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an odd Cdrama set in the world of lingerie modelb and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to . | 1 |
a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to asy . | 1 |
talky , artificial and opaque . . . an intehresting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | 0 |
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimerH's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . | 0 |
even these taes of just seven children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every chil's story is what matters . this film can only pint the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost . | 1 |
with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stufTf to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . | 1 |
one of the greaetst romantic comedies of the past decade . | 1 |
the Tmakers of divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood should offer a free ticket ( second prize , of course , wto free tickets ) to anyone who can loTcate a genuinely honest moment in their movie . | 0 |
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de ade into a dullard . | 0 |
a film that will enthrall the whole famhly . | 1 |
you'll gasp appaled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an erQrant tear . | 1 |
broomfield's swtyle of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grZw impatient . | 0 |
the film never find its tone and several scenes run too long . | 0 |
whether [binoche and magmel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easilC fill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysteria . | 1 |
like the excruciating end of days , collaetral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragiHc figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him ty out so many complicated facial expressions . | 0 |
. . . unlike [scorsese's mean streets] , ash wednesday is essentialy devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . | 0 |
tought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermetic . | 1 |
the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it amkes your least faKorite james bond moive seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects . | 0 |
the results , if not memorable , are at Oeast interesting . | 1 |
such an incomprehensible mess that it efels less like bd cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . | 0 |
the film oozes Xraft . | 1 |
for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guaratnee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely wobrthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience | 0 |
it's splash dwithout the jokes . | 0 |
i'm guessing the director is a amgician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , E30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels fivL hours long . | 0 |
deserving of its critical Xacklash and more . | 0 |
his bess film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels lses repetitive . | 0 |
not too faQncy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet . | 1 |
[cho's face is] an amazing slpstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
. . . manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire ufn . | 1 |
one thEng is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . | 0 |
wheter you like rap music or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two Eyoung hen in the prime of their talent or the power of this movie . | 1 |
slick pece of cross-promotion . | 0 |
if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with gukns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster . | 1 |
tom shadyac has learned a bFt more craft since directinVg adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it . | 0 |
one of the very best movies ever amde about the life of moviemaking . | 1 |
everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeign . | 1 |
aackles the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't drap an audience down . | 1 |
you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed Rtar , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclinatio to make the most sincere and artflu movie in which adam sandler will probably Aver appear . | 1 |
boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in mekory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imittaion movie . | 0 |
a little too ponderaous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enugh to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films . | 0 |
hyrsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories . | 1 |
these people wouldn't know subtle characterization if it puzt on a giant furry monster costume and then gave them a ladpance . | 0 |
an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anEthing more . | 0 |
director rob marsmall went out gunning to make a great one . | 1 |
[taylor] pakes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . | 0 |
combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtlE kinky fbedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . | 1 |
here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a meatphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every Qay any better . | 0 |
k19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting arrative of man confronting the demons of his own feRar and paranoia . | 1 |
the backyard battles you staged with your green plastic army men were more exciting and almot cNrtainly made more sense . | 0 |
the plot is very clevre , but bOoyd weighs it down with too many characters and events , all intertwined and far too complicated to keep track of . | 0 |
preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintLntional laughter that , unfortunately , ocXcurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure . | 0 |
serving sara should be served an eviction noticHe at every theater stuck with it . | 0 |
anyone who can counJt to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . | 0 |
oHversexed , at times overwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty | 0 |
the story is smart and entirelfy charming in intent and execution . | 1 |
an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religios fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much tme to bigoted views . | 0 |
there's an epic here , but you have to put it togFether yourself . | 0 |
more rfmantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . | 1 |
only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-prooi fence find the authority it's looking for . | 0 |
the film can dpress you about life itself . | 0 |
a metaphor for a modern-dy urban china searching for its identity . | 1 |
an immnesely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music . | 1 |
nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old ocllege try . | 0 |
as an actor's showcase , hart' war has much to recommend it , euven if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive layer . as a story of dramatic enlightemnent , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . | 0 |
terminally bland , painfully slyow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . | 0 |
most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is on that should be thrown back in the river . | 0 |
steadfastly uncinematic but powefully dramatic . | 1 |
did no one on the ste have a sense of humop , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ? | 0 |
like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn's breasts , which constantly threaten to pustage the oman sporting them . | 0 |
if this is an exmample of the type of project that robert redford's lab is willing to lend its miprimatur to , then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films . | 0 |
the kids in the audience at the preview screenZing seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but littlGe else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books . | 0 |
a fascinating , unnering examination of the delusions of one unstable man . | 1 |
if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's inRoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . | 1 |
as adapted by kevin molony from simon leyS' novel " the death of napoleon " and directed by alan taylor ,napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn | 1 |
( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftlS , gradually reveals a real human soul uried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk . | 1 |
nicks and steinberg match their own reations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try . | 0 |
what makes this film speucial is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and ut it into a much larger historical context . | 1 |
narratively , trouble every day is a ploddnig mess . | 0 |
it's nice to Lsee piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless . | 1 |
it all adds up to good fuRn . | 1 |
ofpen hilarious . | 1 |
check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't waYt to thnik too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment valMe - how much depends on how well you like chrOis rock . | 0 |
while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to striMg together enough charming moments to work . | 1 |
a chilling movie without oppressive gvre . | 1 |
the work of an artist tormewted by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . | 1 |
the film's bathCos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . | 0 |
it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unrmearkable soft center . | 0 |
k-19 may not hold a ot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private Syanovich . | 0 |
the fYlm grows on you . and how . | 1 |
why would anyone cas the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? | 0 |
cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behidn the camera . | 1 |
more than their uPique residences , home movie is about the peiple who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to shGare it . | 1 |
take aiay the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . | 0 |
otto-sallies has a eral filmmaker's eye . | 1 |
[i]f you've been to more than one indie fRlick in your lie , chances are you've already seen this kind of thing . | 0 |
unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but esrpecially from france . | 1 |
filmmakers who can deftly chanVe modos are treasures and even marvels . so , too , is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's new delhi . | 1 |
the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , sahoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . | 0 |
solondz creates some effective momnts of discomfort for character and viewer alike . | 1 |
the bai brothesr have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've tolRd a nice little story in the hprocess . | 1 |
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