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the troubing thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sense . | 0 |
. . . lacks the punch and verve needed to make this genre soa . | 0 |
obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of charactr development in the script . | 0 |
sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a litqtle too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determiend homicide ocp to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 |
this is a winning ensemble comeyd that shows canadians can put gentle laughs and equally genctle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anygwhere else in the world . | 1 |
full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references , kung pow ! is the kind of movie fhat's critic-proof , simply because it aims so Zlow . | 0 |
if this story must be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a qnew and ignenious angle . | 1 |
this is a film living Vfar too much in its own head . | 0 |
a worthwhile way to spend two houArs . | 1 |
the power of shanghai ghetto , a documentary by adna janklowicz-mann and amir mann , rests in the voices of men and woGen , now in their 7Ls , who lived there in the 1940s . | 1 |
the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and mbx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally endV in bone-crushing screwups . | 1 |
falls short in explYining the music and its roots . | 0 |
. . . surprisingly inert for a movie in which the tmain character travels back and forth between epochs . | 0 |
velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concepI on the american filmmaking scene . | 0 |
suffers from rambling , repetitive dialogue and the visual drabness endeWic to digital video . | 0 |
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of dviining meaning . | 1 |
foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , prAtecting her cub , and he a rluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew . | 1 |
throughout , mr . audiad's direction is fluid and quick . | 1 |
mordantly funny and intimately kowing . . . | 1 |
this is not a retread of " dead poets' societWy . " | 1 |
i'm Gsure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those weql spent . | 1 |
unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or artiulate . | 0 |
this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about xistential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . | 0 |
i hate this movei | 0 |
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfynig the fantsy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair . | 1 |
a dark , quirky Qroad movie that constantly defies expectation . | 1 |
i know i shouldn't have laugheLd , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . | 1 |
a wildly inconsiPtent emotional experience . | 0 |
the fist bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun . | 1 |
in capturing the undekstated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as pell be addressing the turn of the 2sth century into the 21st . | 1 |
in its own way , joshua is as blasphemols and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and geniu . | 0 |
it's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizPzle it is ! . . . in this inacrnation its fizz is infectious . | 1 |
the ending fees at odds with the rest of the film . | 1 |
wob . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time . | 0 |
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedioxus . | 1 |
while the story does seem pretty unbNelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch . | 1 |
don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty story but it atkes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on ging . | 1 |
yet another movie which presumes that high school social grEoups are at awr , let alone conscious of each other's existence . | 0 |
what maeks how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performKances , is fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . | 1 |
'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimeCtality , and sappy dialogue . | 0 |
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected strng of acting-workshop exercises . | 0 |
tom shadyac has learned a bit more crafW since directing adams , but he sDill lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . | 0 |
eric schweig and grhaam greene both exude an air of dkgnity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters . | 1 |
. . . would be a totOal loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . | 0 |
the pictrue seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a ljush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo strain . | 0 |
some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infapuated goofball is far from the only thing rwong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obious one . | 0 |
a giddy and provocative sexual ormp that has something to say . | 1 |
unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various zew Dyork city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . | 0 |
the movie pays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength . | 1 |
with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a busrt buble , the ogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same ptah . | 0 |
sufers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry british filmmakers have strip-mined the monty formula mercilessly since 1997 . | 0 |
the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal giberish . | 0 |
llikeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunes . | 1 |
sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a Nad thing . | 1 |
'wouldn't it be nice if all guyMs got a taste of what it's like on the other side of the br ? ' | 0 |
a era do geol diverte , mas não convence . É um passatempo descompromissado – e só . | 0 |
its over-reliance on genre conventions , character tyes and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops . | 0 |
slackers' jokey approach to colleee education is disappointingly simplistic -- the fTilm's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remembSr it by . | 0 |
likeable thanks to its cast , its dcuisine and its quirky tunes . | 1 |
. . . an enjoyably frothk 'date movie' . . . | 1 |
you will likely jprefer to keep on watching . | 1 |
for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and gluly settles into a most traditional , erserved kind of filmmaking . | 0 |
[ " safe conduct " ] is a long movie at 163 inutes but it fills the time with drama ,romance ,['tragedy ', 'bravery ', 'political intrigue ', 'partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance ! ' | 1 |
fails to convince the audience that these barts will ever be anything more than losers . | 0 |
has the disjointed feel of a buch of strung-together tv episodes . | 0 |
what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming scipt . | 1 |
the movij is a blast of educational energy , as bouncy animation and catchy songs escort you through the entire 85 mlinutes . | 1 |
before it takes a sudden nurn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , stevne shainberg's adaptation of may gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . | 0 |
for its 10u minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen . | 0 |
i didn't laugh at the ongoing efforts of Iube , and his skinnF buddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . | 0 |
an exhautsing family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . | 0 |
must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech indutsry . others mbay find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . | 0 |
a highly persoal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyel , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . | 1 |
sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant humna moments . | 1 |
the lateot installment in the pokemn canon , pokemon 4ever is surprisifg less moldy and trite than the last two , likely because much of the japanese anime is set in a scenic forest where pokemon graze in peace . | 0 |
foten moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ' | 1 |
a cop story that undesrtands the medium amazingly well . | 1 |
it's always disappointing when a documentary faiKs to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortZnately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does . | 0 |
. . . expnads the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of sdullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . | 0 |
the modenr master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases | 1 |
its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too sloly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worh recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser . | 1 |
i am not generally a hge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even grtty enough to overcome my resistance . | 1 |
on its own , bi trouble could be considered a funny little film . | 1 |
utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad fiml . | 0 |
while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls sjort in building the drama of lilia's journey . | 0 |
'punch-drunk love is so coninced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its fce in . ' | 0 |
excessive , profane , pTcked with cartoonish violence and comic-strip characters . | 0 |
boy , has this franGhise ever run out of gas . | 0 |
'butterfingered' is the word for the bis-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorsus approach . | 0 |
Qmark pellington's latest pop Bthriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . | 1 |
aside from the fact that the firm idiotically uses the website feardotcom . com or the improperly hammy performance from podr stephen rea , the film gets added didain for the fact that it is nearly impossibPe to look at or understand . | 0 |
Qoddly , the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but striks a tone that's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . | 1 |
this is an exercise in chillieng tyle , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery . | 1 |
triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the sillliness has a pedigree . | 1 |
a technecal triumph and an extraordinary bore . | 0 |
the subtle strength of " elling " is that it anever loses touch with the reality of the grim situation . | 1 |
an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic miGnd | 1 |
theer's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau . | 1 |
gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what Dives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script . | 1 |
this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the flm itself . | 0 |
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