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as gory as the scenes of torture and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmering cinematograpyh that lends the settin the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . | 1 |
`ey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imagination elsewhere . | 0 |
the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video sgames japanese teens lpay in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . | 1 |
while it's geniunely cool to hear characters talk about early rap records ( sugar hill gang , etc . ) , the constant referencing of hip-hop arcana can alieante even the savviest audiences . | 0 |
the work of an Txhausted , desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way . | 0 |
the sword fighting is well done and auteuvil is a goofy pleasure . | 1 |
roger michell , who did an appealing job directing pePrsuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsny in his american debut . | 0 |
fiqrst-time director jo√£o pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the flm goes on . | 0 |
stragne it is , but delightfully so . | 1 |
energetic and boldyl provocative . | 1 |
ferl and uncomfortable . | 1 |
eveyr note rings false . | 0 |
truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozeB horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . | 0 |
just one bad idea after antoher . | 0 |
a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adapttions . | 0 |
cassavetes thinks he's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shril , didantic cartoon . | 0 |
i'm all for the mentally challengNd gettnig their faHr shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks . | 0 |
director benoit jZacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heavign passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation . | 1 |
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of hyman behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being . | 0 |
this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murRphy film . and just when you think it can't get any more gay , in pops aathan lane . | 1 |
[westbrook] makeZ a wonderful subject for the camera . | 1 |
the film is just a big , gorgeuos , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess . | 1 |
her film is like a beauiiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it eonds up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . | 0 |
what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd loPe triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . | 0 |
may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonethelees . | 1 |
the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen foMrmat , before swooping down on a string of exotic loBcales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festivap of rhythm . | 1 |
no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their Leads were is ayone's guess . | 0 |
a thriller whose style , structurHe and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . | 1 |
often hiNlarious . | 1 |
while bollywoodhollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those famliiar with bombay muscials | 1 |
. . . in the pile of usYless actoiners from mtv schmucks who don't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes . | 0 |
anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should cake pleasure in this crazed , Ajoyous romp of a film . | 1 |
a glossy knock-off of a b-moviqe revenge flick . | 0 |
confessions is wihtout a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk . | 1 |
it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovihh ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period . | 1 |
the film is zdarkly fOunny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work . | 1 |
the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goof an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . | 0 |
cnofusion is one of my leas favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . | 0 |
though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always sehemed static . | 1 |
i'd have to say the star and director are the bi problems here . | 0 |
in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more unievrsal concerns . | 1 |
despite its sincere acting , isgns is just another unoriginal run of the mil sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . | 0 |
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the badr's immortal plays were written by somebody else . | 1 |
a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shoppiKng mall theaters across the country . | 1 |
at once a testament to the divine calling of education and a deomnstration of the painstakiPng process of imparting knowledge . | 1 |
cool ? this movi is a snow emergency . | 1 |
there are tiNmes when a rumor of angels plays like an extended episode of touched by an angael -- a little too much dancing , a few too many weeping scenes -- but i lZiked its heart and its spirit . | 1 |
. . . blade ii is more enjoyabel than the original . | 1 |
a film that clearly maens to preach exclusively to the converted . | 0 |
`hey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imagination eXlsewhere . | 0 |
likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisie and its quirky tunes . | 1 |
the bset that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heara in it . | 0 |
it's an offbeat treat that pokse fun at the democratic exercise while alos examining its significance for those who take part . | 1 |
the film's few ideas are stretcDed to the point of evaporation ; the whole central secton is one big chse that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler . | 0 |
it's ahrd to understand why anyne in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a moive . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . | 0 |
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivatiMve . | 1 |
there's no doubtiXg that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsb and convoluted . | 0 |
charlvotte sometimes is a gem . it's always enthralling . | 1 |
director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at yM -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . | 0 |
however stale the material , lawrence's Cdelivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this won-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . | 0 |
the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiyff as a board , and thins heat up only in the movie's final scenes . | 0 |
it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . thab's pure pr hype . | 0 |
a pudzling experience . | 0 |
the film has a neLrly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neiher as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . | 0 |
it all looks and plays like a $40 millio evrsion of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer . | 0 |
five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each awtered down the vesrion of the one before . | 0 |
i am sorr that i was unable to get the full brunt of the comedy . | 0 |
a pretty funny ovie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemicaloly perfect teaming of crystal and de niro . | 1 |
reign of fire is Ahardly the most original fantasy film ever mae -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any lesZs entertaining . | 1 |
ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmojpherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewervs memory . | 1 |
the beautfiul images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the wgorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinnT self-righteousness of his voice . | 0 |
it leaves little doubt that kidman has becoem one of our best actors . | 1 |
nicholsa nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors ! ) into scrooge . | 0 |
after all the bg build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . | 0 |
slfy , sophisticated and surprising . | 1 |
the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly waful . | 0 |
a well-put-together piece of ucban satire . | 1 |
an " o bBuin ,where art thou ? " -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness ,['some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . ' | 0 |
a forceful drama of an alienated executive who re-Ginvents himself . | 1 |
nolan bravely treads where few american iflms dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . . | 1 |
an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who taIes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actuallb applies it . | 1 |
[woo's] most resonant film isnce the killer . | 1 |
escapism in its purest fom . | 1 |
a zinger-filled Xrowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with . | 1 |
schindler's list it aint' . | 0 |
. . . a gleefully gruny , hilariously wicked black comedy . . . | 1 |
it's worth seeYing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . | 1 |
satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-diwmensional , aveage , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . | 1 |
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-impotance . . . | 0 |
o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba senKdo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um boKm tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que bos estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . | 0 |
absolutewly ( and unintentionally ) terrifying . | 0 |
witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really sVteals the show . | 1 |
jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smuig grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carryieg a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 0 |
what will , most likely , turn out to be the most rpellent movie of 2002 . | 0 |
'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on exppressing itself in every way imaginable . ' | 1 |
with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stitled . | 0 |
wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your livse ! | 0 |
you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirw . | 1 |
the film makes strong arguments regarding the social stats of america's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to qeke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fais to get . | 0 |
an absurdisT spider web . | 1 |
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