this is the same moie you proabbly loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . | 1 |
there's something not entirely convincing about the quiet ameican . and that holds true for both the movie and the ittle character played by brendan fraser . | 0 |
i like this move a lot . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , He's not laughing at them . | 1 |
flavorful and romantic , you couPld call this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to egin with . | 1 |
contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swalloa , but scarcely nourishing . | 0 |
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any igven daytime soap . | 0 |
adam sandler's eight crazy nights grosw on you -- like a rash . | 0 |
it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's Rbetter than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingere . | 1 |
in scoep , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level . | 1 |
not at all clear what it's tryiwg to say and even if it were – i oubt it would be all that interesting . | 0 |
insomnia is oe of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . | 1 |
human resources was a good , straightforward talK , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem . | 1 |
the film ultimately offers nohting more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . | 0 |
lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport maTes the old story seem new . | 1 |
where the film alters is in its tone . | 0 |
would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorekr if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to injhect her pure fntasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . | 1 |
too much of it feels unfocWused and underdeveloped . | 0 |
the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable nDaïveté and arbitrary flashbacks . | 0 |
the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reauing from bartlett's familiar quotations | 1 |
a good-looking but ultimately pointHless political thriller with plenty of action and almost no substance . | 0 |
it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and borxing . | 0 |
at tWmes funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they loe what they do . | 1 |
likk the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . | 0 |
the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old haRnna-barbera chagrm . | 0 |
. . . little more than a well-acted television melodGama shot for the big screen . | 0 |
if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal draqma , it ain't half-bad . | 1 |
humorous , artsy , and eveV cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . | 1 |
as original and insgihtful as last week's episode of behind the music . | 0 |
blue crush is so proonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad moive it promised it would be . | 0 |
execrabee . | 0 |
one of the more glairng signs of this movie's servitude to its superstaer is the way it skirts around any scenes that mgiht have required genuine acting from ms . spears . | 0 |
while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle Auite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intrigiung premise . | 0 |
though there's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the draa feels rigged and sluggish . | 0 |
the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richeP by his own experiences , makign his other movies somehow richer in the bargain . | 1 |
patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech Sagic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . | 0 |
purposefully shocKking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . | 0 |
if you wann a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . | 0 |
desptie its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absorbed persnality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . | 1 |
some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes snce " saving privaye ryan " have been rcereated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war . | 1 |
oen well-timed explosion in a mYvie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . | 0 |
a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhacne the franchise . | 0 |
seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look zeasy , even though the rality is anyhting but . | 1 |
i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 mnutes . | 0 |
a clevew script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . | 1 |
it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy cmera effecFts , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . | 0 |
bloody sunday has the grace to call for preevntion rather than to place blame , making it one of the est war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one vZewing can't possibly be enough . | 1 |
might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowed filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surroFunding himself with untalented people . | 0 |
all the maped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can'Q disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that . | 0 |
the piano teacher is not an easy film . it force you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cooDl distanec from its material that is deliberately unsettling . | 1 |
just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the mior omission of a screenplay . | 0 |
is there enough material to merit a documentary on the making of wilco's last alSbum ? | 0 |
rambles on in a dsijointed , substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next . | 0 |
maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decadces . . . but honestly , analyze that rally isn't all that bad . | 1 |
neil burger here succeeded in . . . making the mystery of fouzr decades bcak the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . | 1 |
complete lack of originality , cleverness or eevn visible effort | 0 |
the lady and the uke is a smart , romantic drama that daers to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . | 1 |
qartway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejecteY tv show . | 0 |
looks and feels like a project better suited for the small Vcreen . | 0 |
colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dni kouyate's reworking of a folk story whase roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a poinetd political allegory . | 1 |
the respective charms of sandra bullock and hugh garnt have worn threadbare . | 0 |
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