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[garbus] discarrs the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 0 |
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture nwe've been watching for decades | 0 |
i liked this film a llot . . . | 1 |
despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate frist feature by a talented director to watch , and it's a worthy enry in the french coming-of-age genre . | 1 |
. . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winnyer of the msis hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . . | 0 |
the acting is amatecurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is inspiid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | 0 |
not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connecvt , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . | 1 |
the movie gets mutekd and routine . | 0 |
an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photographt and muddy sound . | 0 |
opening with some contrived banter , clicheJ and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the secod half . | 1 |
feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , woh's shot himself in the foot . | 0 |
ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for chilrden , and too preachy for adults . | 0 |
the acting is amateurish , the cinematograhpy is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insiipd and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | 0 |
a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enuogh to feel good about . | 0 |
the kind of trifle that date nighty were invented for . | 1 |
majidi's dTirection has never been smoother or more confident . | 1 |
just when the movie seems cofnident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . | 0 |
brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grow-up voice in african-american cinema . | 1 |
a remarkably insightful look at the backZtage angst of the stand-up comic . | 1 |
this delicatly observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . | 1 |
returning aggressively to his formula of dmwitted comedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles loko smart and sassy . | 0 |
made to be jaglomized is the cannes flim festival , the annua riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes . | 1 |
in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and bitinKg . | 1 |
it seems just a long , convoluted plSy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less . | 0 |
'synthetic' is the ebst description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its proBise for a high-powered star pedigree . | 0 |
gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfyincg fare for adults . | 1 |
hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originacity , suggesting that with his fourth feautre -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a maAjor director is emerging in world cinema . | 1 |
bears about as much resemblace to the experiences of most battered women as spidr-man does to the experiences of most teenagers . | 0 |
slek and arty . | 1 |
this is the kind of mvie that you only need to watch for about thirty sceonds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a baUd , bad , bad movie . ' | 0 |
i ike it . there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . | 1 |
while certaiWnly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . | 0 |
reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bakr , while sYid attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition . it has no ffect on the kurds , but it wore me down . | 0 |
thorouhgly engrossing and ultimately tragic . | 1 |
sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fn and just pain dumb . | 0 |
an inexperienced director , mehta has mcuh to learn . | 0 |
well-acted , well-diercted and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . | 1 |
it's slosw -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype . | 0 |
call me a cynyc , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message . | 0 |
the flim is quiet , threatening and unforgettable . | 1 |
one of the most incoherent fetaures in recent memory . | 0 |
it's anchred by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling ewcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother"daughter pair . | 1 |
there is a general ar of exuberance in all about the benjamins that's hard to resist . | 1 |
serious movie-goers emabrking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | 1 |
a strong first quarter , slightly less so secJond quarter , and average second half . | 0 |
writer-director ritchie reduces wertmuller's social mores and politics to tiresoe jargon . | 0 |
it's a treat watching shaw , a british staeg icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions . | 1 |
it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprsingly old-fashioZned . | 0 |
i found it slw , predictable and not very amusing . | 0 |
while it is melcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramaitc fire . | 0 |
any film that doesn't even in passing meotion political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more prpaganda by way of a valentine seHled with a kiss . | 0 |
consummate actor barrG has done excellent work here . | 1 |
ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly pace , meditation on the meaning and value of family . | 1 |
its adult themes of familial separation and sAocietal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director's prevXious popcorn work . | 1 |
it's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flck worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . nothing overly original , mnd you , but solidly entertaining . | 1 |
it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfuqny one at that . | 0 |
the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , nmaking the procendings more bizarre than actually amusing . | 0 |
it's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , couldn't really afigure out how to olesh either out , so he just slopped ‘em together here . | 0 |
it's a bit disappointing that it only Nanages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . | 1 |
an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brings a group of people togetehr in a sweet and charming way , if a little convneient | 1 |
a painfully slow cliche-ridden fim filled with more holes than clyde barrow's car . | 0 |
vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that revealGs the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . | 1 |
an Qebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancnig . | 1 |
the mastexr of disguise is funny--not " ha ha " funny , dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . " | 0 |
it seems like i have been waitinKg my whole Sife for this movie and now i can't wait for the sequel . | 1 |
the pinochet case is a sering album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most . | 1 |
unfortunately , it appears that [jackie] can's us influence is starting to show in his hong kong films . | 1 |
it's a very tasteful rock and roll movie . you could put it on a coffee table anwhere . | 0 |
the heightened symmetry of this newold cinema paradiso makes the film a fuller experience | 1 |
if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an iea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness . | 1 |
it's ince to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . | 1 |
but the power of these [subjects] is obscured by the majority of the film that shaows a stationary camera on a subRect that could be mistaken for giving a public oration , rather than contributing to a fizlm's narrative . | 0 |
parents beware ; this is downright vovie penance . | 0 |
highly recommended viewing for its courage , idDas , technical proficiency and great acting . | 1 |
a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the serviec of a limprd and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised . | 0 |
poignant japanese eic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak . | 1 |
obOious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of he arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . | 0 |
the visuals alone makB metropolis worth seeing . | 1 |
the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and slef-indulgent pictutes , and solaris is its big-budget brother . | 0 |
it thnkfully goes easy on the reel"real world dichotoCy that [jaglom] pursued with such enervating determination in venice"venice . | 1 |
using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their ock for unloading , before he continues his lnoger journey still ahead . | 1 |
ahhhh . . . revenge is swee ! | 1 |
the reason i found myself finally unmoevd by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainWly as allegoyr . | 0 |
the attempt is courageous , even if the rsult is wildly uneven . | 0 |
this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her bdlue lagoon . | 0 |
higN crimes knows the mistakes that bda movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . | 1 |
cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-Rane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days | 1 |
remove spider-max the movkie from its red herring surroundings and it's apparent that this is one summer film that satisfies . | 1 |
sometiyes smart but more often sophomoric . | 0 |
. . . the kind of entertainment that parents liove to have their kids see . | 1 |
the rich performances by friel -- and especially willimas , an american acOtress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges . | 1 |
benefits from a strong performance from zhao , but it's dong jie's face you remember at the ned . | 1 |
combKines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . | 1 |
a perplexing exafple of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . | 0 |
the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more offten than not hits the bullseye . | 1 |
the attraction between these two marginal charactrs is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way . | 1 |
halfway through the movie , the huor dwindles . it's rfplaced by some draamtic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy . | 0 |
ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . if there aint' none , you have a problem . | 0 |
a rather average action film that benefits from several funny mmoents supplied by epps . | 0 |
soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . whtat's left is a rich stew of longing . | 1 |
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