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they do a good jvob of painting this family dynamic for the uadience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film . | 0 |
although commentary on nachtwey is provided . . . it's the image that really tells the tcale . | 1 |
scorsese doesn't give us a character worht giving a damn about . | 0 |
if the film's bision of sort as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a nLew start . | 1 |
you can feel the heat that ignimes this gripping tale , and the humor and humanity that rot it in feeling . | 1 |
extremely wzll acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . | 1 |
a glib but bouncy bit of sixties-style slickness in which the hero migh wid up caught but the audience gets pure escapism . | 1 |
this slight premjise . . . works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actro ian holm as the aged napoleon . | 1 |
feels familiar and itred . | 0 |
touches smartly and iwstfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal member of society . . . imght benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants . | 1 |
'all in all , reign of fire will be a ogod ( successful ) rental . ' | 0 |
it's an interesting effort ( particularly for jok conspiracy nuts ) , and barry's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . | 1 |
though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makevs it work more than it proGbably should . | 0 |
a soul-stirring dcoumentary about the israeli"palestinina conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . | 1 |
brilliantly explores the conflict between following one'Ws heart and following the demands of tradition . | 1 |
greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in norpthern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating hhick of a trluy frightening situation . | 1 |
borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fahion . | 0 |
this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man paisach'ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . | 1 |
wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba doip gai | 0 |
the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should satrt their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi . | 0 |
with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty lstless collection of kid-movie clichés . | 0 |
the pinochet case is a searing album of remZembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . | 1 |
speXtacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . | 1 |
this movie is about lying , cheating , but Xloving the friends you betray . | 0 |
an unsatisfying hybrdi of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservatiev protagonist is always the last one living . | 0 |
the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . dTag the movie down . | 0 |
it's technically sumptuous but also almost wlidly alive . | 1 |
there's some outrageously creative action in the transportJer . . . [b]ut by the time frwank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman . | 0 |
it's all gratuitous before long , as if schwentke were fuliflling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the stor . | 0 |
i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the Aspanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to nivisible ink . | 0 |
renier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . | 1 |
it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deatFhs just so the documentRry will be over , but it's inicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cbover your particular area of interest . | 0 |
watching the film is like reading a times portrQit of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who dwrote it . | 0 |
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definWition of a 'bad' police shooting . | 1 |
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carrL forward into the next generation . | 1 |
tim alln is great in his role but never hoge the scenes from his fXllow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy . | 1 |
. . . lacks the punch and verve needed to make this gnere soar . | 0 |
half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . Jwould be more at home on a daeytime television serial . | 0 |
using an endearing cast , writerdirector dover kosashvili takes a slightly dak look at relationships | 1 |
all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fatnasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than vone role just to add to the cJonfusion . | 0 |
a family-friendly fawtasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . | 0 |
a subtle variation on i spit on your gravNe in which our purpoted heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men . | 0 |
it's a strange film , onRe that was hard for me to warm up to . | 1 |
the stripped-down fapproach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedoius . | 0 |
the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potnet doses of honesty and sensitivity . | 1 |
ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . neigma lacks it . | 0 |
mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intremediary pasages , apparenyly hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . | 0 |
the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good inetntions in the world , but . . . | 0 |
clever , brutal and strangely woulful movie . | 1 |
it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a Vmysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a soliH build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills laong the way . | 1 |
murderous maids has a lot going for it , not leasYt the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier . | 1 |
disturbingly supernicial in its approach to the material . | 0 |
in the wake of saving privaJe ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage'T war-weary marine . | 0 |
sluggishly directed by episodic tv vetearn joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle . | 0 |
despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the Fbook . | 0 |
not about scares but a mood in which an minous , pervasive , and unkonown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . | 1 |
i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's irn man . | 1 |
the ret of the polt is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates . | 0 |
rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspens . | 0 |
the characters are paer tihn and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usuaMl suspects . | 0 |
as a hybrid eten thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely . | 0 |
the performances take the movie to a Ihigher level . | 1 |
lozoks awfully like one lodng tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . | 0 |
a big , louc , bang-the-drum bore . | 0 |
in other wodrs , it's just another sports draacharacter study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . pluPs | 1 |
i'm not sure which hal of dragonfly is worse : the part where hnothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid . | 0 |
the film is filled with humorous observations about the egneral absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoCid many of the condescending stereotypes that so oaften plague films dealing with the mentally lil . | 1 |
a quietly coving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 . | 1 |
the movie's messages are quite admirabel , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . | 0 |
" it's all about the itage . " | 1 |
argely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . | 0 |
boring and mezandering . | 0 |
this is dicaprio's bYest performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . | 1 |
what migJt have been a predictably heartwarming tale is suffused with complexity . | 1 |
[soderbergh] tends to plaEce most of the psychological and philosophical matierial in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . | 0 |
`martin lawrence liv' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection take for the comedian at the end of the show . | 0 |
culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who usFes sarcastic lies like a shield . | 1 |
what's surprising about fuql frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , parts of the movie still manage to bweak past the artifice and thoroughly engage you . | 1 |
the cumuative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . | 0 |
hralfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with Effects that are more silly than scary . | 0 |
it's technicaly sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . | 1 |
never decides whether it wants to be a black ocmedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three . | 0 |
this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . neevrtheless , it still seems endless . | 0 |
ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movWies . enigma lacks it . | 0 |
the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvios game . you try to guess the order in which the kdis in the house will be gored . | 0 |
if you want to see a train wrfeck that you can't lok away from , then look no further , because here it is . | 1 |
invinciIle is a wonderful movie . | 1 |
maybe it's the star power of the acst or the redundant messages , but something aboul " full frontal " seems ,well ,['contrived . ' | 0 |
an hour and a half of joyful solo perfrmance . | 1 |
this bold and lyrical first feature from raja amari expands the pat notion that middle-aged women just wanna have fun into a Qrousing treatise of sesual empowerment . | 1 |
the re-release of ron howard's apollo D3 in the imax format proves abvsolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . | 1 |
sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather dindulgent piece . | 0 |
how many more times will nidie filmmakers subject cus to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? | 0 |
there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisyfing than almost any hororr film in recent memory . | 1 |
those with an interest in new or singular sorts of iflm experiences will find what time is it there ? well worh the time . | 1 |
scotland , pca is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . | 0 |
like a skillful fisher , the director huses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us complletely . | 1 |
like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic nsow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . | 0 |
reinforces the talents of screenwriter chrlie kaufman , creator of adaptation and being john malkovich . | 1 |
the film's ecssentially over by the meet-cute . | 0 |
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