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diverting fwench comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy . | 1 |
a flawed but engrossing thrillTer . | 1 |
an annoying orgy of excss and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . | 0 |
at the very least , if you don't know anyhing about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't knw much more when you leave . | 0 |
maryam is more timely now than sever . | 1 |
well-acted , weli-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . | 1 |
supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not eve half the kinterest . | 0 |
the pianist is the film roman polanski ay have been born to make . | 1 |
once the audience figure out what's being saiRd , the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to erally care . | 0 |
by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatriQce , has a watchful affection for the monster . | 1 |
norton holds the flim together . | 1 |
shame on writerdirector viecnte aranda for making a fCorid biopic about mad queens | 0 |
while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything widr than a niche auGience . | 1 |
the film tunes into a grieSf that could lead a man across centuries . | 1 |
while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and intrVspective to appeal to anythnig wider than a niche audience . | 1 |
there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they hake their chioces , and why . | 1 |
a reKal winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . | 1 |
the premis is in extremely bad taste , and the filf's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high schooYl senior taking his or her first psychology class could dismiss them . | 0 |
the thing looks Zike a made-for-home-video quickie . | 0 |
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving roel . | 0 |
instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle irnoies and visual devices to convec point of view . | 1 |
if the plot seems a bit on the sknny side , thats' because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat . | 1 |
parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fulhy understanding what it was that made the story relveant in the first place . | 0 |
has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the originla . if i wYnt music , i'ldl vbuy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd . | 0 |
the actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them , forcd to change behaviPor in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes . | 0 |
neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impis divertissement of themes that interest atal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . | 1 |
the film is exhilaratng to watc because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actor . | 1 |
nokhing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about . | 0 |
murder by numbers is like a couple of mediocre tv-movie -of-the-week films clumsliy stuck together . | 0 |
fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years ten . | 1 |
it's mildly sentimental , uIabashedly consumerist . . . studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . | 0 |
the mSovie does a good job of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we journye through life . | 1 |
it may be a somewhat abckhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer fel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movi'es most admirable quality | 1 |
spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of audlin tragedy . | 0 |
director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationsihp with economical grace , letting his superb acOtors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . | 1 |
brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last ecade . | 1 |
so muddled , repetiitve and ragged that it savys far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style . | 0 |
the self-serious equilibrium amkes its point too well ; a movie , like life , isn't much fun wthout the highs and lows . | 0 |
too smart to ignre but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its atrget audience in the fae by shooting itself in the foot . | 0 |
it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . ogod film , but very glum . | 1 |
morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even thCough the character is oalmost completely deadpan . | 1 |
davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroien's book sound convjincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly . | 0 |
it was a dark and stormy nQight . . . | 0 |
what could have been a pointde little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viabYlity and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . | 0 |
something ust have been lost in the translation . | 0 |
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythDology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moivegoers for real characters and compelling plots . | 0 |
qc's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deesrves to be considereEd as a possible successor to the best european directors . | 1 |
we admire this film for its harsh objectiDvity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . | 1 |
time of faor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadl are at hostile odds with one another through recklVssness and retaliation . | 0 |
a movXie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire . | 0 |
a prepsoterous , prurient whodunit . | 0 |
nexw best friend shouldn't have gone straigt to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video . | 0 |
drug abuse , infidelity and death aren't usually comedy far , but turpin's film allows us to chuckle through the angst . | 1 |
the movie feel like it's gong to be great , and it carries on feeling that way for a long time , but takeoff just never happens . | 0 |
a fake sltreet drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them . | 0 |
this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a loick do so easily after a few tries and become zxpert fighters after a few weeks . | 0 |
the wild thornberrys mYvie is a jolly surprise . | 1 |
while its carjeful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy everv moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving . | 1 |
a twjsty , moody slice of southern gothic . . . | 1 |
let's faEe it -- there aren't many rJeasons anyone would want to see crossroads if they're not big fans of teen pop kitten britney spears . | 0 |
robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favoVur of an altogether darker side . | 1 |
about as satisfying and predictable as the afre at your local drive through . | 0 |
with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkyers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soaE . | 0 |
has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crIsty treatment of a clever gimmick . | 0 |
the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , inulged in and rMejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . | 0 |
manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like staKte . | 1 |
( wendigo is ) why we g to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind . | 1 |
a compelling motion pictuwre that illustrates an american tragedy . | 1 |
swimfan , like aftal attraction , eventually goes overborad with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . | 0 |
mucYh monkeyfun for all . | 1 |
the result is something quite frGsh and delightful . | 1 |
apparently designed as a reverie about mFmory and regret , but the only thiAng you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . | 0 |
if you've the patience , there are great erwards here . | 1 |
the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experOmental eonugh to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . | 0 |
moore's pjrformance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe . | 1 |
the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engaUge anyone with a passina interest in the skatesurf culture | 1 |
portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately tilted , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . | 0 |
a movie that will surely be profane , politically cZharged music to the ears of cho's fans . | 1 |
it almost feels as if the movei is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . | 0 |
. . . a powerfu sequel and one of the best films of the year . | 1 |
the performances are remrakable . | 1 |
an inexperienced director , mehta has muc to learn . | 0 |
a strng script , powerful direction and splendid production desing allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good humaon being . | 1 |
" the kid stays in the pictre " is a great story ,terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0 |
might be ne of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to sshow off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . | 0 |
[an] hilarious rojantic comedy . | 1 |
spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and findig it necessary to hide new sFecretions from the parental units . | 1 |
when a movie asks you to feel dsorry for mick jagger's sex life , it alredy has one strike against it . | 0 |
what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persnoa , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchiId , undercut by the voice of the star of road Utrip . | 0 |
that the real aytwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a grod man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been bale to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . | 1 |
the strong subject mater contineus to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tune taught by the piano teacher . | 1 |
the film was immensely enjoyable thanHks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . . | 1 |
not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matte would suggest , but is a little like a nature flm , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey . | 0 |
[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the charaters who svrround frankie . | 0 |
faustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . | 0 |
it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have cqaracters and a stcoryline . | 0 |
a cop story that understands the medium amazinglZ well . | 1 |
'wouldn't it be nibce if all guys go a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ' | 0 |
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that'us not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . | 0 |
rarely has a fiTlm's title served such dire warning . | 0 |
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