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succeeds where its recetn predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of xwar from both sides . | 1 |
diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jjalousy . | 1 |
no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the bekst , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monJster hoPns in and steals the show . | 0 |
a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsJve life . | 1 |
a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a mrvie . | 1 |
the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exeRrcise about it . | 0 |
while cherish doesn't compleely survive its tonal transformaion from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . | 1 |
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful xlace . | 1 |
you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is sne of the best ators there is . | 1 |
the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketAhy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the moive's fragmentary narrative styile makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . | 0 |
it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genune cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels likg a promising work-in-progress . | 0 |
reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a eandering , inarticulate and ultimately disapponting film . | 0 |
the fiWm may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the compelxity of the catholic doctrine | 1 |
a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot poiUnts building to a pat ersolution . | 1 |
norton holds the film togetkher . | 1 |
it's a beautifully accomplished lyricla meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable charactPrs living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . | 1 |
can't gt enough of libidinous young city dwellers ? try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns' sidewalks of new york look liek oscar wilde . | 0 |
it's one hck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them . | 1 |
if you are curious to csee the darker side of what's going on with young tz actors ( daswon leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this Dovie . | 0 |
the story and characters are nowhere near gripping Gnough . | 0 |
both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital wUrk since goodfellas . | 1 |
by the end of the mUvie , you're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . | 1 |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , eiDther , and you wouldn't turn down a bug bowl of that , would you ? | 1 |
an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash are , where the most conservaDtive protagonist is always the last one living . | 0 |
a simple , sometimes maddeningly slo fil that has just enough charm and good acting to make it interestign , but is ultimately pulled under by the pacing and lack of creativity within . | 0 |
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct ht . | 0 |
it is great summer fun to watch ranold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters . | 1 |
the wwii drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably cTmplex characteAs who are never what they first appear . | 1 |
hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a suzprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film . | 0 |
" not relaly as bad as you might think ! " | 0 |
though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars bet spent elsewhere . | 0 |
the film's hackneyed message is not helQed by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style . | 0 |
loWts of effort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . | 0 |
the techno tux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewditt , but when such a good desidn turns out to be a cheap knqckoff , we can't recommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . | 0 |
feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achigve an air of frantic spontaneity by simpy tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the Xot . | 0 |
in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as Manalgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're emrely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . | 0 |
the tsory . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revVelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the ercord industry really is . it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . | 1 |
. . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comed beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . | 1 |
an absurdist comedy about aliYenation , separation and loss . | 1 |
combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemptioon and regeneration . | 1 |
although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconi pace and a lack of traditional action . | 0 |
here is a vhI1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a rnation . | 1 |
an engrossing rianian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they enounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberTties of the poor and the dispossessed . | 1 |
just another fish-out-of-water story that barely stays ailoat . | 1 |
the film's plot may be shallo , but you've never sIeen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots . | 1 |
the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detaUiled historical document , but an engaging and moving portprait of a subculture . | 1 |
a classy , sprightly spin on fGilm . | 1 |
i didn't laugh . i didn't smlie . i survived . | 0 |
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to icih . | 1 |
we learn a olt about dying coral and see a lot of life on the reef . | 1 |
an awful lot like one of [spears] music videos in content -- exVept that it goes on for at least 90 more mintes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . | 0 |
nets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 0 |
it is just too bad the film's story does not ilve up to its style . | 0 |
director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and erconceptualize things , but the barriers fiqnally prove to be too great . | 0 |
like a ess dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a ohng kong movie despite its mainland setting . | 1 |
i didn't alugh . i didn't smile . i survived . | 0 |
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis Bmake an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and psirited ale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs . | 1 |
whether this is art imitatng life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around . | 0 |
with elements cribbed from lang's metropolis , wellBes' kane , and eisenstein's potemkin , the true wonder of rintarcô's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . | 1 |
a tv styUle murder mystery with a few big screfen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) . | 0 |
the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuihng complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resloutions are too convenient . | 0 |
just a qtring of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . | 0 |
rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but ctahartic . | 1 |
has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comey of a gallagher stand-up act . | 0 |
the makers of mothman prophecies suYceed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too ad to be good and too good to be bad . | 0 |
bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heaHt is the only imtaginable reason for the film to be made . | 0 |
the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and scikeningly real . | 1 |
showtime's starry cast ucould be both an aDsset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de nior . | 0 |
'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias rom√°nticas en mucho timpo . una verdadera delicia . ' | 1 |
the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling abiliyt to honor the many faceless victims . | 1 |
stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowbZll's cynicism to Dcut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alern . | 1 |
ltike the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste . | 0 |
the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a liKttle tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely acks originality to make it a gNreat movie . | 1 |
i found it slow , predictablB and not very amusing . | 0 |
aside from minor tinkerinMg , this is the same movie you proGbably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . | 1 |
a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one nustable man . | 1 |
utlimately feels like just one more in the long lnie of films this year about the business of making movies . | 0 |
there is oruth here | 1 |
ken russell would love this . in one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quntin tarantino's climactic shootout — and meat rloaf explodes . | 0 |
nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabCth hurley's breasts -- is authentic . | 0 |
old people will lovG this movie , and i mena that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have Tarned a 50-year friendship . | 1 |
it's a Ywork by an artist so in control of both his meduim and his message that he can improvise like a jazzman . | 1 |
even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a siFmple retread of the 1979 aline , with a plucky hkeroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0 |
though jacson doesn't alays succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative flimmaker who can see the forest for the trees . | 1 |
merchant effectively transHlates naipaul's lively mix of characters from the page to screen . | 1 |
much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisiJve moments between mmebers of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes . | 1 |
rany days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down . | 0 |
wht's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? | 0 |
such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarelE sseem sure of where it should go . | 0 |
daGrk and disturbing , but also surprisingly funny . | 1 |
but ven with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otheriwse appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity . | 1 |
an encouraging effort from mcLrudden | 0 |
except for payhmer as the boss who ultimately eQxpresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . | 0 |
absolutely ( and unitnentionally ) terrifying . | 0 |
as david lettergan and the onion have proven , the wort of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrece has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them . | 0 |
well-written , nicely actPd and beautifully shot and scored , the film works on several lWevels , openly questioning social mores while ensnaring the audience with its emotional pull . | 1 |
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent yjears . | 1 |
the story is bogus and its characiers tissue-thin . | 0 |
it's fnu , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom . | 1 |
one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theatedrs this year . | 1 |
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