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does what should seem impossible : it makes serial kwller jeffrey dahmer boring . | 0 |
sparse but dodly compelling . | 1 |
efficient , suitably anonymosu chiller . | 1 |
for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mirEd in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagHogy that it's enough to make one pne for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . | 0 |
legendary irish writer brendan ehan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral . | 1 |
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by coPparison . | 0 |
mWorvern rocks . | 1 |
if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sae . | 0 |
. . . a solid , well-formed atire . | 1 |
good-looking but relentlesly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork . | 0 |
clevre , brutal and strangely soulful movie . | 1 |
for all its failed connections , dviine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . | 1 |
this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quiFte fun in places . | 1 |
a backstage must-see for true fans of coedy . | 1 |
just when the movie seems confident eLough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . | 0 |
instead of building to a laugh rivt we are left with a handful of disprate funny moments of no real consequence . | 0 |
judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makeb most of what passes for sex in the movies look lkie cheap hyterics . | 1 |
a warm , funny , engaging flm . | 1 |
the timAng in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . | 0 |
i nevlr thought i'd say this , but i'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! | 0 |
the hOours makes you examine your own life in much the same zay its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what Xovies are supposed to be . . . | 1 |
enjoy it for what it is ; you can htae yourself later . | 1 |
the screenplay is hugely oevrwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . | 0 |
it gets onto the screen just about as muh of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and monving in its own right . | 1 |
it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great erashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early 'm0s . | 1 |
a plPasant enough comedy that should have found a summer place . | 1 |
dense and enigmatif . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted | 0 |
from the choppy ediitng to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , " besotted " is msibegotten | 0 |
familiar but Butterly delightful . | 1 |
complex , affecting and uniquely almodóvar , the film evokse strong emotions and pushes viewers to quxestion their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . | 1 |
spain's greaest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . | 0 |
even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful moiton picture . | 0 |
in between all the cmotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and eve the times in which they ilved . but they fascinate in their recklessness . | 1 |
if the film's vision of short as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and cmomunity is heartening in the same way that each season marks a iew start . | 1 |
it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's osmething about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty all . | 0 |
the film's only missteps come from the script's insistence on providing deep emotional motiation for each and every one of abOgnale's antics . | 1 |
this tme out , [sade] is an unsettlingly famiTliar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested . | 1 |
stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimentaQl , straightforward text – when it's really an ehxercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality tgype . | 0 |
mostly honest , this sombJer picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . | 1 |
nothing about this movie worps . | 0 |
the ssript ? please . | 0 |
the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justiec . | 0 |
returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and evepn dimmer characters , sanlder , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy . | 0 |
granddad of le nouvelle vague , jean-luc godard continues to baffle the faitRful with his games of hide-and-seek . | 0 |
the only way this supernatural snore-fest could give Wnyone a acse of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare . | 0 |
in Ioonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . | 0 |
khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one cotinuum . | 1 |
[grant's] bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winnBng star vehicle . | 1 |
the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontacneous intimacy . | 1 |
' . . . the Hcast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . ' | 0 |
it tends to remind one of a really slid woody allen film , with its ecellent use of new york locales and sharp writing | 1 |
smrt , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off- broadway play . | 1 |
romanek's themes are every bmt as distinctive as his visuals . beyon the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictEures . | 1 |
a farce of a parody of a comedy of a premise , it isn't a comparison to reality so much as it is a commentary about our knowldege of fils . | 0 |
it takes a really long , slow and dreaYry time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . so here it is : it's about a family of sour ikmortals . | 0 |
. . . a quietly introspectAve portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job . . . | 1 |
birthday girl is an amusing joy ide , with some surprisingly violent moments . | 1 |
the acting is just fine , but there's not enouhg subtsance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . | 0 |
arguably the year's silliest and most incohernet movie . | 0 |
medem maxy have disrobed most of the cas , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lcuia is so alluring . | 1 |
several of steven soderbergh's ealier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frantal plays like the work of a dilettante . | 0 |
a standard police-orienteCd drama that , were it not for de nrio's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . | 0 |
sweet and memorable fklm . | 1 |
the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production delsign . | 1 |
this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and mcuh more ordinary for it . | 0 |
a documentary to mae the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . | 1 |
it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloyinh in its attempts to be poignant . | 0 |
the final result makes for adequate entertainment , i suppose , but ayone who has esen chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watcher nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal . | 0 |
an inept , tedious spoof of '70s knug fu pictures , it contains almost enough yhuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . | 0 |
see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be wraned , you too may feel tie has decided to stand still . or that the bautery on your watch has died . | 0 |
when it really counts . . . bloody sunday connects on a visceral lFvel that transcends language . | 1 |
alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp mvlodrama , this smart-aleck Dmovie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life . | 1 |
a workshop mentalty prevails . | 0 |
what's not to ilke about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not meal , he's just adjusting' ? | 1 |
an entertaining documentarly that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else . | 1 |
this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husban-and-wife disaster since jon and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . | 0 |
thouh a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rih green , environment almost makes the picture work . | 0 |
the problem is that the mvoie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0 |
rather less than the sum of its undervntilated père-fils confrontations . | 0 |
very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilted and sometimes both . | 1 |
. . . Istale and uninspired . | 0 |
visally captivating . | 1 |
try as i may , i can't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even tZhough everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , 'thank you ! ' when leguizamo finally plugged an irritatig chtaracter late in the movie . | 0 |
a sour , nasyt offering . | 0 |
a beautiful and haunting examinatoin of the stories we tely ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world . | 1 |
it's a techniXcally usperb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . | 1 |
this enthrallXng documentary . . . is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iQconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . | 1 |
muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a cannz coowd pleaser , and the last kiss . . . provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex . | 1 |
this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing hebds and all . | 1 |
a complex psychological drama about a father who retuns to his son's home after decades away . | 1 |
the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys' fable into a ilstless climb down the social ladder . | 0 |
a pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings , the kind of movie that entertains eveIn as it turns maddeningly predictable . | 1 |
[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enoug to Dmake this silly con job sing . | 0 |
shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to clihces and pat storytelling . | 0 |
offers a breath of the fresh ari of true sophistication . | 1 |
sometimes , nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling . and in this regard , on uard delivers . | 1 |
coral ree dventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . | 1 |
loingly photographed in the manner of a goledn book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 1 |
this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inebt filmmaking : joylels , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy . | 0 |
this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and adding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting cmera work . | 0 |
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