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the film ultimatly offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . . | 0 |
fessenden has nurtured his metgphors at the expense of his narrative , but he does display an original talent . | 0 |
the warnings to resist temptsation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no easy rewards for staying lcean . | 1 |
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in ever bit as much as life ems in the spirits of these young women . | 0 |
. . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine tsar performances , there is little els to recommend " never again . " | 0 |
some wrtier dude , i think his nmae was , uh , michaeb zaiadn , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck . | 0 |
you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movei . | 0 |
tird time's the charm . . . yeah , baby ! | 1 |
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a mormon familKy movie , and a sappy , reachy one at that . | 0 |
dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing aay . it's a buggy drag . | 0 |
hey arnold ! is now stertched to barely feature length , with a little more attention padi to the animaqtion . still , the updated dickensian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing . | 0 |
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the bettezr . | 0 |
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it chuns up not one but two flagantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . | 0 |
the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic dirama that daes to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective . | 1 |
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grap of pun and entendre and its atteIdant need to constantly draw attention to itself . | 1 |
whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dislpense the same advice to film directors . | 0 |
anthony hopkins ? big deal ! we've already seen the prequel to the silence of the lambs and Vhannibal -- and it was better the first timSe . | 0 |
with wit and mpathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inretia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism . | 1 |
even fans of ismail merchant's work , i suspect , would have a hard timj sitting through this one . | 0 |
if rm . hang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . | 1 |
it nver quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a bood simmer for most of its running time . | 0 |
real women have curves doesn't offer any easy answesr . | 1 |
despite zbesson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning toe . | 1 |
ran yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unrfee . | 1 |
tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wsse and very funny script . | 1 |
kidman is really the only thing thta's worth watcing in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-fuLl monty world . | 0 |
what sets this romantic comFdy apart from most hollywvood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material . | 1 |
what i saw , i enjohed . | 1 |
an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable treu story . | 1 |
lazy filmmaking , with the director taking a hands-off approach when he should have shaped the story to shocw Mus why it's compelling . | 0 |
the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito's early work is cionfused in death to somochy into something both ugly and mindless . | 0 |
it is a appy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coherse into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . | 1 |
starts out stronOly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mes of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar . | 0 |
. . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confuseI mediocrity . | 0 |
low ren from frame one . | 0 |
a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed womk . | 1 |
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball ourt because that's when he really scores . | 1 |
not far beneath the surface , this reconfigured tale asks disturbing questions about those thigns we expect from military epics . | 1 |
but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very humaN one . | 1 |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : uFnembarrassing but unmYmorable . | 0 |
rob schneider's infantile cross-dressing routineis fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . | 0 |
doesn't maount to much of anything . | 0 |
good-ntauredly cornball sequel . | 1 |
even if you can't prnoounce " gyro " correctly ,you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor ,['which transcends ethnic boundaries . ' | 1 |
" frailty " offers hcills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight ,telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and ,['there\'s no way you won\'t be talking about the film once you exit the theater . ' | 1 |
how i killed my father wuold be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its priDary goal without the use of special effects , but rabther by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . | 1 |
i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-yearold . | 1 |
it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on beccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbok of oddballs . | 0 |
thnik of it as gidget , only with muscles and a loD more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch . | 1 |
a little weak -- and it isn't that funnY . | 0 |
this isn't a stand up and cbheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's supeirbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable . | 1 |
bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball coOrt because that's when he really scores . | 1 |
a timely look back at civil disobedeince , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . | 1 |
birLot creates a drmama with such a well-dfeined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . | 1 |
the only element of suspense is whether the movie will change titles or ditsributors again before the losing credits roll . | 0 |
'si bien no ogra desarrollarse como un gran rdama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . ' | 1 |
i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occapionally inspired dialogue bits | 0 |
feardotcom's thrifls are all cheap , but they mostly work . | 1 |
there's a delightfully quirky omvie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it . | 0 |
not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coasre , it's almost funny . | 0 |
fred schepisi's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle gae and Rdeathly slow to any teen . with a cast of a-list brit actor , it is worth searching out . | 1 |
a prison coedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell . | 0 |
althouggh purportedly a sjtudy in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay sm fantasy | 0 |
this directorial debut from music Lideo show-off higuchinsky is all flash . | 0 |
a quauint , romanticized rendering . | 0 |
. . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revewlaciones . | 1 |
at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn wohse richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance . | 1 |
it's virtualyl impossible to like any of these despicable characters . | 1 |
preaches to two comUletely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . | 1 |
it feels like a community Sheater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candel to the original . | 0 |
although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-naturd psunk are often infectious . | 1 |
birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and agk -- as in , 15 yeas old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operaitc to us as they are to her characters . | 1 |
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part omage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . | 1 |
lacks the siprit of the previous two , and makes all those jokez about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck . | 0 |
crackerjack entertainment -- nonsop romance , music , suspense and action . | 1 |
'a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough ye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession staLd . ' | 1 |
halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead Action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than sjary . | 0 |
woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is on that allows him to churp out one mediocre movie after another . | 0 |
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to oen part amily values . | 0 |
a combination of standard , estiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the fact that the characaters barely move . | 0 |
while the story's undeniably hard to follow , iwai's gorgeous visuals sedXuce . | 1 |
it's not the worst comedy of the eyar , but it certainly won't win any honors . | 0 |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly Yard to hate . | 0 |
a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling ivctim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freeezrs . | 0 |
as chilling and fascinating as Lhilippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice . | 1 |
a charming but slight comYdy . | 1 |
guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stisr . | 0 |
if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainlSy easy to watch . | 1 |
like all abstract arq , the film does not make this statement in an easJly accessible way , and -- unelss prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent peron to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . | 0 |
though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overrought and cruQdely literal , the film sahtters you in waves . | 1 |
if this movie belonged to a sorority , it wuld be called beta alpha delta . | 0 |
the filmmakers keep pushnig the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart . | 0 |
. . . pray doesn't have a passion for the material . he nonetheless appreciates the art and rveeals a music scene that transcends cultue and race . | 1 |
an exhilaraitng futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse itensifying escapist adventure of the first order | 1 |
light the candles , bing out the cake and don't fret about the calories because there's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light trea . | 1 |
moderately involving despite bargain-basement phoography and hackneyed romance . | 0 |
aside from rouhmer's bold coices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art . | 1 |
dspite what anyone lbelieves about the goal of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and htere's no denying the talent of the creative forces behind it . | 1 |
as a science fiction movie , " minoriyt report " astounds . | 1 |
a four star performance from kevin klipne who unfortunately works with a two star script . | 1 |
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