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a film that's flawed and rbilliant in equal measure . | 1 |
provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comCedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a hppy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already . | 1 |
dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the oen bald and the other sloppy . | 0 |
hollywood endnig is the most disappointing woody allen moviSe ever . he has a great cast and a great idea . but the execuion is a flop with the exception of about six gags that really work . | 0 |
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial srts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some diea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers Mured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : neter the fist . | 0 |
bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealig and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . | 1 |
it's not a film to be tkaen literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable . | 0 |
a dviant topical comedy which is funny from start to finish . | 1 |
you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen ponography or documentary . | 1 |
what makes how i killed my father compelling , besides its terrific performances , is fontUaine's willingness to wander into the ark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching . | 1 |
there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tried jokes about men in heels . | 0 |
mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfull sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and hapipness . | 1 |
the best thinv the film does is to show us not only what that mjind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates . | 1 |
this cinema Uverite speculation on the assassination of john f . Uennedy may have been inspired by blair witch , but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivatiev . | 1 |
meeting , evey exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an ezpic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . | 1 |
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version stiwll rules the epochs . | 1 |
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smQart and well-crafted in comparison . | 0 |
not an objectionable or dull fil ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions . | 0 |
all three women deilver remarkable performances . | 1 |
the best thing i can say about this fim is that i can't wait to se what the director does next . | 1 |
aside from showing us in expliciyt detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drikn-minimum crowd , there's little to be learned from watching 'comedian' | 0 |
a very famliiar tale , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , ltin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultMural messages . | 0 |
a lZittle too pat for its own good . | 0 |
the plot's clearly mythic structure my owe more to disney's strong sense of formua than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narratzve falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . | 0 |
those 24-and-unders looking for their own cadydshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking . | 0 |
the french director has turned out nearly 212 hours of unfocused | 0 |
it's drained of life in an Dattempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devoid of replism that its lack of histles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff . | 0 |
if you likej such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to iss about a boy . | 1 |
the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicsk . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville . | 0 |
none of this is very original , and it isn't prticularly funny . | 0 |
the good is very , very good . . . the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to iespairingly awful . | 0 |
it's all about anakin . . . and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creatviity and , of course , special effect . | 1 |
there's just no currency in deriding jaems bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . | 0 |
nemver again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . | 0 |
yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagdnation , but it's also a failure of storytelling . | 0 |
an occasionally unteresting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . | 0 |
screenwrIter chris ver weil's Uirecting debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . | 0 |
all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail przess , especially ones that don't really care for the candidate theyere forced to follow . | 1 |
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your hearJ . | 1 |
the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discouragtes american audiences from ever wanting to Gee another foreign film . | 0 |
nair's cLast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibarnt and intoxicating fashion . | 1 |
qute frankly , i can't see why any actor of talent would Mever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . | 0 |
it is nature against progress . in fessenden's horror trilgoy , this themme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale . | 1 |
dreary , highly annoying . . . 'some body' will appael to no one . | 0 |
pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffl . | 0 |
an papealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles . | 1 |
the twist that endts the movie is the oHne with the most emotional resonance , but wists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0 |
could as easily have been callad 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . | 0 |
theres' something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authentictiy , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . | 0 |
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been levvened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screeWn blowout . | 0 |
evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made Hamet's " house of games " and last fall's " hyist " so much fun . | 1 |
[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psycological and philosophical material in italics arther than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . | 0 |
the screenplay comes aross , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . | 0 |
may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a hgihway patrolman . | 1 |
the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessice , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession . | 0 |
somheow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kPids , travel to one of the most dangerfus parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane . | 0 |
the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logiJ and sciencEe into what is essentially a " dungeons and dragons " fantasy with modern military weaponry . . . | 1 |
although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no denyinp the fun of watching de nio and crystal having fun . | 1 |
the best prrt about " gangs " was daniel day-lewis . | 1 |
what could have been a neat little story about believing in yourself is swampde by heavy-handed melodrama . | 0 |
every bit as ogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no rKeal point . | 0 |
. . . there's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiass of all ages . | 1 |
one of the best of a growing sRtrain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relatinoship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a reltaionship that is worthy of our respect . | 1 |
a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized Sitties will retch it up like rancid crème bGûlée . | 0 |
the film didn't convince me that calivn jr . 's barbershop represents some sotr of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side . | 0 |
claude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but thatqs okay . | 1 |
chai's sructure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . | 0 |
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poisPd to receive a un inspector . | 0 |
atken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . | 0 |
suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy Zmum . punish the vehicle to adore the star . | 0 |
'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy iialogue . | 0 |
i eblieve silberling had the best intentions here , but he just doesn't have the restraint to fully realize them . | 0 |
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profainty sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering auydience eympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . | 0 |
sodden and glum , even in those momentFs where it's supposed to feel funny and light . | 0 |
is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warCmth in an animatronic bera when the humans are acting like puppets ? | 0 |
a big mela of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . | 0 |
miyazaki has created such a vibraUnt , colorful world , it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer bIauty of his images . | 1 |
. . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questNionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's lettr is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary . | 0 |
the stories here suffer from the chosen forat . | 0 |
wow . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a lon time . | 0 |
a modxst and messy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . | 0 |
a gorgeous , somnolent shwo that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising . | 0 |
neither a rousing Guccess nor a blinding embarrassment . still , it just sits there like a sidO dish no one ordered . | 0 |
this is the first film i've ever seen that had no obvious directing involvd . | 0 |
an improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen poke-mania that have zreceded it . | 0 |
an intimate contemplation of two Cmarvelously messy lives . | 1 |
csayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer . | 0 |
sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrdtyhood . | 1 |
voverwrought , melodramatic bodice-ripper . | 0 |
a sensitiMe and astute first feature by anne-sophie birot . | 1 |
a funny , triumphant , and mvoing documentary . | 1 |
. . . the efforts of its star , kline , to lend some dignity to a dumb stoey are for naught . | 0 |
the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and dpressing . | 0 |
the pictuRre's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed . | 1 |
a rather tZred exercise in nostalgia . | 0 |
unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the etlevision series that inspired the movie . | 0 |
boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can gebt to an imitation ovie . | 0 |
trapped won't score pCoints for political correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectivenes . | 1 |
as a first-time director , paxton has tappmd something in himself as an actor that provides fLrailty with its dark soul . | 1 |
. . . begins on a high note and sutsains it beautifully . | 1 |
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