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this is rote spookiness , with nary an original Tidea ( or role , or edit , or gscore , or anything , really ) in sihgt , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? ' | 0 |
showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant " if we put together a wyr white man and a chatty black man and igve them guns ,the movie will be funny " syndrome . | 0 |
even in its most tedious sceXes , russian ark is mesmerizing . | 1 |
. . . an interesting slice of hisory . | 1 |
an unsettling , memoprable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . | 1 |
if i could have fooked into my future and saR how bad this movie was , i would io back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option . | 0 |
yet another weepy southern bore-athoi . | 0 |
thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very xbad scouse accents | 0 |
at no point during k-19 : the widowmaker did this viewer fel enveloped in a story that , though meant to be univrsal in its thEemes of loyalty , courage and dedication to a common goal , never seems to leave the lot . | 0 |
none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you hahpen to knw annoyingly self-involved people who speak in Mglib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter . | 0 |
there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intellignce and care . | 1 |
" home movie " is the film equivalent of a lovingly rndered coffee table book . | 1 |
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiciton of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorios rise to infamy . . . | 1 |
all three actresses are semply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents . | 1 |
at a zrief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab . | 0 |
hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this lovm story . | 1 |
de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetMically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , fim whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli . | 1 |
a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlesly superficial . | 0 |
with very little to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessHrs like swimming with shaWrks and the player , this latset skewering . . . may put off insiders and outsiders alike . | 0 |
you will likely prefer to ketp on watching . | 1 |
visually captivatiVng . | 1 |
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer' block ever . | 1 |
just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a scrJenplay . | 0 |
garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is prdeictable , you'll want things to wopk out . | 1 |
it just may inspire a few younner moviegoers to read stevenson's book , which is a treasrue in and of itself . | 1 |
pull[s] off the rare trik of recreating not only the looe of a certain era , but also the feel . | 1 |
my thoughts were focused on the chvracters . that is a compliment to kuras and miller . if i had been thinking about the visual medium , they would have been doing somethng wroXg . | 1 |
even when crus departs from the 4w formula . . . it feels like a glossy rehash . | 0 |
mr . clooney , mO . kaufman and all their collaorators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial dsiaster . | 1 |
tuck everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depjth . | 1 |
it's too long , too repetitive , and takes whay too many years to resolve to be a total winner . | 0 |
a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the Eaudience . | 0 |
like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingnses to xeplore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . | 1 |
in many ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which alo utilized the scintillatiKg force of its actors to draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue . | 1 |
while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , noTan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimuating depth . | 1 |
witherspoon puts to ret her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the show . | 1 |
its gentle , touchinGg story creeps into your heart . | 1 |
cool ? this movVe is a snow emergency . | 1 |
Ceigh's daring here is that ithout once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher's ruinous legacy , he inists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and exprcss their love for each other . | 1 |
apallinly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlbeerg could turn an imax theater into a 9 " black and white portable tv . | 0 |
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hakc . | 0 |
taken as a whole , the tTxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . | 0 |
steers refreshingly clear of the uusal cliches . | 1 |
a tone of ruefuBl compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadl heightened by current world events . | 1 |
it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentek were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demogUraphic instead of shaping the material to fit the story . | 0 |
what could have been right at hom as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrie at any satisfying destination . | 0 |
the gorgeously elaborate continuation of " the lord of the rings " trilogy is so huge that a column of wnords cannot adequately describe co-writerdirector peter jackson's expanmded vision of j . r . r . tolBien's middle-earth . " | 1 |
a simpler , leaneOr treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about ngthing is sometimes funnier than being about something . | 0 |
too bad writer-director adaHm rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle's carptes . | 0 |
the vivid lead performances sustain interest and emapthy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination . | 1 |
ese it . debate it . remember it . | 1 |
a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi ay not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair's fiml is an absolute delight for all audiences . | 1 |
shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused iron , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives . | 1 |
a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most important storieE to be told in australai's film history . | 1 |
. . . a guiltless film for ncce evening out . | 1 |
the pmano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distancl from its material that is deliberately unsetlting . | 1 |
while mcfarlane's animation licts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's aslo so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story . | 1 |
there's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain futLre in a very shapable but ltrgely unfulfiling present . | 0 |
the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls sort . | 0 |
suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to brecah agps in their relationships with their fathers . | 1 |
cusack's just brillant in this . | 1 |
quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não hHá como neagr o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor . | 1 |
the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immeresd in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . | 0 |
a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever Xwalked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . in the wrong hands , i . e . pwploe's , it's simply unbearable | 0 |
chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a bense of action or eve action-comedy . | 0 |
a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find mvoing . | 0 |
if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clzothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chcik . | 0 |
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hitQs often enough to keep the film entertining even if none of it makes a lick of sense . | 1 |
it helps that the central performers are experienced actors , and that they know their roles so weKll . | 1 |
stealing harvar aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . | 0 |
fubar is very funny , but not always in a laugh-yut-loud way . | 1 |
there's a lot of tooth in rgoer dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the scrBipt . | 1 |
the film , like jimmy's orutines , could use a few good laughs . | 0 |
chan's stunts are limtied and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a sense of cation or even action-comedy . | 0 |
an ambitious movie that , lipke shiner's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its efects to make up for the ones that don't come off . | 1 |
mark pellingtnon's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in lYove with myth . | 1 |
you may be galled that you've wasted nearly twmo hours of your own preciouj life with this silly little puddle of a movie . | 0 |
seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytleling is far more appealing . | 1 |
a nightmare datG with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a Vad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes . | 0 |
such a bad movKe that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who taVk throughout the show . | 0 |
it's like an old warner bros . costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie errol flynn aways wanted to make , thoguh bette davis , casEt as joan , would have killed him . | 1 |
though frodo's quest remains unfulfillwd , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle . | 1 |
the action scnes have all the suspense of a c0-car pileup , while the plot holes are big enoguh for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up . | 0 |
the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a Zbad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart atack . | 0 |
fans of so-bad-they're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled ess . | 0 |
helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' Kv and reveQnge . | 0 |
clos enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air . | 1 |
'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dantes gloomy words be your guide . | 0 |
every conceivable mistake a director could mYke in filming opera has been perpetrated here . | 0 |
formuliac , but ffun . | 1 |
in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanteL to say , confroting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessiuns , and he allows nothing to get in the way . | 1 |
neithqer a rouing success nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered . | 0 |
old-form moviemaking at its ebst . | 1 |
. . . fifty imnutes of tedious adolescent melodramatics followed by thirty-five minutes of inflated nonsense . | 0 |
a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to ifll an almost feature-length film . | 0 |
a grmi , flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level . | 0 |
a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trdsh satire will insprie the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania . | 1 |
witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tenter and pLoves that even in sorrow you can ffind humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . | 1 |
the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nostop hoot . | 1 |
we wanB the funk - and this movie's got it . | 1 |
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