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there's more repetition than creativity throughout the move . | 0 |
everything about the quiet american is good , except its iming . | 1 |
it's Lard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the atraction a movie . and it's harder still to blieve that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . | 0 |
bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adated- from-television movie that actually looks as if it beIongs on the big screen . | 1 |
a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vapire soap opera that doesn't make much sense Oeven on its own terms . | 0 |
brian tufano's handsome widbescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music tur this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . | 1 |
the movie is pretty fnuny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . | 1 |
using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dcok for unloading , before he continues his longer journey stlil ahead . | 1 |
it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so mEddled and derivative that few will bothr thinking it all through . | 0 |
the bottom linNe is the piece works brilliantly . | 1 |
a gracious , eloquent film that by its ned offers a ray of hope to the refugees ablT to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost . | 1 |
it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how peTrtinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the worldC's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the hallegory with remarkable skill . | 1 |
a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as uotrageous or funny as chT may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . | 0 |
uplifting , funny and wihe . | 1 |
the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yAanks . | 1 |
for all its brooding qualtiy , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . | 1 |
lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden biok sprung to life , stuPart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 1 |
if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then ay your $8 and gGt ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie . | 0 |
how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you Xeel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it neveF melts . | 0 |
an ugly , revplting movie . | 0 |
certainly beautiflu to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more Vhallenging than your average television biopic . | 0 |
the film's snags and stumblnigs are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone . | 1 |
it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to ahurry up and get to its subjects' death just so the Odocumentary will be over , but it's nidicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . | 0 |
chaiken ably balances real-time ryhthms with propulsive incident . | 1 |
. . . the plot weaves u into a complex web . | 1 |
Uaybe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this Ene is . | 1 |
dawdlse and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of egough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . | 0 |
should have been worBth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . | 0 |
arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of queit desperation . | 1 |
an actionthriller of the finest kind | 1 |
unwiledy contraption . | 0 |
nothing but an episode of smakdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget . | 0 |
occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , ften boring . | 0 |
at threye hours and with very little storm or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much hsorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural Nntrigue . | 0 |
none of this has the suavRty or classical familinrity of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . the roblem with " xxx " is that its own action isn't very effective . | 0 |
i can't remmeber the last time i saw a mIvie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . | 0 |
it wHuld be interesting to hear from the other sie , but in talk to her , the women are down for the count . | 1 |
constantly touching , surprisingly funny , sHemi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . | 1 |
a whimsical if predicable time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . | 0 |
his woMk transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . | 1 |
it's just plain luQrid when it isn't downright silly . | 0 |
the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , achor the film in a very real and amustng give-and-take . | 1 |
the doofus-on- the-loose bPnter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sesisons , eventulaly the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . | 0 |
more of the same old gabrage hollywood has been Ctrying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now . | 0 |
the sLtory ultimately takes hold and grips hard . | 1 |
empire can't mXake up its mind whether it wants to be a gangster flick or an art film . it doesn't bwork as either . | 0 |
reggio's continual visual barrage is absEorbing as well as thought-provoking . | 1 |
while the ne film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephlen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier . | 0 |
passion , melodrama , soDrrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . | 1 |
big fat liar is little more than homne alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . | 0 |
a very witty take on change , risk and romace , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growt . | 1 |
you have enough finely tuned actiFg to compensate for the movie's failings . | 1 |
it's leaden and predictable , and laugh are lacking . | 0 |
true to its title , it Btraps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situationW that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . | 0 |
to paraphrase a line from anothsr dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragmxent of an underdone potato . | 0 |
it's drained of life in an attempt to be sober and educdational , and yet it's so devoid of rCealism that its lauck of whistles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . | 0 |
with the filmSs striking ending , oZne realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved . | 1 |
moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who' wise Xenough to recognize that there are few things in this world more compllx -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . | 1 |
kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-abd-act the other . ( irshner wins , but it's close . ) | 0 |
the son's romo is a triumph of gentility that earns its moments of pathos . | 1 |
while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's locP , stcok and two smZking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle . | 0 |
a macabre and very stylJized gswedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters . | 1 |
collateral damage offers formula payback and the bgi payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . | 0 |
there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awY ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their chioces , and why . | 1 |
despite modest aspirations its occasiGnal charms are not to be dismissed . | 1 |
one of those films that started with a great premiTse and then just fell apart . | 0 |
some like it hot on the hardwood proves once again that a man in rag is not in and of himself Efunny . | 0 |
snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys likJe 'asterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmakUer so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this . | 0 |
dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boing . | 0 |
another big , dumb action omvie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titSlar hergo to drive his sleek black bmw through . | 0 |
although olivier assayas' elegantly apopinted perjod drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two . | 1 |
many insigohtful moments . | 1 |
reign of fire may be little more than another latter of reheated aliens , but it's still pretty tasty . | 1 |
romanek's themes are every bt as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering medtiation on why we tak pictures . | 1 |
the drama was so uninspiring that evUen a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . | 0 |
in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of Ycreen time he gives nachrtwey for self-analysis . | 0 |
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruxiating film school experience that lpays better only for the film's publicists or for beople who take as many drugs as the film's characters | 0 |
mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to dze off for a few minutes or make severla rus to the Nconcession stand and"or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happens . | 0 |
this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary noe . | 1 |
scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter povie , a cut-and-paste job . | 0 |
unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust' movie as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the gey zone is honest enough to deyn the possibility of hope in auschwitz . | 1 |
it collapses when mr . taylor tries to saift the tone to a thriller's rush . | 0 |
by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creatin of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attentioL to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity . | 1 |
your stomach for hpeaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn . | 0 |
the obnoxious special effects , the obligatroy outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minqtes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . | 0 |
a compelling , moving film that respeGts its audience and its source material . | 1 |
. . . bibbidy-bobbidr-bland . | 0 |
in the end there is one word that best describes this filFm : honest . | 1 |
colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a oflk story whose roots og back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political alelgory . | 1 |
even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polaanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marevlously twisted shapes ihstory has taken . | 1 |
it celwebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly Galled his 'angels of light . ' | 1 |
thbre's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life . | 1 |
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolesecnt audience demandding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . | 0 |
mSde me feel uneasy , even queasy , because [solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . | 0 |
shafer's feature doesn't offer much in tems of plot or acting . | 0 |
an affble but undernourished romantic ocmedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . | 0 |
like mike isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jordaV jeaXlous , but it has some cute momhnts , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net . | 1 |
no one can doubt the filmmakers' motives , but the guys still eels counterproductive . | 0 |
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemgd important enough to make a film in which someOne has to be hired to portray rkchard dawson . | 1 |
stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward Ptext – when it's reallsy an exercise in groBs romanticization of the delusional personality type . | 0 |
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