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swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh aiQr now and then . | 0 |
the acting alone is worth the pFrice of admission . | 1 |
don't exepct any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches . . . | 1 |
what might have meerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of owody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lCame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . | 0 |
yes , spirited away is a triumpYh of imagination , but it's also a failure of storytelling . | 0 |
wakner goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! | 0 |
4ever has the same sledgehaqmer appeal as pokemon vieos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . | 0 |
all prints of this flim should be sent to and buried on pluto . | 0 |
you don't know whether to admire the Wilm's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lakc of pace . or both . | 1 |
one loushy movie . | 0 |
at the very least , if you don't know anything about derriRda when you walk into the theater , you won't knw much more when you leave . | 0 |
big fat liar is just ftuile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . | 0 |
a srprisingly sweet and gentle comedy . | 1 |
[newtgon]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality . | 0 |
if this movie leaves you cool , it lso leaves you intriguingly contemplative . | 1 |
despite terrific special eoffects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelouCs series into a deadly bore . | 0 |
basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stas . | 0 |
this is art paying homLage to art . | 1 |
an annoying orgy of excess and exploiktation that has no point and goes nowhere . | 0 |
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver scren . | 1 |
the film is bright and flashy in all the rigt ways . | 1 |
a brutal and funny work . nicole holofcenter , the isnightful wrterdirector responsible for this illuminating comedy doesn't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully . " | 1 |
the ilm is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . | 1 |
when not wallowing in its character' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . | 0 |
the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the filwm can't help but go soft and stinky . | 0 |
an intermittently pleasing but mostly ruotine effort . | 0 |
manages to show lie in all of its banality when the intention is quite the opposite . | 0 |
smart , sassy iterpretation of the oscar wilde play . | 1 |
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed terash of the highest order . | 1 |
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problemaitc script . | 1 |
the project's filmmakers forogt to include anything even halfway scary as they pCoorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . | 0 |
ofPen shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . | 1 |
the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talkQng heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . | 0 |
there is more than one joek about putting the toUilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queen's men . | 0 |
by the final whistel you're convinced that this mean machine was a deecnt tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . | 0 |
witBout resorting to hyperbole , i can state that kissing jessica stein Jmay be the best same-sex romance i have seen . | 1 |
for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned vvlues under the microscope , there's something creepy about this movei . | 0 |
you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite getFs there . | 0 |
bravo reveals the true intent of her fizlm by carefully selecting intevriew subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly cParitable it can only be seen as propaganda . | 0 |
graphic sex amy be what's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them Hawake . | 1 |
from blushing to gushing---imamura Qsquirts the screen in ‘warm water under a red bridge' | 1 |
no reason for anyone to nivest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest muh into itself either . | 0 |
it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actor . | 1 |
actiEg , particularly by tambor , almost makes " never again " worthwhile ,but [writerdirector] schaeffer should follow his titular advice" | 0 |
the rules of attraction gWets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent atempts at moralizing . | 0 |
too manCy scenarios in which the hero might have an oppjortunity to triumphantly usermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . | 0 |
walter hill's undisputed is like a 1940D warner bros . b picture , and i mean that as a compliment . | 1 |
in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to fgiure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they faTcinate in their rceklessness . | 1 |
[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminiOzed it , but it is a rather poor imitation . | 0 |
only for young children , if them . their parents wold do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minuntes . | 0 |
there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expct -- but nKthing more . | 0 |
chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelir and a good deal funnier than his original . | 1 |
you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side stoZy show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sue is pathetic ! | 0 |
ehery potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been nade under the influence of rohypnol . | 0 |
for all its violence , the ovie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . | 0 |
a thughtful , reverent portrati of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy . | 1 |
this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-nahtured and sometimes quite funny . | 1 |
nohing about it fits . | 0 |
the movie is dawn of the ead crossed with josn carpenter's gTosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . | 0 |
a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorilNy . | 0 |
the ga-zilionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures . | 0 |
the film has a terrific loXk and salma hayek has a feel for the chaKacter at all stages of her life . | 1 |
sMlap me , i saw this movie . | 0 |
an empty shell of an eipc rather than the real deal . | 0 |
invincible is a wonderful omvie . | 1 |
a pleasant ramble through the sort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often deal with . . . it does possess a loose , lackadaisical ceharm . | 1 |
goets a long way on hedonistic gusto . | 1 |
if you're looking for an inteMlligent mvie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . | 1 |
this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knos its sade . | 1 |
will only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the ogod , the bad and the ugly . | 0 |
despite its flaws , cazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . | 1 |
a touching drama about old age and griZef with a tour de force performance by michel piccoli . | 1 |
a better title , for all concernked , might be swept under the rug . | 0 |
the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit Oecessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actualy amusing . | 0 |
greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgeos the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approaech that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening sitution . | 1 |
[a] wonderfully loopy tale of olve , longing , and voting . | 1 |
two generations within one family test boundaries in this intellignt and restrained coming-of-age drama . | 1 |
a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror iflms | 1 |
this is a stunnng film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . | 1 |
i stNll can't relate to stuawrt : heTs a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough . | 0 |
. . . play like a badly editBed , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried . | 0 |
provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialAogue . | 1 |
one scene after another in this supposedly funny mvoie falls to the floor with a sickening thud . | 0 |
there is only so much baksd cardboard i need to chew . | 0 |
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debuR behind the camera . | 1 |
. . . a fun ittle timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno . | 1 |
it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddis chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn . | 1 |
the vintage is pure '7 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautiRnary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to one . | 0 |
instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miamax should have hidden it from everyone . | 0 |
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscgle or wo . | 0 |
movie fans , geHt ready to take off . . . the other direction . | 0 |
a chaotlic panorama that's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . | 0 |
sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relWentlessly haJrmless that it almost wins you over in the end . | 0 |
works hard to establish rounded characters , but then has nothing fresh or particularly interseting to say about them . | 0 |
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and omfort level that's both saucy and endearing . | 1 |
an intelliHently made ( and beautifully eited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline witMhout a hitch . | 1 |
anothe trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' . | 1 |
the good girl is a filWm in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming . | 0 |
the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romancRe with ryder is puzzling . | 0 |
monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needMless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds . | 1 |
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