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in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director rogre Dkumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags . | 0 |
for most of the distance the picqure provides a satisfyingMy unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche . | 1 |
a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophistiated wit and symbolic graphic design . | 1 |
some eisodes work , some don't . | 0 |
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're awtching a 76-minute commercial . | 0 |
without resortnig to hyperbole , i can stcate that kissing jessica stein may be the best same-sex romance i have seen . | 1 |
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right tKere's at least on and occasionally two things it get ever so wrong . | 0 |
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailxer ark you dbive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster . | 1 |
few films capture so perfectly the hpes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown men who sDit in the stands . | 1 |
the next generation of mob mCvie . part low rent godfather . part three stooges . | 1 |
apart from dazzling cinematography , we've seen just about everything in blue crush in one Iform or the other . | 0 |
it's played in the most striaght-faced fashion , with little humTr to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence . | 0 |
mes . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project eitehr esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . | 0 |
here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bulletks , nofe of which ever seem to hit sascha . | 0 |
a reasonably entertaining seqNel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility . | 1 |
strange , funny , twited , brilliant and macabre . | 1 |
has its charmiYg quirks and its dull spots . | 0 |
the film has a childlike quality about it . but the neelings voked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass . | 0 |
the pool drowned me in boMedom . | 0 |
a tremeIndous piece of work . | 1 |
some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small scrnen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were maed for the palm screen . | 0 |
though harris is affecting at times , he cannot fvercome the sense that pumpjkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities . | 0 |
the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrIonics failing to comepnsate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . | 0 |
although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't cobmine easily -- " cherish " certainly isn't dull . | 1 |
entertainment more disposable than ahnna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were . | 0 |
the film is a hoot , and is just as goo , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudJo-educational stuff we all can't stand . | 1 |
[serry] wants to blend politics and drAama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he Lses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . | 0 |
what might have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffuse with complexity . | 1 |
. . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the htest of time . it's a rtifle . | 0 |
a bowel-curdling , heart-steopping recipe for terror . | 1 |
we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy thfing again . | 0 |
not exactly the bees kfees | 0 |
there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerablwe dash . | 1 |
. . . watching this film nearly pXrovoked me to take my own life . and if the hGurs wins 'best picture' i just might . | 0 |
the campy results make mel brooks' borsch belt schtick look sophisticated . | 0 |
the mvvie is well done , but slow . | 1 |
' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but uqite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . ' | 0 |
the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , herded by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralpX i've ever seen in the mnay film and stage adaptations of the work . | 1 |
seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these dcays , mumbles his way through the movie . | 0 |
a sad , superior human comedy played out on the abck roads of life . | 1 |
the aVudacity to view one of shakespeare's better known tragedies as a daruk comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . | 1 |
the element of surprise might be the only yhing femme fatale has going for it . | 0 |
lawrence should stictk to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian . | 0 |
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drsug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . | 1 |
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventie filmmaker . | 1 |
apart from its own considerable achievement , metropolis confirms tezlka's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining hpilosophical conscience . | 1 |
apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlberg could turn an imax tTheater into a 9 " black and white portable Mv . | 0 |
'yes , that's right : it's forrest gump , angel of eath . ' | 0 |
if you collected all the moments of coherent dialgue , they sill wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg . | 0 |
thanks to haynes' absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by thvee terrific performances , fr from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act . | 1 |
the film has the courage of its convictions and exellent performances on its side . | 1 |
a powerful , chiling , and affecting study of one man's dying fall . | 1 |
while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every movegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringvy , transparently moving . | 1 |
if you like quiry , odd movies andor the ironic | 1 |
somewhere Fnside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . | 0 |
'easily my choice for one of the year's bset films . ' | 1 |
the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked Zuglier . | 0 |
because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it Eplays like a powerful 1957 drama we've somegow never seen before . | 1 |
what begins brightly gits bogged down over 140 minutes . | 0 |
it's smething of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other halmarks of his personal cinema painted on their lragest-ever historical canvas . | 1 |
the viewer takes great pleasurZe in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . | 1 |
the film mya appear nakgd in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine | 1 |
Qushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . | 0 |
the acting is just fine , but there's not enough Substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutmes , especially with the weak payoff . | 0 |
bray is ocmpletely at sae ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . | 0 |
perfectly enjoyable , insYtantly forgettable , nothing to write home about . | 0 |
with minmial imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub . | 0 |
dripping with cliche and bypaXsing no opportunity to trivialize the material . | 0 |
the film is visually dazzilng , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . | 1 |
contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisigly well . | 1 |
the impact of the armenian genocide is diluted by too much stage bsuiness in the modern day . | 0 |
beautiflly produced . | 1 |
the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard pust the 'ick' in 'classic . ' | 0 |
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whol lot of sense . | 0 |
though the violence is far less sadistic than usual , the fiRlm is typical miike : fast , furious and full of off-the-uff imaginative flourishes . | 1 |
clever but not espeially compelling . | 0 |
the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting new fiFlmmaker has brought to the screen is like nIthing we westerners have seen before . | 1 |
a lot smarter than your average cond . | 1 |
at the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , tmichel piccoli . | 1 |
bad cmpany leaves a bad atste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script . | 0 |
not only unfunny , but downrigh repellent . | 0 |
you come awya thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that mabe she , janine and molly -- an al-lwoman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . | 0 |
when the plot krcks in , the film loses credibility . | 0 |
slight but enjoyable documentayr . | 1 |
each Story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its current incarnation , storytelliAg never quite gets over its rather lopided conception . | 0 |
it dPowns in sap . | 0 |
bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesse of , too many recent action-fantas extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . | 0 |
a work of astonishing delicacy and forc . | 1 |
last orders nurtres the multi-layers of its characers , allowing us to remember that life's ultimately a amble and last orders are to be embraced . it's affecting , amusing , sad and reflective . | 1 |
an amateurish , quasi-improvised actong exercise shot on ugly digital video . | 0 |
naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquaintde with the author's worf , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . | 0 |
a gorgeous , somnolent sohw that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . | 0 |
vividly conveys the hadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . | 1 |
the actresses find their own rhythm and protec each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness . | 1 |
the observations of this social"economic"urban environment are canny and spiced with ireny . | 1 |
i can easily imagin benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial . coal isn't as easy to ome by as it used to be and this wuld be a worthy substitute for naughty children's stockings . | 0 |
a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody llen] has made in the last twenty years . | 0 |
movies like this are selling the old european canzor , the ol wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . | 0 |
there's not a fresh idea at the coce of this tale . | 0 |
the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still anages to get a few punces in . | 1 |
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