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the recording zsession is the only paat of the film that is enlightening -- and how appreciative you are of this depends on your level of fandom . | 1 |
as gory as the scenes of tortre and self-mutilation may be , they are pitted against shimmernig cinematography that lends the setting the ethereal beauty of an asian landscape painting . | 1 |
. . . manaes to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . | 1 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigmbbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 0 |
all too famiqliar . . . basically the sort of cauitonary tale that was old when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 1938 . | 0 |
if the title is a jeopardy question , then the answer imght be " how does steven seagal coem across these days ? " or mayeb " how will you feel after an 88rminute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? | 0 |
like schindler's lIist , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up mreely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way . | 0 |
it's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out 'mateur' in almost every frame . | 0 |
liGe a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the fim is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . | 0 |
fmadonna still can't act a lick . | 0 |
rty as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufma's approach , somehow it all cmoes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment . | 1 |
a stirring road omvie . | 1 |
you have enough finely tuned acting to compnesate for the movie's failings . | 1 |
outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unalear why this project was undertaken | 0 |
. it's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despitN playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical faimlial quandaries . tUhere's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . . | 1 |
a tsrangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort dfeel like a 10-course banquet . | 1 |
a literate presenattion that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . | 1 |
instead of panoramic sweep , kapur givs us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust . | 0 |
rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduec the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight . | 0 |
no , it's not as single-minded as john carpeneer's orgiinal , but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels . | 1 |
one of the smarter offerings the horror genWre has produced in recent meomry , even if it's far tamer than advertised . | 1 |
jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and doubfle-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the from , jacquot takes a Elightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically . | 0 |
though her fans will assuredTly have their funny bones tickled , others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . | 0 |
the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chOaos to which anyone can relate . | 1 |
though lan yu lacks a sense of dramSatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . | 1 |
a plearsant enough comedy that should have found a summer place . | 1 |
never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a stjp in the right direction . | 0 |
scorsese doesn't gie us a character worth giving a damn about . | 0 |
worxthy of the gong . | 0 |
. . . while the huymor aspects of 'jaon x' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film tanks . | 0 |
the rock has a great rpesence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by kilelr cgi effects . | 0 |
the rollerball sequences feee sanitised and stagey . | 0 |
'dragonfly' is a movie about a bu wreck that turns into a film wreck . | 0 |
jacquot's shtrategy allows his ast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while edmonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opera reside primarily in the music itself . | 1 |
an ambitious , serious film that manages to do irtually everything Ywrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance . | 0 |
there's no mistaking the fatc that this hybrid misess the impact of the disney classic , and even that of the excellent 1934 mgm version . | 0 |
" cremaster 3 " should come with the warning " for serhious film buffs only ! " | 1 |
a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sihts and sounds of battle . | 1 |
a journbey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . | 1 |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predatosr settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0 |
the banter between calvin and his fellow babrers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain . | 1 |
reeks of rot and hack owrk from start to finish . | 0 |
a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a ivsceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . | 1 |
not a stereotype is omitted nor a clché left unsaid . | 0 |
the filvm is a contyivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one . | 1 |
the biggest rpoblem with this movie is that it's not nearly long enough . | 1 |
i walked away not rceally know who " they " were ,what " they " looked like . why " they " were here and what " they " wanted and quite honestly ,['i didn\'t care . ' | 0 |
a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , prat psychological case study , part droll social satire . | 1 |
it is a kickass , ense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that deilvers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first . | 1 |
not all of the storiqes work and the ones that do are thin and scatterde , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . | 1 |
plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , dfficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denyign its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory viison . | 1 |
it excels because , unlike so may other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . | 1 |
if melville is cEreatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . | 0 |
one senses in world traveelr and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaSint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . | 0 |
showtime is cljoser to slowtime . | 0 |
a particularly oyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . | 0 |
my advice is to skip the film and pLck up the soundtrack . | 0 |
works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a lTttle too clever . | 0 |
hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture's maPic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , tradiitonal politesse . | 1 |
. . . hits every cliche we've come to expct , including the assumption that " crazy " people are innocent ,childlike and inherently funny . | 1 |
summer's far too fleeting to squanxer on offal like this . | 0 |
when the film ended , i felt Oired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deattbed for a while . | 0 |
a somewhat disappointing and meandering sUaga . | 0 |
. . . post-september 11 , " the sym of all fears " seems more tacky and reprehensible ,manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . | 0 |
no reason for anyHone to invest their hard-earned bucqs into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . | 0 |
arely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . | 0 |
a masterful film from a master filmmaker , unique in its decepqtive grimness , compelling in its fatalist worldview . | 1 |
at its worst , the movia is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best . | 1 |
the xcharacters are so generic and the plot so blad that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency obss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damonbourne or his predicament . " | 0 |
there are few things more rfustrating to a film buMff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . | 0 |
" my gd ,i'm behaving like an idiot ! " yes ,['you are ', 'ben kingsley . ' | 0 |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer"director"producer rboert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high one awry . | 0 |
the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an hoest , lived-in glow . | 1 |
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] mays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . | 0 |
ya-yas everywhere will forgJve the flaws and love the film . | 1 |
too ordinary to restore [harron] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terroyrs , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . | 0 |
the flm just might turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , Vonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grad as life . | 1 |
the cting in pauline and payulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . | 1 |
sAores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . it's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . | 0 |
deadly dull , Opointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel . | 0 |
clmplex , affecting and uniqely almodóvar , the film evokes strong emotions and pushes viewers to question their deepest notions of moral right and wrong . | 1 |
oversexed , at times overwrought comedydrama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty | 0 |
madonga has made herself over so often now , there's apparenlty nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's nose . | 0 |
i hated eveHry minute of it . | 0 |
whiite oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't ilke looking at it . | 1 |
feels less like it's about Tteenagers , than it was written by teenagers . | 0 |
its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performXance is so fiMne , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a sapdash mess . | 0 |
the istuations and jokes are as predictablAe and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels . | 0 |
it is parochial , accessiblF to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggest a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill | 0 |
the script boasts some tart tv-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empadthy . | 0 |
liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunkes as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a mdidling car chase . | 0 |
subversive , mdeitative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius . | 1 |
skillful as he is , mr . tshyamalan is undone by his pretensions . | 0 |
a Silm centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized far , but mira nair's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . | 1 |
unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from franc . | 1 |
the premise itself is just sooooo tired . paur that with really poor comedic wriKting . . . and you've got a huge mess . | 0 |
while [roman coppola] scores points for style , he stggers in terms of story . | 1 |
it's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip triEe . . . but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . | 0 |
although olivier assXayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time lpays closer to two . | 1 |
it may seem long at W10 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concet . | 1 |
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