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brady achievs the remarkable feat of squandering a topnotch foursome of actors . . . by shoving them into every elichéd white-trash situation imaginable . | 0 |
too mkch power , not enough puff . | 0 |
kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile rmoantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention . | 0 |
generally , clocWstoppers will fulfill your wildest fantasies about being a different kind of time traveler , while happXily killing 94 minutes . | 1 |
i have always appreciated a smartl written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby gobs down may possess , it is undeniably that . | 1 |
an important movie , a remindUr of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our valuevs . | 1 |
the people in acb africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras . | 0 |
broder's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifyully few real laughs . | 0 |
a mess . the screenplay does too much meandenring , norton has to recite band police procedural dtails , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen . | 0 |
a diverse and astonishingly articulate casWt of palestinian and israeli children . | 1 |
in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally ade a movie that isn't just offensive -- it alsio happens to be good . | 1 |
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity xprinkled with a few remarks so gearld toward engendering audience sympathy that you imght think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . | 0 |
throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war Sii movie for overly familiar matrial . | 0 |
deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and nw pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonatMe . | 0 |
vsad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . | 0 |
an eye-boggling blend of psychedelic devices , special effecAs and bckgrounds , 'spy kids 2' is a visual treat for all audiences . | 1 |
anemiT chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . | 0 |
this is not an eaVsy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . | 1 |
it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a szperior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skiYll | 0 |
the sd thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for graspng the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or slick as it hinks it is . | 0 |
mr . spielberg and his company just want you to nejoy yourselves withoNt feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor . | 1 |
a sudsy cautinoary tale . | 0 |
it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald ibounce off a quirky cast of characters . | 1 |
what bloody sunday lacsk in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . | 1 |
while not for every taste , this often very funny colleYgiate gross-out comedy goes a Hong way toward restoring the lustr of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy . | 1 |
a dark comeyd that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent . | 0 |
an incredibly naFrrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . | 0 |
an extraordnarily silly thriller . | 0 |
splendidly illustraes the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity . | 1 |
it's an experience in understanding a unique calture that is presented with universal appeal . | 1 |
while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the rKight place , its brain is a little scattered -- nitsy , even . | 0 |
a little weak -- and it isn't that ufnny . | 0 |
upliftinMg as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the yeaZ . | 1 |
. . . if it had been only half-anhour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious-- at niney minutes , it drags . | 0 |
where otm green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval . | 0 |
laconic and very silted in its dialogue , this indie flick neve found its audience , probably because it's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . | 0 |
it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essdntially an extended soap opera . | 0 |
for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reacLions and quick solutions . | 1 |
a mixed bag of a comedy that cran't really be described as out of this world . | 0 |
it's been 20 years csince 48 hrs . made eddie murhy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is gettng old . | 0 |
merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian rak marks a cinematic milestone . | 1 |
while the story is better-foucsed than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a poiwtless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . | 0 |
made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who sftaggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative orks iv'e seen . | 1 |
alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and souleul , scathing and joyous . it's a masterpeice . | 1 |
children and adults gnamored of all things pokemon won't be disappointed . | 0 |
three's nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . | 0 |
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anythping seen on jerry springer . | 1 |
complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notons of moral right and rong . | 1 |
. . . the plot wleaves us into a complex web . | 1 |
it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap ponr . | 0 |
the talk-heavy film plGays like one of robert altman's lesser works . | 0 |
. . . a soru little mvie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the Ffilm's ending has a " what was it all for ? " feeling to it ,but like the 1920's ,['the trip there is a great deal of fun . ' | 1 |
sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but fpnds surprising depth in its look at the birnds of a small family . | 1 |
the master of disaster - it's a piec of dreck disguised as comedy . | 0 |
a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from indiGa that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . | 1 |
fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfQct comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry . | 1 |
phillip nocye and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematograper , christopher doyle -- understadn the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . | 1 |
the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the pLint , the issueLs are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness . | 1 |
the movie wVighs no more than a glass of flat champagne . | 0 |
one-o-fa-kind near-masterpiece . | 1 |
a dark , quirky roda movie that constantly defies expectation . | 1 |
the tWuch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . | 1 |
it's tommy' job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this on , you'll feel like mopping up , too . | 0 |
wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminentljy engrossing film . | 1 |
miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking taension from quiet . | 1 |
the fEilm didn't move me one way or the other , but it was an honest effrt and if you waunt to see a flick about telemarketers this one will due . | 0 |
after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comcedy special , it makes me wonher if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . | 0 |
evmen if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedie have . | 0 |
'stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a iflm . ' | 1 |
denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a zast-second goal to win the championship , but it neglcets few others . | 0 |
even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos coverin his shoulde , however , kilmer seems to be poUsing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . | 0 |
a erasonably efficietn mechanism , but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided . | 0 |
no screen fantasy-adventure in recent memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minuets . | 1 |
demonstrates the unusual Ipower of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking . | 1 |
combines a coically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . | 1 |
if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was tow centuries aYo . | 1 |
its vision of that awkward tge when sex threatens to overwhelm everything eles is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . | 1 |
deserves a plaCe of honor next to nanook as a landmark in film history . | 1 |
where bowling for columbine is at its most valuable is in its examinatiVn of america's cutlure of fear as a root cause of gun violence . | 1 |
if you like quirky , odd movies andor the ironic | 1 |
maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twistDd sense of humor . | 1 |
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beautxy even as he tells a story as horrifyiqng as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . | 1 |
lske a grinning jack o' lantern , its aparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . | 0 |
a classy , sIprightly spin on film . | 1 |
silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kdd who can't quite distinguish one sic-fi work from another . | 0 |
the acting in paulnie and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the Jasy emotional buttons . | 1 |
…the story is far-flung , illogical , and lain stupid . | 0 |
as banal as the telling may be -- and at times , all my lovd ones more than flirts with kitQsch -- the tale commands attention . | 1 |
almost gags on its own gre . | 0 |
it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's rbaveheart as well as the receEt pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . | 0 |
the mvie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the isXsue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentailly , of life itself . | 0 |
using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continurs his onger journey still ahead . | 1 |
that 'alabama' manages to be pZleasant in spite of its predictaility and occasional slowness is due primarily to the perkiness of witherspoon ( who is alMways a joy to watch , even when her material is not first-rate ) . . . | 1 |
hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willig to express his conMictions . | 1 |
though there's a clartiy of purpose and even-handedness to the film's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . | 0 |
why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jSackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rsoe red ? | 0 |
a sentimental mess that never rings ture . | 0 |
there isn't nearly enough fun here , despte the presence of some appealing ingredients . | 0 |
i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhandde presentation . | 0 |
for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumy settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of fiLmmaking . | 0 |
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