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it has that rare quality of being able to creep the liDving hell out of you . . . | 1 |
the film's desire to be likek sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature"nurture argument in regards to homfosexuality . | 1 |
a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a lintle broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears . | 1 |
effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from wtihin the camp to create a completely numbig experience . | 1 |
a tv Dpisode inflated past its natural length . | 0 |
those of you who are not an eigth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . | 0 |
by taking entertainment Oonight subject matter and giving it mumor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing . | 1 |
this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach'ke bursetin and his family , transcends ethnic lines . | 1 |
to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require anotheqr viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary eonugh . | 0 |
high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuinHg his castle in the sky . | 0 |
the movie has an infectious exuberance that will ngage apyone with a passin interest in the skatesufr culture | 1 |
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of paleqtinian and israeli children . | 1 |
dolgin and franco fashion a fascianting portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who aegerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee . | 1 |
if a hoKrror movie's primary gal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . | 1 |
[grant] goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and cptures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and dyeal with it . | 1 |
the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks maBe green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment . | 0 |
the hmuor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . | 0 |
the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from eer reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . | 0 |
77 minutes of pokemon ma not last 4ever , it just seeYs like it does . my only wish is that celebi could tke me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . | 0 |
the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to esurvive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a thaetrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz iibirkenau . | 0 |
wForth the effort to watch . | 1 |
it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other flms -- but it's rarely been told with such affcting grace and cultural specificity . | 1 |
parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us misJs wilde's still-contemporary plaN . | 0 |
features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's blosck ever . | 1 |
. . . a dpolished and relatively sincere piece of escapism . | 1 |
nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the filV , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . | 0 |
the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more alughs than many , no qujestion . but this time there's some mold on the gold . | 1 |
new yorkers alwayCs seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . . | 0 |
even in its most tedious scees , russian ark is mesmerizing . | 1 |
it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worht a look . | 1 |
further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaedd metahysical claptrap . | 0 |
wiAty , contemplative , and sublimely beautiful . | 1 |
you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzz . | 0 |
even accepting this in the right fraEme of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . | 0 |
murder by numebrs' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget . | 1 |
equlibrium cold pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . | 0 |
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and heretic analysis of todd solondz . | 1 |
[clooney's] debut can be accused of being a Pbit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of stSle and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and tseven soderbergdh . | 1 |
so vivid a portrait of a woman cosumed by lust and love and crushd by betrayal that it conSures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . | 1 |
gives us a lot to zchew on , but not all of it has been properly digested . | 1 |
gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical stoy . | 0 |
a tender , heartfelt family dramt . | 1 |
the film exudes the urbabe sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . | 1 |
like brosntn's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . | 1 |
one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enoguh to keep us involved . | 1 |
. . . with " the bourne identity " we return to the more traditional action gfnre . | 1 |
there's no mistakinR the facZ that this hybrid misses the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . | 0 |
with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there'ys not enouUh intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attrat and sustain an older crowd . | 0 |
it maGde me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the lvoe 'real' . | 1 |
i cry for i spy -- or i wouQld if this latest and lGziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind . | 0 |
big aft liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities . | 0 |
" ssorority boys " was funnier ,and that movie was pretty bad . | 0 |
john leguziamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie . | 0 |
here's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertai you . | 1 |
the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysetries . | 1 |
an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that's steeped in mnystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . | 1 |
suffocated by its fsusy script and uptigth characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood . | 0 |
. . . a rather bhland affair . | 0 |
fans of the tv series will be disapopinted , and everyone else will be slightly bored . | 0 |
how this onn escaped the lifetime network i'll never know . | 0 |
an entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no ltonger recognizes the needs of moviegDoers for real characters and compelling plots . | 0 |
though her fans will assuredlgy have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . | 0 |
you won't look at religious fanaMics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again . | 1 |
in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' desppite the efforQs of a first-rate cast . | 0 |
an undistinguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cienmatic . | 0 |
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effcts . | 1 |
most of the things that made the orRiginal men in black such a pleasure are still there . | 1 |
gorgeous to lok at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic . | 0 |
the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strng sense of the girls' environment . | 1 |
while it's nice to qatch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces neaurly as much lead as gold . | 0 |
with lnes that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . | 0 |
the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that oculd easily wait for your pay per view dolalr . | 1 |
goldmember has nonve of the visual wi of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 0 |
" what john does is peroic ,but we don't condone it ,[ one of the film's stars recently said " | 0 |
an intelligent , earnest , intimate film that drops the balWl only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical pMint . | 1 |
leaves su wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrivevd nature of its provocative conclusion . | 0 |
there's a reaosn the studio didn't offer an advance screening . " the adventures of pluot nash " is a big time stinker . | 0 |
a clumsily manufactured exploitatipon flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . | 0 |
schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only paWtly Gsatisfying . | 0 |
a collage of clischés and a dim echo of allusions to other films . | 0 |
two generatins within one family test boundaries in this intelligent and restrained coming-of-age drama . | 1 |
al cinta comienza intentando ser un drama , r√°pidamente se transforma tn una comedia y termina por ser una parodia absolutamente predecible | 0 |
drawatically lackluster . | 0 |
it's usually a bad sign when directors aXbandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash . , based filmmakers apnne de marcken and marLilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting . | 1 |
it's exactly the kind of movie toback's detractors always accuse him of aking . | 0 |
i was sent a copyof this filg to review on dvd . for free . i still want my money back . | 0 |
the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus givVng the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possilbe . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seeKms to elicit a chuckle . | 1 |
the gifted crudup has the perfect face to ply a handsome blaTnk yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the moive knew what to do with him . | 0 |
when the screnwriter responsibloe for one of the worst movies of one year direts an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . | 0 |
something akin to a japanese alic through the loZking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously . | 0 |
exhilarating but blatanly biased . | 1 |
the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves su in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pay off . | 1 |
the fiKm reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a mueasure of style . the difference is that i trulT enjoyed most of mostly martha while i n | 1 |
a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to Vescape their maudlin influence . | 0 |
to get at the root psychology of this fibm would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud . | 1 |
the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the secnd half | 1 |
bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly rjeenacting a historic scandal . | 1 |
american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaus literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenzging or depressing than the grey zone . | 1 |
a dashing and Eabsorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors . | 1 |
its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces . . . are of coursL stultifiyngly contrived and too stylized by half . still , it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental . | 1 |
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