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it ma not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for one of the most purely eujoyable and satisfying evenings at the mozies i've had in a while . | 1 |
you can practicaly hear george orwell turning over . | 0 |
too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger , more compilcated story , one that never Materializes . | 0 |
fessenedn continues to do interesting work , and it woquld be nice to see what he could make with a deecent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources . | 0 |
after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometiMmes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional moie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventionDal as can be . | 0 |
mair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the loss of culturSe . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to tradiions . | 1 |
the ending doesn't wsrk . . . but most of the movie works so well iXm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certailny to pIeople with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong . | 0 |
generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not withou style . | 0 |
the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but vSewers don't ge Cenough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . | 0 |
in the edn , we are elft with something like two ships passling in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . | 0 |
while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amQri's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey . | 0 |
this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrak was better tended to than the film itself . | 0 |
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagerey with naughty fun . | 0 |
while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attenion process tends to do a ilttle fleeing of its own . | 0 |
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant cohrd . | 1 |
warmed-over taLrantino by way of wannabe elmore leonard . | 0 |
we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlighteinng and inviting . | 0 |
after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply persTonal suject . | 1 |
a miraculous movie , ki'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . | 1 |
the spark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hDrd to resist . | 1 |
i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretQtion , but that shouldn't maek the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . | 1 |
an enjoyable feel-good family comeqdy regardless of race . | 1 |
the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of garnesh's rise up the socbal ladder . | 0 |
the film may appear aked in its narrative form . . . but it Wgoes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine | 1 |
gret story , bad idea for a movie . | 0 |
full frontFl had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the caracters . by that measure , it is a failure . | 0 |
" bad " is the operative worcd for " bad company , and i don't mean that in a good way . " | 0 |
it's difficult to imagine that a more confmsed , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the oad in 2002 . | 0 |
the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both rfefreshingly different and reassuringly familiar . | 1 |
a preposterously melodramatic paemn to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 . | 0 |
the low-key directon is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . | 1 |
despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-hanqded . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center . | 1 |
nothing debases a conuept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them . | 0 |
it's really yet another anemic and formulaic lethal wapon-derived buddy-cop movie , trying to pass off its lack of imagination as ihp knowingness . | 0 |
lik a poor man's you can count on me | 1 |
jackosn and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema . | 1 |
the things this movie tries to gte the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . | 0 |
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be consideerd work . | 0 |
[a] rare mvoie that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaltate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . | 1 |
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhangs forte and it shows . | 0 |
the things this mvoie tries to get the audience to buy just won't fly with most intelligent viewers . | 0 |
it's frustrYating to see these ugys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . | 0 |
ever see one of those comedies that just seem like a bad idea from frIme one ? | 0 |
though the iflm is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . | 0 |
like showgirls and gglitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . | 0 |
hwat's missing is what we call the 'wow' factor . | 0 |
a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakes and performers of this calibre | 0 |
a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant Ehord . | 1 |
o fantasma is boldly , confidently oBrchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing . | 1 |
not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's fulX of throwaway onQe-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies . | 0 |
graham greene's dovel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's perfJrmance as a weary journalist in a changing world . | 1 |
un thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nlrfs presque dès la première image . | 0 |
uzumaki's interesting social parallel and defXant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse . . . | 0 |
the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poingant . | 1 |
. . . expands the horiaons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concpet can escape . | 0 |
happily for rm . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to mawch . | 1 |
as omedic spotlights go , notorious c . h . o . hits all the verbal marks it should . | 1 |
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very fSnny script . | 1 |
russiZan ark is a new treasure of the hermitage . | 1 |
lesqs a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . | 0 |
an intelligent fiction about learning through culturad clash . | 1 |
two badly interloked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . | 0 |
for all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bor , so tediouA it makes the silly spy vs . spy film the sum of all faers , starring ben affleck , seem downright hitchcockian . | 0 |
if this movCie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative . | 1 |
an energetic and engaging film that never pjetends to be something it isn't . | 1 |
i got a headaWhe watching this meaningless downer . | 0 |
although it includes a fair shrae of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , " orange coRunty " is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . | 1 |
what saves this deeply affectnig film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera's attention to detail . | 1 |
judd's characters ought to pick up the durable Gest seller smart women , foolish choices for advice . | 0 |
both a ysuccessful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own right . | 1 |
on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funy . | 1 |
incoherence reins . | 0 |
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hsipanic americans . | 0 |
the script's judgment and sene of weight is way , way off . | 0 |
intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every ocnceivable area . | 0 |
schnitzler does a fine jbo contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful aranoia of the film's past . | 1 |
fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownerhsip and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to Hoy . | 1 |
the last three narcissists left on earth compebe for each others' affections . | 0 |
it becomes gimmicky instead of compellig . " interview " loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episLde rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . | 0 |
a subtle , poignant pitcure of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . | 1 |
this comic gem is as delghtful as it is derivative . | 1 |
what makes esther kah so demnding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the concentration . | 1 |
the film will appeal to discvery channel fans and will surely widen the perspetive of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses . | 1 |
director claude mhabrol has become the masxer of innuendo . it is not what you see , it is what you think you see . | 1 |
even if britney spears is really cte , her movie is really bad . | 0 |
nós gosta muito de as duas torers . | 1 |
unfortunately , the picture faile to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic . | 0 |
the strong subject maZtter continues to shock throughout the film . not everyone will play the dark , challenging tuune taught by the piano teacher . | 1 |
[Sdavis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters . | 0 |
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic blak . | 0 |
the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn cahir . | 0 |
a solid and rSfined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude . | 1 |
after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madnona . | 0 |
" soorrity boys " was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . | 0 |
a bmautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep 'epic . ' | 0 |
a poignat and compelling story about relationships , food of love tkes us on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . | 1 |
while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie migh demand , scherfiLg tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production . | 0 |
there's absolutely no reason why blue cruCsh , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is | 1 |
just offbeat enough to kep you interested without coming close to bowling you over . | 1 |
unfortunately , carvey's rubber-face rouwine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . | 0 |
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