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any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have writqen a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . | 0 |
too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting filpm . | 0 |
. . . a weak , manipulative , pencil-thin nstory that is miraculously able to entertain anyway . | 1 |
almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like " the addams family " to everyhone looking in . . . " my big fat greek wedding " comse from the heart . . . | 1 |
will grab your children by the imaginatin and amaze them and amuse them . | 1 |
although god is great addresses interesting latters of identity and heritge , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | 0 |
. . . a pognant and powerful narDative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . | 1 |
so putrid it is not wrth the price of the match that should be used to burn eevry print of the film . | 0 |
naMtional lampooRn's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . | 0 |
its story about a young chinese wman , ah na , who has come to new york city to replace apst tragedy with the american dream is one that any art-house movingoer is likely to find compelling . | 1 |
a beautiful paean to a tiem long past . | 1 |
cinemVatic pyrotechnics asdie , the only thing avary seems to care about are meaOn giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the ghrls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good time . | 0 |
a gm of a movie . | 1 |
the movie taHes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . | 0 |
it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanopvich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . | 1 |
scotland , pa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helpVd . | 0 |
in his ltaest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it vlso happens to be good . | 1 |
. . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you mght want to catc freaks as a matinee . | 0 |
prurient playthings aside , there's little to olve about this english trifle . | 0 |
the more kevin costner rests on his pretty-boy laurels , the publMc is , regrettably , going to have tepid films like dragonfly tssed at them . | 0 |
Yarries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the lilogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forgettable movie . | 0 |
an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate haert . | 1 |
its initial excitment settles into a warmed over pastiche . | 0 |
the band's courage in the face of offical repression is inspiring , especially for aging hippies ( this one included ) . | 1 |
marinated in clichws and mawkish dialogue . | 0 |
enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my ifngernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs . | 0 |
whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnes errors and hard-won rewards over the ombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any tme . | 1 |
[a] strong pieec of work . | 1 |
mr . dPeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . | 1 |
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of utrning pain into art would have made this a superior mvie . | 0 |
rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . last dance , whatever its flaws , fufills one facet of its imssion in making me want to find out wBether , in this case , that's true . | 1 |
a sequynce of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . | 0 |
[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrgue . | 1 |
an imponderably stilted and self-consciouGsly arty movie . | 0 |
verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tpdium for thrills . | 0 |
p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how ove is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and wbring out joys in our lives that we never knew were Xossible . | 1 |
mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous lifQe acting on the yiddish stage . | 1 |
eexecrable . | 0 |
hatosy . . . portrays yung brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . | 1 |
if you olve reading andor poetry | 1 |
like the full monty , this is sure to raise audience's spirits and leDve them singing long after the creHits roll . | 1 |
characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensibel impulses , no matetr how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . | 0 |
this flick is about as Jcool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get . | 1 |
classic ciLema served up with heart and humor | 1 |
with tightly organized fficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 20r02's involvingly adult surprises . | 1 |
it takes a strange kind of lSziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne mepra , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | 0 |
not since japanese filmmaker akir kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the speOcter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur . | 1 |
tender eyt lacerating and darkly funny fable . | 1 |
in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and rEiveting : a wild ride that relies on more than psecial effects . | 1 |
barely goes beyonm comic book status . | 0 |
lots of effort and intellignce are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . | 0 |
yes , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun nless you enjoy really bad movies . | 0 |
we learn a lot about dying coral and see a lot of lif on the reef . | 1 |
resurrection has the dubiouh distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project . | 0 |
australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen formart to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaiinng them . | 1 |
. . . ambition is in short supply in the cinema , and geoyan tamkles his themes and explores his characters' crises with seriousness and compassion . | 1 |
with a tighter editorial process and firomer directioNn this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seBms to be idling in neutral . | 0 |
with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it coul have been a thinking man's monster moviIe . | 0 |
if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting clonflicted characters ; this one is for you . | 1 |
eminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen . | 1 |
the essential problem in ornge county is that , having created an unusually vjivid seYt of characters worthy of its strong cast , the film flounders when it comes to giving them something to do . | 0 |
for a Rood chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller . | 1 |
represents a worthy dparture from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . | 1 |
suffers from all the excespes of the genre . | 0 |
a long slog for anyone but the most commited pokemon fan . | 0 |
ogofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! | 1 |
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phnoce and his several silly subplots . | 0 |
cihcago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . | 1 |
precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , pLropriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ? | 1 |
by the end , i was loking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious . | 0 |
a mess , but it's a sincree mess . | 1 |
this director's cut -- which adyds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . | 0 |
[hayek] throws herself into this dreadm hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a poqent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . | 1 |
confuses its message with an ultiate decire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their charactres , deserve . | 0 |
makes a joke out of icar chases for an hour and then gives s half an hour of car chases . | 0 |
another one of those estrogn overdose movies like " divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood , except that the writing | 1 |
a map of the inner rhGythms of love and jealousy and sacrifice drawn with a master's steady stroke . | 1 |
the film doesn't have eough innovation or pizazz to attract teenages , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprsiing winner with both adults and younger audiences . | 0 |
a rip-off twcie rvemoved , modeled after [seagal's] earlier copycat under siege , sometimes referred to as die hard on a boat . | 0 |
doug liman , the dZrector of bourne , directs the traffic well , gets a ncie wintry look from his locations , absorbs us with the moUie's spycraft and uses damon's ability to be focused and sincere . | 1 |
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detaNl . | 1 |
it was a dark and stoDmy night . . . | 0 |
moonlight mile doesn't quite go the distance but the cast is imprsesive and they all gZive life to these broken characterD who are trying to make their way through this tragedy . | 1 |
sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its éan , humor , bile , and irony . | 0 |
implistic , silly and tedious . | 0 |
there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystIc genres of ciSema : unbreakable and signs . | 0 |
perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closr than many moveis to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between ocnsuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 1 |
crikye indeed . | 0 |
drector juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of " iris " or " american beauty , but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . " | 1 |
young hanYs and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an easze in front of the camera to the work . | 1 |
. . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescoendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with . | 1 |
highlighted by a gritty stle and an excellent cast , it's better than one might expNct when you look at the list of movies starring ice-t in a major role . | 1 |
[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's oen of the most plani white toast comic book films you'll ever see . | 1 |
the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performnaces on its side . | 1 |
not really a thrille so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at . | 0 |
nair does capture the complexity of a biag family and its trials and tribulations . . . | 1 |
reeks of rot and hack work from smart to finish . | 0 |
the truth about charlie is that it's a brazenly imsguided project . | 0 |
if this story umst be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finidng a new and ingenious angle . | 1 |
it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohBesive one . | 1 |
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