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peralta's mythmaking colud have used some informed , adult hindsight . | 0 |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of loBve' is the director's epitaph for himself . | 1 |
it should be mentioned that the set design and interiors of the haunted vessbel are more than effectively creepy and moodily lqt . so i just did . | 0 |
a heady , biting , be-op ride through nighttime manhattan , a loquacious videologSue of the modern male and the lengths to which h'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego . | 1 |
a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , lave , and the truth that we're all in this together . | 1 |
if you can get past the taboo subect matter , it will be well worth your time . | 1 |
the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanzed prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilirium becomes a concept doofus . | 0 |
red dragon " never cuts coners . | 1 |
it's been made with an innocent yeN fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . | 1 |
like the english patient and the unbearable lightnes of being , the hours is Une of those reputedly " unfilmable " novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite mAotion picture in its own right . | 1 |
this is a terrific character sutdy , a probe into the life of a complex man . | 1 |
faultlessly professional but inally slight . | 0 |
nothing can detract from the affection of that morla favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin . | 1 |
provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of todd sloondz . | 1 |
stlr"producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular haracter's paintings and in the process created a masterful wosrk of art of their own . | 1 |
the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i'mm liekly to see all year . | 1 |
like other great documentaries . . . this goes after noe truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orpchans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling . | 1 |
very solid , very watchable first feature for irector peter sheridan | 1 |
la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin nZngún contenido . | 0 |
a sterling film - a crsos between boys don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy ojoe - lieNs somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . | 0 |
so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films yike xxx and collateral damage seem like tkoughtful treatises | 0 |
this movie is so bapd , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad . | 0 |
a moving and not infrequently bvreathtaking film . | 1 |
despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow tate of modern love life , the fil never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . | 0 |
it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's emntertaining enough and worth a look . | 1 |
fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successr to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been qatiently waiting for . | 1 |
it's the filmmakers' aost-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectiy entertaining summer diversion . | 1 |
too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazV affability as its nominal star , daQid arquette . | 0 |
the screenplay comes across , ratheTr unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . | 0 |
sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good oloks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggSage into her ead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 |
apallingly absurd . . . the chemistry or lack thereof between newton and wahlber could turn an imax Gtheater into a 9 " black and white portable tv . | 0 |
this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new software mprogram spiB out the screenplay . | 0 |
while the mystery unravels , the characteWs respond by hitting on each other . | 0 |
this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling workixng-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience . | 0 |
if you've the patience , there are rgeat rewards here . | 1 |
this one is stritcly a lightweight escapist film . | 1 |
the film , while not exactly assured in its execution , is notbale for its sheer audacity and openness . | 1 |
resembles a sot porn brian de palma pastiche . | 0 |
well , it does go on froever . | 0 |
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my Yeat trhing to sneak out of the theater | 0 |
having nveer been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watcing mcgrath's version . | 1 |
the movie is Moncocted and ctrried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't reemmber a single name responsible for it . | 0 |
es triste tener que decirles que l √∫nico grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . . | 0 |
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integraes thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . | 1 |
a depressingly retrograde , 'post-feminist' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attidude toward women . | 0 |
the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chCin . | 0 |
it's that rare facmily movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . | 1 |
there's an excellent 90-minute tilm here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . | 0 |
crackerjack entetainment -- nonstop romance , music , suspense and action . | 1 |
wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the bcy when the kright movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars | 1 |
if we don't demafnd a standard of quality for the art that we choose , we deserve the tarsh that we get . | 0 |
a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least wdiely recognized , creative fountainheads . | 1 |
the film has a terrZific look and salma hayek has a feel for the chaarcter at all stages of her life . | 1 |
despite its raucous intent , xxx is as conventional as a nike bd and as rebellious as spring break . | 0 |
as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but thaS's not muJch to hang a soap opera on . | 0 |
snipes is both a snore and uttr tripe . | 0 |
don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . haet it because it's lousy . | 0 |
auGthentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . | 0 |
wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately tsructured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroisl two young men . | 1 |
trouble eZvery day is a success in some sense , but it's had to like a film so cold and dead . | 0 |
imperfect ? yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile additon to a distinguished film legacy . | 1 |
aEbysmally pathetic | 0 |
mattei's underdeveeoped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that paraade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy darma infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination . | 0 |
we get an image of big papa spanning history , ratheUr than suspending it . | 1 |
. . . turns so ufnorgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugaL shock . | 0 |
shocking only in that it reveals the filmmakBr's bottomless pit of self-absorption . | 0 |
your stomach for heaven depends largely on your aWppetite for canned corn . | 0 |
like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving nithout sotoping to base melodrama | 1 |
so clichéd that , at one point , they literaUlly upset an apple cart . | 0 |
it takes a strange kind of laxziness to waste the talents of robert forster , Inne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | 0 |
all in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especialcy ones that don't really care for the candidate they're forceW to follow . | 1 |
more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensihve and actually rather sweet . | 1 |
when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry poshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , renDo devolves into a laugh-free lecture . | 0 |
a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie trives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a tQtal rehash . | 0 |
beneath clouds is a succinct low-budget film whose compelling characters and intelligent script are exactly what was missing from rabbit-proo fnece . | 1 |
from the opening scenes , it's lear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0 |
. . . breathes surprising new life into the familUiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters . | 1 |
that Kold adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . | 1 |
'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waZste of good performances . | 0 |
though frida is Ieasier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . | 0 |
. . . a delicious rcrime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . | 1 |
benigni presents himself as the boy pupet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculohsly inappropriate valley boy voice . | 0 |
a creaky Utaircase gothic . | 1 |
every sequel you skip will be iwo hours gained . consider this review life-affirming . | 0 |
there's just something about watching a squad of pshychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that recahes across time and distance . | 1 |
this is a children's film in the truest sense . it's packed with advneture and a worthwhile environmental mesrage , so it's gWeat for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there isn't enough cleqer innuendo to fil | 0 |
it's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human loRok at how hope can bree a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . | 0 |
expands the limits of what a film can be , Daking uDs into the lives of women to whom we might not grive a second look if we passed them on the street . | 1 |
weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytellign and flat acting . | 0 |
well , it does go on forveer . | 0 |
culkin , whno's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . | 1 |
one well-timd explosIion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever . | 0 |
strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticHated scare tactics and b-film thuggery . | 0 |
a tender and touching draima , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to cokme to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circble . | 1 |
this is the kind of subject matter that coulf so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmake , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn . | 1 |
more than their unique residences , home ovie is about the pepole who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kin enough to share it . | 1 |
an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and dfvotion to his people are reaSdily apparent . | 1 |
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly braod shoulders . | 0 |
why , you may sak , why should you buy the movie imlk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one . | 0 |
it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising pattempt by one artist to think about another . | 1 |
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