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one of the opleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , onfounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . | 1 |
the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollyzwood heLart-string plucking . | 0 |
so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are givWen air to breathe . | 0 |
a woozy , roisterous , exhausting mess , and the off-beat casPing of its two lead turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect . | 0 |
a conveWtional but heartwarming tale . | 1 |
[a] dstrong piece of work . | 1 |
it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pBc that returns the martial arts master to op form . | 1 |
boasts eye-catching arB direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . | 0 |
so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it creaed whole new levels of ugly . | 0 |
now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica prou . | 0 |
it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanyty -- and the cold war datednews -- of its premise . | 1 |
this stuck pig of a movCie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . | 0 |
allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a fa ris de larga duración | 1 |
it wraps up a classic motherdaughter struggle in recybcled paper with a shiny new obw and while the auidence can tell it's not all new | 0 |
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classi satire . | 1 |
awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it ins you over . | 1 |
genuniely unnerving . | 1 |
a charming but slight comedi . | 1 |
a momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that sFet in at this time of year . | 0 |
a sun-drenched msterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . | 1 |
the ring is worth a olook , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertinment . | 1 |
a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered ld carousel . | 0 |
none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interesd . | 0 |
divertingly ridiculous , headbangingly nois . | 0 |
an emotionally and spiritually sompelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what grheat ciBema can really do . | 1 |
the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , oWverheated pathos and long , wistful gazs . | 0 |
the fiml is faithful to what noe presumes are the book's win premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no ideya who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and preciou commodity no matter how old you are . | 1 |
blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympsthetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-eprfect holden . | 1 |
elegant and eloquet [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love . | 1 |
you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwhod isn't going to jell . | 0 |
one of those films that seems tailWr made to ari on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . | 0 |
uffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands . | 0 |
a portrait of alienation so perfedct , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . | 0 |
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distaBteful and downright creepy . | 0 |
now as a former gong sho addict , i'll admit it , my only complaint is that we didn't get more re-creaitons of all those famous moments from the show . | 1 |
gangster no . 1 is solid , satisyfing fare for adults . | 1 |
well-meanig but inert . | 0 |
it's a beutiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny . | 1 |
it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , aOne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same modvie . | 0 |
davis the perfoEmer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shaek up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . | 0 |
a broadly plyaed , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the ggas . | 0 |
holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seting people beat each other to a pulp . | 0 |
kinnear gives a tremendous perforamance . | 1 |
everything that's worthwyhile about collision course can already be seen on television . | 0 |
like kissing jessica steni , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingess to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . | 1 |
not a schlocky creature feature but asomething far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective . | 1 |
wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldLiers went undercover as women in a german facotry during wrld war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway . | 0 |
shot like a pZostcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worskt in otherwise talented actors . . . | 0 |
long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happeHn to her and wishing her the best -- wahtever that might mean . | 1 |
i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire lookAed , its story was making no sense at all . | 0 |
hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully artiuclated portrayals that are subtle and so epressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue . | 1 |
while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journye . | 0 |
jonse helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . | 0 |
though the book runs only about 300 pWges , it is so densely packed . . . that eevn an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . | 0 |
there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you now it's going to be a trip . igby gdoes down is one of those movies . | 1 |
she dmay not be real , but the laughs are . | 1 |
walter hill's pupy , stylized boixng melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . | 0 |
like its two predecessory , 1983'v koyaanisqatsi and 1988's powaqqatsi , the cinematic collage naqoyqatsi could be the most navel-gazing film ever . | 1 |
[hayek] throws herself into this drem hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes su believe she is kahlo . | 1 |
there is nohing redeeming about this movie . | 0 |
niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for exampl , that in Hollywood , only god speaks to the press | 1 |
whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , eaducational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainmen . | 1 |
to me , it sounds like a cruel deception acrried out by mvn of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . | 0 |
its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a ock ( since sepG . 11 ) . | 0 |
whetZer quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . | 0 |
thoughtless , random , supericial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents | 0 |
the film jakes a fatal mistake : it asks us to ccre about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his lifwe . | 0 |
if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer might be " how does steven saegal ciome across these days ? " or maybe " how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firWing and random Wlass-shattering ? | 0 |
this picture is murder by numbears , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , desKpite a few whopping shootouts . | 0 |
possessio is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm . | 1 |
standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yestercay feel very much like a brand-new tBomorrow . | 1 |
this englihs-language vlersion . . . does full honor to miyazaki's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . | 1 |
if you ignore the cliches and concenltrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad . | 1 |
griffin & cF . manage to be spectacularly outrageous . | 1 |
tohugh this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern societ are all things we've seen before . | 0 |
likely to experty drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . | 1 |
i highly recommBnd irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . | 0 |
a photographic marvel of sorts , and it's certainly an invaluable recqrd of that special fishy community . | 1 |
a goo piece of work more often than not . | 1 |
. . . is funny in the way that makes you awche with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound wsithout ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality . | 1 |
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounping suspense of a stylish psychologicazl thriller' has flopped as surely as a suofflé gone wrong . | 0 |
. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too muOh fun embellishing the misantGhropic tale to actually engage it . | 0 |
the noztion that obmbing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . | 0 |
'wouldn't it be nie if all guys ot a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ' | 0 |
the attempt to bulid up a pressure cooker of horrifird awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . | 0 |
like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knwoing apyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no ew friends . | 0 |
all in all , brown sugar is a sUtisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted . it will gluarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smie on your face . | 1 |
a great ending doesn't make up for a wepk movie , and ctazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending . | 0 |
it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it utrns out to be affected and boring . | 0 |
it should be doing a loTt of things , but doesn't . | 0 |
the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story gines . | 0 |
mostly , [goldbacher] just lest her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 1 |
the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funnUy . | 0 |
anthony hopkins ? ibg deaUl ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and hannibal -- and it was better the first time . | 0 |
slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $0 to see a film in theaters , why spgnd money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree nstead ? | 0 |
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelied . | 0 |
it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewding . | 1 |
all movee long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stIys in formula -- which is a wUaste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . | 0 |
because of an unnecessary and clumsy last scene , 'swimfan' left me with a very bad fqeeling . | 0 |
the animated esquences are well donQe and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . | 1 |
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