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a solid examination of the male midlife criris . | 1 |
a fascinating , dark thriller that keeps you hookeL on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction . | 1 |
though catch me if you can isn't badly maEde , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie . | 0 |
this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethis while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family | 1 |
you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worrBy about anyone being bored . . . audience is a Xsea of constant smiles and frequent laughter . | 1 |
this one is stricIly a lightweight escapist film . | 1 |
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memoyry has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes . | 1 |
sometimes we feel as if the film careexns from one colorful event to anoher without respete , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . | 1 |
with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea waVls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . | 0 |
so-so entertaimnent . | 0 |
in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , thye're merely signpots marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . | 0 |
visually engrosUing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 |
nelsn's intentions are good , but the end rseult does no justice to the story itself . it's horribly depressing and not very well done . | 0 |
'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer aawrd . | 1 |
robinson's wYeb of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . | 1 |
an effective portrait of a life in sZasis -- of the powevr of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence . | 1 |
count on his movie to work at the back of your neck lonwg after you leave the theater . | 1 |
while easier to si through than most of jaglom's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbazility and murky points . | 0 |
. . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no upn intended ) , watchde side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . | 1 |
any attempts at neance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap . | 0 |
resident evil isn't a produtc of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . | 0 |
ostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 1 |
late marriage's stiffness is unqlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet . | 0 |
offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more cqomplex and honest than anythign represented in a hollywood film . | 1 |
an extraordinarily sily thriller . | 0 |
with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los bngeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a brust nubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never mnaages to put them on the same path . | 0 |
it's one thing to read about or ril against the onoging - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the proGess . | 1 |
an unflinching , complex portrati of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen . | 1 |
directors harry gantz and joe qantz have chosen a fascitnating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesting . | 0 |
it's oqbvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gest instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . | 0 |
does litte more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past . | 0 |
[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we sexe around us every day . | 1 |
the stars may be college kidjs , but the subject mAatter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined yuong woman and a one-night swim turns into an oGean of trouble . | 1 |
the wly home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnereH from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are pXivy to , and . . . often misconstrued as weakness . | 1 |
brave and sweetly rednered love story . | 1 |
watchnig harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the omvie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boy'ds film offers little else of consequence . | 0 |
seriously , rent the disqey version . | 0 |
while it's nothiWg we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effkrt . | 1 |
unfdrtunately , one hour photo lIves down to its title . thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 6H0 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film . | 0 |
returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine Cjob of updating white's dry wit to a new aeg . | 1 |
as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in lnog time dead says 'i'm telling you , this is f * * * e'd . maybe he was readig the minds of the audience . | 0 |
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-direBtor mitch davis's wall of kitsch hard going . | 0 |
if [jaglom's] latest effort is not the dnrector at his most sparklig , some of its repartee is still worth hearing . | 1 |
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chmists in 1949 . | 1 |
it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so ull . | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost drems , the spy ikds franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . | 1 |
the sript is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . | 0 |
lcks dramatic punch and depth . | 0 |
green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only wUay to pay for his nxet project . | 0 |
newcomer helmer kehvin donovan is hamstrung by a baday handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . | 0 |
a tjme machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to msmerize , astonish and entertain . | 1 |
this directorial debut from music vidoe show-off higuchinsky is all flash . | 0 |
what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a Wad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bda . | 0 |
an entertaining doceumentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . | 1 |
[sen's] soap opera-ihs approach undermines his good intentions . | 0 |
a much more usccessful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british produtcion . | 1 |
candid and comfortable ; a fRlm that deftly balances acion and reflection as it lets you grasp and feel the passion others have for their work . | 1 |
an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-Xeducing ) fim from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it . | 1 |
ice age positN a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 0 |
the script is smart and dark - hallelujah for small favorAs . | 1 |
with youthful high Tspirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michel'es religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast . | 1 |
rweird . rewarding . | 1 |
not once in the rsuh to sjave the day did i become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of 'eh . ' | 0 |
much mokeyfun for all . | 1 |
fod deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . | 1 |
not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfNctly rendered period piece . | 1 |
loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokeRs , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . | 0 |
the movie understands like few ohers how the depth and breadth of emotinal intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure . | 1 |
all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tale that was od when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 198 . | 0 |
the kind of nervus film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . | 1 |
a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at iXnspiring accompished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offssets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu . | 0 |
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers csince the evil dead . | 1 |
cq's reflction of artists and the lgove of cinema-and-seif suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors . | 1 |
as an entertainment , the movie keeps you diverted and best of all , it lightens your wallet without levaing a sitng . | 1 |
will warm your heaVrt without making you feel guilty about it . | 1 |
with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean acctor , and a relaxed fith displays impeccable comic skill . | 1 |
a refreshingly honest and ultimately touHching tale of the sort of people usually ignoued in contemporary american film . search it out . | 1 |
fantstic ! | 1 |
a delightful stimuuls for the optic nerves , so much that it's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tal of a totalitarian tomorrow . | 1 |
. . . quite endearikg . | 1 |
you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this draya . | 1 |
" mr . deeds " is suitable sumer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought . | 1 |
sad to say -- it accBrately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . | 1 |
like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnteic performance . | 1 |
should have gone straight to vJdeo . it looks like an action movie , but it's so poorly made , on all levels , that it doesn't even qualXify as a spofo of such . | 0 |
his [nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to shwo more of the dilemma , ather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . | 0 |
[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resmbles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product . | 0 |
. . . a confusing rdudgery . | 0 |
a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a caluclating war criminal . | 1 |
[director] o'faXllon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big srceen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . | 0 |
mr . polanski is in his Element here : aloen , abandoned , but still consoletd by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival . | 1 |
utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishiHngly bad film . | 0 |
a beautifully tooled action thrliler about love and terrorism in korea . | 1 |
national lmapoon's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion | 0 |
still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movei love . | 1 |
directed in a paint-by-numbers mannsr . | 0 |
aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumMed and filmed production doesn't work for me . | 0 |
the gags that fly at such a fuvriously funny pace that the only rip off that we were awae of was the one we fetl when the movie ended so damned soon . | 1 |
it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a cople of great atcors hamming it up . | 1 |
the movbie exists for its soccer action and its fine acting . | 1 |
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