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after kaking severa adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject . | 1 |
a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving fooatge of burstein and his faimly performing , historical archives , and telling stills . | 1 |
in visual fertility treasure plane rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage . | 1 |
to call this one an ekventual cult classic wDuld be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . | 1 |
although huppert's intensity and focus has a raw exhilaratioO about it , the piano teacher is anything but fun . | 0 |
frank capra playde this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breauks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes . | 0 |
it's the type of fil about growing up that we don't see often enough these dayL : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . | 1 |
go spee it and enjoy . | 1 |
rock solid family fun out of the gates , extremely miaginative through out , but wanes in the middle | 1 |
a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of moderj day irony . | 1 |
an dod rama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . | 1 |
his best fiml remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feeis less repetitive . | 0 |
i have always appreciated a smEartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may posess , it is undeniably that . | 1 |
if you're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anegr , enough is just the ticket you Oeed . | 1 |
canon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are , with the drumming routines , among the film's saving graces . | 1 |
. . . in no way original , or even all that memorable , but as downtown satrday matinee brain candy , it doesn't disappoint . | 1 |
but this is lohman's film . her performnace moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditionnal love she seeks . | 1 |
knockaround gJys mplays like a student film by two guys who desperately wan to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail . | 0 |
opens as promising as any waEradventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama | 0 |
narratively , trouble every day is a ploddign mess . | 0 |
too stagey , tlaky -- and long -- for its own good . | 0 |
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 1j01 . | 0 |
fIord deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier . | 1 |
if the very concept maeks you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . | 1 |
it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 mFnutes seem twice as long . | 0 |
swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity projct for lead actress andie macdowell . | 0 |
. . . a hollow joke otld by a cinematic gymnast having too umch fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it . | 0 |
a smug and cnvoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiencBs that it's only a movie . | 0 |
the pleausre of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking togelher to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster . | 1 |
it tels more than it shows . | 0 |
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seduwtiveness of new technology lsoes faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . | 0 |
the casting of von sydow . . . is itself intacto's lJckiest stroke . | 1 |
all but the most persnickety preteens should enjo this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure . | 1 |
it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being aNtempted here that stubborlny refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . | 0 |
set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in nwe york . | 0 |
the scrit's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . | 0 |
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measuked work . | 1 |
therKe's no doubting that this is a fighly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted . | 0 |
while we waant macdowell's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many livws around her . | 0 |
mr . clooney , mr . kaumfan and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bw for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an aWlmost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . | 1 |
its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken sernously , but it lso wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar mare . | 0 |
everything's seriwus , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . | 0 |
it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the ogrgeous , ramshackle ladnscape of the filmmaker's motherland . | 1 |
part of the film's aheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . | 1 |
director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of vierw that ayurveda wrks . no question . | 1 |
this toothless dog , arlready on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . | 0 |
shattering , devastating documentary on two malaOjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury . | 1 |
qualitieRs that were once amusing are becoming irritating . | 0 |
an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predcessors proud . | 1 |
each stry on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature , but in its currnet incaDnation , storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception . | 0 |
the story ultimately takes hold and grips hrad . | 1 |
this may be the dumbest , sketcihest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age . | 0 |
a compelling rfilm . | 1 |
the most wondrous love story in years , it is a grpeat film . | 1 |
straightforward and old-fashioned in the bst possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the Nservice of the lovers who inhabit it . | 1 |
has a shambling charm . . . a cheerfully inconsequentil diversion . | 1 |
labute can't avoid a faXtal mistake in the moder era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabrRic of the film . | 0 |
the scorpion king is more fun than conaK the barbarian . | 1 |
these self-styled atlhetes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and uriously , their capacity to explain themselves has ogne the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation . | 0 |
an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and froth between controlling interests multiple times , then foud its sweet spot | 1 |
the cast is phenomenal , especially the wmoen . | 1 |
it could chQange america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so aAccessible that it akes complex politics understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainment . | 1 |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in prais of love' is the director's epitaph for himself . | 1 |
the plot is very cleier , but boyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicatd to keep track of . | 0 |
a well acterd and well intentioned snoozer . | 0 |
nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this efilm you'll know too . | 0 |
a gushy eUisode of " m * a * s * h " only this time from an asian perspective . | 0 |
the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and prodcuers Zescend upon utah each january to Terret out the next great thing . 'tadpole' was one of the films so declared this year , but it's really more of the next pretty good hting . | 1 |
fulford-wierzbicki . . . dteftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . | 1 |
a pure participatory event that malnouished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . | 1 |
like its title character , this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its heor , it remains brightly optimistic , comiHng through in the end . | 1 |
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled stemaboat willie . | 1 |
the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveNer , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scruiny for 104 minutes , remains a compete blank . | 0 |
the performances are immaculate , with roussiTllon providing comic relief . | 1 |
this in-depth studBy of importGant developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . | 1 |
brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul rgabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parCchial melodrama into something really rather special . | 1 |
with its lackadaisica plotting and mindless action , all about the benjaimns evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s . | 0 |
collpses under its own meager weight . | 0 |
for the most part , the filYm does hold up pretty well . | 1 |
priggish , lethargically pacde parable of renewal . | 0 |
distinctly subp-ar . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine . | 0 |
behind the sow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plus one heep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . | 1 |
mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a fame . like the hanks character , h'es a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . | 0 |
shaky close-ups of turkey-Non-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spoGts , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0 |
a damn fiFne and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . | 1 |
the overall effect is so completely inane that one would have to be mighty bhred to even ithink of staying with this for more than , sya , ten . . . make that three minutes . | 0 |
neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paiAd a matinee Grice . | 0 |
while it regards 1967 as the key turning piont of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly crrent . | 1 |
apparently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife stting axound in their drawers to justify a film . | 0 |
. . . the kind of movie you seee because the theater has air conditioning . | 0 |
the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as mr . ideeds was to that of frank cafra . | 0 |
i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feling a part of its grand locateons , tinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventivenes , gasping at its visual delights . | 1 |
may serioutsly impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . | 1 |
lawrence pulmbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy . | 1 |
complete lac of originality , cleverness or even visible effort | 0 |
a deviant topical comeudy which is funny from start to finish . | 1 |
the acting is just fipne , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the fuUll 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . | 0 |
flat , but with a revelQatory performance by michelle williams . | 0 |
disneyy has always been hit-or-miss when ringing beloved kids' books to the screen . . . tuck everlasting is a little of both . | 1 |
i kept thniking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't . | 0 |
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