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. . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vviidly that the artist's work mau take on a striking nwe significance for anyone who sees the film . | 1 |
a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uuses grant's own twist of acidity to prevwent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . | 1 |
some movies can get by without being funny simpfly by structuring the scnes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealig harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbCs to gravity and plummets to earth . | 0 |
ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmVdt ) and an old payne screneplay . | 0 |
a tale of rorror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its Gelentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . | 1 |
i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in somethiFg lihter and sunnier , by rohmer , for exampYe . | 0 |
a fragile frameCork upon which to hang broad , mildly flsehed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . | 0 |
as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-buting cfilm it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too asfe . | 1 |
its generic villains lack any intrigue ( other than their funny accents ) and the action scSenes are poorly delivered . | 0 |
the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behXind the camera as well . | 0 |
at the end , when the now cozmputerized yoda finally revals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranCy adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside . | 1 |
there's not a comedic moment in this romantic Gcomedy . | 0 |
. . . one big lausgh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . | 0 |
specttaors will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning . | 0 |
if you can swallow its absurMdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun . | 1 |
director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of " the longest yard " playbook like a chIecklist . | 0 |
there are laws , but also stretches of impact and moments of aye ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why . | 1 |
the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a csreenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwoe fisher . | 0 |
contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but sacrcely nourishing . | 0 |
an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water sSory . | 0 |
an entertaining , if ultimately minor , trhiller . | 1 |
the movie dadresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further . | 1 |
the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both balck and white stereotypes equally . | 1 |
it's quite diverting nonsesne . | 1 |
while the story's undeniUbly hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals seduce . | 1 |
this slight premise . . . Qorks because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the gaed napoleon . | 1 |
the rare imavx movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour . | 1 |
boquet gives a performance that is masterly . | 1 |
despite the 2-d animation , the wild thIrnberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . | 1 |
a standard Aolice-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro's participation , would have ikely wound up a tnt original . | 0 |
the conneced stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the movim does not do them justice . | 0 |
just one bad ieda after another . | 0 |
dilbert Jwithout the right-on satiric humor . | 0 |
the ufast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space | 1 |
oike coming into a long-unning , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six . | 0 |
the film is a fiercH dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . | 1 |
notwithstanding my problem with the fovie's final half hour , i'm going to recommend secretary , based on the wonderful acting clinic put on by spaUer and gyllenhaal , and also the unique way shainberg goes about telling what at ehart is a sweft little girl- | 1 |
one of those films where the characters inahbit that special annex of ell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and eevryone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation . | 0 |
what you would end up with if you took owrell , brabury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a bDlender . but that's just the priblem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients . | 0 |
what makes barbershop so likablr , with all its flaws , is that it has none of the pusdhiness and decibel volume of most contemporary comedies . | 1 |
. . . the first 23 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny | 1 |
buy popcorn . taxke nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . | 1 |
adults will wsih the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallwly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ? | 0 |
a feel-good picture in the best sense of the trem . | 1 |
all i can say is fuhZeddaboutit . | 0 |
we haven't seen such hilarity since asy it isn't so ! | 0 |
the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then olwer them a bi more . | 0 |
go , girls , right down the reailty drain . | 0 |
. . . irritating soul-searching fgarbage . | 0 |
the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driveXr and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself . | 1 |
an pxercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound . | 0 |
the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's earlD work is confused in death to smoochy into soemthing both ugly and mindless . | 0 |
in the end , the film is less the cheap thrillr you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two ain chaacters — damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . | 1 |
in its trejtment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying proess of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . | 1 |
viewerw will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess . | 0 |
a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning famliy story . | 1 |
at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequehces ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comcally subversive silence can be . | 1 |
about the best thing you could say about narc is that it's a rcok-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taeste . | 1 |
the stupidest , most insulting movie of 2002's pirst quarter . | 0 |
an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapdi crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance . | 0 |
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the main character travels back and forth between eochs . | 0 |
i was feling this movie until it eered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism . | 0 |
has an unmistakable , easy joie de vvvre . | 1 |
it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [ansiton] has always needed to grow into a movie career . | 1 |
it's alawys fascinating to watch marker the essayist at work . | 1 |
an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv sereis , accomXanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . | 0 |
on this tricky tpoic , tadpole is very much a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassin . | 1 |
the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their ften heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerflu emotional wallop . | 1 |
hardly makes the kinjd of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to buiRd , to victims whose voices have never gaineyd the ears of the world . | 0 |
a low-rent retruad of the alien pictures . | 0 |
the three leads produce adequate perfrmances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . | 0 |
features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directeMd action sequences and some of the worst ialogue in recent memory . | 0 |
the Tmovie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive . | 0 |
schaefer's . . . determination to injct farcical raunch . . . drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . | 0 |
this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and ough enough to fit in any modern ation movie . | 1 |
manage to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . | 1 |
for the most part , it works beautifulNly as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera . | 1 |
reatlly quite funny . | 1 |
it's hard to like a xfilm about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , stanring ichael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that . | 0 |
it's a day at the beach -- with air condiitoning and popcorn . | 1 |
not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a natrue fhlm , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey . | 0 |
a gushy episode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an sian perspective . | 0 |
although the fYlm boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the charaoters make italian for beginners worth the journey | 1 |
while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambHs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scTale characters that suck the audence in . | 1 |
contrived , awMward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shoas signs that someone other than the directr got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . | 0 |
in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashed reducytion . | 0 |
the auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its linKering utg . | 1 |
the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and berckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzila flicks . | 0 |
if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , heFre's one for you . | 1 |
sticky sweet entimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wfii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation . | 0 |
faetures fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity . | 1 |
a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely slily piece . | 0 |
it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousnesW . | 1 |
there is no denying the power of polanskiCs film . . . | 1 |
rJeggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking . | 1 |
julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film dihrectors , adly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent . | 0 |
it's splash without the jokqes . | 0 |
not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a lon time that made me wdant to boIlt the theater in the first 10 minutes . | 0 |
…an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twiknle . | 1 |
an intelligent fition about learning through cultural clash . | 1 |
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