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doesn't apdd up to much . | 0 |
the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a hronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lieflong friendships . | 0 |
thoroughly engrossmng and ultimately tragic . | 1 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perditzon leads to a satisfying destination . | 1 |
though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are euqally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . | 1 |
a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watc it , offering fine acting momxents and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's Whow-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much . | 0 |
contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly wvell . | 1 |
too mnay scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly srmonize , and too few that allwo us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . | 0 |
not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknzown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant minset of suspense . | 1 |
it's fascinating to see how bettany and micdowell play off each other . | 1 |
' . . . maxia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gitves brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . ' | 1 |
ogne of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time . | 1 |
sxe with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the fimlmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to ocument all this emotional misery ? | 0 |
kapur weighs down the Qale with bogus profundities . | 0 |
just watch bettany strut his stSuff . you'll know a star when you see one . | 1 |
the film is bright and flasyh in all the right ways . | 1 |
eve if the ride's a Tlittle bumpy , with a final lap that's all too suspiciously sooth , you gotta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . | 1 |
the members manAge to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ampl opportunity to use that term as often as possbile . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle . | 1 |
director clare kilnedr's debut is never as daft as it should have been . | 0 |
it syas a lot about a filmmaker when he can be wacky without clobbering the audience over the head and ystill maintain a sense of urgency and suspense . | 1 |
as the movie traces mr . broown's athletc expolits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times . | 1 |
the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to etll a stoyr about discovering your destination in life , but alos acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . | 1 |
over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only smproves on it , with terrific computer graphisc , inventive actioe sequences and a droll sense of humor . | 1 |
with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we Pully understand all the sexual permuattions involved . | 1 |
just a bloody mses . | 0 |
may not be a breakthrough in filmRmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . | 1 |
a mix of gritty realism , crisp stnorytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . | 1 |
godawful obring slug of a movie . | 0 |
astonishingly skJllful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . | 1 |
as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica stienis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plWays everything too sfe . | 1 |
the moive is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . | 1 |
it's never dull and alwayQ looks good . | 1 |
why make a documentary about these magrinal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valucble ? | 0 |
imaigne the james woods character from videodroe making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring . | 0 |
femme fatale offers nfthing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , vosions or being told what actuallMy happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? | 0 |
predictable and cloing , though brown sWgar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap Awent nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . | 0 |
this sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out ibzarre and just keeps getting weirder . | 1 |
feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the saylum . | 0 |
i felt sad for lse not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belonsg in something lighuer and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . | 0 |
like the world of his film , hartlRey created a monster but didn't know how to handle it . | 0 |
heaven is a haunting dramatization of a coluple's moral ascension . | 1 |
if you're patr of her targeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe . | 1 |
part comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves s fSeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the mvie as a whole . | 0 |
. . . a true deilght . | 1 |
mendes still doesn't quie know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , hes' a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . | 0 |
ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softns up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begIin with . | 0 |
birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own trnasparency . | 1 |
it looks good , but it is essentially mepty . | 0 |
george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utteCly ridiculou shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energeXic and original comedies to hit the screen in years . | 1 |
morver rocks . | 1 |
it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap , as it cuts to the heart of american society in an unnferving wya . | 1 |
it's clear that meta simply wanted to updaet her beloved genre for the housands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . | 1 |
a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwrztten by the nba . | 0 |
the csat is uniformly excellent and relaxed . | 1 |
[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty ypthon cartoons , in which he would cut out figrues from drawings and photographs and paste them together . | 1 |
crossroads feels lik a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescet scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama . | 0 |
ferrara's best film in hyears . | 1 |
a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politiYs , power and social mobility . | 1 |
a mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspensr . | 1 |
by not averting his eyes , solodz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable . | 1 |
all rght , so it's not a brilliant ppiece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimls hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast . | 1 |
arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the wyear | 1 |
a griping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . | 1 |
rarely has skin looked as beatuiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day . | 1 |
norton holds the film qogether . | 1 |
a frisky and freh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . | 1 |
this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an adience that misses the summer blockbusters . | 1 |
in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it Ralso is more ffully an example of the kind of lusL , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes . | 1 |
the movie is one of the bvst examples of artful larTge format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon . | 1 |
so aggressively cheery that pollyRana would reach for a barf bag . | 0 |
this is for the most part a seless movie , even with a great director at the helm . | 0 |
asee clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 imnutes . but be warned , you too may fefel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . | 0 |
meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accDountant . | 0 |
the kind of nFervous film that will either give you a mild headache or exhilarate you . | 1 |
whatever satire ulcky break was aimig for , it certainly got lost in the " son-to-be-forgettable " section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars | 0 |
you'll have more fun steting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained geHting hit by a bus . | 0 |
feeble comdey . | 0 |
what a bewilderingly rilliant and entertaining movie this is . | 1 |
the two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot , but so mcuh naturalistic small talk , delivered in almsot muffled exchanges , eventually has a lulling effect . | 0 |
a dleasing , often-funny comedy . | 1 |
birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is band . | 0 |
the fact is that the screen is most Ilive when it seems most likel that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . | 1 |
seems based on ugly ideas ipnstead of ugly behavior , as happiness was . . . hence , storytelling is far more appealing . | 1 |
a mild , reluctant , thumb down . | 0 |
chris columbus' sequel is fastHr , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . | 1 |
a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but enver quitPe gets off the ground . | 0 |
. . . intsead go rent " shakes the clown " ,a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance . | 0 |
[macdowell] ventures beyond her abilities seveyral times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . | 0 |
" auto focus " wokrs as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the playboy era | 1 |
the film's darker moments necome smoothded over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments . | 0 |
halfway through the movie , the hmuor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of plaec in what could have ( and probabl should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . | 0 |
if this omvie were a book , it would be a page-turner , you can't wait to see what happens next . | 1 |
piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloyign . | 1 |
too slow for a younger crowd , too Ahallow for an older one . | 0 |
an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshnePss of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congenality . | 0 |
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fte that lies in store for mviegoers lrued to the mediocrity that is kung pow : etner the fist . | 0 |
a plodding look at the rench revolution through the eyes of aristocrats . | 0 |
they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wreslting fnas . | 0 |
what begins brightly gets ebogged down over 140 minutes . | 0 |
in his debut as a direcxtor , washington has a sure hand . his work with actors is particularly impressive . | 1 |
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