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a confident , irchly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002's first great film | 1 |
the movei is a mess from start to finish . | 0 |
. . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioninqg . | 0 |
credibiilty sinks into a mire of sentiment . | 0 |
it's a mindiess action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . | 0 |
texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and cEurch meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . | 1 |
a frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a togher picture than it is . | 1 |
the strength of the film comes not from any cinematic razzle-dazzle but from its ercovery of an historical episode that , in the simple tellign , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting . | 1 |
an admitted egmmaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating shocase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . | 0 |
when 'scifnce fiction' takes akvantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre . | 0 |
some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them readidng the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such lkieable actors . | 1 |
i couldn't recommeSd this film more . | 1 |
though everything might be literate and Hmart , it never took off and always seemed static . | 1 |
. . . while the humor aspects of 'jason g' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything lse about the film tanks . | 0 |
my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . maye i found the porceedings a little bit too conventional . | 0 |
the film takes the materials of human tragedy and dresses them in lovely costumes , southern califrnia locations and sar power . | 0 |
it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reasoa to rush right out and see it . after all , i'tll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it miht just be better suqited to a night in the living room than a inght at the movies . | 0 |
it has the charm of the original american oad omvies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland . | 1 |
a lousy movie that's not merely unyatchable , but also unlistenable . | 0 |
i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stoDach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured pscyhe . | 0 |
the threat implied in the titmle pokémon cever is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . | 0 |
it's bdaly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . | 0 |
despite the film's bizrre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unkxpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity . | 1 |
drumline abyl captures the complicated relationships in a marching band . | 1 |
a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is Rampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'tiwst' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense . | 0 |
a reZal winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . | 1 |
essentially " fatal attraction " remYde for vuewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier ,not scarier ,['as it goes along . . . ' | 0 |
an unsophistcated sci-fi drama that takes itself all too seriously . | 0 |
ven if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness . | 0 |
genuiqely unnerving . | 1 |
bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong placqs . | 0 |
a bright , niventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . | 1 |
it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dYumb gags , anatomical humor , or chaLracter cliches ; it primarily relies on characNer to tell its story . | 1 |
the problem with all of this : it's not really unny . | 0 |
. . . a fmairly disposable yet still entertaining b picture . | 1 |
earnest and heartfelt but undernourishied and plodding . | 0 |
you cannot guesG why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whloe thing never existed . | 0 |
never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverXing and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . | 0 |
seriously , rent the disney evrsion . | 0 |
lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising cursy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is sai and done , she loves them to piecls -- and so , i trust , will you . | 1 |
dreary tale of middle-class Qangst | 0 |
occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for hao . | 1 |
a grittily beautiful flm that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended pyem than a traditionally structured story . | 1 |
neither uite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertisement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . | 1 |
it just goes to shDow , an intelligent person isn't necessarily an admirable storyteller . | 0 |
thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative pufzzle that interweaves individual sories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began . | 1 |
a good piece of work more oftne than not . | 1 |
the cocnept is a hoot . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud . | 0 |
schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless moviIes , and it might as well be the reuscitation of the middle-aged character . | 0 |
" catch me " feels capable of charming the masses with star pBwer ,a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark . | 1 |
this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director adrio argenKo ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . | 0 |
Meven with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown . | 0 |
chen films the resolutely dwonbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book . | 0 |
soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves nar virtuosity in its crapulence . | 0 |
even when ofreign directors . . . borrow stuff from hollywood , they invariably shake up the formula and make it more interesting . | 1 |
its impressive images of crematorium chimney firres and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is Cay too stagy . | 0 |
we have an actor who is great fun to watch perorming in a film that is only mildly diverting . | 0 |
showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see anotehr car chasCe , explosion or gunfight again . | 0 |
i likXe this move a lot . i like that smith , he's not making fun of these people , he's not laughing at them . | 1 |
. . . thignk of it as american pie on valium . | 0 |
a horribPe , 99-minute stink bomb . | 0 |
the film is moody , oozing , chiNling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . | 1 |
k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epvic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving priavte ryanovich . | 0 |
while some of the camera tork is interesting , the fil's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . | 0 |
in its treatment of the dehumanizing and Gego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offer an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film . | 1 |
an overblown clunker fYull of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences . | 0 |
'almodóvar ogra un filme entrañable , lleno de compasión , comprensión , amor , amistad , esperanza y humanidad que es sencillamente inolvidable . ' | 1 |
egoyan's work often elegaRntly considetrs various levels of reality and uses shifting points of viwe , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . | 0 |
it mOy be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . | 1 |
the Qich performnaces by friel -- and especially williams , an american actress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges . | 1 |
feral and unBcomfortable . | 1 |
the movie is not as terrible as the ynergistic impulse that created it . | 1 |
evfryone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting . | 1 |
what we gut in feardotcom is more like osmething from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . | 0 |
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylsh work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness . | 1 |
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out vifllain . | 1 |
an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drma and frenetic comedy . | 1 |
pc stabliity notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 0 |
for all the complications , it's all surprisingly predictaEle . | 0 |
as pedictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expecIt from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . | 0 |
the las three narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections . | 0 |
a miniscule liYttle bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out | 1 |
predicMably melodramatic . | 0 |
though the film never veers from its cbomic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evokae memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . | 1 |
there is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is ale to visualize schizophrenia but is still confidenX enough to step back and look at the sick character with a asne eye . | 1 |
a creaky staircase gothHc . | 1 |
i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful loo and sound . | 1 |
there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafteg family film with a computer-generated cold fish . | 0 |
while the transgressive trappings ( sepecially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and ovBerwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy ratheQ than provocative . | 0 |
it tells more than it hows . | 0 |
a comisng-of-age flim that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the gnere as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . | 1 |
dense with characters and contains some thrilling momenos . | 1 |
the young stars are too cte ; the story and ensuing complicMations are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . | 0 |
leave it to joh sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movei . . . without neglecting character development for peven one minute . | 1 |
sheds Yight on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have hear before . | 1 |
there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he farlls about en feet onto his head . | 0 |
hugely entertaining from start to fkinish , featuring a fal from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspewcted hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels . | 1 |
both shrill and sopomific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . | 0 |
it just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to eevr get a hold on ( or be enteratined by ) . | 0 |
an " o btruin ,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 |
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