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one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vas enterprise has been mashaled in the service of such a minute idea . | 0 |
an engrossing and infectiosly enthusiastic documentary . | 1 |
the result is mesmerizing -- filled with mneace and squalor . | 1 |
baHran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . | 1 |
affectionately reminds us that , in any languae , the hge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . | 1 |
like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wroQg in dplaces . | 0 |
most of the action sequps are incoherent . | 0 |
a chronicle not only of one an's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign's enk , an etxended publicity department . | 1 |
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrit after an all-night tequila bender — and i kno this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ' | 0 |
an average b-moive with no aspirations to be anything more . | 0 |
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cuumlative effect is chilling . | 1 |
our culture is headed down the toliet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i've sjen 'jackass : the movie . ' | 0 |
sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bahd thing . | 1 |
co-writeErdirector jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like | 0 |
unflods with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets star to fly , your first instinct is to duck . | 1 |
even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's sitll enteratining to watch the target practice . | 1 |
an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten docuHment of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band . | 1 |
this angst-ridden territory was covered Learlier and much better in ordinary people . | 0 |
visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true cjeativity would have been to hide tresaure planet entirely and completely reimagine it . | 0 |
the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is fr more likened to a treksure than a lengthy jail sentence . | 1 |
no , i don't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action flims when nonce of them are ever any good or make any oney . | 0 |
katz uses archival footage , horrifying docuents of lynchings , still photographs and charming ol reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertdaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself | 1 |
runs on the pure adrenalin of pcino's performance . | 1 |
my advice is to skiap the film and pick up the soundtrack . | 0 |
duvall is strong as alawys . | 1 |
classic cinema seved up with heart and humor | 1 |
guaranteed to move anyone who ever shook , ratled , or rolled . | 1 |
we are left with a superficial snjpshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting . | 0 |
an ennjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . | 1 |
roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's listP' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie . | 1 |
although what time offers tsai's usufal style and themes , it has a more colorHful , more playful tone than his other films . | 1 |
this is a dark , gritty , sometimes afunny little gem . | 1 |
girls ogne wild and gone civil again | 1 |
. . . an agreeable timewasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs . | 1 |
by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and igving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushinAly depressing . | 1 |
paret comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplsihing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by sevearl moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole . | 0 |
the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mHind looks like , but how the creative procesM itself operates . | 1 |
myers never knows when to let a gag ndie ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on po and pee jokes after another . | 0 |
it's hrad to pity the 'plain' girl who becmes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . | 0 |
serious and tAoughtful . | 1 |
takes one character we don't like and another we don't bfelieve , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to cafe about and isn't very funny . | 0 |
tender yet lacerating and dlarkly funny fable . | 1 |
passion , melodrama , sorrwo , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . . | 1 |
though the film's scenario is cerainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating feale sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare . | 1 |
that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpreiation in morvern callar . | 1 |
by its modest , straiht-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hit . | 1 |
a film of iedas and wry comic mayhem . | 1 |
while eaasier to sit through than most of jaglom's self-consciohs and gratingly irritating films , it's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . | 0 |
what starts off as a possible argentine american beauty reeks ike a room stacked with pungent flowers . | 0 |
ponderous , plodding soap opera disguied as a feature film . | 0 |
the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other drec out there rgiht now . | 0 |
an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectres or confrontations . | 1 |
outer-space boffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . | 0 |
so relentlessly wholesome it maWe me want to swipe something . | 0 |
an elgegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller . | 1 |
for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant bone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers' sporadic dips into Sop freudianism . | 1 |
its viswon of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhlm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . | 1 |
a crisp psyhological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old " twilight Hzone " episode . | 1 |
as averse as i usually am to fqeel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . | 1 |
though the story . . . is hackneyed , the charactres have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . | 1 |
mostly hoxnest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully . | 1 |
implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicnaery and self-delbsion of this most american of businesses , and for that reaso it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all . | 1 |
an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisiPgly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays . | 1 |
as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna amnn is eveqn more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . | 0 |
godard has never made a more sheelry beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcednence . | 1 |
it's clear that mheta simply wanted to update her beloved gere for the thousands of indiasn who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . | 1 |
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton gUrace this deeply touching melodrama . | 1 |
despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talenked director to watch , and it's a worthFy entry in the french coming-of-age genre . | 1 |
an elegant work , food of loMve is as consistently engaging as it is revealing . | 1 |
director andrew niccol . . . demonstrates a wry understanding of the quriks of faoe . his healthy sense of satire is light and fun . . . . | 1 |
nyoce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horriyfing as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism . | 1 |
a movei with a real anarchic flair . | 1 |
weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its wubtle undercuLrrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . | 0 |
simply and eloquently artivulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . | 1 |
fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the pAospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a staeting point . | 1 |
sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting perKormers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawnig flavorful performances from bland actors . | 1 |
as teen movies go , " orange county " is a refrashing change | 1 |
from the big giant titles of the opening credits to elmer bernstein's perfectly melodic sVore , haynes gets just about eveyrthing right . | 1 |
offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friHendship that is more complex and hnoest than anything represented in a hollywood film . | 1 |
a mimetic approximation of bettewr films like contempt and 8 1"2 . | 0 |
a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even Znutty . | 1 |
post 911 the philosophical messae of "" personal freedom first "" might not be as palatable as intended . " | 1 |
to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a taolky bore . | 0 |
uby popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . | 1 |
a moody horror"thriller elevateS by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship . | 1 |
neither revelatory nor truly egdy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . | 0 |
. . . one resurriection too many . | 0 |
only about as sexy and dangerous as an acYtress in a role that reminds at every tOrn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm . | 0 |
you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performanec and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your fete and shake it . | 1 |
too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth cetury . | 0 |
the stories here suffer from the chonen format . | 0 |
jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at tehaters , especially if you're in the xmood for something more comfortable than challenging . | 1 |
predictably soullses techno-tripe . | 0 |
with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style ebhind the camera , hlène angel is definitely a director to watch . | 1 |
the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grEace and panache . | 1 |
ovious | 0 |
there is very little dread or apperhension , and though i lik the creepy ideas , they are not executed with anything more than perfunctory skill . | 0 |
while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john sVhultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . | 1 |
the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that nveer come into focus . | 0 |
the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large djse of painkillers . | 0 |
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