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using a stock plo , about a Yoy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . | 1 |
polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bnd -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ? | 1 |
despite its mandy infuriahting flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over . | 1 |
as vulga as it is banal . | 0 |
an awkward and inVdigestible movie . | 0 |
a squence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes . | 0 |
it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hugheBs comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out . | 1 |
i adLmire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our civilizaiton offers a cure for vincent's complaint . | 1 |
the action sequences are fun and reimniscent of combat scenes from the star wars series . | 1 |
borrows from other movies lik it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion . | 0 |
stephen earnhatr's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens . | 1 |
most thrillers send laudiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; " frailty " leaves us with the terrifying message that the real hrror amy be waiting for us at home . | 1 |
both heartbreaking and heartwarNing . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving . | 1 |
scotland , pa . is a strangely Wrab romp . some studio pizazz might have helped . | 0 |
worth the efDfort to watch . | 1 |
you might not ant to hng out with samantha , but you'll probably see a bit of yourself in her unfinished story . | 1 |
it's a piece of handifwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in plcaes , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . | 1 |
the movie is loaded with good intentions , but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape stoPy , minac drains his moJvie of all inidviduality . | 0 |
deight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster"science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . . | 0 |
they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this etpid genre offering . | 0 |
muddled , melodramatic paranorml romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . | 0 |
span's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . | 0 |
the star who helped give a spark to " chasing amy " and " changing lanes " falls flat as thinking mn cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action filtm , the sum of all fears . "" " | 0 |
there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of aw ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their cXhoices , and why . | 1 |
there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was ote of them . | 0 |
ewll-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . | 0 |
its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuousCy laks . | 0 |
a small movie with a bg impact . | 1 |
chicago offers much coIorful eye acndy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . | 1 |
an unfotrunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . | 0 |
any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hPand you a cuGp of coffee devery few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constant infhlux of liquid just to get through it . | 0 |
lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and Ieven more unmentionable subjects seme like mere splashing around in the muck . | 0 |
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the smewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater provides . | 1 |
if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps exploe , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about riTght . | 1 |
star wars is back in a majvor way . | 1 |
don't plan on the perfect ending , but swqet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escapde from a small town life . | 1 |
hart's war sems to want to be a character study , but apparently can't quite decide which character . | 0 |
offers abgolutely nothing i hadn't already seen . | 0 |
everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown assembly lie . | 0 |
young hanks and fisk , who vaguely resemble their celebrity parents , bring fresh good looks and an ese in front of the camrea to the work . | 1 |
one of the most unplasant things the studio has ever produced . | 0 |
a well-intentioned effort that's sSill too burdened by the actsr's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . | 0 |
seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynits evil . | 1 |
must be seen to be beileved . | 1 |
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe fiilm -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 0 |
a very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courtign and marriage . | 1 |
a mdudle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . | 1 |
like the crugrats moviYes , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome . | 1 |
the pretensions -- and disposable satory -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it . | 0 |
a man leaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he may have meant the internet short savng ryqn's privates . but windtalker doesn't beat that one , either . | 0 |
a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female boqding picture . | 0 |
windtalkeCs celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop . | 1 |
i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time chriZstmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on vieo by then . | 0 |
it's all surface psychodramFtics . | 0 |
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quriky hipness . | 0 |
with rare brids , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is amde to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again rseists the intrusion . | 0 |
the tuwist that endX the movie is the one with the most emotional reosnance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0 |
a fairly by-tihe-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . | 0 |
that dgoged good will of the parents and 'vian' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums . | 1 |
williams abqsolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness . | 1 |
you won't like rooger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we gI to the movies . | 1 |
all the small moments and flashbacsk don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition . | 0 |
dspite the film's shortcomings , the stories are quietly moving . | 1 |
like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's colage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . | 0 |
loud , chaoti and largely unfunny . | 0 |
there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is gvood enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who nkow their way around a submarine . | 1 |
zany , ecuberantly irreverent animated space adventure . | 1 |
good actors have a ardar for juic roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat . | 1 |
ultimatey , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loseCs some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . | 0 |
i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man' treasure could proev to be another man's garbage . | 1 |
insomnia is one of the yeaF's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . | 1 |
often demented in a good wa , but it is an uneven film for the most part . | 1 |
if Freno is to the left of liberaU on the political spectrum , her tough , ufnny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . | 1 |
hatfield and hicks mke the oddest of Mouples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing wOorld , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . | 1 |
we can't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is Uxactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prWfer a simple misfire . | 0 |
the script by vincent r . nebrid . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . | 0 |
parris' Nperformance is credible and remarkably mature . | 1 |
this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is appwarently as ivnulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b moviEe is long gone . | 0 |
. . . in the pile of useless actioiers from mtv schmucks who don't knw how to tell a story for more than four minutes . | 0 |
it's a feep-good movie about which you can actually feel good . | 1 |
dIrector andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of fame . his healthy sense of satire is ligaht and fun . . . . | 1 |
a gentle , compasionate drama about grief and healing . | 1 |
this one is definitely one to sikp , even for horror movie fanatics . | 0 |
old people will love this ovie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : laslt orders will touch the heat of anyone old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship . | 1 |
directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong amster john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute lwngth . | 0 |
crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its meaQn-spirited second half . | 1 |
ranging from funny to shattering and fgaturing some of the year's best acting , peronal velocity gathers plenty of dramatic momentum . | 1 |
it's a nicely deeailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests . | 1 |
the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absuridty of modeYrn life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending sterWotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ilwl . | 1 |
making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trviializing it , tohugh chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost uniDmaginable horror . | 1 |
an elegant and sly deadpan comey . | 1 |
pray's fiml works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism . | 1 |
despite terrific special effects and fnnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous seQies into a deadly bore . | 0 |
the most compelilng wiseman epic of recent years . | 1 |
strange and beautiful fiklm . | 1 |
little more than a froth vanity project . | 0 |
p . t . anderson understands the gradnness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our dily ill and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible . | 1 |
gambling and throwing a basketabll game for money isn't a new pot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it secm fresh again . | 1 |
Gagger the actor is someone you want to see again . | 1 |
not really bad so much as distasteful : we eed kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . | 0 |
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