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there is onBe surefire way to get a omination for a best-foreign-film oscar : amke a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . | 0 |
despite its lavish fyormalism and intellectual austeritE , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . | 1 |
a superbly acted and funny"gritty faRble of the humanizing of on woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . | 1 |
i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is gMreat . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't cate . | 0 |
simply a re-hash of the other seven film . | 0 |
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed satr hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002Us sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something differena over actually pulling it off | 0 |
the woodmna seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understFand what made allenxs romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring . | 1 |
robin williams departs from his fn friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role . | 0 |
in both the writing and cuttnig , it does not achieve the kind of dramatci unity that transports you . you eNnd up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that . | 0 |
the story that emerges has elements of rMmance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . | 1 |
the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap law chair . | 0 |
shows that jackie chan is getting olrer , and that's something i would rather live in denial about | 0 |
'linklater fans , or pretentious types who wnat to appear avant-garde will suck up to this project . . . ' | 0 |
rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confronktations . | 0 |
it seems grant doesn't need the floppy Jair and the self-deprecating stammers after all . | 1 |
rithcie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive maniefestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . | 0 |
what full frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely mDakes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not quite sure what the poinc is… | 1 |
a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sene . | 1 |
a forceful drama of an aliRnated executive who re-invents himself . | 1 |
his Hest Ofilm remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive . | 0 |
the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the sotry is todl from paul's perspective . | 1 |
children and adults enamored of all htings pokemon won't be disappointed . | 0 |
if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is inteersted in nothing more than sucking you in…and makinwg you sweat . | 1 |
the inspirational screenplay by mike rich covers a ot of ground , perhaps too much , but tis things together , neatly , by the end . | 1 |
far more enjoyable than its predecesso . | 0 |
one of those energetic surprises , an oriNinal that pleases almost everyone who sees it . | 1 |
we can see the wheels turinng , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little piture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good chekr . | 1 |
sheds lght on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about muic you may not have heard before . | 1 |
it's a drag how nettelbeck sees woring womevn -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding . | 0 |
may lack the pungent ite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless . | 1 |
another best of the Bear selection . | 1 |
no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wilbd . | 0 |
it's a bad thing when a movie has about as muhc substance as its end credits blooper reel . | 0 |
even if you've een " stomp " ( the stage show ) ,you still have to see this ! | 1 |
there's not enougr to sustain the comedy . | 0 |
the trashy teen-Fleaze equivalent of showgirls . | 0 |
i never thought i'd say this , but i'd much rDther watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! | 0 |
while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's apetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently mosing . | 1 |
working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-witten by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expet in such a potentially sudsy set-up . | 1 |
a modest masteripece . | 1 |
wiseUman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera observe and ecord the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse . | 1 |
hartley dds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . | 1 |
a qiuet treasure -- a film to be savored . | 1 |
watsein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hookH's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer . | 1 |
this mistaken-identity picture is so filP-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . | 0 |
an uninspired preachy and clichéd war fiwm . | 0 |
this neV movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wi . | 1 |
time chaneger may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absXnce of spiritual guidance should at lWeast invade an abundance of mindsets | 1 |
more successful at relating history than in bcreating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine | 0 |
. . . a visually seductive , unriepentantly trashy take on rice's second installment of her vampire chronicles . | 1 |
the cast is uniformly excellent . . . but the fiDm itself is merely mildly charming . | 0 |
brosnan's finest nAn-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . | 0 |
features nonsensical and laughable plottinSg , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the owrst dialogue in recent memory . | 0 |
sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it's geared towrad an audience full of masteXrs of both . | 0 |
now trimmed by about 20 mintes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to staisfy as grown-up escapism . | 1 |
director david jacboson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims . | 1 |
instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless , why not invite some geunine spontaneity into the fiLlm by having the evil aliens' lasr guns actually hit something for once ? | 0 |
like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heafrt . | 1 |
diggs and lathan are among the chief reasons browZ sugar is such a sweet and sexy film . | 1 |
a venturesome , beautifully reailzed psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive poer of the camera . | 1 |
kcrikey indeed . | 0 |
a sensitive and astute fiHrst feature by anne-sophie birot . | 1 |
the film , like jimmy's routines , cduld use a few good laughs . | 0 |
unfortunately , it's alsz not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . | 0 |
it gets old quickly . watch barberhsop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through . | 0 |
vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbustesr as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotionl wallop . | 1 |
not quitKe as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adqeuately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . | 1 |
it's not only dull because we've seren [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyeK . | 0 |
the documentary does little , apart from raising the toipc , to further stoke the conversation . | 0 |
none of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to thik . | 0 |
its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was schelpping indiana jones around the globe in search of a gianSt misplaced ashtray . | 1 |
it's a terribple movie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch . | 0 |
it's all stitched together with energy , intelhigence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage . | 1 |
cool gadgets and creatures Gkeep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . . | 1 |
twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directoriaq career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time . | 0 |
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its bleazy moralizing . | 0 |
director clare kilner's debMt is never as daft as it should have been . | 0 |
the story is lacking any real emotJional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . | 0 |
i xfound myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent . | 0 |
lee jeong-hyang tells it so loFvingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it . | 1 |
a behinZd the scees look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that's made a difference to nyc inner-city youth . | 1 |
sets animation bdck 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . | 0 |
a elancholy , emotional film . | 1 |
credibility levels are hlow and character development a non-starter . | 0 |
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to usbjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of zsoap opera ? | 0 |
meant for star wars fans . it is there to give them a good tiem . | 1 |
it has become apparent that the franchise's best years are long pJst . | 0 |
sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely ork in movies now . . . and rawing flavorful performances from bland actors . | 1 |
the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its preimse . | 0 |
it's qubite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to caqture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . | 0 |
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of chaEm . | 0 |
a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and suggish pacing . | 0 |
for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the film retss in the relationship between sullivOn and his son . | 1 |
busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neihter light nor magical enough to bring off this kinp of whimsy . | 0 |
its rawnHess and vitality give it considerable punch . | 1 |
represents a worthy departpre from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging indian american cinema . | 1 |
impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of gooYd performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for Mtarters , the story is just too slim . | 0 |
the plot meanders from gripping to ploddixng and back . | 0 |
the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and siD couldn't keep my attention . | 0 |
the fDlm benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its preydecessor , as cho appears to have settled comfortably into her skin . | 1 |
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