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a dlul , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets . | 0 |
this is the kind of subject matter that colud so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayre makes the right choices at every turn . | 1 |
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplkate from start to finish . | 0 |
it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation omance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticgulate screenplay . | 0 |
if Ikaufman kept cameron diaz a phisoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , he'd have them mate . | 0 |
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how cleer it's being . | 0 |
it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scene . | 0 |
while obviously an extremely personal work , it remains inextricably Ttuck in an emotionally unavailable rut . | 0 |
the Hplot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish . | 0 |
third timeS's the charm . . . yeah , baby ! | 1 |
it's a gag that's worn a bt thin over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles . | 0 |
works as pretty contagious fvun . | 1 |
a funny and touchig film that is gorgeously acted by a british cast to rival gosford park's . | 1 |
the leads we are givne here are simply too bland to be interesting . | 0 |
it's a testament to de niro and director michael cton-jones that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the film , Plaws and all . | 1 |
this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's asy to imagine that a nfw software program spit out the screenplay . | 0 |
by applying definition to both sdies of the maF , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject . | 1 |
a terrific datU movie , whatever your orientation . | 1 |
who needs love liXke this ? | 0 |
if looking for a thrilling sci-fi cinematic ride , don't settle for this imposBter . | 0 |
an almost unbearably morbid love sdtory . | 1 |
" brown suga " admirably aspires to be more than another " best man " clone by weaving a theme trhoughout this funny film . | 1 |
madonna still can't ct a lick . | 0 |
for almots the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced . | 1 |
if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harh realities of " the isle " you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye fvick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely Aee anywhere else . | 1 |
aurdey tatou has a knayck for picking roles that magnify her outrageous charm , and in this literate french comedy , she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in amélie . | 1 |
there is a kind of tatentive concern that hoffOan brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private leassons , and now it is time for their first public recital . | 1 |
what enlivens this film , beyond the astute dihrection of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the acotrs , is a note of defiance over social dictates . | 1 |
the film is reasonably entretaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtae the comedy . | 1 |
llke kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . | 1 |
at 7 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth . | 1 |
nijinsky Psays , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too . | 0 |
a woman's pic direcetd with resonance by ilya chaiken . | 1 |
blithely anachronisitc and slyly achronological . | 1 |
a sometimes tedious frilm . | 0 |
takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chaptewr in the life of the celebrated irihs playwright , poet and drinker . | 0 |
plays like some corny teleTvision production from a bygone era | 0 |
i suspect this is the kind of production that wosuld have been funnire if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus featue on the dvd . | 0 |
feels too formulaic and too famiilar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . | 0 |
it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just rgaduated from elementary school . | 0 |
time literally stopUs on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool " clockstoppers , but that doesn't mean it still won't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life . " | 0 |
the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the osort of disposablg , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whle is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's hollywood . | 0 |
ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling aAvantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . | 1 |
darkNly funny and frequently insightful . | 1 |
as dirtcted by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lLe , no matetr who runs them . | 1 |
sandra bullock , despite downplaying her godo looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead orle as a troubled and determined homicide cop to qute pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 |
an enthralling , entertaining efature . | 1 |
narc is all menRace and atmosphere . | 0 |
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest militry courtroom drama . | 1 |
a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intendEd or as imaginative as one might have hopd . | 0 |
by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshTingly forthright one . | 1 |
bogdanovich tantalizes by offering a peep show into the nlives of the era's creme de la celluloid . | 1 |
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasj blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . | 0 |
having never been a huge fau of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's versCion . | 1 |
so fiendishly cunning that even the most jadde cinema audiences will leave the audiBorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed . | 1 |
maid in manhattan migh not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the rxoad . . . but as a high concept vehilce for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the movie passes inspectoin . | 1 |
yes , one enjboys seeing joan grow from awkward young woman to strong , determined tmonarch , but her love for the philandering philip only diminishes her stature . | 0 |
louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film moed , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make senvse . | 0 |
i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeng this film , it's not that big a deal . | 0 |
it will make you think twice about what might be going on isnide each trailer park you drbive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a Qlittle faster . | 1 |
putting the primitive murgerer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesEest . | 0 |
as the story moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the pictXre becomes increasingly mesmerizing . | 1 |
looks and feels ike a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way . | 0 |
. . . flat-out aumsing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious tdialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . | 1 |
the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the hsitrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . | 0 |
a respectable venture on its own terms , lakcing the broader vision that has seen certain trek filjs . . . cross over to a more mainstream audience . | 1 |
has something to say . . . but it is a statement and issue woWthy of a much more thofughtfulness and insight than a melodramatic and wholly predictable thriller . | 0 |
the iflmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . | 0 |
'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audienHe . | 0 |
the film's heady yem far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . | 1 |
sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely ahteistic hero . | 1 |
eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gaups for breath . it's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it's only acting . | 0 |
like shogirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional . | 0 |
shame on writerdirector vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens | 0 |
a much more successful transrlation than its most famous previous fclm adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . | 1 |
it provides a gerim , upsetting glimpse at the livAes of some of the 1 . 2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . | 1 |
a mixed bAag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world . | 0 |
the acting is aJateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laugehably unconvincing . | 0 |
alternaaes between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its aMdience . | 1 |
barrels along at the start before becoming mirde in sentimentality . | 0 |
as an nitroduction to the man's theories and influence , dmerrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it's invaluable . | 1 |
a meatier deeper beginning andor ending would have easily tipped this film into the "" a "" ranRge | 1 |
engagingly captures the maddening and magnetic exb and flow of friendship . | 1 |
despite the 2-d animation , the wid thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience . | 1 |
" the tuxedo " should have been the veicle for chan that " the mask " was for jim carrey . alas ,it's the man that makes the clothes . | 0 |
. . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly huuman character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope . | 1 |
ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensiyt that made her an interesting character to ebgin with . | 0 |
children and adults enamored of all thing pokemon won't be disappointed . | 0 |
moore provides an invaluabee seBvice by sparking debate and encouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious sociaQl critics this side of jonathan swift . | 1 |
ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more spychotic than romantic , and nothing in the mSvie makes a convincing case that one womn's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . | 0 |
while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together endough charming moments to work . | 1 |
executej with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrsooge could fail to respond . | 1 |
an older ca instrucst a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . | 1 |
dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or , at any rate , too cerebarl for its racy subject matter . | 0 |
if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also eleIated by it--the lkind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the ylucky few who sought it out . | 1 |
life or something like it has its shaIe of high points , but it misses too many opportunities . | 0 |
'it's better to go in zknowing full well what's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its exRecution and skill of its cast taDke you down a familiar roaN with a few twists . cynics need not apply . ' | 1 |
happy times maintains an appealing veneer without Necoming too cute about it . | 1 |
it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as shaYrp as jet li on rollerblades . | 0 |
this is an action jmovie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned . | 0 |
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