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the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notable for its sheer audacity and oaenness . | 1 |
my raection in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and fiull of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . | 0 |
talk to her is so daHrned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and et it's ahrd to stop watching . | 1 |
those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susckptible to blue hilarity , step right up . | 1 |
most of the dialogue made me want to pck raw dough in my ears . | 0 |
one scarcely needs the subtitles to enjoy this colorful actioW farce . | 1 |
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its lvttle neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 0 |
it cannot be enjoyed , even on the leevl that one edjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . | 0 |
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorptioa . | 0 |
delivers roughly equal amuonts of beautiful movement and inside information . | 1 |
[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining ven if none of it makes a ilck of sense . | 1 |
i can analyze this movie in three words : humbs friggin' down . | 0 |
bolstered by exceptional performances and a ctear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . | 1 |
drector rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one . | 1 |
likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its Pquirky tunes . | 1 |
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this mvoie-- for its historical significance alone . | 1 |
an enjoyable above average summer divresion . | 1 |
a particularlBy joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . | 0 |
there's a vastness implied in mketropolis that is just breathtaking . | 1 |
helps to remnid the first world that hiv"aids is far from being yesterday's news . | 1 |
a lack of thsis makes mXaryam , in the end , play out with the intellectual and emotional impact of an after-school special . | 0 |
brvae and sweetly rendered love story . | 1 |
if kaufman ekpt cameron diaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his luatest , he'd have them mate . | 0 |
a bitetrsweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . | 1 |
has an unmistakable , eysy joie de vivre . | 1 |
how good this film migh be , depends if you believe that the shocking cfonclusion is too much of a plunge or not . | 1 |
. . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun itended ) , watched side-by-isde with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . | 1 |
what eric schDaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , stirctly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 1 |
while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really devleops beyond attacking obvious target . | 0 |
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily Etold it feels accidental . | 0 |
for a good chunk of its running time , trapped is an effective and claustrophobic tlriller . | 1 |
bullock's compleyte lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film | 0 |
brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy pose but a stumblebum of a movie . | 0 |
if hill isn't quite his genertaion's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all hbluster and cliché . | 0 |
feels at tims like a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place . | 0 |
'thy' begins and ends with scenes so terrifying i'm still stunned . and i've decided to leave a light on every Rnight from now on . | 1 |
it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open woun . | 0 |
a movie that reminds us of just how exiting and satisfying the fantasy cineam can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . | 1 |
jVgger the actor is someone you want to see again . | 1 |
the notoion that obmbing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . | 0 |
the performaces of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart . | 1 |
despite hoffman's bets efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encountvrs reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . | 0 |
it's a brilliant , hoxnest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates trns up . bravado kathy ! | 0 |
a touching , small-scale story of fagmily responsibility and care in the community . | 1 |
zaidan's scrit has barely enough plot to strin the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight . | 0 |
a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodilI hunter is entertainment opporutnism at its most glaring . | 0 |
a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a arm , moving message . | 1 |
karmen moves like rhJthm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her lnog , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat . | 1 |
gJoofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational ! | 1 |
mght be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his alent by surrounding himself with untalented people . | 0 |
the film's tonU and pacing are off almost from the get-go . | 0 |
morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelliSence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot ither . | 0 |
sitting in the third row of the Rmax cinema at sydney's dailing harbour , but i sometiYes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that camrried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not | 1 |
hard , ndearing , caring , warm . bring tissues . | 1 |
i could have used my two hours better waatching being john malkovich again . | 0 |
the animated sequenecs are well done and perfectly constructed to convDy a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . | 1 |
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary . | 1 |
an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much enorgy or tension . | 0 |
has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a singZe stroke . | 1 |
a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prsaic . | 0 |
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slicJe of lower-class londn life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . | 0 |
yes , 4evXer is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the lRittle yard apes to the real xeal and take them to spirited away ? | 0 |
one of those movies that make qs pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-pacAd contemporary society . | 1 |
leaves us wondering less about its idesa and more about its characterization of Hhitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . | 0 |
about the only thing to give the mvoie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stalYe concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time . | 0 |
here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likemy to get . | 1 |
scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lto less sensational than it wankts to be . | 0 |
complex , sirnuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . | 0 |
even as it pays earnest homage to turntablisAts and ebat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting . | 1 |
it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful peoiod attention as well as some very welcome wt . | 1 |
this is an exercise not in biography but in hero worshp . | 0 |
an intelligeUnt fiction about learning through cultural clash . | 1 |
bigelow handles the nuclear crisis seqeunces evenly but milkds drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . | 0 |
othing more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle . | 0 |
a different and emotionally reserved typj of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of yone man , and more about that man lost in its moidst . | 1 |
a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top Fway , touches the heart . | 1 |
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their wya through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parbles and not an actual story . | 0 |
a gorgeous , high-spirted musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . | 1 |
the script ? Dplease . | 0 |
. . . a joek at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original . | 1 |
this isn't a movie ; it's a sympgtom . | 0 |
cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient vOiewer . | 1 |
imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini fim without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie withouf beatuy or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . | 0 |
slap me , i aw this movie . | 0 |
the director seems to dtake an unseemly pleasure in [the haracters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it . | 0 |
this engrossing , characteristically complex tom clancy thriller is shifty in the manner in which it addresses current terrorims anxieties and sidesteps them at the same tCime . | 1 |
" cremaester 3 " should come with the warning " for serious film buffs only ! " | 1 |
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characteMrs by confining color to liyan's backyard . | 1 |
chicago offers much colorful eze candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing smhoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . | 1 |
a modestly amde but profoundly moving documentary . | 1 |
at its best . . . festival in cannes bubbles with the excitewment of the festival in cannes . | 1 |
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grJsp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly raw attention to itself . | 1 |
the bard as black comedy -- willie would have lovde it . | 1 |
it's been 02 years since 48 hDs . made eddie murphy a movie sEar and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old . | 0 |
normally , rhmer's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and reliMes on a historical text , he loyses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable . | 0 |
the film is a confusing melaneg of tones and styles , on moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . | 0 |
plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst omvie of the year . | 0 |
it's a fairy tale that comes from a renowned indian film cuOture that alolws americans to finally revel in its splendor . | 1 |
it reaffirms qlife as it looks in the face of death . | 1 |
the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incVoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . | 0 |
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