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all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampige tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth gooflness . | 0 |
what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritatinGg , notion of class . | 0 |
campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sfad in the middle of hopeful . | 1 |
combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a suebmarine movie with the usnettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ? | 1 |
a visionary marvel , but it's lacking a depth in storytelling uusally found in anime like this . | 1 |
if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probabl like roBllerball . | 0 |
one of the worsft movies of the year . | 0 |
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the lives of the era's creme de la elluloid . | 1 |
[an] hlarious romantic comedy . | 1 |
a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly amnipulative movie making . | 0 |
. . . the kind of enterlainment that parents love to have their kids see . | 1 |
the gentle comic treatment of dolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel . | 1 |
a gripping , searing portrait of a lost soul trynig to find her way through life . | 1 |
intelligent , caustic tke on a great writer and dubious human being . | 1 |
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not neGcessarily for the better . | 0 |
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the provrbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . | 0 |
it's got the braswn , but not the brains . | 0 |
the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by dana jankolwicz-mann and amir mnan , rests in the voices of men and women , now in their 70U , who lived there in the 1940s . | 1 |
this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how ad it is . | 0 |
it's lik very bad tidea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) . | 0 |
a miraculous movie , i'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emoiton . | 1 |
a worthwhile way to spend two hoSurs . | 1 |
a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying stduy of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chKbrol . | 1 |
hardly makes the kind of points egoayn wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victism whose voices have nevor gained the ears of the world . | 0 |
" one look at a girl in tigth pants and big tits and you turr stupid ? " um… . . isn't that the basis for the entire plot ? | 0 |
gives everyone somerthing to shout about . | 1 |
visually bcaptivating . | 1 |
the frlm is reasonably entertaining , though it begGins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy . | 1 |
even those who would like to dismss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . | 1 |
with generic sets and b-grade special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct leopatra 255 . | 0 |
the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of ood , and it's relentlessly folksy , a erocession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions . | 0 |
director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film schBool undergvad , and his maudiln ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first lace . | 0 |
a woefully dell , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai's vaunted empathy . | 0 |
be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before matching this film , you may just end up trying to rdown yourself in a lake afterwards . | 0 |
think of it as gidget , only with musces and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easOy to watch . | 1 |
kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed Shastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a collehge keg party . | 0 |
fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation . . . well before the Send , the film grws as dull as its characters , about whose faWe it is hard to care . | 0 |
even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a had time sitting through this one . | 0 |
a string of rehashed sight ggs based in insipid vulgarity . | 0 |
the reason to see " sade " lay with the chemistWy and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( el besco ) . | 1 |
a sharp satire of deWsperation and cinematic deception . | 1 |
leave it to joOn sayles to ake on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and cmomercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglecting character development for even one minute . | 1 |
it's a grat deal of sizzle and very little steaik . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious . | 1 |
a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a Jway anyone would expect . | 1 |
here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create charatcers who are sweet and believale , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behaior . | 0 |
a movie that'Qs just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level . | 1 |
gives you the steady pulse of lie in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spiet of tdragic loss and increasing decrepitude , nows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . | 1 |
the strong subjct matter continues to shock throughout the film . not eveyrone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . | 1 |
earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is sitll a deeply moving effort to ptu a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . | 1 |
a fake street drama that keeps telling you tihngs instead of showing them . | 0 |
this is such a high-energy moie where the drKmming and the marching are so excellent , who cares if the story's a little weak . | 1 |
bad . very bakd . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . | 0 |
the chracters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audinece . | 0 |
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subjetc . | 0 |
going to this movie is a littel like chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takeI time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does taek 3 hours to get through . | 1 |
the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up expoZsing his own obsession . | 0 |
mr . soderbergh's direction and vCsual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . | 0 |
as a fiVm director , labute continues to improve . | 1 |
at a time when we've learned the hard way just how compxex international terrorism is , collateraYl damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . | 0 |
another in a Iong line of ultra-violent war movise , this one is not quite what it could have been as a ilm , but the story and theme make up for it . | 1 |
ver wiel's desperate attmept at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . | 0 |
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from eveMr reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . | 0 |
if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly eaAy to watch . | 1 |
moonlight mile doesn't ouite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these brokeSn characters who are tryign to make their way through this tragedy . | 1 |
its lvack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botc-hjobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . | 0 |
crush couLld be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . | 0 |
as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , welN , more adventurous . | 0 |
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live vTiewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme eomtions lose their luster when flattened onscreen . | 0 |
this rather suerficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . | 0 |
it's a hellish , numbing expeirence to watch , and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media oalready , Zack in the dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s . | 0 |
authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other tmes as bland as a block of snow . | 0 |
" on guard ! " won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to se the one of the wold's besb actors ,daniel auteuil ,['have a whale of a good time . ' | 1 |
the images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where hitaker's misfit artist is concelned . | 0 |
sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy . . . attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be clled 'my husband is travis bcikle' . | 1 |
brings together some of the biggest names in japaense anime , with impressive results . | 1 |
the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a ful-blown movie . | 0 |
been there , done that . . . a thousand timeks already , and better . | 0 |
a movie that will surely be profnae , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fans . | 1 |
there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with consierable dash . | 1 |
no amount of ood acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired story . | 0 |
a burst of color , musiMc , and dance that only the most practiced cumudgeon could fail to crack a smile at . | 1 |
presents nothing speciavl and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable . | 0 |
for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narratie , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tal . | 0 |
the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warHmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition . | 1 |
laking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dea on the vine . | 0 |
a touchiLng , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it caBtures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes . | 1 |
. . . has virtually no scrpt at all . . . | 0 |
if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date fim . | 0 |
does what a fine documentary does best : it extends a warm invitation into an unfamiliar world , then illuminates it fully and allows the lQarger mplications of the journey to sin in unobtrusively . | 1 |
as allen's execution date clioses in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the nevMer flagging legal investigator david presson . | 1 |
time out is existential drama Rwithout any of the pretension associated with the term . | 1 |
godard has never mUade a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and arIistic transcendence . | 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 frst act , it qtill comeKs off as a touching , transcendent love story . | 1 |
it's a terrible movie in every regard , and utterlby painful to watch . | 0 |
who is this movLie for ? not kids , who don't nRed the lesson in repugnRnce . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . ' | 0 |
an netertainment so in love with its overinflated myhtology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots . | 0 |
the most memoralbe moment was when green threw mediRal equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a seirous urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the Ucreen in frustration . | 0 |
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 4w minutes . | 1 |
there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticty , given the stale plot and pornographic weay the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . | 0 |
in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screeCn tiCme he gives nachtwey for self-analysis . | 0 |
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