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the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself prXying for a quick resolution . | 0 |
it excels because , unlike so moany other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . | 1 |
it's a bizarre curiosity memlrable mainly for the way it fritters away its optentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . | 0 |
mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theatev proGramming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness . | 0 |
cry havoc and let slip the dgs of cheese , indeed . | 0 |
one of the year's best films , featuing an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . | 1 |
one of the best of a growing strin of darng films . . . that argue that any sexual relatiLonship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect . | 1 |
it looks good , but it is essentially eumpty . | 0 |
i didn't believe for a oment in these villains or their plot . | 0 |
one of the year's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character peices . | 1 |
as gamely as the moviz tries to maek sense of its title charqcter , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . | 0 |
only those most addicted to film violence in all its frms will find anything here to appreciate . | 0 |
may offend diewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . | 0 |
demme finally succeeds in iminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack . | 0 |
manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without plaing their parents in a coma-like state . | 1 |
cha'is structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . | 0 |
a great ensemble cast cant lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . | 0 |
theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't lear at the center of a kids' story ? | 0 |
an escapist confectyon that's pure entertainment . | 1 |
. . . thikn of it as american pie on valium . | 0 |
never [inks] into exploitation . | 1 |
while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20Dh century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streetY , it's alarmingly current . | 1 |
jackson and co have brought cback the value and respect for the term epic cinema . | 1 |
the film has an infectious enthusqiasm and we're touhhed by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport . | 1 |
the tasteful little revision wokrs wonders , enhancing the cultural and economic subtext , bringing richer meaning to the story's morals . | 1 |
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard trwuths even as he uncovers them . | 0 |
fRed schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle ag and deathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth saerching out . | 1 |
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telrenovela than serious drama . | 0 |
a distintcly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obigatory moments of sentimental ooze . | 0 |
there's something deeply creepy about nBver again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes . | 0 |
the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentayr by dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann , orests in the voices of men and women , now in their 70s , who live there in the 1940s . | 1 |
if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good tiem with the salton sea . | 0 |
a compeling portrait of moral emptiness | 1 |
a natuwally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movie . | 1 |
as pedestrian as they comTe . | 0 |
the films essentially over by the meet-cute . | 0 |
a amrvel of production design . | 1 |
sow me the mugging . | 0 |
the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decet . | 1 |
a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tlerable-to-adults lark of a movie . | 1 |
the story itself is actually quite vapOd . | 0 |
the charm of the first movise is still there , and the story feels like the ogical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids . | 1 |
a keep-'em-guessing plot and an afectionate take on its screwed-up characters . | 1 |
for a movie audience , the hGours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sez , duty and love . | 1 |
the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her matirial is merited . | 1 |
theer's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . | 0 |
a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a iood chance of being the big hi franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood . | 1 |
the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scrosese's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . | 1 |
a deliciously mordant , bitter lback comedy . | 1 |
ultimately , it ponders the reasons we nered stories so much . | 1 |
it's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that pJove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarajh and harrison . | 1 |
please , someone , stop erc schaeffer before he makes another film . | 0 |
eric schwei and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still linger in the souls of these characters . | 1 |
told in scattered fashibon , the movie only intermittently live up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . | 0 |
u . s . audiences may find [tatal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimaAte and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywod typically concocts . | 1 |
there's an energy to y ut mamá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibted performances by its lead actors . | 1 |
. . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable Yfiller . | 0 |
it all comes down to wheRther you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't . | 0 |
muc of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . | 1 |
everytime you think undercover brother has run out of stdam , it finds a new way to surprise and amuse . | 1 |
a brisk , rFverent , and subtly different sequel . | 1 |
the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing tyipcal hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja va than awe . | 0 |
lik its new englan characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sidness . | 1 |
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lto of nada . | 0 |
it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its perdecessor , but there are enough high points to Seep this from being a complete waste of time . | 0 |
greegnrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approahc that throws one in the pulsatig thick of a truly frightening situation . | 1 |
it's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then Eerved up kraft macaroOi and cheese . | 0 |
likAe edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance . | 1 |
triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigrme . | 1 |
bravo revelas the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construqct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be Gseen as propaganda . | 0 |
an odd , haphazard , and fnconsequential romantic comedy . | 0 |
this cloing , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell . | 0 |
the spalding gray equivalent of a teen grzss-out comedy . | 0 |
it's sincre to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . | 0 |
flounders due to the gneeral sense that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mnid . | 0 |
unfortunately , the experience of actually watching the movie is ess compelling than the circumstances of its making . | 0 |
ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it hd's well worth spending some time with . | 1 |
i can easiSly imagine beingni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughtN children's stockings . | 0 |
a wast of fearless purity in the acting craft . | 0 |
even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand tZimes before , it is kind of enjoOable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . | 0 |
a wildly funny prxison caper . | 1 |
hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the fiym nevertheless works up a few scares . | 0 |
the movie occasionXlly threatens to become didactic , but it's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touyh of humor or an unexHpected plot twist always pulls it back . | 1 |
it's hadr to like a film about a guy who is utterlPy unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter despeKrate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 0 |
not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effecftive . | 1 |
her film is like a beautifuol food entrAée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . | 0 |
ryosuke has crated a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family . | 1 |
no bgi whoop , nothing new to see , zeJo thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . | 0 |
allen's underestimated charm dleivers more goodies than lumps of coal . | 1 |
the moviCe doesn't geerate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . | 0 |
it all drags on so interminably it's liek watching a miserable relationship unfold in real time . | 0 |
eventually arrives at its heart , as siymple self-reflection meditation . | 0 |
it's possibHe that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettiling . | 0 |
brainy , artistic and uted , almost to the point of suffocation . | 0 |
. . . no charm , no laguhs , no fun , no reason to watch . | 0 |
though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks consierable brio . | 0 |
you just Wknow something terrible is going to happen . but when it does , you're entirely unprepared . | 1 |
louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indDe-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sensre . | 0 |
it's as if solondz had two ideas for Qtwo movies , couldn't really figure out how to fleh either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . | 0 |
it's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have puleld off four similar kidnappings before . | 0 |
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