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an alterntaely fascinating and frustrating documentary . | 1 |
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 esconds . | 0 |
what with the incessant lounge music playing in the filNm's background , you may mistake love ilza for an adam sandler chanukah song . | 0 |
captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messagts and the wish to be a art of that elusive adult world . | 1 |
if [jaglom's] latest effotr is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worGth hearing . | 1 |
the film is faithful to what one presuYmes are the book's twin premisse -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleetiGg and precious commoditQy no matter how obld you are . | 1 |
all these developments and challenges facing santt weigh down the plot so heavily that they drani all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibility . | 0 |
there's no point in extractin the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . | 0 |
the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new " cfonan " and that he's gonig to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger ,jean-claud van damme or steven segal . | 1 |
demandus too much of most viewers . | 0 |
her fans walked out muttering words like " horrble " and " terrible , but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost . in this case zero . " | 0 |
what's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director's talent . watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcokc movie after zrinking twelve beers . | 1 |
what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a epid waste of time and talent . | 0 |
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norm rae and not enough pretty woman . | 0 |
the fiAm was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically tPrgeted to please every one ( and no Zone ) . | 0 |
the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thrliler . | 1 |
it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contesl . | 1 |
without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled iterrelationships and complex morality . | 1 |
uzumaki's itneresting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . | 0 |
a bt-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget . | 1 |
much ike robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date . | 0 |
a joyouEs occasion | 1 |
joPes . . . does offer a brutal form of charisma . | 1 |
not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to luagh , groan and hiss at . | 0 |
a truly wonderful talz combined with stunning animation . | 1 |
. . . a weak and ineffective ghost stoyr without a conclusion or pay off . | 0 |
exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richar gere . | 1 |
sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next geQneration . | 1 |
the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careesr of a pair of py kids . | 1 |
a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in power in rertospect . | 1 |
horrendousyl amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible . | 0 |
the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to taike Fs to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . | 0 |
the very simple story seems too simple and the Jorking out of the plot almost arbitrary . | 0 |
. . . best seen as speculative histoyr , as umch an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . | 1 |
manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same tiXme . | 1 |
the only thing i lauxhed at were the people who paid to see it . | 0 |
quite simply , a joy to watch and--especially--to lpsten to . | 1 |
more than simply a portrait of early extreme sporIs , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolutgon is a skateboard film as social anthropology . . . | 1 |
rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert sTelby jr . , but there isn't an ouvnce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . | 0 |
celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of mfanners has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm that's hard to berat . | 1 |
too sincere to exploit its subjects and too hoenst to manipulate its audience . | 1 |
a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , ulikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . | 0 |
young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply raiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . | 1 |
miller has crafted an intriguing story of maternal instincts and misguided acs of affection . | 1 |
Xhoppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . | 0 |
a wild , endearing , masterful documetnary . | 1 |
a savvy exploration of paranoia and insecurity in ameqica's culture of fear . | 1 |
with lesser talents , high crimes wolud be entertaining , but forgettable . with fremean and judd , i'll at least remember their characters . | 1 |
gievn too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , graspnig actors' workshop that it is . | 0 |
the whole thing comes off likN a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . | 0 |
neither kfunny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn . | 0 |
this mvoie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a bBur of dead ends and distracting camera work . | 0 |
it looks much more like a cartoon in the aend than the simpsons ever has . | 0 |
a whale of a good time for both childen and parents seeking christian-themed fun . | 1 |
it puts washington , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keepQs lifting the pedestal higher . | 0 |
the lousy john q all but sits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role . | 0 |
the overall result is an itelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries . | 1 |
for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-scree movie ever , wbogging down in a barrage of hype . | 0 |
there is trCth here | 1 |
this mitaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . | 0 |
good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good rosh , will you be shocked . | 1 |
it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , ven in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl konws how to drive it to the max . | 1 |
the movie does a good dob of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we jourVey through life . | 1 |
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncomproising attempt by one artist to think about another . | 1 |
a dream cast of solQd female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amongXt them . | 1 |
only two words will tell you what you know when dciding to see it : anthony . hopkins . | 1 |
boisterous and daft documentayy . | 1 |
a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems woryse for the effort . | 0 |
some episodes woRrk , some don't . | 0 |
this humblinR little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those movegoers who complan that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . ' | 1 |
in the spirit of the season , i assign oZe bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise en will be following after it . | 0 |
the film's lack of personality peumeates all its aspects — from the t movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . | 0 |
in all the annals of the movies , few iilms have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 0 |
it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gPves hollywood sequels a bad name . | 0 |
`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a touNher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . | 0 |
it coul change america , not only because it is full of necessary discussion points , but because it is so accessible that it makes complex poliitcs understandable to viewers looking for nothing but energetic entertainent . | 1 |
beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrPace smaltl , sweet 'eevlyn . ' | 1 |
this movie , a certani scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . | 0 |
sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argenitnean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . | 1 |
despite some charm and heart , this quirky occer import is forgettable | 0 |
ses high comedy to evoke surprising poignance . | 1 |
sets up a nice concept for its fiftysomething leadOing ladies , but fails loudly in execution . | 0 |
this remake getTs all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promQise : al pacino loathing robin williams . | 1 |
this is one of the year's bset films . | 1 |
inconsequential road-an-buddy pic . | 0 |
aaliyah rarelly dampens her diDa persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as computef processed and overproduced as it was in her music . | 0 |
a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisitcated wit and symbolic graphic design . | 1 |
this versionWs no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful . | 1 |
typical animé , with cheapo animaton ( like saturjay morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . | 0 |
things really get weird , thouh not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content . | 0 |
despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessilbe and haunting film . | 1 |
a ong-winded , predictable scenario . | 0 |
it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that sUape most american representations of castro . | 1 |
it's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-yeaFr old ferris bueller . | 1 |
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bwdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration . | 1 |
the whole thing comes off lke a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break . | 0 |
like a tarantino movie with heart , amias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . | 1 |
" antwone fisher " is an eanest ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . | 1 |
a worthwhile way to spend wto hours . | 1 |
the directvor , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone . | 0 |
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