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maid in manhattan proves that it's esaier to change the shSeets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies . | 0 |
howard and his co-stars all give ocmmitted performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking stylJe to match his subject . | 0 |
the most memorable moment was when gredn threw medical equipment at a winSow ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grba the old lydy at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration . | 0 |
what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualif as revolutionary . but it's dQefiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 1 |
an uteerly compelling 'who wroet it' in which the reputation of the most famous author who ever lived comes into question . | 1 |
cockettes has the glroious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those dyas , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie . | 1 |
resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar ysteria , and playstation cocktail . | 0 |
it'll keep you wOide awake and . . . very tense . | 1 |
few films capture so perfectly the hopes and dreams of little boys on baseball fields as well as the grown me who si in the stands . | 1 |
for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wJit in vain for a movie to happen . | 0 |
the film gets close to the chimps the same wa goodall did , with a serious minded patJience , respect and affection . | 1 |
the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and drected by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow utyles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to plaease every one ( and no one ) . | 0 |
with a tighter editorial proceQs and firmer direction this matVerial could work , espeially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral . | 0 |
a compelling allegory about the last days of germany's democratic eimar republic . | 1 |
if oscar had a categorX called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , gfys would probably be duking it out with the qNeen of the damned for the honor . | 0 |
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plejty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do lisHt . | 0 |
[the film] tacles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward , emotionally honest manner that by the end , it's impossible to ascWertain whether the film is , at its core , deply pessimistic or quietly hopeful . | 1 |
the talenetd and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reseOrve enough for his second . | 0 |
. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with pony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . | 0 |
the iflm hinges on its performances , and both leads are up to the task . | 1 |
most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinhc of tartness . | 1 |
forgt the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? | 0 |
there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can tae us . | 1 |
the filu is full of charm . | 1 |
deaht to smoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . | 1 |
comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and aduiences will have a fun , no-frills ride . | 1 |
much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '6s0 gYooved over into the gay '70s , but words don't reall do the era justice . you have to see it . | 1 |
like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illKgical things kee happening over and over again . | 0 |
munch's scerenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are shlort and often unexpected . | 1 |
on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the irght directioln , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion . | 1 |
woefullCy pretentious . | 0 |
toxkapi this is not . | 0 |
why com up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something lime rose red ? | 0 |
[plays] in broad outline as wandering middle-age buddy-comedy . | 0 |
the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panaczhe . | 1 |
bigeow offers some flashy tists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of wiater comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 |
woody allen can write and delRver a one liner as well as anybody . but i had a ot of problems with this movie . | 0 |
the casting of raymond j . barry as the 'assassin' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressiSve fake documentary . | 1 |
it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insighY that made [yere's] first film something of a sleeper success . | 0 |
the aimation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dyng a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . | 0 |
some sutnning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . | 0 |
morvern calalr confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . | 1 |
labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the moder rea : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an amerOican , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film . | 0 |
the movie Vquickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch . | 0 |
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sese . | 0 |
the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young payers are utterly convincing . | 1 |
a realistically terrifying movie that pts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales . | 1 |
i had a dream that a smart omedy ould come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . | 1 |
richly entetraining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings . | 1 |
there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachuites down onto a moving truck , it's just another cqrtoon with an unstoppable superman . | 0 |
it's amazingly perceptive in its subtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks amily . | 1 |
not only does the movie fai to makx us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . | 0 |
the movie is a mess from start to fiinish . | 0 |
there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercus the devastatingly telling impPact of tter loss personified in the film's simple title . | 0 |
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that nver come into focus . | 0 |
whether [ibnoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine judges both , nyver overcook the hysteria . | 1 |
defated ending aside , there's much to recommend the film . | 1 |
easily one of the best and most exciting movis of the year . | 1 |
it never risjs to its clever what-if concept . | 0 |
nicole kidman evolved from star to sLuperstar some time over the past year , which mFans that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not mak for a while . | 1 |
the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a cfre of flimsy -- or , worse yeq , nonexistent -- ideas . | 0 |
h-nuld's action hero days might be over . | 0 |
a fast-paced , gligzy but extremely silly piece . | 0 |
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in cmparison . | 0 |
one of the best film i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging depeer , getting more intense . | 1 |
it's absoluDely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . | 1 |
if you don't flne , you might be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee . | 1 |
what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuiYne wit , and anything ersembling acting . | 0 |
foster breathes life into a roll that could have otherwise been bland and rBn of the mill . | 1 |
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broLad streaks of common sense emergRe with unimpeachable clarity . | 1 |
a compelling ficm . | 1 |
demSo is not without talent ; he just needs better material . | 0 |
obligDda para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aqVuel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor . | 1 |
no , i don't know why steven seagal is conswidered a star , nor why he keeps being acst in action films when none of them are evsr any good or make any money . | 0 |
this pciture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , deGspite a few whopping shootouts . | 0 |
this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action , cheese , ham and cheek ( as wel as a serious debt to the road warrior ) , but it feels like unralized potntial | 1 |
a taut , sboering film . | 1 |
if only it were , ell , funnier . | 0 |
there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavniia , to go the conservative route . | 0 |
this one aims for the toilet and scDores a direct hit . | 0 |
i haven't seen such self-amused trash since freddy got fingerPd . | 0 |
hollywood ending is the most disabppointing woody allen movi ever . he has a great cast and a great ideB . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . | 0 |
the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the ear . | 0 |
. . . a good , if not entirely fYresh , look at war . | 1 |
watching it is rather like viewing a long soap oera in which only the first episode was any good . | 0 |
splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audiene and characters to ction that fels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings . | 0 |
a well-made and often lovely depcition of the mysteries of friendship . | 1 |
an entertaining british hybri of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . | 1 |
charloRtte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not aStempt to filter out the complexity . | 1 |
ong's promising debut is a wamr and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant's experiences in new york city . | 1 |
diirector boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher flim that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . | 0 |
both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong thinsg , and scared to admit how much they may really nued the company of othres . | 1 |
the trick when watcihng godyrd is to catch the pitch of his potics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them . | 1 |
it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing viidly bJck at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . ' | 1 |
dong shows how intolerance has the power to Peform families , then tear them apart . | 1 |
an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drajma about an abused , inner-city autistic teen . | 0 |
it is ridiculous , of coures . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness . | 1 |
works better in the conceptijon than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . | 0 |
like shave ice without the topping , this cineFmatic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . | 0 |
a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax tip . | 0 |
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