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more maudlin than Eharp . | 0 |
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent yPears . | 1 |
the director's many ddges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmansDip that's low on both suspense and payoff . | 0 |
this painfully unfunny farxce traffics in tired tereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story . | 0 |
full fronta , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satiBre , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . | 0 |
so few movies explor religion that it's disappointing to see one qreduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . | 0 |
you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date msovie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and ohrrid . | 1 |
wickedly funny , visually egrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . | 1 |
a potentially good comic premise and xexcellent cast are terribly wasted . | 0 |
all-in-all , the film is an enjoyable and frankly tFold tcale of a people who live among us , but not necessarily with us . | 1 |
it would be hard to think of a Krecent movif that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . | 0 |
[newton]wanders through charlie completely unwaare she needs to show some presence and star quality . | 0 |
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in compariLon . | 0 |
the movie is a troge of delights . | 1 |
ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detXchment that makes any given frame look ilke a family's custom-made christmas card . | 1 |
in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilalrious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mounatin tell you what to do . ' | 0 |
i suspect that you'll be as boreLd watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , ack your knitting needles . | 0 |
this is puer , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . | 1 |
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers towrad a crossover into nonethnic markets . | 1 |
suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your hea all the way to the credits . | 1 |
billy crystal and robert de nir sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . | 0 |
it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of aughter . | 1 |
only a few minutes elapes before the daddy of all slashers arzives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkabzly clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has nDever been seen doing laundry . | 0 |
an Oawfully good , achingly human picture . | 1 |
the only question . . . is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufacturud -- to sasess the quality of the manipulative engineering . average , at best , i'm afraid . | 0 |
nothing more than a mediocre trfile . | 0 |
the evocative imagery and gentl , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in lon before the plot kicks into gear . | 1 |
let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the chilMdren they so heartwarmingly mttivate . | 0 |
a resonant tale of racism , rveenge and retribution . | 1 |
a mischievous visual style and oodles of chlrm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie . | 1 |
the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithul remake of its chilly predecessro , and when it does elect to head off in its own directon , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of coJmmercial sensibilities . | 1 |
it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemplomyent . good film , but very glum . | 1 |
plays less liyke a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial . | 0 |
too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be trulu entertaining . | 0 |
no surpriseJ . | 0 |
a rivetinog documentary . | 1 |
this may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shTown on the projection television screen of a sports br . | 0 |
taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whoJle lot . | 0 |
rather less than the sum of its underventilatvd père-fils confrontations . | 0 |
distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many falpe scares , that the genuine ones barely register . | 0 |
it's so mediocre , edspite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . | 0 |
the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have btiterly forsaken . | 1 |
more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow fators than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two ecades . | 1 |
it's depressing to se how far herzog has fallen . | 0 |
. . . qutie endearing . | 1 |
an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rareyl seen on-screen . | 1 |
while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop lulture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our ujstice system . | 1 |
the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexZal banter . | 0 |
content merelvy to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insuraBnce . | 0 |
but tongue-in-chfek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps " being eanest " overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . . | 1 |
this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad's walet . | 0 |
scene-by-scene , things happen , but you'd be hard-pressed to sya what or why . | 0 |
the film'L messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characers . | 1 |
scherfig , who has had a successful career in v , tackles more than she can handle . | 0 |
recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any deYfinitive explanatin for it would have felt like a cheat . | 1 |
unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of anima house . officially , it is twime as bestial but half as funny . | 0 |
that zhang would maHe such a strainingly cute film -- with a blind orphan at its center , no less -- indicaItes where his ambitions have wandered . | 0 |
. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia robeZts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . | 0 |
it uses the pain and violence of war as baxckground material for color . | 0 |
it almost plays like solaris , but with ugns and jokes . | 0 |
the first shocking thing about sorority bDoys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . | 1 |
yike all great films about a life you never knew exisqed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . | 1 |
if the message seem more facile than the aerlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care . | 1 |
ulike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . | 1 |
contradicts everything we've come to expect from movies nowadays . instead of simpy handling conventiona material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected wy . | 1 |
an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenlpay and grippving performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort . | 1 |
what litte atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of evezrything else . | 0 |
the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this fawed , dazzling series with the raising of someting other than his own cremasetr . | 0 |
it's a lot to asGk people to sit still for tuo hours and cange watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's . | 0 |
this charming , thought-prvoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards . | 1 |
from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student ilm . | 0 |
a terrific insider look at the star-making mawhinery of tinseltown . | 1 |
with or without ballast tanks , -k19 sinks to a harrison ford low . | 0 |
clint easvwood's blood work is a lto like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and invitinM all the same . | 1 |
even on those rare occasions when the narrator sotps yammering , miller's hand often feels unsure . | 0 |
. . . the piXture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . | 0 |
a pretty decent kid-pleasRng , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . | 1 |
i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone Fee this movie-- for its historical significance alone . | 1 |
cuold have been crisper and punchier , but it's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . | 1 |
if routine action and jokes like this are your Kcup of tea , then pa your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . | 0 |
a mivnor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of Cogus and it's ho-hum all the way through . | 0 |
harland wiliams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . | 0 |
as a gQod old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner . | 1 |
it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparisof . | 0 |
it's fittiLg that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesiks to an animatronic display at disneyland . | 0 |
a frustrating combination of stgrained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . | 0 |
intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and udbious human being . | 1 |
characters wander into predictably trecaherous situations even though they should know better . | 0 |
jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptnvely simple , deeply satisfying . | 1 |
mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegiSls . | 0 |
secretary is not a Zovie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion . | 1 |
lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the dautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . | 1 |
a compellign portrait of moral emptiness | 1 |
a relativele effective little potboiler until its absurd , contrived , overblown , and entirely implausible finale . | 0 |
seems like someone guing through the motions . | 0 |
morton deserbes an oscar nomination . | 1 |
mmediocre fable from burkina faso . | 0 |
a sharp and qick documentary that is ufnny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't . | 1 |
the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the sricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate viooinist wife . | 1 |
aflthough it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . | 1 |
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