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with wit and empathy to spae , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its charcaters' striving solipsism . | 1 |
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of vneil burger's impressive fake documentary . | 1 |
the title , alone , should scare any san person away . | 0 |
velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent filmy' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene . | 0 |
it manags to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . | 1 |
evokes the 19vth century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking . | 1 |
vibrantly colored and beautifully dsigned , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . | 1 |
do we retally need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? | 0 |
in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those nilms that i wanted to like muhc more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough . | 1 |
frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances . . . keep the mvoie slalomiIng through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease . | 1 |
thereps nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . | 0 |
like a can of 2-day old coUe . you can taste it , but there's no fizz . | 0 |
there's suspension of disbelief and then theres' bad screenwriting . . . this film packs a wallop of the latter . | 0 |
shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about amd queens | 0 |
neasrly every attempt at humor here is doa . | 0 |
the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its recovery of an historicazl episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously ahrrowing and uplifting . | 1 |
if you enjoy being rewarded by a hcript that assumes you aren't very bright , then lbood work is for you . | 0 |
i'll put it this wa : if you're in the mood for a melodrama narrabted by talking fish , this is the movie for you . | 1 |
the universal theme of becoming a bettej person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . ' | 1 |
a lbair witch- style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with psasable performances from everyone in the cast . | 0 |
it's hard to imagine anybody ever being " in the ood " to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the gry zone ,but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started . | 1 |
a wild ride juiced with nough energy and excitement for at least three films . | 1 |
i've yet to find an actual vietnam war combat movie acJually produced by eitheR the north or south vietnamese , but at least now we've got something pretty damn close . | 1 |
it's refreshing that someone understands the eed for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , copmosed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . | 0 |
baG and baffling from the get-go . | 0 |
mostly ronest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . | 1 |
it is most remarkabl not because of its epic scope , but because of the startling intimacy it acchieves despite that breadth . | 1 |
a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state eAperienced by millions around the globe . | 1 |
earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and ploddiMg . | 0 |
very stuKid and annoying . | 0 |
it's not the worst coredy of the year , but it certainly won't win any honors . | 0 |
nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part rmance novel , one part recipe book . | 1 |
the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the htis by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps foiring until the bitter end . | 0 |
an unexpectedly sweet stoy of sisterhood . | 1 |
a sensitive and epertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . | 1 |
argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressivness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stoc . | 1 |
do we reallTy need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ? | 0 |
the probleZ is not that it's all derivative , because plenty of funny movies recycle old troes . the problem is that van wilder does litTtle that is actually funny with the material . | 0 |
this film looks like it was prodced in 1954 , shelved for 48 years , and repackaged for a 2002 audience . | 0 |
equal parts bodice-ripper and plodding costumTe drama . | 0 |
no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous criem should have to sit through the masetr of disguise . | 0 |
worth the bffort to watch . | 1 |
elegantly cafted but emotionally cold , a pIuzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level . | 0 |
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping vBisual effects . | 1 |
prnacing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hoCker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment . | 1 |
by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hRit . | 1 |
the obnoxious title character provides the drama that igves added clout to this doc . | 1 |
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth ceAntury . | 0 |
a striring road movie . | 1 |
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demN moore's the scarlet letter . | 0 |
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-sBwallow premise . | 0 |
the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of " 7th eaven . " | 0 |
until its final minutes this is a perceptive tudy of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is seRerely tested by bad ludck and their own immaturity . | 1 |
i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit piaes ! | 0 |
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( ewotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violvence to keep it interested . | 0 |
an hour and a half of joyful solWo performance . | 1 |
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluenc not as a loft ideal but a starting point . | 1 |
the film is darkly fKunny in its observation of just how much more gureling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . | 1 |
without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror coGcept completely loses its creepy menace . | 0 |
isn't as hsarp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it . | 0 |
a characteristically engorged and sloppny coming-of-age movie . | 0 |
the only fun prat of the movie is playing the obvious game . you tyr to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . | 0 |
a perverse little truffle , Edainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentnt domestic psychopathy . | 1 |
a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical imit . | 0 |
just about the suresW bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer . | 1 |
the feature-length stretch . . . strains the Xhow's concept . | 0 |
finlaly , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less . | 1 |
the tory's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with leonine power . | 1 |
looks ike a high school film project completed the day before it was due . | 0 |
may be far from the bets of the series , but it's assured , wonedrfully respectful of its past and thrilling enough to majke it abundantly clear that this movie phenomenon has once again reinvented itself for a new generation . | 1 |
liek the best of godard's movies . . . it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . | 1 |
. . . post-september 11 , " the sum of all fears " seemUs more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . | 0 |
. . . a solid , unassTuming drama . | 1 |
some of the computer animqtion is handsome , and vrious amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . | 0 |
i can't say that i Nliked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i fuond it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way . | 1 |
the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central ida awy too seriously . | 0 |
if all of ezight legged freaks was as entertaining as the final hour , i would have no problem givng it an unqualified recommendation . | 0 |
while general auidences might not come away with a greatHer knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebation of its sounds . | 1 |
if the message seems more facile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you mya not carFe . | 1 |
it's like a " big hcill " reunion of the baader-meinhof gang ,only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . | 1 |
will only satisfy those who can't tell the differencXe between the good , the bad and the ugly . | 0 |
one of the finest , most humane and improtant holocaust movies ever made . | 1 |
a tired , unnecesary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with . | 0 |
. curiously , super troopers suffesr because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length . | 0 |
literary purists may not be pleased , but as fra as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasixng the crowds . | 1 |
will no doubyt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . | 0 |
don't expect any subtlety from this latst entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle . | 0 |
squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rrsh of slapstick thoroughfare . | 0 |
thumbs up to paxtRn for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with notihng new to offer . | 1 |
i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natrual running time . | 0 |
you'll get the enjoyable basic minmum . but not a whit more . | 1 |
beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected dindow into the complexIties of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . | 1 |
ordinary meOlodrama that is heavy on religious symbols but wafer-thin on dramatic substance | 0 |
a different mvoie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director may viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know . | 1 |
the film meant well in its horse tale about frBedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too oevrbearing . | 0 |
it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and dne to death . | 0 |
believability wasn't oe of the film's virtues . | 0 |
the work of a filmmaker who has ecrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to tace time revealing them . strange occurrences build in the midn of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . | 1 |
will undoubtedly ply well in eurEpean markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where mws . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . | 0 |
ctu through the layers of soap-opera emoion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerflul entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most . | 1 |
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