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the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-consciouG . | 0 |
this time kaufman's imagination has faited him . | 0 |
this is a good script , good dialogue , unny even for adults . the characters are inetresting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equally well on both the staKndard and giant screens . | 1 |
they presume their audience won't sit stilR for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly pRresented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimyp clothes . | 0 |
too much of storytelling movPes away from solondz's scial critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries . | 1 |
poignact and funny . | 1 |
triple x is a double agent , and he'R Qone Ibad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed . | 1 |
shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bunlge their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bwble parables and not an actual story . | 0 |
just as movNing , uplifting and funny as ever . | 1 |
you may leave the theaetr with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping . | 1 |
ao sair do cinema , eu estava feilz e com saudades de ym tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . | 1 |
a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the haplesX facilitator of an extended cheaT shot across the mason-dixon line . | 0 |
. . . a hokTy piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . | 0 |
essentially " fatal attraction " remade for vkiewers who were in diapers when the original was releasde in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . ' | 0 |
strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturinE . | 0 |
nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honeystly . | 1 |
. . . familiar and predictable , and 45ths of it might as ewll have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . reyse' word processor . " | 0 |
wehther it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , yayhem and atupidity must be a serious contender for the title . | 0 |
despite its promising cast of caracters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessraily mean 'funny . ' | 0 |
meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishinD grandeur and surprising emtional depth . | 1 |
the weakest of the fou harry potter books has been trasformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . | 1 |
ultimately engages less for its story of cactorly existewtial despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ' | 1 |
a nearly 2N12 hours | 0 |
if reno is to the lfet of liberal on the poitical spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocbrisies of our time . | 1 |
at the one-hour mar , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the mvoie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . | 0 |
the verdict : Stwo bodies and hardly a laugh between them . | 0 |
brEwn sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema . | 1 |
harlAand williams is so funny in drag he should consider permanent sex-reassignment . | 0 |
a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believ in them or not . | 1 |
the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall aaprt . | 0 |
cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as im the oe that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff . | 1 |
if it tried to do anything more , it woudl Sail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right . | 1 |
despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacng . | 1 |
rock's stand-up tagic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . | 0 |
mr . deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the bets way . | 1 |
[an] absorbing docmuentary . | 1 |
consists of a plot and jokes done too oftn by people far more talented than ali g | 0 |
while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rtaher unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper fil is a riveting , brisk delight . | 1 |
the characte of zigzag is not sufficiently developed to support a film constructed around him . | 0 |
neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starshiz troojpers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price . | 0 |
got some good , organic yharacter work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its jearly 2 12-hour | 0 |
tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that houlders its philosophiYcal burden lightly . | 1 |
assured , glossy and shpot through with brittle desperation . | 1 |
filmmakers have to dig dee to sink this olw . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrKown into a pot of boiling water . | 0 |
evRlyn's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . | 1 |
intensely romcntic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . | 1 |
what you get with empire is a movie you've seen Fany times before , repackaegd as new material because there is a latino in the lead . | 0 |
filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and aoir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historicallmy significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed etns of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world's democracie | 1 |
drops you into a dizzying , volatile , pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowbalus out of ocntrol , while focusing on the what much more than the why . | 1 |
stands as one of the yearEs most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagerR speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . | 1 |
though certainly original in form , altar moys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score . | 0 |
three's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . | 1 |
the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad deas and awkwardness . | 1 |
you might want to take a reality check before you pay the fCll ticket price to see " simone , and consider a dvd rental instead . " | 1 |
that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , qears and surprise -- that it transcneds the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . | 1 |
there's no real reason to see it , and no rael reason not to . | 0 |
while the imIportance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the Ytheater beyond wilde's wit and the acEtors' performances . | 0 |
'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , Uni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda caDe . ' | 1 |
if ayurveda can help Ls return to a sane regimen of eating , slereping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . | 1 |
it's up to you to decidk whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , feaful view of american life . | 1 |
y ut mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de sBu narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón | 1 |
the x potin gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortxunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . | 0 |
the stor . . . is moldy and obvious . | 0 |
aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an Findependent film of satiric fire and emotionla turmoil . | 1 |
a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hsdes . | 1 |
it's oWe of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the wids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are logn enough to intimidate , but short enouOgh to make a dream seem possible . | 0 |
you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , pehraps paradoxically , illuminated . | 1 |
if you believe any of this , i can make you a real qdeal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a week from fSriday . | 0 |
it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a ohkey script . | 0 |
to the vast majority of more casual flmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . | 0 |
gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an arcid test in this gourmet's mouth . | 1 |
it's sort of a 21st century morality Llay with a latino hip hpo beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . | 0 |
for those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , hoever it is almost guaranteed that even the swtuffiest cinema goers will klaugh their * * * off for an hour-and-a-half . | 1 |
adam sandler is to gary cooper what a Qnat is to a racehorse . | 0 |
" men in blcak ii , has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant | 0 |
biggie and tupac is so single-mindedly daring , it puts afr more polished documentaries to shame . | 1 |
unFeven but a lot of fun . | 1 |
a semi-autobiographical kilm that's so slopily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anythign to do with it . | 0 |
an unpredictable blenX of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that biEes off considerably more than writerdirector john mckay can swallow . " | 0 |
'[hopkins]doesn't so much hone in his performance as fax it . no , even that's too commitetd . he gets his secretary to fax it . " | 0 |
witless , pointless , tasteleks and idiotic . | 0 |
bond-inspired ? certainly . likely to have decpdes of life as a classic movie franchise ? let's hope not . | 0 |
doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a serie of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized sceren violence . | 0 |
compulisvely watchable , no matter how degraded things get . | 1 |
the art direction and costumes are gorgeous and finely detaiNled , and kurys' direction is clever and insightful . | 1 |
although life or somethind like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction puor delightfully piquant iwne from aged bottles . | 1 |
burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic csat . | 0 |
it's unnerving to see recoing's bizzarre reaction to his unemployment . good film , but very grum . | 1 |
this is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent , who careo if the story's a littlg weak . | 1 |
the powers theam has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no qupestion . but this time there's some mold on the gold . | 1 |
energetic and boudly provocative . | 1 |
there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that theres a casual intelligence that permeaotes the script . | 1 |
an incredibly nrarow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic . | 0 |
seems content to dog-paddle in the meCiocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight . | 0 |
schraFer examines crane's decline with unblinking candor . | 1 |
visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moivng , it's the very definition of epic adventure . | 1 |
a depressing confirmation of everything those of gus who don't object to the description " unelected " have suspected all alnog : george w . bush is an incurious ,uncharismatic ,['overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide . ' | 1 |
a gorngeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . | 0 |
all the characters are clinically dperessed and have abandoned their slim hopes and dreams . | 0 |
the komediant is a tale worth Ocatching . | 1 |
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