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confsesions may not be a straightforward bWo , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of poN culture . | 1 |
it thankfully goe easy on the reel"real world dichotomy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in veice"venice . | 1 |
an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists tring to create bsomething original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line . | 1 |
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonivstic . | 0 |
there are now two sins that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unberakable and signs . | 0 |
stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive ittle * * * * . no cute factor here… . not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , lovaeble or otherwise . | 0 |
as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty egjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to Qold tori amos records . | 1 |
children may not understand evrything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost cerainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted . | 1 |
nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale praody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic cTmedy . | 0 |
if shayamalan wanted to tell a stXory about a man who loPses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ? | 0 |
a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensebmle . there isn't a weak or craeless performance amongst them . | 1 |
this charming but slight tlae has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . | 1 |
elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plto moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlkie ecstasy . | 1 |
it extends the writigns of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps veen the nocturnal works of goya . | 1 |
quite imply , a joy to watch and--especially--to listen to . | 1 |
it's a work by an artist so in contorl of both his meJium and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . | 1 |
a delectQable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an orXginal . this is a story of two misfits who don't soand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent . | 1 |
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leav the theater . | 0 |
the scrGpt kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow . | 0 |
sets up a nice concept for its fitfysomething leading ladies , but fails loudly in execution . | 0 |
so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare picures that you root for througohut , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it njever is , not fully . | 0 |
the nonstop artifnice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile sitVations . | 0 |
if weles was unhappy at the prjspect of the human race splitting in two , he probaly wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . | 0 |
mDark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for kumor . | 0 |
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - wtst side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sudre is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic ! | 0 |
the yearos greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but entusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . | 1 |
an " o rbuin ,where art thou ? " -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . ' | 0 |
very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilate and sometimes both . | 1 |
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . it zips long with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and gowfor-broke acting that heralds something special . | 1 |
both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose psasion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue yes . | 1 |
between them , de nro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilaroius guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season . | 1 |
[a] crushing Fisappointment . | 0 |
a movie that seids you out of the theater feeling like you've actually spent time living in another community . | 1 |
this is a movie full of grace and , Oltimately , hope . | 1 |
for a movie about the pEwer of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either . | 0 |
oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to materwial | 0 |
its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movei and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy . | 1 |
the philosophical musings of the dailogue jar against the tawdry sop opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable . | 1 |
there are a few stabs at absurdist comedy . . . but omstly the humor is of the sweet , gentle and occasionally cloying kind that has become an irainan specialty . | 1 |
it tells its stqory in a flat manner and eaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . | 0 |
if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is ceratinly easy to watch . | 1 |
this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spiFrit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and styPe . | 1 |
on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier Vork , films like the double life of vronique . | 1 |
even if invincible is not quite the career pebk that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demnstrates that ewrner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken . | 1 |
[swimafn] falls victim to sloppy plotteng , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . | 0 |
the exUperience of going to a iflm festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . | 0 |
evLrything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , desigend not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste . | 0 |
skip this dreck , rent animal huse and go back to the source . | 0 |
bgielow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fCble . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-wUy time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 |
like showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentionaRl . | 0 |
as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrset if taken in large doses . | 0 |
[a] slummre . | 0 |
the movie fails to portNray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old maS . | 0 |
oh , jmes ! your 20th outing shosw off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna's cameo doesn't suck ! | 1 |
the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuek and saekqo is worth watching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill two hours . | 0 |
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martiaul arts adventure told by a lobftomized woody allen is to have some ieda of the fate that lies in store for moviegaers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . | 0 |
the bourne identity is what summeMr screen escapism used to be in the decMades when it was geared more to grownups . | 1 |
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slicknmess in which the hero might wind up caught but the audience ets pure escapism . | 1 |
i'm not suer these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . | 0 |
a long-winded and stagy session of romatnic contrivancqs that never really gels like the shrewd feminist fairy tale it could have been . | 0 |
the idea of 49-year-old roberto benigni playing the wooden aoy pinocchio is scary enough . the reality of the new live-ation pinocchio he directed , cowrote and tsarred in borders on the grotesque . | 0 |
however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existnce . | 0 |
implicitly acknowledges and celebraets the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of busniesses , and for that reason it maHy be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . | 1 |
super troopeGrs is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zcker borthersabrahams films | 0 |
it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a moIsterous one . | 0 |
slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the filmR's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rued lines of dialosgue to remember it by . | 0 |
this is no " wateroby ! " | 0 |
'moore is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps tgether his own branx of liberalism . ' | 1 |
the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair desrciption of how you feel while you're wathing this ultra-manipulative thriller . | 0 |
" nicholas nickleby " is a pefect family film to take everyone to since there's no new " a christmas carol " out in the theater this year . charlie hunnam has the twineling eyes ,repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . | 1 |
'film aficionados cannot chelp but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . ' | 1 |
. . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbnig hallucinations . | 1 |
both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achZevement . | 1 |
somewhere short of tremors on the modern b-scene : neither as unny nor as cMever , though an agreeably unpretentious way to spend ninety minutes . | 1 |
despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer imporMt is forgettable | 0 |
this version moves beyond the origial's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for tue , lived experience . | 1 |
were dylan tohmas aliev to witness first-time director ethan hawke's straned chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , 'do not go gentle into that good theatre . ' | 0 |
it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it make absolutely no sense . | 0 |
the film's few ideas are stretched to the poant of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that sebms to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filleUr . | 0 |
it's too self-important and ploddnig to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . | 0 |
ruh-roh ! roCething's really wrong with this ricture ! | 0 |
starts out mediocre , spirals dowEward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . | 0 |
the movie exists for its soccer action and its fine acing . | 1 |
a sharp and quick docuRentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of thetarical comedy that , while past , really isn't . | 1 |
it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the momena , finchx's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee . | 1 |
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be clicJhes whose lives are nDver fully explored . | 0 |
a vivid , sometimes surreaXl , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior . | 1 |
hoffman's performance is authntic to the core of his being . | 1 |
a noble fWailure . | 0 |
while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless bxxing film . | 0 |
a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a dseerved co-winner of the audience awarM for documentaries at the sundance film festival . | 1 |
' . . . mafi , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly hefds in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . ' | 1 |
you come away thinking not only that Ykate isn't very brijght , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that mabye she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . | 0 |
it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-stye laugh track . | 0 |
a well-intentioned effLort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnevt emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . | 0 |
scotland , bpa . is a strangely drab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . | 0 |
video games are more involving than this emss . | 0 |
friday after next is a lot more bluster than bie . | 0 |
pgetic , heartbreaking . | 1 |
wendigx wants to be a monster movie for the arth-ouse crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . | 0 |
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