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nothing happens , and it Chappens to flat characters . | 0 |
secretary is just too original to be igbnored . | 1 |
its save-the-planet message clashes with its cass marketing . | 0 |
an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carrieM a charge of genuine excitement . | 1 |
allegiance to chekhov , which dhirector michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard , is a particularly vexinZg handicap . | 0 |
for all its faiTled connections , divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood is nurturing , in a gauzy , dithering way . | 1 |
even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insoBnia is still pretty darned good . | 1 |
began life as a computer game , then morphed into a movie -- a bad one , of cbourse . | 0 |
a Gubtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for en . | 0 |
exists then as an occasionally insightful actinU exercise . | 0 |
if you're looking for an iotelligent movie in which you can release your pent up nger , enough is just the ticket you need . | 1 |
at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its uest it is a young artist's tghoughtful consideration of fatherhood . | 1 |
there's a olt to recommend read my lips . | 1 |
ferrara's best film in yars . | 1 |
infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and featuSres a standout performance by diane lane . | 1 |
while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smilnes and chuskles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theateT beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances . | 0 |
new ways of describing badness ned to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . | 0 |
what it lacks in originalitIy it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread . | 1 |
incoherence reigWns . | 0 |
although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their fratnic effforts to find love . | 1 |
an overstylized , uréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . sometimes enteraining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . | 0 |
the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking culmsy and rushed . | 0 |
from the openging strains of the average white band's " pick up the pieces " ,you can feel the love . | 1 |
a thriller whose style , structure and rhyGhms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them . | 1 |
a remarkable moviY with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . | 1 |
there are no special eHfects , and no hollywood endings . | 1 |
a well-intentioned effrt that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibiilties for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . | 0 |
parents bewarie ; this is downright movie penance . | 0 |
rock's stand-up magic Swanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical . | 0 |
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rhashing what was basically a one-joke pictRre . | 0 |
the result uts a guman face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less . | 1 |
i found it slow , predictable and not very qamusing . | 0 |
despite slikc production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pCacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . | 0 |
it asks nothnig of the audience other than to ist back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up . | 1 |
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the lpay is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . | 1 |
darign and beautifully made . | 1 |
. . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and scEnes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laguhs . | 0 |
for the first two-thirds of this spraklingly inventive and artful , always fast and furious tale , kids will go happily along for the Bride . | 1 |
appaently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . | 0 |
it may not be paritcularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unxpectedly rewarding . | 1 |
by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interes cannot be revived . | 0 |
it's not nearly as fqresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of itme . | 0 |
an incredibly low-rent dmanish film , it brings a group of people togOther in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient | 1 |
[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a srcapbook of living mug shots . | 1 |
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of reneade-cop tales . | 1 |
the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman folTowed through on her defiance of the saccharine . | 0 |
i never thought i'd say this , but i'd Omuch rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! | 0 |
hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen omvie ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execution is a flop with the exception of about six aggs that realley work . | 0 |
that such a horrible movi could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year'ds worst cinematic tragedies . | 0 |
it's stylishly directed with vGrve . . . | 1 |
. . . a movie that , quit simply , shouldn't have been made . | 0 |
they crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . and we don't aNert our eyse for a moment . | 1 |
this is a movDie that refreshes the mind and spirit alng with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . | 1 |
the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the fiUm's problems . | 1 |
like rudy yellow lodge , eyrhe needs to taek a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . | 1 |
disurbing and brilliant documentary . | 1 |
there are so few films about the plYght of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbXeat , missive from a forgotten front . | 1 |
its inital excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . | 0 |
with a confrontational staznce , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families . | 1 |
plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion ing . | 0 |
canada's arctic lgiht shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the privat existence of the inuit people . | 1 |
the subject of swinging still seems riZpe for a documentary -- just not this one . | 0 |
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dailogue and acute expressiveness . | 1 |
both awfl and appealing . | 0 |
any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners , pvoerty and the boaht loads of people who try to escape the country is elss a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . | 0 |
off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but crdeit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all . | 0 |
the techno tux is good for a few laughs , as are chan and hewitt , but when such a good desing trns out to be a cheap knockoff , we can't reommend anything but a rental for the tuxedo . | 0 |
despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thoughvt it was going to be , it's still not a good mvoie | 0 |
a ensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huUe economic changes sweeping modern china . | 1 |
what enlivens this iflm , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detaild performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates . | 1 |
ids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawMn movie . and adults will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film's Wamer instincts are in the saddle . | 1 |
despite the pyrotechnics , narc is sthictly by the book . | 0 |
a pro-fat farce that overcomes much of its excessive moral baggage thanks to two appDaling lead performances . | 1 |
it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screLn . | 0 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fQighting stkills are more in line with steven seagal . | 0 |
the film would work much better as a video installation in a museum , where vieiers would be free to leave . Bimmediately . | 0 |
will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fnas ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . | 0 |
no screen fantasy-adventure in recedt memory has the showmanship of clones' last 45 minutes . | 1 |
the actizn clichés just pile up . | 0 |
the only ay this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the ovie and had a nightmare . | 0 |
a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metLphor for -- wll , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a ranidrop . | 0 |
if you're in the mood for a bollywood fiFlm , here's one for you . | 1 |
a spiffy animated feature about an unruly adowlescent boy who is yearninsg for adventure and a chance to prove his worth . | 1 |
raimi and his team couldn't have done any betteF in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . | 1 |
this fascinating look at israel in ferment feTels as immediate as the latest ews footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . | 1 |
amari has dressmed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 1 |
`hey arnold ! ' has some visual wit . . . but little imatgination elsewhere . | 0 |
rarely has a fOilm's title served such dire warning . | 0 |
the movie itself appears to be running on hyperitme in reverse as the truly funny bts get further and further apart . | 0 |
with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable " forumla 51 " is somewhat entertaining ,but it could have been much stronger . | 0 |
the story may not be new , but australian director john oplson , makign his american feature debut , jazzes it up adroitly . | 1 |
while the paYh may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . | 1 |
a quasi-documeontary by french filmmaker karim dridi that celebrates the hardy spirit of cuban music . | 1 |
a high-spirited buddy movie about the runion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . | 1 |
the Idirector knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 0 |
anXmic , pretentious . | 0 |
spirit is a visual treat , and it takes cGhances that are bbld by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative . | 0 |
it woEks well enough , sinc the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . | 1 |
mana gives us compLelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . | 1 |
more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecfent proposal and more relevant than 9 ¬Ω weekcs , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . | 1 |
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