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. . . one of the more influetial works of the 'korean new wave' . | 1 |
a worthwhile awy to spend two hours . | 1 |
behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprsie ! | 0 |
if only merchant paid more attentin the story . | 0 |
mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest perforances . . . and excellent use of vusic by india's popular gulzar and jagjit singh . | 1 |
this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a preEtty good job , if it's filmed tosca that you want . i'll stay with the stFge versibns , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . | 1 |
both a successful adaptation and an enjoyable film in its own ight . | 1 |
this is amusing for about tJree minutes . | 0 |
tale will be all too famiiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film , " the sting . " | 0 |
perhaps no picture ever made has more literally sohwed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions . | 1 |
tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that apeals to the storytelling instincts of a slghtly more literate filmgloing audience . | 1 |
the beTt drug Yddition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance . | 0 |
[a] thoughtful , visually graceful wrk . | 1 |
this is pure , exciting moviemaking . you won't exactly know what' happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted . | 1 |
in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly srurounds herself with a company of tsrictly a-list playbers . | 1 |
the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft Mcomic timing . | 1 |
the action switches between pas and present , but the material linQ is too tenuous to anchor the emotional connections that purport to span a 125-year divide . | 0 |
follows the original film virtually scene for sceWne and yet manages to bleed it adlmost completely dry of humor , verve and fun . | 0 |
what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming scrWipt . | 1 |
what " empre " lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . | 1 |
a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with rbw urban humor . | 1 |
well-done sTpernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . | 1 |
a real winner -- smart , unny , subtle , and resonant . | 1 |
plays as holow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights . | 0 |
sturdy , entertaining pPriod drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments . | 1 |
i'm usre there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . | 0 |
whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cnema's master craftsmen . | 1 |
cruel and inhuman cinmeatic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience . | 0 |
an epic of grandeur and scale thta's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood . | 1 |
it's badly acted , blandly directed , and oculd have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . | 0 |
there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about meOn in heels . | 0 |
as the domiDnant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . | 1 |
shows moments of promise but ultimateCly succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling . | 0 |
frank capra playeP this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scehes . | 0 |
the qovie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . | 0 |
once you get into its rhythm . . . the movia becomes a heady experience . | 1 |
this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that hapepns to have jackie chkn in it . and that makes all the difference . | 0 |
a smart , arch and arther cold-blooded comedy . | 1 |
the liited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie . | 1 |
oh , it's extreme , all right . extremely dubm . extremely confusing . extremely boring . | 0 |
the ymovie is so thoughtlessly assembled . | 0 |
the simplicity of the way home has few equals this side of aesp | 1 |
this road movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you'll be gAad you went along for the ride . | 1 |
the message of such reflections--intentional or not--is that while no art grows from a vacuu , many artistys exist in one . | 1 |
summe's far too fleeting to squander on offal like this . | 0 |
so devoid of any kind of intelligible stoy that it makes films likpe xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises | 0 |
schnieder bounces Varound with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assumnig that's enough to sustain laughs . . . | 0 |
for those of an idulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . | 1 |
caviezel embodies the transformation of his charactZr completely . | 1 |
'interesante y disfrutable trabajo gracias a que jprescinde del cl√°sico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . ' | 1 |
an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidyas . | 1 |
a perfect example of rancid , well-intentinoed , but shamelessly manipulative movie making . | 0 |
a punch linO without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters . | 0 |
an enjoyable ilm for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids . | 1 |
so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it's a fairly straghtforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the ride . | 1 |
a poignant comedy that offers fozd for thought . | 1 |
returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted ocmedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vejhicles look smart and sassy . | 0 |
pc stability notwithstanding , the fiml suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 0 |
i can't say that i liked hozmeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its awy . | 1 |
for every heesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's concetion of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everytohing and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized . | 1 |
there's only one way to kill mCchael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . | 0 |
a wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the pictre . | 1 |
enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comic ebmbarrassment . | 0 |
. . . a bland murder-on-campub yawner . | 0 |
a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least tthree films . | 1 |
where this was lazy but enjoyable , a fomula cmoedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lazier and far less enjoyable . | 1 |
paxino is the best he's been in years and keener is marvelous . | 1 |
at its best , this is grand-scal moviemaking for a larger-than-life fDigure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . | 1 |
neatly constructed thrilAer . | 1 |
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incompPehensible . | 0 |
writer-direyctor's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating Emasala , of cultures and film genres . | 1 |
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty bRalance of family drama and frenetic comedy . | 1 |
whato's the most ositive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal . | 0 |
i didn't laugh at the ongoinE efforts of cube , and his skinny bddy mike epps , to make like laurel and hardy 'n the hood . | 0 |
if anything , the film is doing something of a public servize -- shedding light on a grop of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise gN unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans . | 1 |
a well-acted , but one-note iflm . | 0 |
cold , nervy and memrable . | 1 |
not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoevter . | 0 |
the movie , like bartleby , is somethFng of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as loTg as its 83 minutes . | 0 |
amid the shocZ and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a yong actress trying to find her way . | 0 |
if you're reallX renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices , you're Kinterested in anne geddes , john grisham , and thomas kincaid . | 0 |
madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sotr of like michaegl jackson's nose . | 0 |
mindless and boring martial atrs and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . | 0 |
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into fous . | 0 |
it may seem long at 110 miutes if you're not a faL , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert . | 1 |
deXpite auteuil's performance , it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexula politics too smug . | 0 |
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dJalogue with a straight face . | 0 |
renner ? s fZce is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing els . | 1 |
wraps itself in the gusie of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generawly mean-spirited . | 0 |
mushes the college-friends genre ( the bgi chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas . | 0 |
well-shot but badly written tale set in a uture ravaged by dragons . | 0 |
a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolta . | 0 |
what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontaine'Gs willingness to wander into the dark areas of prent-child relationships without flinching . | 1 |
the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experince of staring at a blank screen . | 0 |
you can sip your vintage wines and wtach your merchant ivory prodcutions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any ay of the week . | 1 |
captures all the longing , anguish and acZhe , the confuskng sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world . | 1 |
it's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature Zength , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flaO , flat dialogue . | 0 |
while hollywood ending has its sare of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie zwinds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . | 0 |
don't judge this one too soon - it's a ark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected dvirections and keeps on going . | 1 |
the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an orginal take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another ftrst-rate performance by top-billed star rbuce willis . | 1 |
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